In the evening the crews were entertained at a performance of the Bing Boys at Her Majesty's Theatre. It was an ideal selection for such an occasion. The boys ...
Article : 503 wordsIn Sebastopol court on Friday Frederick Moore, licensee of the Guiding Star Hotel, Redan, was lined £5 on the charge of having has bar door open during prohibited ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 904 wordsSenator Lieutenant Colonel Bolton, president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, made an official statement on Saturday regarding the ...
Article : 856 wordsThe League football season opened on Saturday with eight teams competing, as against six in 1917, and four the previous year. The addition to the playing strength was welcomed by followers of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3 wordsOf the plays in which Miss Kathlene MacDonell has appeared during her stay in Australia. The Outcast finds a high place in the estimation of the theatre going ...
Article : 333 wordsMr. R. B. Anderson, J. P., who carried on business for over 40 years in Mitchell-street, died suddenly on Thursday night. He was 67 years old, and leaves a widow ...
Article : 109 wordsIt says a great deal for the essential greatness of Mr. Alexander Walson's art and for his popularity with the discerning Melbourne public that for more than a ...
Article : 519 wordsSYDNEY.—Several matters which, it was stated, were causing considerable unrest in Newcastle district were brought under notice of the Acting Minister for the ...
Article : 549 wordsFor an opening match the game at Collingwood provided all the features in the first half that make football pleasing. But after the lang interval Carlton fell right below themselves, and in ...
Article : 574 wordsThe State school children's display of physical culture was repeated at the Geelong Oval on Saturday. It is expected that £500 will be added to the Education ...
Article : 72 wordsTo 9 a.m. Saturday a fairly general rain had been experienced in Victoria, but the falls were light except in parts of the north-east, where up to 123 points were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsLand at Harcourt was on Friday submitted to auction, and sold at from £31 10/ to £34 per acre. The land has been used for grazing purposes only. ...
Article : 55 wordsA bequest of £93 was left by Private P. J. Clark, who was recently killed in action, to be equally divided between the Echuca and Mooroopna hospitals. ...
Article : 46 wordsEach succeeding night finds a larger audience at the King's Theatre, and it is obvious that the merit of Mr. Guy Bates Post and his company is being widely and ...
Article : 115 wordsFollowing on a series of games played at Broadmeadows camp came the inevitable final match for the championship of the camp. This was played on the Melbourne cricket ground on ...
Article : 367 wordsBERRIGAN.—At the instance of the local repatriation committee, a working bee was arranged for the purpose of giving assistance to a returned soldier, Mr. S. Butcher, who has taken up share ...
Article : 70 wordsSTAWELL.—A further conference of representatives of Stawell and Ararat councils was held at the borough chambers to further consider the suggested hydro-electric scheme for utilising the ...
Article : 78 wordsWhen the curtain was raised at the Tivoli Theatre on Saturday night only standing room was available, and the excellence of the numbers in the revue ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Minister of Education on Thursday heard representations for improved school accommodation at Doncaster, Doncaster East and Ringwood. At Ringwood the school attendance has increased ...
Article : 202 wordsThe combined attractions of films showing the semi-final and final contests for the "Head of the River" and a Mary Pickford feature ensured packed houses at both Hoyt's Bourke-street and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsThe reappearance of St. Kilda in the competition was a pleasure to many local sportsmen. Nearly all the old players came back, consequently the openings for new men were few. It was a ...
Article : 388 wordsWilliamstown (premiers 1917) met Collingwood, who in 1915 were premiers of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association, on the Williamstown ground. There was a good attendance. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsEnthusiastic audiences attended the Bijou Theatre on Saturday, where, as usual, a varied and entertaining vaudeville programme was presented. Amongst the new ...
Article : 180 wordsIt has been urged that the railway extension from Neerim South to Nugee to tap the timber supplies in the Latrobe Valley should be further extended to the junction of the Tooronga river or ...
Article : 126 wordsIn accordance with recent custom the fresh programme to be shown to-night at the Paramount Theatre was screened on Saturday night in the Town Hall before a large audience. Sunshine ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 706 wordsADELAIDE.—On Friday a remarkable outbreak of ptomaine poisoning occurred at Adelaide Children's Hospital, as the result of which 32 members of the staff ...
