Buoyancy in gilt-edged investment securities characterises the Stock Exchange. These markets are not booming as they did in the middle of February, but the ...
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Article : 231 wordsSenator Borah, chairman of the Senate Labour Committee, stated that unless the coal industry is reorganised in the interests of the public the only solution of the ...
Article : 73 wordsAt the Newbury meeting to-day His Majesty the King's colt Wcathervane, by Lemberg—Vain Air, won the important Greenham Stakes for three-year-olds, ...
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Article : 318 wordsOn Saturday for the fourth time in succession Cambridge won the University boat race on the Thames from Mortlake to Putney, a distance of 4½ miles. ...
Article : 254 wordsThe British Government Hospitality Committee entertained the Premier of South Australia (Mr. Barwell) and the Premier of Western Australia (Sir James ...
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Article : 756 wordsFinacial newspapers approve of the £5,000,000 loan being issued by the Commonwealth on a 5 per cent basis. The "Investors' Chronicle" states that "in ...
Article : 100 wordsJ. H. Kirkwood tied with P. Doyle for third place in the North-South Championship at the Pinehurst links. Kirkwood astonished the spectators in the first ...
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Article : 115 wordsOn behalf of the trustees of the Felton Bequest the picture "At the Watermill" has been bought for the Melbourne National Gallery. The price paid was 2,500 ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 3 Apr 1922, Page 7
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