Experiments with a telephone joining New York and Chicago have proved eminently successful, and point to a much larger commercial use of the instrument. ...
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Article : 4,236 wordsIt is intended to raise Lord Lorne, eldest son of the Duke of Argyle, to the peerage immediately. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Tripper will probably succeed Sir A. Galt as High Commissioner for Canada. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Howe, Postmaster-General of the United States, is dead. ...
Article : 18 wordsA company is being formed in London for the purpose of purchasing Mr. Charles Fisher's Queensland stations. The proposed capital is £400,000. ...
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Article : 333 wordsIt is reported that Peru has ceded the province of Tarapaca to Chili, and the town of Tacua and the seaport of Arica to Bolivia. ...
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Article : 31 wordsThe Easter Monday review of volunteers was held at Brighton, in pr[?]nce of the Duke of Cambridge. The proceedings were attended with unusual success. About 20,000 men were ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe trial of prisoners charged with conspiring to murder landlords in Ireland is still proceeding at Belfast. Six more of the accused were found guilty yesterday. ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe bodies of the two young men, Burton and Beetham, who were drowned at the Southport Regatta, have been recovered; the former yesterday, and the latter to-day. ...
Article : 140 wordsThe R.M.S. Merkara left Port Said outwards to-day. The R.M.S. Roma left Aden outwards on the 25th. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Hon. Graham Berry, Postmaster-General, has received a telegram from the Postmaster-General at Sydney stating in regard to the proposed conference on postal matters, that he (Mr. Wright) has no ...
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Article : 162 wordsThe annual Pastoral and Agricultural Show was held today, and attracted a very large number of visitors. The exhibition took place on the new ground, and the large new building was well-filled with numerous and varied exhibits, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 29 Mar 1883, Page 7
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