The official estimate of the number of stock in the State on 1st January, 1900, is as follows:--Horses, 415,534; cattle, 1,984,459; sheep, 38,509,382. These figures ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Premier yesterday, on the recommendation of the Chief Railway Commissioner, signed the papers appointing Mr. Thomas Francis Brennan, of the State ...
Article : 145 wordsThe hearing was continued at the city court on Wednesday of the case in which Maurice Moynihan, farmer, of Dereel, sued John M'Kenna, mine manager, of the ...
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Advertising : 154 wordsSome remarkable evidence was given today at an inquest concerning the death in Darlinghurst Gaol of a woman named Annie Pearson. Daniel Deneihy, aga[?]st whom ...
Article : 532 wordsThe Fire Brigades' demonstration was advanced another stage on Wednesday. In the morning all the brigades, together with the visiting bands, assembled at the town ...
Article : 960 wordsIn the High Court of Australia yesterday an application was made to make absolute the order nisi for a writ of mandamus to compel Andrew Johnstone Arndell, Acting ...
Article : 1,244 wordsThe new Presbyterian church in Olive-street was formally opened and dedicated to-day, in the presence of a large assemblage from all parts of the district. The ...
Article : 108 wordsThe following are to-day's forecasts:-- VICTORIA (Wednesday, 6 p.m.).--By Mr. Baracchi: Fine, but cloudy and sultry; light to fresh S.E. to N.E. winds. Sea moderate. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe suggestions made to the Minister of Railways through the Moorabbin Council for improved train services on the Sandringham and Mordialloc lines are under ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Geelong Harbor Trust on Wednesday appointed Mr. Walter S. Crowle, of Melbourne, as secretary at a salary of £250 per annum. Mr. A. C. M'Kenzie ...
Article : 128 wordsSYDNEY.--The scope of rain remained much the same on Wednesday as on the previous day, the only noteworthy variation being an extension from the extreme west towards the Darling. ...
Article : 339 wordsA third train weekly from Woomelang will be put on from Thursday to temporarily relieve the traffic on the Mildura line. The train will reach here on ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Bishop of North Queensland interviewed the Premier to-day, and submitted a scheme for the return of the Pacific Islanders to their homes at the conclusion ...
Article : 105 wordsA proposal was recently made to discontinue Brisbane as a port of call for the Vancouver mail steamers. Mr. Kidston has intimated that he is agreeable provided the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Temperance party has of late been working diligently with a view to obtaining a local option poll. A petition has been numerously signed, and will be presented to ...
Article : 94 wordsReceived by Dalgety and Co. Ltd.:--Gidgee, Cobar, 7th: 1 in. rain at head station' 1 12 in. at the Gap. ...
Article : 22 wordsA state of affairs approaching a deadlock appears to have arisen in connection with the contract for the weir across the Merri River for the Warrnambool Waterworks Trust. As recently reported in "The Age," ...
Article : 414 wordsSouth Melbourne council, at last night's meeting, was asked by its representative on the Metropolitan Board of Works to express an opinion on the proposals of the board to incur an ...
Article : 89 wordsBRISBANE.--Reports from Mount Usher slate that all the claims have been flooded by the recent rains, and fo[?]sickers are being driven from the field. The waters of the Nogoa River are ...
Article : 171 wordsTenders have been accepted as follows:-- Supply and delivery of piles, A. C. Brabet, Jas. Cullinan, D. G. Edrington, at rates; supply and delivery of beams. Millar's Kauri and Jarrah Co. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Groom, arrived in Adelaide this morning to confer with the Premier as to what buildings are to be transferred to the ...
Article : 38 wordsA workman, named George Coombe, 27, living at 8 Puckle-street, Moonee Ponds, sustained serious injuries yesterday at Messrs. Angliss and Co.'s freezing works, ...
Article : 106 wordsFew artists in Melbourne have so proud or so honorable a record as the lady who was the recipient of a benefit concert at the Town Hall last night. For many years ...
Article : 715 wordsCr. Atkyns, the local representative on the Metropolitan Board, brought before the Kew council on Tuesday night the proposal of the board to expend an aditional sum of £55,000 this year ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Board of Health Bacteriological department examined 24 rats caught in different parts of the plague area yesterday, and five were found to be infected with ...
Article : 71 wordsReceived by Dalgety and Co. Ltd.:--Saltern Creek, Barealdine, 7th: Another half inch of rain all over the run last night. Currnwinya, Hunger ford, 5th: 90 points of rain here, 100 Wangar[?]la, ...
Article : 63 wordsWhilst driving a cordial waggon along Macaulay-road, North Melbourne, yesterday, a man named David Taylor, 27, residing at Park-street, West Melbourne, was ...
Article : 86 wordsSome sensation was caused at Port Adelaide this evening by the explosion of a case of benzine on a barge alongside the Shell Transport Company's steamer Elax ...
Article : 106 wordsADELAIDE.--The monsoonal low pressure area over Queensland has come slightly southwards to the far northern districts of South Australia. Forty points fell at Leigh's Creek in two hours ...
Article : 52 wordsA case of leprosy has been discovered at Christchurch. The patient, a European, has been isolated. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. ...
Article : 61 wordsPERTH.--The maximum shade temperature at Perth on Tuesday and Wednesday was 101.3. T[?]e reading is the highest for March since records have been taken, and there has not been such hot ...
Article : 44 wordsA platelayer, named Martin Maloney, 50, whilst at work in the Spencer-street railway station yard yesterday, sustained a compound fracture of the leg through a stack ...
