On Saturday, Sunday and to-day bush fires raged all through the forest. Coaches from Timboon to Port Campbell and Peterborough bad narrow escapes from falling ...
Article : 91 wordsA crowd of ratepayers from all parts of the city which overflowed the council chamber and the contiguous passages attended at St. Kilda town hall last night to ...
Article : 1,076 wordsYesterday afternoon Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, paid a visit to the Teachers' Training College, in Grattan-street, and at the request of the ...
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Article : 13 wordsThe situation in regard to the waterside workers' dispute is still surrounded by uncertainty. Although certain proposals were tentatively agreed upon at the compulsory ...
Article : 861 wordsThe men employed casually by the Railway department at Port Melbourne pier to handle fruit are known as "wounded soldiers," and when it was known ...
Article : 230 wordsSaturday was one of the most trying days experienced this summer, a strong north wind blowing all day. Residents on the west side of the railway were ...
Article : 377 wordsThe outlying country is ablaze, whilst close to the township a considerable area is being swept by the fires. The whole countryside is enveloped in thick smoke, and ...
Article : 325 wordsTo-day the Minister of External Affairs, Mr. Glynn, received a cable from the president of the Panama Exhibition at San Francisco, which read as follows:—"Your ...
Article : 90 wordsDuring the 48 hours following 9 a.m. on Saturday great changes, in pressure distribution have occurred. The "high" then shown to the west of Cape Leeuwin has ...
Article : 379 wordsFurther consideration was given by Prahran council last night to the question of adopting a new position for erecting an up to date town hall in place of the inelegant building at present ...
Article : 497 wordsThe Cobram Progress Association at its meeting on Friday evening emphatically urged the extension of the Cobram railway line to Barooga, N.S.W., to connect with ...
Article : 76 wordsSeveral fires are burning in this district, the hot winds on Saturday aiding the outbreaks. At Kinglake Messrs. Quirk and Carmen and other settlers lost several ...
Article : 118 wordsThe immunity from bush fires this district had hitherto enjoyed during the current summer came to an end on Saturday, when fires occurred at Warrock and in the ...
Article : 202 wordsAt the meeting of the Colac shire council on Monday, a report was submitted on the result of the deputation which waited on the Railways Commissioners recently, with ...
Article : 119 wordsA grass fire destroyed about 4000 acres of grass on Saturday afternoon and evening in the Coorampok district. It started in the vicinity o a quarry on the Hexham ...
Article : 299 wordsThe largest meeting of cane growers ever held on the Clarence River took place today at Maclean, to consider the question of asking the Inter-State Commission for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 13 wordsBush fires, are reported to have broken out at The Tyres, Willowgrove, Hill End and other places on the north side of Moe. Beyond the destruction of grass and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsAt the meeting of Malvern council last night, Cr. Carroll (chairman of public works) submitted a report of the sub-committee appointed to consider a scheme of providing stables, horses, &c., ...
Article : 379 wordsThe A.N.A. Exhibition of Educational Methods and School Work was continued yesterday afternoon and evening. The weather was cooler than on the Opening ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsAt Brunswick council last night a letter was received from the Public Works department stating that a request for electric supply from the mains at Brunswick for the purpose of driving ...
Article : 331 wordsBush fires are burning in from the ranges. Several settlers have suffered, James Reid and M. Coleman losing all their grass. Unless rain fails the bush fire ...
Article : 45 wordsThere have been outbreaks of fire in various directions, and the district has been enveloped in smoke for several days. On the hilly country between Trafalgar ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsA bush five started in Moyhu district yesterday, and traversed about 1000 acres before being stopped. The large number of residents that turned out saved the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsWhen interviewed last night, Mr. Hughes indicated the reasons why the proposals mutually agreed upon at the compulsory conference were not made public. He ...
Article : 260 wordsA meeting of the creditors in the insolvent estate of Panam and Mylonas. picture show proprietors, was held before, the chief clerk of insolvency at Geelong on Monday. It was ...
Article : 69 wordsBush fires are raging cast of the King River. Miles of grass country and State forest are on fire. Little or no attempt has been made to ...
Article : 90 wordsCr. Hewison, at St, Kilda council meeting last night, moved that the council wait as a deputation on the Minister of Lands to urge the immediate removal of ...
Article : 460 wordsThe Melbourne City Council is preparing to float a loan of probably £350,000 during the next few months. Although there is a lrge surplus from the electric supply ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. Harry Lauder occupied the pulpit the other afternoon at Anerley Congregational Church, South London, and addressed a crowded man's meeting on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsOn Saturday a disastrous local five broke out at Tatyon, at the south end of a wood reserve situated between Messrs. Robert King's and C. Hinchleffe's homesteads at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 399 wordsWilliam Gustave Griffiths, a young man, about 25, formerly of Dunolly, appeaeed before Judge Winneke in the Court of General Sessions at Maryborough, to-day, ...
Article : 257 wordsThe battalion competition for the 48th Battalion senior cadets was concluded on Saturday, 14th inst. The competition was won by F Co., Surrey Hills (Captain Dobbie, area officer), with ...
Article : 47 wordsThe position around river wharfs and Bayside piers remained unaltered yesterday, and work on the large number of vessels in port proceeded briskly between 8 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsMuch discussion look place in Prahran council last night on the question of establishing a free lending library in connection with the Prahran public library. There were two propositions ...
Article : 149 wordsShortly before 3 o'clock to-day a bush fire broke out between Mr. John Ellis's farm, near Bald Hill, and Sailors' Gully, about 4 miles from Beaufort. The local ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsThe first outbreak of fire in this district this season occurred on Friday night. bury Gullyl, which runs behind Salisbury House, and the post office caught fire. The ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 17 Feb 1914, Page 10
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