The "Times" to-day publishes an authoritative report with respect to the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Australia, ...
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Article : 259 wordsAll school children in the State--those attending private as well as State schools-- are to be presented with medals to commemorate the establishment of the ...
Article : 115 wordsA committee meeting of the Scarsdale, Italian Gully and Berringa District Bush Fire Relief Fund was held in the town hall last evening. The mayor of the borough, ...
Article : 790 wordsA St. Petersburg telegram reports the discovery by extraordinary means of a conspiracy at Moscow to assassinate the Emperor Nicholas. ...
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Article : 139 wordsIt was recently reported that the foreign residents of Shanghai were strongly of opinion that the King of England should refuse to receive the envoy which China ...
Article : 149 wordsThe recent exploit of Colonel de Lisle's Australian Mounted Infantry in their extraordinary march through the most rugged defiles and precipices of the Roggeveld ...
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Article : 33 wordsHis Majesty King Edward VII. has created Queen Alexandra a lady of the Order of the Garter. His Majesty Kind Edward has revived ...
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Article : 35 wordsPiet de Wet, brother of the Free State guerilla commandant, to whom Piet de Wet recently appealed on the grounds of common sense to abandon, the ruinous. ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe apprehensions felt by the Boer commandants in the Eastern Transvaal when General Kitchener organised the columns which are hunting them on the Swaziland ...
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Article : 139 wordsReports from the north-east of the Transvaal state that the Kaflirs of Leydsdorp, in the Zantpansberg district, who have endured Boer oppression with great ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsAn important experiment in long distance dispatch of telegraphic messages without wires has been successfully curried out by Signor Marconi, the inventor of the ...
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Article : 81 wordsThe Premier telegraphed to Lord Kitchener some time ago, asking for what term the members of the Fifth Contingent are engaged in the Imperial service. The ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 14 Feb 1901, Page 5
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