Sir,--We have the statement that the stores were started for saving of trade profits for shareholders, but the fact remains that it was started in a vindictive spirit ...
Article : 281 wordsSir,--Let me end this controversy as far as I am personally concerned. The secretary of the Evangelical Church Association harks back to his ritual cases ...
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Advertising : 166 wordsWilliam Henry Stevens, licensee of the Grand Hotel, Lydiard-street, was charged at the city court on Thursday with allowing dice to be played on his premises. The ...
Article : 184 wordsWm. Henry M'Grath, a ganger on the railway, committed suicide this afternoon by cutting his throat. It is supposed the excessive heat affected him. He did not go ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. George Chirnside, the owner of the Werribee Park Estate, for the purchase of which the Government has been negotiating for some time past, returned from New ...
Article : 478 wordsDelegates from the sugar growing districts have been in conference with representatives of the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company regarding the industry in this ...
Article : 354 wordsOwing to the heavy demands upon the town service, caused by the continued spell of hot weather and exceptionally large quantities of water drawn off to meet the ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,--In your issue of to-dav, I notice a letter from "Real Shareholder," who wishes to be enlightened re the sweating and unfair treatment of the employes. I ...
Article : 257 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the Australian Workers Union Conference further consideration was given to the claims for incorporation in the application to be made ...
Article : 65 wordsAn extraordinary case came before Captain Burrowes, P.M., at the local court. Martin Domaschenz was charged with having on 11th January, at Bangerang, ...
Article : 198 wordsAt the Supreme Court on Thursday Frank Pellion, aged 77 years, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted suicide at Caris-brook by taking poison on 29th November ...
Article : 138 wordsExtremely enervating weather conditions again prevailed throughout the State yesterday, notwithstanding the enlivening promise of the Government Astronomer, ...
Article : 411 wordsThe dispute between the Coal Lumpers' Union and the associated coal stevedores is to be referred to arbitration, a court summons having been issued at the instance ...
Article : 94 wordsThe civil case of P. Kelly v. Clarence United, in which plaintiff is suing for £1500 compensation for injuries sustained while working in the mine, was set down for ...
Article : 471 wordsMr. William Batty, sheriff's officer, went into the river to bathe at Narandera, and getting out of his depth was drowned. ADELAIDE, Thursday. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe barque Kreimhiudt is til hard and last on the sand spit, near Point Richards. The efforts to haul her into deep water by the combined power of the tug ...
Article : 165 wordsThe local auctioneers have notified the Cranbourne shire council of their intention to discontinue holding auction sales at Cranbourne on Mondays, the usual weekly ...
Article : 64 wordsThe woman known as "Ada" and various other names, who has recently created quite a consternation among motrers and children, by having opened up a new and ...
Article : 472 wordsA deputation representing the sugar growers of New South Wales waited on the Minister of Customs to-day with regard to what wages they should pay for white labor ...
Article : 429 wordsA boy named Joseph Goodall, while bathing in the Murray at the Sawmill's Slip last evening, got beyond his depth and had disappeared, when a Bendigo resident, P. ...
Article : 66 wordsThere are two weighbridges in Bairnsdale both owned by the municipality. One of these has been found incorrect to the extent of 2 cwt. in a ton. The attendant, ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Inos Lindsay was out shooting on Wednesday with a double barrelled breech loading gun when it burst near the breech as it was being discharged at a rabbit. The ...
Article : 54 wordsThe number of operative stonemasons at present at work in the metropolis is estimated at between 200 and 300, and these will be affected by the demand of the ...
Article : 475 wordsThe auxiliary schooner Hercules, one of the Island trading vessels belonging to the Jaluit Company, has been wrecked at the Gilbert Group. News of the disaster ...
Article : 211 wordsOwing to the long spell of dry weather the tanks of many residents have run dry. They are obliged to cart water from the Dandenong Creek. A strong feeling has ...
Article : 227 wordsSir,--I notice that the Rev. E. S. Hughes, in the concluding paragraph of his reply to the Rev. D. M. Berry, says: "I retire from the contest." Might I be allowed to ...
Article : 241 wordsA youth named Richard Witts, employed by Mr. W. Gail, farmer, of Kamarooka, was admitted to the hospital on Thursday suffering from a fracture of the left leg above ...
Article : 44 wordsA laboring man named Hugh Irvine, aged 60 years, who had been brought from Elmore under remand on a charge of drunkenness, died on Thursday shortly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsMr. James Alexander, of Dunbalbalane, who has been touring this district with a chaffcutring machine, was engaged this morning sawing wood for Mr. M'Kissack. ...
