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  2. NEWCASTLE.

    At the invitation of the house committee and honorary medical staff of the Newcastle Hospital, Messrs. W. T. Dick and J. Thompson, Ms.L.A., representing Newcastle East and New castle West ...

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  3. SECOND EDITION.

    The Budget Committee of the German Reichstag has decided that the naval programme shall be completed within six years instead of seven years. ...

    Article : 37 words
  4. VICTORIA.

    Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland, arrived on Satnrday by the Sydney express to take part in the conference of Promiers which is to be held to-morrow at Parliament House. It will be ...

    Article : 260 words
  5. THE FAR EAST.

    Japan is fortifying the port of Wei-haiwei, which she holds as a pledge for the payment by China of the war indemnity. ...

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  6. THE TRANSVAAL.

    Mr. J. G. Kotze, the Chief Justice of the Transvaal, who was dismissed by the Executive for repudiating the agreement come to by the Judges not to test in ...

    Article : 112 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The Austrian Reichsrath will be reopened on the 21st instant. The new Language Ordinances with regard to the use of the German and ...

    Article : 281 words
  8. FISHING VESSELS DRIVEN ASHORE.

    During a terrific storm at Memel, in Prussia, on the shores of the Baltic, a number of fishing vessels were driven ashore. Ten fishermen were drowned. ...

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  9. RUSSIA AND GREATA BRITAIN.

    Russia is already excluding British ships from the coasting tiade in connection with Russian ports, and has notified Great Britain that her vessels will also be ...

    Article : 54 words
  10. THE WEST INDIES SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    As the result of the recommendations contained in the report of the West India Sugar Commission, the British Government has decided to grant £120,000 to the ...

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  11. FOREIGN CONSULAR SERVICE.

    Speaking in the Volksrand yesterday, Dr. W. J. Loyds, the Transvaal Secretary of State, defended the proposal to grant £17,500 for a foreign consular service. ...

    Article : 64 words
  12. MR. GLADSTONE.

    Mr. Gladstone, who recently returned to London from his visit to Cannes, is improving in health. ...

    Article : 35 words
  13. FEDERAL CONVENTION.

    The work of recommitting the Commonwealth Bill for the second time will be referred to when the delegates meet to-morrow. The business-paper which has been issued shows that 35 new clauses are ...

    Article : 972 words
  14. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. Horace Page, leader of the party recently despatched to Israelite Bay to make inquiries into the rabbit incursion, has telegraphed to the Stook Department that he found rabbits ...

    Article : 79 words
  15. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL.

    The appoal to the Privy Council in the New Zealand case of Eccles v. Mills has been allowed, with costs. ...

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  16. EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

    During last week the Agricultural Department shipped 20,514 rabbits to London by the steamer Woolloomooloo, and the previous week 41,800 by the Lusitana, and 26,990 by the Gulf of Vonice. ...

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  17. THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

    The Continental newspapers are discussing what they regard as an infringement by Russin of treatios with other Powers in sending warships belonging to ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. THE FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.

    The Messageries Maritimes Company has decided to increase the contract speed of its steamers on the Australian line to 14½ knots, and to reduce the stay of the ...

    Article : 45 words
  19. MADAME ALBANI.

    Madame Albani opened her Melbourne season at the Town Hall last evening under conditions similar to those which obtained in Sydney. The hall was not nearly large enough to accommodate ...

    Article : 227 words
  20. A GUN ACCIDENT.

    A telegram from Southern Cross states that the warden, Dr. Black, while driving in Golden Valley, met with a serious accident. A gun which he was carrying was loaded, but not ...

    Article : 120 words
  21. GREECE AND TURKEY.

    Mr. G. N. Curzon, Parliamentary Beorotory for Foreign Affairs, stated in the House of Commons last night that the Powers would ondeavour to compel ...

    Article : 52 words
  22. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The R.M.S. India arrived from London on Saturday morning. Among the Sydney passengers were—Viscountess Hampden, Hon. Alice Brand, Hon. Robert Brand, Colonel Cavendish ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

    Mr. Richard Olney, formerly American Secretary of State, said, in the course of a locture delivered by him at Harvard University, that the near future would see a ...

    Article : 66 words
  24. LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION.

    At a meeting of the council of the Northern District Lawn Tennis Association, held at the Terminus Hotel last evening, it was resolved that the presentation of championship badges ...

    Article : 124 words
  25. THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.

    Three battalions of British troops are concentrated at the River Atbara, some miles above Berber, where Major-General Sir H. Kitchener has under his command ...

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  26. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The member for Queanbeyan addressed his constituents here to-night, when there was a crowded attendance at the Railway Hotel, settlers from Fairy Meadow, Lake Bathurst, and other outlying places ...

    Article : 142 words
  27. THE SULPHIDE CORPORATION.

    In accordance with the recent decision of the management of the Sulphide Corporation to increase smelting operations at the works at Cockle Creek, definite arrangements have now been completed for ...

    Article : 231 words
  28. THE BEHRING SEA QUESTION.

    Russia has paid to Canada 40,000dol. as an indemnity for the seizure of sealing schooners in Behring sea. ...

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  29. TASMANIA.

    A woman named Mears, wife of Edward Mears, who recently kept the Palace Hotel, at the corner of Murray and Collins streets, died suddenly at a lodging-house on Saturday. She had asked for a ...

    Article : 103 words
  30. EXPLORATION IN EGYPT.

