The annual New Zealand dinner partook of the nature of a farewell to Sir James Allen, the retiring High Commissioner, who presided. The chief ...
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Article : 735 wordsMrs. W. E. Sibley, the wife of a Canadian Methodist missionary, was murdered in a street in Chengtu on June 7. Her assailant attacked her with ...
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Article : 90 wordsGiving evidence to-day before the Royal commission on National Insurance, the Rev. A. E. F. Young. of the Mission of St. James and St. John. ...
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Article : 79 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day. Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal) asked whether Mr. E. T. Fisk's offer to conduct two-way wireless telephony tests had ...
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Article : 204 wordsIt has been announced officially that Viscount Willingdon has been appointed Governor-General of Canada.—Reuter. Brigadier-General E. A. Plunkett was ...
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Article : 141 wordsThe Monarchists are jubilant over President Hindenburg's letter. The Nationalist Press describes it as a manly deed. "Der Tag" declares that Germany is ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 10 Jun 1926, Page 9
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