THE public meeting held at Frankston last Tuesday night for the purpose of considering the matter of forming a bowling…
Browsing: 100 Years Ago This Week
DURING last week, a huge whale was washed ashore at Stony Point. Weighing several tons, it measured 29 feet 8…
ON Boxing Day the Australian Aerial Derby will be decided. The fastest machines in Australia will compete, and they will…
THE Vacuum Oil Co. Pty Ltd held their first annual picnic at Mornington on Saturday last. The weather was somewhat…
THE Country Roads Board’s 13 ton steam roller crashed through Quinn’s Bridge (over the Balcombe Creek) last week, but the…
MR Frank Stonite, The Heights, writes: “There is said to be considerable rivalry existing between Mornington and Frankston as to…
THE objectionable conduct of those idiotic galoots who visit Frankston in the summer time, is to be stamped out, according…
LAST week, Cr. W. J. Oates, J.P purchased the vacant corner allotment and the property with brick house adjoining in…
THE councillors of the shire of Frankston and Hastings have received a communication from the Minister of Public Works requesting…
LAST Saturday afternoon, the land situate between the Prince of Wales Hotel and Mr Sage’s shop, Frankston, was offered for…
ABOUT seven years ago a number of Melbourne’s leading citizens selected a spot 2½ miles from Frankston as a site…
AT the Frankston Police Court, on Monday last, before Mr Knight, P. M and local justices, Messrs Williams, Grant, and…
THE case of the Nobles, dealt with in the Frankston Police Court on Monday last, will probably excite a good…
ON Wednesday last the Railways Commissioners arrived at Frankston by special train on their annual tour of inspection. They were…
AT the special meeting of the shire of Frankston and Hastings last Wednesday week, Cr. Hoban, president, presided for the…
After Somerville so narrowly missed victory on Saturday last, there were some of Somerville’s enthusiasts who thought that Somerville ought…
VICTORIA is dependent upon New South Wales for her coal supplies. But for the coal brought at great cost by…
ON Monday night last, Miss Mackay was entertained at a farewell social, on the eve of her departure for Mornington.…
ON Thursday Morris Bros’ aeroplane made a fight from Mordialloc to Frankston, and the landing and the taking-off were splendid.…
AFTER the physical tussle between Mornington and Frankston on the Saturday previous, a large contigent, including many ladies, journeyed by…
A CORRESPONDENT writes the following supplementary to the recent articles in Wayside Notes relative to the future of the Mornington…
MR. Murphy, dairyman, had made certain complaints to the Frankston branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association to the effect that…
AWAY in the bygone past, when the pioneering stalwarts battled grimly with Nature and misfortune to make the Mornington Peninsula…
MISS Mackay, who has occupied the position of postmistress at the Frankston Post Office for many years has received notice…
LAST Monday night the Frankston Mechanics’ Hall was crowded with friends and well-wishers who assembled to say farewell to Mr…
AT Frankston last Monday night the initial meeting took place of the sub-committee appointed to give effect to the resolutions…
WHILE driving along the Tyabb road with their father in a buggy on November 15, 1919, Frederick Lewis Davis and…
MR and Mrs Adderly of Langwarrin suffered a sad bereavement in the loss of their daughter, Erica, aged 12 years,…
A CONCERT in aid of School Funds was given by the pupils of the Somerville State School on Monday night,…
COUNCILLORS like to have their little jokes, and when at last council meeting the Seaford Progress Association wrote again, for…