In view of the fierce heat experienced in the Mallee and in many other country districts of Victoria on Monday, as was shown by the reports from our ...
Article : 914 wordsStriking a reef in a blinding snow storm, the Finland Steamship Company's Orion became a total wreck. Terrible seas flooded the vessel and washed away the ...
Article : 149 wordsReturning to Melbourne yesterday after a holiday in the country, Mr. Burnett Gray, M.L.A., in the course of an interview stated that he had been interested in ...
Article : 484 wordsSEYMOUR, Wednesday.--Three youths on tramp who had stowed away on a train from Melbourne spent yesterday at Seymour, and in the evening tried to board ...
Article : 101 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The terrible act of a Glenelg billiard saloon keeper, who battered his wife and only child, cut their throats and then cut his own throat, ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Australian Board of Cricket Control met yesterday in Melbourne when various matters associated with Test cricket were discussed. The delegates were Messrs. W. ...
Article : 1,060 wordsSeventy-six happy schoolgirls from West Australia spent yesterday endeavoring to catch a glimpse of Melbourne from the decks of the steamer Karoola at her berth ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 341 wordsBANNOCKBURN, Wednesday. -- A party of Bannockburn anglers narrowly escaped having a tragic result at Airey's Inlet. Mr. L. H. Pillo[?]d, his family and ...
Article : 214 wordsYARRAWONGA, Wednesday.--Lightning striking a dry box tree was the cause of a bush fire on the property of Mr. S. Wright, of Boomahnoomoonah. eight miles ...
Article : 454 wordsThe Treasury announces that on and after 18th January holders of savings certificates issued prior to 1st April, 1922-- that is, the first issue of certificates issued ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Mr. Francis Birtles, the well-known explorer, is preparing a report in which amazing allegations of cruelly to blacks will be made ...
Article : 462 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--John F. Both, 22 years, Castle-street, Kilkenny, met his death at Glenelg about noon today. He went bathing too soon after a ...
Article : 75 wordsAt St. Kilda court yesterday James Nicholls, tinsmith, Camden-street, Balaclava, was charged with having assaulted Plain-clothes Constable Ferguson. ...
Article : 116 wordsBURNIE, Wednesday.--Hearing cries for help from two girls, Robert Bennett, despite his age of 68 years, plunged into the Leven River fully clothed at ...
Article : 77 wordsThe new Empire broadcasting station, which the British Broadcasting Corporation is erecting at Daventry, will comprise two transmitters, each capable of working ...
Article : 252 wordsAs a sequel to a Christmas party, Walter Douglas Fairley, dentist, Armstrong-street, Middle Park, appeared at South Melbourne court yesterday, charged ...
Article : 279 wordsAt 3.20 a.m. to-day burglars broke into the Mitcham railway station and after searching all drawers. in the office, carried the office safe to the rear of the ...
Article : 154 wordsALBURY, Wednesday.--A man was killed and his daughter seriously injured yesterday afternoon when a car in which they were passengers crashed into a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 526 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.--The party of 69 girls and 16 boys from South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, after their reception yesterday, were taken ...
Article : 94 wordsSeveral grass fires occurred again in the metropolitan area yesterday. The fire brigade attended about twelve outbreaks, which destroyed more than 40 acres of ...
Article : 61 wordsA party of 39 girl citizens (junior girl's of the Young Women's Christian Association) are in camp at Lockwood House, Belgrave, under the charge of Miss Piper, ...
Article : 334 wordsIn a message received by the Railway department from Ultima yesterday, it was slated that a fire was discovered at 1.45 p.m. in the goods shed in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsFERN TREE GULLY, Wednesday.--In the [?]tense heat that prevailed yesterday a fire broke out in the scrub land near the Lower Fern Tree Gully Cemetery. The ...
Article : 56 wordsThe British post office announces that letters will be accepted for the Southern Star's return flight until 5th January. Flight to Australia. ...
Article : 470 wordsBENDIGO, Wednesday.--In an address to the members of Bendigo branch of the Returned Soldiers' League on the place of the former soldiers in community life, ...
Article : 133 wordsGEELONG, Wednesday.--George Douglas, charged with having murdered George Christy, was further remanded for a week by the city court bench to-day. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsOUYEN, Wednesday.--Intense heat has been endured during the last five days, on each of which the century was passed; but the sky is overcast to-day, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 367 wordsAt the City Morgue yesterday an inquiry was held into the death of Leslie Kirkland Irwin (11), schoolboy, 154 Bridge- street, Bendigo, who was drowned at ...
Article : 205 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.--Two men and a woman were knocked unconscious by lightning in a thunder storm near the mouth of the Greenough River. The ...
Article : 96 wordsDAYLESFORD, Wednesday. -- Constable R. Mathers, of Daylesford police station, died suddenly this afternoon. He was a returned soldier, and was gassed ...
Article : 71 wordsSHELFORD, Wednesday.--While harvesting operations were in progress on Mr. W. Stewart's farm, Werneth, a tractor set fire to the oat stubble. Owing to ...
Article : 50 wordsWODONGA, Wednesday. -- During a storm this afternoon a dry tree was struck by lighting on De Kerilleau Estate, the property of Cr. K. D. Watson. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsAccording to a message received by the Railway department yesterday. William Wymant, of Dover-street, South Richmond., attempted to board the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 346 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.--The first prosecution by the Agricultural Bank against a farmer for selling wheat claimed to be under lien to the bank failed at Lake ...
Article : 111 wordsDEVONPORT, Wednesday-- By a fire early this morning the Broken Hill Company's limestone bins were partly destroyed. It will be two months before ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsThey came to an unknown shore, Those wanderers o'er the foam; The men and the women of bygone days, Who founded our southern home. ...
Article : 167 wordsWAGGA, Wednesday.--Mr. Charles James Clout, 66 years, left Wagga yesterday morning, accompanied by a grandchild in a motor car driven by his son-in-law, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsDEVONPORT, Wednesday.--The country is extremely dry. Hardly any rain has fallen this month in the producing areas, potatoes in instances yielding less ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Australian Graziers' Co. has not given shareholders any information regarding the proposed leasing of the State abattoirs. ...
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Advertising : 44 wordsBENDIGO, Wednesday.--A young man, whose identity was not disclosed, was saved from drowning in Bendigo baths to-day. He was a non-swimmer, and got ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 31 Dec 1931, Page 6
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