The action which has been commenced by James Gwynne, of Davis-street, Brunswick, against John Gilford, the secretary, and the Melbourne branch of the ...
Article : 444 wordsIn connection with the death of Roy Fellowes, aged seven months, which occurred at his home, in Rae-street, North Fitzroy, on 28th ult., evidence was adduced ...
Article : 200 wordsThe introduction of the perpetual harrier system at the Western railway station has caused a deal of public dissatisfaction. The lessees of the refreshment rooms and book ...
Article : 239 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. Archibald presented a petition for the alteration of the racing laws to assimilate with those of New South Wales and Victoria, and for ...
Article : 212 wordsYesterday at the Newport Government railway, workshops a movement that has been in progress for many years past reached fruition in the opening of the ...
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Advertising : 177 wordsAt the invitation of Lord and Lady Avebury, the, annual meeting of the Proportional Representation Society was held at 6 St, James s-square, writes our London ...
Article : 335 wordsThere was a large attendance of members in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, when the House resumed consideration of the Address in Reply to the ...
Article : 900 wordsSydney has had a total of six inches of rain as a result of the rain storm now passing over the coastal area. This is the best rainfall ...
Article : 201 wordsThe mystery surrounding the disappearance of an elderly man named Charles Lush from his home at 335 Coppin-street, Richmond on 7th inst., was solved ...
Article : 127 wordsA request was made to the Premier yesterday by a deputation, introduced by Mr. Cullen, M.L.A., from the committee of the Pyramid Hill mechanics institute and free library for a grant ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day carried the Address in Reply on the voices, and adjourned after the Colonial Secretary had intimated that the session would probably ...
Article : 270 wordsThe young man George Kingston, who was arrested by Detective Mulfahey on 16th inst. at Dandenong, was charged at the city court on Tuesday with stealing ...
Article : 193 wordsAfter being laid up with a broken arm for thirteen weeks, a painter named Albert Newlands resumed work at the Yarraville Sugar Works on Monday. He was set to ...
Article : 137 wordsSir,--The thanks of all lovers of majority rule are again due to you for your efforts to do away with the split vote in elections. I have carefully read the article by Mr. ...
Article : 320 wordsThe boisterous weather along the seaboard interfered considerably with coastal shipping. At South Head the wind was blowing strong, and a high sea was ...
Article : 158 wordsA few months ago the Health department secured a supply of the new remedy, Nasten B, for leprosy, and it has been used on two patients quarantined on an island ...
Article : 64 wordsThe first shipment of wheat from this port this year will be made at the end of the current week, when a steamer will arrive to take a cargo of 40,000 bags, if ...
Article : 114 wordsRobert Cochrane, an employe of Messrs. Hawkes Bros., Beaufort, who some days ago received injuries owing to his being caught in the shafting of the machinery ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Barlow, the Acting Premier, received private advices from London to the effect that one of the principal objects of Mr. Kidston's visit has been brought to a ...
Article : 101 wordsIn the Assembly to-night it was decided on a division to have clubs and bars closed on Sundays. A bill was introduced dealing with a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe servant girls at Charleville have formed a union. The rules set forth that no girl over 16 years of age shall work under 15 per week, and that nursegirls ...
Article : 94 wordsVICTORIA.--Generally fine except for isolated coastal showers; cold, frosty or foggy night for the most part; calms or light variable winds between W. and N.W. ...
Article : 208 wordsA man over 90 yours of age named J. T. Tulloch, who resides in View-lane, was knocked down by a tram in M'Crae-street to-day. He sustained concussion of the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Licences Reduction Board sat at the court house on Tuesday and investigated the affairs of two hotels, the owner and licensees of which applied to be ...
Article : 80 wordsA warrant granted upon the sworn information of Mrs. Grace Lee has been issued for the arrest of ex-Sub-Inspector Balchin, late of Ballarat. Balchin is charged with ...
Article : 166 wordsSir William Lyne considers that the tramway strike is largely attributable to the fact that the tramway employes consist to a great extent of youths and men ...
Article : 37 wordsTwo miners named Albert Brissett and Arthur Parker, employed at the Last Chance tin mine at Inverell, had a thrilling experience. They were engaged ...
Article : 190 wordsMr. Denny, formerly a colleague of Mr. Kingston in the representation of Adelaide, has intimated his intention of moving in the Legislative Assembly that a national ...
Article : 50 words"The man who passes through our hands earns 16 of every £1 that it takes to save him." This was a sentence in the vigorous, speech delivered by Commissioner M'Kie ...
Article : 822 wordsThe strong demand for good farms, particularly within easy reach of the metropolis, appears to increase with each year. Every property that comes on the market ...
Article : 107 wordsNothing has been done locally towards running trams, during the continuance of the strike. The interruption to traffic is causing great inconvenience, and it is ...
Article : 88 wordsPolice Inspector Armstrong, of Warrnambool, has received a communication from the Government Analyst, through the Chief Commissioner of Police, calling on ...
Article : 169 wordsMr. A. L. Harrold, a former member for North Adelaide, and ex-president of the National Defence League, died in London on Monday. ...
Article : 30 wordsAs Is generally the case after a cold frosty night, the day was beautifully fine, with but few chunk and very little wind. That the lower air was fairly humid was indicated by the cloud forms, ...
