IMPROVEMENTS AGREED TO. A call of the Moorubbin shire council was made returnable for yesterday afternoon to answer tho question of placing a sum or £400 on the ...
Article : 608 wordsA sensation was caused at Gosford this morning when it became known that two prisoners named George Chambers Ward and William Thorn, who were each ...
Article : 160 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly resumed Work after its week's holiday yesterday Members were in a good humor. The Speaker s gallery bloomed like the partierre ...
Article : 798 wordsAt a meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works yesterday the sewerage committee reported that Woodruff and Crosbi[?], the contractors for the construction of the ...
Article : 713 wordsThe prospects of a railway extending from Healesville round the Black Spur down to Narbethong were painted in such glowing terms by a deputation of district ...
Article : 534 wordsThe council of the University of Melbourne last month adopted a far reaching scheme designed to make military training a compulsory part of the ordinary ...
Article : 1,095 wordsWhile the fight for supremacy in highspeed ocean travel is now being left to the Cunard and North German Lloyd companies, a secondary contest is proceeding ...
Article : 508 wordsThe display of Victorian products at the annual exhibition of the bakers and confectioners in the Agricultural Hall was the best show of its class ever presented ...
Article : 430 wordsSixty or seventy of the workers in connection Willi Hospital Saturday and Sunday collections for Dr. Singleton's Free Outdoor Hospital and Dispensary assembled at the institution, ...
Article : 340 wordsA very unusual charge was preferred against George Collins, aged 18, at Fitzroy court on Monday, when Constable Baker prosecuted him for breaking glass on the footpath. Evidence was ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. A. J. Thynne, M.L.C., who became interested in the Australian export trade when Minister of Agriculture in Queensland, has occupied himself during a portion ...
Article : 422 wordsThe secretary to the Moorabbin council reported on Monday that after providing for all charges it was estimated there would be available for expenditure during the year the following amounts: ...
Article : 149 wordsIn the summons division of the Water Police Court this morning, Reuben Doodeward was proceeded against on an information, alleging that be did unlawfully, ...
Article : 238 wordsThe bookmaking trouble in connection with the Victoria Amateur Turf Club was further ventilated in the Practice Court yesterday. A writ was recently issued by ...
Article : 429 wordsThe ratepayers of the shire of Mulgrave have by a substantial majority on a referendum specially taken determined that the present shire hall, which is situated within the boundaries of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 wordsThe Oakleigh borough council has decided to remove its offices from its present leased building to the newly erected mechanics' institute from 1st November. The building at present used ...
Article : 91 wordsThe mayor of Richmond (Cr. Alexander) and the town clerk (Mr. C. C. Blazey), when questioned on Monday with regard to a complaint made by a writer in "The Age" on Saturday last with ...
Article : 482 wordsA meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was field yesterday, Alderman Strong presiding in the absence of the temporary chairman, Mr. W. J. ...
Article : 428 wordsSitting only one day each week the Council has found no difficulty in disposing of the bills sent up from the Assembly, and occasionally an original measure. In a short ...
Article : 497 wordsThe municipal slander ease was concluded in the First Civil Court yesterday. Plaintiff, William Henry Livingston, and defendant, Hugh M'Cartin, were both ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 289 wordsThe business part of the annual meetings of the Congregational Union of Victoria began yesterday in the Congregational hall; the Rev. J. Barton, chairman for the year, presiding. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,045 wordsA case involving tho possession of a racing horse was mentioned to Mr. Justice Hodges in the First Civil Court yesterday. Plaintiff, George Burgess, alleged that on 21st February he agreed ...
Article : 217 wordsVery little shooting was done on metropolitan ranges outside the V.R.A. matches on Saturday, only a few ordinary club shoots taking place. A memorandum has been issued by Major ...
Article : 654 wordsA deputation of residents on Centre Dandenong-road waited on the Moorabbin shire council on Monday, and asked that, in the event of some money being raised by them towards the coat, ...
Article : 222 wordsCr. Small, at the meeting of the Moorabbin shire council on Monday, moved that £50 be placed on tho estimates for the purpose of advertising the watering places in the shire. Two big ...
Article : 235 wordsA retired pugilist named John Leary figured at the North Melbourne court on Monday on the charge of unlawfully assaulting Bridget Heagney. The parties had been living together in ...
Article : 183 wordsA request was recently made by the Farmers, Property Owners and Producers' Association that it might be allowed to affiliate with the Chamber of Agriculture, so as, it was claimed, ...
Article : 71 wordsIntelligence reached the Prahran council on Monday that a destructor had been purchased for the city by Mr. W. Oalder, city surveyor, who was sent specially to England for the purpose. ...
Article : 166 wordsInformation was received hero this afternoon that a madman was running about the Mooromboorl forrest, near Baillieston, with a loaded, revolver, and that people in ...
Article : 156 wordsNORFOLK ISLAND.--Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co.'s steamer Tambo arrived here on Monday evening from New Hebrides, and sailed at noon on Tuesday for Sydney. Passengers--Dr. and Mrs. ...
Article : 66 wordsSome few weeks back Br. Jos. Duncan, of Williamstown, was sued by W. H. Birch, financier, of Footscray, for the recovery of £16 6, due on a promissory note purporting to be signed by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 wordsTARADALE.--During the past fortnight many of the crops around Taradale, Metcalfe und button Grange have assumed a yellow, sickly color, owing, it is presumed, to the prolonged wet ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 17 Oct 1906, Page 10
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