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  2. TRAGEDY NEAR GILGANDRA. A FAMILY ATTACKED BY ABORIGINALS.

    A terrible tragedy was enacted last night at Breelong, about 10 miles from here, at the residence of Mr. Mawbey. A messenger galloped into town last night, and reported that the whole family of ...

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  3. SPECIAL CABLES.

    In the House of Lords last night Lord Brassey called attention to and eulogised the resources of Australia for providing reserve forces for the Empire. He urged ...

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  4. CHINA. DENIAL OF THE PEKING MASSACRES.

    In response to the demand of the United States Government, Wou Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister at Washington, on July 11 despatched a cypher message from ...

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  5. THIRD EDITION. HERALD OFFICE, 3.50 a.m. CHINA.

    The English newspapers, in spite of the sypher cable to the American Government, are not convinced that Mr. E. H. Conger, the American Minister at Peking, is still ...

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  6. CAPTURE OF TIENTSIN.

    The Germans, in the attack on the eastern position of the Chinese at Tientsin on July 13, only sustained small losses owing to their rapid advance and quick ...

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  7. DESPAIRING LETTER OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.

    M. S. Pichon, the French Ambassador at Peking, in a letter written on June 12 stated "obscure and terrible things are in progress behind the curtain. Some ...

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  8. LI HUNG CHANG.

    There is intense indignation at the honours conferred at Hongkong upon Li Hung Chang, who, while in receipt of telegrams from the Empress, refuses to ...

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  9. THE SAFETY OF TIENTSIN.

    Tientsin is now in the possession of the allies, and it may be supposed that, with the constant arrival of reinforcements, the Chinese will have no chance of recovering it. To this good result all the allies seem ...

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  10. DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA.

    Yang-yu, the Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, suspects that forged Government edicts are at the bottom of General linen's declaration of war against the ...

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  11. CHINA AND JAPAN.

    The Emperor, who, according to Li Hung Chang, signed his appointment to Chi[?]li, has shown his nominal activity in another direction. He is said to have written on the 3rd of this month to the ...

    Article : 159 words
  12. BRAVERY OF THE CHINESE.

    The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Chifu states that the Chinese, in the assault on Tientain, stood up to a perfect hail of bullets from the allies. ...

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  13. THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA.

    Considerable correspondence between the United States Ministers and the Peking Government is summarised in to-day's messages. But no confidence can be reposed in the version given by the Chinese ...

    Article : 108 words
  14. THE FRENCH SOUDAN.

    A French force operating in the French Soudan killed the Sultan Rabah in an engagement on the Shari River. Rabah, formerly a slave of Zebehr Pasha, was ...

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  15. JAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS.

    Eight thousand Japanese troops arrived [?] Tientsin on July 16, and 2100 at Chifu. ...

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  16. THE N.S.W. VOLUNTEERS.

    Members of the Naval Forces desirous of volunteering for active service in China, with pay at the rate of 7s 6d per dicm, have, it is understood, to sond in their numes by 11 a.m. to-day. Following ...

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  17. JAPANESE ACCUSATIONS OF RUSSIAN CRUELTY.

    The correspondent of the "Daily Mail " at Yokohama states that the Japanese accuse the Russian forces of callous and wholesale massacres of the Chinese round ...

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  18. EXPORTATION OF ARMS TO CHINA PROHIBITED.

    The Powers have agreed to the proposal of M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, to prohibit the exportation of arms to China. ...

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  19. CHINESE EMPEROR APPEALS TO FRANCE.

    Yu-keng, the Chinese Minister in Paris, has presented to M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, an appeal from the Chinese Emperor dated July 19, ...

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  20. VICTORIAN CONTINGENT FOR CHINA.

    The transport Salamis is expected to reach here on Wednesday to take the Victorian Naval Contingent of 200 officers and men for China. On the day of embarkation the contingent will be marched to ...

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  21. THE WOOSUNG FORTS.

