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  2. FEDERAL POLITICAL NOTES.

    Most members saw Revenue win his Cup, but the indulgencies of the holiday produced no material effect on the attendance in the House. When the bells ceased ringing at ...

    Article : 348 words
  3. SUBURBAN RAILWAY FARES.

    The Government has finally adopted the scheme of suburban fares which was submitted recently by Mr. Fitzpatrick, Acting Commissioner of Railways. Mr. Fitzpatrick ...

    Article : 2,959 words
  4. THE MELBOURNE CUP.

    Some of the Roman sentinels remained at their posts amid the destruction of Pompeii. Curious travellers, wandering over the scene of bygone luxury, may have wondered idly ...

    Article : 1,954 words
  5. A SUCCESSFUL AERONAUT.

    The Deutsch prize of 100,000 f. (£4000) has been at length awarded to M. Santo Dumont, the Brazilian aeronaut, who recently made two brilliantly successful aeronautical trips ...

    Article : 147 words
  6. THE BOERS.

    Further Information with respect to the Brakenlaagte fight states that the mobile column under Major-General Hamilton, marching north from Standerton, reached ...

    Article : 153 words
  7. RETURNING HOME.

    Captain E. Tivey, of the Fourth Victorian Contingent, who was recently personally invested by King Edward at St. James's Palace with the insignia of the ...

    Article : 54 words
  8. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    The Imperial Parliament, which was prorogued on 17th August, has been further prorogued till 14th December. ...

    Article : 22 words
  9. DUTCH COMPENSATION CLAIMS.

    The Government of Holland has accepted an offer made by Great Britain for the settlement of the claims for compensation made by the Hollanders deported as ...

    Article : 78 words
  10. ARMY CONTRACT FRAUDS.

    Some scandalous disclosures with regard to army contracting were made to-day at the Old Bailey, during the trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud tho War Office of ...

    Article : 76 words
  11. A PRESS ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHT.

    A description of the Brakenlaagte engagement has been telegraphed to the "Standard" by its special correspondent in the Transvaal. This account states that Colonel ...

    Article : 194 words
  12. FRANCE AND TURKEY.

    There are indications that the French naval expedition to the Levant, under Rear-Admiral Caillard, is intended to make a very strong impression on Turkey, ...

    Article : 177 words
  13. A NAVAL RESIGNATION.

    It is announced that Sir William Henry White, K.C.B., F.R.S., D.Sc., director of naval construction to the Admiralty, who is the responsible designer of all ships in ...

    Article : 94 words
  14. WHERE WOULD A WORKER LIVE?

    Perhaps one of the very wildest efforts yet made by the foreign traders is that which has tried to make it appear that a worker in free-trade England has a prospect ...

    Article : 595 words
  15. THE WESTERN TRANSVAAL.

    Lord Methuen, who commands the British columns in the Western Transvaal, reports that all places in the Rustenburg district as far west as Eland's River have been visited ...

    Article : 196 words
  16. THE ENGLISH BENCH.

    Dr. Charles Swinfen Eady, K.C., of Lincoln's Inn, has been appointed judge in the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, in succession to Sir H. H. ...

    Article : 49 words
  17. VIGOROUS FRENCH ATTITUDE.

    In the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday an important debate took place on the question of coercing the Sultan into conceding the demands by France by a naval ...

    Article : 179 words
  18. KING EDWARD.

    The King and Court are now established at Sandringham, his Majesty's favorite residence when Prince of Wales. It is announced that in pursuance of the ...

    Article : 66 words
  19. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    His Majesty King Edward gave a dinner on board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert to the suite of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall in Portsmouth Harbor last ...

    Article : 95 words
  20. CAPE RAIDERS AND REBELS.

    The attitude, objects and expectations of the Boer guerillas in Cape Colony have been clearly explained to fourteen men of the Worcester District Mounted Volunteers who ...

    Article : 176 words
  21. CHARGES AGAINST RAILWAY OFFICIALS.

    The driver and guard of the 6.35 p.m. goods train from Ballarat to Ararat on Monday have been suspended by Mr. M'Laren, station master at Ararat, on the grounds ...

    Article : 278 words
  22. THE VICE-REGAL PARTY.

    The large attendance from Government House gave the great racing event of the year quite an official air. The vice-regal party drove to Flemington in three open ...

    Article : 184 words
  23. AN INDIAN FRONTIER RAID.

    Indian telegrams report that an Indian frontier survey party, escorted by 32 sepoys, has been attacked in the mountains by the Mahsuds, a turbulent hill tribe on the ...

