An alteration is being made in the San Francisco mail service which will seriously affect the times of Victorian postage. It has been decided that the mail boats shall ...
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Article : 191 wordsOwing to the total absence of grass or herbage, and the high price of fodder at Whitecliffs, horses cannot be engaged to cart water from Ford's tank, ten miles ...
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Article : 207 wordsMr. W. H. Embling, M.L.C. addressed a large meeting this evening in the mechanics' hall, the mayor, Cr. van Heurck, presiding. Mr. Embling said he had been asked by a ...
Article : 228 wordsThe mineral of Mr. Samuel Riley, of Murchison, which took place at the Murchison cemetery yesterday, was remarkable for the size of the coffin used. Deceased, who was ...
Article : 1,908 wordsThe town hall was filled this evening, the mayor, Mr. Mitchell, presiding, when Mr. Burton, Minister of Mines, spoke on political questions. Mr. Burton, who ...
Article : 507 wordsAt the annual general meeting of the British Empire League to-night, reference was made to the pro-Boer utterances of Messrs. A. Griffith and Holman, M's.L.A. ...
Article : 80 wordsNo rain has fallen since the middle of March, and the reservoir from which the town water supply is derived is almost dry. All the crushing mills are idle, and the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Operative Cigar Makers Union tonight considered a reported "lock-out" by an employer. The union decided that the employes had been "locked out," and that ...
Article : 93 wordsOn Sunday night Hastings's Park View Hotel was broken into during the absence of the occupants, and several articles of jewellery were stolen. ...
Article : 274 wordsWhen the Federal Electoral Bill has become law Sir William Lyne expects to be in a position to make enormous savings in the cost of all Federal elections. By means ...
Article : 94 wordsA public meeting of the citizens of Fitzroy, convened by the Fitzroy branch of the National Citizens' Reform League, will be held this evening at 8 o'clock, at the School ...
Article : 102 wordsAn exceptionally rich copper lode, 4 feet wide, has been proved to a depth of 130 feet at Lobb's Hole mine, in the Kiandra district. The ore assays 33 per cent. of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe recent complaint by Mr. Philip against the Federal Government with reference to the arrears of payments due for the expenses of administering British New ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Rev. William Allan O'Neill, who has been assisting Canon Boyce in Redfern parish for some time, was to-day found to be suffering from plague and was removed ...
Article : 75 wordsA meeting was held at Great Western on Saturday night, when the platform of the Citizens' League was adopted and a branch of the league established. Mr. Hans ...
Article : 235 wordsEarly on Thursday morning last the court house at Glen Innes was burned down, and the police records were destroyed. An inquiry into the matter was held to-day, and ...
Article : 172 wordsA survey of the condition of post office buildings throughout the Commonwealth has forced upon Mr. Drake's attention the fact that a reckless lack of foresight has ...
Article : 174 wordsA Frenchman named Dupuy, who is suffering from plague, escaped from the Coast Hospital last evening, but was captured later in bed in a lane off George-street. He ...
Article : 40 wordsThe May sittings of the Geelong Supreme Court were brought to a conclusion on Monday afternoon. August Mark Hager, farmer, of Wensleydale. proceeded against ...
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Article : 190 wordsAn action in which a son-in-law and father-in-law were the parties was before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury in the Banco Court to-day. Plaintiff, a young man named ...
Article : 252 wordsAt the police court on Friday last a lad named Avery was fined £5 for stealing a letter containing money. the property of the Postmaster-General. The money had ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Jacob Fotheringham, who held the Footscray seat in the Legislative Assembly. has at last had the grace to resign, after being for nearly six months from Victoria ...
Article : 142 wordsAnother case of departmental messing, which strikingly illustrates the fatuity of civil service methods, has been disclosed. Complaint has been made that the ...
Article : 305 wordsA caveat was recently lodged against the granting of probate of the will of the late Mrs. Margaret Chapman, formerly of Flemington, who died on 11th January, and the ...