    Liu Kun Yi, Viceroy of Kiang-su, Kiangsi, and Ngan Whei, whose capital is Nanking, according to the Shanghai correspondent of the "Times," forbids the ...

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  22. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

    Private Ward, of the First Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, has won the Queen's Prize at the National Rifle Association, with a score of 341. ...

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  23. THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

    In anticipation of reinforcements being [?]nt to China, additional colonial forces pumbering 10,000 men, are being raised in Cape Colony. ...

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  24. SAFETY OF THE AUSTRALASIAN MISSIONS.

    A few days ago the Premier forwarded a telegram, through his Excellency the Governor, to the Governor of Hongkong, inquiring specially as to the safety of Australian missionaries in China. ...

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  25. SERIOUS CONDITION OF THE INJURED.

    The cause of the murder is supposed to be jealousy. The blacks wanted Mrs. Mawbey to treat a certain white girl who was living in their camp as one of themselves, which she refused to do. The ...

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  26. CANTON FORTS REINFORCED.

    Li Hung Chang, before leaving Canton, added 5000 men to the garrison of the Bogue forts. ...

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  27. A MUNIFICENT GIFT.

    Sir James T. Chance, Bart., of Birmingham, has given £50,000 to the Birmingham University. Sir J. T. Chance was created a barnet on May ...

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  28. MISSIONARIES ON FURLOUGH.

    News has been received in Sydney that the following missionaries, belonging to the staff of the London Missionary Society, stationed at Peking, are at present on furlough in England, and therefore escaped ...

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  29. SENTENCES ON REBELS.

    An employee of the Cape Government, who was implicated in the rebellion, [?]as been sentenced to five years' penal Krvitude. ...

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  30. ATTITUDE OF MOHAMMEDANS.

    The "Times" states that the Mohammedan clergy (Ulema) in Constantinople have issued a protest, based on the teachings of the Koran, against any sympathy ...

    Article : 69 words
  31. NEWS FROM THE EAST.

    The steamer Mm, which arrived at Newcastle yesterday direct from Hongkong, was released from quarantine to-day. She brings files of Shanghai and Hongkong papers, from which we extract the ...

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  32. VICTIMS HORRIBLY MUTILATED.

    Terrible wounds were inflicted on the victims. Hilda Mawbey, who was killed, has a bruise on the corner of the lett eye, a bruise on the forehead and over the left eye, and her skull is broken in behind ...

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  33. RELICS OF THE CHINESE WAR.

    An interesting exhibit of relics of the bombardment by the allied forces of the Taku forts on June 17 was displayed on Saturday in the window of Searl and Sons, florists, King-street. They were brought from ...

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  34. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Sir Julian Salomons, the late Agent-General of New South Wales, returned to the colonies by the mail steamer India on Saturday, after au absence of 18 months. Sir Julian Salomons states ...

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  35. ENEMY WRECK A TRAIN.

    A force of Boers wrecked a train between Krugersdorp and Potchefstroom, in the South-Western Transvaal. Amongst those on the train were 21 ...

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  36. FURTHER JAPANESE TROOPS.

    Japan is embarking another army division for China and a large siege train. ...

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  37. EMPEROR AND MIKADO.

    On July 3 the Emperor Kwang-hsu wrote to the Mikado of Japan (Mutsuhito) urging that Japan and China should make common cause against Europe. ...

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  38. ARREST OF A PEACE DELEGATE.

    Mr. Wolmarans, the returned peace delegate, who was arrested at Hatherly, has confessed to having served with a commando since he had taken the oath ...

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  39. SERVICE OF INTERCESSION IN MELBOURNE.

    A special service of intercession in connection with the massacres in China was held in St. Paul's Cathedral this afternoon. Bishop Thornton delivered an appropriate address upon the text, "Call upon Mo ...

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  40. MISSING MISSIONARIES.

    Eighty-two Belgian missionaries are missing. ...

