At the ordinary meeting of the City Council last night Alderman Allen Taylor submitted the following motion:— 1. That in the opinion of this council ...
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Article : 854 wordsThe most disastrous calamity that has ever befallen Cooktown was experienced during Friday night and Saturday. On Tuesday and Wednesday the heat was abnormal for this ...
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Article : 893 wordsThe Royal Commission appointed to report on the present state of Trinity College and the University of Dublin, recommends the creation of a college at ...
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Article : 60 wordsIn reply to inquiries regarding further aid for Kingston, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has cabled to the British Charge d'Affaires at ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Governor-General and Lady Northcote will leave Melbourne for New South Wales early in March. His Excellency the Governor came to ...
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Article : 116 wordsThe deciding event for La Carabine Cup was sailed to-day over a course of 20 miles, 10 miles to windward and back, starting from St. Kilda pier. Only Rawhiti and S.J.S. ...
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Article : 171 wordsMr. John Dillon, M.P., speaking at Ballinasloe, County Galway, said that if the Nationalist party was united the Government would be sure to concede what ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, cabled to Mr. E. Root, United States Secretary of State: "Having read in the newspapers what purports to be Sir ...
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Article : 56 wordsPrince Bulow, the German Chancellor, in the course of an address to the Intellectuals at Berlin, said that the Federal Government would not allow the ...
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Article : 64 wordsGeorge Johnston was charged at the City Court to-day with stealing wearing apparel and other articles, valued at £15, and £3 in money, from a florist, of North Sydney, by ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Government has decided not to call Parliament together next month, as was promised at the end of last session. A special session was to be held next month to ...
Article : 124 wordsAt the Newcastle Police Court to-day, James Robt. Jeffrey, 41, chief engineer, and John Black, second engineer, on the steamer Ardmount, on remand, were charged with ...
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Article : 68 wordsRevolutionaries killed Captain Paschkewski, chief of police at Lenczyea. Formerly Captain Paschkewski was chief of police at Lodz. ...
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Article : 109 wordsSir John Quick, in an interview to-day, said, speaking for himself and not on behalf of the Tariff Commission he thought that by the time the House met there would be a ...
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Article : 92 wordsMr. H. Gladstone, Home Secretary, declines to take outside opinion respecting the case of Edalji, who, it is alleged, was improperly convicted of maiming cattle at ...
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Article : 79 wordsA circular letter was issued to-day by the Acting Minister of Defence, Mr. Mauger, to shipbuilding firms in the Commonwealth, inviting their attention to the proposal of the ...
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Article : 138 wordsIn order that Sir Joseph Ward may make inquiries as to the working of wireless telegraphy while in England it has been decided to suspend for six months the negotiations ...
Article : 42 wordsThe steam trawler Nearniver will sail next week for New Zealand, with a Grimsby crew. ...
Article : 23 wordsHarry Francis, a Christchurch solicitor, pleaded guilty to-day to stealing trust moneys totalling £775. He was remanded for sentence. ...
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Article : 54 wordsAn inquiry into the mishap to the steamer Airlie was held by the Shipping Inspector (Captain Forrester) this morning. James Theodore Wilson, master of the ...
Article : 227 wordsNeither the Colonial Office nor the American Embassy has been informed of any friction existing at Jamaica between the American Admiral and the Governor of ...
Article : 76 wordsProfessor David's party of 27, who passed through for Kosciusko, includes Mrs. David, Mr. E. C. Andrews, Mr. Sussmilch, lecturer in goology at the Technical College, Sydney; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsThe Union Assurance Company, which was founded 1714, having been heavily hit in the San Francisco disaster, has been amalgamated with the Commercial ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 23 Jan 1907, Page 9
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