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  2. WELCOME SHOWERS.

    Nature appears to deal in a very nigardly way with our Far Northern Country in the matter of rain supplies. The weather as a rule is pleasant in those ...

    Article : 5,708 words
  3. THE BROKEN HILL FIRE.

    Everything is proceeding satisfactorily in Brodribb's burning section of Block 12. In Messrs. Baxter & Saddler's open cut a large volume of water continued to be poured down. ...

    Article : 699 words
  4. PARLIAMENTS IN SESSION

    In the Legislative Council to-day the report of the Select Committee on the factories Act Amendment Hill was adopted with amendments. and the Bill was passed ...

    Article : 184 words
  5. THE CONVENTION.

    WORK PRACTICALLY COMPLETED—THE RESULTS SUMMED UP—THE DEADLOCK DERATE RESUMED AND CONCLUDED—DR. COCKBURN PRONOUNCES A FUNERAL ORATION—HE IS ...

    Article : 1,838 words
  6. ECHOES MOM LONDON.

    The heat this week may not have been phenomenal, but at all events it was considered abnormal by no less an authority than the King of Siam who hazarded the question. ...

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  7. THE INDIAN FRONTIERS.

    Two thousand Mohmands made an attack upon Sudda, in the Kurram Valley, on the light of the 16th. The hillsmen crept up a lcop nullah or creek under the darkness of the ...

    Article : 380 words
  8. SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

    Mr. Woodford, the Special Ambassador dispatched by President McKinley to Madrid, and charged with delicate negotiations with the Spanish Government in reference to the ...

    Article : 186 words
  9. THE BEHRING SEA FISHERIES.

    Japan Las arranged to be represented at the Behring Sea Conference to ba held between Great Britain and the United States at Washington next month. ...

    Article : 358 words
  10. VICTORIA.

    William Morns, an upholsterer employed by Messrs. Buckley &. Nunn, committed suicide Dy hanging himself to-day in one of the upstairs rooms of the warehouse. The deceased ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. THE FRENCH IN UPPER GUINEA.

    The famous Arab chieftain Samory has had an encounter with a French native detachment in the Bobi district. Upper Guinea. The French troops were dispersed. Two officers ...

    Article : 104 words
  12. RAIN IN OTHER COLONIES.

    The Tamman during last might to-day was tropical. This most welcome downour extended over a large portion of New South Wales, and the ...

    Article : 89 words
  13. SWIMMING.

    Cavill, the Australian swimmer, will he his powers in the waterin long-distance swin sing with the object of lowering the estal ished time records. ...

    Article : 33 words
  14. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    In view of the necessity to cover advances made for public. works to the General Road Fund the issue of New South Wales 3 per cent, funded stock will be renewed at an ...

    Article : 212 words
  15. AUSTRIA AND GERMANY.

    The Emperor William of Germany is at present on a visit to the Emperor Francis of Austria at Buda-Pesth, where both monarchs have been received with intense enthusiasm ...

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  16. LONDON COMMERCIAL.

    BEET SUGAR.— Herr F. O. Licht estimates that the production of beetroot sugar for the month of August shows an increase of 514,000 tons as compared with the same month of ...

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  17. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    An important meeting of the leading sugar nanufacturers and cane-growers was held to-day to consider what steps should be taken to prevent competition with bounty-fed sagar. ...

    Article : 123 words
  18. THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.

    The advance of the Anglo-Egyptian Expedition against the Khalifa has had a reassuring affect upon the desert merchants, and trade has now been resumed between Berber and ...

    Article : 58 words
  19. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

    H.M.S. Royal Arthur, a twin steel cruiser of the first class, will be commissioned next month as the flagship of Pear-Admiral Pearson, the new Commander-in-Chief, for the ...

    Article : 51 words
  20. BREADSTUFFS.

    WHEAT.—The Gazette average price of wheat is G6d. per quarter lower for the week. ...

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  21. AUSTRALASIAN MINING.

    The North Mount Lyell Copper-mining Company, of Tasmania, has been registered with a nominal capital of £500,000 and a working capital of £103,000. It is proposed ...

    Article : 63 words
  22. PERU.

    Lima, the capital of Pcru, which lias been epseatedly wrecked by earthquakes, has just teen visited by another of these terrible convulsions. ...

    Article : 39 words
  23. THE WELLS RELIEF FUND

    The appeal made to Australians in London by the Hon. T. Playford, Agent-General or South Australia, for contributions to the Wells Relief Fund, has eo far resulted ia the ...

    Article : 54 words
  24. ADELAIDE HUNT CLUB BALL.

    The Town Wall or Adelaide has seldom, I ever, presented a more brilliant scent than it afforded on Tuesday night, when the members of the Adelaide Hunt Club Gave a ...

