The results of the judging in connection with the tenant farms competition, for prizes offered by the Messrs. Clarke, of the Dowling Forest Estate, under the auspices ...
Article : 182 wordsJames Alexander Banks, aged 50, an engineer in the employment of the Melbourne Hydraulic Power Company, was killed on Saturday morning at ...
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Article : 486 wordsIn the course of an article forecasting some of the probable features of the Postal Commission's first progress report, published in "The Age" of Saturday, it was ...
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Article : 179 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Bendigo Mining Managers' Association on Saturday night, a motion was carried declaring that the amending Mines Bill was of such a ...
Article : 122 wordsAfter hearing evidence relative to the death of Clarence Roy Key, aged four, living with his parents at Disracli-street, Kew. who succumbed at the Children's Hospital ...
Article : 86 words"We ought to know something about it. We drive the kiddies out, and many times they're so weak they can hardly walk. We take 'em back two or three weeks later and ...
Article : 567 wordsFrom the circumstances attending the death of Rose Petty, aged 61, at the residence of her daughter, at North Fitzroy on Friday last, as disclosed before the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe annual social of the local branch of the Locomotive Engine Drivers, and Firemen's Association was held on Saturday night. Among those present were Mr. ...
Article : 78 words(5th and 6th December.) Saturday and Sunday in Melbourne were both fine and pleasant days, witj light to fresh southerly winds. Clouds were nearly always considerable ...
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Article : 50 wordsA valuable collection of 109 books has been presented to the Warrnambool hospital by Air. J. H. Allan. ...
Article : 20 wordsA boarding house on the Moc-Walhalla line, kept by Mrs. Bailey, was visited by Senior Constables Smith and Loorbam, and acting on a search warrant they seized ...
Article : 57 wordsA young man named Francis Gerald Sharpe was charged with indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 16. Mr. Maxwell defended accused. ...
Article : 284 wordsWilliam Reynolds, a young married man, employed at the Williams United mine, Eaglehawk, had a sad experience on Friday night. He left the mine shortly ...
Article : 113 wordsThe revelations from Sydney concerning the discovery on board the E. and A. steamer Eastern of twenty Chinese stowaways, published in "The Age" on ...
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Article : 59 wordsThe story of a farmer, who went to England, who has not been heard of for twelve years, and who is presumed to be dead, is unfolded in an affidavit filed in the ...
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Article : 285 wordsBALLARAT. A five-roomed house in Wainwright-street, Ballarat East, owned and occupied by Mr. William Munro, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The ...
Article : 982 wordsWilliam Platt, aged 20 years, of Blake-ville, met with a painful accident in the Golden Hope mine yesterday. When engaged breaking down the face of the drive ...
Article : 71 wordsA fatal accident occured at Middle-bridge yesterday afternoon. Albert Chesney Herd, sixteen years of age, who was engaged by Rickard Bros. delivering ...
Article : 77 wordsThomas Grigsby, a miner, aged 42, was found guilty of an offence against his daughter, who had given birth to a child. The offence was first committed in 1906, ...
Article : 182 wordsThis evening the large stack of firewood, comprising about 800 loads, in connection with the Lansell's Bendigo battery, at Sheep's Head Gully, was ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. John Watkins, aged 73, a very old resident of Taradale, died suddenly in the Bendigo express at Taradale on Friday morning. Almost immediately after ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsSYDNEY. The following rainfalls were registered during the 24 hours prior to 9 a.m. on Saturday:—Gundagai, 30 points; Queanbeyan, 37; Tabu-lam, 15; Woolgoolga, 1. ...
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Article : 184 wordsReceived by the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company Limited, from Mount Morris, Charleville: 177 points Monday, Tuesday; river ran. Received by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co., from ...
Article : 40 wordsA smoke night with a departure from the conventional, was held on Saturday at the Town Hall. There was a musical programme, as usual, but the unfamiliar ...
Article : 342 wordsCharles Kiel, cycle agent, proceeded at the civil sittings of the Supreme Court yesterday against the proprietary of the "Ballarat Courier" for the recovery of £1000 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsThe superintendent and secretary of the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum appeals to the generosity of the public for donations in cash or kind to gladden the ...
Article : 328 wordsPublic sympathy was deeply stirred last year when it was reported that as the result of a sailing boat made by an amateur builder at Sandringham upsetting near Dromana, two young ...
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Article : 67 wordsAnnie O'Farrell, widow of Thomas O'Farrell, who committed suicide at his home in Brunswick road, Brunswick, on the night of 9th ult., after attempting to murder his wife, was sufficiently ...
Article : 363 wordsThe Prime Minister is hardly less emphatic than his colleague concerning the gravity of the situation as unmasked by the proceedings in connection with the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe end of the long drawn out negotiations between the Commonwealth Government and Messrs. Barclay and Co., the guarantors of the ill-fated Laing English ...
Article : 169 wordsMessrs. Edward Trenchard and Co. (in conjunction with Mess W. S. Keast and Co.) under instructions from the executrix and executor of the late Sir W .J. Clarke, Bart., report having ...
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Article : 204 wordsA deputation from Swan Hill, accompanied by Mr. Gray, M.L.A., and Mr. Rees, M.L.C., on Friday asked the Railway Commissioners to run two trains daily to Swan Hill, or, failing that, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe 20 Chinese found on the steamer Eastern are still on board. Arrangements have been made for their return by that vessel to China. The Eastern left for ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 7 Dec 1908, Page 8
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