Viscount Midleton, formerly a Conservative member of the House of Commons, and father of Mr. St. John Brodrick, has been placing before the Canadians some views on ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. George Hollamby Druce, the claimant to the Portland dukedom, has conferred with his solicitor, Mr. Edmund Kimber, on the question of continuing in the light of ...
Article : 170 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Northcote left Melbourne by last night's Sydney express, on a visit to His Excellency the Governor of New South ...
Article : 1,275 wordsThe issue in the great test match still swings in the balance, and when stumps were drawn last night there was so little definite gain either way that the ...
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Article : 187 wordsPreparations are being made for the retrial of Harry K. Thaw, the Pittsburg milbonaire, who last year avenged the wrong done to his wife by Stanford White, the ...
Article : 314 wordsThe team for the Adelaide test match will not be picked until Friday. There is some doubt as to whether Hartigan will be able to go to Adelaide, but an effort is being ...
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Article : 79 wordsMr. J. C. Smuts, Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal, speaking at Pretoria, said that the Government did not expect that the Registration Act would cause so much ...
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Article : 50 wordsA new phase of the immigration of Japanese into Western Canada, which has lately caused so much resentment on the part of the white residents, is the tendency of ...
Article : 102 wordsThe sudden death of M. Guyot Dessaigne, Minister of Justice in the French Cabinet, which occurred a few days ago, has necessitated a reconstruction of M. Clemenceau's ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Abe Bailey, the well-known South African sportsman and financier who recently proposed to the Marylenone Cricket Club a senes of traingular test matches in ...
Article : 154 wordsThe attitude of China towards Japan has for several months past become more and more unconciliatory. Difficulties have arisen regarding the maintenance of China's ...
Article : 195 wordsThe procedure followed by one railway company under the agreement which terminated the recent railway trouble is not giving satisfaction to-the employes. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe people of Northern Morocco, however disposed they may be to assist the Sultan, Abdul Aziz, in restoring order throughout the country, have a decided ...
Article : 220 wordsThe United States Government has arranged to reduce the duties on French vines by 20 per cent., in return for similar concessions in France on American cotton ...
Article : 154 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—Further scorching heat was experienced in Adelaide to-day. The maximum shade temperature was 108.8deg., which is the highest this summer, ...
Article : 45 wordsA serious state of affairs has been occasioned bv a strike of coal-heavers, which occurred at Port Said at the end of last month. The men demanded an extra 5d. ...
Article : 87 wordsThose who are interested in the great pastoral properties of Queensland have noticed that in the rain reports of the past few weeks there have been repeated records ...
Article : 481 wordsThe death is announced of Edward Hanlan, formerly champion sculler of the world. The event took place at Toronto, and the authorities there have decided to arrange ...
Article : 50 wordsGEELONG, Monday.—At the vanledictory to Canon Nash this evening, prior to his departure for England, the schoolhall was crowded. Among those present ...
Article : 752 wordsThere is a shocking condition of overcrowing in the Russian prisons. It is stated that there are 140,000 prisoners confined in them, this being 34,000 beyond the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe question of affording relief to unemployed workmen has been widely discussed for some time past, and a new departure is being made by the Local Government Board ...
Article : 76 wordsThe name of Edward Hanlan is well known to all Australian followers of aquatics. It was from the Canadian that "Bill" Beach, the most popular oarsman ...
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Article : 58 wordsThe announcement that Cotter would continue his innings yesterday somewhat affected Mr. Bent's movements. At his office he found the usual pile of ...
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Article : 96 wordsSir,—In reference to letters in " The Argus" on the question of water supply to the public portion of the M.C.C. ground, I wish to say that the committee had already ...
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Article : 38 wordsThe Admiralty has replaced upon the active list the third class protected cruiser Philomel, of 2,575 tons, and the sloop Algerine, of 1,050 tons, both of which were ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 7 Jan 1908, Page 5
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