A statement which bears directly on the value of Dr. Cook's claim to have discovered the North Pole is made by the Danish explorer, Herr Knnd Rassmussen, and ...
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Article : 150 wordsThe State Ministry yesterday spent a large part of the afternoon considering the political questions raised by the opposition of the Country party to the Land Tax Bill, ...
Article : 365 wordsMr. William Davidson, inspector-general of public works in Victoria, who is on a visit to the United Kingdom, is obtaining a great deal of information bearing on the object ...
Article : 1,367 wordsBallarat was brilliant under the sunshine of a perfect day yecsterday, on the occasion of a visit by His Exeellency the GovernorGeneral. ...
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Article : 613 wordsTo-day and to-morrow the annual appeal will be made to the public in aid of the metropolitan hospitals. The need for a generous response to the appeal was never ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Baltic Shipping Exchange has opened a subscription on behalf of the British Antarctic expedition, which is being prepared by Captain Scott. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Development Bill, which was issued in connection with the Budget, has passed the committee stage in th House of Lords. Amendments were inserted with the object ...
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Article : 151 wordsThe Kaiser has adopted an expedient for stimulating the birthrate in Germany, which of late years has fallen to an ularming extent. He announces that he will ...
Article : 209 wordsA Cabinet meeting of the State Ministry was held yesterday from half-past 2 o'clock in the afternoon until nearly 7 o'clock in the evening. Ministers considered the progress ...
Article : 243 wordsLast evening the King, who is staying near Cktchester, by touching an electric button opened the Tuberculosis Institute at Montreal It was the midele of the ...
Article : 115 wordsIn the course of a speech at Preston, Lincashire, the Earl of Derby indignantly resented certain remarks recently made by Mr. Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, ...
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Article : 126 wordsFollowing is a list of the band performances to be given between 3 o'clock and 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon:— Victoria Police Band, at the Botanical-gardens; ...
Article : 197 wordsThe general feeling of unrest in the Spanish Cortes, fomented by the Socialists who are indignant with the Government for orderiug the execution of the anarenist ...
Article : 236 wordsA successful raid was carried out last night in the Chinese quarter bya posse of detectives and plain-clothes police, under the direction of Deteetive-sergeant ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsThe Victorian Football League met yesterday evening to receive the report of the finance committee, and to arrange for the distribution of the profits of the semi-final ...
Article : 681 wordsThere was some sensation amongst the members of teh Victorian Football League and the football publice when it was stated in "The Argus" on September 27 that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsSir,—The days appointed for the annual collections on behalf of the medical charities being now at hand, I take the opportunity of addressing a few words to your readers ...
Article : 350 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—Speaking at the Trafalgar Day banquet to-day, Sir Joseph Ward said he thought he would be right in saving that in all portions of the ...
Article : 163 wordsA demonstration of protest against the execution of the Spanish anarchist Francisco Ferrer, was hald by the British Independent Labour Purtky at the ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Farman, the noted aviator, who established a British record for distance on Wednesday by flying 47½ miles at the Blackpool carnival, has been awarded the first prize ...
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Article : 460 wordsThe National Union of Women Woikers, sitting in conference at Portsmouth, yesterday agreed to a motion favouring the systematic emigration of women to the ...
Article : 78 wordsOwing to the bursting of a dam at Lake Derkos, near Constantinople 25 workmen were overtaken by the resh of water and drowned. ...
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Article : 38 wordsAn exhibition of working models of flying machines wad held under the auspices of the Aerial League in the Athenæum-hall yesterday. The number of entries received ...
Article : 264 wordsDuring October. 1908, 10.393 lambs were exported. These figures will be largely excoeded this year, for up to October 19 13,140 lambs had been killed for ...
Article : 196 wordsThe International Food Congress, which is sitting in Paris, yesterday diseussed the use of foreign substances in wine. The French wine trade proposed a notion ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 23 Oct 1909, Page 19
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