Rain delayed the commencement of the second day's play in the cricket match between New South Wales and South Australia until 3.10 p.m. Consequently play ...
Article : 246 wordsA discussion took place on Monday night at the meeting of the city branch of the A.N.A. on a motion by Mr. Fred. J. Williams, providing for emigration to the ...
Article : 226 wordsTuesday, 9th January.--Newmarket Handicap and Australian Cup entries close; Oakleigh Plate entries close; V.A.T.C. January meeting entries close; ...
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Advertising : 562 wordsPercy Taylor, a young man aged 19, living at Burton-crescent, Ascot Vale, met with a terrible accident on the railway line at that place late last night. He was ...
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Advertising : 180 wordsMr. Alt. Adams, of Bonn, was driving home on Saturday evening, and when just outride Rochester his gig struck a culvert, and he was thrown out violently on his ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Hugh M'Lellan has accepted the position of manager of the Glendinning Estate, recently purchased by Mr. Barber. At present Mr. M'Lellan holds the offices of ...
Article : 64 wordsGeorge Smith, the jockey who was injured at Ascot on New Year's day through Coromandel falling in the Hurdle Race, died in the hospital this morning without ...
Article : 143 wordsAfter the trying weather experienced at the end of last week, the climatic conditions yesterday were agreeable in the extreme. With just enough sun to render ...
Article : 132 wordsFor some time past a great deal of damage has been done to property at West Warburton by sludge, which has been sent down Yankee Jim's Creek by Chinese ...
Article : 122 wordsA young man named Wm. Willis, aged 19, a resident of Spring-street, Port Melbourne, while working yesterday on the steamer Geelong at Port Melbourne. ...
Article : 57 wordsDuring 1905 58 schedules were filed in the local court of insolvency. Of that number 31 insolvents were miners and 7 were laborers. The total liabilities were £11,058; ...
Article : 500 wordsThe Collingwood branch A.N.A. met at the local town hall last evening to deal with the special audit of the books resolved upon at last ...
Article : 592 wordsThis afternoon a swagman, apparently about 30 years of age, who gave his name as Edmund Ashworth, was found by two boys, named Hooper and Fairthorne, lying ...
Article : 125 wordsThe block of wheat mentioned in "The Age" last Saturday as having, occurred at Tongala was of very short duration. On Saturday night and again yesterday ...
Article : 383 wordsDONALD.--Glowery's bakery and 35 bags of flour were destroyed by fire. The building was insured for £100. KORUMBURRA.--A fire occurred in ...
Article : 190 wordsMiss Alice Hilliard, who met with a severe accident at Yeungroon on Friday last owing to the winkers of the horse she was driving coming off and causing the animal ...
Article : 87 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:-- VICTORLA (Monday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr., Baracchi: Fine, moderate temperatures, but sultry inland; light winds, S. to E.; hazy, misty near coast; ...
Article : 31 wordsMILDURA.--The heat wave terminated at about 5 p.m. Sunday, the temperature dropping to 111 deg. On Monday the weather was cloudy. Slight damage may have been done to the vines, but ...
Article : 51 wordsAlbert Walters, 20 years of age, son of Mr. J. W. Walters, contractor, of this town, died this morning from the effects of drinking carbolic acid. ...
Article : 118 wordsSpeaking to a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce this morning, Mr. Peter Board, Under Secretary for and Director of Education, outlined a scheme which has ...
Article : 263 wordsSYDNEY.--Saturday's temperatures were eclipsed in the New England district of the State yesterday. The century was exceeded in no fewer than 60 of the towns, and Wentworth's maximum ...
Article : 148 wordsThe child 3½ years or age, named Michael William Fields, died in the York Hospital from alcoholic poisoning through drinking portion of the contents of a bottle of ...
Article : 42 wordsThe terrine heat in the country has been responsible for several deaths. At White Cliffs the thermometer has registered during the past three days 112-117 and 118 deg. In the hade ...
Article : 98 wordsWm. Cole, aged 38, married man, living in Sheepwash-road, Back Creek, was admitted to the hospital on Monday suffering from severe injuries. Cole, with three other ...
Article : 100 wordsDissatisfaction is expressed by travellers by the State motor buses plying between Prahran railway station and Malvern town hall at the absence of proper ...
Article : 93 wordsAmongst the correspondence received by the Braybrook shire council at its monthly meeting yesterday was a communication from the Town Clerk of Melbourne, in ...
Article : 180 wordsThe chamber of commerce has received a letter from the Premier, asking for an expression of opinion as to the desirability of holding an international exhibition in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 564 wordsWhist playing in a cricket match Mr. Vin. Hudson, of the Broadford cricket club, was struck by a ball on the bridge of the nose, which was broken. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe question of improving the markets for New South Wales butter, both in London and Sydney, was discussed at a meeting of the Butter Export Committee which was ...
Article : 104 wordsA deputation of residents of Hartwell district waited on the Railway Commissioners yesterday with the object of securing a better train service and the erection ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 wordsA man aged 70 years named Connors Cook; of Victoria Lake, Albermarle, started last week to walk to the head station. He reached Wheeler's Well, 26 miles from Lake ...
