The party of British scientists who visited Japan for the purpose of making observations on the solar eclipse which took place on August 9 report the failure of their mission, dense ...
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Article : 797 wordsThe excitement in Crete gains intensity every day and there are indications that the prolongation of irregular warfare between the Christians and the Mohammedans may provoke ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry into the affairs of the British South Africa Chartered Company has been appointed as follows:—Mr. W. W. B. Beach (Andover ...
Article : 248 wordsIntelligence has been received from Bulu-wayo that Colonel Plumer has defeated the Secombo, the Umlugula, and three other impis in the Matoppo Mountains. ...
Article : 409 wordsThe intelligence received at Constantinople of further alarming disturbances in Crete is causing great excitement, and it is reported that the ambassadors of the Powers have ...
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Article : 23 wordsThe death is announced of the Dowager Lady Tennyson, widow of the late Poet Laureate. Emily, Lady Tennyson, was a daughter of ...
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Article : 42 wordsSurrey, the champion county of last season, has sustained another defeat in the cricket field. Essex, playing on its own ground at Leyton, in the match which began on ...
Article : 61 wordsDuring the progress of a bullfight in Marseilles yesterday the spectators were greatly incensed at the refusal of the performers, all of whom were women, to continue the fight till ...
Article : 66 wordsM. Arton, the French refugee, recently extradited from London for complicity in the Panama frauds, and who was sentenced by the French court to a term of imprisonment for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsThe Australian racehorse Paris has won the Lewis Handicap. ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 15 Aug 1896, Page 19
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