ON Saturday evening last a number of the public were somewhat inconvenienced by the failure of the electric light. Our…
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YET another attempt to alienate Crown lands adjoining the front bench in Sorrento is in progress. The public know well…
“SAFETY first,” is what Mr. M. Jacobs, cab proprietor, believes in. The remark originated owing to the question of cutting…
FRANKSTON is to have its High School after waiting patiently for a number of years. Sir Alexander Peacock, in granting…
AS suggested by a correspondent in the last issue of “The Standard,” a movement has been initiated to give public…
WHILE driving home from the Show yesterday, Mr. C. E. Bright, Deputy Postmaster-General, who was accompanied by Mrs. Bright, met…
THE Chelsea Hotel question again came before the Licensing Court held recently. On the Bench sat Messrs. Barr (chairman), Loch,…
AT Friday’s Council meeting the Health Committee reported that after full investigation it recommended that the “Fecto” system of sanitation…
PETER Gordon Hannah, an ex-constable of police, appeared, on Tuesday, before Messrs. Armstrong (chairman) Oates, and Brown, J.’sP., on remand…
ON Friday last in the school grounds the pupils were entertained to a lecture by Mr. Chas. Long, M.A. on…
EARLY on Sunday morning last while putting a prisoner into the cell at the watch-house, on a charge of drunkenness,…
AT last Friday’s meeting of the shire council a letter was read from Mr. Hanson, chief inspector of secondary schools,…
BAXTER residents have good reason to be proud of their hall, now almost completed, for quite apart from the fact…
MISS Lecky, lady clerk at Mr. D. Gellately’s Agency, Chelsea, was unlucky enough to lose a bag containing her week’s…
INTRODUCED by Mr. A. Downward, M.L.A., a deputation from Red Hill district waited on the Minister for Railways last Wednesday…
THE continuous rainfall during the past week caused all the waterways to become swollen, and everywhere water was swirling along…
A SERIOUS accident occurred Wednesday last, on the Hastings Road, Frankston, when Mrs. Roslyn Parris, of Baxter was driving her…
AT last Monday night’s meeting of the Carrum Borough Council the Royal Life-Saving Society brought under notice the following resolution…
ON Monday afternoon at 2pm a wood-cutter, named William Singleton, aged 43, single, who was felling trees for Mr. Holland,…
VERY great sympathy was expressed with Cr. F. H. Wells and Mrs Wells when it was heard that their second…
THE shire secretary, Mr. John E. Jones yesterday received application from the secretary of the Amateur Sports Club, Melbourne, asking…
THOSE persons who decline to sit at table whilst there are thirteen present, and who scent the gravest danger if…
CONDITIONS were perfect for football on Saturday last and a big crowd witnessed the first semi-final match between Somerville and…
POLLING was conducted in two ridings of the Shire of Frankston, and Hastings yesterday, when Cr. J. A. Alden succeeded…
AT the council meeting on Friday last the president (Cr. Armstrong) took the opportunity of making complimentary references to the…
IT seems incredible, but never-the-less, it is true, that in this great continent of Australia with its scanty population and…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough CONTRACTOR Davey is making rapid progress with the construction of the 20 chains of Wells road,…
ANOTHER unseemly episode occurred in the grim tussle betwixt Mornington and Frankston on Saturday last. It occurred in the third…
MR. J. D. Jennings (president of the Frankston Progress Association), and Mr. J. Bradbury, jun., waited on the Council last…
IN last Wednesday’s issue I explained that in future we must get an ambulance of our own or go without…