General regret is expressed amongst footballers and others at the untimely death of D. Moriarty, whose body was found with the head cut off on the railway line at Jolimont. The ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey has now called out 350 battalions to suppress the insurrection in Macedonia. Latest advices from the disaffected area ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the annual conference of School Boards of Advice to-day Mr. Tate announced a reduction of truant inspectors from 35 to 20. This announcement was received with groans. Mr ...
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Advertising : 1,901 wordsMr John M'Whae, who has been connected with the management of the Melbourne Stock Exchange for some time past, and who has held the office of chairman several times, has retired ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Minister of Lands has received 69 applications for nine allotments at Moyston. Mr Taverner proposes to throw open 20,000 acres of swamp land at Lake Buloke, and applications ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Russian squadron, although it has withdrawn from the Turkish port of India, will remain in the neighborhood. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe third trial of Hannah Sealey on a charge of using an instrument on Gertrude Stanton, with intent, was entered upon in the Criminal Court to-day. The girl and her sister, who were ...
Article : 152 wordsSir Edmund Barton has communicated with Mr Irvine on the subject of establishing the Federal High Court as economically as possible. He suggests the appointment of the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Belgrade reports that three colonels, two captains and an editor of a paper have been sentenced to death for conspiracy. ...
Article : 77 wordsMr Tudor presented a petition signed by 1100 railway servants in Victoria praying that they be brought within the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. ...
Article : 441 wordsThe Minister of Education was engaged to-day revising the Teachers Bill. This measure will provide for fixed salaries for slate school teachers instead of the system of partly fixed salaries and ...
Article : 53 wordsSenator Chauncey Depew, of New York, asserts that the fiscal proposals launched by Mr Chamberlain are breaking more friendships with England than any question since the time of the ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the annual conference of the State Boards of Advice, held to-day, the President, Mr R. Edwards, referred to the matter of the age at which children should commence and ...
Article : 131 wordsMr Joseph Chamberlain, replying to one of his many correspondents on Preferential Trade, writes a letter in which he says he is sanguine that the tariff policy which hitherto has only ...
Article : 83 wordsAt a late hour last night Mr William Bragg, a resident of Princes-street, Port Melbourne, discovered an infant female child, about two months old, on his verandah. The baby was ...
Article : 129 wordsThe report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the conduct of the Boer war, which was submitted yesterday, contains a suggestion that highly-trained and experienced ...
Article : 47 wordsMr Elihu Root, the United States Secretary for War, will retain office until the end of the present year, when, as previously announced, he, will be succeeded by Judge Taft, the Civil ...
Article : 43 wordsAn inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a produce merchant named Frederick William Davey, whose body was found hanging in his stable at North Melbourne on ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Imperial Military Court of Germany has quashed the sentence of two years imprisonment in a fortress passed by the military court of appeal at Kiel, on the naval ensign, Hussener, for ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Board of Land and Works to-day accepted the tender of J. Odgers, at L44 10s, for covering roof with iron, repairs, &c., at State School No. 1245, Eastville. ...
Article : 33 wordsDistressing reports have been received from the rural districts of England regarding the destruction which has been wrought in the cornfields by the late storm and heavy rain. In the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe s s. Persic, of the White Star line, which left Port Melbourne to-day bound for Capetown and London, took away with her about 300 Australian emigrants to Boerland. Most of the ...
Article : 66 wordsMr Edwards deprecated the delay in regard to the initiation of coinage, and urged expedition in the selection of the Federal capital site. Sir Wm. Lyne agreed to take the second ...
Article : 55 wordsThe sealing vessel, Terra Nova, which is being sent by the Admiralty to the South Pole to the relief of the exploring vessel Discovery, started from Portsmouth for Lyttleton, New Zealand, ...
Article : 79 wordsThe State Parliament during the coming session will have, plenty of work to do. Already the following bills are on the stocks :-- The Factories Bill, Redistribution of Seats Bill, ...
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Advertising : 236 wordsAt the meeting of the Federal Executive Council to-day Mr Frank Gossler was appointed linotype engineer to take charge of the Federal type-setting machines. Mr Gossler will receive ...
Article : 37 wordsDuring the squall at New York on Thursday evening Sir Thomas Lipton, the owner of Shamrock III., who was aboard the launch belonging to his steam yacht Elgin, rescued three ...
Article : 63 wordsThere are no fewer than 471 appeals from State School teachers against their classification by the Education Department in the recently issued triennial roll. Fifteen of the appeals are against the ...
Article : 103 wordsThirty-five persons have been arrested at Boma, in the Congo Free State, for what is described as excessive zeal in their dealings with the natives. ...
Article : 34 wordsPersons interested in the annual factories report are naturally exhibiting a good deal of impatience at its not being available, the more so how in view of the new industrial legislation ...
Article : 126 wordsThe estate of the late Mr Samuel Lewis, the well-known money lender, who died in January, 1901, has been revalued at L2,500,000. As a result the re-version for public charitable uses will ...
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Advertising : 26 wordsThe suggestion of Mr Allan M'Lean, M.H.R., a conference of Premiers from the different rates should be convened with the object of getting the Slates into line in their industrial ...
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Mount Alexander Mail (Vic. : 1854 - 1917), Fri 28 Aug 1903, Page 3
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