A variety of subjects were dealt with when the Navigation Conference resumed its sittings yesterday,with Mr.Lloyd-George in the chair. ...
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Article : 155 wordsMr. Bent and Mr.Taverner were the guests at luncheon yesterday of the directors of the London and Westminster Bank, the institution which attends to the ...
Article : 271 wordsWhen it was heard that the Aberdeen liner Marathon was bringing a number of immigrants to Australia it was expected that Victoria would receive her quota of the ...
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Article : 729 wordsEven Mr. Bent's latest forecast of a surplus of £500,000 for the finacial year ending June 30 promises to be considerably under the mark. Last month's revenue ...
Article : 316 wordsSpeaking at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Colonial Bank of Australasia Ltd. yesterday, the chairman (Mr. T.Skene) referred to the remarkable, ...
Article : 416 wordsNeither dressing windows with Australian products to catch the eye of the passer-by, nor delivering after-dinner speeches about our resources, nor writing despatches to ...
Article : 485 wordsFurther particulars in regard to the release of the son of Mr. Robert Abbott, a British merchant at the Turkish seaport of Salonika, who was kidnapped by brigands ...
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Article : 150 wordsThe new resident medical officers at the Melbourne Hospital, who will enter upon their year's work to-day were formally introduced to the committee of management ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 1 May 1907, Page 7
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