Bush fires occurred to-day all round the district. One, that started in the vicinity of Green's Pinch, near Kilmore, has destroyed miles of grass and fencing. Considerable ...
Article : 178 wordsSir Fredrick Sargood writes to us to say that in the paragraph we published condensing his recent letter to us we have not given sufficient prominence to his reply to ...
Article : 3,098 wordsA new development has taken place in Paris with respect, to the Dreyfus affair, by the organisation of a non-partisan organisation, the object of which is to check the ...
Article : 128 wordsNotwithstanding the Czar's disarmament and pence conference proposals, the Russian naval and military authorities are straining every nerve to strengthen as ...
Article : 106 wordsThe French press generally regards the outburst of British indignation, which the Madagascar blue book revelations has provoked, as an evidence of desire for war with ...
Article : 117 wordsNothing new has transpired in connection with the man Burgess, arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the Gatton murders. It is understood that the police took action ...
Article : 177 wordsBrigadier-General Otis, commanding the American troops in the Philippines, has formally called upon General Aguinaldo, who claims to be President of the Filipino ...
Article : 120 wordsThis morning a hush fire occurred in the north-west, near the locality of the great fire last year. A large amount of grass was burnt and 30 acres of crop, and it was ...
Article : 222 wordsSome excitement was caused at the Graziers' Meat Works, Queensport, yesterday, by the arrest of two men on suspicion of being concerned in the Gatton murders. ...
Article : 233 wordsIn the Collingwood council Inst evening, in the course of a discussion upon the appointment of an auditor for the accounts of the Victoria Park Trust, Cr. Cody was making an observation, when Cr. ...
Article : 259 wordsAbout noon to-day a lire broke out about a mile from the township, and north-west of Hiscocks. The fire quickly spread towards the township, currying ...
Article : 319 wordsGeneral Aguinaldo has made a defiant reply to the American warning. He has Issued a manifesto and placarded the streets of Manila with it, claiming absolute ...
Article : 39 wordsMadame Dreyfus has received from Cayenne a reassuring cablegram in respect to the health of her husband who was yesterday reported to be seriously [?] with ...
Article : 36 wordsAbout 1 p.m. to-day a fire broke out at South Kyneton, and swept over the bush lands of Messrs. Hardie, M'Donnald and W. Thomson. Crossing the Little Coliban, the ...
Article : 614 wordsThe protest lately made by the American settlers at Shanghai, through their Minister at Pekin, against the exclusive extension of the French concession at that treaty port. ...
Article : 229 wordsDissensio as it is reported, have occurred among the members of the Court of Cassation, presumably in connection with the Dreyfus case procedure. M. Baurefaire, ...
Article : 62 wordsHostilities between the American forces and the Filipino insurgents at Ilo Ilo, in the island of Paney, have not yet been commenced, but the Americans, with their ...
Article : 151 wordsIt Is regarded as strongly symptomatic of the popular disquietude now prevailing in France that very heavy withdrawals of money are being made by the French ...
Article : 104 wordsThe secretary of the Metropolitan Gas Company, in a letter to the St. Hilda council last night, made an offer to fit up all the street lamps in the municipality with incandescent lights at a ...
Article : 81 wordsA representative gathering of the English Liberal party will be held on 6th February for the purpose of choosing a leader in succession to Sir William Vernon Harcourt, ...
Article : 78 wordsSub-inspector Galbraith left for Tenthill this morning to organise a district campaign on a now plan of work. Gatton will still he the police headquarters Active ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the meeting of the North Melbourne council last night, a letter was received from the proprietor of the "South Australian Advertiser" (Sir J. Langdon Bonython), requesting that a description ...
Article : 151 wordsAt Athens yesterday King George of Greece sustained a severe injury to his foot through a marble statue falling on it from its pedestal. ...
Article : 162 wordsTo-day was one of the most disastrous known in this district. Early this morning a fire broke out in a paddock of grain, owned by Mr. H. Johnston, about 3 miles to the ...
Article : 297 wordsThe Amalgamated Society of Engineers has made a remarkable recovery from the disastrous fluancial results of the great strike which it undertook in 1807 for the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe London "Observer," commenting on the revolutions made in the Madagascar blue book, and the French "pin prick" policy towards Great Britain, which has been ...
Article : 107 wordsA man, who gave his name as See, has been arrested at the Bororeeu siding on suspicion of being connected with the southern murders. He was disguised as a swagman, ...
Article : 93 wordsCr. Keele was complimented by the mayor of Collingwood (Cr. Wilkins) last night upon his reelection to the position of representative of the North Yorra group of municipalities (17) on the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Chinese Government bar. acceded to the demand of Germany for satisfactory repartition for the [?]treatment,some time age of a German missionary by a mob ...
Article : 58 wordsThere was a revival of the labor trouble in tho St. Kilda council last night, when it became known that in accordance with a previous resolution of the council, the 30 scavengers employed by the ...
