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Article : 4,621 wordsIt appeats that the consideration now being given by a sub-committee of the Health Officers' Association to the unworkability of the health laws, referred to in ...
Article : 688 wordsThe Shopkeepers Saturday Half Holiday Association will hold a monster demonstration in the Melbourne Town Hall on Friday evening next, 7th August, for the ...
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Advertising : 161 wordsAn inquiry was held by the Coroner (Dr. Cole) on Saturday in regard to the circumstances attending the death of Archibald Ernest Windram, aged 28, employed at ...
Article : 198 wordsAn Orange service was held yesterday in the Brunswick-street Methodist Church, Fitzroy, by local lodges. The Rev. Geo. Tregear delivered an address, in which he ...
Article : 291 wordsThe members of the Trades Hall Council are in full sympathy with the movement in favor of a universal Saturday half holiday. At the meeting of the council on ...
Article : 70 wordsFine rains have fallen in the northern areas. An exceptionally heavy fall of snow occurred at Petersburg on Saturday, the amount and duration exceeding ...
Article : 86 wordsThe council of the Chamber of Commerce at its meeting on Thursday was asked to express its opinion on the proposal of the Shopkeepers' Saturday Half Holiday ...
Article : 112 wordsSir,--The Early Closing Act brought disaster on many small traders, and loss to many more. The only ones who benefited were the large city and suburban stores. We ...
Article : 398 wordsOn Friday night a woman named Annie Thompson was taken to St. Vincent Hospital in a dying condition, and she expired before the institution was reached. A ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsIn connection with the deatn of Charles Henry Lush, aged 70, of Richmond, whose body was recovered from the Yarra on Tuesday last, the Coroner on Saturday ...
Article : 52 wordsThe result of a canvass made amongst shopkeepers at Brighton for signatures to a petition in favor of the universal closing of shops on Saturday afternoon, is that ...
Article : 61 wordsThe annual choral service of the four Orange lodges at Footscray was held in the Federal Hall, Footscray, yesterday afternoon, the building being crowded with ...
Article : 414 wordsShortly before 3 p.m. on Saturday, while several small children were playing in the Williamstown Botanical Gardens, they observed a respectably attired woman, who ...
Article : 227 wordsSir,--Why should not a law of a country apply to all those it is enacted for? The agitation now prevailing for a so-called "universal" Saturday half holiday is, no ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 732 wordsThe dispute between the Bendigo Trades and Labor Council and the Miners and Engine Drivers' Association with regard to the distribution of the Eight Hours ...
Article : 761 wordsSir,--Your correspondent "Verb. Sap." states that suburban shopkeepers will throw their Wednesday half holiday away for a Saturday. Unlike the dog in Esop's ...
Article : 162 wordsSir,--I would like to give my version as regards the butchering business. The experiences of last summer ought to have proved to anyone in the trade that it is ...
Article : 381 wordsIsaac Fox, aged 62, who lives ivitli his family at Myrtle-street, South Yarra, and is caretaker of No. 163 Collins-street, late last night had a remarkably narrow escape ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Glen Wills and Omeo mail coach, on the way to Omeo, met with a serious mishap about four miles out of Sunnyside. One of the polers fell, and when righted ...
Article : 141 wordsA young man named Percy Shaw, of Drummond-street, Carlton, was on Saturday admitted to the Melbourne Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,--Many of those against the universal half holiday have advanced arguments that are pitifully selfish in tone, and are under cover of a nom de plume, while in ...
Article : 298 wordsWith a desire to assist the State Treasurers as far as was in his power, the Commonwealth Treasurer last week took administrative action of a far reaching ...
Article : 344 wordsGeorge Gordon, aged 19 years, a printer, residing at Marrickville, was walking along a cutting near Cook's River to-day, when he slipped and fell some distance. He was ...
Article : 44 wordsA railway guard named William Daniels, aged 53 years, was seriously injured near Banksia station through falling from the train. The train was proceeding to ...
Article : 95 wordsEdward Waters made a gruesome discovery whilst out shooting on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River just above the town. Waters noticed something on a ...
Article : 162 wordsSir,--Your correspondent Mr. James Thompson seems of a rather seifish disposition, and thinks if be can urge those shopkeepers who favor a universal Saturday to ...
Article : 258 wordsHarold Delaney, a barman employed at the Steyne Hotel, Manly, found a gas leak in the parlor on Friday night by the aid of a match. ...
Article : 90 wordsSir,--Mr. Garrick, one of your correspondents, has said that shop assistants, &c. will have ample time to shop in their lunch hour. I am a factory girl, who has from ...
Article : 142 wordsA fatal accident happened close to Murrurundi station last evening, a man, John Heffernan. a laborer, being knocked down by a goods train that was being shunted. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe death of the woman Muriel Goose, better known as Courtney, which ivas reported in "The Age" of Saturday morning, presented features which at the time pointed ...
Article : 347 wordsA mail named Geo. West, aged 36 years, piano tuner, a native of Victoria, committed suicide in the Queen's Domain on Saturday afternoon by shooting himself in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsSir,--I must certainly disagree with some of your correspondents in their contention that the suburban shopkeepers would lose a large portion of their trade in the event ...
Article : 243 wordsJames Alexander Bainn, formerly of Melbourne, a married man, employed at Foys' stable, was killed on Thursday night by the capsizing of a sulky he was driving. ...
Article : 48 wordsSir.--In Brisbane, where the Saturday half holiday has been in operation for over three years, the very best results have been experienced by employers and employes ...
Article : 279 wordsIn addition to the New South Wales writ the Commonwealth Attorney-General on Saturday received a writ from the Western Australian Government claiming ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 wordsDuring the progress of a football match on Saturday at Moorina a player named Arthur Terry fell down dead on the field. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsR. Davis, employed on a ketch, met with a painful accident at Beauty Point, having both jaws fractured and all his front teeth knocked out. Davis and his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 wordsAn examination of the lift shaft at Broken Hill-chambers made after the fire brigade had accomplished an excellent "stop" and saved the big building from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsThere are no fresh developments in the strike of the Parliamentary press reporters against the House Committee's refusal to provide them with adequate ...
Article : 151 wordsSir.--I am surprised that up to now none of your numerous correspondents have, on the Saturday half holiday, made reference to the experiments in this direction which ...
Article : 434 wordsTwo confidence men named Morris and Harris were charged at the Criminal Court with having conspired to defraud un old man named Rymar of £120. He arrived in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsA message from Tomerong received on Friday states that the scow Hilda, 65 tons, owned by A. Settree, was ashore at Wreck Bay. The vessel, which has a cargo ...
Article : 87 wordsQuite a stir was created in Chapel-street, Prahran, opposite the Union Bank, on Saturday night about 9 o'clock by the discovery of a large hole in one of the glass panels of the bank front door. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 3 Aug 1908, Page 8
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