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  2. FIGHTING CONSUMPTION.

    There exist in various parts of the world precautions against, the spread of consumption beside which those adopted in Australia are incondite. ...

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  3. PERSONAL.

    Sir, George O' Brien, the Governor of Fiji leaves Sydney to-day for Brisbane, He arrived on Friday, and spent a few days in Sydney, staying at the Metropole. After a visit to Queensland, Sir ...

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  4. A BITTERLY COLD DAY.

    Sydney was yesterday treated to a bit of Antarctic weather. It is safe to say that a more bitterly cold day has rarely been felt. The minimum temperature of 44.8 degrees inadequately ...

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  5. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Pretoria correspondent of the "Standard" furnishes an interesting account of a series of encounters between four British columns under ...

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  6. CHINA.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.-- The Russian Government has withdrawn the suggestion that the Chinese Customs should be increased, and generally accepts the British ...

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  7. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Extensive preparations are already being made to give the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York an imposing welcome home on returning ...

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  8. THE MATTERHORN DISASTER.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Full particulars are now to hand relating to the accident which befell the English tourist party which recently met with sensational adventures on the ...

    Article : 264 words
  9. FUNERAL OF CANON RICH.

    The funeral of the late Canon Rich took place at the Waverley Cemetery on Saturday last, in the presence of a large gathering oil friends. The procession, first of all, proceeded ...

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  10. BIG FIRE AT FOOCHOW.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Fraser, Ramsay, and Co., of Melbourne, have received the following cable from Foochow:--" A large and destructive fire has occurred in Foochow. The offices and ...

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  11. THE IMPERIAL NAVY.

    LONDON, Saturday.-- On the occasion of the colonial visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, Rear-Admiral Lewis A. Beaumont, Commander-in-Chief on the China station, has ...

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  12. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 words
  13. THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The committee appointed to deal with the subject has accepted Mr. Thomas Brock's design for the National Memorial to the late Queen Victoria, and Mr. Aston Webb's ...

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  14. THE LATE MR. T. H. KELLY.

    The funeral of the late Mr. Thomas Hussey Kelly, senr., took place on Saturday, when his remains were interred in the Church of England Cemetery, Waverley, in the presence of ...

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  15. THE SOUTH AFRICAN STRUGGLE.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Router's Agency reports that Commandant Spruyt, of the Boer forces, was killed recently while attempting to cross the Natal to Johannesburg railway line near ...

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  16. THE KING'S TITLES.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon,--Mr. Chamberlain Secretary of State for the Colonies, has laid on the table of the House of Commons the correspondence with the colonial Governments ...

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  17. "A WHITE AUSTRALIA."

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Since yesterday morning South Australia has had the peculiar and unique experience of a great and widely-extended snowfall. The occurrence was quite unexpected, as ...

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  18. NEW ZEALAND AND FIJI.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.-- In the House of Commons on Friday night Mr. J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to Mr. J. C. Wason (Orkney and Shetland, and ...

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  19. BREMERSDORP IN BOER HANDS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--A superior Boor force, probably the Amsterdam and Piet Retief commandoes, on Wednesday forced a detachment of Steinacker's Horse to ...

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  20. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--In connection with the explosion which recently occurred at Batoum, it is now stated that it occurred in the magazine for explosives. A number of soldiers ...

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  21. LONDON AND GLOBE FINANCE CORPORATION.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Mr. G. S. Barnes, the Senior Official Receiver, has made some startling revelations with regard to the conduct of the directors of the London and Globe Finance ...

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  22. DRASTIC MEASURES URGED.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.-- A Boer correspondent, "P.S.," writing to the London "Morning Post," insists that clemency is misplaced. He contends that it would be ...

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  23. THE AMERICA CUP.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht, Shamrock H., challenger for the America Cup, has sailed for New York. It is expected that she will take 17 days to cross the Atlantic. ...

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  24. RECENT EXECUTIONS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Lord Kitchener states that the executions of rebels which have taken place lately are intended to counteract the sedulously-fostered belief ...

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  25. NEW AMERICAN BATTLESHIP.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The United States battleship Maine has been, launched at Philadelphia. ...

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  26. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Judicial Committee of the privy Council has allowed the appeal in the New South Wales case Falkner's G.M. Company, Limited v. Mckinnery. ...

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  27. SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

    NOUMEA, Sunday.-- News has reached here of the wreek of the New Zealand Barque Alexa The Vessel went asbore at Surprise Island, one of the Chesterfield Group. ...

