The American mails which arrived today contain some particulars of the terrible destruction caused by the tornado in Georgin. A telegram from Gainesville on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 222 wordsThe strike of carpenters at Pretoria, which has lasted two months, is ended. The masters have agreed to pay the men a standard wage of £6/10/ per week, of 48 ...
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Article : 380 wordsIn the House of Lords last evening Lord Muskerry strongly advocated legislation on the lines of the resolution passed by the Colonial Conference last year relating to the ...
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Article : 552 wordsThe conversion of Traralgon into the central depot of the Gippsland district means that the engines which were formerly stabled at Sale will hereafter be stabled at ...
Article : 1,833 wordsThe Railway Commissioners returned last night from their tour of the coal lines. Mr. Tait, the Chief Commissioner, on being interviewed, refused to deny or confirm the ...
Article : 831 wordsThe British first-class torpedo gun-boat Hussar, 1,070 tons, 2 guns, has captured off the coast of Somaliland, a dhow, on which were found 200 rifles and 27 cases of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 743 wordsA serious outrage by Kurds in Armenia is reported. The Kurds pillaged a monastery near Erzeroum, killing six priests. They also ...
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Article : 258 wordsAt the Princess's Theatre last night Shakespeare's comedy, "As You Like It," was presented for the last time before a large audience. This evening Mr. George ...
Article : 1,026 wordsThe Geographical Society of St. Petersburg has conferred a special honour on M. Zybikoff, a Russian explorer, who recently spent a year in Lhassa, the capital of Tibet, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe list of arrivals for the fourth series of London wool sales this year has closed. It comprises 228,000 bales, of which 87,000 have been forwarded direct to the ...
Article : 173 wordsCaptain Charles Alfred Percy Gardener, who was a member of the Fifth Victorian Contingent, and describes himself as a cattle dealer at Cape Town, was brought ...
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Article : 162 wordsDuring the present wool season, which is now closed, 164,400 fewer bales were carried over the railways than last season. The ship Verajean, in regard to the safely ...
Article : 369 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales will open on the 30th inst., and close on July 3. The quantity to be offered is 11,920 bales, including 460 bales of Australian wool. ...
Article : 38 wordsHis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been created a Vice-Admiral. A syndicate has been formed to construct a ship canal between the Firth of Clyde ...
Article : 140 wordsThe reserve of notes and coin is £20,852,000. against £26,823,000 for the previous week, the proportion to liabilities being 51.62 per cent., against 53.14 per cent. ...
Article : 375 wordsSir,—I notice that Mr. John Vale states in your columns that "the British public house trusts have chiefly distinguished themselves so far by endeavouring to plant ...
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Article : 36 wordsThe following airivals and departures are reported:— Arrrvals.—Moana, from Sydney May l8; Australasian, from Melbourne May 6. ...
Article : 39 wordsInterviewed on his way to Sea Lake last night as to the intentions of the Ministry with reference to the perpetual leases that lapse through nonpayment of rents and the ...
Article : 420 wordsNews received by the American mail states that on May 30 the south-bound Coast Limited train plunged from the cliff into the surf at Punta Garda, and was ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Marine Board held an lnquiry to-day into the grounding of the barque Western Australian at Troubridge Island on Wednesday, and found that Captain Sone had ...
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Article : 75 wordsAbout four years ago the North German Lioyd and other main steamer companies made a trial of Collie coal with unsatisfactory results. The development of the ...
Article : 72 wordsMr.J.H. Stewart, hon. secretary of the Mallee Settlers Relief Committee, Swan Hill, desires to acknowledge the following contributions in answer to his appeal for assistance to the distressed ...
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Article : 242 wordsCharles Glanfield and Henry Harvey, both 21 years of age, who were arrested under sensational circumstances on Thrusday night for the murder of the infant ...
Article : 349 wordsMrs. Mary Goldstein, a young married woman, residing with her husband at "Waitura," St. Kilda road, was surprised on Thursday when a woman presented herself ...
Article : 312 wordsSir,—Until we get a steady and continuous, influx of a desirable class of immigrants the progress of our Commonwealth must go on at a snail's pace. ...
Article : 199 wordsSir A. Cadman, who has returned to the colony, states that a scheme to establish the iron-sand industry on the West Coast of the North Island, and at Parapara, Nelson, ...
Article : 156 wordsThree boys, William Miller, Joseph Hodges, and William Drysdale, were before Messrs. Edwards and Close, J.P.'s, at the Port Melbourne Court on Thursday on a charge of playing football in a ...
Article : 201 wordsThe recommendation of the finance committee that £50 be voted for making a valuation of the town, and that Mr. Robert J.Storie, the rate-collector, be appointed to undertake the duties, came ...
Article : 116 wordsWilliam French Bond, late of 97 Eastwood-street, Kensington. retried hotelKeeper, who died on May 29, under a will dated January 7, 1874, left real estate ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 27 Jun 1903, Page 16
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