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Article : 79 wordsThe provisional Government has determined to proclaim a holiday at Belgrade when King Poter arrives in his capital. The Government will provide the people with free ...
Article : 42 wordsIn consequence of the outbreak of smallpox Mr. J. C. William on has cancelled the dates of the Launceston season to have been played by his Comic Opera Company now in Hobart. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Times," in referring to the rumours of the abdication of the Sultan, says that sanguinary events connected with the Albanian guard have ...
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Article : 322 wordsThe provisional Ministry of Servia is panic stricken at the virtual demand of Austria and Russia, that the murderers of King Alexander and Queen Draga shall be punished. ...
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Article : 242 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was questioned regarding the reported reverse in Sokoto. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Hon. W. G. Thresiger, Vice-Consul at Belgrade, is watching over British interests in Servia. ...
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Article : 75 wordsThomas Stewart and Alfred Josephson appeared at the City Police Court to-day, on remand, charged with attempting to kill Countable M'Namara on the morning of Juhe 6. Further evidence for the ...
Article : 69 wordsA woman named Caroline Pryzgodda has been convicted at Berlin of having poisoned four husbands in succession with arsenic and of having attempted to poison the fifth. ...
Article : 79 wordsReuter's correspondent at Bloemfontein reports that there are 20,000 burghers of the Orange River Colony who have taken the [?]ath of, allegiance to the British Government, ...
Article : 188 wordsVast numbers of notices for rent revision of grazing faims are coming in. There will be meetings of the Land Court, three members sitting together, in the three divisions of the State. The meetings will ...
Article : 66 wordsAt a meeting of the Hunter District Water and Sewerage Board held to-day, a letter was read from the East Maitland Lands office stating that two applications had been received for licenses to pump water from the Hunter ...
Article : 142 wordsThe prisoners in the gaol at Vladikavkas, in the Caucasus, revolted yesterday. Troops attempted to suppress the disorder, and in doing so killed four of the prisoners ...
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Article : 123 wordsMr. Leahy, Minister for Works, proposes an important innovation regarding the inmates of Dunwich Benevolent Asylum, as he contemplates utilising the buildings on Peel Island with a view ...
Article : 96 wordsSir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Comapny, in referring to the complaint of delay in the transmission of messages by the ...
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Article : 205 wordsFour new appointments to the Legislative Council are aunounced- Mr. T. K. M'Dinald, auctioneer, of Wellington: Mr. H. Wigram, Mayor of Christchurch and chairman of directors of the "Lyttelton ...
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Article : 70 wordsThe remains of Cardinal Vaughan are lying in state in Westminster Cathedral. The burial will take place at St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, Mill Hill. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 24 Jun 1903, Page 7
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