Article : 178 wordsThe spectacular presentment of a falling Zeppelin, a thing of flames and doom, took pride of place in the new programme presented at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday night. The title ...
Article : 83 words[?] are being made for a Ministerial visit to the Ovens River, where the sludge is causing trouble. Acting under instructions from the Minister of Public Works, Mr. Kermode, chief ...
Article : 121 wordsWest's Theatre, "across the bridge," held a large audience on Saturday night, who enjoyed a programme transferred from the Majestic Theatre. The star film was Shirley Kaye, in which ...
Article : 68 wordsA rainfall which the Government Meteorologist described last night as useful and general, has occurred in Victoria and Riverina within the past two days. Mr. ...
Article : 123 wordsRepresentations were made to the Minister of Water Supply on Thursday by Dandenong Water Trust asking that permission be given the trust to utilise the waters from the hill country for ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Sins of the Fathers is a conventional story, without a villain, and the only essence of wrongdoing in the plot in represented by retrospective references to the ...
Article : 248 wordsRelatives and others desiring news of sick, wounded, returning or missing soldiers are invited to write to or call at the Red Cross Information Bureau, Colonial Mutual-chambers, ...
Article : 33 wordsThe charm and beauty of The Spreading Dawn, starring Jane Cowl, obviously pleased the large attendance at Glenferric Theatre on Saturday night. Another film, The Fighting Trail, as well ...
Article : 65 wordsGeelong's following divided attention between the boat race—the Grammar School being in the final—and this football match. They were back from the river in time to see their team in the ...
Article : 298 wordsBALLARAT.—In the County Court on Saturday, before Judge Winneke, the case was concluded in which a Chinese, Ah Goon, proceeded against the mayor and ...
Article : 521 wordsIn response to the appeal made by Rev. E. Warner, of Sunshine, on behalf of a case of distress, we have received the following contributions:—E.H.B., 5/: A.D., 2/: W.A.C.L.R., 5/ ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the Melba Theatre this week the principal film is Miss U.S.A., a William Fox comedy drama, with Miss June Caprice in the leading role. There is abundance of amusing comedy ...
Article : 89 wordsEdward Henry Ewart, of Tatong, ganger. Causes of Insolvency: Inability to work and sickness of wife and family. Liabilities, £74 16/9: assets, nil. Mr. Rossell, assignee. Filled at Benalla. ...
Article : 30 wordsAlthough strenuous efforts, lasting for more than a week, were made by search parties to discover the whereabouts of the missing farmer, Charles Whitelaw, the ...
Article : 163 wordsBENDIGO.—A terrific thunder storm, accompanied by a heavy downpour of hailstones, passed over the city on Saturday night. Subsequently rain fell, and, with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 305 wordsSir,—Your comments on the antiquated Health Act and the still more fossilised boards of health and Health department were highly appreciated by your ...
Article : 139 wordsSir,—The automatic system of telephones, to which the Government states it is committed for future development, needs some explanation, in view of the most ...
Article : 136 wordsMelbourne is to have a season of comic opera with the reopening of the Palace Theatre on Saturday, 1st June, when a specially selected company of artists will ...
Article : 47 wordsThe season opened auspiciously at Richmond, where, notwithstanding counter attractions on the river, some thousands of football supporters assembled. It was Essendon's first appearance for ...
Article : 347 wordsSaturday night's ballad concert was opened by Mr. Fred Collier, who sang the Prologue from Leoncavallo's Pagliaeei with his usual success, although he was ...
Article : 436 wordsThere were no further developments yesterday in connection with the circumstances attending the death at Ringwood on 5th inst. of Mrs. Ada ...
Article : 98 wordsOrders under the prices regulations were issued on Saturday fixing the price of cheese as follows:—Metropolitan areas of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 454 wordsThe dates for the sittings of the High Court of Australia for the remainder of the year 1918 have been fixed as follow:—Melbourne, 11th May; Brisbane, 24th June; Sydney, 29th July; Melbourne, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsSYDNEY.—At Dubbo police court on Saturday Hendy Williams, was fined £5, with medical expenses, for assaulting Mr. Hogan, a stipendiary steward, at the ...
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Advertising : 21 wordsThe price of refined salt in the metropolitan area of Victoria and South Australia has been fixed at 5/6 per cwt. wholesale, and 1d. 1b. retail. For coarse salt ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 13 May 1918, Page 6
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