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Article : 527 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs expects to receive the estimates of valuation placed on their transferred services and properties by the Governments of New South Wales and South ...
Article : 1,547 wordsThe R.M.S. Austral, from London and ports, arrived at 11 p.m. on Thursday, and sailed on Friday morning. Her saloon passengers for Brisbane are Mr. W. E. Balston ...
Article : 38 wordsA widower, aged 52. shot himself in bed at Glanville yesterday morning. He was an engine-driver. As he failed to rise at his usual hour, a daughter went into his room ...
Article : 61 wordsEarly on Saturday morning the landlord of the Selborne Hotel was found dead in his office, with a discharged rifle rear his body. No reason can be assigned for what is ...
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Article : 111 wordsA shock or earthquake. which lasted a minute, was felt at Taranaki yesterday morning. ...
Article : 23 wordsShortly before 2 yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Stanley Blackweil was knocked down by a train near Macdoaaldtown station and killed instantly. The driver of the goods train noticed ...
Article : 119 wordsA young lady, aged 23, residing with her parents at Hoxton Park, near Liverpool, was drowned on Boxing Day in a waterhole. about three-quarters of a mile from her parents' ...
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Article : 75 wordsR.M.S. Orontes left the Semaphore anchorage for London on Christmas Day. On arriving from Melbourne she took in mails and stores, and embarked passensgers. Owing to the ...
Article : 76 wordsIn the carrying our of the Esk extension the clearing and grabbing have been completed the fencing has been finished, and the earthworks are practically all done, steady ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Minister for Railways met the heads of the various railway departments in conference, to consider the Question of devising some further means of reducing the ...
Article : 203 wordsA telegram from Albury states that Mr. William Howard, a member of the firm of Chicken and Howard, vigrnerons, Corowa and Henty, met with a terrible ...
Article : 226 wordsThe inquest relating to the death of Captain Brown, of the ship Ainsdale, who was found shot in his bunk on Wednesday, with a revolver in his hand, was resumed on ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 2 Jan 1903, Page 15
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