The latest drama at the Theatre Royal, produced on Saturday night before a large audience, is of the sort that Zola might have written. It is concerned with the ...
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Article : 3 wordsTALLANGATTA.—The Murray Waters Commission, including Mr. Watt, Federal Minister of Public Works, chairman; Messrs. Dethridge (Vic.), Grahame ...
Article : 439 wordsSYDNEY.—The Federal Minister of Works, Mr. Watt, and the Minister of the Navy, Mr. Cook, returned to Sydney from Lithgow on Sunday. The visit was ...
Article : 391 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of Ballarat Banking Company on Friday reports were submitted showing that the business transacted during the term had been of a ...
Article : 271 wordsResponding to requests recently made by patriotic workers that an effort should be made to secure knitting wool for the making of soldiers' garments at a reduced ...
Article : 2,467 wordsThe Honor System has been running with success at the Victoria Theatre during the past week, and on Saturday night the place was crowded. The God of Little Children, featuring ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Mark of Cain, at the Melba, and the Manxman, by Hall Caine, at the Britannia, with Keystone comedies and other features, drew crowded houses on Saturday. Commencing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 448 wordsSaturday's chart shows the prevalence of the north-west monsoonal depression which by Sunday had developed into an energetic cyclone centred just inland from Sharks' ...
Article : 219 wordsThe popularity of the municipal baths at Golden Square was amply demonstrated on Saturday afternoon, when they were officially opened by tine mayor of Bendigo (Cr. ...
Article : 252 wordsMiss Ada Reeve's company in the musical play Winnie Brooke, Widow, still occupied the [?]age at the Tivoli Theatre, and large audiences are being delighted nightly ...
Article : 139 wordsWAGGA.—On Friday and Saturday large shooting parties visited all the well-known swamps und lagoons in the district, where duck are at present in thousands. ...
Article : 93 wordsSYDNEY.—Before Mr. Justice Rolin in the Industrial Court on Thursday, the Federated Liquor Trades Employes' Union of Australia (New South Wales ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 wordsThe commissioners and chief officers of the water works and sewerage trust made their annual inspection on Saturday. The three reservoirs at Stoney Creek were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 11 wordsLAUNCESTON.—A sensational collision between a motor car an a motor cycle occurred on Invermay-road on Saturday afternoon, when there was very heavy ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsThe work of reorganising the dyers and clothes cleaners has been taken in hand by the Clothing Trades Union. Pressers and tailors in the repairing shops are not provided for under any ...
Article : 87 wordsAn excellent programme of comedy and vaudeville was presented at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday, when large audiences attended the matinee and evening ...
Article : 488 wordsTwo truck loads of ostriches, numbering about 40, have been sent from the farm at Mornington to that at Echuca West, which was established a few years ago. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 270 wordsRev. Father G. Vandamme, a Belgian priest, has just arrived in Australia as representative of Cardinal Mercier, Roman Catholic Primate of Belgium, on a special ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Minister of [?] has nominated the following for appointment to the Millet Broom Wages Board:—Messrs, A. K. Dalgleish, W. A. Ternes and T. Mitchell, representing the ...
Article : 64 wordsWALLAN.—The train from Bendigo to Wallan was nearly an hour late reaching here on Thursday and Friday, and failed to connect with the Goulburn ...
Article : 355 wordsCULCAIRN.—A public meeting was held on Wednesday night to form a citizens' band, towards which £20 was subscribed. Mr. W. G. Balfour was selected president, and Mr. W. Bunn ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsHOBART.—The State Treasurer, interviewed with regard to comments in "The Age" on the taxing of profits of companies rather than the dividends obtained ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Imperial Supplies department has paid New Zealand producers to date £19,969. The result of the division on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsWARRNAMBOOL.—A new Roman Catholic churchy and school at Yangery was opened and consecrated on Sunday morning by Dr. Foley, Bishop of Ballarat, in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 508 wordsWARRNAMBOOL.—The project was placed before a representative meeting of about 120 residents of Warrnambool and district on Thursday night. The mayor of ...
Article : 146 wordsAn entertaining programme, which included Life's Whirlpool and A Bit of Kindling, attracted a crowded audience at the Paramount Theatre on Saturday evening. Commencing to-day, Evelyn ...
Article : 118 wordsKYNETON.—At a meeting of the shire council on Saturday a letter was received from the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission directing attention to the ...
Article : 268 wordsThe secretary and superintendent, Mr. R. C. Norman, has received the following additional donations in response to the president's appeal:—Sir John Grice, £50; Walter Howard Smith, £59 ...
Article : 19 wordsSir,—In view of the opening of Parliament on Tuesday next it would be interesting to know why the Public Service Commissioner has not published in the ...
Article : 128 wordsIn connection with a series of robberies committed by boys at St. Kilda, Alex. S. Graham, manager for Messrs. Carney and Patterson, wood merchants, High-street, Prahran, was charged ...
Article : 162 wordsGood houses filled Hoyt's De Luxe, in Bourke-street, and Hoyt's Olympia, across Princes-bridge, on Saturday, when the star feature was a play entitled Dawn to Earth, a satire on the indoor ...
Article : 128 wordsSir,—The public have only themselves to blame for paying 10 1/4d. per skein for imported yarns, when they can get locally-spun 4-ply super quality yarns at 7 1/2d. per ...
Article : 180 wordsAt a large gathering held under the auspices of the Victorian executive of the Australian Labor party in tie Gaiety Theatre last evening, Mr. E. J. Holloway ...
Article : 142 wordsBALLARAT.—Frederick Wightwick (40), a porter at Ballarat West railway station, met with a serious accident on Saturday evening. He was engaged in checking the tickets of the passengers ...
Article : 116 wordsBought and Paid For, with Alice Brady as Virginia Blaine, the woman to be bought, was the main attraction at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday, and crowded houses rewarded the efforts ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsThe patriotic play, For France, attracted a fair audience to West's Theatre on Saturday evening. Edward Earle and Betty Howell are the leading artists in the piece. The war drama was ...
Article : 65 wordsECHUCA.—Dr. Elcoate had a narrow escape from losing the sight of his left eye on Friday night. He was placing al bottle of lemonade in the ice chest, when it suddenly exploded. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 words[?]CA.—A failure in the block system on the railway between Echuca and Rochester on Friday morning caused the 8.15 a.m. train from Echuca to Rochester ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—I have two sons at the front, to whom I have sent a great number of socks and mittens, the former in many cases costing well over 3/ a pair for socks ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Conqueror continues to draw good houses at the Auditorium. It will be screened dally during the wick, and there will be a special matinee on Wednesday. William Farnum and Jewel Carmen ...
Article : 70 wordsKALGOORLIE.—On Saturday morning a young single man, August Erickson, a trucker, was killed by a fall of rock at Great Boulder mine. Decessed, who was a returned soldier, was ...
Article : 37 wordsThe third series of the Hayseeds' visit to Melbourne for the Melbourne Cup drew large audiences to the Star Theatre on Saturday, To-day a five-reel drama called Charity Castle, with the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 4 Feb 1918, Page 9
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