Notwithstanding that the weather was rather too cold for the enjoyment of open-air entertainments, there was a good attendance at King's Picture Gardens on Saturday ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe Australian Shipping Conference has decided to raise the freight rates for cargo in steamers beginning on the first of next month. The increases will be 10s. per ...
Article : 59 wordsNo news has yet been received of the fate of Colonel J. J. Astor, an American millionaire who with his yacht has been missing from Jamaica since the hurricane ...
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Article : 83 wordsThe Christian Scientists of America have, after a three days' secret trial, ex-communicated their New York leader, Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, for rebellion ...
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Article : 71 wordsMany farm labourers are making inquiries at the offices of the Agents-General for the Various Australian States with a view of emigrating to the ...
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Article : 471 wordsWhile the P. and O. S.N. Company's R.M.S. Mantua was at Malta yesterday she established wireless telegraphic communication with North Foreland (on the ...
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Article : 107 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General was to have attended the annual inspection of the 7th Australian Infantry Regiment at Ballarat yesterday. Information was ...
Article : 65 wordsThe steamer Takapuna, on a voyage from Nelson to Picton, discovered the barque Hippalos waterlogged and abandoned and took her in tow, but when in Perlorus Sound the ...
Article : 100 wordsA mass meeting of unionists was held at Newcastle last night and addresses were delievered from the balcony of the Grand Hotel to 5,000 or 6,000 persons. The speeches ...
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Article : 71 wordsThe police are investigating a case of supposed murder in the Dungog district. The body of a man sewn up in the bag was found in a waterhole near the railway ...
Article : 94 wordsA miner named Frank Nye, 35 years of age, was killed by a fall of stone at the 1,400ft. level of the Associated mine yesterday. The deceased's back was broken, ...
Article : 48 wordsA Melbourne telegram states that His Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Dudley) held an investiture of the order of St. Michael and St. George at Government ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 22 Nov 1909, Page 5
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