Another large bush fire broke out to-day, this time to the north-east of the town. It burnt with great fury amongst the timber and undergrowth. The fire spread in two ...
Article : 490 wordsAs already announced, the A.N.A. Exhibition of Australian .Manufactures, which has become an annual affair of the greatest industrial importance, will be opened at ...
Article : 1,709 wordsA man named Charles Collide, 40 years of age, who was engaged in assisting to build a new co-operative bread factory at Richmond, fell from a scaffold 15 feet high and ...
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Advertising : 164 wordsAn informal discussion took place at a meeting of the State Cabinet yesterday on the suggestion first made by a correspondent of "The Age," and warmly seconded ...
Article : 80 wordsThe welcome cool change which reached Melbourne about 9 p.m. on Monday, after sundry exasperating stoppages on the way became more pronounced yesterday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsA practical joke was played on a man named Charles Thompson. At the suggestion of a companion, James Smith, he applied a match to some powder, which ...
Article : 66 wordsThere was nothing on the notice paper at yesterday's meeting of the Melbourne Hospital committee concerning the proposed change of site, but an informal ...
Article : 805 wordsDavid Gray, a well-known miner in this district, who was severely injured by a fall of earth in a claim worked by him in the old ground on the Avoca lead, died ...
Article : 42 wordsWhile Mr. Joseph J. Fitzmaurice and his family were sleeping out on the front verandah of his house in Nolan-street on Saturday night, several young men ...
Article : 164 wordsEvidently something in the nature of a hitch has occurred in connection with the agreement made last week by the Victorian and South Australian Governments under ...
Article : 141 wordsFigures showing the consumption of water on Monday were supplied by the Metropolitan Board yesterday. The amount used was 52,482,000 gallons. Last Thursday ...
Article : 78 wordsMrs. R. Heard, of Napier-street, Black Hill, Ballarat East, received severe injuries to-day through being thrown from a buggy. ...
Article : 25 wordsDr. Eakins had a narrow escape from serious injury on Tuesday. He was driving along Anstruther-street when the swingle bar broke, and in attempting to pull up the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe chairman of the board, Mr. W. J. Carre Riddell, stated last evening that an officer who had been sent to investigate the statements made in "The Age" as to ...
Article : 167 wordsSir,--The conference should, in my opinion, have discussed the boundary question only, under the guidance of lawyers and surveyors, and no one else. ...
Article : 286 wordsA man named David Davidson, 80 years of age, residing alone in a hut near the Great Western Reservoir, was found dead close to his residence on Monday ...
Article : 98 wordsA fire broke out about 12 miles north of Pitfield this morning, and subsequently blocked all traffic between Ballarat and the southern townships. The outbreak ...
Article : 463 wordsAn unusually large number of offenders were charged at the various metropolitan police courts yesterday with minor offences, arising in most cases through over-indulgence in alcohol during ...
Article : 383 wordsThree men, named Hancock, Land and Cameron, were carting wheat to Antwerp, and camped on the Wimmera River for dinner. Cameron foil asleep under a tall ...
Article : 102 wordsA letter from the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, read at last night's meeting of the Williamstown council, asked that special ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsAn inquest in connection with the death of John Edward Kelly, the victim of the tram fatality, was concluded to-day. The evidence showed that the driver of the ...
Article : 59 wordsMiss Hutchings, who is visiting Willaura from Portland, was sunstruck yesterday, and was brought into the Ararat Hospital last night. ...
Article : 59 wordsLast evening a young man named M'Leod, engaged on the Waranga Channel works, went to sleep in the left of Mr. Small's stable, and during the night got ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the Eaglehawk police court on Tuesday a young man named Henry Welch, a resident of View-street, Bendigo, was proceeded against by Alfred Thos. Bowen for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsOwing to the severe heat during the last few days the farmers in the district have been doing their harvesting at night. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn elderly lady named Mrs. Josephs was sitting in a vehicle in Victoria-street today when the horse took fright and bolted. The vehicle collided with a tree, and Mrs. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 361 wordsConsideration was given by the State Cabinet yesterday to an appeal from property owners in the Trawalla district for a settlement of their claims for damages ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 wordsAlexander Chisholm, 19 years of age, was working a horse rake on his father's property at Uranquinty, when one of the team became restless, and in endeavoring to ...
