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  2. THE BOER GUERILLAS

    The Boer guerillus who recently occupied the village of Van Rhyasdorp, about 200 miles north of Capetown, in a notoriously disloyal district, captured Mr. P. B. ...

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  3. ENGLISH FACTORIES BILL.

    The Government last night sustained a minor defeat on the report of the committee on the Factories Bill. The House, had committee, had altered the clause in the bill ...

    Article : 197 words
  4. THE FACTORIES ACT.

    The Premier (Mr. Peacock) yesterday took advantage of the opportunity afforded by a question by Mr. M'Arthur to make a lengthy statement as to the attitude of the ...

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  5. WORK AND WAGES IN Victoria and New South Wales.

    While the protective policy of the past has fostered the manufacturing Industries of Victoria, the new protection, in the shape of humane factory legislation, has raised the ...

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  6. FEDERAL POLITICAL NOTES.

    A section of members yesterday prepared themselves to deliver a succession of set speeches on the Post and Telegraph Bill. Like the leaders of the Opposition and a ...

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  7. STATE POLITICS.

    So much attention has been directed o[?] late to the operation of the Factories Act, and its probable effect upon Industry under inter-State free-trade, that much interest ...

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  8. RETURN OF INVALIDS FROM THE TRANSVAAL.

    The steamer Orizaba is due to arrive at Melbourne to-day, and has on board the following invalided and returned Australians from the Transvaal:-- ...

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  9. PURSUIT OF KRUITZINGER.

    The guerilla rebel Kruitzinger, who with 400 men was recently reported to have crossed the Midland railway line near Conway and to be making towards Graaff ...

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  10. RECRUITING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    In the House of Assembly to-day, the Premier informed Mr. Haynes that a Major Thomas, late of the Citizens Bushmen's Contingent, had advertised for men to go to ...

    Article : 220 words
  11. EXECUTION OF DUTCH REBELS.

    Cape telegrams report that the steadily proceeding execution of Afrikander Dutch rebels who are captured in red-handed rebellion with the Boer guerillas is making a ...

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  12. PACIFIC CABLE BILL.

    The second reading of the bill empowering the Imperial Government to expend £2,000,000 on the construction of the Pacific cable, In partnership with Canada and ...

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  13. KITCHENER'S PROCLAMATION.

    Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent, telegraphs that very good effects are already resulting from Lord Kitchener's proclamation of the ...

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  14. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    KORUMBURRA.--Sergeant J. M, Finlayson was tendered a welcome oh Saturday night, and was presented with a gold watch. Sergeant Finlayson was a mounted police constable here before ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    The foreign Ministers at Pekin have agreed to the draft protocol of the Chinese treaty. It provides that the Imperial Maritime customs tariff shall be one of 5 per cent, from ...

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  16. KRUGER'S CONTROL.

    The Pretoria correspondent of the "Times" has learned a circumstance which accounts for the obedience which Boer generals and officials still pay to the bebests of Mr. ...

    Article : 104 words
  17. KING'S TITLES BILL.

    In the House of Commons last night, the bill empowering the King to adopt, within six months of passing of the measure, an additional title in recognition of the colonial ...

    Article : 79 words
  18. WINE ADULTERATION ACT.

    Dr. Gresswell, chairman of the Central Board of Health, stated yesterday that Mr. J. T. Deravin's letter in "The Age" of that morning, detailing the circumstances leading ...

    Article : 529 words
  19. BOER PEACE ENVOY RESCUED.

    Rimington's Guides, a well-known corps of South African irregulars, in the course of a successful sweep through the Heilbron district, in the north-east of the Orange ...

    Article : 117 words
  20. ADDITIONAL WAGES BOARDS.

    Mr. J. W. Billson also asked the Premier in the House yesterday a question regarding the Factories and Shops Act. He wished to know when the Premier intended to submit ...

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  21. CANTON OBJECTS TO HOUSE TAX

    Great popular discontent prevails among the Cantonese in consequence of the Viceroy of Kwang Tung having imposed a house tax in order to raise the contribution required ...

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  22. SWEATING IN SYDNEY.

