The Criminal Court was crowded yesterday when the trial was commenced before the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine), of Ambrose Ernest Kleinert, 20 years, ...
Article : 712 wordsTwenty-two States attended the opening sitting of the committee on arbitration and security to-day. The Soviet was represented by an observer. ...
Article : 487 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.--Keen interest was aroused in Ballarat to-day by the publication in "The Age" of the Premier's letter to Ballarat city council on ...
Article : 450 wordsAs a result of investigations by a body of ratepayers living in Wills-street. Glen Iris, the Malvern council has been confronted with the embarrassing situation ...
Article : 425 wordsIndustrial Labor, which is represented by the Australasian Council of Trade Unions, is for the time being silent on the question whether it will take part in ...
Article : 308 wordsSpeaking in defence of the system of home building on the instalment system, the general manager of the State Savings Bank (Mr. Emery) said yesterday that he ...
Article : 564 wordsCity stock agents are complaining of the delays in the delivery of sheep by the Railway department to the yards at New market. For some months past delays ...
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Article : 361 wordsTrains on the Darling line were delayed on Monday morning owing to a side runner falling at the Glenferric-road crossing at 8.40 a.m. Five trains from Darling ...
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Article : 212 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.--General satisfaction was expressed in the city at the announcement by the Premier that the State Ministry had authorised the Electricity ...
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Article : 51 wordsOn the East African vote in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Gillett (Labor) moved that the East African territories should be united under some scheme of ...
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Article : 111 wordsA letter from the Australian Industries Protection League regarding the British Trade Exhibition to be opened on Thursday was discussed at the meeting of ...
Article : 99 wordsMany people could not be accomodated at His Majesty's on the occasion of the Beppie de Vries souvenir performance last week. For this reason, there will be a ...
Article : 86 wordsPlans for an extended "Reso" trip from Victoria to Queensland this year are being made by Mr. J. W. Davidson, Commissioner of Railways, Queensland, in ...
Article : 537 wordsIn a recent raid on a house at Prahran Detectives F. Lyon and Simpson are alleged to have recovered a quantity of valuable furs which they have reason to ...
Article : 74 wordsChief Judge Dethridge, in the Arbitration Court yesterday commenced the hearing of a plaint by the oil section of the Federated Carters' and Drivers' Union ...
Article : 673 wordsThe box plan for the first concert of the series to be given by the University Symphony Orchestra, in the Town Hall, on Wednesday, 7th March, will open on ...
Article : 96 wordsIn "The Age" on 8th inst., "Veritas" drew attention to the practice of the Railways department of sending a man to relieve another to work off Sunday time. ...
Article : 309 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.--Mr. W. L. Baillieu, of the Electrolytic Zinc Co., is particularly hopeful with regard to the proposed paperpulp industry at Geeveston, Huon. ...
Article : 92 wordsPursuing their inquiries into the murder of William Fitzgerald, night watchman at Perfection Knitting Mills, Carlton, on Friday last, Detectives Carey, ...
Article : 67 wordsJohn Gardiner, 24 years, of Holden-street, North Fitzroy; Leonard Stephens, 24 years, of Little Bourke-street, Melbourne, and James Alexander Peterson, 21 years, taxi driver, were tried in the ...
Article : 99 wordsWhen questioned in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Guinness announced that the quarantine station being erected at the East India dock for pedigree ...
Article : 108 wordsThe presentation of Mr. George Gershwin's remarkable new musical composition, Rhapsody in Blue, continues to create lively interest at the Palais Picture ...
Article : 99 wordsCHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday.--The C. A. Larsen, mother ship of the Ross Sea whaling fleet, went ashore while proceeding up Paterson's Inlet to the base late ...
Article : 92 wordsAs a result of the dismissal of a delegate of the Meat Industry Employes' Union by the Colonial Meat Co. Pty. Ltd. a dispute has arisen in the meat trade, ...
Article : 346 wordsIn "The Age" of 9th inst. a correspondent ("The Driver") suggested that combined rail and tram workmen's tickets should be issued to residents in the Black ...
Article : 155 wordsTwo new films which will form the Paramount Theatre programme next Saturday were privately screened by Electric Thea[?] Pty. Ltd. yesterday. Rose of the ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Baldwin was asked in the House of Commons to-day whether he had received from the Rubber Trade Association a communication with regard to ...
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Article : 142 wordsHeads of various branches of the railway service had a lengthy conference with the Railway Commissioners yesterday on aspects of operation which have been ...
Article : 94 wordsSuffering from spinal injuries, Thomas Sherlock, 32 years, of Ovens-street, Yarraville, was admitted to Melbourne Hospital yesterday afternoon. He received ...
Article : 98 wordsThe subjoined extracts are selected out of other letters to the editor in which matters of public interest are raised:-- Barricados on St. Kilda-road. ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. A. A. Somerville, supported by eight Conservatives, introduced a private bill in the House of Commons yesterday to amend the Empire Settlement Act, ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Yarra Bend National Park trustees have agreed to request the Department of Public Works to prepare designs for a suspension bridge to be placed over the ...
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Article : 97 wordsA poll will be taken at Sunshine on Friday next as a means of revealing the feeling of local residents on the question--Should a liquor licence be granted for ...
Article : 77 wordsFREMANTLE, Tuesday.--When the mail steamer Ormonde was nearing Fremantle a steward, Alee Styles, aged 45, married, whose family resides at ...
Article : 84 wordsAt the Morgue yesterday the woman who was run over and killed by a train at Warrigal-road level crossing, Oakleigh, on Monday night, was identified as ...
Article : 41 wordsLionel Lindsay, the well-known Sydney artist, reported to Russell-street police yesterday that while on a cable tram in Collins street on Monday evening a ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 22 Feb 1928, Page 12
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