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Detailed lists, results, guides : 471 wordsBooking for all parts of the theatre for Madame Melba's concert on Friday evening is progressing steadily. The diva will arrive by special train from Melbourne at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsThe trial of Edward Mackney, aged 33, a married man, on a charge of abducting Kate Flynn, aged 17, at Northcote, took place in the Criminal Court before the ...
Article : 767 wordsA thunderstorm of tropical fury broke over the town at 7 o'clock this evening, and continued for an hour, during which rain fell in torrents, about an inch and a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 385 wordsThe fall in Mildura is the heaviest for some years. Pumping operations have been suspended, just before the third summer irrigation of the settlement was ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the meeting of the shire of Castle Donnington council yesterday the following resolutions were adopted:- 1. That the Minister of Water Supply be asked ...
Article : 230 wordsA terrific hailstorm occurred at 6.30 this evening, when 85 points of rain were registered in 20 minutes. The hailstorm has done immense damage to the fruit crops. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 wordsGrand soaking rain throughout the district. All the tanks are replenished, and those in good positions overflowing. The low lying ground at the back of the police ...
Article : 209 wordsA fatal case of ptomaine poisoning has occurred at Sylvaterre. The little son aged two years, of Mr. J. M'Cormack, ate some sausages, and was seized with violent ...
Article : 44 wordsExceptionally heavy rain is falling, and the streets are full of water. Harvest work was in full swing, but the break up has had the effect of putting it back. ...
Article : 39 wordsThere are now 11 feet of water in the reservoir, and Korong Creek is running a banker and still rising. The rain will do a vast amount of good. All water holes and ...
Article : 61 wordsThe inequitable distribution of the equivalent for licence fees collected by the Government has been a sore point with the Poowong and Jeetho and other shires for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsThe drought is completely broken up. For the month 3½ inches of rain have fallen. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsA number of members of the Country party in Parliament interviewed the Minister of Water Supply yesterday, and asked him to direct that a bore be put down ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 wordsThe rain in this district will cause serious damage to ripe fruit crops, and interfere with harvest operations. It will also stop operations at the Waranga reservoir, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 16 wordsFour boys were charged at the court to-day with assaulting another boy named Ernest Sneddon, at Egerton. Walter Lewis was sentenced to one month's ...
Article : 613 wordsIn the action, Nelson v. Warrnambool town council, heard in Melbourne last week, judgment has been entered for plaintiff for £227. The costs are being taxed, ...
Article : 315 wordsThere is general rejoicing throughout the State at the break up of the drought. Today's rain map issued from the Observatory shows a "record" at almost every town ...
Article : 556 wordsThe annual sittings of the Metropolitan Licensing Court were continued yesterday, under the presidency of Judge Molesworth. The application for the renewal of the licence of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsThis evening a cyclone swept over the town. The storm could be heard half an hour before it reached here, but it lasted only a few minutes. Heavy rain is reported ...
Article : 54 wordsThe heavy rain will prove very beneficial to the vignerons, who are now expectant of an exceptional yield. A large area of summer fodder has been sown in the ...
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Article : 4 wordsA flock of 2000 starving sheep travelled through Rochester, and it was found on arrival that many of them had devoured the wool off their companions' backs. The ...
Article : 36 wordsA public meeting was held at the Richmond town hall last evening to consider the proposal of the Government to give special representation to State employes. ...
Article : 400 wordsAnother case under the Commonwealth Customs Act was dealt with by Mr. Justice Hodges in the Practice Court yesterday. Proceedings were taken last January ...
Article : 394 wordsThe abandoned lands within the irrigation trust area irrigable and liable to be rated are estimated at 7000 acres. The greater part is mortgaged, and the whole is ...
Article : 315 wordsA very successful concert was given at the Town Hall yesterday evening in aid of the funds for the relief of sufferers by the recent mallee drought and of the ...
Article : 635 wordsThe dams are full in this district, and the recent rains will, if cool weather follow, soon produce good feed for sheep, which may be expected to be removed back from ...
Article : 45 wordsGreat indignation was expressed at the Colac shire council meeting to-day with regard to the approaches to the Beech Forest railway. Cr. Everard Browne said the ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Government Meteorologist reported this morning one of the heaviest general monsoonal rains that the more settled parts of the State have had for several years. The ...
Article : 220 wordsThe rain will enable the sluicers whose supply has been cut off from the Government races for some time past to resume work, their dams having been filled. The ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Government Statistician has completed his official estimate of the yield of wheat now being harvested. The reports of the crop correspondents show that it ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 449 wordsNews has been received of the narrow escape of the Sydney barque Aberystwith Castle, which was on her way to Eureka, Humboldt Bay, in ballast, to lake in a ...
Article : 338 wordsThis afternoon there was a very heavy thunderstorm, and the township was deluged. The fall should replenish tanks with sufficient water to tide over the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsThe sub-committee appointed by the Horsham A. and P. Society to inquire into the advisability of compulsory, dipping of sheep has reported as follows:- ...
Article : 96 wordsAt Willunga a tremendous flood was caused, and several persons had narrow escapes from drowning. Tree trunks, in some cases over a ton in weight, were ...
Article : 195 wordsMr. E. Teal had a peculiar experience whilst driving along the Camperdown-road, near Cobden. His horse shied at a snake which was on the road, and the vehicle in ...
Article : 56 wordsCharles William Ruffle Lawson, of Cochrane-street, Elsternwick, civil engineer. Causes of insolvency: Losses on contracts and in business, having to pay high interest on borrowed capital, and ...
Article : 44 wordsIt appears that the gang whose depredations on Saturday night were reported in "The Age" to-day distributed their favors. A cyclist named M'Pherson was returning ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. John G. Mitchell was yesterday appointed trustee in the estate of John Buckley Castieau, of St. Kilda, clerk, at a meeting of creditors held before the Chief Clerk in Insolvency. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe rain should ensure the completion of the railway without further water carting from the river, which may be expected to reopen for traffic in a month. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsLord Hawke's team of English cricketers will play 18 matches in New Zealand, and will leave on the return on 14th March. They will possibly play a match in ...
Article : 48 wordsIn Broken Hill the share of the rain yesterday totalled 34 points. A quarter of a million gallons were impounded in the Proprietary dams, and at the Imperial dam the ...
Article : 287 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:- VICTORIA (Wednesday, 6 p.m.). By Mr. Baracchi: further rains and scattered thunderstorms chiefly over the eastern half of the State; change ...
Article : 105 wordsBENDIGO. The annual sitting of the District Licensing Court was held on Tuesday, when the whole of the publicans' licences in the city and suburbs, numbering 234, were renewed. Five ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the police court to-day an old age pensioner was charged with having made a false declaration in swearing that within the last five years he had not been ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 18 Dec 1902, Page 6
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