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  2. AMERICA AND SPAIN.

    LONDON, Monday.--The notification by the United States Government as to the basis of negotiations for peace has been considered by the Spanish Government. ...

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  3. THE DEATH OF BISMARCK.

    LONDON, Monday.--Particulars which have been received from Berlin with reference to the death of Prince Bismarck show that the end occurred unexpectedly. ...

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  4. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    The tramp steamer Ailsa Craig, a fine vessel, with a coal-carrying capacity of 5200 tons, made her first entry of an Australian port yesterday, when she brought up in Newcastle harbor after ...

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  5. POLITICAL SITUATION

    The political situation remains unchanged. Only a few of the new members for country districts have yet got back to town. Still the position is being comfortably arranged by the ...

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  6. IN THE SNOW REGIONS.

    KIANDRA, Monday Night.--Yesterday occurred one of those sudden changes which are peculiar to these mountains, and not at all uncommon in a climate which on record has embraced a sharp ...

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  7. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--Mr. T, Playford, who has represented South Australia as Agent-General for the past four years, returned to the colony on Saturday. He is recognised as a financial ...

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  8. IN THE COUNTRY.

    BERRY, Monday.--Mr. David Davis returned thanks for his election on Saturday evening in the School of Arts. Mr. Henry Graham presided. Mr. Davis said he would interest himself in ...

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  9. A FATAL TOOTH.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Maud Catchlove, aged 12, who died a few weeks after a dental operation, was continued to-day. It ...

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  10. MR. C. G. WILSON.

    Mr. Charles Graham Wilson, who defeated Mr. Edmund Lonsdale for the Armidale electorate, arrived in Armidale 27 years ago. He commenced business as manager of the late Mr. John Moore's ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. R.M.S. OPHIR AT ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--The R.M.S. Ophir arrived at Largs Bay from London at 11.30 this morning. She had 234 passengers on board, of whom 13 of the saloon passengers from ports ...

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  12. THE PHILIPPINES.

    LONDON, Monday.--Renter's correspondent reports that Admiral Dewey, the commander of the American fleet at Manila, has telegraphed to President M'Kinley to the ...

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  13. THE CRICKET COUNCIL.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--A meeting of the Australasian Cricket Council was held this afternoon to discuss the attitude adopted by the Melbourne Cricket Club in reference to the next ...

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  14. TASMANIA.

    The past few days have been the severest experienced for some years, but the rainfall has proved of incalculable benefit to farmers. The revenue returns of July total £68,319. ...

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  15. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    During the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday 48,253 tons of coal were loaded into ships by the cranes at the Carrington Dyke, together with 24 tons of coke. Compared with the quantities for ...

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  16. GENERAL MERRITT.

    LONDON, Sunday Night.--Major-General Wesley Merritt, who was dispatched to the Philippines to take command of the United States military forces, has arrived at Manila. ...

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  17. MR. SAM. SMITH.

    Mr. Samuel Smith, the new member for Pyrmont Division, was born in 1857 at a small mining hamlet, Bartonholm, near Irvine, Ayrshire. He worked for some years at the collieries of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. THE TRANSVAAL RAID.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--One of the troopers who took part in Dr. Jameson's raid in the Transvaal has been successful in a civil action against the British South ...

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  19. FATAL EXPLOSION.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--Another terrible explosion, this time at the works of the Australian Explosive Company, situated at Deer Park, about three miles from Braybrook, occurred to-day. The ...

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  20. NEW MEMBERS.

    Mr. P. E. Quinn, the new member for the Bligh Division, is a Sydney native. Educated at various Sydney schools and under private tutors, Mr. Quinn, after some experience in the civil ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  21. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--A deputation from the Women's Franchise League, introduced by Mr. Glassey, waited on the Premier to-day to ask him to introduce this session a bill giving the ...

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  22. AN INSURANCE CONSPIRACY

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The trial has concluded of Alfred John Monson, Victor Honor (a money-lender), and Robert Metcalfe, charged with conspiracy to defraud ...

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  23. THE VACCINATION QUESTION.

    LONDON, Monday.--The House of Commons has passed the Vaccination Bill, in which the compulsory principle is ...

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  24. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--The inquiry into the collision between the steamer Cloncurry and the schooner Bruthen, off Wilson's Promontory on the I7th May was continued before a Court of ...

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  25. PUNISHMENT OF M. ZOLA.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Owing to the fact that the French Government has suspended M. Zola, the eminent novelist, from the Legion of Honor, M. Barbier, the ...

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  26. THE COASTAL MAIL SERVICE.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--At the monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day the proposal to run 20-knot mail and passenger steamers along the Queensland coast was discussed. ...

