The Wyselaskie hall at the Presbyterian Ladies' College was packed with parents and pupils on Friday night in celebration of the 40th annual speech day. Dr. MacFarland, ...
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Article : 162 wordsA young man named Plummer, a sales man at Messrs. Sargood's warehouse, i[?] Flinders-street, who had been staying an a camp in Chelsea, yesterday afternoon ...
Article : 270 wordsThe burial of the late Mr. E. W. Kirby took place on Saturday in the Kangaroo Flat Cemetery. The gathering was a very large one. Amongst those present were ...
Article : 314 wordsOn Saturday afternoon a boy, 5 years and 11 months old, named Ray Bramley, whose parents live in Spray-street. Elwood, was sent to a shop on the south side of ...
Article : 215 wordsAmongst the correspondence read at the meeting of the city council on Friday was a circular from Mr. C. A. Campbell, hon. secretary of the Murray Waters Vigilance ...
Article : 130 wordsOn Saturday afternoon a boy named Ru[?]pert Whybrow was a passenger in a swing boat at St. Kilda Esplanade. Being propelled too high, his foothold slipped. ...
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Article : 178 wordsMr. W. Bruce, 52, a resident of Amess-street. North Carlton, died very suddenly at Collingwood on Friday morning. He was on a tram car travelling [?]ortaward. ...
Article : 91 wordsOwing to the low state of the river, the Wakool branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association has decided to point out to the various Governments concerned that ...
Article : 58 wordsAbout 80 men, employed at the dam at Psyche Bend, to impound the waters of the Murray, have struck for an additional shilling per day. The work is being done by ...
Article : 87 wordsThe body of Archibald Clark, aged 11, who had resided with his parents at Trenery-crescent, Abbotsford, was found in the municipal baths, Marine-parade. on ...
Article : 117 wordsThe local licensed victuallers, with one exception, have increased the price of beer to 6d. per pint. Half pints, "mediums" and pony beers are threepence; spirits and spa, ...
Article : 83 wordsThe embankment across the Murray here is, so far, giving every satisfaction. The local water supply difficulty has been overcome, and unless something unforeseen ...
Article : 194 wordsA boy three and a half years of age, whose parents reside in Princess-street. Kew, was drowned in the Yarra, near the rifle butts, Kew. on Friday forenoon, about ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Melbourne Town Hall was gaily decorated and brightly thronged on Friday night, when the staff and students of the Methodist Ladies' College, Hawthorn, held ...
Article : 4,786 wordsThe local settlers have now grave misgivings as to their chances of a regular supply of water for irrigation. No water has reached here for a fortnight, and the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe body of Alexander Cato, who had been missing from his home at Clayton-street. Ballarat East, for more than a week, was found on Saturday in the Blue Dam, near ...
Article : 87 wordsTwo members of the Country Roads Board, Messrs. Calder (chairman) and Fricke, visited Kerang on Friday evening, and discussed the provisions of the act ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. E. F. Hughes, J.P., held an inquest yesterday on the bodies of May Veronica Day, 24, State school teacher, and Edith Minnie Devereux. 13, who were drowned ...
Article : 190 wordsThe executive committee of the Goulburn Valley and Southern Riverina Irrigation League met in Cobram on Thursday. Delegates from Numurkah, Nathalia, ...
Article : 136 wordsOn Thursday evening the electric light was officially turned on in the town for the first time. The light was switched on by Mrs. Jas. Ball, wife of the president of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following resolution has been unanimously adopted by the pastoralists' associations in the States of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and ...
Article : 302 wordsThe jubilee of Avoca shire will be celebrated on Tuesday next. The town will be deocrated with bunting, and members of the Federal and State Parliaments, the ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. John Slatter, farmer, of Baringhun committed suicide this morning by hanging himself from a beam suspended between two concrete pillars of an old mining plant ...
Article : 278 wordsBALLARAT.--A six-roomed unoccupied house in Chisholm-street, Ballarat East, owned by Mr. J. Wise, was totally destroyed by fire at 3 a.m. on Sunday. The ...
Article : 2,241 wordsA statement made by a member of the hair dressing trade was published a few days ago that hair dressers working on Christmas day and New Year's day would ...
Article : 54 wordsJohn Howard, aged 74. died suddenly in the express train on Friday just as it was leaving for Launceston. NATTALLA.--on Friday night Mrs. Crocks, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 14 Dec 1914, Page 6
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