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  2. THE REDFERN PRODUCE SALES.

    On the subject produce sales at Redforn Messrs. Heaton Brothers wrjte as follows:—``The Railway Commissioners do not recognise that we have strong opposition from Victoria and South Austrelia. The ...

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  3. NEWCASTLE. WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD.

    The weekly meeting of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board was held at the offices, Newcastle, this morning The president (Mr. H, D. Walsh) occupied the chair. The revenue ...

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  4. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The land and income tax from July 1 to December 10 produced £11,903, a decrease of £2525 compared with the receipts for the corresponding period of last year. The stamp duties realised. ...

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  5. COUNTRY NEWS. A MAN DROWNED IN THE MURRAY.

    A Frenchman named Louis emploved at Eldridga'a saw mills, about three miles from Corowa, was drowned in the River Murray whilst bathing on Saturday afternoon last Deceased, who was an ...

    Article : 130 words
  6. VICTORIA.

    A married woman named Bridget Anderson, aged 10, residing with her husband and children at South Yarra, attempted to commit suicide to day by cutting her throat with a table knife. She ...

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  7. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    There are persistent rumours in Paris that the arrival of [?]-Captain Dreyfus from Cayenne is imminent, and that a body of 150 troops is in readiness to escort ...

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  8. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The conference proposed by the Czar to consider the question of international Hsarmament will meet in February. The representatives will comprise only ...

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  9. A BOY DROWNED IN A DAM.

    A boy named Alfred Carson was drowned yosterday whilst bathing in a dam eight miles from town. Heroic attempts were made by a smaller boy, named Wyard, to rescue his companion, who has too heavy ...

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  10. BOOLAROO WATER SUPPLY.

    Mr. David Watkins.M. L. A., waited upon the Water and Sewerage Board to-day with reference to a supply of water for the township of Boolaroo, near Cockle Creek. He said he had been asked by ...

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  11. DEATH FROM ANTHRAX.

    The death took place in the Wagga Hospital on Sunday of a man named George Hames. He was bitten on the eye by a fly or a spider last Thursday morning. The eye commenced to swell terribly. ...

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  12. GERMANY'S FOREIGN RELATIONS.

    The German Emperor, in the course of a conversation with tho Vioe-Prosidents of the Reichstag, said that although the relations of Germany with the other ...

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  13. THE INDIAN FRONTIER RISING.

    The Mad Mullah who caused a rising among the Swat River tribes, and whose followers were defeated by a British column, has been expelled from the Swat ...

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  14. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The steamer Menmuir, from Southern ports, arrived on Friday, Messrs. Gurry and Walker being pnssengers She sailed on Saturday for Hongkong with three Japanese and two Chinese ...

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  15. THE COAL EXPORT TRADE.

    The quantity of coal shipped at the Government cranes at the Dyke for home, intercolomal, and foreign consumption during the weekended this morning totalled 52,150 tons as compared with ...

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  16. BROKEN HILL.

    Soma pantry thieves visited Mr. Samuel Hancock's house, in Chapple-street, early on Sunday morning, making a clean sweep of the [?]ardar. A numorously-signed petition from Broken Hill in ...

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  17. AMERICA AND SPAIN,

    It has been arranged by the Peace Commissioners that the public debt of Cuba shall be a subject for negotiation with the future Government of the island. ...

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  18. A DELIBERATE SUICIDE.

    Shortly before 2 p.m. to day the body of Frederick George Cross, aged 28 years, was discovered in a abed on his father's premisos, at West Tamworth, with a bullet wound from a pearifle in his left breast ...

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  19. CHINA.

    The Viceroys of Nanking (LiangKiang) and Hankow (Liang-hou) have had an interview with Lord Charles Beresford, and they have assured him that ...

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  20. DEATH OF GENERAL GARCIA.

    General Calixto Garcia, who was one of the Cuban rebel leaders, has died at Washington from pneumonia. ...

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  21. LAND EXCHANGES.

    The Edgeroi-Burburgate exchange which was postponed from Saturday lost after a hearing of three days, was to-day again before the local land board, Messrs. W. Freeman, J. Riddle, and J. O. Ross. ...

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  22. THE COAL TRADE DIFFICULTY.

    The heavy decrease in the demand for coal during the past fortnight is due to the fact that the threatened difficulty in connection with the colt Trade has been practically overcome. The prevailing ...

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  23. QUEENSLAND.

    Last night Mr. S. Stuart Grant, who was for inerly distnot locomotive and traffic superintendent on the North-western railways of India, resident at Lahore, and who only arrived from the ...

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  24. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

    The Michelago troop of the 1st Australiun Horse was imspeted here on Saturday by Lieutenant and Adjutant Thompson Notwithstanding that sheering operations were in full swing, Lieuteuant Granville ...

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  25. THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.

    The Austrian Government contemplates the formation of a new army corps, and the reorganisation of the artillery und the engineers. ...

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  26. PUBLIC SCHOOL COOKERY CLASSES.

    Yesterday the halt-Yearly examinations of the pupils attending the cookery classes that are carried on at the Paddington Superior Public School were commenced. The Minister for Public Instruction ...

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  27. THE BANK OF ENGLAND AFFAIR.

    The man who attempted to force an entrance into the Bank of England, and who was arrested at the point of the bayonet, is demented. He is an English ...

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  28. THE NAVAL RESERVE.

    The Admiralty has invited the Newfoundland fishermen to enrol as stokers and seamen in the Naval Eoserve. ...

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  29. THE CITY COURT.

