The State Ministry has decided to spend £60,000 this year in the development and preservation of the Victorian forests. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe returns of the revenue of the state for October show a net increase of £8698, as compared with October, 1910. The Government receipts decreased by ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the Senate, Senator Findley informed Senator Keating (Tas.) that all telegraphists in Tasmania who, in the performances of their work, use ...
Article : 380 wordsThe London and North-Western Railway Company has increased wages and reduced hours, involving and additional expenditure of £80,000 sterling annually. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe adjourned inquest in connection with the death of James Adkisson, who was found with his throat cut on Saturday, was resumed to-day. A verdict of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe chief topic of discussion to-day was the notice received from the company last night stating the conditions on which the men could resume work. Naturally, ...
Article : 526 wordsLeaving Echuca on Sunday morning, T. H. Arrowsmith, a Boy Scout, walked to Melbourne, arriving at the State Government House at half-past 1 o'clock this ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Agent-General (Sir John M'Call) in a despatch to the Premier (Sir Elliott Lewis) stated that ships engaged by T, Dannevig and Co., of Norway, which are ...
Article : 41 wordsFour wagons containing furniture and effects were being drawn from Corowa to Brocklesby by a traction engine, when a spark from. the engine set fire to the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Amalgamated Society of Railway-men has now issued a manifesto for presentation to the companies demanding improved conditions and wages. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe National Free Labour Congress annual report hinted that the association would run its own candidates at the next election. ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. B. Watkins, M.H.A., to-night interviewed the Minister for Works (Hon. A Hean), and asked that the Lyell public works proposals should be commenced ...
Article : 46 wordsWilliam Griffin, aged 36 years, who resides at Windsor, went to his mother's bedroom this morning and asked her if she wanted to go to heaven. Mrs. Griffin ...
Article : 115 wordsSome alterations have been made in the provisions of the bill to establish a Commonwealth Bank since the circulation of the draft bill. The principal alteration ...
Article : 198 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Royal Australian Ornithologists' Union the following motion by Colonel Legge, of Tasmania, was unanimously adopted—"That ...
Article : 93 wordsAt the City Police Court to-day Charles David Scott, licensee of the Hobart Hotel was charged with having allowed a female under 21 years of age to serve ...
Article : 108 wordsCommenting on the Premier's refusal to amend the Trades Disputes Act, "The Times" accepts the answer as indicative that a more energetic and effective ...
Article : 38 wordsThe return of the new Labour Ministry was probably responsible for the unusual interest displayed in the opening of the first session of the eighth Parliament of ...
Article : 490 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day Stanley Gordon Leslie Deans was charged with the manslaughter of his brother, John Deans, near Colac, on October 14 last. ...
Article : 183 wordsSix hundred taxidrivers in London struck in sympathy with the comrade who was not allowed to take out a cab on the ground of withholding extra ...
Article : 56 wordsA pedlars' fair was held to-night in the Theatre Royal by the Zeehan branch of the Girls' Friendly Society. The Warden (Mr Fisher) introduced Mrs. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 228 wordsTowards establishing reciprocity in insurance with the colonies, a clause has been passed providing when an insurer goes to a colony and there joins an ...
Article : 59 wordsMonday commenced unbearably hot, and at evening a thunderstorm from the south-east occurred, accompanied with light rain, but it was bitterly cold; 31 ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Speaker took the chair at 2.30 Mr. Maloney (Vic.) gave notice that he would move that the postal definition of newspapers must carry the signatures ...
Article : 881 wordsAt the Fitzrov Court to-day George Russell, a cab driver, was charged with having been wilfully guilty of injuring a person through negligence in driving. ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Right Hon Herbert Samuel) promises that a select committee will in 1913 enquire into the wages paid to postmen and telegraphists, ...
Article : 38 wordsAn old man named Frederick W. Noble, a rabbiter at Trawool, was placed on trial in the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having on September 12 wound. ...
Article : 271 wordsConstable Ebdon left by the Oonah on Wedneslay night for Adelaide, to escort to Burnie a young man named H. Smyth, who is alleged to have victimised some ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the House of Lords the Copyright Bill has been read a second time. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn executive committee of four railwaymen's unions begin today to discuss the commission's findings. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe rainfall at Balfour for the week ending October 22 was 104 points, and for the month of October, so far, 2.94in. for 16 wet days, The average reading for the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe wages boards in Victoria have during the few years they have been in operation increased the wages of workers by £4,477,489. ...
Article : 29 wordsArrangements have been made by the Minister of Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley) for the services of an officer of the Meteorological Department to be granted ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Western Brass Band held a concern at Caveside on Friday evening last Mr. N. Oliver presided. The selections by the band were very good and were ...
Article : 73 wordsAnother series of tests has been made by Mr. Sharp, who has been investigating the working of the Melbourne telephone system. He says:— ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the Police Court to-day George Ridgeay, assistant manager of the Great Boulder mine, and Henry Oliver Lukies, a fitter, were charged with having, ...
Article : 72 wordsA meeting of the Fisheries Commissioners was held this afternoon, when Mr. A. G. Webster presided. The secretary reported that the work ...
Article : 178 wordsA concert was held in the Epping Hall last Friday evening in aid of the Cleveland State School prizes, and was a great success, the attendance being the largest ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsThe Ministry proposes to prohibit the employment below the surface of any miner suffering from phthisis or any other transmissible disease. It has under ...
Article : 71 wordsA curious case of female jealousy has occurred in Christchurch. A widow entered a house at 1 o'clock and threw cayenne pepper into the face of a ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Wellington Waterside Workers' union has decided by a majority of 154 to join the Federation of Labour. The president, treasurer, and secretary of the ...
Article : 39 wordsThree probationer nurses, who definitely refused duty under the sister in charge of the ward in the Adelaide Hospital, received from the management for ...
Article : 236 wordsA very serious development in connection with the strike of wharf labourers on the interstate and coastal wharves was reached to-night, when a mass ...
Article : 265 wordsThe island trading steamer Levuka arrived in port this evening, from Sydney. ...
Article : 17 wordsNo tidings have yet been received of Mr. J. M. Carden, who has been missing since Monday morning. He had a business appointment at 11 o'clock that day. ...
Article : 106 wordsConsiderable anxiety is felt concerning the whereabouts of a middle-aged miner named Robert Rowlands. He has been working on the Kosminsky mine, Dundas, ...
Article : 82 wordsSnakes are very prevalent at Flowerdale this season. Quite a number have been killed during the past couple of days. One of the number measured ...
Article : 39 wordsA long-delayed work has at last been put in hand on the road between Upper and central Castra, as Mr. Garland has made a start with his contract. This ...
Article : 44 wordsLast Friday, at the Waratah Police Court, V. Walsh, for disturbing the peace, was fined 20s and 8s costs. W. Talbot, who was charged with a similar ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. J. E. Ogden, M.H.A., to-day presented a petition to the Minister of Lands, (Hon. A. Hean), signed by 120 Tullah residents, requesting the Government to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsOn Sunday night the Bischoff Bross Band gave a sacred concert in the Athenacum. It was well attended, and the programme was attractive, especially ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Thu 2 Nov 1911, Page 6
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