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[UNITED :ss ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.] Sydney, Yesterday. Captain Stokes Rees, the officer in charge of Gards Island speaks enthusiastically of the New Naval base at Singapore. The object, he states, is to obviate and danger to British possessions of Australia and these in Eastern waters by a possible block in the Suez Canal. The importance of Sydney as a naval depot is likely to be greatly enhanced. Peter Close refused to answer questions before the Lands Commission as to what he did with the sums of money he received in connection with certain eland transactions, on the ground that it might incriminate himself.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42784, 28 September 1905, Page 3
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107Latest Australian. Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42784, 28 September 1905, Page 3
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