SYDNEY, Friday.—To-day there sits in a Government office, with chin cupped in hand, the most serious civil servant in New South Wales. Not that extreme ...
Article : 787 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and Lady Irvine, attended by Major H. A. F. Wilkinson, private secretary, left Melbourne for Stawell yesterday ...
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Article : 906 words'I am in the place where I am demanded of conscience to speak the truth, and therefore the truth I speak, impugn it whose list." CORRESPONDENTS are requested to inform ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Premier (Sir Stanley Argyle), accompanied by Lady Argyle, will leave this morning for a brief holidiy at his property at Lake Kangaroo, near Kerang. ...
Article : 891 words"The fate of nations hangs upon " their choice of food," said the eighteenth century gastronome Brillat-Savarin. Echoing that ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsMiss Margot Mackay, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mackay, of Hawthornden, Roslyndale avenue, Edgecliff, Sydney, after an illness extending over ...
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Article : 123 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The dispute between the Government and the Legislative Council about the financial emergency legislation took an unexpected turn late last ...
Article : 268 wordsCareful research into the history of the supposed convict ship Success has been carried out by Commonwealth officers. The result has convinced Federal ...
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Article : 204 wordsAn ice-cream firm in South Melbourne worked three shifts yesterday. It was the first time that it had been done this season. By midnight there were 6,000 ...
Article : 149 wordsSir,—Born at Williamstown in July, 1853, Mr, J. Robins, of Kyabram, is in his 81st year. His wife gave birth to 17 children, nine of whom survive. There ...
Article : 94 wordsMargaret Jone Christie, of Thornton, widow, who died on October 12, left by will dated July 21 real estate of a gross value of £2,230 and personal property of a gross value of £77 to ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. Joseph Lacey, who was killed by electricity at the West Melbourne gasworks on Thursday, will be given a military funeral to-day. Mr. Lacey was a ...
Article : 82 wordsSir,—I am one of a family of eight, five boys and three girls, survivors of a family of 13, whose united ages amount to 573 years.—Yours, &c., ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 20 Jan 1934, Page 20
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