Mr. Albert Dunstan, of Western Australia, is still in Ballarat engaging unemployed miners for the Phillips River Gold and Copper Company, Albany. On Tuesday last ...
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Article : 290 wordsFor the half year ended 31st December the imports entered at Geelong aggregated £228,782, as compared with £185,784 for the six months ended 31st December, 1909. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsIn connection with the registration of young Australians between the ages of 14 and 17 for training in the new senior cadets, now proceeding all over the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 417 wordsAt the local court to-day a man named George William Lincoln Mackay was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having obtained £15 by false pretences ...
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Article : 84 wordsThe Government street tramways established a record for the Christmas holidays' season. For the ten days ended 2nd January the passengers carried totalled 89,919, ...
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Article : 76 wordsFlorence Deniehy, 18 years, whose home is at Launceston, but who is staying at Newmarket, where she has a room, last night complained to the police that a man had yesterday morning ...
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Article : 55 wordsNegotiations have been proceeding for some time between the education department and Mr. M'Lachlan. M.L.A., on behalf of the inhabitants of Bairnsdate, with reference to the establishment ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 6 Jan 1911, Page 8
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