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Article : 7,528 wordsSir Robert Stout, in an interview regarding the Samoan question, declared that Germany has violated the treaty of Berlin, and intrigued through the consuls with Mataafa ...
Article : 130 wordsHis Excellency Admiral Pearson when interviewed to-day on the situation in Samoa was very reticent. The newspapers, he said, knew just as much about the ...
Article : 291 wordsSir John Madden is at present on a visit to Mr. P. H. Osborne, at his residence, Currandooley, near Goulburn. Mr. Reid leaves Sydney for Melbourne ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 20 Jan 1899, Page 5
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