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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The police to-day received information that during last night the railway station safe at Bethanga Road was earned off by burglara. The office had been forced open to enable the robbers to ...

    Article : 87 words
  3. NEWCASTLE.

    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, and Messrs. Archibald ...

    Article : 237 words
  4. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    New quarantine regulations are being prepared. It is understood that they will provide for a reduction of the period for quarantining for smallpox from 21 to 15 days. ...

    Article : 63 words
  5. VICTORIA.

    The Damasous, which arrived this morning from London, via the Cape, reports having left London on September 25. She had a fair weather passage to Capetown, which was reached on ...

    Article : 79 words
  6. THE INDIAN FRONTIER.

    Further news from the north-western frontier of India states that the Afridis are adopting guerilla tactics, which prove very harassing to the British. They ...

    Article : 86 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The French have burned 12 towns in the hinterland of Lagos, West Africa, claiming British protection, and have occupied Daorti, a capital, despite the ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    The French have burnt 12 towns claiming British protection in the hinterland of Lagos, West Africa. A collision between the French and a British ...

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  9. A CASE OF SNAKEBITE.

    Early on Sunday morning William J. Moore, a miner while sleeping in his tent at Spring Crook, near Moonbi, was bitten by a venomous snake. He made his way six miles to Moonbi, drank rum, then ...

    Article : 89 words
  10. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

    The match between Stoddart's Eleven and a team representing Victoria was continued to-day on the Melbourne Cricket Ground under similarly favourable conditions to those which obtained on ...

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  11. DEPARTURE OF THE SQUADRON.

    H.M.S.S. Orlando, Karrakatta, Wallaroo, and Lizard leave here on Tuesday, the three firstnamed for Sydney, and the Lizard for Launceston. The Orlando and the other two will halt at Jervis ...

    Article : 56 words
  12. LABOUR TROUBLES IN ENGLAND.

    Mr. E. G. Barnes, the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, declares that the engineers on strike will not surrender until the eight-hours' ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. THE INCOME TAX.

    Horse-owners of New South Wales, who called at the V.R.C. office to-day to draw their cheques for stakes won over the Spring Meeting, were surprised to learn that the Commissioner of Taxes had ...

    Article : 110 words
  14. A PAINFUL ACCIDENT.

    A serious accident happened to a young man named James Perrin, the son of a farmer, near Cudgegong, on Saturday evening. The youth was on a load of lucerne hay when he slipped, and ...

    Article : 2,228 words
  15. CITY COUNCIL.

    The fortnightly meeting of the Newcastle City Council was held at the Town Hall to-night, under the presidency of the Mayor (Alderumu D. Miller). It was resolved on the motion of Alderman Asher,— ...

    Article : 307 words
  16. THE CUBAN REBELLION.

    The Autonomist, party in Cuba has agreed to confirm the appointment of General Blanco, the Governor of the island, and is organising a Government. ...

    Article : 42 words
  17. QUEENSLAND.

    Information was lately received from India that it is intended to put an embargo on horses from Queensland on account of ticks. At the instance of the Chief Inspector of Stock, the Chief ...

    Article : 240 words
  18. TURKEY AND GREECE.

    The commission engaged in delimiting the Thessnlian frontier at a recent sitting assigned Nezeros, in Thessaly, to Turkey. It has since finally decided that it shall ...

    Article : 40 words
  19. INCREASE IN THE FRENCH NAVY.

    The French estimates provide for the expenditure of 721,825,000 francs (£28,873,000) upon the building of new vessels for the navy, the amount to be ...

    Article : 50 words
  20. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

    Dr. Chevalier de Bilinski, the Austrian Minister of Finance, has advised the Opposition in the Reichsrath not to compel the Government to prolong, by means of ...

    Article : 50 words
  21. HOSPITAL SATURDAY COLLECTIONS.

    A number of additional amounts towards the Hospital Saturday Fund were received by the officials of the Friendly Societies' Association to-day, bringing the total to considerably over £200. The ...

    Article : 110 words
  22. QUEENSLAND SEPARATION.

    In a letter to the "Standard," Mr. J. F. Hogan, M.P. for Mid-Tipperary, says that Queensland separation is approaching a "victorious consummation." ...

    Article : 31 words
  23. BRITISH TRADE.

    According to the returns of the Board of Trade, the imports into the United Kingdom during the month of October show a decrease in value of £631,127, and ...

    Article : 51 words
  24. FIRE BRIGADES' COMPETITION.

    At to-day's meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board a letter was read, front the Newcastle and Northern District Amalgamated Fire Brigades' Association, stating that it was proposed to hold a ...

    Article : 137 words
  25. BRITISH BROKEN HILL S.M. COMPANY.

    The report of the directors of the British Broken Hill Silver-mining Company shows a profit, of £15,083, out of which payment of a dividend of 1s per ...

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  26. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. D. M'Intosh, the champion pigeon-shot of Victoria, was a passenger from Europe by the French mail steamer which arrived on Sunday evening. The Hon. N. Fitzgerald, of Victoria, ...

    Article : 173 words
  27. THE YUKON GOLDFIELDS.

    Mr. Ogilvie, the Canadian inspector of goldfields, has been lecturing at Victoria, British Columbia, on the results of his visit to the Yukon goldfields. He says ...

    Article : 65 words
  28. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MINING

    A visit of inspection was paid to Brookman'[?] Boulder this afternoon. At the 300ft. level th[?] developments that had taken place during the past few days were a surprise, ...

    Article : 185 words
  29. SHIPMENT OF COAL.

    The quantity of coal shipped at the Government wharfs and cranes for home intercolonial, and foreign consumption during the week ended this morning totalled 37,201 tons, as compared with ...

    Article : 100 words
  30. TASMANIA.

