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  2. PERSONAL.

    The Governor and Lady Hampden, with the Hons. Alice and Geoffrey Brand, and accompanied by Mr. Campion, went to St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday morning. In the afternoon ...

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  3. GENERAL NEWS.

    Mr. Rose, M.P., has an idea that landowners who have had heavy stock losses should have their land tax payments suspended temporarily, and he has made this suggestion to Mr. ...

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  4. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Turkish Grand Vizier (Kalil Rifaat Pasha) implores the Sultan to retain Thessaly, otherwise he contends that the Sultan will alienate the ...

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  5. THE CANADIAN TARIFF BILL.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- In the Canadian House of Commons yesterday Sir Charles Tupper, the late Premier, moved a hostile amendment to the new Tariff Bill, which ...

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  6. THE COUNTRY.

    ALBURY, Thursday.--The Albury Council has now received the report of the special committee appointed to inquire into the finances of the borough, and a special meeting has been ...

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  7. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Thursday, 12.45 p.m.--Tenders will be opened to-morrow for the South Australian Government loan of £1,000,000 at 3 per cent. ...

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  8. MANLY SEWERAGE WORKS.

    It has been decided by the Minister for Works that the tender of R. and S. Butcher Bros., North Sydney, for the Manly sewerage scheme, shall be accepted. Some alterations have been ...

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  9. THE ILLNESS OF SIR CHARLES LILLEY.

    Inquiries at the Hotel Metropole yesterday elicited the fact that Sir Charles Lilley, the eminent lawyer, who had been lying there for some days in a state of serious illness, had ...

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  10. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLD-FIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Thursday.--The Australia output for 60 tons treated at the Wallaroo Smelting Works was 352oz. Mr. Maryanski has inspected the new find in ...

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  11. RELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYED.

    The Minister for Works has lot a contract for the supply of a steamer and a gang of men for snagging purposes on the Darling River, which embraces the cutting up and burning of the fallen ...

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  12. DEATH ON CAPTAIN ROBERT CROMBIE.

    Intelligence of the death of Captain Crombie, which has come to hand by the last English mail, will be received with regret by the many who knew him as a shipmaster trading to this port. ...

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  13. ART AT AUCTION.

    To some extent it is now possible to see the result of the Society of Artists experiment for disposing of its pictures. The exhibition just closing, which consists of small works and ...

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  14. TESTIMONIAL TO A BANK MANAGER.

    COBARGO, Thursday.--Last night a banquet which was given to Mr. H. A. Hoyer, late manager of the A.J.S. Bank at Cobargo, was largely attended, and proved a great success. ...

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  15. A COOLIE SHIP AT FLH.

    The coolie ship Rhone, says a report by the steamer Taviuni yesterday, has arrived at Suva from Calcutta. The vessel was quarantined for several days owing to an epidemic of measles ...

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  16. AN UNCLAIMABLE REWARD.

    It has been decided by the Government that the reward for the discovery of the man Lesagh, supposed to have mysteriously disappeared in the Parkes district, cannot be claimed. For that ...

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  17. OUTBREAK OF SPRINGS.

    QUEANBEYAN, Thursday.--The phenomenon of springs breaking out in the western districts is now occurring here. COOMA, Thursday.--On Bolairo Estate, ...

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  18. THE SALVATION ARMY.

    LONDON, Thursday.-Commissioner Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation Army, has been proceeded against and convicted at New York for keeping a disorderly house. ...

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  19. THE NEUTRAL ZONE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Reports from Lazo state that a body of 300 Greek soldiers crossed the neutral zone agreed upon between the Greek and Turkish armies ...

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  20. THE BOURKE P. AND A. SHOW.

    BOURKE, Thursday.--The show was continued to-day. Shamrock won the Hunters Plate and Musician the prize for local hunters; Shamrock also won the high jump. Mr. C. H. Fitzgerald's ...

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  21. THE SUDDEN OUTBREAK OF SPRINGS.

    A few days were recently spent by the Minister for Lands in the Armidale district. Curiously enough, he states that he found there the same condition of affairs with regard to springs of ...

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  22. PROPOSED LOAN BY MOSMAN.

