In the matter of the election of a member of the House of Representatives for the electoral division of Ballarat a petition was lodged by Mr. M. Blackburn on behalf of ...
Article : 439 wordsIn the Criminal Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice M'Arthur, Ivan Charles Cameron and Henry James Whyte pleaded guilty to charges of shopbreaking in Stawell ...
Article : 186 wordsA small party of eleven Victorian members of the A.I.F. returned to Melbourne afternoon on board the steamer Ulysses. ...
Article : 1,285 wordsThe western side of the large high pressure area still covers the south-eastern portion of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 337 wordsCompanies offer Increase of 1s. 6d. The agreement entered into between the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (representing Victorian companies) and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,440 wordsWANGARATTA.--The half-yearly meeting of the North-Eastern district council of the Victorian Farmers' Union was held on Monday. Twenty branches were ...
Article : 139 wordsThere was no development yesterday in connection with the action of the employes in the building trade in forcing the adoption of the 40-hour week, but ...
Article : 82 wordsJudge Wasley presided over the Court of General Sessions on Wednesday. Eva Mary Pinder, a young married woman, was found guilty of larceny. The conviction was ...
Article : 294 wordsSYDNEY.--Mr. Grimm, Assistant Minister of Agriculture, referring on Tuesday to the question of compensation to farmers for loss in the 1916-17 and 1917-18 wheat ...
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Advertising : 16 wordsThe "stop-work" meeting of employes in aerated water factories, which was fixed for this morning; owing to the failure of the employers to grant a conference on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 295 wordsA deputation, comprising several farmers of Yannathan, South Gippiland, waited on the Minister of Agriculture yesterday seeking compensation for losses of cattle due to inoculation as a ...
Article : 483 wordsSYDNEY.--At a meeting of the Lithgow Arms, Explosives and Munition Workers Federation on Sunday it was decided to transfer the head office of the ...
Article : 37 wordsPERTH.--The final harvest estimates by the Agricultural Industries Assistance Board slightly reduced the grain and correspondingly increased the hay areas and ...
Article : 69 wordsPERTH.--The Government has notified its decision respecting the public works employes' demand that pay increases on the railway award basis be retrospective. ...
Article : 56 wordsSYDNEY.--The Premier, Mr. Holman, delivered his policy speech at Goulburn on Wednesday night. He announced that the State elections would take place on ...
Article : 319 wordsSYDNEY.--At the Necessary Commodities Commission inquiry into the price of footwear on Wednesday Judge Rolin said that if it were a fact that many boot ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY.--The Port Kembla workers are perturbed over an extraordinary report in circulation to the effect that an amount of £250, granted by the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Repatriation department has established a ship and boat building class at Echura in connection with the technical school. This is the only town in Victoria ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Metropolitan Board of Works on Tuesday decided on the following increases in wages of certain employes not under any wages board:--Water supply jointers, from 13 to 14 per day; water ...
Article : 193 wordsThe hospital committee has decided to revert to the system in operation before the war of appointing a resident medical officer to the institution, instead of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe future of the wheat pool is at present hanging in the balance, and involves also the question of the future of the London agency which has handled the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 498 wordsVery satisfactory public patronage continues a[?] be bestowed on the A.N.A. Exhibition of australian manufactures and products, open every afternoon, and evening ...
Article : 203 wordsCOROWA.--The local manager for Lindeman Ltd. recently filled aa order for the immediate consignment to Sydney, for shipment to London, of 200 hogsheads of wine.--The district stock ...
Article : 1,261 wordsDrapers' Board.--The amended determination of the Drapers' Board, which will come into operation on on 1st March, will raise wages by from [?] to 10 week, with proportionate increase for ...
Article : 198 wordsThe town crier of St. Just, in Cornwall, called out the minors, who marched in procession to the neighboring villages, inducing the people to join in a demostration ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 642 wordsThe Federal secretary of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee announced yesterday that in regard to winter butter requirements the committee had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 202 wordsGEELONG.--The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways sat at the City Hall on Tuesday taking evidence regarding the inadequacy of railway accommodation ...
Article : 305 wordsAt Melbourne Hospital yesterday Henry Monagle, the man who was shot by a boy, acting, as is alleged, in defence of his mother, at South Melbourne on ...
Article : 120 wordsSince the members of the New South Wales police force received an increase in pay of 170 per week to meet the increased cost of living some months ago ...
Article : 212 wordsThe population of Camberwell at the close of 1910 was 20,977, the increase for the year being 1296. Fishing from landings on Middle Brighton pier ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsAfter 25 years of exploration and hunting in South Africa, Sir. H. K. Eustace, who recently arrived in Melbourne, has delivered a series of lectures on big game ...
Article : 143 wordsBENDIGO.--An inquiry was held on Wednesday into the death of Miss Ellen Teresa Hardiman, who died in the hospital on Tuesday from injuries to the head caused by a fall while she ...
Article : 187 wordsTwelve sites for street barrows have been allotted in Caulfield for the sale of fruit under the distributing scheme organised by the State Treasurer. A charge of 10 ...
Article : 79 wordsPromenade band contests and brass instrument numbers are being given nightly at the M.C.C. ground during the whole of the present week, the occasion being the ...
Article : 259 wordsBROKEN HILL.--The police have received a telegram from Sydney authorising the issue of further limited relief to persons in need. The first contingent of 42 ...
Article : 69 wordsSir,--We note Mr. Cyril Darcy's letter of 9th inst. in to-day's issue of your paper. On 28th ult. we inserted advertisements in the Melbourne morning papers that we ...
Article : 218 wordsMr. W. M. Wignall, President of the Retail Dairy Association, wishes to state the increase in the price of milk decided upon is from 6½d. per quart (and not 6d.) to 7d ...
Article : 116 wordsSir,--I think it must cause all right thinking people disgust to read the statements as to working men requiring five suits in two years, twelve pairs of socks per ...
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Advertising : 258 wordsSir,--Owing to distress amongst our poor and the high prices prevailing for materials, we find our midwifery patients very short of necessary clothing for their ...
Article : 96 wordsMrs. Charlotte Taylor, of Perth-street, Prahran, after placing some property which she owned in the hands of Mitchell and [?]aylor, estate agents, for sale, was one day ...
Article : 215 wordsPERTH.--The Prices Fixing Commissioner, has been informed that the millers are dissatisfied with the mice of flour, which has been tentatively fixed at £16 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsHow American competition, the low rate of exchange and the exhaustion of European countries through the war have influenced the prices of Australian boots feern ...
Article : 529 wordsIn Fitzroy court on Wednesday, Hermann Schmipf was charged with having threatened to do Frederick Henry Spencer grievous bodily harm. Both men are interested in a bakery ...
Article : 81 wordsSir,--Last ween we sent to Melbourne for sale six hags prime ripe potatoes, for which we received a cheque for £1 1610! The market quotations were "£8 10 per ton ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 12 Feb 1920, Page 8
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