The Public Works department is making special arrangements to render work available for the unemployed, who congregate about the State public offices daily. ...
Article : 308 wordsIn accordance with the terms of the settlement arrived at in regard to the cement workers' strike at the works of Mr. David Mitchell, Burnley-street. ...
Article : 57 wordsYesterday morning a woman was seen struggling in the Saltwater River, near the Napier-street bridge, by Mr. John Scott, who was in his motor boat. Mr. Scott ...
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Article : 3 wordsSome days ago a Chinese doctor, named Chock Sang, living in Ballarat East, lost a gold watch, valued at £70, while riding in a Melbourne tram car. The matter ...
Article : 228 wordsThe council of the Australian Independent Workers' Federation met last night, the president. Mr. H. E. Spencer, presiding. Mr. J. T. Packer, the secretary, ...
Article : 470 wordsThe Coroner (Dr. R. H. Cole) held an inquest at the Morgue yesterday concerning the death of Henry Herald Wragge, 45, analytical chemist, late of Warwick tract, ...
Article : 314 wordsThe question of a rise in the price of milk from 5d. to 6d. per quart, considered recently by the country disturbing companies in the metropolis, has resulted, ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Licences Reduction Board commenced its first metropolitan sittings for the year at the Law Courts yesterday. COMPENSATION CLAIMS. ...
Article : 568 wordsJohn Franklin Coates, aged 22, was arrested on Thursday on a charge of forging, uttering and disposing of a cheque for £15 10 on Messrs. Hartley Bros., bicycle ...
Article : 50 wordsA remarkable matrimonial case engaged then attention of the Prahran justices during the whole of yesterday morning. Victor Wilson, formerly a Chapel-street photographer, was charged on ...
Article : 351 wordsUnder the high pressure system shown on the "chart" over the southern and south-eastern parts of the continent, the weather this (Thursday) morning was ...
Article : 241 wordsThe annual report of the Miners' Accident Relief Board was made available on Tuesday. The gross revenue for the year was £67,004, an increase ...
Article : 122 wordsThe old Comunn na Feinne ground in South Geelong was one of the lots offered at a Crown lands sale on Thursday. The upset price was £700 but the land brought ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the meeting of No. 2 branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners on Wednesday evening, it was resolved:-- ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. John Hall, 45, of M'Cracken-avenue, Northcote, who is employed as a factory manager at Messrs. Holdensen and Nielsens Fresh Food Factory, was in his office ...
Article : 72 wordsA meeting of the northern colliery proprietors was held in Sydney to-day, when the proposed resumption of the conference with the representatives of the Colliery ...
Article : 61 wordsThe police are making inquires here for a young man named Frank Brunning, who, it is believed, is in Gippsland. Brunning has been awarded a silver medal by the ...
Article : 12 wordsThe Oriental Timber Corporation had a serious misfortune on Thursday afternoon, when a large steam turbine exploded and was wrecked. The turbine was used for ...
Article : 164 wordsPortland shire council to-day protested strongly against the burden cast upon it by the Government in connection with the construction of roads to heath lends now ...
Article : 113 wordsEric Tyler, the motor cyclist who set out from Sydney at 9 p.m. on Wednesday in an endeavor to break the record over the distance between Sydney and Melbourne, ...
Article : 370 wordsThe gas employes are trying to get their wages raised. Towards the end of 1911 agreements were made between the union and the three gas companies--Australian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsCAMPERDOWN.--The report of the directors of the Campertown Butter Factory for the half year ended 31st December shows [?] turnover for the six months of £86,260 176, which is a ...
Article : 2,210 wordsLicensed victuallers north and south of the Yarra engaged yesterday in a cricket match at the East Melbourne cricket ground. During the course of a luncheon, at which Mr. J. R. ...
Article : 522 wordsA serious accident happened on a private rifle range at Baker yesterday afternoon. Two local fanners. Mr. Arthur B. Chandler and Mr. A. Dicker, were ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Stage Supernumeraries' Association last night sent a deputation to the Trades Hall Council to ask its assistance in securing better rates of pay for the members. ...
Article : 198 wordsOn Wednesday at South Melbourne, seven bakers were charge, before Messrs. Baragwanath and Jago, J's.P., under the Shops and Factories Act, with baking bread for sale on the third Tuesday in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 wordsAt the meeting of the State Executive on Wednesday a regulation was passed fixing the third Wednesday in February in much year as an annual holiday for hair dressing and having saloons in ...
