Brewery’s court move on beer prices
MELBOURNE, Tues.: A Supreme Court order was granted today calling on the Prices Commissioner to show cause why he should not fix a minimum price for beer brewed by Carlton and…
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Deadlock in Mildura Murder Inquiries
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Detectives investigating the murder of Milan Edward Havana, a 32-year-old czech, at Mildura on…
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TAREE, Wed.: James Skinner, foreman of the Wingham Co-operative Society Ltd., said today that after the society had…
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Constable Bon Wark, of Mulwala police station, who has been transferred, was made a presentation by members of Mulwala…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 59 years-old man was today committed for trial on a charge of attempting to murder a widow at…
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Police are still making inquiries into the finding of the body of Jeffrey Clement, 54, in a paddock at Lavington early yesterday…
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A jury at tho Old Bailey, London, on Thursday found John Reginald Halliday Christie guilty of the murder of his wife Ethel…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Chief Secretary (Mr Kelly) will ask the acting Premier (Mr Heffron) for police supervision of stock loaded…
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THROUGH the rolling they saw bare ground sparsely covered with ivy, divided into narrow plots by a series of railings.,…
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TAREE, Thurs.: Mr. O. J. Lake, S.M., today found that the Wingham Rural Cooperative Society Ltd. stole butter fat belong to the N.S.W. Milk Board. “I believe the evidence is sufficient to put the…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Sentencing o man to death in the Central Criminal Court today, Mr. Justice Dovey described him as “inhuman and callous.” He was Robert Henry…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: A widow was in tears in the General Sessions witness box today making an appeal for her son in the…
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MELBOURNE, Sun. : Two men were shot dead and a woman wounded in the shoulder after an altercation at a Yarra Junction guest-house last night…
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On Wednesday police charged three youths, said to have come from Melbourne recently with having broken into the home of…
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MELBOURNE, Mon. : A bankrupt builder successfully appealed to Judge Dethridge in General Sessions today against…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Police tonight charged a 20-year-old laborer with having assaulted a 12-years-old girl, at North…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Charged in the City Court today with having murdered two men and wounded a woman with intent to murder at Launching Place on Saturday night, William…
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Albury police were notified yesterday by Bourke Street West Police Station, Melbourne, that a man had been arrested in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Albury Court Yesterday Father-in-law was “king-hit,” court is told
The “king hit” which James C. Neary landed, on the eye of his father-in-law was the main reason for the two men appearing in court yesterday in an action for assault brought by the…
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XXXIII ROSAMUND YORKE, nut aside her cigarette. "I told There on to meet me here--later. He…
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