The case against the youth John Raymond Brown, charged with having murdered Margaret O'Keefe at German Creek on 15th July, was concluded to-day. The ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Legislative Assembly to-day had before it the report of the royal commission regarding the alleged railway scandals. The Premier said he did not suggest that ...
Article : 254 wordsThe river rose 4 inches through the night, and overflowed the levee bank in several places, inundating hundreds of acres of crops and grass land, and forcing ...
Article : 310 wordsAt a meeting of the Ballarat and District Mine Owners" Association on Tuesday, Mr. W. Gale presiding, a letter was read from the Chamber of Mines ...
Article : 313 wordsAbout 200 people, including a number of ladies, assembled at the town hall on Tuesday night in anticipation of hearing Mr. S. Barker, one of the Labor ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 wordsMr. E. H. Austin, one of the candidates for the Nelson province, addressed a meeting of electors last night in the shire hall. He said he was opposed to woman ...
Article : 149 wordsAn ingeniously constructed "take down" scheme was disarranged yesterday by Detective-Sergeant M'Manamny, when he arrested Wm. Geo. Ogden, a young man of ...
Article : 670 wordsThe Free Education Act came into operation on Monday, and the school fees paid on that day will be remitted. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 wordsThe Toorak election to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Assembly caused by the resignation of Mr. Fairbairn will be held today. Keen interest is being taken in the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Sutton Town cheese and butter factory has been purchased from the proprietors, and will be worked on the co-operative share system. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 438 wordsSteps are being taken by the Northern colliery proprietors to regulate the price of coal and the output of the mines, and to secure ...
Article : 319 wordsThose behind the scenes expected that to-day would be spent by the timber companies and mill hands in preparing for a resumption of work. Unfortunately ...
Article : 97 wordsThe inquest was resumed at Cue to-day on the body of Mrs. Hussey, who died suddenly on 16th September. Horton Sibley, with whom deceased had ...
Article : 210 wordsA report was received by the Public Works department yesterday, stating that the levee between Tocumwal and Cobram had broken, and that the Konoomoo ...
Article : 87 wordsThe art gallery was crowded with a large and appreciative audience on Tuesday night, when the president (Mr. W. Davis) delivered an interesting lecture on Charles ...
Article : 146 wordsMr. Bayles addressed a large attendance last night in the Malvern town hall, Cr. E. Parslow presiding. The candidate reiterated the planks of his platform, and ...
Article : 313 wordsA young Englishman named Blick, who was lost at Onslow on Saturday, returned to-day. His horse got away, and he followed the tracks some distance. He found ...
Article : 65 wordsThe river has risen so high as to completely flow over the levee in all directions. The settlers on the reclaimed land had a trying time all day removing their ...
Article : 130 wordsThe mayor of Geelong was nominal plainti[?] in an action brought before the police court on Tuesday against an ice cream vendor named William Arnott for refusing to ...
Article : 350 wordsThe judging of the sheep entered for the Longford show, which is to be held to-morrow, took place to-day. One of the finest collection of sheep ever exhibited ...
Article : 105 wordsAt the inquest to-day on the victims of the Blenheim drowning disaster, the evidence showed that there was no need for the registration of oil launches of less ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsHitherto the political parties have relied upon the great corporations and trusts to provide the funds for the conduct of State and national election campaigns. This fact ...
Article : 512 wordsThe scalding accident which occurred on Sunday, 30th ult., to a girl named Margaret Barker, aged 13 years, at her home in Mansfield-street, Northcote, whilst filling a ...
Article : 148 wordsThe river is now 19 feet 7 inches above summer level. The bursting of the levee on the Victorian side relieved the pressure here, and, with men working all night, the ...
Article : 211 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Mining Bill passed through its final stages, and was sent on to the Council. ...
Article : 107 wordsDetectives raided a hazard school at Wellington, and arrested 25 players. The two principals were fined £10 each, and others £3. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe High Court had under consideration to-day the divorce appeal case Miller v. Major, in which a question of affinity was involved. ...
Article : 655 wordsErnest Fenn, electrician, was fined £100 to-day for making a false declaration to the customs authorities, in default imprisonment till the fine is paid. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsThe Premier yesterday received a letter from Mr. Norman Bayles, asking for the support of the Government in to-day's election at Toorak. The Premier has decided ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day resumed the debate on the secession motion, Mr. Maley opposing. The debate was then further adjourned. ...
Article : 38 wordsDavid Brown, aged 81, of Canning-street, Carlton, while walking along Rathdown-street yesterday, was seen to stagger and fall. When picked up he was unconscious. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 324 wordsThe new Betting Suppression Act having come into operation, all betting shops closed their doors to-day. One or two, however, have determined to adopt tactics ...
Article : 87 wordsThe body of a man named Patrick Sheehan was yesterday taken to the Morgue, he having been killed by the fall of a heavy package upon him at the premises of ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the meeting of the United Echuca and Waranga water trust on Monday, attention was drawn by the trust engineer, Mr. Castles, to the fact that some unauthorised ...
