Amongst other parts of the district the township of Lang Lang was the scene of a conflagration which nearly destroyed the butter factory and stores there. The fire ...
Article : 117 wordsTwo prisoners, Sydney John Harris and Harry Brown, who were captured at Malvern, a couple of weeks ago, escaped from custody in the Detective office in a ...
Article : 615 wordsThe lawyers again monopolised the sitting of the Federal Convention, yet despite the dreary, delay that such a fact would suggest very fair progress, was made ...
Article : 124 wordsOn Saturday the fires that had been smouldering ever since the memorable 11th and 12th January broke out again here. On Mr. T. S. Dickinson's holding ...
Article : 128 wordsConsiderable surprise, has been express here on learning that Sir William M'Gregor, the Administrator of New Guinea, has granted a concession of 250,000 acres of hand in ...
Article : 102 wordsQuite a breezy discussion took place over the clause which laid it down that no judicial officer should be appointed to hold office as Governor-General, Lieutenant Governor ...
Article : 229 wordsA fire visitation the like of which has hot been known for years has been sweeping over this district during yesterday and to-day. ...
Article : 443 wordsBy the English mail to-day was received the text of Mr. Pritchard Morgan's letter to Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of Sate for the Colonies, in which the proposal is ...
Article : 159 wordsAustralian workmen have from lime to time been, warned by their brethren, in South Africa that the labor market there is already overstocked, and to those who, ...
Article : 589 wordsThe differences that have arisen in the Federal Convention regarding the control of rivers seem to be interminable. One of the great difficulties in dealing with the ...
Article : 415 wordsDr. Finch Noyes, of Collins-street east, was dangerously injured on Saturday afternoon whilst practising with the Melbourne Polo Club at the Moonee Valley racecourse. While ...
Article : 104 wordsAn account of Lord Brassey's accident on the Bay was published in the London newspaper on the same day. Next day his Excellency received a cable message from the ...
Article : 646 wordsThe most disastrous bush fire that has occurred for many years commenced on Saturday and continued all day yesterday. The damage done cannot yet be properly ...
Article : 161 wordsA most impudent daylight robbery was committed early this morning on the open highway running alongside the North- Eastern line of railway between Craigieburn ...
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Advertising : 115 wordsOne of the most disastrous fires that has ever passed over this district has been raging since Saturday, and a very large area of country has been desolated. The ...
Article : 63 wordsAnother day was spent upon the matter on Thursday without arriving at any decision, and it was no wonder that at the close of the sitting Sir John Forrest should ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the early stage of Friday's proceedings at the Federal Convention it looked as if the committee would soon come to a decision on the question of river, control, ...
Article : 277 wordsThe bush fires in the Panmure district have been cheeked, though increasing vigilance is still necessary to prevent further destruction. The fires have wrought ...
Article : 116 wordsColac and district has been clouded in smoke since Saturday, the result of the bush fires raging in the Stony Rises, Otway Forest and the vicinity of the town. A ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 5 Feb 1898, Page 20
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