Reports from all parts of the district show that the series of cyclonic storms just experienced was the worst on record. One and a half inches of rain fell in half ...
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Article : 187 wordsThe Premier made a statement yesterday regarding the next session of the State Parliament. Mr. Holman said that it was proposed to ...
Article : 288 wordsIn forwarding a bank draft for £200, representing the amount subscribed by unions affiliated to the Labour Council, for the wives and families of fellow-unionists out of work ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Rand is quiet. Both sides are preparing for the final struggle. Just now there is a truce, pending the ...
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Article : 154 wordsThe Dominions Commission yesterday heard evidence respecting the drain of English country districts through emigration. Mr. R. Rew (Assistant Secretary of the ...
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Article : 110 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chroniclo" telegraphs an interview with M. Briand on the subject of the recent speech of Mr. Lloyd George (Chancellor of the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Johannesburg correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" telegraphs an interview with Mr. Hosken, managing director of South African Explosives, Limited. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe monthly council meeting of the Liberal Association of New South Wales was held on Monday night in the Liberal rooms, 109 Pitt-street. Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, M.L.C., ...
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Article : 64 words"The execrable atrocities which frown upon Sydney's beauties, such as Paddington, Balmain, Pyrmont, and Darling Harbour generally, Milson's Point, and other places, are ...
Article : 279 wordsThere is a terrific eruption of Mount Sakurashima, in the Gulf of Kagoshima, province of Satsuma. Several villages have been destroyed, and ...
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Article : 271 wordsMr. Arthur Balfour, Gifford lecturer at Glasgow University, has commenced a series of twenty lectures on Theism. In his first lecture Mr. Balfour said that ...
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Article : 384 wordsAt a meeting of the Sydney Presbytery last evening a letter was read from the Palmerstreet Presbyterian Church congregation, protesting against the running of trams ...
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Article : 170 wordsCardinal Merry del Val. Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Peter, succeeds the late Car dinal Rampolla as Secretary to the Vatican. ...
Article : 35 wordsTown-planning Association: Address by Sir William Lever, Town Hall, 8. Her Majesty's Theatre: "Come Over Here," 1.50 and 7.50. ...
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Article : 59 wordsAfter 13 weeks the Huntly strike has been declared off. Three hundred men applied for work to-day. All must join the new union. It is expected that both mines will ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 14 Jan 1914, Page 13
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