The now well worn story of the loss of the steamship Alert off Jubilee Point early on the morning of 28th December, 1893, is again being told in the law Courts. In the County Court ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Treasurer delivered his financial statement. He said the revenue estimated for the past 12 months was £3,469,883, whilst the actual receipts were £3,641,583, being an ...
Article : 249 wordsMr. F. Dunn, the Analyst of the South Melbourne city council, on Thursday completed an exhaustive analysis of the rabbit pie seized by the local police after the Sneazwe[?] family had ...
Article : 97 wordsGeorge Lucre, aged 21, well known in temperance bodies in Nelson, and a member of the Congregational Church choir there, was missed on Saturday morning, and at 2 p.m. the the ...
Article : 120 wordsA proposal to lake a plebiscite of the colony on the question of using Scripture lesson books in the State schools has taken practical shape in a bill now waiting its second reading in the ...
Article : 236 wordsIf the Mildura royal commission does nothing more than it has done in bringing about the conference of mortgagees and representatives of financial institutions interested in the ...
Article : 575 wordsAn inquest was held at Pa[?] to-day on the body of Manns, who on Saturday shot himself after attempting to murder his paramour and their daughter. The evidence did not ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Candler, the Coroner of Bourke, held an inquest at the Morgue on Wednesday on the body of Lucy Lee, 21 years of ago, whose death was suspected to have been the result of an ...
Article : 227 wordsIn the Assembly the financial debate was resumed. Some members complained of the exceedingly puzzling nature of the financial statement. ...
Article : 310 wordsLawrence Dwyer, who with others had a contract breaking [?] quartz in the Golden Gate mine at R[?]ly Creek, met with an accident last week which altho[?] at the time not considered ...
Article : 144 wordsAt the meeting of the Metropolitan Gas Company the chairman stated that the increased price paid for coal had compelled the directors to increase the price of gas, but now ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Colonial Secretary has received a telegram from Thursday Island stating that soma missing man from the wrecked barque, Norman, including the captain, have been found ...
Article : 125 wordsThe A.U.S.N. liner Bulimba was proceeding down the Port River for West Australia yesterday afternoon when she collided with the steamer Muttra, of the British-India line, from ...
Article : 218 wordsAn old women named Ellon Weir, 66 years of ago, was this morning discovered dead in bed in hut at Guidon Gully, where [?]lived by herself, ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Premier gave notice of intention to move for leave to introduce a bill to amend the Constitution Act 1889, with the object of giving increased ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Governor and Lady Brassey arrived from Melbourne by special train at 4.30 this afternoon in order to take part in the South-street Debating Society's annual demonstration at the ...
Article : 215 wordsOf the six now ships of the Nordd[?]utscher Lloyd's Company in course of building, four will be placed on the Australian line, and it is expected that the next wool reason will see them ...
Article : 319 wordsFor the second time this session the House of Representatives has passed the second reading of a measure to restrict the immigation of Chinese and Japanese aliens. For every person ...
Article : 62 wordsA lad named Loo Fisher, son of Mr. W. Fisher, of North Devon, was riding from Blackwarry to Morwell last Monday when his horse fell. He returned on Wednesday, and ...
Article : 82 wordsBy a boiler explosion at Dapto to-day four men were injured. The steam plug of the engine which runs from the Australian Smelting Company's new works to Dapto railway ...
Article : 94 wordsThe leader of the Opposition to-day gave notice of a motion of want of confidence in the Seddon Ministry in connection with its financial propo[?] ...
Article : 32 wordsThis morning Fritz Foe[?]er, 70 years or age f Kangaroo Fiat, was killed by a tram on the Mount Korong-road. F[?]ger, who was deaf crossed behind a tram going up Garden Gully ...
Article : 275 wordsAt the inquest on Sampson Thomas Vivian, who was killed on Wednesday by falling down a chute in the South Broken Hill mine, Samuel Walter Cherry, mate of dece[?], deposed that ...
Article : 268 wordsThe charge of witchcraft against Professor Freiman, brought by Ernest Hosking, was resumed at Tamworth police court this afternoon. At the close of the solicitors' addresses the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe centenary of the Loudon Missionary Society was celebrated by the Victorian auxiliary in the Independent Church, Collins-street, on Monday. His Excellency the ...
Article : 485 wordsThe death of Mr. John Donaldson, M.L.A., which occurred this morning, has caused great regret. He was one of the most popular and respected men in the community. He bad been ...
Article : 215 wordsA John Ryan, 19 years of age, a fish hawker, was looked up on Sunday evening at the City Watch House for negligently driving a horse and vehicle, and thereby injuring a ...
Article : 219 wordsThe body of a man named John Cotter wa found lying in a hole in a vacant allotment of land adjoining Buchanan's foundry at South Wharf, on 19th inst. ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 1 Aug 1896, Page 24
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