The splendid monsoonal rainfall which has resulted in putting an end to the great drought has not yet ceased, and the latest reports both from Victorian and New ...
Article : 400 wordsFull particulars are announced this morning with reference to the grand Christmas pantomime, Dick Whittington and His Cat, which is to be presented at Her Majesty's ...
Article : 1,046 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the carriage of newspapers was laid on the table. The report states that ...
Article : 472 wordsMr. Justice Walker to-day delivered his reserved judgment in respect to the recent shearing dispute at Coonamblc, when certain shearers were intercepted as they were ...
Article : 839 wordsSir Edmund Barton, Miss Barton and Mr. Barton, jun., left Melbourne yesterday by the afternoon express for Sydney, where the Prime Minister and his family will ...
Article : 1,307 wordsIn their first match, twelve a side, against Auckland, the Englishmen won the toss. The weather was fine till a quarter to 0 10'clock, when light rain stopped the play. ...
Article : 348 wordsSplendid rains, amounting to 3 inches, have fallen here, the fall in many places reaching 41 inches. Dams have been filled for the first time in four years. A supply for the ...
Article : 48 wordsA remarkable change in the sultry weather of the past few days took place to-day, when the wind started to blow a gale from the west to the accompaniment of heavy ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsThe second session of the present State Parliament, which opened on 28th May, closed to-night. In the list of bills passed are few of far reaching importance. Of ...
Article : 198 wordsThe heavy rains of yesterday caused a fire at Brunswick, which is a somewhat novel experience. About 9.25 p.m. on Friday the Brunswick Fire Brigade received ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 508 wordsMr. Carruthers expounded the Opposition platform at the Oddfellows' Hall tonight. The main planks were the reduction of the membership of the Legislative ...
Article : 88 wordsOne result of the beneficent rains is the practical stoppage of the trucking of water by train into the mallee. The railway officials declare, on the authority of ...
Article : 297 wordsThe Premier expects the work to be sufficiently forward to enable Parliament to prorogue on Tuesday next. The following measures will be amongst ...
Article : 146 wordsFurther bountiful rains fell last night and to-day: 100 points were registered locally, making a total of 3 inches for the past month. The total for the year amounts ...
Article : 217 wordsAt the police court to-day Michael Thomas Kelly,an ex-alderman and justice of the peace, was charged with attempting to obtain from Arthur Ormonde Butler, ...
Article : 140 wordsA deputation from Wentworth on Thursday urged Sir John See to co-operate with, Victoria in erecting a bridge across, the Murray opposite that town, in order that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 326 wordsA sensational explosion of acetylene gas occurred at Barraba. Mr. Finkernagel, who has the contract for lighting Mrs. Banfield's new two-storied hotel, noticing that ...
Article : 329 wordsThe total rainfall for the month of December to date amounts to 285 points, and there is promise of more. On Wednesday evening severe electrical storms swept over ...
Article : 178 wordsA long discussion took place at the City Council yesterday on a report presented by the health committee, informing the council that in the opinion of the committee it is ...
Article : 527 wordsMost of the stations east of the River Darling advised rain this morning. Riverina had falls of over an inch at several places, and in other districts up to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsSir,--Will you permit me to make clear that the deputation from this association received by the Minister of Railways on the. above subject sought to ...
Article : 105 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:--VICTORIA (Friday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchi: Moderately fine and cool island. Clearing up generally over north-west and northern districts, ...
Article : 269 wordsA single man named James Nelson, aged 30, who resided with, his sister at 72 Nelson-road, South Melbourne, committed suicide lost night about 10 o'clock. He had been under medical treatment ...
Article : 72 wordsA most unprecedented fall of rain was experienced in Long Gully yesterday afternoon. Several residents of the township noticed a heavy black cloud ...
Article : 109 wordsAt 10 p.m. on Thursday, Mrs. Mary Bride, licensee of the Park View Hotel, SI. George's road, North Fitzroy, telephoned to the detective office that a burglar had cone up the stairs at 9 ...
Article : 469 wordsThe steamer Ozone is advertised to leave the Port Melbourne railway pier at 10.30 a.m. to-day for Mornington, Dromana and Sorrento. To-morrow she starts at 11.10 a.m. for Queenscliff, Sorrento and ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. W. Angove, chief assayer. Associated mine, died in the Kalgoorlie Government Hospital of typhoid. ...
Article : 19 wordsAlthough the rain in close proximity, to Maryborough has been in steady showers only, there has been a splendid downpour about the Evansford reservoir watershed. ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Government has purchased the Levels Estate, near Timaru, for closer settlement. The area is about 43,000 acres, and the price paid is £250,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 611 wordsMr. A. Sander, an elderly gentleman, wandered away from his home at Bendigo, on 12th inst., and fears are entertained for his safety, particularly as his intellect is defective. Mr. Sander has ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 20 Dec 1902, Page 12
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