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  2. THE HILLGROVE MINES.

    The Eleanora mine is the oldest on the field. Its principal success in the past has been in providing remunerative employment for a large number of miners, mechancis, and laborers. The bloated ...

    Article : 1,958 words
  3. THE PREMIER AND MR. TOZER.

    Mr. Reld was again seen by a "Daily Telegraph" representative on Saturday on the subject of the Adelaide Incident. He said. "I have read what Mr. Tozer states in reply to the remarks which ...

    Article : 811 words
  4. THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Friday Night--Additional details have been received with respect to the revision of sentences passed upon the members of the Reform Committee at Pretoria. ...

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  5. OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The House of Commons has had a continuous sitting of 22 hours dealing, in Committee, with the Agricultural Rates Relief Bill introduced ...

    Article : 237 words
  6. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    Three shipping disasters (all Sydney-owned vessels) are reported as a result of the howling southerly gale that has been raging along the coast during the past 48 hours, and in the case of one ...

    Article : 384 words
  7. OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The match between the Australian cricket team and the South of England Eleven was continued today. The weather was very unsettled, and ...

    Article : 435 words
  8. DR. DUIRS INSANE.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Dr. David Peter Duirs, one of the principal medical men, on the Rand and a member of the Reform Committee, at present imprisoned in Pretoria, ...

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  9. DEATH OF MR. JOHN DAVIES, M.L.C.

    On Saturday afternoon, at five minutes to 4 o'clock, Mr. John Davies, C.M.G., M.L.C., died, at his temporary residence, G31 Bourke-street, Surry-kills, after a somewhat protracted illness. ...

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  10. SIR JACOBUS DE WET.

    LONDON, Sunday.--President Kruger keenly regrets the retirement of Sir Jacobus de Wet as British Agent at Pretoria. ...

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  11. TURKEY AND THE ARMENIANS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The Turkish police attempted yesterday to arrest a number of Armenians who had taken refuge on a French steamer at Constantinople. The ...

    Article : 55 words
  12. PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTERS.

    Further particulars of the disasters were received at a later hour from our correspondent. He wired from Nelson's Bay:--"The Condong, a schooner, of 96 tons, was wrecked on Saturday ...

    Article : 421 words
  13. DR. JAMESON'S RAID.

    LONDON, Sunday.--It is reported that startling evidence has been procured at the Cape with regard to Dr. Jameson's raid into the Transvaal. ...

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  14. THE MATABELE REVOLT.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Preparations are being made at Buluwayo to attack the rebels, who are assembled in the Matappo Hills. ...

    Article : 63 words
  15. TRANSLATION OF LORD SALISBURY'S SPEECH.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Armenians in Constantinople, fearing arrest, are taking refuge in the Cathedral. The Armenian Protestant pastor at ...

    Article : 59 words
  16. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Tobacco cultivation is attracting attention now in all the colonies, and as there Is some prospect that New South Wales will follow the example of Victoria, and obtain a ...

    Article : 160 words
  17. THE AUSTRALIANS' RECORD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 310 words
  18. THE EARL'S COURT WHEEL.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--An accident occurred to-day to the machinery connected with the working of the gigantic wheel at Earl's Court, Kensington. ...

    Article : 317 words
  19. THE COAL STRIKE AT NEWCASTLE.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--There is a dearth ol strike news to-day. The legality of the action of Messrs. J. and A. Brown in retaining the wages earned by their miners during the week ...

    Article : 196 words
  20. HOW THE KAROOLA WAS LOST.

    The Karoola went ashore at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. She was on her way from Lyttelton to Sydney, with a cargo of produce. The vessel was spoken by the tug Newburgh off Wollongong on ...

    Article : 587 words
  21. THE ROCKTON AND BIRKS- GATE AGROUND.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The steamer Rockton went aground yesterday some distance north of Hopetoun Channel, when about to enter the Inner harbor of Corio Bay. Captain Simpson ...

    Article : 134 words
  22. A FLOODED MINE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Three contractors, two named John Murphy, namesakes but not related, and Robert Hewitt, and a platman named George Kenworthy, had a miraculous escape from ...

    Article : 191 words
  23. A PROPRIETORS' MEETING IN SYDNEY.

    It is stated on reliable authority that a full meeting of the proprietors of the leading collieries in the Newcastle district will be held in Sydney during the present week. The precise object of ...

    Article : 106 words
  24. AMERICA AND CUBA.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Mr. Richard Olney, the United States Secretary of State, has sent a dispatch to General Weyler, the Spanish Commandant in Cuba, protesting ...

    Article : 71 words
  25. THE SUGAR DUTIES.

    LISMORE, Saturday.--Late last night the sugar delegates received the following Important telegram from Mr. Knox, manager of the Colonial Sugar Company:--" ...

