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  2. THE FEDERAL CONTINGENT.

    A start was made with the camp at Moore Park yesterday morning. Nine candidates for commissions and 200 applicants for enrolment had been notified to attend. Of these two probationary officers ...

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  3. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    Particulars of the captures made in the Eastern Transvaal by Major-General Bruce Hamilton show that the British columns crossed the flooded Vaal River by pontoons, ...

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  4. CHINA.

    The Imperial Court will return to Peking on Tuesday. The Chinese authorities have requested the Legations to keep foreigners off the streets when the Court re-enters the ...

    Article : 111 words
  5. SECOND EDITION.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day 3-16d lower at 2s 1 13-16d per ounce standard. ...

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  6. THE PACIFIC MAIL ROUTE.

    On behalf of the Oceanic Steamship Company, better known as the Spreckels San Francisco service, Messrs. Bruns, Philp, and Co. have sent an important letter to the ...

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  7. COMMONWEALTH NOTES.

    The regulations under the Immigration Restriction Act, having been approved by the Governor-General in Council, have been gazetted. Officers administering the Act are given power to search any vessel ...

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  8. THE QUEENSLAND DRAFT.

    So far the number of men enrolled for service in South Africa is 32. Wires from outstanding places are being received from men desirous of going. It is expected that by the end of the week more than the ...

    Article : 75 words
  9. THE TOWITTA TRAGEDY.

    There is little fresh to report about the Towitta tragedy, nor is there likely to be until Thursay, when the adjouned inquest will be held. The revelations which are likely to be obtained then by the ...

    Article : 226 words
  10. THE TRAGEDY AT GUILDFORD.

    The inquest concerning the death of Alfred Flynn Buckley, who was shot early on Sunday morning on the Guildford railway station, was held at the Parramatta Courthouse yesterday morning by the ...

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  11. THE IMPORTATION OF MUNITIONS.

    The "Daily Telegraph" states that some of the European Powers have made representations to Washington charging the United States with violating the agreement to ...

    Article : 68 words
  12. THE UNITED STATES.

    A multitude of Chinese merchants in the United States have petitioned the Chinese Emperor to oppose the re-enactment of the Chinese exclusion law now before Congress. ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN BULGARIA.

    After a Ministerial crisis lasting eleven days in Sofia, Bulgaria, M. Banff has formed a Ministry, whose members are strongly Russop[?]le. The Sobranje (National ...

    Article : 50 words
  14. GENERAL ERASMUS.

    General Erasmus, who was captured by Major-General Bruce Hamilton, is presumably the General Erasmus who was ordered to co-operate with General Meyer in the ...

    Article : 45 words
  15. ANGLOPHOBIA IN GERMANY.

    The Bremen Chamber of Commerce in its annual report deprecates the outbreak of Anglophobia in Germany. The report reminds Germans that their exports owe their ...

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  16. A BOER ATTACK REPULSED.

    While reconnoitering in the Vryhe[?]d district, in the South Eastern Transvaal, 500 Boers charged the advance guard of Major Garrett's column, but were repulsed. ...

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  17. THE FIVE-MASTED SCHOONER LOUIS.

    The Louis, a five-masted American schooner, bound from Eureka, California, to Melbourne, with a cargo of redwood timber, put into Newcastle in distress at 3.30 this afternoon. The narratives of ...

    Article : 791 words
  18. THE PENHRYN QUARRIES DISPUTE.

    The strikers at Bethesda, Wales (Pehryn slate quarries), resent the presence of the military in the district. A great deal of window smashing has occurred, and the ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. SCOTS GREYS AT BRONKHORST SPRUIT.

    A party of Scots Greys had a sharp encounter with Boers at Bronkhorst Spruit, cast of Pretoria. The Boers allowed the advanced guard of the Scots Greys to pass, and ...

    Article : 70 words
  20. A GERMAN TRAITOR.

    Sergeant-Major Fisslier, of the German Army has been sentenced to 12 years' penal servitide at Mannheim on a charge of selling a mobilisation plan to a French spy. ...

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  21. PECULATION OF A HUNGARIAN OFFICIAL.

    M. Kechkemethy, a municipal official of Buda Pesth, has absconded to the United States, taking with him 500,000 crowns (about £21,000), the property of the ...

    Article : 47 words
  22. INSTRUCTIONS TO COMMANDANTS.

    An order conveying instructions to the State Commandants in reference to the mode of selection of officers for the Federal Contingent was issued by the Premier of the Commonwealth yesterday ...

    Article : 210 words
  23. THE TWEEFONTEIN ENGAGEMENT.

    Sir H. M. L. Rundle, with the Grenadier Guards and the Staffordshire regiment, was eneamped three miles north of Tweefontein on Christmas Day. He sent the Staffordshires to ...

    Article : 67 words
  24. THE QUEEN.

    Queen Alexandra sent a Christmas gift and a sympathetic letter to the Salvation Army for the poor. ...

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  25. SCHEME OF STATE-OWNED CABLES.

    Reuter's Agency states that Sir Sandford Fleming, in a letter to Mr. W. Mulock (the Canadian Postmaster-General), advocates a State-owned Atlantic cable and land lines ...

    Article : 69 words
  26. THE NAVY.

    The Admiralty has directed that a test of oil as fuel should be made on two battleships and one cruiser of the Channel squadron. ...