    At the City Court to-day a miner named George Evans, 38, was committed to take his trial at the next sittings of the Newcastle Court of Quarter Sessions on a charge of having broken and entered ...

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  30. THE CARLISTS IN SPAIN.

    The Pope has decided that in regard to Spanish affairs the policy of the Vatican shall be anti-Carlist. ...

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  31. EGYPT.

    The Egyptian Government proposes that the mixed tribunals should be renewed for one year, instead of five years, so as to enable the Powers to consider ...

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  32. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

    Th Christmas holidays give generally the busiest railway passenger traffic during any period of the ear In addition to the ordinary tourist traffic, which is always heavy on convenient holidays, there ...

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  33. THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM.

    A special meeting of the City Council was held in the Town Hall to-night for the purpose of giving further consideration to the report of Mr. Norman Selfe on the different tenders received for the ...

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  34. CITY RAILWAY EXTENSION.

    A public meeting was hold in the Ashfield Hull, Liverpool-road, Asbfield, last evening to urge upon the Government the necessity for extending the railway into the city. Alderman F. J. Josephson, ...

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  35. A BATTLESHIP DAMAGED.

    The United States battleship Massachusetts on Saturday struck an obstacle off Governor's Island, New York Harbour. She was seriously damaged, and ...

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  36. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    In the Supreme Court to-day, J. B. Neal, mine manager, recovored from the St. Agnes Gold Reefs, of Norseman, £200, representing three months' salary,- and £35, representing cortain ...

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  37. HUNGARY.

    Recently 11 members of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies seceded from the Liberal party, and Dr. Szilagyi, the President of the Chamber, resigned, in ...

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  38. THE BURMAH-SIAM RAILWAY.

    The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, the retiring Viceroy of India, is on a visit to Burmah. Speaking at Moulmein, he said that the construction of the ...

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  39. NEW ZEALAND.

    At a special general meeting of theo shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand Messrs, Watson and Kennedy were elected directors. During a gale on the passage of the steamer ...

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  40. COSTA RICA.

    General Iglesias, President of Costa Rica, Central America, intends to visit London and Paris. ...

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  41. MOUNTAINEERING IN SOUTH AMERICA.

    Sir William Martin Conway, the wellknown mountaineer, has climbed the volcano Aconcagua, in Argentina. He will shorty make an attempt to climb ...

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  42. PROPOSED TRAMWAY EXTENSION.

    A representative gathering of citizens of Newcastle favourable to the extension of the tramway from the present terminus at Tighe's Hill to Mayfield was held in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce this ...

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  43. SAMOA.

    It is reported at Berlin that the Pow era —Great Britain, the United States, and Germany-have agreed to occupy Samoa. Germany will make a beginning by ...

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  44. THE NEW COAL HEWING RATES.

    The miuers employed at the Mount Keira Colliery have considerad the resolutions submitted by the Southern colliery proprietors at, the recent conference at Wollongong, and have unanimously decided ...

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  45. TRADE IN AMERICA.

    The volume of trade in the United States during tho month of November exceeded that of any provious, month. The railway traffic was 11 por cent. ...

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  46. THE BOWLING ASSOCIATION.

    The inauguration of the Northern District Bowling Association was celebrated by a successful smoke connect at the Grand Hotel to-night. Mr. Trank Gardner, president, occupied the chair, and ...

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  47. THE PECULIAR PEOPLE.

    A maN named Senior, who is a member of a sect known as the Peculiar People, was recently convicted of the manslaughter of his child by neglecting to summon ...

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  48. AMERICAN COLONIES.

    An official from the American Treasury is studying the administration of Jamaica with a view of making it a model for the government of Puerto Rico. ...

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  49. CITIZEN'S UNEMPLOYED COMMITTEE.

    The Citizens' Unemployed Committee met yesterday at 11 a.m., Rev. G. T. Buchanan presiding. A number of apologies for inability to attend were received, among others from the three ...

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  50. AN EXTRAORDINARY MELEE.

    Yesterday a company of Indian hawkers numbering nearly 30 had a day's drinking at their camp on the flat to do honour to two of their company who were about to return to India with their fortunes, ...

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  51. MID-MOONTA COPPER MINES.

    Thw Mid-Moonta Copper Mines Company, Yorke's Peninsula, South Australia, is being formed, with a capital of £130,000, of which shares to the amount of ...

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  52. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES' PICNIC.

    The annual picnic and sports were held to-day by the railway employees on the Bathurst showground. there was a large attendance, special trains bringing excursionist[?] from Mudgee, Eskbank, Forbes, ...

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  53. LIEUTENANT WARK REPRIEVED.

    Lieutenant Wark, who was sentenced to death upon a charge arising out of an illegal operation which was performed upon a Misa Jane Yates, has been ...

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  54. THE BRISBANE TRAMWAY COMPANY.

    The Brisbane Tramway Company is offering £167,900 worth of 5 per cent, debentures at £105. ...

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  55. I.O.G.T. FANCY FAIR.

    A fancy fair and sale of work was commenced yesterday at the Oddfellows' Temple, Elizabethstreet, under the auspices of the Independent Order of Good Templars, with a view to reducing the ...

    Article : 212 words
  56. CHINESE COALFIELDS.

    An edict which has been issued by the Chinese Government ratifies the concession to the Hongkong-Shanghai Bank of the collieries in the Shan-hai-kwan ...

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  58. THE FORBES FIRES.

    To-day Mr.-coroner sowter and a july held an inquest touching the recent fire by which the Foibos Jockey Club grandstand was destroyed. Very little evidence was forthcoming, but the jury returned a ...

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  59. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 7-16d per ounce standard. ...

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