    A public meeting of tailoresses, with the object of calling attention to the prevalence of sweating in connection with their work was held in the Protestant Hall this ...

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  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Bishop's Court, Manchester, the residence of the Right Rev. Dr. J. Moorhouse, Bishop of Manchester, formerly Bishop of Melbourne, was yesterday partially destroyed by ...

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  24. BOER LOSSES FOR A WEEK.

    The War Office has published Lord Kitchener's regular weekly list of ascertained Boer losses during the first week in August as reported to him by column ...

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  25. THE AMERICAN STEEL STRIKE.

    The latest development in the great American unionist strike against the Steel Trust is the refusal of the men employed by the Illinois Steel Company, one of those ...

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  26. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    Tin.--The quotations are:--Spot, £117 76; forward delivery, £113 126 per ton. Received by Dalgety and Co. Limited:--London, 9th August.--Frozen Meat Market: For ...

    Article : 63 words
  27. SHEARING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Shearing is to commence in the Hillston district on 16th, and more than the usual number of shearers are camped about the town. They seem unanimous in ...

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  28. COUNT WALDERSEE, G.C.B.

    King Edward of England, while oh his way to Kronberg to attend the funeral service of his late sister, the Empress Frederick, met at Homburg Field Marshal Count von ...

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  29. THE ST. HELENA PRISONERS.

    Another desperate attempt at escape has been made at St. Helena by two Boer prisoners of war, who took advantage of the comparative liberty allowed them. These ...

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  30. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrived.--Whinlatter, barque, from Brisbane 26th March: Inverclyde, barque, from Lyttelton 10th May: Buccleuch, ship, from Melbourne 12th May: Lota, barque, from ...

    Article : 111 words
  31. CHASED BY A WHALE.

    Yesterday whilst Patrick Corrigan, a fisherman at St. Leonards, was fishing from his boat near the West Channel pile light, he noticed in the distance the whale whose ...

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  32. MACLAREN'S CRICKET TEAM.

    Mr. A. C. MacLaren, the Lancashire amateur, has engaged H. Garuett as a member of the team he will take to Australia for the coming cricket season. ...

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  33. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    The War Office reports the following casualties to Australian soldiers:-- Private W. Camper, Third New South Wales contingent, slightly wounded in action at Gondplaats: ...

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  34. COMMENTS BY THE VITICULTURAL BOARD.

    The case of Mr. Deravin was referred to at yesterday's meeting of the Board of Viticulture. Mr. Blayney expressed approval generally of the action the Board of Health ...

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  35. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL JUBILEE.

    In consequence of the jubilee of the first Legislative Council body in Victoria being in next November--the first Legislative Council of Victoria ...

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  36. THE VICTORTA-BRIDGE FATALITY.

    At the Morgue yesterday morning, Mr. Morrison, district coroner, held an inquest into the death of the girl Ruth Willston, aged seventeen, who threw herself into the Yarra from the Victoria-bridge on ...

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  37. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    The inconvenience to which drivers of vehicles are subject at the Burke-road railway crossing, Camberwell, has frequently been discussed at the local council, and efforts have repeatedly been ...

    Article : 264 words
  38. THE INVERMAY TRAGEDY.

    There are no fresh developments in connection with the Invermay tragedy. Mr. and Mrs. O'Reilly, who are charged with the murder of their daughter, were remanded to ...

    Article : 114 words
  39. SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

    At the meeting of the local Farmers' Union on Saturday evening, Mr. M. Looney, one of the vice-presidents, referred to the present unsatisfactory system of publishing ...

    Article : 169 words
  40. THE SOUTH AFRICAN PROMOTIONS.

    The official explanation of the refusal to allow non-commissioned officers who were promoted in South Africa to retain their higher rank when returning to duty in ...

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  42. PENSIONERS AND ASYLUMS.

    At the meeting of the benevolent asylum committee to-day reference was made to the remarks at the meeting of the hospital board of management on the previous evening ...

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  44. SHIPWRECK RELIEF FUND.

    The hon. treasurer of the Federal and Louisa Lamont Shipwreck Relief Fund, Mr. W. T. Appleton, desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following amount:--J. H. Abbot, M.L.C., £1. ...

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