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  26. A LADY ATTACKED AND ROBBED.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Last evening as Mrs. Sarah M'Callum, a resident of Williamstown, was passing along James-street in that suburb, she was attacked by a ruffian, who seized her ...

    Article : 70 words
  27. GERMANY IN AFRICA.

    LONDON, Sataurday.--The newspaper organ of Prince Bismarck declares that the offensive policy of Great Britain in Africa has forced Germany to make military ...

    Article : 55 words
  28. BRISK TRADE AT THE SOUTHERN COLLIERIES.

    CLIFTON, Saturday.--Owing to the sea rising rapidly to-day, shipping was to some extent interfered with. The steamships Egmont, Kurrara, and Palmerston succeeded in obtaining cargos, ...

    Article : 165 words
  29. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED COINER.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A gang of coiners have been at work during the past few weeks, and numerous tradespeople have been victimised by counterfeit half-sovereigns and sovereigns. The ...

    Article : 50 words
  30. RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Russia has decided to build a railway from Charjui to Quarki in order to facilitate any advance which may be necessary in the future upon Cabul, ...

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  31. BIRTHDAY DINNER AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--In celebration of the Queen's Birthday the Governor gave the usual official dinner at Government House on Saturday evening. About 80 gentlemen were present, ...

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  32. THE THRONE OF FRANCE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Empress Eugenie, the widow of the Emperor Napoleon 111., has visited the Due d'Aumale at Palermo, in Sicily, where she was introduced ...

    Article : 48 words
  33. THE CRETE INSURGENTS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The insurgents in the island of Crete are besieging 1500 regular Turkish soldiers at Vamos, and have succeeded in repulsing troops sent to the relief ...

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  34. THE SOUTH MELBOURNE ELECTION.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Speaking at a meeting held by Mr. J. B. Tucker, labor candidate for South Melbourne electorate, Mr. Ferguson, a member of the labor party in New South Wales, said be ...

    Article : 108 words
  35. TASMANIA.

    LAUNCESTON, Sunday.--A disastrous fire occurred last night at Zeohan. Crane Brothers and Creed's large drapery establishment, the Commercial Bank of Tasmania, the Bank of ...

    Article : 156 words
  36. A STRIKE LEVY AT GRETA.

    GRETA, Saturday.--The levy was taken yesterday by the Anvil Creek miners in aid of the strike fund, but none was taken by the Greta miners. No union contributions are being taken, the ...

    Article : 51 words
  37. THE READING BABY-FARMING CASES.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The trial of the woman Annie Dyer, on a charge of causing the deaths of six infants, whose bodies were found in the Thames, near Reading, has ...

    Article : 56 words
  38. ASSISTANCE FROM BALLARAT.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--At a special meeting of the Ballarat Miners' Association last night, it was resolved to assist the colliers on strike at Newcastle by means of a voluntary subscription ...

    Article : 37 words
  39. RELIEF WORKS IN INDIA.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Owing to the distress prevailing in India, particularly in the North-west Provinces, 300,000 natives are now employed upon relief works started ...

    Article : 35 words
  40. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A woman named Hannah Moriarty, aged 40, attempted to commit suicide by jumping Into the Yarra yesterday. She was rescued by Constable Grant, and asserted ...

    Article : 73 words
  41. THE R.M.S. OROTAVA AT ALBANY.

    ALBANY, Friday.--To-day the R.M.S. Orotava arrived here at 8 a.m., from London, and left again at 12.20 p.m. for Adelaide. Her saloon passengers are:-- ...

    Article : 118 words
  42. FOUNDERING OF THE STEAMER BYRON.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--One of the heaviest gales ever experienced here set in last night about 9 o'clock, and has raged with great violence up to the time of wiring this evening. There have ...

    Article : 1,183 words
  43. NEW ZEALAND.

    AUCKLAND Sunday.--A fire occurred yesterday, which partly destroyed tho Masonic Hotel, at Napier. The Insurances on the building total £4500, including--The Alliance £500, London and ...

    Article : 81 words
  44. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--It is reported that Germany is likely to abolish her sugar bountics. ...

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  45. THE SILVER QUESTION IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, Saturday—Speaking on the silver question in the United States Senate, Mr. Stewart said that, while it was folly to allege that the Western States would ...

    Article : 56 words
  46. MELBOURNE, Sunday.

    An elderly man named Hy. Mason, who slipped down at Collingwood yesterday and was picked up in an unconscious condition, died on tho way to the hospital. ...

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  47. HOBART. Sunday.

    The hearing of the Mount Lyell case was continued yesterday. Counsel's addresses were not concluded when the Court adjourned until Tuesday. The judges intend reserving their ...

    Article : 81 words
  48. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINING.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Hannan's Queen Gold-mining Company, West Australia, recently formed with a capital of 150,000, has allotted shares to the value of £50,000. ...

    Article : 27 words
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