A disastrous explosion has occurred in the No. 1 shait of the Maypole colliery, at Abram, near Wigan, in Lancashire Seventysix miners are entombed, and it is ...
Article : 291 wordsIn his original announcement regarding the necessity for a Land Valuation Bill, the Premier (Sir Thomas Bent) said that a standard valuation ws required that would ...
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Article : 1,071 wordsLady Gibson-Carmichael, attended by Captian Hope, A.D.C., presided at the meeting, at the Town-hall yesterday, of the executive of the Society for the ...
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Article : 110 wordsThe Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria who is this year celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of his accession to the throne, was 78 years old yesterday. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe National South African Convention, representing Cape Colony, the Transvaal, Natal, and the Orange River Colony, which is charged with the duty of considering and ...
Article : 205 wordsALEXANDRA, Wednesday.—The Rev. E. H. Scott to-day received a writ from the church authorities, calling upon him to show cause why judgement should not ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 20 Aug 1908, Page 5
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