Article : 81 wordsA special meeting of the Bendigo branch of the A.M.A. was held at the Trades Hall to-night for tho purpose of deciding what business should be put forward by the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 650 wordsNorseman reports the death of Thomas Fowler, employed at the Fraser Range Station, who was sent out on a bicycle to look for a horse. As he did not return a search ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Rix's Creek miners came out this morning after working one week under the new conditions. It will be remembered that the miners struck at the end of last ...
Article : 303 wordsDuring the six successive days of excessive heat which preceded yesterday 58 patients passed through the Melbourne Hospital suffering from heat stroke. Of ...
Article : 96 wordsNear the Black Ranges on Monday afternoon a woman named Mrs. Brown and a boarded out child, two years of age, met their death. Mrs. Brown, who was a ...
Article : 126 wordsWhen addressing a meeting of ratepayers last night, Alderman Polinghorne stated that two reports as to the doings of the Umberumberka Water Trust had been ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Broken Hill express met with an accident this morning during its progress across the points at Tarlee station. A railway official allowed the points to open, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsThe Minister of Labor has received an amended determination from the chairman of the Brush Makers' Board, Mr. H. T. Gomm. Several alterations are made in the ...
Article : 90 wordsAn investigation made yesterday by Detectives Sainsbury and Ashton may have an important bearing upon the origin of a quantity of base coin which is now in ...
Article : 209 wordsOur correspondents in the country report that rain has fallen as follows:--Ararat, Coleraine, 35 points; Dunkeld, 12; Hamilton, 15; Portland, heavy; Stawell, 4 points; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 wordsMr. C. F. Young has resigned his position as an employes' representative on the Flour Trade Board. The Minister of Labor will be glad to receive the names and ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,--The mission hall in Crown-street, Richmond, which you report as being totally destroyed by fire yesterday, belonged to the Melbourne City Mission, and was ...
Article : 254 wordsMessrs. Dennys, Lascelles, Austin and Co. (in conjunction with Strachan, Murray and Shannon Pty. Ltd. and J. G. Johnstone and Co.) report the sale for Mr. ...
Article : 73 wordsA man whose name was not known to those about him, but who was working on the tram line at the corner of Gertrude and Brunswick streets yesterday, died very ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the Canning commission inquiry to- day, Carr Boyd, explorer, who said he had been brought to give evidence on compulsion, deposed that he had had seventeen ...
Article : 227 wordsA contract has been let by the Public Works department to clear a track to connect the Loch Valley-road with the War burton-Walhalla track, when tourists will ...
Article : 47 wordsThe ruins of Messrs. David Cohen and Co.'s warehouse are still smouldering, despite the fact that tons of water have been played on the debris. The dwarfed walls ...
Article : 123 wordsTo-day was again very hot. During the past nine days the maximum heat averaged over 110 each day. Half the population has been sleeping in the open air for the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe lunatic, David Kerr, who escaped from Kew Asylum on Monday, was found wondering in Bay-street, Port Melbourne, yesterday afternoon by Constable Taylor, ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Avenel flour mill, the property of Mr. John Pratt, was burnt to the ground yesterday at 3 p.m. It is believed that the mill was insured, but the amount is not ...
Article : 40 wordsMary Carey, a single woman, aged 45, residing at 178 Kerford-road, Albert Park, died at midnight on Monday. Deceased, who kept house for her nephew and niece, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsSerious grass fires are raging near Hawkes Bay. Rush fires covering 40 miles of bush have reached alarming proportions. Much damage was done near Eketahpna. Settlers ...
Article : 51 wordsDUNEDIN.--Arrived, January 21.--Aotea, from Newcastle. BLUFF.--Sailed, January 21.--Waihora, for Newcastle. ...
Article : 52 wordsRobert Nicholas, of Mansfield, butcher, Filed at Benalla. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 22 Jan 1908, Page 8
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