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Article : 47 wordsThe St. Mary's Rifle Club started their first match, firing on the afternoon of the 25th inst. The following were the rules under which Colonel Legge had his first ...
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Article : 1,102 wordsThe Zanzibar Consular Court is now trying the case in which the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition Committee sue Tippoo Tib, the Arab trader, ...
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Article : 86 wordsThe Financial News deprecates Victorian borrowing, and says further railways there are unrequired. ...
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Article : 256 wordsThe latest betting on the Derby places the Australian colts Narellan and Kirkham at 500 to 30. ...
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Article : 698 wordsThe return of Major. Pinto from Zambesi improves the present aspect of aflairs between England and Portugal and it is expected that the withdrawal ...
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Article : 221 wordsThe first junior match of an intercolonial character will be played on the New Town ground to-day when the Alma (Victoria) and Albert (Hobart) clubs will try ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 1 Jan 1890, Page 3
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