The Postal Commission's investigations were advanced a further stage on Saturday, when the evidence of Mr. Justinian Oxenham, assistant secretary of the Postal ...
Article : 1,116 wordsOf many plays produced at the King's Theatre during the past twelve months there is perhaps not one that has a more legitimate claim to popular favor than the ...
Article : 599 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society on Saturday it was reported that the next farmers' convention would be held at ...
Article : 230 wordsAfter over three years' experience of the working of the Commerce Act the Commonwealth Minister of Customs some months ago authorised a revision of the ...
Article : 751 wordsVICTORIA.--Cold and squally, with further rains or showery weather, and snow on highlands; N. W. to S. W. winds, boisterous along the coast; improving later over north and northwest parts ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsAs the steamer Coocyanna was swinging in the basin at Australian Wharf on Saturday preparatory, to commencing her voyage to Adelaide, a fireman named Smith, who ...
Article : 163 wordsSaturday and Sunday, 31st July and 1st August. Although somewhat threatening at times, Saturday in Melbourne was fine, with gradually freshening northerly winds. These continued to blow ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsThe death of Mrs. Louise Muriel Crooke, aged 29, who lived with her husband at Carlyon-street, Ormond, has been reported to the police. Mrs. Crooke was admitted ...
Article : 50 wordsAlthough there were only about twenty members present at the adjourned huff yearly meeting of the Bendigo branch of the A.M.A., held under the presidency of ...
Article : 335 wordsJohn Mortimer Stobie, 58 years, was found dead in his bed on, Friday at his lodgings, Arden-Street, North Melbourne, at 8 a.m., by Mr. Albert Trott, with whom ...
Article : 109 wordsOn the whole this has been a fairly satisfactory month as regards rainfall, the only parts of the State showing results distinctly below average being in the north, the extreme ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsMr. Jacbo Dancer, aged 40, a well-known member of the Ballarat Stock Exchange, was on Saturday morning found dead on the floor of his office, in Lydiard-street ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsThe two performances at the Open House on Saturday were remarkable for the inauguration of a new and original first part, entitled The Highlanders. It was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 wordsMr. W. Davidson, Inspector-General of Public Works, on Saturday afternoon was shown over the Geelong Harbor Trust works by the chairman, Mr. G. F. Holden, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsMr. H. James, of the local Savings Bank staff, who has been transferred to the Melbourne office, having been captain of the B team of cricketers, was on Friday night ...
Article : 53 wordsThe dissension which has occurred amongst the parishioners of St. Barnabas's Anglican Church, South Melbourne, was referred to last night in the course of a ...
Article : 532 wordsPerhaps we should be grateful the Philharmonic Society reminded us, in a centenary concert at the Town Hall on Saturday evening, that Mendelssohn really did ...
Article : 1,750 wordsA most determined suicide was committed at the Kilmore railway station at 5.50 p.m. yesterday by an unknown man. The station master, Mr. Davis, had his ...
Article : 150 wordsAt the Collingwood Methodist Mission yesterday afternoon, the Federal Speaker, Mr. C. C. Salmon, delivered an address on The Housing of the Poor. ...
Article : 559 wordsNegotiations between Mr. H. J. Preston, manager of the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., and the Farnham Cheese and Butter Factory Co., regarding ...
Article : 122 wordsSaturday last was the first day set apart for the holding of Commonwealth team test matches for this State. Two preliminary competitions, of ten shots at 300, 600 and 700 yards, have to be ...
Article : 894 wordsA fire occurred last night about two miles from Cullen Bullen, in a cottage owned and occupied by Mrs. Gardiner and her daughter. The building was ...
Article : 124 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Hamilton Hospital and Benevolent Asylum on Thursday the Very Rev. Father Shanahan was re-elected president, and Mr. Harold ...
Article : 102 wordsNumerous complaints are being made of the unsatisfactory working of the telephone line connecting the Neerim district with Warragal. It is not uncommon to be kept ...
Article : 63 wordsA shocking fatality occurred at Huon's Creek, four miles from Wodonga, at 8.30 p.m. on Friday. Mr. James Egan, a well known grazier at Bonegilla, was driving ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture, accompanied by the Secretary, Mr. Duffus, and Mr. E. H. Cameron, M.L.A., visited Doncaster on Friday for the purpose ...
Article : 165 wordsSir John Quick, Postmaster-General, speaking at the commercial travellers' dinner last night, said the whole problem was a mere matter of money. If he were ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. S. Pinson, a butcher at Eden Valley, while driving a horse, was thrown beneath the wheel consequent on the harness breaking. He died soon after ...
Article : 58 wordsJames Martin Fitzsimons, who was arrested in Queensland on warrant charging him with having embezzled money from the Colonial Bank of Australasia, was on ...
Article : 284 wordsApparently acting on the opinion that if last night was not brilliantly lit by the moon it ought to have been, a number of the suburban municipalities was plunged ...
Article : 261 wordsA boy named Donnell, aged eight, was sent a message last night by his mother, and when crossing Argyle-street he was run into by a horse and light spring dray, ...
Article : 55 wordsAn old resident of the Drummond district, Mr. Patrick Kirwin, died very suddenly on Friday night. He had just recently been granted an old age pension, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsThe second club show was held at the School of Arts, Fitzroy, on Saturday afternoon and evening last, and moved a great success. Mr. R. Thorne adjudicated, and Dr. Peter Lynch declared the ...
Article : 94 wordsSHEPPARTON.--The fifteenth annual meeting of shareholders of the Shepparton Butter and Cheese Factory Company was held on Saturday afternoon. Mr. David ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 2 Aug 1909, Page 8
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