Article : 163 words["SYDNEY EVENING NEWS," 7th JANUARY.) The suggestion that the human eye retains an impression of the last object which it rested upon, and that a photographie ...
Article : 505 wordsA sensational suicide, the cause of which is not at present known,was committed in London to-day. Count Karolyi, an attache of the Austrian Embassy, member Of a ...
Article : 71 wordsDuring the year 1808 the gold raised in Victoria amounted to 837,258 oz., which was an increase of 24,402 oz. on 1897. Tills yield has been only once exceeded during the past ...
Article : 128 wordsAlthough the Fashoda incident has been settled, it would he a mistake to assume that the relations between France and the United Kingdom are cordial, or even courteous. The ...
Article : 401 wordsNotwithstanding the recent announcement by the French Government that the alleged attack on a French agent at Luang Prabang, on the Upper Mekong, was the act of some ...
Article : 89 wordsThe firemen were called at 11.33 a.m. yesterday to Rive their attention to a fire which broke out at the nursery of .Mr. R. Cheeseman, in Mill-street. North Brighton. The fire spread rapidly over the ...
Article : 331 wordsThe English veterinary surgeon whom the Ameer of Afghanistan has employed at Cabul reports that the Ameer is in such bad health that he cannot possibly live much ...
Article : 41 wordsOn the Brisbane mail train this morning, at Quirindi, two ladies, Mrs. Prince and Mrs. Pringle, were in a carriage together, when a man named John Johnston M'lntosh entered ...
Article : 319 wordsA hush fire occurred to-day at Baraughup East, about live miles from Maldon, in a grass paddock belonging to Mr. Noil Nelison. Fanned by a high north- westerly wind, the ...
Article : 219 wordsThe formal opening of the bureau at the local public buildings in connection with the telephone between Ballarat and Melbourne took place to-day with considerable ...
Article : 295 wordsThe Legislature of Capo Colony has decided to exempt the British South Africa Chartered Company from the tax of 1s. per annum per £100 of capital levied upon ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsAn inquest was held at the Morgue by Mr. Morrison, yesterday, touching the death of Thomas Savory, aged 41, who was found dead in a right of way off Little Collins-street, at 5 a.m. on ...
Article : 210 wordsR.M.S. Duke of Westminster, from Brisbane, arrived at Plymouth on 7th inst F.M.S. Ville de la Ciotat, outwards, left Suez 10 p.m. 6th. ...
Article : 27 wordsSeldom has an individual case in the criminal records of Melbourne created such general public interest as the crime which has become known as the Boot Trunk Tragedy. ...
Article : 313 wordsTo-day fires, destroying thousands of pounds worth of property, occurred at Franklinford. The fire started about 10 a.m. in Mr. Molloy's grass paddock, and a strong ...
Article : 249 wordsTwo more money orders, which bad been fraudulently altered, were received at the Post Office yesterday. They had been given to business people during the holidays, and ...
Article : 113 wordsDeep sympathy is expressed for the parents of the murdered boy Hill. The arrest of the murderer is anxiously expected. A number of black trackers have been ...
Article : 41 wordsFrank Clarke, 41 Victoria-street, Collingwood, was charged at the Richmond court yesterday with vending watered milk on 9th alt. The case had been called on three weeks previously, but an ...
Article : 224 wordsAdvices from Tonga state that the German consul from Samoa has arrived there and notified the King of Tonga that Germany will seize Vavau, the most fertile ...
Article : 110 wordsThe following are the results of the Handicap rifle and revolver competition completed at Coburg last Saturday. Thirty-eight competitors took part in the rifle contest, 100 yards, 7 shots each ...
Article : 194 wordsE. G. Wilson, for whom it is reported a Queensland warrant has been issued on a charge of indecency, was employed as second master in the Warramhool ...
Article : 536 wordsThe Canadian mail steamer Miowera, from Vancouver, arrived to-day Saloon passengers: For Sydney—Messrs. H. Smith, M'Kinnon, Ronnie. Second saloon: Messrs. ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,—When Mr. C. A. Sampson, the "strong man," is through with his contract, signed on Saturday, I shall he prepared to sign articles of agreement with him for a ...
Article : 80 wordsAn elderly man named William Northe, of New street, Middle Brighton, was before Mr. Dobbin. P.M., at the District Court yesterday, charged with scorching. According to the evidence of ...
Article : 126 wordsA disastrous fire started on the Wool Wool Estate this morning, and it swept the Red Rock paddock, the lessee, Mr. Stokie, losing 1000 acres of grass and 200 tons of bay. ...
Article : 192 wordsA stir was caused on the St. Kilda pier yesterday afternoon when a man was found struggling in the water a few feet from the steps at the end. With some difficulty he was dragged to a position of ...
Article : 116 wordsAt the District Court yesterday, Mr. Dobbin, P.M., dealt with a number of cases under the income Tax Act. In each instance the defendant was charged with having neglected, to forward to ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 10 Jan 1899, Page 5
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