It was announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Swinburne, yesterday that the negotiations for renewing the lease of the cool stores from the City Council had ...
Article : 635 wordsOf the 450 items in the tariff schedule the Senate had up to its adjournment on Thursday [?]ight dealt with 298. The result of Thursday's sitting had been quite ...
Article : 1,282 wordsAn announcement was made by the Minister of Labor, Sir Alexander Peacock, yesterday upon the question of the hours to be fixed for employes in fourth ...
Article : 332 wordsThe Ballarat Progress Association on Friday night, at the City Hall, entertained at a smoke social the committee of the Victorian Railways Mutual Benefit Society, ...
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Advertising : 169 wordsThe trial of Henry Prince, a grocer, charged with the murder of Henry Sullivan at Newtown, was concluded to-day. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Masonic Hall wan well filled last evening by athletic enthusiasts, who assembled to witness a boxing and wrestling exhibition, hold under the auspices of the ...
Article : 1,176 wordsThe first general meeting of the Incorporated Association of Secondary Teachers of Victoria Mas held last night at the Austral Salon. Mr. L. A. Adamson ...
Article : 1,131 wordsA public meeting was held here to-night to discuss the question of the site of the proposed new post, office, Cr. Ross, pre[?] dent of the shire, presided. A vote resulted ...
Article : 62 wordsThe special licensing court sitting at Darlinghurst to-day decided to reduce the number of licensed hotels in the Glebe electorate by six, and the number of wine ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. W. H. Hall, chief assistant in the Bureau of Statistics, who has been under arrest for disobeying an order of the court calling on him to amend and supply certain ...
Article : 81 wordsBALLARAT.—A fire broke out early on Friday morning at Dickinson's bacon curing works at Schastopol, when property valued at £20 was destroyed. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsA further search of the premises in Sussex-street. where 18 plague infected rats were discovered, has led to 30 more being found. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Royal Princess Proprietary has decided to effect some improvements to its property, at a cost of about £1000. The number of electric lights in the building ...
Article : 137 wordsThe municipal council has decided to strike a rate of 1d. in the pound on the unimproved capital value, and 0½d. in the pound on the improved capital value. These ...
Article : 224 wordsAt the Trades Hall meeting last night Mr. Lemmon, M.L.A., complained, paradoxical as it may seem, that the workers in the ice trade in Melbourne were being ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsA visit was paid to the corporation abattoirs and sale yards on Friday by the members of the town council, and certain improvements were decided upon. ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the licensing court on Friday Mrs. C. A. Watson applied for the transfer of the licence of the Supreme Court Hotel from J. G. Mail's. Inspector Davies ascertained ...
Article : 169 wordsIt is understood that the railway line from Jericho to Blackall will be opened for traffic in about a week's time, but it will not be officially opened until the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Australian Savings Bank has instituted a scheme, which wiil come into force on Monday next, for inducing the people to save their pennies. The bank ...
Article : 87 wordsAbout three years ago a cool store was erected by the Government at Doneaster, at a cost of £2716, for the storage of fruit. It consisted of two chambers, each of a ...
Article : 267 wordsNurse Hooley, who has accepted the position of matron at the Warrnambool Hospital, after filling a similar office here for many years, was made the recipient of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsThe egg export business has become so important a branch of the produce export depot that a large cool chamber has had to be set aside for the accommodation of ...
Article : 87 wordsDuring the past few days the following secretaries have been reappointed by their respective unions:—Liquor Trades' Employes' Union, Mr. R. G. Gill; ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. R. Smith's Boorool Estate has been sold for £26,000. The property contains over 1200 acres, and is located nine miles from here. It was under offer to the ...
Article : 64 wordsAt the Criminal Court Edward Etherington and Nicholas Hurtling, who were found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Agricultural Bank of £160 by means ...
Article : 146 wordsAt a well attended meeting of the Coach Makers' Society on Thursday night a communication was received from the Minister of Labor, in reply to a request ...
Article : 185 wordsAt the police court yesterday a young man named Waiter Evans Was charged with having behaved in a riotous manner Narbethong on Wednesday last. A race ...
Article : 134 wordsAt the local court to-day, William Maguire, a powerfully built young man, about 30 years ef age, was charged with feloniously breaking into and entering the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsWith a view to forming an arts and crafts society a meeting was held yesterday afternoon at Miss Merfield's studio. Among those present were the members of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsA deputation from the Progress Association interviewed Mr. Sampson, M.P., this week in regard to postal matters. The president (Mr. L. L. Benjamin) explained that ...
Article : 90 wordsAt Collingwood court yesterday, Schweppes and Co., aerated water manufacturers, were charged with failing to allow a carter the customary half holiday in the week ending 7th ...
Article : 90 wordsSir,—In contention, of my statement re national color of Ireland, I would refer Mr. Lee to the following quotation from the pen of Sir Bernard Burke, late Ulster King of ...
Article : 108 wordsThe new Friendly Societies Act, which makes it compulsory for societies to adopt an adequate scale of contributions, is causing some of the smaller societies to ...
Article : 98 wordsADELAIDE.—Further telegrams have been received concerning heavy rains in the interior. The Dia[?] and other water courses are in flood. ...
Article : 32 wordsA stir was caused yesterday at the Metropolitan Mission, in Bourke-street, by the appearance at the dinner hour of an inspector of the Board of Health, who ...
Article : 416 wordsThe lax way in which the Unused Roads and Water Frontages Act is being administered by the Bent Government was demonstrated at the Gl[?]g shire council ...
Article : 103 wordsConstable Thynne, at Cheltenham court on Wednesday, prosecuted Patrick Roland, C. Shanahan, Ernest Lindberg, Patrick Hanrahan, Patrick O'Connor and George Rogers for on 8th March ...
Article : 225 wordsMr. Hugh Pye, principal of the Dookie College, was in Shepparton yesterday, and in an interview said that the statements published in a morning newspaper regarding ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 521 wordsThe Presbyterian Home Mission festival took place last night, the moderator, Rev. A. Stewart, presiding. The Minister, of Mines and the Acting Attorney-General ...
Article : 139 wordsAt the sittings of the Supreme Court today, before Mr. Justice a Beckett, William Hannabry was charged with indecently assaulting a girl 11 years of age. Mr. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Noble testimonial match between the Australian Eleven and the Rest of Australia was commenced on the Sydney Cricket Ground to-day in delightful ...
Article : 242 wordsAt Coburg on Thursday night a meeting [?] held at the public hall under the auspices of the Forward Social Reform movement. The chair was taken by the mayor of Coburg, Mr. ...
Article : 276 wordsA very successful concert was held on Friday night in the local town hall by the recently formed Essendon District Scottish Society. [?] 700 persons attended, and Scotch and Gaelic songs, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsFarmers throughout the district are grimly concerned at the water in the irrigation channels being shut off. Owing to the dry season many require their dams ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Licences Reduction Board concluded its sittings here on Friday afternoon, when the decisions in the cases brought before it were announced. The chairman stated ...
Article : 115 wordsA man, aged 31, named Percival Marston R[?]ster, living at Hotham-street, Windsor, was last evening arrested by Detective Sainsbury on charge of the larceny as a bailee of a bi[?] ...
Article : 108 wordsChris. T. Nixon and Arthur Moore were charged at the court to-day with unlawfully resisting Constable M'Rae in the execution of his duty. The evidence was that ...
Article : 150 wordsGerman mail steamer [?] left Colombo for Australia on 19th inst., and is due at Fremantle on Saturday, 28th inst. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 21 Mar 1908, Page 14
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