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  28. DEATH OF MR. JAMES STEPHENSON.

    Mr. James Stephenson, secretary to the Board for Exports, died from pneumonia at his residence, Norton-street, Ashfield, on Saturday afternoon. Deceased, who was 47 years ...

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  29. "THE HERO OF MAFEKING."

    LONDON, Saturday.-- Major General R. S. S. Baden-Powell, C.B., Inspector-General of the South African Constabulary, has arrived at Southampton, invalided home, his medical ...

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  30. SHOOTING IN A HOTEL.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A sensational shooting incident occurred in the city at an early hour yesterday morning, the parties concerned being John Henry Connell, manager of Young and ...

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  31. THE COMING CRICKET TEAM.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Mr. A. C. Maclaren has arranged for Mr. A. O. Jones (Notts) to join the English team, with which the Lancashire captain is about to tour in Australia. ...

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  32. LIEUTENANT WYLLY V.C.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--At St. James' Palace to-day, Lieutenant Guy George Egerton Wylly, of the South Lancashire Regiment, late of the Tasmanian ...

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  33. LOSS OF THE LIZZIE BELL.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.). Sunday.--The captain of the barque Lizzie Bell stated at the inquest on the victims that he was keeping a strict watch for Cape Farewell light, when the ship struck, ...

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  34. MR. H. CHAPMAN ENTERTAINED.

    A complimentary picnic to National Park was tendered to Mr. H. Chapman, ex-M.L.A., on Wednesday last by his friends and supporters of the Fitzroy Division. After a cruise round ...

    Article : 443 words
  35. THUNDERSTORM IN LONDON.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--A violent thunderstorm occurred in London yesterday, and for several hours stopped the traffic on the underground railway. Westminster Hall and the ...

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  36. GOLLISION ON THE RICHMOND RIVER.

    CORAKI, Saturday.--The ocean steamer Oakland collided with the river steamer Sarah Hixsen in the North Arm, a few miles above Coraki, this afternoon. The latter was damaged a good deal, ...

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  37. THE CASE OF RHODES.

    With reference to the cabled statement that the Yorkshire county committee has expressed the wish that Rhodes shall not join MacLaren's team for Australia, it is reported that the Melbourne ...

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  38. THE INTER-STATE COMMISSION BILL.

    WILCANNIA, Saturday.-- The progress of the Inter-State Commission Bill in the Federal parliament is being watched here with great interest. If it involves the abolition of the ...

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  39. NEW GERMAN TARIFF.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Owing to one of the Socialist newspapers having published an incomplete list of the Items in the now German tariff, the Government has published the ...

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  40. COMMISSIONS FOR COLONIALS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The following gentlemen serving with the New Zealand forces have received commissions in the imperial [?]indicated. ...

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  41. ACCIDENT TO THE WILLYAMA.

    ALBANY, Sunday.--The Adelaide Steamship Company's collier Willyama left here for Newcastle on Sunday, 21st inst. When off Pollock Reef, about 200 miles east, her tail shaft broke, ...

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  42. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A Parliamentary party returned on Saturday night from inspecting Yongala Estate of 50,000 acres, which it is proposed to buy for closer settlement. The land is not far from Petersburg, ...

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  43. AUSTRALASIAN SOLDIERS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The following particulars are to hand relating to Australasian soldiers on active service in South Africa:-- Licutenant Carter, of the 7th New Zealand ...

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  44. HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

    The annual reunion of the members of the Horticultural Association was held in the Manchester Unity-hall Castlereagh-street, on Friday, the president, Mr. J. H. Maiden, being in the chair. ...

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  45. THE TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Tuberculosis Congress has concluded its sittings. The delegates unanimously recommended the suppression of spitting in public places, the ...

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  46. IN ERROR ABOUT THE BORDER DUTIES.

    BROKEN-HILL, Saturday.--In the police court this morning, Henry Sluice, Cigar manufacturer. of Adelaide, was convicted of smuggling 2000 cigars. He sold them to some hotelkeepers ...

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  47. THE CITY SHOOTING CASE.

    Miss Jenkins, one of the victims of the shooting case in the dress circle bar of Her Majesty's Hotel on the night of the 20th inst., is rapidly recovering from the bullet wounds she received ...

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  48. WELCOMED HOME.

    The employees of Messrs. Swan Bros., timber merchants, Rozelie, held a complimentary social at the Hampden-hall, Beattic-street, Balmain, on Thursday evening, to welcome home ...

    Article : 681 words
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