Prosperous times and pleasant weather have been the characteristics of this year's Christmastide. For several weeks past tho streets of Melbourne have borne ample ...
Article : 324 wordsA serious accident Happened shortly before midnight on Thursday to a party of eleven persons who were returning home from Benalla to Winton on a railway ...
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Advertising : 183 wordsThe sudden death of Mrs. Annie M'Kinnon, wife of Donald M'Kinnon, caretaker of the powder magazine at Altona, has been reported to the Coroner. On ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Railway Commissioners have made the following statement relative to the claim for compensation by Mr. P. Rodger for the Central station contract:-- ...
Article : 660 wordsFine cool weather prevailed in Ballarat on Christmas eve and on Christmas day. There was a large influx of visitors to both the city and town, while a good number of ...
Article : 91 wordsDr. Cole held an inquest on Thursday relative to the death of Patrick Brimmagem, driver, aged 42, a resident of South Melbourne. Evidence was given that ...
Article : 152 wordsFrom the date of the American yacht Coronet's arrival in Commonwealth waters the unusual reserve displayed by owner, passengers and crew as regarded ...
Article : 498 wordsCool weather prevailed for Christmastide, in fact on Friday night it was quite chilly, but the clouds of dust that were blown about the city made matters rather ...
Article : 199 wordsLast Tuesday a lad named Maurice Nutten, accompanied by another boy of about the same age, left his sent's residence at Warburton to get a billyean of water ...
Article : 113 wordsOn Christmas eve the weather was unsensonably cool, but it had no effect upon the business done in the town. The streets wore crowded, and all the shops were so ...
Article : 173 wordsArthur Ernest Farrell, aged eighteen cycle mechanic, of Michael-street. North Fitzroy, who was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital on Thursday suffering from ...
Article : 69 wordsNot even the political distractions into which the community has been so unwarrantably plunged will prevent the people of this Slate from enjoying their Boxing ...
Article : 183 wordsAlbert Nicholson, aged seventeen, living at 24 Nottingham-street, Prahran, sustained painful injuries while out shooting near Lillydale yesterday. He was handling a ...
Article : 78 wordsVisiters to Warrnambool have been more numerous during the past few days than for years past. Extra trains have been running each evening this week since ...
Article : 43 wordsArthur Jobe, aged 15, residing at Sydney Flat, was admitted to the hospital to-night suffering from concussion of the brain. He was present at an unregistered race ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsThe railway returns show a gratifying increase on last year's figures on practically every line. At Spencer-street, for instance, the bookings for the 24th December, 1907, ...
Article : 319 wordsAt the Castlemaine court house on Thursday tho adjourned inquest was held Wore the coroner, Mr. Goldsmith, concerning the death of Dagmar Louisa Scott, wife ...
Article : 1,013 wordsJudging by the comparatively limited attendance on Thursday, it would appear that the Christmas market is waning in popularity. In former years young folk ...
Article : 149 wordsA sad accident, with fatal results, happened on Christmas day to a young man named James M'kenzie, aged 22, son of Mr. John M'Kenzie, of Drouin. The young ...
Article : 133 wordsThe fire brigade had a call quite out of the ordinary in the early hours of Thursday morning. At 7.40 the firemen were summoned to Stalbridge-chambers, a large ...
Article : 201 wordsAn elderly woman named Sarah Ryan, a resident of Moolap, was admitted to the hospital on Christmas night suffering from a fractured leg, which was caused by a kick ...
Article : 42 wordsThanks to the generosity of the public, which was quite as great as in any previous year, the inmates of the Benevolent Asylum, to tho number of over 600, spent ...
Article : 175 wordsDoris Melville, aged nine years, residing with her parents at Bedford-street, Newtown, fell in front of a tram car at Newtown last night and was killed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 301 wordsDavid Costello, who had both legs amputated on Wednesday through falling under some trucks while engaged in shunting operations at the Zine Corporation works, ...
Article : 107 wordsA fire occurred at 9.10 p.m. on Thursday in the shop front of Mr. R. Davis, draper, Smith-street, Collingwood. The firemen, who attended in large numbers with a full ...
Article : 137 wordsIf it be true, as many claim it is, that the postal business reflects the financial position of the community, the people of Victoria were never in such a flourishing ...
Article : 454 wordsThe children of the Sutherland Home, 68 Latrobe-street, were entertained at a Christmas dinner and tea in the University High School hall on Thursday afternoon ...
Article : 162 wordsAn accident attended by serious results happened near Tumut yesterday. Mr. Henry Bridle, a grazier, over 70 years of age, received news of the death of his ...
Article : 107 wordsLate on Wednesday night a fire occurred in a two-story building occupied by Mr. W. Carter and family, in Queensberry-street, North Melbourne. The outbreak, was due ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 wordsWhile boating on the Avon at Christ church, Charles Blomgren, of Sydney, a member of De Groen's orchestra, was drowned through a skiff capsizing. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe seamen's conference of St. Vincent de Paul Society entertained about 200 seamen at dinner at the Sailors' Home, Australian Wharf, on Christmas day. The ...
Article : 143 wordsAn elderly man named Joseph Cooley was picked up in Park-street late last night in-a semi-conscious state. He was locked up for being drunk, but as he did ...
Article : 88 wordsA startling incident happened at the hotel at Moree just before 11 o'clock last night, when an alarm Was caused by the report of two gunshots. A buckjump rider ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 wordsA laborer named Charles Redman, living at Campbellfield, reported yesterday to Constable Boxhall, stationed there, that his wife, Jessie Redman, aged 27 years, was ...
Article : 230 wordsSpecial Christmas day services were held yesterday in the various churches in the city and suburbs, and sermons befitting the occasion were preached. There was a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsConsiderable interest was taken in the report in "The Age" to-day showing the manner in which the Closer Settlement Board has dealt with the applications for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsIn aid of the funds of the Melbourne Hospital we have received 106 from Court Prluce of Wales, 3198, A.O.F. From the nine lodge we have received similar sums for the Homoeopathic ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 26 Dec 1908, Page 11
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