    A report was received at the last meeting of the Mosman Council from the finance committee recommending that necessary steps should be taken to borrow £1200, to be spent in carrying out ...

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  23. GERMAN DEFENCES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Here Fabrin, a Government employee at Leipzig, Germany, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for betraying to the Russian ...

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  24. MORE FIGHTING EXPECTED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The special correspondent of "The Times" at Larissa states that more fighting between the Turks and the Greeks is expected shortly. ...

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  25. THE REFORMATORY SYSTEM.

    In his annual report on the prison management for 1896, and dealing specially with the question of reformatories--a subject with which he has had considerable experience--Captain ...

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  26. SUFFOCATED BY A PIECE OF MEAT.

    ORANGE, Thursday.--Christopher Hetherington, aged 70, a selector, residing at Emu Swamp was suffocated to-day while having dinner at Brightman's Hotel. He was seated at the table, ...

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  27. THE LATE SIR W.J. CLARKE'S WILL.

    The Melbourne "Argus" writes:--"Sir Rupert and Lady Clarke, who are travelling homeward from Japan via Vancouver, in company with Mrs. Cruickshank, second daughter of the late Sir ...

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  28. AN ITALIAN VOLUNTEER.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Signor Felice, a Socialist member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, who has been acting as a volunteer in the Greek army, has been deported to ...

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  29. PROSECUTION OF BOOKMAKERS.

    WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--Forty bookmakers apepared before the "Bench at the West Maitland Police Court to-day charged by the police with having committed breaches of ...

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  30. POLLUTION OF PARRAMATTA RIVER.

    The Colonial Secretary states, in answer to some inquiries by Mr. F. A. Wright, M.P., that in the ordinary course of executing the Noxious Trades Act the board has become aware that ...

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  31. THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Mr. Barney Barnato, the South African millionaire, states that the situation in the Transvaal is serious. ...

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  32. TOO MUCH VENTILATION.

    The new court, finished about a year ago, in the Supreme Court buildings in King-street, is faulty in its acoustic properties, in that it is hard to hear what is said unless a loud tone of ...

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  33. AFFAIRS IN CRETE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--From Crete it is reported that the insurgents are burning the environs of Retimo. ...

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  34. THE STATE SECRETARY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Dr. W. J. Leyds, who vacated the position of State Secretary of the Transvaal, on being appointed Minister to Germany and the Netherlands, ...

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  35. DEATH OF MR. H. A. WOLFE.

    WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--Mr. Herbert Austin Wolfe, chief accountant in the firm of Wolfe, Prentice, and Co., merchants died early this morning at Springfield at the ...

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  36. THE GOVERNOR OF CRETE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The "Standard" states that Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg will be appointed Governor of Crete when autonomy is conceded to the ...

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  37. THE POSTAL CONGRESS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The International Postal Congress, sitting at Washington, United States, is strongly opposed to the British proposal for a reduction in the rate ...

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  38. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    MURRUMBURRA, Thursday.--The reserve rifle club arranged a prize shooting match on Queen's Birthday, which was concluded yesterday. A number of valuable prizes were ...

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  39. THE FRENCH NAVY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Naval Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies propose that the sum of 260,000,000 francs (£10,400,000) should be expended during the ...

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  40. THE USE OF GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES.

    From what has transpired lately in the Legislative Assembly, it appears that there has been considerable feeling with regard to the use of Government launches for private or semi-public ...

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  41. KING MENELIK.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. James Rennell Rodd, tho Queen's special envoy to the King of Abyssinnia, has had a splendid and friendly reception by King Menelik. Mr. ...

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  42. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    The new lifeboat recently imported from England for the local station was officially launched yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. Captain H. R. ...

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  43. THE EMPLOYERS LIABILITY BILL.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The Employers Liability Bill was dealt with in committee in the House of Commons last night. The Government submitted an amendment ...

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  44. THE WEATHER.

    Fine bright weather prevailed yesterday in the city, and over the colony generally. Although the reading of the thermometer was not materially lower than has been the case during ...

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  45. THE GERMAN ARMY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The German Reichstag has voted an additional credit of 30,000,000 marks (£1,500,000) for increasing the strength of the artillery. ...

