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Article : 35 wordsThe match concluded is a remarkable one in many respects. Prior thereto honours were divided between the two States, each having won 35 matches. New New South Wales has ...
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Article : 249 wordsThe team to represent South Australia in the interstate cricket matches to be played in Melbourne and Sydney left by the Melbourne express to-day, under the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Orient-Pacific line notify that they propose sending their fine twin-screw steamer Ophir from London on April 12 to Lisbon for the medical congress. The following ports will also be visited:—Cherbourg, Nigo, ...
Article : 188 wordsEarly yesterday morning a drover named Patrick Kemp was found lying in Hyde Park with his throat cut. Near by was a blood-stained razor. ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the police court to-day Osman Bloache was fined £50, with £2 8s costs added, for having a brass plate on his residence with the words "Osman Bloache, Indian Physician and ...
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Article : 43 wordsSir,—Mr. L. Litton is careful to avoid the real point at" issue. It is this. Does the report of the Public Works Department prove that the City Council is not using the best ...
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Article : 51 wordsVictoria, s, 2969 tons, Captain W. Waller, for [?]ck land. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Baddeley, Master and Miss Baddeley, Mr. and Mrs. R. Decken and 2 children, Mr. and Mrs. ...
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Article : 977 wordsSir,—Mr. Litton, i his reply to me, refers to independent reports of the City Council. I think the less said of some of those reports the better for the parties who made them. ...
Article : 391 wordsTwo pea-rifle accidents were reported at Mackay to-day. Mabel Whitcome was found dead in her room with a bullet wound in her forehead. ...
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Article : 42 wordsThe Athletic Club sports yesterday proved a great success, despite the excessive heat. The chief event was a foot race, which was won by McKid, with Quickenden second. The bicycle race was won by ...
Article : 640 wordsJohn Lloyd Jones, a tailor, was drowned at Kenny's Baths, St. Kilda, this morning while swimming in deep water. Mr. Jones was a regular bather and a good swimmer, ...
Article : 119 wordsSir,—Your sub-leader in the "Herald" of Thursday induces me to ask you to allow me to say a few words upon Lake George, from time to time a dry bed, or full, or partially ...
Article : 483 wordsF. Webb, who injured his spine through diving off the springboard in the Semaphore Baths on Christmas Day, died on Wednesday evening. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 768 wordsThe R.M.S. Ormuz, from London, bound to Sydney, cleared Queenscliffe at 5 a.m. yesterday, and signalled Wilson's Promontory at 12.5 p.m. She is due at Sydney at 6 p.m. to-day, and will berth at Flood's wharf, ...
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Article : 316 wordsThe steamer Como, of 5137 tons, running under the auspices of the Commonwealth line, will be despatched by Messrs. W. Scott Fell and Co., Limited, at 6 o'clock this morning for Yokohama (Japan) direct. ...
Article : 94 wordsA cable message was received last evening notifying the arrival of the White Star liner Afric at London on Tuesday last, December 26. She sailed from Sydney on November 4, from Melbourne on November 11, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 331 wordsA cable message was yesterday received by Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., Limited, notifying that the steamer Airlie arrived at Singapore on the evening of Tuesday last, the 26th inst. The Airlie ...
Article : 56 wordsSir,—Apropos of the master builders' proposed apprenticeship scheme, part of which requires a young man to obtain a Technical College certificate before being admitted as ...
Article : 271 wordsSir,—When is the desolating axe of the authorities that be going to cease its wholesale and merciless destruction of the numberless beautiful trees that adorn our city parks? ...
Article : 288 wordsThe steamer Claverdon, with a full cargo of phoaphates from Ocean Island, arrived at Sydney yesterday afternoon, and anchored in quarantine at 5.10 p.m. Upon receiving pratique she proceeded to an ...
Article : 117 wordsSir,—The concluding sentence in your leader on "White Australia" this morning says:— "If immigrants of British race cannot be drawn here," etc. ...
Article : 228 wordsThe German steamer Tiberius, which left this port early on the morning of the 16th inst., in defiance of the authorities, who alleged that she was overladen, is expected to signal Breaksea to-day or ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Government of New Zealand is inviting tenders from Sydney shipping firms for (1) a direct steam service between New Zealand ports and South Africa, (2) for a service between New Zealand ports and South ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 29 Dec 1905, Page 8
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