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  27. DE WETS REARGUARD ENGAGED.

    Major-General Elliot engaged the rearguard, of Commandant do Wet, north of Reitz, in the north-east of the Orango River Colony, and captured 12 of the enemy. ...

    Article : 34 words
  28. ARGENTINA AND CHILI.

    The Argentine press accuses Chili of underhand negotiations in the dispute as to the Cordilleras' boundary. The press declares that the Government of Chili intends to ...

    Article : 48 words
  29. THE BOER DELEGATES.

    A representative of the "Daily Mail" has interviewed the Boer delegates in Holland. He found that they would be willing to discuss terms of peace if the demand for ...

    Article : 94 words
  30. PASSED THE MEDICAL TEST.

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  31. A CYCLONE IN QUEENSLAND.

    A very disastrous storm passed over the district between Jondaryan and Dalby on Saturday evening about 8 o'clock. The telegraph lines on both sides of Bowenville are down. Iron poles on the plains were ...

    Article : 245 words
  32. THE SEALING OF SHIPS' STORES.

    On being interviewed in reference to the question of sealing ships' stores as affecting foreign mail streamers, Dr. Wollaston (Comptroller-General of Customs), stated that, as the Federal Premier had ...

    Article : 585 words
  33. PORTUGAL.

    A revolt has broken out among the soldiers of Torres Novas, Portugal. The soldiers plundered the town and killed several of the townsfolk. Troops have been sent from ...

    Article : 75 words
  34. CALUMNIES ON BRITISH TROOPS.

    The Italian and the Austrian officers who were attaches with the army in South Africa declare that the story of the outrages attributed to soldiers of the British army is ...

    Article : 94 words
  35. THIRD LIST OF APPLICANTS.

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  36. SPAIN.

    Several thousand strikers at Barcelona stoned the factories. The gendarmes frequently charged the rioters. The cavalry were called out and restored order. ...

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  37. THE NARRABRI CYCLONE.

    Further particulars to hand show that the cyclone did great damage outside of Narrabri. J. Stoltenberg's vineyard was totally destroyed. R. Vincent had 58 sheep killed by hail, and many ...

    Article : 253 words
  38. THE CONFERENCE OF PREMIERS.

    It is now probable that the conference of Premiers, which it was proposed to hold in Sydney on the 20th instant, will not take place. The Premier of Tasmania, who is also the Attorney-General, has ...

    Article : 155 words
  39. LUXURIES FOR THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

    The Biitish Government insists that the concentration camps shall be supplied with the best brands of imported foods and fresh vegetables and with other luxuries which ...

    Article : 322 words
  40. VENEZUELA.

    The Liberador (Ban Righ), evading two of the Venezuelan gunboats, has landed arms at Barcelona, on the Venezuelan coast. On Saturday a cable was published that the ...

    Article : 52 words
  41. MISS AMY CASTLES.

    News is to hand by the English mail to-day that Miss Amy Castles will sail for Australia in January. She sang at one of the London ballad concerts at the Queen's Hall on November 30. "The Times" critic, ...

    Article : 263 words
  42. LORD STRATHCONA'S GIFT.

    Lord Strathcona, the High Commissioner for Canada, has given £25,000 for the extension of the Aberdeen University. ...

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  43. NEW CALEDONIA.

    The subsidy of the French Government to New Caledonia, amounting to 660,000f., has been reduced to 500,000f. (£20,000). ...

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  44. THE BISHOP OF BRISBANE.

    The Bishop of Brisbane, the Rev. Dr. Webber, preached yesterday before the King and the Queen at Sandringham, in aid of the Brisbane Cathedral Fund. ...

    Article : 33 words
  45. TO-DAY.

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  46. BRITISH LOSSES IN DECEMBER.

    In December the British casualties were:— Killed, 30 officers, 190 men; wounded, 49 officers, 382 men; deaths from accidents and disease, 393; invalided, 1456. ...

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  47. NEW ZEALAND TREASURER ON FEDERATION.

    The Trensurer, Sir J. G. Ward, speaking to-day at public meeting, said that the federal tariff had affected them to some extent, but the colony would easily find an outlet for the produce which formerly ...

    Article : 78 words
  48. THE JESUITS.

    Lord Salisbury, in replying to the Protestant Alliance, said the Government did not intend to legislate against the alleged Jesuit invasion of England. ...

    Article : 31 words
  49. LATE SHIPPING.

    Arrival: January 7, Cromdale, ship, from London. ...

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  50. THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

    The Englishmen left Melbourne by the same train as the New South Wales men. They will play at Stawell on the 8th and 9th; at Ballarat on the 10th and 11th. The third test match will commence at ...

    Article : 48 words
  51. TASMANIA.

    Splendid rains are falling. Vegetation is invig[?]rated, and the whole country is refreshed, though news from the cast coast tells of floods. ...

    Article : 29 words
  52. ENROLMENT IN ADELAIDE.

    Candidates for the South Australian Commonwealth Contingent assembled at the Exhibition Building this morning. The returned soldiers were formed into line and inspected by the commandant, after ...

    Article : 63 words
  53. SIREN SOAP

    [?]s particularly adapted for toilet use by persons whose occupation causes the hands to harden and crack. Keeps the skin in a healthy and plaible condition.— Advt. ...

    Article : 27 words
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