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  27. FEDERATION AND FINANCE.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--Regarding the statement made by Mr. T. Playford, of Adelaide, that the colonies would soon he able to obtain money at 2 12 per cent., Sir George Turner doubts if the ...

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  28. THE FRENCH IN AFRICA.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Captain Cassemajon, the leader of a small French expedition in the Sokoto territory, West Africa, has been massacred, together with ...

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  29. THE EGYPTIAN RAILWAYS.

    LONDON, Monday.--It is reported from Cairo that an English syndicate is purchasing the Egyptian railways for the sum of £25,000,000. ...

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  30. PROPOSED NEW LOAN.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Treasurer intends to float £250,000 worth of Government, stock on the local market in about a month, to carry on public works, and in January next he will float ...

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  31. THE PROPOSED NEW MINING BILL.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--A deputation from the Brisbane Stock Exchange and the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce waited on the Minister for Mines to-day with suggestions for embodiment ...

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  32. THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--The half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Bank of Australia was held to-day. There was a large attendance. The net profit for the half-year came to £52,362, to ...

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  33. MR. W. ARCHER.

    The new member for Burwood, Mr. W. Archer, is an old servant of the public in his electorate, having been very popular as one of the representatives of the South Ward in the Burwood ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Science Research Scholarships, awarded by the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, have again been granted to Mr. Strickland, of Sydney, and Mr. Rosenhain ...

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  35. OLD AGE PENSIONS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Members of the House of Commons to the number of 122 have petitioned the Government to introduce legislation during next year in fulfilment of ...

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  36. THE CHILLAGOE VENTURE.

    CAIRNS, Monday.--What is supposed to be the richest thing on Chillagoe is now being developed near Girofia. The property belongs to the North Queensland Minerals Development Corporation, ...

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  37. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Monday.--In connection with the Motu murder, it appears that Smith, who committed suicide, had a quarrel with the murdered man Scott some time ago over some land. ...

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  38. MR. WALTER BENNETT

    Mr Walter Bennett, the newly-elected member for Durham, was born in Wellington (N.Z.), his father being one of the early settlers in that province. He is 34 years of age, and of English ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  39. DEATH OF PROFESSOR CAIRD.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The death is announced of Professor Caird. There are two Professor Cairds; one, the Master of Balliol College, Oxford, is now aged 64; the ...

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  40. INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The International Chess Tournament at Vienna has boon brought to a conclusion, the winner being Dr. Tarrasch, of Germany. ...

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  41. STRIKE AT ADELONG.

    ADELONG, Monday.--The wages of the men at the Great Gibraltar Consolidated gold mines from August 1 will be reduced as follows:--Miners, from 8s 4d to 7s 6d; sharpeners, the same ...

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  42. LAND SETTLEMENT.

    TIRANA, Monday.--The land board he recommended the exchange of 9000 acres of land on Widglewa for a like area on North Goonambil. This together with the Crown lands and land ...

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  43. LORD BRASSEY'S NEW YACHT.

    LONDON, Monday.--The yacht Emerald, recently purchased by Lord Brassey from Mr. J. Grotton, M.P., was successful in winning a race at the Southampton regatta on Saturday. ...

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  44. A TORPEDO-BOAT WRECKED.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--A first-class torpedo-boat of the British Navy has been wrecked near Simons Town (Cape Colony). (Some of the foregoing messages appeared in a second ...

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  45. AMERICA AND HAWAH.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--At a meeting of the council of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce to-day a letter was read from Dr. J. M. Creed, M.L.C., of Sydney, with reference to the possible ...

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  46. RACING IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Australian horse Maluma was among the starters for the Middlesex Handicap, which took place at Alexandra Park on Saturday, with the following result:-- ...

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  47. THE LATE DR. GEIKIE.

    BATHURST, Monday.--The remains of the late Dr. Gelkie were brought to Bathurst yesterday by train from Sydney, and taken to St. Stephen's Church, where a short service was held in the ...

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  48. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

    LONDON, Monday.--The condition of the Prince of Wales had so far improved on Saturday as to allow of his being removed to the Royal yacht Osborne, now lying at ...

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  49. AN INCREASING REVENUE.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--The revenue of the colony for the mouth of July amounted to £295,104, being an increase of £17,324 compared with July last year. Taxation showed an increase of £5000, ...

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  50. LATE SPORTING.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--The annual meeting of the Adelaide Racing Club was held to-day. It was shown that there was a credit balance of £7401. The chairman stated that various improvements to the course had been ...

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