When our last edition of yesterday's issue went to press the House of Representatives was considering the duty on fuse, on which the Government had proposed ...
Article : 2,875 wordsMr. Palmer, M.P., summoned up sufficient courage to ask a question of the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives last night on the subject of the ...
Article : 310 wordsOn the Municipalities Powers Extension Bill being further considered in committee in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. J. W. Billson asked for information ...
Article : 733 wordsIn the Assembly tins evening, the Minister of Lands explained the circumstance of the proposed resumption of the Peel River Estate, and the obstacles placed in ...
Article : 91 wordsPECULIAR RESULT OF A FALL. A case of emphysema, the result of a heavy fall, is under treatment at the Melbourne Hospital. The sufferer, Stephen Francis, aged 65, living at Victoria-grove ...
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Advertising : 171 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night, Mr. Wade, in answer to Mr. Fitzpatrick, said that Mr. Pollock, who received £100 5 as fees in connection with the land ...
Article : 109 wordsOn Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Robert Race was driving a three-seated buggy along Bennett-street, and in turning into Geli street she turned too sharply, and the ...
Article : 138 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, a message was received from the Governor intimating that he had assented to seven more acts passed this session. These include bills to deal ...
Article : 197 wordsAt the North Sydney police court, five youths named Walter Stevens, 18, carter; Thomas Lang, 19, carter; Wilfred Ernest Farram, 19, carpenter; Robert John ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,418 wordsOn Tuesday night a fire broke out in the store premises of Brooking Station. The store, post office and office outbuildings were destroyed, but the homestead was ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. G. H. Reid expressed his views today in regard to Mr. Deakin's memorandum expounding new protection. "The Prime Minister," he said, "is gifted with ...
Article : 456 wordsTwo daughters of Mr. Jones, while bathing in a dam at Minerva, got into deep water. A miner named Dwyer rescued the younger girl, and learning that the other ...
Article : 58 wordsOne of the greatest difficulties experienced by the Customs department is the checking of foreign values of goods imported. As the Commonwealth Government ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Assembly, which met at 2.30 p.m., was engaged on the second reading of the bill for the construction of a railway from Mount Magnet to Black Range. The bill ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the Commonwealth Court of Arbitration, before Mr. Justice Higgins, yesterday judgment was given in a number of applications for exemption under the Tariff ...
Article : 824 wordsJoseph Henry Coates, farm laborer, at Harford, north-west coast, committed suicide to-day in a potato paddock by cutting his throat with a razor. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. C. F. Gale, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, has been selected to fill the position of Chief Protector of Aborigines, in place of Mr. Prinsep, who is now in ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Amending Mines Bill was the subject of discussion at a meeting of the local branch of the Miners' Association to-night. The President, Mr. W. Hayhow, said ...
Article : 198 wordsThe dispute with the slaughtermen at the Sydney Meat Preserving Company's works, at Auburn, has readied a critical stage. At a meeting of the Slaughtermen's Union ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Government has decided, after consultation with the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice M'Intyre, not to appoint a third judge in place of the slate Mr. Justice ...
Article : 123 wordsWhen it became known last night that the House of Representatives had decided to leave the duty on harvesters at the old figure, several manufacturers who were in ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the Christchurch wool sales 17,000 bales were offered, but a large portion was passed in. Flour has again been reduced. To day's ...
Article : 89 wordsThe matter of the appointment of a new curator to the Barkly (Burnley) Gardens gave rise to an angry scone in the Richmond council last evening. ...
Article : 475 wordsA smartly attired young woman named Nettie Doherty, aged eighteen years, was presented at Footscray court yesterday on a charge of stealing a quantity of silverware and weiring apparel ...
Article : 399 wordsThe Cabinet held an informal inquiry into the cause of the fire at Parliament buildings, and came to the conclusion that it was caused by an electric lighting wire ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Eastern files by the steamer Eastern, from Hong Kong, report that the suppression of opium smoking in Canton is making headway. Fifty-two smokers who have ...
Article : 71 wordsWhen the State fire office commenced public business the private companies declined to coinsure. The department therefore arranged, through Lloyd's, with a ...
Article : 96 wordsAlthough the Factories and Shops Bill had reached the report stage, it occupied a great portion of yesterday's sitting with results reported elsewhere. The House ...
