The holders of Victorian 4 per cent. Treasury bonds issued in 1903 to partly redeem £5,000,000 44 per cent. debentures have certainly not made satisfactory use of their ...
Article : 159 wordsAlfred Bolton, a Bendigo miner, who broke his leg while working in a mine recently, was walking on crutches, when he slipped, and again fractured the limb. He ...
Article : 1,153 wordsAt about midnight on Wednesday a man named Paul Griffin, fell from an upper window of a house in Murray-street, where he was lodging, badly fracturing his skull ...
Article : 58 wordsGeorge Smith, the jockey who Was injured at Ascot on New Year's day through Coromandel falling in the Hurdle Race, died in the hospital this morning without ...
Article : 46 wordsA movement has been initiated by the Warrnambool shire council for the purpose of petitioning the Government to purchase Mr. W. Manifold's Motang property, at ...
Article : 58 wordsA shocking accident occurred here this evening, when Mr. John Wotherspoon, draper, in the employ of Messrs. Thomson and Comrie, was killed. ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. James [?]udd, a well known resident of Newtown, was severely burned about the face, arms and body by an explosion of fire damp in a tunnel where he was ...
Article : 118 wordsA recommendation from the Closer Settlement Board for the purchase of an estate of 8000 acres at a certain price has been considered by the Cabinet, and the ...
Article : 39 wordsAt a meeting of the Cabinet on 3rd inst. the application of section 6 was authorised for the first time since the Closer Settlement Act has been in force. This section ...
Article : 288 wordsAt the beginning of last year the Government put pressure to bear upon selectors in arrears with their rent, and as a result gathered in a large proportion of the ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Matthew Willis, Senior Inspector of Public Schools, slipped, and fell on the stairs at the Education department to-day, fracturing his left thigh. ...
Article : 34 wordsA young man named Francis Harding on Saturday met with an accident at Woodman's Hill, midway between Warrenheip and Ballarat, owing to his losing the pedal ...
Article : 99 wordsA married woman, named Mrs. Jaswatt, aged 29 years, died in the Narracoorte hospital, where she had been admitted suffering from serious burns, caused ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Government has arrived at a determination regarding the temporary successor to the Chief Justice during Sir John Madden's holiday in England. It has been ...
Article : 168 wordsMrs. Mand Allen, 28 years, living at Sandy Bay, committed suicide this afternoon by cutting her throat with a razor. No reason can be assigned for the act. ...
Article : 40 wordsA man named Davies was engaged digging a trench connection with a sewer to-day, when the earth caved in, completely, covering him. A body of men proceeded ...
Article : 85 wordsAlbert Walters, 20 years of age, son of Mr. J. W. Walters, contractor, of this town, died this morning from the effects of drinking carbolic acid. ...
Article : 117 wordsAt an inquest on the body of Henry Rosenthall, hotelkeeper, whose death resulted from drinking poison in mistake, a verdict was returned that deceased died ...
Article : 69 wordsThe recommendations of the recent conference of the heads of State Education departments on the subject of a uniform Australian cadet corps have been referred by ...
Article : 176 wordsA child 3[?] years or age, named Michael William Fields, died in the York Hospital from alcoholic poisoning through drinking portion of the contents of a bottle of ...
Article : 42 wordsThe sub-committee of the Cabinet appointed to ascertain what Crown lands can be made available for settlement held its first sitting on Tuesday in the board room ...
Article : 353 wordsA brutal attack was made early on Saturday morning upon Wm. Sparling aged 22, of Hoddle-street, Abbotsford, While passing through the Fitzroy Gardens at an ...
Article : 108 wordsA man aged 70 years named Connors Cook, of Victoria Lake, Albermarle, started last week to walk to the head station. He reached Wheeler's Well, 26 miles from Lake ...
Article : 83 wordsPercy Taylor, a young man aged 19, living at Burton-crescent, Ascot Yale, met with a terrible accident on the railway line at that place late on ...
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Advertising : 80 wordsAn exciting bolt occurred at Goulburn. A carrier was bringing in a heavy load of wool drawn by eight horses, and when several miles out from the town, on a ...
Article : 113 wordsAn old man named M'Carthy was accidentally drowned whilst bathing in the Lachlan River, at Jemalong, yesterday. He was a good swimmer, but became entangled ...
Article : 35 wordsSamuel Spry, a quarryman, aged 51, residing at Princes-street, Fitzroy, had his right foot severely crushed and dislocated on 5th inst. while at work at Smith's stone ...
Article : 57 wordsIt has been reported to the police that R. G. Irvine, employed on Buckalow Station, was drowned in a dam near the homestead yesterday. Irvine, with several others, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe work of surveying the Strathkellar Estate is now far enough advanced to allow of an approximate plan being put in the printer's hands. The plans will contain ...
Article : 141 wordsThe body of a man unknown was on 5th inst. found floating in the Bay off the Williamstown pier. Deceased, who was between 35 and 40 years of age, was about 5 ...
Article : 122 wordsA man named John Alexander Morrison met with a serious gun accident near Pingelly. The charge entered his neck, tearing away a piece of flesh and inflicting a ...
Article : 43 wordsA sad drowning fatality occurred at Farnborough, near Yeppoon plantation, yesterday, when John Kershaw, aged 20, and a boy, aged 8 son of Mr. D. Brown, farmer, ...
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Advertising : 21 wordsA delay has arisen in carrying out the legal transfer of the Werribee Park Estate owing to a difference of opinion as to the details of the terms. The representatives of the vendor wish to impose conditions as to the position of a road to give ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 13 Jan 1906, Page 24
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