    The secretary of the Emu Bay Railway Company, Limited, reports that very good progress has been made in the construction of the railway and other matters since the registration of the ...

    Article : 257 words
  31. PRESENTATION OF BADGES.

    A special meeting of members of the Carlton Football Club was held at the Royal Hotel to-night, when the A and B teams who were victorious in the senior and first junior football competitions, were ...

    Article : 104 words
  32. BEHRING SEA FISHERIES.

    The representatives of the United States, Russia, and Japan have signed a convention for the suspension of pelagie sealing in tho Behring Sea. The ...

    Article : 38 words
  33. NEW ZEALAND.

    A serious blasting accident has occurred at the Thames. A man named Hatton received the fall force of a charge in the face. He lost one eye, and received other injuries. ...

    Article : 163 words
  34. AMUSEMENTS.

    Mr. Rignold will celebrate the holiday at th[?] Theatre Royal this evening with an elaborate production of the popular military drama. "Tommy Atkins." A complete military band and a strong ...

    Article : 90 words
  35. EDUCATIONAL TOURNAMENT.

    The opening ceremony in connection with the Hamilton Musical and Educational Tournament was performed by the Mayoress of Newcastle (Mrs. D. Miller) at the Sacred Heart School, Hamilton, ...

    Article : 45 words
  36. THE CANADIAN TARIFF.

    Canada has granted Japan and the Netherlands reciprocal tariffs. ...

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  37. BALMAIN HOSPITAL.

    The Hon. Jacob Garrard presided at the meeting of the board of management of the Balmain Cottage Hospital last night. An important matter affecting the question of representation in connection with the ...

    Article : 240 words
  38. STABBING AFFRAY.

    At the City Court to-day before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., a seaman named Aleck Eckman, belonging to the vessel Bulaclava, was charged with having maliciously wounded one Samuel Phillips, a steward, ...

    Article : 187 words
  39. THE GLENELG DEFENCES.

    Colonel J. M. Gordon, Commandant of the South Australian Military Forces, is about to visit the works of Sir William Armstrong and Co., Elswick, with a view ...

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  40. TRINITY COLLEGE EXAMINER.

    Dr. Charles Vincent, a distinguished English musician, has arrived in Sydney by the Moana, from Auckland, in prosecution of an Australasian tour as examiner for Trinity College, London Last year ...

    Article : 675 words
  41. LYCEUM THEATRE.

    The performance of the "Prairie King" last evening ran from start to finish with the greatest smoothness. A matinee will be given to-day, commencing at 2 p.m. ...

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  42. TOWN HALL ORGAN RECITALS.

    There was an unusually large attendance at the Town Hall last night, when the city organist opened his recital with the overture to "Poet and Peasant," and also played an operatic fantasia upon "Lucia ...

    Article : 133 words
  43. STEAMER STRUCK BY A TIDAL WAVE.

    Further particulars are to hand with reference to the loss of four men from the Lund liner Woolloomooloo, which left Port Melbourne on September 10 for London, via the Cape. The ...

    Article : 325 words
  44. RAILWAY EXTENSION IN RHODESIA.

    Mr. Cocil Rhodes states that arrangements have been made to extend the railway which was lately opened as far as Bulawayo, in Rhodesia, to Victoria Falls, ...

    Article : 68 words
  45. DARING BURGLARY.

    Between midnight on Saturday and the early hours of Monday morning a daring burglary was perpetrated at the tobacconist's establishment of Mr. David Williamson, Hunter-street, city. The ...

    Article : 102 words
  46. BAND CONTEST AND CONCERT.

    The Intercolonial Band Contest will be continued to-day at the Town Hall at 2 o'clock, when the climax of interest will be reached by the competition between first-class bands. The following nine band[?] ...

    Article : 233 words
  47. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 381 words
  48. FATALITY AT COCKLE CREEK.

    A workman named William Arthur was instantaneously killed at the Sulphide Corporation Works to-day by being crushed between the buffers of two railway trucks. The body was removed to a local ...

    Article : 444 words
  49. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2¾d per ounce standard. ...

    Article : 15 words
  50. SWIMMING.

    Owing to James L. M'Cusker, the American champion swimmer, failing to meet Ernest Cavill, the Australian professional champion, the latter claims the ...

    Article : 81 words
  51. PUBLIC SCHOOL CONCERT AT NEWTOWN.

    The Oddfellows' Hall, Wilson-street, Newtown, was crowded to excess on November 5, the occasion being the annual concert of the pupils of the Newtown Public School. The proceeds were devoted to ...

    Article : 193 words
  52. SALE OF RACEHORSES.

    At the sale of racehorses conducted by Yuille and Co. at Newmarket to-day the bidding was fairly brisk, and a good percentage of horses offered changed hands. The highest price realised ...

    Article : 187 words
  53. ENGLISH SPORTING.

    "Mr. Jersey's " (Mrs. Langtry) Australian racehorse Morman, by Grand Flaneur—Seaweed, is the favourite for the Liverpool Autumn Cup at odds of 11 ...

    Article : 36 words
  54. ST. LUKE'S EXHIBITION AND FAIR.

    The concert arranged by Miss Maud Fitz-Stubb[?] at the Exhibition Building last night, in aid of St. Luke's Fair, was cordially appreciated by the audience. "The Bridal Waitz," on two pianos, by ...

    Article : 104 words
  55. BOOMERANG BRANDY.

    Two Gold Medals, Brussels Exhibition. BRYANT and MAY'S VESTAS, FULL SIZE, FULL COUNT. See that Bryant and May's Name is on every Box. ...

    Article : 40 words
  56. THE INDIAN ARMY.

    The officers smoke only Ogden's Guinea Gold, an old established favourite with all military men. The Society Smoke.—Advt. ...

    Article : 27 words
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