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Article : 96 wordsIn moving the second reading of the Closer Settlement Act Amendment Bill in the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Lands stated that ...
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Article : 56 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Bath) said before the Orders of the Day were proceeded with he ...
Article : 604 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Lord Robert Cecil, Conservative member for East Marylebone, moved an amendment to the Plural Voting ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Rev. J. Guiness Rogers, the wellknown Congregational minister, urges the Government to make the Education Bill not an ideal Bill for ...
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Article : 196 wordsAt the ceremony in connection with the switching on of the electric light at Victoria Park last night reference was made to the action of the ...
Article : 848 wordsThe conference of representatives of the Church of England and the Pressbyterian Church to discuss the question of a closer union between the two ...
Article : 275 wordsA new Government has been constituted in Natal as follows:—Mr. F. R. Moor, Premier and Minister of Native Affairs. ...
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Article : 40 wordsThe State of California continues obdurate in regard to the exclusion of Japanese children from the San Francisco white schools. ...
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Article : 59 wordsThe Executive Council of the Nationalist Party at Pretoria protests against alleged provisions in the Transvaal Constitution for vesting the control ...
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Article : 238 wordsFollowing are the latest quotations for the undermentioned colonial mining shares:—Broken Hill Proprietary (New South Wales), b £5 15s., ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day William Spencer Mattinson, late Town Clerk of Norseman, was charged with having stolen a share certificate, ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. James Alexander Roberts, Mr. Joseph George Palmer, Mr. George Dunet, and Mr. Harold Beauchamp have been gazetted Chilian Consuls for ...
Article : 81 wordsMeetings have been held at Manchester, Sunderland, Jarrow, and other English boroughs, protesting against the Congo atrocities. ...
Article : 31 wordsWheat.—The visible supply of wheat in America east of the Rockies is 75,919,000 bushels. London, November 29. ...
Article : 118 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s. 8 1-8d. an ounce. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe rejection by the Legislative Council of the Land Tax Assessment Bill was not only the chief theme of conversation in political circles ...
Article : 872 wordsIn the Nannine Police Court to-day Samuel Goldman, a jeweller, was fined £75 (in default, three months' imprisonment) for having bought gold ...
Article : 55 wordsFull Court.—In No. 1 Court, at 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice McMillan and Mr. Justice Burnside: P. D. Kavanagh (complainant), appeallant ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 30 Nov 1906, Page 5
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