Telephone subscribers in Ballarat have been officially notified of the introduction of the toll system after 30th June. The system is being strongly condemned in ...
Article : 239 wordsSeveral important concessions have been made in regard to railway rates. A substantial reduction is made in the charges for motor cars which have been used to ...
Article : 65 wordsThe criminal sittings were continued yesterday, before the Chief Justice. CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. Ada Bell, a young woman, was PLACED IN THE ...
Article : 276 wordsA conference of representatives of nineteen agricultural societies of the State was held yesterday at the rooms of the Royal Agricultural Society, Collins-street. Mr. Bucknall (Maryborough) was ...
Article : 646 wordsThe engine attached to the 6.54 a.m. train from Box [?] to Melbourne became derailed at Box Hill yesterday during shunting operations. The derailment was [?] ...
Article : 93 wordsA deputation of the executive of the Amalgamated Engine Drivers' Association of Victoria interviewed the Minister of Mines yesterday with a request for a wages board for mine engine ...
Article : 346 wordsAt the police court yesterday Frederick Charles Intrez. 45, a miner, was charged with indecently assaulting his daughter, Bertha Intrez. 17 years of age. Accused ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Railways Commissioners will make an inspection of the Whittlese[?] and Eltham lines on Friday, leaving Spencer-street at 10 a.m., and returning about 3.30 p.m. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe police visited the Chinese camp at 4 a.m. to-day and hid in adjoining premises till a pakapu bank was being drawn. They then burst in and made four arrests. At ...
Article : 123 wordsBENDIGO.--On Wednesday night a large weatherboard building in King-street, owned by Mr. C. Cordingly and occupied by Mr. Geo. Bright and family, was ...
Article : 260 wordsThere is much indignation in this district at the continued stereotyped reply of the Railway Commissioners as to when the work will be commenced in connection ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 386 wordsThe May sittings of the Court of Insolvency were held on Wednesday, Judge Chomley presiding. Examination Meeting were held in the estates of John Albert ...
Article : 412 wordsResidents of Footscray are indignant at the lack of accommodation provided for them on the Williamstown line. At last night's meeting of the Footscray ...
Article : 219 wordsColonel Lyater, State Military Commandant, and a number of other officers asked the Premier yesterday for a grant of £700 to complete the £2000 necessary for the ...
Article : 158 wordsWARRNAMBOOL.--The half yearly meeting of shareholders in the Grasmere Cheese and Butter Factory Company was held at Warrnambool on Tuesday. The ...
Article : 621 wordsIn a letter read at the meeting of the Federated Butchers' Employes' Union on Tuesday night, the secretary of the New South Wales branch reported that two employers in Sydney had been each fined ...
Article : 100 wordsIn view of the fact that a sum of £12,600 is to be expended on improved railway facilities and stations within the shire of Heidelberg, and the supposed probability of the Outer Circle railway ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Governor. Sir Day Bosanquet, opened the Presbyterian Ladies' College at East Adelaide yesterday. The school has been in existence for about 40 years, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsA large deputation from the Master Bakers Association waited on the Premier yesterday, in opposition to the request recently made by the Operatives' Association for legislation, which ...
Article : 684 wordsBRISBANE.--A deputation from the Shipwrights' Union waited on the Treasurer on Wednesday to protest against the action of the Government in letting contracts for the ...
Article : 109 wordsLEONGATHA.--The matter of the slow train service on the southern line, between Melbourne and Port Albert, has been placed before the Railway Commissioners at frequent intervals by deputation. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsA request to which considerable interest attaches owing to its intimate relationship to the hawking nuisance was yesterday made to a joint committee of the City Council by a ...
Article : 234 wordsThe mayoress of Geelong (Mrs. Walter H. Higgins) held a public reception at the town hall on Wednesday. The weather was fine, and a very large number of ladies and ...
Article : 289 words[?].--The Closer settlement Board, represented by Mr. Jenkins (with whom was associated Mr. W. L. Butler, accountant to the board), sat at the court house on Tuesday from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 wordsJ. T. Mewton, formerly licensee of the Alhambra Bars, Barrack-street, who was lately brought back from Natal on a Western Australian warrant, was to-day ...
Article : 101 wordsSir,--I desire, with your permission, to bring under the notice of the powers that be the most unfair manner in which the poor tenant farmers are treated ...