Article : 148 wordsAn approximate statement of the results of the recent show was submitted to a meeting of the P. and A. society. The receipts amounted to £923, including £240 ...
Article : 164 wordsA youth named Walter Richard Webb, a clerk, has been arrested on a charge of having, at Auckland, forged the name of Edward Mahoncy to a cheque for £338. The ...
Article : 56 wordsJohn Currie, aged 25, a wool sorter, was last night admitted to the Melbourne Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, caused by a violent collision with another ...
Article : 37 wordsA bookmaker named Geo. Cox had a narrow escape from serious injury at the hands of a mob on the flat at Randwick on Monday. A special constable who had assisted ...
Article : 148 wordsThe anniversary demonstration of the Presbyterian Fellowship Union of Victoria was held last night in the Masonic Hall, Collins-street; Mr. W. Wishart, mayor of Kew, presiding, and there was ...
Article : 306 wordsA jockey named Percy Andrews, aged 20, of Norwood-street, Newmarket, was yesterday thrown from the pony Hassan at Ascot Vale, and was admitted to the Melbourne ...
Article : 37 wordsThe flood in the Goulburn, Murray and Campaspe rivers surpasses all previous records since 1870. For miles the country is a sea of water, and with the greater ...
Article : 292 wordsMr. Thomas Nilen, a large landholder, while coming into the township was attacked by a magpie. His felt hat was pierced and blood flowed. This magpie has ...
Article : 52 wordsA man named George Pake, 30 years of age, who was employed at the Commercial Hotel, was found dead on the floor of the wood shed. A magisterial inquiry will be ...
Article : 38 wordsThrough the recent death of Messrs. G. Young and J. Hurst the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria has lost two of its members who have been intimately connected with the agricultural ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsAlfred Henry was severely injured in a vehicular accident on Tuesday, having three ribs broken and his face badly lacerated. The vehicle was smashed. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Supreme Court was opened to-day before Mr. Justice Cussen. Mr. Leon prosecuted for the Crown. Otto Leopold pleaded guilty to a charge ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Sevier, bookkeeper at Adelaide Vale Estate, was accidentally thrown from his buggy yesterday about two miles from Goornong, and was rendered unconscious. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe council of the above association met as usual last Monday evening; Miss Vida Goldstein presiding. The following intrim report of the recent meeting of the International Woman ...
Article : 491 wordsAt South Melbourne court on Monday, a wife beater, named John Larkin, was fined £5, or a month's imprisonment, a penalty which, in view of some recent decisions may be regarded as ...
Article : 270 wordsDuring a heavy hail storm which passed over Trundle last evening a fireball struck a mob of horses in a paddock, killing nine and wounding three, two of the latter ...
Article : 46 wordsEdith Saunders, employed as housekeeper at Mr. T. Meddows's bakery, Coburg, proceeded against Archibald M'Kenzie in the local court on Tuesday for assault. ...
Article : 416 wordsWool is arriving in large quantities at the Echuca wharf. On Monday three steamers brought an aggregate of close on 2000 bales, and to-day additional cargoes ...
Article : 36 wordsDuring a storm at Hillgrove yesterday a young man named Hirschfield, aged 23, was killed, and a miner named Thos. M'Namara was injured about the head. They were ...
Article : 87 wordsGeorge Charles Gray, of Korumburra. Filed at Korumburra. Elizabeth Sarah Spargo, of Jumbunna, boardinghouse keeper. Filed at Korumburra. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 wordsKYNETON.--At 2.45 a.m. on Monday a fire occurred at Mr. A. V. Cokino's fish and oyster, saloon, Mollison-street, a storeroom, in which the fire originated, and ...
Article : 1,208 wordsThe body of Miss K. Harrington, who was accidentally drowned in the Campaspe River on Sunday evening, was recovered at 6.30 p.m. yesterday, about a quarter of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsA man named Paddy Kelly was found dead in the hush between Minimay and Bringelbert stations, near Narracoorte, by a rabbiter named Frank Crabtree. Kelly ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Palace Hotel, Bourke-street, was the scene of an exciting incident on Monday evening. A stalwart young man named James Bourner, with the fierce light of Jealousy in his eye, bounded ...
Article : 255 wordsThe body of George Monk, who was drowned on Sunday, was recovered last evening. At an inquest a verdict of accidental drowning was returned. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsA telegram from Halifax states that an accident occurred yesterday on the sugar tramway near Lucinda. A cane truck upset and a man named Llewellyn was killed. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe usual matinee performance will be given at the Gaiety Theatre to-day. The Little Stranger, the new comedy, which will be produced at the Princess's Theatre by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsThe steamer Victoria, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday morning, was delayed by exceptionally heavy weather. On Thursday a sea broke down the ...
Article : 82 wordsA Narrogin telegram announces the discovery of the dead body of a settler named W. E. Wood three miles south of Popanning, death having taken place about ten ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 10 Oct 1906, Page 8
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