Compiled by Cameron McCulloughAT a late hour on Friday night last during the sitting of the council, Cr. Oates moved…
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Compiled by Cameron McCullough CR. OATES has given written notice of his intention to move at next Friday’s meeting of…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough A DISGRACEFUL disturbance is alleged to have taken place on Sunday night last, when the congregation…
Compiled by Cameron McCulloughSTANLEY Rupert Brett, 23, motor driver, was charged at the City Watchhouse on Wednesday with the manslaughter…
Compiled by Cameron McCulloughA SMOKE social was held on Tuesday evening last, in the Frankston Mechanics’ Institute, at which a…
Compiled by Cameron McCulloughWITH the passing of the old Bay View Hotel, Frankston, another connecting link of the past will…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough A SHOCKING fatality occurred at the railway crossing, between Baxter and Somerville, on Monday night, when…
Compiled by Cameron McCulloughA LARGE deputation waited on the council on Friday last with the request that action be taken…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough THERE is no doubt the autumn of 1924 will be long remembered as the wet autumn.Again…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough AT the Frankston Court yesterday, before Mr. W. G. Smith, P.M.; and Messrs. C. Gray, P.…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough UNDER the above heading an inaccurate and obviously partisan statement regarding the proceedings in the County…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough A DEPUTATION from the Frankston and Hastings Shire Council, consisting of Councillors W. J. Oates, F.…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough IT is with deepest regret we learn that ex-Councillor C. Murray, of Somerville, passed away on…
Compiled by Cameron McCulloughYESTERDAY afternoon a little event which in years to come will assume historical importance, took place on…
ON Monday evening; while driving along the Point Nepean Road, near Martin’s Road, Seaford, Mr. Alexander Waddell Fergusson, draper, of…
MR. Cyril Cameron, 38, manager of the Bank of Australasia at Port Melbourne, visited Frankston last Tuesday, and on Thursday…
ON Saturday evening last a number of the public were somewhat inconvenienced by the failure of the electric light. Our…
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…