In the House of Commons last night Mr. Balfour, replying to a question by Sir Henry Campbell-Ban[?]erman, the leader of the Opposition, made an important statement ...
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Article : 123 wordsA tidal wave of educational reform is surging around a bewildered department.Nor is it too soon. With what precise Hutention, for example, is ...
Article : 5,267 wordsSenator Drake, having had an opportunity of consulting with his colleagues in the Government with respect to the constitutional problem involved in the ...
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Article : 1,583 wordsAmong the officers who were yesterday presented with war medals by His Majesty the King, at the Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, were the following:—Colonel ...
Article : 135 wordsThe British garrison that will be permanently stationed at Tientsin is to consist of the Hong Kong Regiment (Sikhs), Lieut.-Colonel J. M. A. Retallick, and the ...
Article : 55 wordsA proposal has been made by M. Auguste Beernaert, the eminent Belgian statesman, that the Congo State should be annexed by Belgium. ...
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Article : 37 wordsThe report by Sir David Barbour, formerly financial member of the council of the Governor-General of India, on the finances of the Transvaal has been ...
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Article : 137 wordsMuch satisfaction is felt in France that the British proposal for raising the Chinese war indemnity has been accepted by the powers. The proposal is that Chinese bonds ...
Article : 129 wordsOf the hundred odd New South Wales and Queensland soldiers by the Morayshire, who stayed in Melbourne after the vessel left for Sydney, another half-dozen ...
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Article : 173 wordsSince the outbreak of bubonic plague in Hong Kong last month 1,202 cases and 1,131 deaths have been reported. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe subscriptions received for the Million Guineas Fund, the raising of Which was authorised by the Wesleyan Conference in July, 1898, now amount to £848,874. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsThe Board of experts from the various states appointed to inquire into the circumstances of the derailment of a passenger train at Tempe on February 15 last, by ...
Article : 336 wordsThe House was opened for the first time with prayer. When, the Speaker came in there was a large assemblage of members, and he requested them to remain standing. ...
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Article : 208 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 2? per cent., being [?] per cent. below the Bank of England rate, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsThe Mohammedan sailor who developed small-pox on the s.s. Darius some weeks ago, and who was landed at the Cut-pawpaw Sonatorium, was released yesterday ...
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Article : 126 wordsSome weeks ago Mr. Marcus Beresford placed in our hands the sum of £1,000, to be given to St. Vincent's Hospital in order to extend the accommodation for the sick ...
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Article : 646 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—Bradford—Busisness is quiet. Quo= tations for tops are 18d.for common sixties ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsSir,—As one of those who joined in an appeal to the Parliament of the Commonwealth to have each day's proceedings opened with a suitable prayer, I beg to ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Fquity Trustees Co. and Mr. Robert William Summers are applying for probate of the will of Robert Summers, late of 81 Charles-street, Kew, retired civil servant, ...
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Article : 201 wordsLast week General Bruce-Hamilton captured 200 Boers between Petrusberg, in the west of the Orange River Colony, and the railway. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 15 Jun 1901, Page 13
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