Article : 97 wordsThe English newspapers, in commenting on the news of the destruction by fire of the House of Parliament at Wellington, express much sympathy with the New ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Chief Inspector of Stock (Mr. Stewart) has returned from Muswellbrook, where he went to inquire into the recent heavy losses of cattle. About a fortnight ago 1300 died suddenly at Muswellbrook out ...
Article : 182 wordsThe train service on this line is causing great dissatisfaction. The distance from Morwell to Mirboo is about 19 miles, yet it takes nearly 2 hours, and often longer, to ...
Article : 39 wordsOn the northern side of the Victoria Dock, facing a coal begrimed wharf, and with a weary background of dusty plain stretching as far as Footscray, stands a ...
Article : 629 wordsThe annual conference of the Amalgamated Engine Drivers' Association of Victoria was held at the shire hall to-day. Mr. C. Arnold, president, presided, and in ...
Article : 462 wordsHer Excellency Lady Northcote was the guest of honor at the Catholic Ladies' College yesterday afternoon on the occasion of the investiture of the students of honor. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 160 wordsA fashionably attired girl, named Mary Stone, aged seventeen years and ten months, was charged at the same court with the larceny of jewellery, valued at £20, the property of her mistress ...
Article : 377 wordsAt the same meeting, Cr. Billon (chairman of the public works committee reported that a Mr. Crosbie had agreed to provide summer evening concerts in the city reserve at a charge of 3d. on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsIn the Criminal Court yesterday Henry Gold- stone, a shopkeeper, of Derby- street, Collingwood, was again tried on a charge of having, in company with James Holdsworth and Joseph Kelly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsThe Minister of Customs laid a return before Parliament yesterday, showing that in Victoria 133 manufacturers were notified of his official requirements under the ...
Article : 121 wordsIn connection with the outbreak of anthrax reported amongst a herd of goats depasturing on the travelling stock reserve on the north side of Wagga, the inspector ...
Article : 65 wordsDuring the hearing of a larceny case at Footscray court yesterday, Constable Glowaski, of Russel- street, complained that he had experienced considerable difficulty in securing evidence against ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsThe great fire which occurred on the night of 30th ult. in Elizabeth-street, and resulted in damage to the estimated extent of £150,000, was also responsible for the appearance at the District Court ...
Article : 292 wordsIn the House of Representatives last night, Mr. Johnson (N.S.W.) asked whether the Prime Minister could give the House any definite information as to when ...
Article : 533 wordsEmily Bateman, license of the Railway Club Hotel, Toorak-road, South Yarra, was fined £2 by the Prahran bench yesterday, for Sunday trading on 24th November, and George Nott, of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe lad Thomas, who was charged with murder as the result of his fatal fight with another lad, named Gravolin, has been discharged from custody, as it is ...
Article : 44 wordsThe select committee of the Assembly today reported that £30,000 had been overpaid to municipalities on account of subsidies. It recommended that a special ...
Article : 92 wordsA well dressed young man named William Ernest Dowv was charged with, riding between Newport and Footscray in a railway carriage on 11th October on a ticket dated 7th October. Defendant said ...
Article : 147 wordsWhen the Maheno's fruit cargo was discharged to-day 120 cases of apricots were condemned, owing to the presence of fly maggots, and 85 cases were ordered for ...
Article : 53 wordsOn arrival off Williamstown yesterday of the steamer Thorpe Grange, which had made a line trip from London, a question regarding the number of his crew, led ...
Article : 131 wordsThe question of forming a boys' brigade at South Melbourne was the subject of some discussion at Wednesday night's meeting of the local council. Cr. Murphy, who introduced the ...
Article : 141 wordsAt Fitsroy court yesterday John Alexander Hunter, a stalwart man, of 68 who stated that he was on the commission of peace in New South wales ...
Article : 128 wordsIn the House of Representatives last night, the Minister of Customs, in answer to Mr. O'Malley, said he had seen the judgment of Mr. Justice Higgins in ...
Article : 318 wordsIn response to the appeal made in our columns by the Rev. Keith-Forbes for donations towards procuring an artificial leg for Luke Darcy, we have received the following sum:—R.A.A.W. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 13 Dec 1907, Page 6
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