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Article : 100 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery, speaking at the dinner of the Liberal League last night, in referring to the proposals for preferential trade with the colonies, said he ...
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Article : 65 wordsThe Premier, when seen on Saturday by a "Herald" representative with regard to the despatch on the subject of preferential trade between Great Britain and the different units of the British ...
Article : 650 wordsThe monthly political labour conference took place at the Trades Hall on Saturday. A plan of campaign for organising the metropolitan electorates at the next elections was submitted by the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe "Standard" announces that Mr. John Mills, stevedore, of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, oN arriving at Plymouth, stated that he was prepared to supply, free of cost, sufficient ...
Article : 64 wordsThe conspiracy in Servia was Organised by 150 officers of the army, but they represented a far wider movement, including many leading persons of all political parties. ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Tait, the Chief Railway Commissioner, has handed to the Minister for Railways a report on electric traction, with particular reference to the already established systems. Mr Bent, who is ...
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Article : 237 wordsMr. John J. Buckland, writing from Bundanoon, calls attention to what he says is the last act of the present Ministry—"the workers' friends,"—which is a circular sent to the trastees of the various ...
Article : 110 wordsAt the Creswick Hospital on Saturday an old man named Edward Fowler was being washed prior to admission, and £500 in deposit receipts and gold were found concealed between two vests he bad been ...
Article : 49 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Naumovitch, who was King Alexander's adjutant, and who, on presenting to the King the document demanding his abdication, was shot, is officially described ...
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Article : 80 wordsA ladies' club of a purely social nature was formally opened on Friday afternoon by Sir Edmund Barton. The club starts with a membership of over 200, and with comfortably appointed rooms. ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Bent, Minister for Hallways, on Saturday approved of the Commissioners' referendum dealing with the long-delayed increments in the lower paid grades of the railway service. Payment has been ...
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Article : 48 wordsM. Avakumovitch, the new Premier of Servia, in the course of an interview, said that the self-appointed Cabinet would resign when a king was elected. He added—"Peace ...
Article : 49 words"Madame Sans Gene" whs staged with marked success by the Daniel Frawley Company at Her Majesty's on Saturday night. Miss Van Buren, in the name part, won general commendation, and the ...
Article : 181 wordsThe results of the examination conducted by the Institute of Actuarios for Sydney and Melbourne candidates are as follows:- SYDNEY. ...
Article : 84 wordsIn connection with the proposed trans-Australian railway, it is stated that before sauction is given to its construction by the Commonwealth Parliament the Government of Western Australia will be asked ...
Article : 102 wordsThe iron ship Aldergrove, a vessel of 1271 tons, 92 days out, with a cargo of wheat from Buenos Ayres, arrived at Sydney yesterday, after a most sensational experience. It appears from statements made to a ...
Article : 458 wordsSeveral of the late Ministers of Servia, who were imprisoned when the coup d[?]etat was made, have now been released. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is stated that unofficial representations have been made to Lord Tennyson that an extension of his year of office as Governor-General of the Commonwealth would be received with gratification by the people of ...
Article : 79 wordsM. Koloman Szell, the Premier of Hungary, in speaking in the Lower House of the Hungarian diet yesterday, expressed his horror at the murder of the Servian Sovereigns. The ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge will represent those Universities at the Conference of Allied Colonial Universities to be held at Burlington ...
Article : 48 wordsWhen the House of Representatives meets on Tuesday it is intended that the debute on the second reading of the Sugar Bonus Bill shall be resumed, and as Mr. Dugald Thomson (N. S. W.) moved the ...
Article : 96 wordsIn all the Methodist chumbos to-day services were held in connection with the bi-centenary of the birth of Wesley. An anonymous donor has given £900 towards the ...
Article : 42 wordsDr. von Koerber, the Austrian Prime Minister, speaking in the Reichsrath yesterday on the murder of King Alexander, said that however sad was the tragic event in Belgrade ...
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Article : 76 wordsThe death is announced of Sir LohFeng-Luh, the Chinese statesman, formerly Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. ...
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Article : 47 wordsMr. T. Brown, M.P., addressed a well-attended meeting at Manildra. He urged the formation of a branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association. ...
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Article : 81 wordsThe Figig tribes surrendered 14 hostages and their arms to the Commandant of the French punitive expedition, and have paid an instalment of 30,000 francs (£1200) on the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Minister for Mines has instructed the inspector at Kanowna to proceed to the new find near Randalls, and furnish a report with regard to it. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 15 Jun 1903, Page 7
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