The Minister of Railways has been very deeply and favorably impressed by the practical value of many of the suggestions for improvements in railway management made ...
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Article : 1,573 words"If this rain had only come in April last," said Mr. Baracchi yesterday, "it would have meant a saving to the State of hundreds of thousands of pounds." Even ...
Article : 632 wordsFurther information with respect to the seizure by the Germans of the Venezuelan gunboats states that the captain of the German gunboat Panther, when he seized ...
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Article : 82 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary for Foreign Affaire, stated, in reply to a question in the House of Lords last night, that if the seizures already made by the German ...
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Article : 79 words"When I speak of the break up of the drought," said Mr. Baracchi yesterday, "I am not speaking so much for Victoria, because after all it is only the far northern ...
Article : 298 wordsThe Railway Appeal Board Messrs. R. G. Kent (chairman), C. E. Norman, and Johnston (the latter representing the employes) sat yesterday to deal with the ...
Article : 220 wordsThe bulletin issued to-day by the medical advisers of Dr. Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, states that the Primate spent a restless night and that there is no ...
Article : 42 wordsIn accordance with the scheme of reduced time as applied to the salaried staff, a number of clerks at the Spencer-street buildings have been deprived of half a day's ...
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