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Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 wordsWhile the outgoing steamer Otway and the incoming steamer Osterley were on the water on Friday Mr. Ford, manager of the Australian football team who have returned from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 wordsThe Launceston police rearrested John Berresford this morning on a charge of being in possession of a cake of gold und failing to satisfy the police how he came by it. He ...
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Article : 117 wordsThree privates belonging to the Territorial camp at Papatote, while endeavouring to reenter tbe lines late at night, were challenged by a sentry, who as they refused to halt, ...
Article : 69 wordsJacky Williams, an aboriginal, aged about 50, who came from the South Coast, died of consumption, and was buried yesterday by the police in the orthodox fashion, with his ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 25 Mar 1912, Page 9
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