A despatch received by the Viceroy of India from. General Roberts, dated December 20, states that he is confident the Sherpur lines will prove completely ...
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Article : 139 wordsOn Christmas Day hundreds of plessure-seekers visited the sea coast. St. Kilda had a usual its scores or visitors, all bent on enjoying themselves; while the Port Gander beach also ...
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Article : 136 wordsThe surveyors commended to lay out the Government township to-day, and it being see a at once that only a one chain road between it and the present town was being left, several ...
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South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1868 - 1881), Sat 27 Dec 1879, Page 21
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