Dr. J. Whitaker, health officer of the town of North Melbourne, was informed on Saturday morning that a young man named Sheehan, residing at 64 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsThe Commissioners will resume their tour of the country railway lines to-morrow. The Commissioners' train will leave Spencer street station at 9.35 a.m. for Maryborough, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Box Hill branch of the Reform League on Thursday evening the following resolution was carried unanimously:-- ...
Article : 159 wordsMr. J. Grainger was brought to Hergott suffering from a broken thigh, the result of being thrown from his horse. He had been driven 200 miles after the accident, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 723 wordsMr. Courtie, railway inspector, visited Rutherglen and Wahgunyah and made a comparison of the work done at the respective stations since the strike, and that of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 256 wordsAfter being idle for a week, ore breaking was resumed yesterday morning at the South mine, and general productive work will be started on Monday morning. The ...
Article : 105 wordsAt the general meeting of the Wimmera United Waterworks Trust, the commissioners were informed by the resident engineer that as Lake Lonsdale will shortly be ...
Article : 179 wordsA man named Hans Nielson was found lying dead in his bed at 34 Highett-street, Richmond, on Saturday afternoon. Deceased, who was a Dane, was about 50 years of age, and lived alone in a ...
Article : 144 wordsA queer incident occurred in Russell-street on Saturday night, when a man, whose name is unknown, gave another into the custody of Constable Olholm on a charge of indecent behavior. With ...
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Advertising : 125 wordsAn old man named James Ralph, who arrived in Melbourne by the last train from Yarragon, Gippsland, on Saturday night, set out to walk to his lodgings in Eureka-street, Richmond. He had just ...
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Advertising : 58 wordsBENDIGO.--On Sunday evening a five-roomed weatherboard house, owned and occupied by Mr. E. Smart, miner, employed at the Great Extended Hustler's mine, was burnt down. The house was ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 17 Aug 1903, Page 6
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