A start was made last night to take the census in Great Britain and Ireland. King George set an example by arranging for an accurate compilation of ...
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Article : 1,110 wordsMr. Carr, M.H.R., a Labour member, in the course of a speech at Blayney, claimed that the referendum was a nonparty matter dealing with technical and ...
Article : 2,250 wordsMr. A. Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, delivered a speech in London on Saturday, and referred to that one made in the German Reichstag on ...
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Article : 54 wordsNine hundred amendments to the Parliament Bif[?] have been given notice of. The commitee stage will be taken to-day. ...
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Article : 427 wordsThe boycott of Greeks in Turkish ports has been revived. The shops kept by Greeks in Broussa, Asiatic Turkey, have been placarded with warnings to ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Turkish troops who yesterday made a sortie from Tushi and attacked the Albanians, continue to hold the blockhouses surrounding the town. ...
Article : 148 wordsThe dog tax in Berlin has been increased to 30s. per animal, and as many owners were unable to pay the tax wholesale poisonings of dogs have taken ...
Article : 60 wordsGeorge Gray concluded his third match yesterday with E. Diggle, one of the loading English professional billiard players. As on previous occasions the ...
Article : 69 wordsAll India is wildly delighted at the decision of King George and Queen Mary to visit Delhi in December and the magnificent character of the ...
Article : 101 wordsDuring the progress of the boat race yesterday between the Oxford and Cambridge crews, the progress of the contest was watched by people in ...
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Article : 71 wordsMr. David J. Hill, the United States Ambassador to Germany, has arrived in New York with full power to negotiate in regard to the potash controversy, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe financial journal "Economist" states that for the past quarter the issues of British capital amounted to £61,000,000. Of this sum £5,362,800 ...
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Article : 63 wordsIt is still held in diplomatic circles in Berlin that the mobilisation of American troops on the Mexican border is merely the forerunner of a great clash ...
Article : 95 wordsThe French Government recently prepared a bill to provide for the payment of supplementary pensions to railway men based on the number of years of ...
Article : 110 wordsNews has been received that the Royal assent has been given to the Shipping and Seamen Act Amending Act. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Dutch Government has submitted a Customs Bill to Parliament, which is expected to yield 10,000,000 florins a year. Of this sum 9,000,000 florins will ...
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Article : 127 wordsDr. Anthony Colling Brownless was at the Central Criminal Court to-day charged with having feloniously slain Annie Theresa King at Paddington on ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Champ Clark, the Speaker-elect of the American House of Representatives, says that Congress will ratify the Canadian reciprocity agreement, but ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Terra Nova has been engaged by the Government for coastal survey work until she is required to proceed south again. Payment will take the form of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe total number of invalid pensions now in force is 5,852. The number of old-age pensions is 74,614. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 4 Apr 1911, Page 5
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