When, some time ago, Mr. Monger, member for York, moved in the Assembly that the union of Western Australia with the other States had proved detrimental to ...
Article : 927 wordsThe second reading debate on the Gaming Suppression Bill was resumed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. Colechin, who obtained the ...
Article : 2,074 wordsThe whole of the members of the Federal Labor party in both the House of Representatives and Senate tendered yesterday to their leader, Mr. J. C. Watson, M.P., a ...
Article : 1,226 wordsMr. G. Fairbairn, one of the candidates for the Fawkner seat in the House of Representatives, addressed a well attended meeting in the Howe-crescent ...
Article : 612 wordsThe scheme which has been formulated, and which is to [?] financed by the National Mutual Life Company, as a means of closing up the surplus hotels, and providing ...
Article : 459 wordsA low set, powerful pony, frantic with terror, bolted at breakneck speed down Bourke-street at midday on Monday, drugging behind it a jinker, seated in which ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsThe aid of the Government was invoked by several deputations from country shires yesterday to the Minister of Public Works, Mr. Cameron, towards repairing some of the damage that had been ...
Article : 338 wordsAn infant daughter of Mr. R. Bentley engine driver, of Eagle[?]awk, wandered away from home on Wednesday, and her dead body was subsequently found in a tub ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. D. M'Lennan was driving about chatting to a friend who was in his buggy, when suddenly the reins fell from his hands, and he expired immediately. Mr. ...
Article : 68 wordsGeneral regret was expressed here to-day when the news arrived that Mr. "Dosh" M'Lennan had dropped dead this morning while riding in a buggy at Barwon Heads, ...
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Article : 53 wordsThe following are to-day'a forecasts: -- VICTORIA (Wednesday, 6 p.m.). -- By Mr. Baracchi: Unsettled, cloudy, some scattered rains, chiefly over northern and western districts. ...
Article : 109 wordsAn old resident of this district, Mr. Samuel Craige, dairy farmer, aged 58 years, dropped dead while attending to his cows. ...
Article : 26 wordsA slight accident occurred at the Haybridge at noon to-day. The steamer William Davies, towing the barge J. L. Roberts, loaded with about 1000 bales of wool, ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. E. E. Roberts announces that he has definitely decided, in response to numerous requests and promised offers of support, to stand for this electorate as a Liberal ...
Article : 31 wordsOur correspondents in the country report rain as follows: -- Ballan, showers; Bendigo, light; Dandenong, steady; Edenhope, light; Gordon, showers; Lillydale, showers; Millbrook, light; ...
Article : 28 wordsThe National Political League of Ballarat, which is composed of Conservatives and free-traders, is at sixes and sevens in regard to selecting a candidate to oppose the ...
Article : 217 wordsThe following report has been received from the Melbourne Observatory: -- Weather Chart, Wednesday, 26th September, at 9 a.m. -- From a maximum of 30.32 inches at ...
Article : 316 wordsWhen a train from the city reached Morphettville to-day, Mr. M. Clancy, a cab driver, attempted to cross the line with his cab near the Morphett Arms. A ...
Article : 100 wordsThe well-known steeplechaser and hunter N.Z.. owned by Mr. J. Clarke, Toora, bolted while being led behind a buggy, and the rope attached to the halter caused him ...
Article : 50 wordsThe commerce committee met to-day to consider the New Zealand-Australian reciprocal treaty. It was expected that the committee would submit its report on the ...
Article : 249 wordsThis morning in the House of Representatives the Postmaster-General will seek leave to bring in a bill to amend the Post and Telegraph Act of 1901 in a direction ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 wordsAt a private meeting of several Geelong free-traders yesterday, it was decided to support Mr. J. W. M'Cay for Corio, on the ground that he had promised moderate ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly met this afternoon, member after member rose and presented petitions that the Lotteries Bill be passed into law, or that the Girls ...
Article : 81 wordsA conference of representatives of the Farmers, Producers and Property Owners' Association was held this afternoon. Fifteen branches in the Wimmera electorate were ...
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Article : 111 wordsThe Minister of Water Supply (Mr. Swinburne) was waited on yesterday by a deputation representing the Bacchus Marsh shire council, introduced by Mr. Robertson, ...
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Article : 286 wordsThe gold stealing commission resumed its sittings this morning. Henry Glance, general secretary to the Federated Miners' Union, said it was almost impossible for ...
Article : 254 wordsMr. E. H. Austin, ex-M.L.A. for Ripon and Hampden, has decided to become a candidate for the representation of the Nelson Province in the Legislative Council, ...
Article : 93 wordsA young man named Morgan Kavanagh was charged at Carlton court yesterday with unlawfully assaulting his wife, Bella Kavanagh. Complainant stated that she had been living with ...
Article : 206 wordsThe president (Mr. H. F. Kendall) and secretary (Mr. H. C. White) of the Romsey shire council, introduced by Mr. Robertson, M.L.A., asked the Minister of Water Supply (Mr. Swinburne) ...
Article : 264 wordsThis evening Mr. Norman Bayles will open his campaign in the Malvern town hall at 8. A joint meeting of all Mr. Bayles's committee will be held half an hour before the public meeting. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Hawthorn council is again involved in a lawsuit in connection with damage caused by the Gooding of the main drain. Mrs. E. L. Graham, who owns house property abutting on the drain, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsLionel Terry, who escaped from Sunnyside Asylum on Sunday, was recaptured to-day by a constable and two civilians after a severe struggle. He says he ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 27 Sep 1906, Page 8
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