    Article : 936 words
  25. QUEENSLAND.

    The Marine Board concurs in the mding in the local enquiry regarding the foundering of the infantine Marshall S. on the voyage from Maryborough to Normanton, and add ...

    Article : 54 words
  26. THE EMU BAY RAILWAY.

    In bur advertising columns to-day" appears the prospectus of the Emu Bay Railway Com-pany, Limited, which is in process of formation for the purpose of providing suitable ...

    Article : 624 words
  27. SILVER.

    The purchase of silver for india is having a hardening effect on the market. It is reported that the Indian Government are operating with the intention of reopening the Indian ...

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  28. THE WRECK OF THE TASMANIA.

    Judgment was given to-day in the Nautical Court which has enquired into the wreck of the steamer Tasmania. The Court found that the vessel was lost through careless and ...

    Article : 366 words
  29. TASMANIA.

    The dead body of a woman was found boating in the water at Sandy Bay this morning. and has been identified as that of the wife of Charles Dillon, a veteran waterman. ...

    Article : 79 words
  30. DEATH OF FRANK SLAVIN.

    It is reported that Frank Slavin, the Australian ex-pugilist, has died at the Klondyke goldfields. ...

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  31. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    AT GLASGOW—Bravo, barque 309 tons, from Kaipata June 5, AT LONDON—Chanaral, barque, from Abrolhos April 8. Peri, barque 891 tons form Brisbane May 8. ...

    Article : 84 words
  32. THE LUCKNOW MINING STRIKE.

    Nine free labourers from Bendigo, engaged by Superintendent Lock to take the place of the men on strike at the Wentworth Proprietary Company's mines, were admitted into the ...

    Article : 285 words
  33. THE STAWELL SHOW.

    The annual Show of the Stawell and Wimmera District Agricultural Society was opened to-day under favourable auspices. Tho principal prize was taken by Mr. D. S. McKellar ...

    Article : 82 words
  34. IRANSCONTINENTAL CYCLING

    The following telegram was received to-day from A. Mather. who is cycling from Porl Darwin to Melbourne:— "Alice Springs (South Australia). Sep ...

    Article : 274 words
  35. THE PASTORAL COMMISSION.

    The Pastoral Commission arrived at Hergott this evening, and the members were wonderfully surprised at tho immense amount of water lying all over the country, between here ...

    Article : 103 words
  36. THIS LANSGLOIS CASE.

    Sir—We regret that before giving special prominence to the decision of the Court of Insolvency in the case of Langlois you did not ascertain the real facts. The decision referred ...

    Article : 637 words
  37. A DELIBERATE MURDER.

    Benjamin Wherrell appeared at the Police Court this morning charged with the murder of his wife in a house in Boundary-street on Tuesday. The evidence of the police was ...

    Article : 258 words
  38. THE SALE OF THE IVANHOE MINE.

    In the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Holroyd, an application was made by Lawrence H. S. Elleon for an injunction to restrain the Directors of the Ivanhoo ...

    Article : 109 words
  39. A PECULIAR MATRIMONIAL CASE.

    A man named Thomas John Colmer was prested at South Broken Hill this afternoon and charged with having committed bigamy. In June 1875. Colmer married Margaret Davey ...

    Article : 118 words
  40. RIFLE MATCHES IS SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Tasmanian Rifle Association will send the following team to Adelaide on September 30:—Lientenants Croft, Clerke, Pitt, and Gatty, Serjeant Bain, Corporals Eastler. ...

    Article : 79 words
  41. THE MINING INDUSTRY IN VICTORIA.

    A deputation representing the "United County and Municipal Association waited on tho Minister of Mines to-day, and presented a resolution passed by tho Association-"That ...

    Article : 86 words
  42. AUSTRALIAN ART FOR ENGLAND.

    The Trustees of the National Art Gallery have secured through the Selection Committee in London the Graf ton Gallery for seven weeks from April nest for the exhibition in London ...

    Article : 68 words
  43. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE AT WELLINGTON.

    One of the sharpest shocks of earthquakes which have visited Wellington for many years occurred tins evening. Glasses and chairs were upset, tables canted, and all the clocks ...

    Article : 67 words
  44. THE VICTORIAS RIFLE TEAM.

    A letter was received to-day by the Acting Premier from the Agent-General, stating that by direction of the Queen Jubilea medals would be granted to the members of ...

    Article : 47 words
  45. Advertising

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  47. TO-DAY'S ENGAGEMENTS.

    12.00.— Clad tone chambers—Empress Margaret G.M. Co. 1.3.— Adelaide Oval—whinham College Sports. 2 15.—Royal Exchange—Mount Alexander G.M. ...

    Article : 93 words
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