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Article : 84 wordsOwing to labourite insults, due to his attitude towards the Japanese, the Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieutenant-Governor of, British Columbia, is retiring. He is ...
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Article : 294 wordsThe Czar has commuted General Stoessel's death sentence to imprisonment in a fortress for ten years, loss of rank, and exclusion from further military service. ...
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Article : 367 wordsComplaints have recently been made regarding the rough treatment of new boys at Dookie College by old students. About a year ago similar complaints were brought before ...
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Article : 92 words"It is a conspiracy on the part of all those people to crush us by forcing us to arbitrate," said Mr. Hughes yesterday, in reference to the request made by the coastal ...
Article : 541 wordsThe recommendations of the finance committee of the Victorian Football Association regarding the suppression of professionalism were rejected by the league to-night, hardly ...
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Article : 104 wordsThomas Naughten, aged 33, in the employment of Mr. G. F. Lewin, Clinton Orchard, went bathing on Friday with some companions in the river below the town. Taking a ...
Article : 98 wordsArthur Vincent was to-day charged with insulting behaviour, and with having assaulted the police. Constable A. Churches said that he went into the Union Hotel, Russell-street, ...
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Article : 198 wordsThe flooding of the Stanford-Merthyr Colliery has been found to be serious. Only a portion of the mine can be worked, and 100 men will probably cavil out. They strongly ...
Article : 107 wordsH.M. sloop Shearwater, is at Iquique, searching adjacent islands for any survivors of the barque Silberhorn, which was lost while bound from Newcastle (N.S.W.) ...
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Article : 123 wordsThe strike of clippers at Pelaw-Main colliery reached an acute stage to-day, when the miners decided to support the clippers in their demand. The men conveyed their ...
Article : 79 wordsThe barque Cairndale, which put into Fremantle on January 29 from Middlesborough after having been buffeted and torn about by gales which stripped her of her sails, was ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. W. S. Fielding, Canadian Minister for Finance, in delivering his budget, announced that the Dominion's surplus for the past financial year was £3,800,000. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 19 Mar 1908, Page 7
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