    Article : 58 words
  24. GERMAN CRUELTIES AT PEKIN.

    Herr Schmidt, assistant editor of the Stuttgart "Beobachter," a daily paper in Wartemburg, has been sentenced to imprisonment for one month on a charge of ...

    Article : 85 words
  25. CAPTURE OF REBELS.

    A detachment of Major Taylor's Mounted Infantry column has captured a guerilla laager at Wolvekop, near Allwal North, on the Orange River, in Cape Colony. The ...

    Article : 119 words
  26. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

    A "surprising" announcement, the Premier states, will be made in the Legislative Assembly this evening by Mr. Trenwith in regard to the appointment of a new ...

    Article : 136 words
  27. SERIOUS DELAYS AT THE CUSTOMS.

    Sir,--I would like to draw your attention to the serious loss of time in passing entries for cases in which goods are imported in. If we have to pay on the cases, by all that's ...

    Article : 202 words
  28. THE DRESSES.

    "We haven't got a harbor, and we haven't got a river, but, thank goodness, we have got a Melbourne Cup!" Thus a fair melburnian to "Sydneysider" and a Brisbane ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 7,847 words
  29. QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S CHRISTMAS BOX.

    Her Majesty Queen Alexandra has arranged to follow the example set by the late Queen Victoria, who in 1800 made a Christmas present to every British soldier in South ...

    Article : 71 words
  30. INTER-STATE RAILWAY COMPETITION.

    The Railways Commissioner, Mr. Pendleton, says, in respect to the references made recently in "The Age" to New South Wales and South Australian reductions in border ...

    Article : 255 words
  31. THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF.

    We are told in the press and by free-trade speakers from every platform that the duties imposed in this tariff are a burden to the farmer, and that the duties put on for his ...

    Article : 425 words
  32. ARTILLERY FROM NOVA SCOTIA

    In connection with the recent agitation for the renewal of war worn British troops in South Africa by fresh detachments, it is announced that 300 men of the Royal Field ...

    Article : 76 words
  33. RECLASSIFICATION OF THE SERVICE.

    A report on the subject of the reclassification of the railway service has been submitted to the Premier by Mr. Fitzpatrick, the acting commissioner. This was discussed ...

    Article : 69 words
  34. GENERAL BULLER.

    The people of Devonshire, where General Sir Redvers Buller and his family are immensely popular, are still greatly irritated and deeply hurt by the compulsory ...

    Article : 74 words
  35. OMNIBUS SERVICE AT WILLIAMSTOWN.

    The Williamstown Beach and Gardens were patronised by several picnic parties yesterday. An omnibus service, to convey passengers by the Bay excursion boats Gem and Queen to the bench, ...

    Article : 182 words
  36. WAR COST AND TAXATION.

    Speaking at Bristol last, night, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach) said that the South African war was dragging on, and he regretted that he might ...

    Article : 91 words
  37. GOLD JUBILEE EXHIBITION.

    Strenuous efforts are being put forward to have everything in connection with the exhibition in readiness for the formal opening ceremony by the Governor-General on ...

    Article : 331 words
  38. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 words
  39. PAY OF JUMBUNNA MINERS

    On Saturday last the Jumbunna coal miners received fourteen days' notice that the hewing rate would be reduced by 3d. per ton, that no payment would lie made for top ...

    Article : 191 words
  40. LIBERALS AND THE WAR.

    Recently Mr. John Morley, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland in the last Gladstone Ministry, in a speech delivered to his Scotch constituents. ...

    Article : 104 words
  41. A SUSPECTED PICKPOCKET.

    The peculiar spectacle of a man walking at a rapid pace along Swanston-street, closely followed by a number of persons who appeared to take a keen interest in his movements, attracted general ...

    Article : 210 words
  42. SHIPPING NEWS.

    The ship Orion, bound from Liverpool to Adelaide, has reported her master dead. The voyage is being continued under command of the first mate. ...

    Article : 82 words
  43. Advertising

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  44. INDEPENDENCE V. SELF-GOVERNMENT.

    Mr. John Morley, M.P. for Montrose Burghs, yesterday delivered another speech at Forfar on the continuance of the war, in which he hinted that the Salisbury ...

    Article : 116 words
  45. SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

    A man named Geo. Goesland, aged 30, a resident of South Yan Yean, was late last night admitted to the Melbourne Hospital, suffering from a gunshot wound in the face, sustained by the accidental ...

    Article : 60 words
  46. Advertising

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