Following a somewhat dry spell lasting over a month, widespread rains fell throughout Victoria, in parts of New South Wales, and in the settled areas of ...
Article : 366 wordsNominations for the Legislative Council triennial elections will close with the turning officers in each of the 17 provinces on Monday next. A list of the ...
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Article : 1,222 wordsSir George Pearce and the Minister for Home and Territories (Sir N. Howse) left Canberra last night for Melbourne, and the Attorney-General and the Assistant ...
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Article : 845 wordsThe fact of Xavier College having won their heat on the river in the afternoon, together with its being the school jubilee year, added a further note of jubilation ...
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Article : 172 wordsMr. Norman Falkiner, who is contesting the Melbourne South Province seat in the Legislative Council at the forthcoming election, opened his campaign at the St. ...
Article : 300 wordsOld Scotch collegians gathered in force at the clubrooms last night, when a reunion was held, at which open house to all old boy's was the order of the day. The ...
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Article : 57 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Victorian Football League last night, consideration was given to a proposal by the South Australian Football League, that ...
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Article : 944 wordsSandringham council has decided to make a special grant of £25 to the Austin Hospital £100,000 appeal. When the matter was previously before the council ...
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Article : 129 wordsMr. Wm. Tyner, who is seeking reelection in the Nationalist interests for the South-Eastern province in the Legislative Council, opened has campaign at ...
Article : 654 wordsBENDIGO, Friday. -- In Bendigo mining circles to-day rumor was current that British investors proposed spending a very, large sum of money to develop ...
Article : 80 wordsThe East Indian railway strike took a grave turn last night, when thousands of strikers held up traffic in the business quarter of Caleltta and attacked ...
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Article : 152 wordsDARWIN, Friday. -- Wing-Commander Weckett, who is flying to Singapore to meet the British, flying boats which are on their way to Australia, experienced ...
Article : 83 wordsCaptain G. R. Wilkins, the Australian explorer, has forwarded a wireless message from Spitsbergen to the Geographical Society offering it the small British flag ...
Article : 98 wordsThe commemoration of the seventieth anniversary or the opening of the Melbourne Grammar School by Dr. J. E. Bromby was celebrated at the Old ...
Article : 479 wordsThe tribunal of the Victorian Football Association sat for nearly three hours last night considering a protest, by Prahran club against the awarding of the match played last Saturday ...
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Article : 122 wordsUpwards of 10,000 persons were present at the laying of the foundation stones of the Foundation Army International Training College at Denmark Hill, as a ...
Article : 90 wordsFurther consideration was given in committee in the Senate to the wealth Employed Compensation Bill. Senator Needham (W.A.) had moved to ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe following meetings are advertised for to-night: -- South-Eastern Province. -- Mr. R. L. Wilkinson Picture Theatre, Frankston. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 12 May 1928, Page 22
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