On the occasion of the Queen Competition in aid of the Bendigo charities, Mr Donald M'Donald, of Kerang, gave a fine cow to the Queen of the Public Service, ...
Article : 84 words[?] Police Court on Tuesday an[?] Shammon was [?] with failing to comply with the [?] of the War Presecutions Act ...
Article : 306 wordsReuter's correspondent at Montreal reports that the Presbyterian General Assembly has decided to discontinue its propaganda for union with the Methodists ...
Article : 36 wordsIn emphatic terms the Prime Minister, Mr Hughes, denied the statement of the Premier of Queensland. Mr T. J. Ryan, that Mr Hughes was responsible for the ...
Article : 161 wordsIn order to alleviate the heavy demand that threatens to be made in the near future on the State's cool storage accommodation the Government has decided to ...
Article : 498 wordsThe final meeting in connection with the concert was held in the church building on Saturday evening. The committee were very pleased with the result, the ...
Article : 128 wordsAnxiety is still being felt in Echuca concerning the flooded state of the Murary and Goulburn rivers. Fortunately little rain is reported to have fallen on ...
Article : 175 words"This is one of the meanest and most unpatriotic methods of thieving imaginable," said Judge Decker at the Quarter Sessions yesterday, in sentencing Keith ...
Article : 165 wordsA successful progressive euchre party and dance, in aid of the funds of the R.C. Church, Meredith, were held here in the A.N.A. Hall on Friday night. About 40 ...
Article : 201 wordsMr Freeman, Inspector-General of Penal Establishments, visited the Reformatory Gaol and farm on Tuesday, and found everything going on satisfactorily ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Broken River continues to rise, and the whole of the surrounding country to flooded. Yesterday afternoon news was received in Shepparton that it Chinese ...
Article : 227 wordsAt the meeting of the directors of the Colac Dairying Company the following figures were submitted:—Butter manufactured May, 1917, 187,010lbs (83½ tons) ...
Article : 92 words[?] railway staff is having a [?] time shifting the wheat from [?] areas to the seaboard[?] an average of 13 double-head ...
Article : 129 wordsA very interesting function took place at the Urquhart Street School on Monday last, when the prizes won at the recent Empire Day celebrations were ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Victorian Club held a race meeting on the Moonee Valley course to-day, Results:—Handicap Hurdle Race.—Jether, 9st 4lb ...
Article : 354 wordsFor some time past an agitation has been on foot to establish a co-operative flour mill at Cressy. The town is admirably situated for such an industry ...
Article : 72 wordsThe State Parliament will re-open on 17th July. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe State Water Commission has now received fairly definite reports as to the result of the floods on the Goulburn levee works. The special engineer that was ...
Article : 257 wordsMr T. R. Johnson, the Royal Commissioner of Railways, accompanied by other officials, visited Echuca on Wednesday. Mr Johnson walked through the town to ...
Article : 63 words[?] Mechanics' Institute met [?] night. The secretary stated [?] had received a letter informing [?] the institute would receive £12 ...
Article : 293 wordsThe pre-emptive portion of Mr Dodgshun's Tooronga Estate, near Egerton containing 640 acres, was sold by Charles Walker and Co. on Tuesday, to Messrs ...
Article : 38 wordsThe tragedy which occurred at Cassilis Gippsland, on Saturday last. when a butcher named Thomas ?Roberts, aged 57 years was shot by a Russian Finn, who ...
Article : 236 wordsMr Coates announces a gigantic programme has been secured for presentations at her Majesty's to-night. It includes two of the stars in the photo play ...
Article : 103 wordsThere was a much better attendance on the range last Saturday. The shoot was for the Butler-Eldridge trophy, seven shots at 10 yards and ten shots at 500 ...
Article : 80 wordsThe residents of Seymour are arranging a public meeting with a view of discussing the best means of protecting the town of Seymour from flood in[?]dations, and ...
Article : 60 wordsThe announcement that J. C. Williamson's Ltd. new English comedy company is to appear in Ballarat on Tuesday and Wednesday next has been received with ...
Article : 94 wordsOn Wednesday, at the Grammar School Oval, a keen game was played between teams from the School of Mines and the Grammar School. The friendly spirit ...
Article : 132 wordsNo serious damage has been reported to the actual works of the Commission, and as previously state, the other rivers of the State on which the Commission has ...
Article : 35 wordsFloods continue at Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay, and train services have been dislocated. There have been heavy losses of stock, in one instance 3000 sheep being ...
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Advertising : 1,949 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of the Nhill branch of the M.U.L.O.O.F. the balance-sheet showed that the expenditure on sick pay to members and soldiers amounted to ...
Article : 105 wordsIn connection with the above Theatre picture evening, to be held on Wednesday, 27th June, in aid of the Trenches. Red Cross, and Y.M.C.A. overseas, a novel ...
Article : 100 wordsThis season's College football was [?] in yesterday afternoon at the City Oval, where St. Patrick's engaged Ballarat College. The farmer again gave a ...
Article : 188 wordsThe express leaving Launceston this afternoon was delayed by floods between Rose and Tunbridge, and is not expected to arrive at Hobart till 1 a.m. instead of ...
Article : 42 wordsA fine Triangle programme will be presented by Mrs Ellis at the Coliseum to-night. It will include a five-reel drama, entitled "The Back of a Man," featuring ...
Article : 53 wordsMr Hugh Gordon, a pioneer of the early agricultural era in this district, passed away in the York Hospital, West Australia on 3rd June. He was born in ...
Article : 165 wordsIn the Arbitration Court this afternoon Mr Justice Powers announcedl his award in the case of the Federated Firemen and Enginedrivers' Association against the ...
Article : 138 wordsArrangements are complete for the comfort of patrons at euchre and long-night dance to be held at St. Patrick's Hall to night, in aid of Empire Fair. Six ...
Article : 64 wordsTickets for the excursion to Creswick Nursery and Arboretum on Saturday afternoon next are available at the City Hall, Town Hall, Ballarat East; J. C. ...
Article : 57 wordsSydney Watson, the third officer, and John F. Ford. the fourth officer, two of the oldest active members of the New south Woes Fire Brigade, will be ...
Article : 81 wordsGratifying success last night attended the entertainment hold at the Mechanic Institute in aid of the Soldiers Comfort Fund. The hall was packed in every ...
Article : 274 wordsOn Saturday evening a meeting of the School Committee was held. There were present—Messrs H. D. Ward (voted to the chair), A. Cuncan, and Mesdames ...
Article : 191 wordsIn the course of a judgment on an appeal concerning a Wages Board award, Mr Justice Heydon referred to the arrangement made for travelling time. He said ...
Article : 77 wordsWilliam Graham Eyles was to-day convicted of the murder of his wife at Five Dock on 19th October, and sentenced to death. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe secretary of the Stawall Hospital has received a cheque for £152/3/0 from the Landsborough Brass Band as a result of its Hospital Sunday campaign. The ...
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The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1900; 1914 - 1918), Thu 14 Jun 1917, Page 5
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