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  46. AUSTRALIAN FRUIT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The shipment of Victorian fruit, brought by the steamer Gulf of Bothnia, which left Melbourne on March 30, has arrived in fairly good condition. The ...

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  47. INSTALMENTS ON CONDITIONAL PURCHASES.

    Mr. Chanter, M.P., is persistent in his endeavor to get some definite concession for selectors who have suffered through the prevailing drought in the country districts. Last night, in the ...

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  48. THREATENED DIFFICULTY AT THE BURWOOD MINE.

    The Burwood miners have appointed a deputation to interview the manager of the mine, to discuss with him local grievances, one of which is an allegation that some of the men are being ...

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  49. NEW SOUTH WALES LANCERS

    LONDON, Thursday.--Six members of the detachment of New South Wales Lancers, under the command of Lieutenant King, left the R.M.S. Ballaarat at Brindisi and ...

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  50. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The French mall steamer Armand Behic passed Wilson's Promontory at 10.45 a.m. yesterday, en route from Marseilles to Sydney. She is expected to arrive to-day, and will be berthed at ...

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  51. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The directors report of the South Australian Company shows a profit for the year of £29,212. It is proposed to declare a dividend of 40s ...

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  52. VESSELS AGROUND.

    During a stiff north-westerly breeze yesterday morning the steamer Time, while removing from the A.A. Company's wharf to the dyke, grounded in what is known as the Blind Channel, where ...

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  53. SPANISH FOREIGN POLICY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Spanish Premier, will remain in office despite the abstention of the Opposition from the sittings of the Cortes ...

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  54. THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

    The Public works Committee yesterday took further evidence in regard to the proposal to erect new Houses of Parliament. Mr. G. D. Payne, an architect of 30 years experience both ...

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  55. HORSE RACING IN AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. George Stewart, of New South Wales, in addressing the assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, said that horse facing was the great cancer ...

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  56. AMUSEMENTS.

    The final performance of "A White Elephant" will he given at the Criterion Theatre to-night. To-morrow "A Village Priest," the booking for which is already very large, is to be ...

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  57. ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER ALAGONIA.

    A telegram from West Australia yesterday stated that the steamer Alagonia, bound from Albany to Melbourne, broke her shaft when off Cape Vancouver on Wednesday night. ...

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  58. QUEENSLAND.

    TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.--The New South Wales Tick Commissioners, who commenced investigations at Ross River, have proceeded to Hughenden to meet Dr. Hunt, and gather all the ...

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  59. TO-DAY.

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  60. THE AUSTRALIAN FAIR.

    The members of the A.H.C. Guild, in their full Australian regalia, were present at the Grand Australian Fair last night. To-night Miss Vera Faust, pupil of Mme. Duvall and Mme. ...

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  61. SIR GEORGE GREY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Sir George Grey, the New Zealand veteran statesman, who has been seriously ill for some time, is reported to have slightly improved. ...

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  62. A FRENCH WARSHIP FOR THE PACIFIC.

    The French flagship Duguay Trouin now in port is to be joined shortly by the French cruiser Eure, which has been commissioned for service on the Pacific station. The Eure called ...

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  63. TASMANIA.

    The R.M.S. Ionic, of the Shaw, Savill line, arrived tills morning from London. She brings the following passengers for Sydney:--Mesdames Steel and Richardson, Messrs. Whitehouse, Arps, ...

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  64. MR. RICHARD SEDDON.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Richard Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, arrives at Liverpool to-morrow from New York. He will be officially welcomed by the Lord ...

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  65. NEW ZEALAND.

    The barquentine Jerfalcon, from Maiden Island to the Bluff, has put in here short of provisions. She left Maiden Island on April 1, and for the past 17 days has been off Cape Saunders, ...

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  66. LANDS OFFICE DAY.

    The postponement of the opening of any fresh areas for homestead selection or settlement lease until August next necessarily had an effect upon the area selected yesterday. The attention of ...

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  67. ISLAND NEWS BY THE STEAMER TAVIUNI.

    The steamer Taviuni, of the Union Company's line, arrived yesterday from the Tongan, Samoan, and Fiji Islands. Among the passengers by the steamer were Father Joublay and Dr. Pochin. ...

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