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  41. LI HUNG CHANG.

    Much interest centres round Li Hung Chang. According to latest advices he was practically detained at Shanghai as a hostage until the situation bad cleared up and until it was plain that he really ...

    Article : 394 words
  42. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 152 words
  43. COLONEL LITTLE'S ENGAGEMENT.

    The action in which Lieutenant-Colonel M.O. Little, of the 9th Lancers engaged Commandant de Wet near Lindley was with 1500 Boers who had traversed the ...

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  44. AN IMPERIAL DECREE.

    An Imperial decree of the Chinese Emperor, dated July 18, has been transmitted to Europe and America through Li Hung Chang. ...

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  45. STATEMENT BY ONE OF THE PARTY.

    A white woman who was at the blacks camp, and who was arrested yesterday evening about 42 miles from the scene of the massacre, going towards Dubbo, said that she was married to Jimmy ...

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  46. THE MASSACRE AT PEKING.

    We heve received the subjoined letter from some of the Chinese residents of Sydney:—To the Editor of the Herald. Sir,—Will you please allow us to express in your paper our great sorrow at hearing the news of the ...

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  47. THE ADVANCE AGAINST PEKING.

    Rear-Admiral G. C. Remey, the American commander, cables to his Government that the forces of the allies will advance from Tientsin against Peking on ...

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  48. TROOPS SENT SINCE MAY.

    In the House of Commons on Friday [?]ight Mr. G. Wyndham, Parliamentary Secretery for War, stated that since May 12,203 troops had been sent to South ...

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  50. THE MURDERER PUPIL TEACHER.

    Mr. Alexander Kerz and Miss Kerz arrived at the scene about 3 p.m. to-day. Miss Kerz was unable to speak to anyone her grief being so intense Mr. A. Kerz on being interviewed said that the murdered ...

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  51. THE WAR ON THE MANCHURIAN FRONTIER.

    Russia admits that a state of war exists in East Siberia, but hopes to restrict it to that quarter. The Russian troops routed the Chinese ...

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  52. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Premier's defence scheme has been referred to the Committee of the House of Representatives. The scheme includes the securing of 30,000 magazine rifles. ...

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  53. QUEENSLAND CASUALTIES.

    In the engagement at Haman's Kraal with Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton's division, Sergeant F. Maxwell, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, was killed, ...

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  54. ARE THE MINISTERS SAFE?

    The cablegrams of this morning would seem to imply that there was no massacre of the foreigners at Peking on the night of June 30, and that all the Ministers, with the exception of Baron von Ketteler, ...

    Article : 496 words
  55. ST. PAUL'S SERVICE POSTPONED.

    The requiem service arranged to be held in St. Paul's Cathedral in memory of the victims of the Peking massacre has, in consequence of the reports of the ...

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  56. CATTLE FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Cloncurry arrived at Fremantle from Sydney. She lost, owing to bad weather, 90 cattle out of 300, also about 100 sheep. The Kad[?]a, arriving on Saturday from Newcastle, ...

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  57. DEPOSITIONS OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS.

    The depositions of Sarah Mawbey are as follows: —"My name is Sarah Mawbey. I believe I am dying. I know I am badly hurt. Jimmy Governor hit me with a tomahawk; I also saw Jackey. He ...

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  59. EYEWITNESS' STATEMENTS.

    A Chinese merchant of repute was an eyewitness of the massacre of Europeans at Peking. He told the Shanghai correspondent of the "Express" that the ...

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  60. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

    Russia has occupied all the important positions on the right (Manchurian) bank of the Amur. In these operations the Russians killed ...

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  62. DEATH OF ANOTHER VICTIM.

    Grace Mawbey has just died. Dr. Tressider health officer, from Dubbo, has just arrive[?] and is now busy sewing up the wounds of Mrs. Mawbey and Miss Elsie Clark, ...

    Article : 134 words
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