Cr. Renfrey moved at last night's St. Kilda council meeting "that the question of the extension of the High-street (Prai[?]ran) electric tramway through Albert Park ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 164 wordsA poll of The ratepayers of Heytesbury shire is to be taken on 12th inst. to decide whether there shall be a water supply for Cobden. ...
Article : 33 wordsAt Bulla shire council meeting to-day, Cr. Buckley moved that further police assistance be requested for Sunbury, especially during the summer months to cope ...
Article : 182 wordsA meeting of the Wimmera shire associations for the suppression of wild dogs and foxes decided to send a deputation to Dimboola to urge that the council should ...
Article : 77 wordsA single woman, Margaret Nagel, living at Mount Mistake, died at the Ararat Hospital this afternoon from laceration of the brain, caused through her being run into ...
Article : 101 wordsWith the Antarctic "low" which passed south of Victoria on Sunday, fairly general showers fell in Tasmania (heaviest, however, on the west and south), but its rain ...
Article : 245 wordsAt a meeting of Cranbourne shire council on Saturday a suggestion was made that the name of Langwarria railway station be altered to Aldershot, in view of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 wordsCr. Barnet informed St. Kilda council last night that a report on the question of running Sunday morning electric trains on the Prahran-Malvern trust's lines had been ...
Article : 312 wordsMr. J. D. Woolcott, J.P., deputy coroner, held a magisterial inquiry on Monday regarding the death of William Michie, who was found drowned in eight inches of ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Country Roads Board has declared the main roads within the shire of Wycheproof as follow:--Wycheproof Sea Lake, Birchip-Wycheproof-Boort, Sea ...
Article : 51 wordsAppearing with the Dandies at St. Kilda is M. Cor de Bly, a Belgian refugee, who landed in Australia only a few days ago in company with his wife and infant child. M ...
Article : 207 wordsA. Newbold, dairyman, 657 Victoria street, Abbotsford, was convicted at Richmond court yesterday, on the information of Inspector Thes Smith of Richmond council, for selling ...
Article : 124 wordsConsiderable doubt exists as to the liability of municipal councils for accident to contractors' employes under the Workmen's Compensation Act. The matter was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 wordsDr. Forsyth, of Koroit, visited Port Fairy yesterday, and owing to a mishap to his motor car, he remained here over night. Early this morning he was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsWilliam S. Dunstan, butcher, was proceeded against by Inspector Rowe in the police court on Monday for trading after 9 p.m. on Saturday. Defendant pleaded ...
Article : 202 wordsIndignation has been expressed by the residents of Glenlee at the action of the Education department in closing the Glen ice State school. On Monday last the ...
Article : 295 wordsAlfred Barris, of 221 Glenferrie-road, Malvern, was charged at the local court yesterday with having exposed for sale on 14th November certain meat, to wit, brawn, which was unfit for ...
Article : 413 wordsA casual employe at the Widgiewa Station, Thomas Knight, aged 46. met his death through being shot through the body near the heart. Evidence was elicited at ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the annual sitting of the Licensing Court yesterday the following transfers were granted:-- Crown Hotel, Abbotsford, from Mary A. Johnaton to Eleanor Jane Clark; Junction Hotel, St. ...
Article : 185 wordsThe question of contributing towards the cost of providing two cantilever footpaths outside the roadway of Victoria-bridge as a safeguard for pedestrians when the Kew ...
Article : 94 wordsA baker, whilst watering a horse at a street trough in Subiaco early this morning, found the body of a woman clad only in a coat and night dress, lying face ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsFor November the exports oversea from Geelong represented a total value of £20,783. Imports, which were valued at £12,710. included Baltic timber, £17,000, ...
Article : 364 wordsMalvern council last week discussed at some length metropolitan tramways. Cr. Wilks said the council had always favored municipal control, and he thought every ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 388 wordsSir,--Kindly allow me space in your valuable column's to advance a plea on behalf of Melbourne bus conductors. Day in, day out, in season and out of season, these ...
Article : 177 wordsA petition from L. H. Fisher, on behalf of the Malvern Palais de Daver Proprietary Ltd., signed by twenty ratepayers in the vicinity, requested that Malvern ...
Article : 227 wordsSenior Constable Hunter, Inspector of Nuisances reported at the meeting of Ripon shire council to-day that he had summoned eight persons on 17th ...
Article : 192 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, counsel for the Crown announced that a nolle prosequi would be entered in the case of Corrall Campbell, late town clerk at Cottesioe, ...
Article : 45 wordsAt Northcote yesterday before Mr. Cole, P. M., and honorary magistrate, Henry J. Dinwoodie, butcher, was fined 10, with £2 165 costs for having had for sale sausage meat which contained ...
Article : 82 wordsThe report of Messrs. M Carty, Underwood and Co., electrical engineers, on the three proposed electric tramway extensions, namely, (1) Along Riversdale-road ...
Article : 433 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day a bill was read a first time to enable the Caledonian Collieries Limited to construct a railway from its Aberdare Extended and other ...
Article : 69 wordsAt 4.30 a.m. on Sunday a four-roomed weatherboard house, owned by Mr. H. O'Doherty, was totally destroyed by fire. Mr. O'Doherty rose early, and carrying a ...
Article : 57 wordsRichard Goaling was charged at Malvern court yesterday with having driven a motor car along Gienferrie road on 15th November at a speed dangerous to the public. ...
Article : 187 wordsThe action of the Railway Commissioners in reducing the Outtrim railway service to one train a day has been adversely commented on by residents of Jinnbunna and ...
Article : 115 wordsGEELONG.--On Monday a six-roomed villa in Melbourne road. North Geelong, was destroyed by fire. It was occupied by E. A. Williamson, and owned by Mr. ...
Article : 706 wordsVery unhappy domestic relations were disclosed in a case heard by Messrs. E.T. Apps and F.R. Chapman, [?]p., at Fitzroy yesterday, when william Cole was charged with having assaulted his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 348 wordsHospital Sunday was observed at Guildford on Sunday, when after a procession through the township to the recreation reserve addresses were delivered by the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsThe scow Tramp, inward bound from the north coast with timber, had a narrow escape at Sydney Heads this evening. She was sailing into port against a southerly ...
Article : 123 wordsThomas Dixon was fined 10 for driving a motor car on a measured section in Glenferrie-road, between Malvern and Toorak roads, on 15th November at a speed of 33 miles an hour. Defendant ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsJohn Emms, who was sentenced by Mr. Justice Cussen in August last to four years' imprisonment for a series of burglaries, was sued at Richmond court yesterday by a number of local pawnbrokers ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe Pastures Protection Board prosecuted Ivo Ferrier, grazier of Barmah, at the Moama court to-day for failing to destroy rabbits on his holding. Mr. W. Scott, ...
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Advertising : 153 wordsThe local shire council decided on Friday to ask for a Government grant to assist in the construction of a tunnel for improving the water supply the cost of which ...
Article : 117 wordsThe secretary of the Melbourne, Brunswick and Coburg Tramways Trust wrote to the Brunswick council last night, forwarding plans of the route of the tramway, with the position of tracks, ...
Article : 311 wordsThe Henley-on-Torrens regatta, held on Saturday, attracted thousands of spectators and the fixture was a marked success. Among the spectators of the rowing events. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 8 Dec 1914, Page 9
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