Article : 285 wordsMessrs. Campbell and Sons, Kirk's Bazaar, report:--The yarding of horses for the week was good, and competition was brisk for all classes of useful horses. Extra heavy draughts are in good ...
Article : 241 wordsA conference of delegates of agricultural societies was held to-day, and it was decided to form an agricultural council. At the annual meeting of the Southern ...
Article : 159 wordsWhen the Forestry department was formed a couple of years ago control was taken over all forest lands in the State. Some of these had been leased as commons to farmers for the grazing of ...
Article : 226 wordsThe residents of the Walmer and Muckleford districts have been complaining of insufficient electoral facilities in their districts. They have to go either to Gowar or ...
Article : 122 wordsMEREDITH.--As each fortnightly list appears of Crown lands available for selection in different parts of the State, resident in this district feel aggrieved that nothing is being done ...
Article : 180 wordsA deputation from the Call Owners and Drivers' Association waited on the Premier yesterday to urge the necessity of an amendment of the Hackney Carriage Act on the lines of a report presented ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,020 wordsSir.--"The Age" is doing fine work in pressing the claims of the Lang Lang [?]cute to the Powlett coal seams. Personally I have Studied the problem first hand ...
Article : 227 wordsKate Hunt, a married woman, was charged at the police court on Tuesday with having stolen £9, belonging to William Hamilton. Defendant was employed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsA deputation from Merriguin, introduced by Mr. M'Kenzie, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister of Public Works yesterday with regard to the strengthening of the levee on the western bank ...
Article : 154 wordsMOTHER-IN-LAW TO THE RESCUE. Sarah Butler, a married woman, yesterday proceeded against William Seal at Brunswick on a charge of assault. Mr. Shannon appeared for Mis. ...
Article : 257 wordsThe fate Government gave the Kyneton Hospital committee a rather indefnite promise of a grant of £500 for building purposes on the pound for pound basis. The present Treasurer confirmed that ...
Article : 97 wordsIn pursuance of the policy of improving the city, the Fitzroy council has condemned six buildings as unfit for human habitation, two in Gertrude-street, two in Hanover-street, one in ...
Article : 38 wordsThe subjects of the arrests on the Australian Wharf of the attempts to smuggle in from the steamer Empire the prohibited drug opium, chronicled in "The Age," were before the court on ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Fitzroy council is desirous of popularising the local town bull, and towards Unit end has resolved upon a scheme of electric lighting, at an outlay of £40 5 for the main hall and £18 10 ...
Article : 87 wordsA deputation from the Stawell school board of advice and the borough council yesterday, asked the Minister of Education to establish a kindergarten in connection with the local school, and ...
Article : 256 wordsSome articles of jewellery have been found by Mrs. Herman, of Dimboola East, and these were subsequently identified by Mr. M'Laren as portion of the jewellery ...
Article : 75 wordsThomas Kinnard was convicted at Hawthorn on Tuesday of stealing a set of harness, the property of Chas. 11. Young, a local hawker. Several previous convictions were proved against accused. ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the meeting of the Northcote town council on Monday evening a resolution was carried, on the motion of the mayor (Cr. Plan[?]), "That the council provide a sum, not to exceed £5000, being ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsIn the Port Campbell district work is reported to be very plentiful this year, but there is a scarcity of laborers. One contractor has stated that he has great ...
Article : 48 wordsAt Fitzroy yesterday, Isaac A. Y. Newton was [?]ned 5, with 21 costs, for having sold an article of food (raspberry vinegar) without a label indicating the name and address of the manufacturer. ...
Article : 58 wordsA fire broke out yesterday at 8 p.m. on the premises, 175 Russell-street, occupied by L. Leber and Sens, clothing dealers. The fire brigade attended quickly, and soon bad the fire under ...
Article : 69 wordsAt Wednesday night's meeting of the South Melbourne city council five applications were received for the positions of two valuers for the city, at a remuneration of £100 per annum each. ...
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Advertising : 108 wordsThis afternoon a party comprising about forty shareholders of the Rogers Fibres Company inspected the company's works here. The party was met by Mr. C. R. ...
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Advertising : 66 wordsA deputation from the shire of Kyneton, introduced by Mr. Areyle, M.L.A., made representations to the Minister of Health, Mr. Baillieu, yesterday on the question of sanitation at ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 27 May 1909, Page 10
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