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{"rowid": 17459, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "3", "column": "d", "title": "", "description": "Tokyo international fair is opened and report on exhibition about China.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801331", "trove_id": "26801331"}
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{"rowid": 17463, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "6", "column": "b", "title": "", "description": "Overseas Chinese student. Report on Chinese students in Tokyo and European countries and their activities.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801338", "trove_id": "26801338"}
{"rowid": 17464, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "6", "column": "b-c", "title": "", "description": "Help our compatriots. Chinese community in Sydney donates to flooding victims in north Jiangsu province. Hundreds of names listed.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801338", "trove_id": "26801338"}
{"rowid": 17465, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "a", "title": "", "description": "New statistics on population in the six Australian states.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17466, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "a", "title": "", "description": "Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia rises in Melbourne.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17467, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "a", "title": "", "description": "New South Wales government reduces taxation to encourage business activities.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17468, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "a", "title": "", "description": "Eighteen Chinese gambling houses are raided in Melbourne but no arrest reported.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17469, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "a", "title": "", "description": "Zhang Zhuoxiong (Cheong Chock Hong) sues a German steamship company for compensation for their failing to carry 105 Chinese from Hong Kong to Australia in 1900.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17470, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "a", "title": "", "description": "Japanese government purchases 42 horses from Australia.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17471, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "a", "title": "", "description": "Hundreds of Australian citizens are returning from South Africa.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17472, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "b", "title": "", "description": "China purchases rice from the state of Victoria, Australia, for disaster relief in north Jiangsu and Anhui province.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17473, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "b", "title": "", "description": "Japanese newspaper publisher comes to visit Australia.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17474, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "b", "title": "", "description": "A fire in business centre of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.", "source": "New Zealand", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17475, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "b", "title": "", "description": "A letter from Huang Houcheng, Chinese consul in London, to the Tung Wah Times and Chinese communities in Australia.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17476, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "b", "title": "", "description": "Essay. Skills will win you promotion in the officialdom.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17477, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "b", "title": "", "description": "Fiction. Student Knife.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17478, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "c", "title": "", "description": "Tung Wah Times thanks readers who have paid their subscription fee. Names listed.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17479, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "c", "title": "", "description": "Timetable of ocean liners.", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17480, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "7", "column": "c", "title": "", "description": "Mail from China awaits collection. ", "source": "Tung Wah", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801333", "trove_id": "26801333"}
{"rowid": 17481, "date": "1907-05-18", "page": "8", "column": "a-b", "title": "", "description": "First part of foreword to the Academic Bulletin (xue bao) that to be published in Shanghai.", "source": "China", "page_url": "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801336", "trove_id": "26801336"}
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