BRISBANE, Sunday.—Shortly after 10.30 on Saturday night a train bound from the city and a motor bus laden with passengers came into collision at the ...
Article : 874 wordsBlowing a safe open in the shop of Mr. Walter Jenkins, jeweller, of Glenferrie road, Malvern, during the week end, expert cracksmen were rewarded with a ...
Article : 588 wordsTwo deck hands on the dredge Matthew Flinders were drowned when swimming in deep water off Rye pier on Saturday afternoon. One of the victims of the double ...
Article : 427 wordsWhile the fires were raging round the Dandenongs it was natural that the occupants of dwellings on the slopes, on the Fern Tree Gully side, should be ...
Article : 1,896 wordsLILLYDALE, Sunday.—On Saturday afternoon a call came for assistance to extinguish a scrub fire which had started on the Mitchell Estate, which is situated on ...
Article : 337 words"When a motor car overturned at Mitcham late on Saturday night, after hitting a tree stump. Ambrose Hocking, 22 years, living in [?]kerman-street, St. Kilda, ...
Article : 95 wordsThe gang of boy shopbreakers which has carried on operations in the heart of the city for over a year with as much immunity as if there were no police force in ...
Article : 200 wordsTheodore William Short, 23 years, an engineer of the State Electricity Commission, escaped with a few bruises when the motor cycle he was riding crashed ...
Article : 121 wordsRobberies were reported to Russell-street on Saturday morning from two suburban hotels. During Friday night thieves forced a side door of the Dan O'Connell ...
Article : 173 wordsAt 9.50 a.m. yesterday two motor cars, both fortunately travelling very slowly, met in a head-on collision on Beaconsfield-parade, Middle Park. No one was ...
Article : 134 wordsDANDENONG, Sunday.—On Saturday night the great bush fires raging on the Dandenong Ranges were clearly visible from the town of Dandenong. On ...
Article : 46 wordsMYRTLEFORD, Saturday.—On Friday evening six schoolgirls, Emily Mills, Winnie and Jean Prosser, Milda Lowerson, Mary Robertson and Esther Chambers, ...
Article : 217 wordsMORNINGTON, Sunday.—The week-end being exceptionally hot, a number of fires broke out again in this part of the peninsula. On Saturday morning, at ...
Article : 249 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—As a result of a collision between two motor cycles last night at Alexandria Arthur Hart, 19 years, of Wollongong, was thrown under ...
Article : 92 wordsWhile busy in another part of the house the family of Mr. Walter B. House, of 82 Claremont -avenue, Malvern, left a front bedroom window open, between 5.30 and ...
Article : 200 wordsGEELONG, Sunday.—A girl, named Nellie McKenzie, aged 7 years, who resides with her parents at Swanston-street, Geelong, was knocked down by a motor cycle ...
Article : 65 wordsFollowing on an arrest by Detectives Milne and Bond in William-street on 19th January last the detectives claim that they have solved at least 50 recent ...
Article : 617 wordsLILLYDALE, Sunday.—A serious motor accident happened at the railway gates, Lillydale, to-day. A man driving a motor car from Melbourne with a a flat tyre ...
Article : 72 wordsWERRIBEE, Sunday.—While swimming in a dam on the Eynesbury Estate, eight miles from Werribee, to-day Cornelius William Taylor, 17 years, of Newell-street, ...
Article : 170 wordsEMERALD, Sunday.—Bush fires are still raging near the borders of the township. One blaze, which broke out near the Catholic church on Saturday ...
Article : 107 wordsMIRBOO NORTH, Sunday.—Fires are still burning in many parts of this district. A clean sweep has been made of the scrub country to the north and north-east of ...
Article : 287 wordsThe strike of employes of the Electricity Commission at Yallourn was declared off yesterday, and work will be resumed to-day. An official of the Electricity ...
Article : 78 wordsST. ARNAUD, Saturday.—Terence Devitt was fined £3 at the court for n[?]ligently driving a motor car in a busy thoroughfare. He was also fined £3 ...
Article : 46 wordsThe strike of engineers at the Commonwealth defence factory, Maribyrnong, was declared off at a meeting of the men yesterday, and they will resume work this ...
Article : 345 wordsOn Saturday morning officials of the Australian Workers' Union were given an assurance by the Registrar of the Arbitration Court, Mr. A. M. Stewart, that ...
Article : 201 wordsHEALESVILLE Sunday.—To-day was a very busy day for the local brigade. From 10 o'clock at hourly intervals the fire bell was rung for men to go to the ...
Article : 516 wordsSWAN HILL, Saturday.—Yesterday evening Roy Quarrel, 21 years, a single man, whilst bathing in the River Murray between Vinifera and Nyah, was drowned ...
Article : 137 wordsIn the afternoon there were several calls on the Belgrave centre, where a creditable organisation has been established. Out beyond Lockwood a fire raged within ...
Article : 1,107 wordsA sensational smash occurred on the Geelong-Melbourne road at Corio on Saturday night shortly after 8.30, when a motor bus and a motor car collided. The ...
Article : 307 wordsSALE, Sunday.—Fires are raging around Woodside, Gifford and Darriman. All the outbuildings at Mr. R. Jago's farm have been destroyed, including a buggy, ...
Article : 100 wordsBACCHUS MARSH, Saturday.—A drowning fatality occurred here this afternoon. John Clement Barry, 16 years, with John Maloney and Kevin ...
Article : 160 wordsMOUNT GAMBIER, Saturday.—Andrew Clark, 55 years, a married man with a wife and four children, was killed at Rendlesham by being dragged over half a ...
Article : 131 wordsBEACONSFIELD, Sunday.—Yesterday afternoon an extensive fire, which at one time threatened Tumue Valley, broke out again and swept towards Upper ...
Article : 554 wordsIt is expected that at a meeting of the Victorian branch of the Seamen's Union to-night finality will be reached on the question whether the committee appointed ...
Article : 133 wordsGEELONG, Sunday.—Francis Holbrook, 31 years, went for a swim on Mr. Agar Wynne's property, Nerrin Nerrin, yesterday afternoon. He dived into ...
Article : 86 wordsThe two Fairey seaplanes from Point Cook Flying School which flew to Launceston about a fortnight ago, and went then to Hobart for the regatta, left ...
Article : 138 wordsThomis Riordan, 23, laborer, and a youth, Sydney Gunson, were charged at South Melbourne court on Saturday with the theft of £3 on 26th January from ...
Article : 184 wordsADELAIDE, Saturday.—A motor bus, containing about twenty passengers, overturned at Long Gully at 6 p.m. to-day. The passengers had been playing a cricket ...
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Advertising : 99 wordsKOROIT, Saturday.—Mr. Jas. Lynch, of [?]owa, had a valued mare badly gored by a bull. An extensive wound was inflicted by the bull, the mare being almost ...
Article : 37 wordsELMORE, Saturday.—Whilst carting water with a waggon and two horses on Wednesday at Kamarooka the horses bolted, throwing Mr. Bacon heavily ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 8 Feb 1926, Page 9
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