Article : 213 wordsThe much vexed question of taking the waters of the Baringo Creek for the supply of Sunbury has advanced another stage. The old scheme, which was so strongly ...
Article : 159 wordsOn the arrival of the Paroo from Fremantle to-day, the health officer was informed that there was a large number of dead rats on the vessel. As a case of ...
Article : 149 wordsThe reprieve of the Leongatha labor colony, just as the long delayed and often threatened execution was about to take place, is illustrative of Mr. Duggan's whole ...
Article : 703 wordsPercy H. Monkley, solicitor, was charged at the police court to-day with having feloniously appropriated a ring the property of Julia Green, of Albury and ...
Article : 107 wordsWhat was known as the Old Sunbury Creek Hotel is in course of demolition, the present owner, Mr. N. Bedstrup, having decided to pull the older portion of the ...
Article : 165 wordsAnother case of plague was reported today, the patient being a man employed in a grocery store. ...
Article : 21 wordsWhilst the San Francisco mail steamer Sonoma was running from Pago Pago to Auckland, one of the oilers named L. D. Ferguson was caught in the main shaft and ...
Article : 189 wordsAt its meeting last evening the North Melbourne council agreed to co-operate with the metropolitan municipalities in continuing united action for the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Federal Commandant spent some time to-day with the Premier considering the Queensland defence estimates. Major General Hutton and his staff were ...
Article : 90 wordsAt a complimentary smoke social tendered to Cr. J. K. B. Plummer at the Port Melbourne town hall last evening, Cr. H. N. Edwards, in proposing the toast of ...
Article : 300 wordsMr. Deane, Engineer in Chief of the New South Wales railways, and Mr. Rennick, of Victoria, in December last visited Wentworth and examined possible routes for a ...
Article : 437 wordsShortly before 12.30 o'clock this morning George Williams was killed at the Shenandoah nine, and his mate. George Graham, was badly injured. The men were ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. T. A. J. Smith, who has had charge of the local stemmery, has disposed of seventeen parcels of Victorian tobacco leaf, ranging from one to ten tons, which ...
Article : 224 wordsIt is rumored that the Kenniffs have again been heard of in their old haunts. The services of Afr. Wandall. immigration lecturer, will he dispensed until in ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Registrar under the Arbitration Court came to a decision to-day with respect to the appeals lodged with him in connection with the Machine Shearers' ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. J. Jeanes, a Port Pirie hotelkeeper, asked the local municipal council to prevent the Salvation Army holding street meetings opposite his house, but the corporation ...
Article : 76 wordsA conference of the representatives of the trades affected by the Factories Act was held at the Trades Hall last night; Mr. Sutch in the chair. It was arranged that ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Outtrim coal mine was thrown idle to-day owing to a difficulty having arisen between the management and the men regarding the weighbridge. The bridge was ...
Article : 118 wordsThe transport Aurania has sailed from Albany for Melbourne. Her troops were all allowed ashore at first, but leave was stopped since Friday. While the men were ...
Article : 154 wordsDuring the past three weeks the local Water Works Trust has been engaged at considerable expense in cleaning out the [?] from which townspeople are ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Ramsay, M.L.A., addressed his constituents at the mechanics institute Williamstown last evening. The building was crowded; the mayor, Mr. J. J. Liston ...
Article : 360 wordsA religious question exercised the minds of the Prahran branch of magistrates yesterday, when the case of the three children-- John O'Shea, Mary O'Shea and Leo O'Shea- -remanded as neglected ...
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Article : 86 wordsWilliam Parker, a saddler, living at Parnell, shot his wife and infant with a revolver last night. He afterwards attempted to commit suicide. Parker is in a ...
Article : 64 wordsAt a special meeting of the Healesville shire council to-day, to consider the removal of the inspector of nuisances from all appointments held by him under the council. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 27 May 1902, Page 6
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