    Some remarkable arch[?]ological dis[?]overies have recently been made in the ruins of the Necropolis at Abydos, on the left bank of the Nile, Upper Egypt. ...

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  31. GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, AND CO.

    Mr. A. M'Donald Cowper, general manager for Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited, returned by the India from London on Saturday morning. Whilst in London he had a conference ...

    Article : 130 words
  32. MISSIONS IN UGANDA.

    The House of Commons has voted £10,000 to the Roman Catholic Missions in Uganda as compensation for the losses sustained during the native revolt in ...

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  33. THE LANCER BAND.

    Arrangements have been completed for the removal of the Lancer Band from West Maitland to the headquarters of the regiment at Parramatta. The change is much regretted by the officers of the ...

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  34. A BATHING FATALITY.

    A sad drowning fatality occurred this afternoon two miles from Wilcannia in a billabong on the river Darling. Two sons of Mr. Walter Doll, a resident butcher here, aged about 10 and 8, went in for a ...

    Article : 89 words
  35. THE ITALIAN CONSTITUTION.

    There are great rejoicings in Italy in connection with the celebration of the fiftieth, anniversary of the foundation of the Constitution. ...

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  36. OUR FIJI LETTER.

    Prospects in Fiji are improving as the year opens. The first three months of each year are always the quietest, as the weather is uncertain, and few people travel. Business also is dull ...

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  37. CHAMPIONSHIP BOWLING COMPETITIONS.

    The delegates representing the Highlands and Lowlands Waratah and Hamilton Bowling Clubs have completed arrangements for the championship bowling competitions, which will commence on the ...

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  38. RETURN OF PROFESSOR ANDERSON —STUART.

    Professor Anderson Stuart, of Sydney, and his wife arrived by the R.M.S. India yesterday. Professor Anderson Stuart states that he made a special study of the dental educational systems in ...

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  39. DEPARTURE OF THE CAPE OTWAY FOR KLONDYKE.

    Not since the stirring days of '49 probably has a similar scene occurred at a Sydney whart to that of Saturday afternoon last. Not that hundreds of gold diggers have not since then left here by steamer or ...

    Article : 870 words
  40. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

    At the London County Council elections 68 "Progressives" and 48 "Moderates" were returned. The "Progressives" gained 16 seats, ...

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  41. METHODIST UNION.

    The Bible Christian Conference on Saturday morning gave a final vote authorising the completion of the financial arrangements involved in bringing about Methodist Union next year. ...

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  42. COLD STORAGE AT SMITHFIELD.

    Mr. J. H. Geddes, of Geddes, Birt, and Co., has formed the Smithfield Markets Cold Storage Company with a capital of £50,000, of which shares to the amount ...

    Article : 171 words
  43. QUEENSLAND.

    Complaints have reached the Government from Charters Towers concerning the interruption of the northern telegraph lines during the bad weather along the coast. Mr. Hesketh, electrical ...

    Article : 291 words
  44. HEALTH OF LORD SALISBURY.

    Lord Salisbury, who was lately reported to be sufforing from an attack of influenza, is now recovering. ...

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  45. THE VICTORIAN WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

    At the sitting of the Wesleyan Conference yesterday the report of the committee on the Rev. Mr. Coltman's proposal to raise a fund to partake of the joint character of a debt extinction and thanksgiving ...

    Article : 99 words
  46. AN HONORARY COLONELCY.

    The "War Office authorities have cancelled the appointment of Mr. Calvert to the honorary colonelcy of a volunteer regiment. ...

    Article : 133 words
  47. AN IMPORTANT APPEAL DECISION.

    At the Quarter Sessions held in Dubbo on January 28 last, before Mr. Acting Judge Merewether, John Campbell appealed against an order made against him in the Dubbo Police Court last December by ...

    Article : 436 words
  48. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

    At a meeting of the Frozen Meat Trade Committee to-day it was resolved that a surveyor, to be mutually approved by the shipowners and freezing companies, ...

    Article : 85 words
  49. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The Customs revenue collected from proas at the North Coast for the current season amounted to £330. The Monmuir, from the Southern ports, after a ...

    Article : 47 words
  50. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTS.

    Mr. W. J. Winter Irving M.L.C., and Mr. D. B. Lazarus, M.L.A., both of Victoria, have inspootod the promises in King William-street, city, proposed to be taken ...

    Article : 83 words
  51. A POST-OFFICE BURGLARY.

    The local post and telegraph promises were entered by burglars some time between 10 o'clock last evening and 5.30 this morning, an entrance being effected through a window which had evidently ...

    Article : 127 words
  52. NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Rollet, Cousul-General for Belgium, in an address to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, has urged the extension of the frozen meat trade to Belgium, where mutton now costs 1s per lb. ...

    Article : 116 words
  53. A NEW COMPANY.

    The shares in Hickson's Petroleum Can Handle Company, which was formed with a capital of £70,000, have been allotted. ...

    Article : 28 words
  54. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 28 l1/8d per ounce standard. ...

    Article : 17 words
  55. A MONSTER NUGGET.

    A nugget weighing 463oz. 16dwt. of gold has just been brought in from Lake Way by the finder, a man named Martin. The nugget is on view, and is drawing large crowds. ...

    Article : 36 words
  56. LATE SHIPPING.

    The City of Grafton, 825 tons, arrived from the Clarence at 1 o'clock this morning. She experienced strong southerly winds and head sea to Port Macquarie, then light E.S.E. winds until arrival. ...

    Article : 39 words
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