The Czar has extended to Siberia the Zemstvo system as it existed in Russia in 1864. This concession is understood to imply ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Eastern Mail.—A supplementary mail for the Eastern States will close to-day (Thursday). at 2 p.m., for despatch by the s.s. Coolgardie. ...
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Article : 174 wordsThe Tariff Commission continued its sittings to-day. Max Hirsch (recalled) gave further evidence concerning the extent to which ...
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Article : 88 wordsImportant purchases at the French port of Saigon were delivered to a portion of the Baltic fleet off the Indio-China coast. ...
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Article : 78 wordsYesterday, in St. Petersburg, a policeman, without provocation, attacked two sailors who were chatting in the street, killing one and wounding the other. ...
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Article : 112 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Gerald Balfour, President of the Board of Trade, introduced the Unemployed Workmen's Bill. ...
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Article : 32 wordsMr. Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to representations made to the Colonial Office by the Royal Colonial Institute, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Singapore states that Russian agents have cut the Foo-chow Tamsui submarine cable to the north of Formosa. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn connection with a British issue of £10,000,000 2¾ Exchequer bonds, £15,528,600 was subscribed at an average of £98 13s. 10d. ...
Article : 33 wordsA big deputation from the Sydney Labour Council waited upon the Premier to-day with reference to the Arbitration Act. Mr. Carruthers, in reply, ...
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Article : 101 wordsTwo hundred thousand Russians are disposed along the Changchun—Kirin line and southwards. ...
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Article : 62 wordsThomas Kersler, who a few days ago made a murderous assault on Maude New at Campbelltown, was before the Newtown Police Court to-day on a ...
Article : 96 wordsAn accident, attended with a fatal result, happened to a youth named Parsons (19) at Noogeup, near Cranbrook, yesterday afternoon. The lad. ...
Article : 72 wordsThirty-six British sailors belonging to the colliers Saint Helena and Battersea Bridge were recently sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment at Hong ...
Article : 56 wordsSamuel Bentley the victim of yesterday's blasting accident in the Lake View Consols mine, died this morning. The deceased, who has left a widow, was ...
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Article : 89 wordsMr. Alfred Deakin addressed a crowded audience in the Centenary Hall to-night in connection with the New South Wales Temperance Alliance. He ...
Article : 82 wordsEleven seamen were arraigned at Bombay for refusing to sail because their steamer, the Riverdale, was carrying to Kobe, in Japan, a cargo of raw ...
Article : 45 wordsFull Court.—At half-past 10 a.m., before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Parker, and Mr. Justice Burnside: In the matter of the Factories Act, 1904, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 20 Apr 1905, Page 7
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