James Pulbrook, a miner, aged 37, went mad at Ballarat East to-day and took possession of a house in Main-road, belonging to a retired pawnbroker named ...
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Article : 520 wordsTo-day the Public Works Committee cave further consideration as to the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Lockhart to Clear Hills. Mr. H. ...
Article : 326 wordsThe University Commission resumed the taking of evidence at the Law Courts yesterday; Mr. TJ Fink, M. L.A., presiding. Sir Henry Wrixon, Vice-Chancellor of the ...
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Article : 189 wordsMr. J. D. Edwards, accountant in the local branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has been promoted to the position of manager of the Creswick branch and will ...
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Article : 122 wordsThe forest Creek free library, which was levelled to the ground by last year's cyclone, has been rebuilt, and was officially opened oil Tuesday by the mayor of Castlemaine ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Vine Growers' Association to-day, the president's report stated that the year's vintage was a full one, the approximate make being ...
Article : 160 wordsThe potato market has fallen to £1 per ton. ...
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Article : 95 words'A' very, interesting point in divorce was raised yesterday, when Mr. Justice a'Beckett heard a petition for the dissolution of the marriage between Alfred James ...
Article : 366 wordsSir,--I notice in your issue of to-day a letter signed "No Repudiation." Amongst other things, the writer mentioned that the ticket holders, if they cared to put the ...
Article : 220 wordsThe poultry show under the auspices of the Mediterranean Breeders' Club was opened at the Exhibition Building to-day. The display was one of the most successful ...
Article : 161 wordsA deputation from the Amalgamated Minors' Association, introduced by Sir Alexander Peacock and Mr. Grose, M's.L.A., waited on the Minister of Mines to lay a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 13 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:-- Weather Chart, Wednesday, 27th May, at 9 a.m.--All extensive cyclonic depression, with steep ...
Article : 344 wordsAbout 13,000 acres, known as the Whipstick scrub, in the parishes of Whirrakee and Bagsliot, have been thrown open for selection in blocks varying from 200 to 260 ...
Article : 36 wordsTo-day the State Collector of Customs, Mr. F. VV. Ringwood, received a £10-note from an anonymous contributor as customs "conscience money." ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Metcaite shire council has decided to ask the Minister of Lands to have about l5,000 acres of land within the shire made available for selection. The land in ...
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Article : 381 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:--VICTORIA (Wednesday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchi: Fine cold weather inland generally. Cloudy in the more southern districts, coastal mists. ...
Article : 215 wordsMrs. Farrell, a married woman who resided Buckhurst-street, Montague, was taken suddenly ill in Montague-street last night, whilst out for a walk with her daughter. She was removed to the ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Wool, appeared for petitioner, Mary Hannah Clack, who sought a dissolution of her marriage with Robert Clack, at one time a market gardener residing at Brighton. The marriage, which took ...
Article : 312 wordsDetectives Kielly and Considine yesterday arrested a man named Frederick Foster, 29 years of age, described as s clerk, on a charge of the larceny of a piano and a clock, value £17. Fester ...
Article : 106 wordsWholesale prosecutions are proceeding in the King country for sly grog selling, fiftyone cases being heard at Teawamutu. Parliament will open on 29th June. ...
Article : 29 wordsSince the termination of the strike the suburban service has been of an irregular character. The traffic officials have now prepared a time table, which is to come into ...
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Advertising : 137 wordsA fatal accident occurred in the Day Dawn Freehold Consolidated mine, Charters Towers, to-day. Shortly after the afternoon shift went on the machine men ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 28 May 1903, Page 6
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