Article : 48 wordsWeather Chart, Wednesday, 7th March, at 9 a.m. --Pressures are still highest over Tasmania, with a maximum of 30.49 at Hobart; then diminish towards the regions about Lake Eyre, where ...
Article : 272 wordsDuring the passage of the Ganymede from Adelaide to Wellington, Richard Limbert, of Adelaide, was washed overboard and drowned. ...
Article : 23 wordsA meeting of the South Melbourne and Port Melbourne Boot Makers and Repairers' Association was held last night to further consider the increase in the wholesale price of leather. A: a ...
Article : 174 wordsParticulars of the rescue of Mr. R. S. Low, the missing Alpinist, by Guides Clarke and Graham, show that Mr. Low, on leaving the Westland side of the ranges ...
Article : 151 wordsMalvern councillors wore the looks of self-conscious martyrs at their meeting on Monday night, and tackled the business sheet with an assidaily that did them infinite credit. It was soon ...
Article : 671 wordsA young man named Jeffrey, residing at Quarry Hill, whilst making acetylene gas, received serious injuries to his mouth through an explosion taking place. Four of ...
Article : 58 wordsGreat excitement was created in Island Park during the progress of a moonlight concert. A snake made its appearance among the people and a scamper in all ...
Article : 51 wordsA miner named W. E. Hardman, who resides in William-street, whilst inspecting the Cornish United mine, at Long Gully, on Wednesday, fell down a pass over the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe recent rainfall is stated to have greatly improved the prospects of this season's wine yield, which until the drought broke looked very much like being a ...
Article : 71 wordsVICTORIAN PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY. The half yearly meeting of the Victorian Permanent Building Society was held yesterday af ternoon at the office of the society, 235 ...
Article : 200 wordsMr. E. Davey was climbing over a picket fence when the top of the picket broke off and he was thrown on to a stump. Two of his ribs were broken. ...
Article : 82 wordsGood programmes being the rule at the above, both sessions were well patronised. A splendid feature was the songs by Australian composers, and the A.N.A. is to be congratulated on its ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsThe farmers of Peechelba and Killawarra are indignant at being compelled by Mr. Tressider, the rabbit inspector, to destroy rabbits with phosphorus. Through using ...
Article : 98 wordsEdmund Beattie, nineteen, was before Coburg court on Tuesday charged with assaulting Arthur Bago, proprietor of a dancing academy on Sydney, road. He pleaded guilty, and Mr. J. M. Shannon, ...
Article : 155 wordsMALDON.--The Mount View Company are developing a nice lode, about 3 feet wide, in their north drive at the main level. Some of tho stone is of very fair quality. They have over 30 [?] ...
Article : 100 wordsA case in which Christopher Hoppner claimed £22 worth of wattle bark, seized under a distress warrant by O'Neill Bros, in satisfaction of a claim for wages owing ...
Article : 153 wordsMORNINGTON.--There was a good attendance at the Kangerong Agricultural aud Hort[?]cultural Society's tenth annual show. Cattle and hor[?] were well represented, but dairy and faun produce ...
Article : 255 wordsThe fishing ketch Prince Alfred, which was anchored off the fishermen's pier, sunk during the night, and now lies on a sand bottom, about 30 yards off the end of the ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Cr. Weedon) acknowledges the following adidtional subscriptions to the above fund:--Per mayor of Oakleigh, £1 1; per mayor of Warrnambool, £1 15- ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 171 wordsGeorge Wilson, cab driver, Hawthorn, was charged at the local court on Tuesday with leaving his child without adequate means of support. Mr. Neville Newman appeared for the defence. ...
Article : 183 wordsArchibald Bishop, 25, and Emily Kuhnill, about the same age, pleaded guilty at Hawthorn court on Tuesday to stealing from the Auburn railway station on 24th February a Gladstone bag, ...
Article : 327 wordsA serious outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred here. The health officer reported to-day ten cases, attributing them to dirty yards and impure water. The council ...
Article : 98 wordsSYDNEY.--The Sydney Thousand Cycling Carnival was continued on the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday night. The weather was threatening, but the attendance was good. An ...
Article : 298 wordsThe prizes presented by the Melbourne Typographical Society and the Master Printers' Association for the special competition arranged by those bodies for the students in the printing ...
Article : 242 wordsThe oil carrying steamer Elax grounded in Port Adelaide River yesterday. Pilot Ellis, in a report to the Marine Hoard, says he believes no damage was sustained. ...
Article : 32 wordsAn unsuspected defence was raised in the City Court yesterday in a case in which John Turner, a middle aged, thin man, was charged with vagrancy. Detectives Howard, Cahill and Hawkins ...
Article : 174 wordsHugh Andrews, 20, pleaded guilty at Hawthorn court on Tuesday to a charge of stealing £1 30 from Miss Annie Cunningham, licensee of the Governor Hotham Hotel, Burwcod-road, by whom ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Kew council on Tuesday night dealt with the proposal to connect Kew with the beach at St. Kilda by means of electric traction. Cr. Merritt moved--"That this council adopts ...
Article : 153 wordsThe sittings of the Supreme Court opened this morning; Mr. Justice Hood presiding. Mr. Gurner, Grown Prosecutor, conducted the cases for the Crown. Ernest Phipps, ...
Article : 2,953 wordsThe Prahran and South Yarra tradesmen's clubs joined forces yesterday, and proceeded down the Bay on their annual marine excursion. The Hy- gei[?] was chartered for the occasion, and over 1000 ...
Article : 115 wordsMessrs. G. D. Langridge and Son (conjointly with Messrs. A. M. Welch and Co.) report having offered a cottage. No. 314 Abbotsford-street, North Melbourne, by public auction yesterday. There was ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 8 Mar 1906, Page 6
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