Article : 104 wordsMiss Annie M Cormack (19), daughter of Mr. J. M'Cormack, of "The Oaks," Camden, was on. Tuesday afternoon riding a young spirited horse along Picton-road. On ...
Article : 82 wordsAt North Melbourne court yesterday, George Scott was charged with carting before 7.30 a.m. Defendant did not appear, but sent a letter in which he admitted the offence. He explained that ...
Article : 102 wordsM. T. C. Brennan, one of the Liberal candidates for Warrenheip, advertises in another column the list of his meetings in Meredith and district. The principal ...
Article : 44 wordsHuddart Parker Limited notifies that passengers leaving Queen's Wharf to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. per steamship Coogee, can return from Portarlington per steamship Courier, arriving on return ...
Article : 274 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Victorian branch of the Federated Iron Workers' Association, held at Maritime-buildings, South Melbourne, last night, it was decided that ...
Article : 239 wordsA ganger named Alexander Scott, aged 40, was instantaneously killed to day while working at the railway construction gravel pit east of Moree. Deceased was riding ...
Article : 87 wordsAt Adelaide police court to-day, Eva Evelynne Brokensha sued her husband, Ernest Edwin Brokensha, for the return of money she alleged she lent him prior ...
Article : 192 wordsThe team of Australian rifle shots for Disley has now been fully organised. The Weste[?] Australian Rifle Association has chosen as the representative of the State ...
Article : 281 wordsThe committee of the A.J.C. has again decided on big increases in the prise money. At a meeting to-day it was announced that additions totalling £7500 had been made. ...
Article : 295 wordsJas. Atkinson, a machine man employed at Hebburn colliery, was killed in the pit this morning. Deceased was assisting a wheeler to right a skip which had become ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsReginald Hamlyn and Herbert Edmund Tratford, both between 17 and 18 years of age, were charged before Messrs. T. Smith and W. Fiske, J's.P., at South Melbourne yesterday on remand ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsA young man named Thomas Burnett, a recent arrival from Ireland, aged 24 years, was drowned at Coliurechie, 24 miles from Narandera, yesterday. Deceased, who was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsEdgar Albert Edmunds, aged 33, appeared at the Central police court this morning before Mr. Smithers, S.M., in connection with an explosion that occurred in a ...
Article : 117 wordsA young man named Ricketts, employed by Mr. Cummins, of Cluan, was felling trees yesterday when he was attacked by a tiger snake and bitten on the wrist. He ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Trades Hall Council was engaged for a long time lust night in discussing a proposal that an assistant secretary be appointed. The secretary (Mr. Gray), said ...
Article : 182 wordsA drowning fatality occurred on Tuesday Sylvester M'Hugh, 23, employed by Smale and bons, of Barrakee, was sent to bring some cattle from West Charlton, and ...
Article : 106 wordsRabbit trappers went on strike to-day. The explanation which the union officials offer is that buyers have been guilty of a breach of an agreement. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Werribee Farmers' Co-operative General Supply Store was destroyed by a fire which broke out mysteriously at 7.30 p.m. The adjoining buildings were only ...
Article : 55 wordsErnest Joseph Folwell was similarly charged in respect of an offence alleged to have been committed on 13th inst., when Margaret Douglas, school teacher, 22 St. Vincent-place. Albert Park. ...
Article : 188 wordsWELLINGTON (Y.Z.), Thursday. Mr. Herries, the Native Minister, in the course of a speech to-day, stated that the future policy of the Government would be ...
Article : 88 wordsAn inquest into the circumstances of the death of Reta Jean Summers, whose body was found in the Port Melbourne lagoon on 12th inst., was held yesterday by the Coroner (Dr. R. H. Cole). ...
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Advertising : 164 wordsWilliam Herbert Dawson and Herbert Thomas Gerrard, both 17, were committed for trial at Paddington court to-day on a charge of breaking and entering the ...
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Advertising : 27 wordsAn inter-State conference in connection with the clothing trade is sitting in Sydney. The principal business now under consideration is the drawing up of a log ...
Article : 222 wordsThe attempt to refloat the Star of Canada, whihc founded at Gisborne, has been abandoned. The prospect of success was considered too remote to justify the ...
Article : 41 wordsIt has been reported to the Moonee Ponds police that the residence of Mr. James in M'Pherson-street, Moonee Ponds, was entered by thieves on Wednesday afternoon, and jewellary ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsAt the Criminal Court to-day Thomas Charlton, 24, who came from Victoria, was found guilty of assault robbery and sentenced to three years imprisonment ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 21 Feb 1913, Page 8
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