At a meeting of the Victorian Football League last night Mr. E. L. Jones (St. Kilda) stated that his committee had instructed him to bring under the notice of the League a report in the "Argus" ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 582 wordsBIRCHIP.-- A sparrow teams match was fired at Birchip on Wednesday, and was won by Birchip No. 1 team. A sweepstake was fired off, and was divided by G. Palfreyman, junior, and O. Hart, ...
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Article : 443 wordsAt the half yearly meeting of the Western Australian Trustees, Executors and Agency Company the chairman of directors, Mr. James Morrison, said the termination of the ...
Article : 222 wordsMr. J. H. Gordon, chief officer of the steamer Dorset, which arrived in Melbourne yesterday, met with a severe accident during the voyage. Mr. Gordon was ...
Article : 79 wordsMelbourne Inman, the English champion, had a "day out" yesterday at Alcock's billiard hall at the expense of his opponent, Frank Smith, of Sydney with whom he is engaged in an exhibition ...
Article : 282 wordsS. F. Bannon, a well known light weight jockey, died last evening at his parents' residence, North Sydney. Deceased became suddenly ill on Sunday, it is believed, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsThe Launceston tender of Gillett and Johnston, of London, at £742, for supply of clock and chimes for Launceston has been accepted by the committee. The price ...
Article : 48 wordsAn accident happened at the Eveleigh workshops to-day, two men, Henry Vaughan and Edward Brooks being injured. A cage containing scrap iron ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the League matches to be played this afternoon I like the winning prospects of Carlton, South Melbourne, Fitzroy, University and Melbourne; and in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 wordsThe constable at Flinders Island has reported the discovery, on 26th May, of a boat bearing the name "Orion," and a large quantity of wreckage. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe magistrates sitting on the bench were Messrs. E. Dillon (chairman), Philpott, Dench, Mailing, Walker and Ellingworth, J's.P. The case was that in which Mary Ann Bryer ...
Article : 181 wordsThe death is reported of Matthew Cahill, brother of Tom and Paddy Cahill, well known Northern Territory stockmen. He left Katherine for Pine Creek yesterday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsMr. Val. Johnson, the newly appointed assistant general manager of the Union Steamship Company, left for New Zealand by the Maheno to-day. ...
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Article : 568 wordsThe long existing friction which has so greatly retarded the advancement of trotting, and which arose owing to the Victorian Owners and Breeders' Trotting Horse Association and the Melbourne ...
Article : 144 wordsTrinity Grammar School v. University High School,--These schools met on the Richmond cricket ground on Friday. The ground was very heavy, but some good football was shown. The scores were:- Trinity ...
Article : 72 wordsSir,-- Concerning unnecessary street noises-- one of the most unnecessary as well as most irritating is the barking of dogs, and in this respect St. Kilda ...
Article : 115 wordsOaklands bounds meet to-day, at the cross roads, Essendon, at 2. ...
Article : 13 wordsA premiership match was played on the Mayor's Park between Gold-street and Cambridge-street on Thursday, 11th. Owing to the sloppy nature of the ground the game was a mere scramble. The scores ...
Article : 89 wordsARARAT.--The Ararat Coursing Club opened its season on Wednesday and Thursday, when a very successful puppy, stakes, in which 29 dogs took part, was run off on Burrumbeet Estate. Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsBERRINGA.-- For some time it appeared as though football would be a thing of the past this season. Some leading spirits in different parts of the district have, however, organised good teams, ...
Article : 134 wordsSir,-- It is quite time that the public expressed their indignation at the laxity which exists in the G.P.O., Melbourne, with regard to letters and parcels which go ...
Article : 138 wordsOn 5th April a youth named Wm. Chad was convicted on a charge of larceny at the City Court and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. Leniency under the Juvenile ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsBill Walsh, of Victoria, and Joe Lee, of South Africa, will be brought together again by the Indoor Sports' Club at the Cyclorama on Monday evening. They will box the best of twenty ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsSir,-- It is generally conceded that there is plenty of room for improvement in the behavior of the crowds at the Saturday football matches, and many suggestions are ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Brisbane steamer Vermont left the Short-street wharf yesterday afternoon for Newcastle, but had only proceeded a few hundred yards when, rounding the bend at ...
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Advertising : 144 wordsThe half yearly meeting of the Coach Makers' Union was held on Thursday night, when the balance sheet was presented, showing that the organisation was in a satisfactory financial ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsAt Fitzroy yesterday Ernest Jack was charged with having assaulted his wife, Nelly Jack. Complainant gave evidence that she lived apart from her husband, and boarded at Station-street, ...
Article : 126 wordsThe council of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia has agreed to the dates fixed by the Victorian Association--26th, 27th and 28th November-- for playing the Challenge round of this year's ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Richmond council was informed some time ago of alleged wilful violation of the minimum wage clause by the contractor for cleansing the city, Mr. G. Stow. After an exhaustive ...
Article : 324 wordsThe encounter between big, powerful George Dinnie, 14 st. 10 lb., and Buttan Singh, the well-known agile and clever Hindu, 11 st. 4 lb., drew a big house to the Amateur Athletic Hall, ...
Article : 321 wordsSir,-- Is it true that the Education department is so niggardly with its maintenance allowance that the teachers have to find wood for their schools out of their own ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsThe ra[?] of the last two weeks have worked incalculable improvement to all the links of the metropolis, and good golfing may be looked forward to henceforth. The engagements to-day include the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsThe half yearly meeting of the A.N.A. metropolitan committee was held last night at Rubi[?]Cafe, Bourke-street, and was largely attended. It was announced that the executive would ...
Article : 221 wordsWilliam Adamson, aged 23, a recent arrival from Sydney, was presented at South Melbourne yesterday charged with an unlawful assault on a boy aged twelve years on Sunday, 7th inst. The ...
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Advertising : 53 wordsPeter Bannon, the middle weight champion, of England and America, and Button Singh, the well-known Hindoo wrestler, have signed articles to wrestle the best of three falls in the catch-as-catch. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 13 Jun 1908, Page 16
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