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TUBE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING say, has become lose and lees of a pro- is the Granatizm of tite lesalon, more and more of a trade. The Club on TUESDAY, the 28th instant at business of the journalist, in the eyes of 5.4 2.1, for the purpoes of considering and passing the Annual Reports and State- A not too scrupulous master, is to work ment of Accounts for 1909. up sensations, with slender re.ard to
R. L. BRIDGER, Acting Hon. Secretary, fness, and to write up rinything that
"Himekong, June 21, 1910. TEL. 908, Jermes along with RIS eye rivated ca
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But in almost every civilised country ther are a few good newspapers with a sense of responsibility to the public and alive to the duty of criticism. It often happene that a higher standard prevails in great provincial
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