Article : 72 wordsA deputation, representing the chamber of commerce, waited on Mr. T. Wright, the local postmaster, on Thursday with regard to the complaint that, through the mails ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsThe Russian Barque Lochee, which was driven ashore at the Grange on Wednesday evening, floated off without the tug Wato's assistance at 2.30 a.m. to-day on a half flood ...
Article : 116 wordsA lad named Maguire, living at Narandera, was attempting to extract a bullet from a pen rifle, when the weapon went off, and the bullet hit the boy in the ...
Article : 48 wordsBALLARAT.--A shop and seven-roomed dwelling in Wendouree-parade, owned and occupied by Mr. C. May. were destroyed by fire on Thursday morning;--Some ...
Article : 1,042 wordsSir,--I am one of the unfortunate class of men dubbed non-religious--long-suffering men who have at last rebelled, and refrain from attending church to suffer the very ...
Article : 322 wordsEdward Sturges, jun., while ramming down a charge of powder at Peters-read metal quarry, at Sutton Town, was injured owing to the premature explosion of the ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Public Works Committee to-day gave further consideration to the Barren Jack irrigation scheme. Robert Gibson said the barren country ...
Article : 440 wordsEveryone who has followed the proceedings of the Police Commission will be of opinion that the Premier adopted the right course this week when he sent a letter to ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Premier, the Treasurer and the Commissioner of Crown Lands visited Mount Barker last night, at the invitation of residents, and delivered addresses. Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsAn important appointment in all probability will shortly be made in the State civil service. Mr. E. F. Owen, the actuary for friendly societies, who has been ...
Article : 436 wordsOur Hobart correspondent reports that the racehorses Mostynia, Postique, Sardine and Postulate left for Melbourne yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsAt the annual meeting of the local school of mines, held on Wednesday night, the following officers were elected:--President, Mr. A. Verey; vice-presidents, ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,--I think the aspect of a member of a St. Peter's congregation towards ritual may be of general interest. None but a St. Peterite can be more fully conscious ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 264 wordsA woman named Gretchen Margareta Rienan was committed for trial at the water police court to-day on a charge of bigamy. It was alleged that accused had ...
Article : 57 wordsMessrs. J. and W. Lindsay, of Union Station, have donated £25 towards the fund of £750 to be raised locally for the establishment of an agricultural high school. ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the water police court to-day, Bernard Hoskins and George M'Nair were again remanded on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the alleged land frauds. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe water sent down the Campaspe by the department from the Malmsbury reservoir is flowing over the weir, and quantity of fish get stranded on the stones on ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the Glebe court to-day a woman named Annie Watson, and a man named Thomas Collingwood were each fined under the new Liquor Act, the former for sending ...
Article : 58 wordsA sensation was caused in the medical ward of the Ballarat Hospital this evening for a man named Edward Bingham, who was visiting a patient in the institution. ...
Article : 192 wordsIt is reported that poisoned rabbits are being sent to Melbourne from this district, and that trapping is going on in localities in which phosphorus has been laid. ...
Article : 76 wordsA gymkhana extending over three days closed to-night. The entertainment, which was held in the show grounds, was in aid of the building fund of St. Patrick's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsConsiderable dissatisfaction exists at the failure of the local water supply. Ratepayers on the higher levels have been without water for weeks, and the supply in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsH.M.S.S. Powerful, Cambrian, Pegasus and Challenger, of the Australian squadron, arrived to-day from Hobart. The officers attend the navy league ball to-morrow. ...
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Advertising : 98 wordsIn connection with the ritualistic controversy, the following opinion, as set forth in the leading columns of the "Messenger," the official organ of ...
Article : 263 wordsLarge audiences assembled in both halls of the Atheneum Hall last evening to hear the competitors in the various classes The following were awarded highest points in their respective ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsA conjoint committee of the hospital and the University has refused to confirm the appointment of Dr. Jessie Aspinail to the Prince Alfred Hospital resident staff. The ...
Article : 61 wordsA district baker named William Wall was proceeded against at the Shepparton court of petty sessions on a charge of selling light weight bread, and of having a ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Cr. Weedon), as hon treasurer, acknowledges the following additional subscriptions to the above fund:-- Mayor of South Melbourne (Cr. Parker), £.2 2, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 9 Feb 1906, Page 6
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