A VERY trying experience was undergone by Mr Bradshaw, of Bradshaw & Lawley, the well known Yarraville timber merchants, at Frankston during last weekend. On Saturday afternoon, he set sail from Williamstown in the 25 feet sailing boat, “Jessie,” and, after a stormy passage across Port Phillip Bay, arrived at Frankston about 7pm. A heavy sea was running at the time, and the little boat was tossed to and fro like a cork. Mr Bradshaw found it quite impossible to land, as the waves were breaking against the pier with great force. Messrs Norman McLeod and Bert Tulip came to…
Author: Cameron McCullough
LAST Sunday, for the second time within three weeks the foreshore has been on fire. This fire occurred as the result of the careless use of fire by a visitor, who as one of the community, has every liberty on the foreshore, but who, instead of spending 3d. on a quart of boiling water, preferred to risk burning Seaford out by lighting a fire in a kerosene tin. The fire quickly got out of control, and in a few moment acres of valuable ti-tree were a seething mass of blood-red flame, belching up immense columns of black smoke. The alarm…
AT the Frankston Police Court, on Monday last, E. Edwards proceeded against John Powell, a former estate agent at Edithvale, for the recovery of a debt amounting to £29 5s. Mr A. W. Foster appeared for Edwards. Powell promised to pay £1 per week in the meantime and finally settle the debt within six weeks. Edwards had a second debt case against Frederick Worrall, but as Worrall did not respond when his name was called, Mr Foster asked the Bench to fine him for contempt of court. He was fined £1 for non-attendance as a necessary witness, and the case…
A YOUNG well-dressed man named Eugene Chandler, was charged with selling liquor without a licence on the 31st December. In the court were several barrels of beer and 240 bottles of beer, which had been seized by the police. Inspector McCormack conducted the prosecution, and accused, who pleaded guilty, was represented by Mr. Dorian. Albert W. H. Peach, plainclothes constable attached to the Licensing Branch and stationed at Melbourne, said: At about 7.15 on Saturday evening. 31/12/21, in company with Senior Constable Wall and Constables Dunn, Morrison and Trevitithick, I visited a well-known cafe and boardinghouse at Chelsea known as…
THOUGH called the Mornington Express, it does not mean, of course, that this aristocrat of the seaside track (says a writer in an exchange) makes an absolutely uninterrupted run to that salubrious terminal, for passengers residing as far as Mordialloc are at liberty to travel thereby while in the slacker season, residents of even Mentone and Cheltenham are privileged to book passages. Its daily routine is to arrive at Flinders street at about 9.30am, which it does with creditable regularity, and leaving on the home journey with becoming fuss and dignity at 5.9pm. In the interim, however, it is out…