Owing to the northern telegraph lines being almost generally down, very little news has been received to-day regarding the floods in the Hunter and other northern rivers. The ...
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Article : 168 wordsFrederick Cody, the 3 months old child of an unmarried woman, died suddenly at the residence of a Mrs. Anne Wheeler, 98 Montague-street, Montague. The child, which was ...
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Article : 477 wordsAs Mr. William Todd, of 80 Coventry-street, South Melbourne, with his wife, was passing at the rear of Fillis's circus lost night, he stumbled across the dead body of a man. He informed ...
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Article : 304 wordsA meeting of the Victorian Fish Protection Society and Anglers' Club was hold last night at the Albion Hotel, Bourke-street; Mr. John Swaine, president, in the chair. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsAt the City Court yesterday, two young men named William F. M'Gill and William Farrow were charged with conspiring to obtain five pairs of boots, the property of Samuel S. Spry. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 517 wordsAt special meeting of the Cabinet yesterday, the appointment of Sir Samuel Griffith as Chief Justice was ratified. In connection with hie retirement from politics it is understood ...
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Article : 145 wordsThe charges against Joseph H. M'Garry and his wife, late of the Mitre Tavern, Bank-place, off Collins-street was called on at the City Court yesterday. The accused are charged ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 350 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday a young man named Sydney Potier was charged with damaging property belonging to one Thomas Manning. The latter deposed that he went to ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 11 Mar 1893, Page 8
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