Article : 329 wordsAn interesting mining action was commenced at the Supreme Court to-day, when C. S. King, metallurgist, of Kalgoorlie, brought an action against the Ivanhoe Gold ...
Article : 145 wordsIn consequence of expiry yesterday of the time during winch the Bricklayers' Union agreed to allow members to work under the existing rate of 11 a day, those bricklayers ...
Article : 92 wordsThe unusual spectacle of a vehicle being bogged in one of the main thoroughfares of Prahran was witnessed in that city last night, when the wheels of a furniture van ...
Article : 163 wordsReference was made by the mayor (Cr. B. R. Wilson) at the borough council meeting on Monday night to a proposal by the New South Wales Government to turn the ...
Article : 186 wordsA fall of earth took, place at the Golden, Horseshoe mine this morning, and a man named Francis Bradley was instantaneously killed. Bradley and John Joyce were ...
Article : 140 wordsThe claim made by Cox and sugar, contractors for the construction of the new reservoir at Mount Cole, against the Ararat borough council for £720 for breach of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe meeting of the clergy to discuss the evidence in connection with the ease of the Rev. C. H. Nash, which was to have been held on Thursday, has been ...
Article : 110 wordsThe final engagements of the amateur boxing and wrestling championships for the current year were decided last night in the Masonic Hall cefore a crowded and enthusiastic house. As might ...
Article : 805 wordsThis afternoon a little girl named Alice Thomas was run over by the rear truck of a train at Garnet-street crossing and had her left foot cut-off. In Company with ...
Article : 84 wordsLand owners along Birch's Greek have petitioned the Talbot shire council to take action to abate the sludge nuisance, from the Berry mines, which, it is stated, is ...
Article : 105 wordsA NUNAWADING COUNCILLOR RESIGNS. Cr. Aspinall, who has been a member of the Nunawading shire council for the past 12 years, tendered his resignation at the last meeting of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 11 wordsAt Her Majesty's Theatre this eventing The Merry Widow enters upon the lost three nights of its Melbourne season, and on Saturday next the Royal Comic Opera Company will appear in a revival ...
Article : 763 wordsOn the voyage of the steamer Marathon, which arrived at Fremantle to-day from the eastern States, a pantryman named A. Beswick, mysteriously disappeared. It ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 wordsThe members of the Nash defence committee held an informal meeting this afternoon, and after considering the latest letter from the diocesan authorities, which ...
Article : 241 wordsMessrs. C. Podger and J. M'Cullagh have established a record in ploughing. With teams of three horses and double-furrow ploughs an area of 10 acres was turned over ...
Article : 56 wordsCASTLEMAINE.--The Golden Crescent Hydraulic Sluicing Co., finding the ground to the west of their last paddock not payable, cleaned up on Tuesday, for 21 oz. gold. They are floating ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the meeting of the Port Melbourne, council last night Cr. Hester moved that the resolution carried by the council in 1907, providing for the election of the mayor by the ...
Article : 207 wordsAt the annual meeting of the South Melbourne branch of the Australian Women's National League yesterday, the following office bearers wore appointed for the ...
Article : 161 wordsThe police were informed on Monday afternoon that the residence of Mr. Arthur Gissing at Illawarra, two miles from Deep Lead, had been destroyed by fire in ...
Article : 134 wordsLAUNCESTON.--The half yearly report of the Mount Bischoff Co. shows the net earnings for the past six months amounted to £17,607 45. To this amount must be added the sum of ...
Article : 333 wordsReceived by Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd.:--Prairie Lands, Forbes: 60 points good rain. Received by the New Zealand Loan ans Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd.:--Borambil, Condobolin, ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,--In view of the admitted difficult and delicate position the clergy face on Thursday, and the fact that the vicar-general postpones his decision till after that ...
Article : 370 wordsADELAIDE.--Splendid rains have fallen in Charleville district, and the couches are running irregularly owing to floods. ...
Article : 21 wordsCAMPERDOWN.--The Pomborneit suppliers to the local factory have decided to ask the company to sell the butter factory at Pomborneit, which the directors ...
Article : 683 wordsThe Railway department having received numerous complaints relative to the impassable state of the approach on the west side of the Seddon station in wet weather, has arranged to asphalt the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsAt the cattle Sales on Tuesday high prices ruled for stock in good condition. A bullock brought £23, which is the highest paid in the local yards for many years. ...
Article : 60 wordsAt Monday night's meeting of Footscray council, a letter was received from the Municipal Association, asking for an expression of opinion on the bill to give municipalities the option of ...
Article : 337 wordsArthur Pinder, of Spring Gully-road, Bendigo, miner. Causes of insolvency: Want of remuneration live employment and sickness of self and wife. Liabilities, £32 41 ½; assets, nil. Assignee, Mr. ...
Article : 43 wordsSir,--I was pleased to see your leader on the Gas Company's balance sheet—fat dividends, huge reserves and big monopoly. The company seem fully determined to ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Talbot shire council has decided to oppose the Government Valuation of Land Bill. One councillor remarked that the bill was in the interests of the big people in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsOn Sunday afternoon a young bull caused a sensation by rushing at and smashing a plate glass window in front of Limbert Bros.' establishment at Narracoorte. A ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 29 Jul 1908, Page 8
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