The additional details concerning the Turkish attack on Domoko show that the Turks made the attack with an army of 50,000 men. The advance of their infantry ...
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Article : 299 wordsAn Aliens Immigrants Bill, wiht provisions similar to that which was in force in the Transvaal, and has been repealed, has been read a first tiem in the Orange ...
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Article : 32 wordsThe news of the Greek defeat at Domoke created a panic at Lamia, to the southward, and near the Pass of Thermopylæ. The residents of the town betook themselves ...
Article : 93 wordsReplying to a question in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, M. de Faverea[?], Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the Canadian tariff was not admissible for ...
Article : 358 wordsThe Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the Jameson raid on the Transvaal and cognate subject sat again to-day. ...
Article : 142 wordsAt a meeting of the Ararat Borough Council last night, it was agreed to take the neccssary steps to borrow a sum of £5000 on debentures to build a new ...
Article : 374 wordsA Greek torpedo boat has captured an Austrian Lloyd's, steamer, which, was bound for Volo. The steamer had 72 Turkish seamen and a new Governor on ...
Article : 56 wordsGordon Forster pleaded guilty, at the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions to-day, to a charge of fortune-telling. Mr. Gardiner, on behalf of the accused, asked that he ...
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Article : 71 wordsNegotiations are proceeding between Turkey and the European powers respecting the terms of the proposed arinistice. The terms demanded by Turkey were:— ...
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Article : 158 wordsOn Wednesday, Mr. F.C. Mason, M.L. A., Chairman of Committees, received a cable message from Mr. R.J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, who is now in America en ...
Article : 89 wordsA dinner in connection with the annual conference of the Victorian Butter and Cheese Factories Managers' Association was held at the Mason Dorce last evening. ...
Article : 648 wordsChief Justice Way, of South Australia, has been asked to attend throghout the sittings of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe proposal that Sir Rupert Clarke should be invited to succeeed his father in the representation of the Southern Province has been received very favourably ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 wordsTallow.—At to-day auction sales of Australasian tallow 1,700 casks were offered. of which 850 were sold. Prices were as follows:—Fine mutton, 18/6; ...
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Article : 275 wordsBriton Riviere's picture "Requies[?]t" has been purchased by the New South Wales Art Gallery. [This picture was exhibited in the ...
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Article : 158 wordsOscar Wilde, the poet and dramatist, who was sentenced on May 26, 1895, to two years' imprisonment, was released from goal to-day. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 287 wordsThe burial of the late Sir W. J. Clarke (writes the "Ge[?]long Advertiser") was a great and impressive event—great in the sense that vast numbers witnessed and took ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 21 May 1897, Page 5
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