MORNINGTON, Monday.--Although Sunday was cool and cloudy it did not stop fires raging on the Peninsula. Two fires broke out in the Red Hill district. ...
Article : 108 wordsAbout 300 people interested in the Repertory Theatre movement assembled at the Lyceum Club last evening when a members' At Home was held for the ...
Article : 742 wordsCollingwood council last night considered a letter from the Health Commission stating that the occurrence of virulent influenza in epidemic form in Europe at the ...
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Article : 288 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--A vote was taken on all fields to-day to decide whether the coal miners would strike to secure a minimum wage of £5 10 a week, a ...
Article : 713 wordsA silver alms dish donated by King George to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York was handed over by Sir Esnie Howard, the British ...
Article : 734 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Australian Public Servants' Association (clerical division of the Victorian Branch) in the Temperance Hall ...
Article : 645 wordsA serious position has arisen as far as a number of Victorian timber mills are concerned through the importation of large quantities of oregon. Builders, it ...
Article : 421 wordsPHILLIP ISLAND, Monday.--Fire broke at 1 p.m. to-day in the scrub near the property of Mr. W. McLardy, about four miles from Cowes. Carried by a ...
Article : 153 wordsALBURY, Monday.--Thomas Alfred Williams was prosecuted at Walbundrie police court on a charge of having, through negligence with a camp fire, been ...
Article : 329 wordsFRANKSTON, Monday.--A scrub fire broke out at the eastern end of Nolan-street on Monday afternoon, and raged fiercely for some time. A gang of road ...
Article : 71 wordsSTAWELL, Monday.--Charles R. Cox was charged at the local court to-day with making a lire in a paddock and endangering other people's property. ...
Article : 235 wordsMANSFlKLD, Monday.--Two motor accidents occurred here during the week end. H. Mallett was driving a car along High-street in a westerly direction, when ...
Article : 207 wordsSir,--Allow me to correct an error which appeared in your paper after the recent inspection of the Bush Fire Relief Committee to our district. Your report ...
Article : 151 wordsThere are six factories in Australia equipped with plant for the manufacture of aluminium ware, and without exception they are reported to be languishing for ...
Article : 731 wordsSir,--I would like to know who is responsible for granting land holders permission to deliberately set fire to scrub land at this time of the year. A fire ...
Article : 126 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.--The Windermere A.N.A. Hall, with all its appointments, including a valuable library and piano was destroyed by fire last ...
Article : 204 wordsPatrick Quinn, driver, was charged at the City Court yesterday with having driven a motor car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Constable ...
Article : 254 wordsMany changes were featured in the programme at the Tivoli yesterday, Olsen and Johnson, the clever American comedians, presented an entirely new act, ...
Article : 167 wordsSir,--The most practical way to combat the dreadful fire fiend is to form fire gangs in every district, village and town in the fire area, and burn all dry grass ...
Article : 90 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.--The second heat of the Forster Cup, for 21-foot restricted class yachts, was sailed at the Semaphore this afternoon. It was practically a ...
Article : 355 wordsNumerous complaints continue to be made regarding poor water pressure in the suburbs. Mr. E. G. Ritchie, engineer of water supply of the ...
Article : 506 wordsSo serious has become the problem of obtaining coal cargoes at Newcastle, owing to the strike, that ship owners are putting their colliers out of commission, ...
Article : 143 wordsRUTHERGLEN, Monday.--On Saturday about fifty farmers and land owners met at Rutherglen and formed a brigade, to be called the Rutherglen and District ...
Article : 125 wordsThe alleged robbery of two pearl earrings, valued at £70, from the rooms of a hair-dressing saloon in the city on Friday was reported to Russell-street police ...
Article : 140 wordsMystery surrounded the admission of Thomas McMurtrie, 59 years, Milburn avenue, East St. Kilda, to the Alfred Hospital on Sunday morning, with a deep ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Melbourne Philharmonic Society intends giving several great works during the year, including Mendelssohh's Elijah, Brahms's Requiem, Haydn's Creation, ...
Article : 51 wordsIn a cable message received from America a few days ago it was stated that the president of the American Federation of Labor (Mr. W. Green) had received ...
Article : 250 wordsOMEO, Monday.--Omeo shire council is again in conflict with the Forest Commission in regard to the most effective method of dealing with forest fires; the ...
Article : 246 wordsAnthony Francis Callinan, formerly of Victoria-crescent, Mont Albert, retired Government employe, but late of King-street. Upper Hawthorn, who died on 6th April, left by win dated 26th ...
Article : 47 wordsThe award of the coal (engine drivers') tribunal will expire on 28th February. Owing to the dissatisfaction felt by members of the Federated Engine Drivers' and ...
Article : 165 wordsThomas Pidham, grocer, of 34 Larnook-street, Armadale, has reported to Prahran police that while leaving a billiard room in Chapel-street, Prahran, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe influence of the League of Nations as a stabilising power was emphasised by the Federal Attorney-General, Mr. Latham, who with Mrs. Latham reached ...
Article : 210 wordsThe public works committee of St. Kilda Council last evening recommended that an application by Elwood Life Saving Club to hold a life saving demonstration ...
Article : 186 wordsWakened by a noise downstairs early last Friday morning, Mr. A. Cozens, grocer, of White-street, Richmond, who resides on his business premises, was at ...
Article : 142 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--Arthur Mason, 59 years, boot shop proprietor, Blayney, and William Alfred McIntyre, 41 years, dog trainer were to-day charged at the ...
Article : 304 wordsWONTHAGGI, Monday.--The members of the Powlett branch of the Miners' Federation held a stop-work meeting in the union hall to-day. Mr. A. Asquith, the ...
Article : 88 wordsAUCKLAND, Monday.--Members of the Australian industrial mission aboard the steamer Niagara profited by the portunity between Sydney and Auckland ...
Article : 102 wordsBELGRAVE, Monday.--While other districts are being scourged by the fire fiend, Belgrave and the Dandenong Ranges are having a ...
Article : 278 wordsA description of the rings stolen from John Robert Hindmarsh, who was murdered in Grosvenor Hotel, Adelaide, on 6th inst., has been forwarded to the ...
Article : 79 wordsShopkeepers in provincial towns which have refreshment rooms at the railway stations echo the grievances voiced by "Masterpiece" in a letter to "The Age" ...
Article : 222 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--Labor caucus today decided that a bill to amend the Railways Act, which provides for the curtailment of the powers of the ...
Article : 223 wordsRelative to the proposed erection of a high school at Elwood, St. Kilda council last evening received a letter from the town clerk of Brighton to the effect that ...
Article : 196 wordsIn connection with the Diamond jubilee Fair that will be held in the grounds of the Institute for the Blind on 8th and 9th April, a meeting will be held this ...
Article : 86 wordsAn eventful voyage to Hobart was begun on Christmas eve, when Professor Wilkinson, dean of the faculty of dentistry, Melbourne University, with a ...
Article : 205 wordsIn response to a request from the Board of Works. St. Kilda council last night decided to take such steps no would lend to a reduced consumption of water in view ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--Duninro Augmere, 21 years, Italian, of Narandera, was to-day stabbed eight times during a fracas in Campbell-street, city. He was admitted ...
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Article : 56 wordsPERTH, Monday.--Millers' wheat was 54¼ a bushel, f.o.b., based on London parity, and wheat, free on rails at ports, 5 a bushel. ...
Article : 27 wordsThere will be no delivery of bread on Wednesday on account of the bread carters' annual picnic being held at Mornington. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 15 Feb 1927, Page 10
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