Article : 82 wordsThe first public sale of Western district land leases since the drought was conducted at Hay on Saturday. The lots offered aggregated 30,700 acres, and were sold at ...
Article : 49 wordsRecently the times of the departure from Princes-bridge of the Healesville and Warburton Sunday excursion trains--11.22 and 11 a.m. respectively--were transposed, the ...
Article : 302 wordsA youth named Cedric Grant and a girl named Florence Dickens were proceeded against by Detective Borsum, at the Northcote court yesterday, for obtaining from the Railway department an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsA little girl, the daughter of Mrs. W. Verdon, swallowed a quantity of kerosene on Friday. Emetics were administered, causing the child to vomit, and after a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsA remarkable crop of wheat has been harvested by Mr. W. S. Norman from land situated at Doctors Point. The area is 22 acres, and the total yield was 187 bags. ...
Article : 94 wordsReceived by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co.:-- Warbreccan, Jundah, 8th: Good storms in parts, affording relief for some time; 27 points Warbreccan, 102 points Evengy; Mutti and Carella nil; ...
Article : 77 wordsA man whose name is unknown, arrived at Nalinga last week, and on Saturday night, when leaving a wine shop, said he intended to do away with himself. A swag was ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Footscray City Club has decided to hold a regatta on the Lower Yarra on 20th January. It has been decided to renovate an old racing boat called the "Clarke Eight," and exhibit ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 305 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory:-- Weather Chart, Monday, 8th January, at 9 a.m.--High pressures prevail along the south coast, ...
Article : 301 wordsTwo men had a narrow escape from drowning whilst bathing in the Mitchell River, opposite the boating club's house. One of them, named Maxwell, who is a ...
Article : 94 wordsUpon two occasions recently the sanctuary box at St. Michael's Church has been robbed. Last Sunday the contents of St. Vincent de Paul's box in the same church ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,--A very interesting article appeared in to-day's issue of "The Age" on the question of railway goods rates. The removal of anomalies which exist in these taxes is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsMessrs. Thompson and Co.'s local foundry resumed work on Monday, after all hands having had a fortnight's holiday. The holiday was given not because there ...
Article : 411 wordsA man name Parkin, a stranger in Ballarat, fell from the stairs of the Eail of Zetland Hotel, Bridge-street, to-night, and received concussion of the brain. He ...
Article : 46 wordsAt a public meeting held in the Centennial Hall to-night, resolutions were passed expressing sympathy with the "Home Rule for Ireland" movement, and subscriptions ...
Article : 59 wordsConsiderable inconvenience was experienced by excursionists during the holidays on account of the shortness of the platforms along this line, the train having to ...
Article : 65 wordsA young man named William Walsh was charged at Northcote court yesterday, before Messrs. Plant (chairman), M'Intosh and Bastings, J's.P., with the larceny of two sums of money, viz., 14 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 317 wordsAn exciting bolt occurred at Goulburn. A carrier was bringing in a heavy load of wool drawn by eight horses, and when several miles out from the town, on a steep ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 293 wordsThe detectives have raided a number of tobacconists' shops, in which they have reason to believe betting was conducted. Prosecutions will ensue. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsAn old man named M[?]Carthy was accidentally drowned whilst bathing in the Lachlan River, at Jemalong, yesterday. He was a good swimmer, but became entangled ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Government has decided to acquire Larnack's Estate, near Dunedin, and to use the place as an institution for the treatment of imbeciles, many of whom, wrongly ...
Article : 47 wordsIt has been reported to the police that R. G. Irvine, employed on Buckalow Station, was drowned in a dam near the homestead yesterday. Iryine, with several others, ...
Article : 47 wordsA resident of Carlton, named John Leahy, whose home is at 15 Palmerston-place, has reported to te bpolice that his wife and two children have been missing since 4th December last, and though ...
Article : 84 wordsA quantity of tobacco and cigarettes, valued at £25, was stolen from the shop of Arthur W. Clarke, tobacconist, 4 High-street, St. Kilda, soma time during Sunday night. In all, there was 140 ...
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Advertising : 137 wordsA man named John Alexander Morrison met with a serious gun accident near Pingelly. The charge entered his neck, tearing away a piece of flesh and inflicting a ...
Article : 43 wordsLate last night an attempt was made by burglars to break into the warehouse of Marshall and Co., leather merchants, 24 Russell-street, city. The constable on duty in the street ...
Article : 92 wordsThe qualification and registration committee of the League of Victorian Wheelmen will meet on Thursday evening next, at 7.80. Persons desirous of being registered as trainers for the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe mayor of Port Melbourne gratefully acknowledges the following donations in aid of the widow and children of the late Peter Rialland:-- Lady, "Anonymous," £1; H.B., 26; W.H., 106, ...
Article : 47 wordsConsiderable difficulty is being experienced in damming the Merri River preparatory to erecting the new weir for the water works trust. The water has been ...
Article : 129 wordsPatrick Francis Mulqueeny, of Neill-street, Carlton, railway employe. Causes of insolvency: Sickness and death in family, and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £25 123; assets, £2; deficiency, ...
Article : 36 wordsA sad drowning fatality occurred at Farnborough, near Yeppoon plantation, yesterday, when John Kershaw, aged 20, and a boy, aged 8, son of Mr. D. Brown, farmer. ...
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