The annual report of the Ballarat branch of the A.M.A. has been issued, and will be submitted to the general meeting of members to be held on Saturday next. ...
Article : 495 wordsWm. Ball, 21, a sergeant in the permanent artillery, late to-night attempted to mount a tram just outside the barrack gates, Oxford-street, and fell between the cars. He was cut ...
Article : 48 wordsNow that the river fans resumed something like its ordinary level and all the excitement of the flood season has passed away, people are setting to work to estimate the cost of putting ...
Article : 2,154 wordsThe hearing of the M'Meckan will case was commenced in the First Civil Court yesterday, before the Chief Justice and a jury of 12. The plaintiff, John Jackson Addison M'Meckan, ...
Article : 1,636 wordsParliament met at 10.30 to-day to hear the Governor's speech. There was a very large attendance of members. The speech was practically a recapitulation of that delivered at the ...
Article : 2,140 wordsThe following correspondence has been handed to the press in connection with the shearing difficulty:-- Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australia, ...
Article : 453 wordsThis morning the Baala Creek overflowed its banks, swamping Melville-street at the south end and rendering traffic on foot between South Numurkah and the main portions of the town ...
Article : 224 wordsA party of 10 miners have applied for a coal licence near the railway, 37 miles from Cook- town. The coal crops out in an area of two square miles. ...
Article : 159 wordsAn impudent burglary was committed last night, when the premises of Julius Rasch, jeweller, of Pirie-street, were entered and jewellery to the value of £200 and between £20 ...
Article : 258 wordsThe river, which is now between 13 and 14 feet, continues to rise, and all the adjacent country is flooded. The water is within a few inches of entering some residences on the banks. ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Frank Farnell, the Government whip, has resigned his position for private business reasons. The Opposition party held two caucus meetings to-day, A general feeling was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 534 wordsThe Lachlan river is in high flood. Forbes wires to-night that the river is now all round the town, which is only approachable by boats. People have been using boats all night in ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Inspector-General of Police having received a request from the authorities at Bourke for the police to be reinforced, with a view to possible trouble in connection with the ...
Article : 60 wordsA meeting of the Parliamentary local option party was hold to-night. Mr. Alfred Allen was elected secretary and matters relating to the action of the party fully discussed. Another ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Ernest Hutchoson, the young Australian pianist, will give two concerts at the Town Hall on Saturday and Monday evenings. The programme for the first of these was alluded to ...
Article : 324 wordsThe labor party have elected a committee of five to choose a leader. ...
Article : 19 wordsAll probability of a settlement of the shearing dispute is at an end here, the leaders of the Shearers' Union haying notified that the men refuse to accede to freedom of contract. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe report of the half yearly meeting of the Commercial Bank this day showed a net profit of £15,726 14s. 9d., and a dividend of 20 per cent per annum was declared, with a bonus of ...
Article : 102 wordsA motion of want of confidence in the Government was tabled by Mr. Holder this afternoon, in the form--"That this House is not satisfied with the present Government." His speech was ...
Article : 285 wordsSIR,--Kindly allow me a short space in the columns of your paper to give my account of what took place in rescuing flooded inhabitants of Tivoli-road and vicinity previous to the ...
Article : 341 wordsA meeting of the local branch of the Pastoralists' Union was hold this afternoon. The attendance was interfered with owing to the floods. The meeting was called principally to ...
Article : 252 wordsDuring the last month or so a depression quite unprecedented in the history of the colony has existed in the timber and saw milling trade, and several of the largest timber merchants ...
Article : 955 wordsThe annual meeting of the Melbourne Convalescent Aid Society for Men was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon; Mr. H. Gyles Tuner occupying the chair. ...
Article : 354 wordsLast night a fire at Manly destroyed a general store and the dwelling house of Alderman Sullivan. Sullivan's family occupied the upper story of the building, and the fire, once ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Government disapprove of the Railway Commissioners Repeal Bill introduced by private members, because the system has not been fully tested. ...
Article : 54 wordsSIR,--One fact which I noticed during the flood at Queen's-bridge seems to me to point to gross incompetence on the part of the engineers who superintended the construction of the ...
Article : 151 wordsThe executive of the Victorian Employers' Union held their usual fortnightly meeting on Tuesday evening, at their rooms, 37 Queen-street. Mr. Henry Dodds, president, occupied ...
Article : 127 wordsThe second section of the land reclaimed from Condah Swamp, comprising 33 allotments, varying from 11 acres to 50, altogether about 1200 acres, was submitted to public competition in the ...
Article : 86 wordsActive efforts are being made to promote the University extension movement, to which reference has been made in these columns. The gentlemen moving in the matter include several of ...
Article : 394 wordsSIR,--While sitting over a good fire lost night rending The Age, the subject of the awful distress and misery caused by the flood of Saturday and Sunday last came under discussion, and the ...
Article : 162 wordsTimothy Ryan was yesterday morning committed by the Brunawick bench for trial at the next sitting of the Criminal Court, on the 17th of August, on a charge of arson. The offence ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 652 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company No Liability, Walhalls, was held on Monday afternoon, in the board room, at the Olderfleet-buildings, ...
Article : 224 wordsA meeting was held last night in the Prahran town hall, to consider the best means of giving relief to the sufferers by the late floods. The mayor of Prahram, Cr. Thos. Ellis, occupied the ...
Article : 591 wordsAn inquest was held at the Grand View Hotel, Brunswick, yesterday afternoon, by the district coroner, Mr. Candler, on the body of William Buckley Johnston, who was drowned ...
Article : 118 wordsAn adjourned first half yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Melbourne Proprietary Silver Mining Company No Liability was held at the offices of the company, Prell's-bulidings, yesterday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 wordsThe council of the Victorian Rifle Association met last night at the Port Phillip Club Hotel and transacted a considerable amount of business. It was decided that the intercolonial ...
Article : 319 wordsA ballot in connection with the Northern District Star-Bowkett Building Society was held in the Royal Hall, Footscray, on Tuesday evening, when there was a very large attendance of shareholders. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe twenty-ninth annual report of the committee of the Victorian Deaf and Dumb Institution was presented to a meeting of subscribers at the Town Hall yesterday. The report showed that the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 16 Jul 1891, Page 6
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