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  2. OUR SOUTH AFRICAN LETTER.

    When writing a few days ago, the question that was rapidly rising to a head was whether, in the case of hostilities with the Transvaal, the Free State would remain a ...

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  3. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Miss Maggie Sterling, the well-known Melbourne mezzo-soprano, appeared with great success at a promenade concert, at Queen's Hall last night. ...

    Article : 254 words
  4. Intercolonial.

    A sudden death occurred on the R.M.S. Ophir, when off Cape Otway last night, a second saloon passenger, Mr., Ralph R. Fretwell, aged 55, dropping dead of heart ...

    Article : 333 words
  5. AN ORPHAN COMMITS SUICIDE.

    Winnie Bailey, aged 23, an orphan, living with her sister in Tark-Btreet, Melbourne, committed suicide this afternoon. She cut her throat from ear to ear with a carving ...

    Article : 96 words
  6. A FORGED CHEQUE.

    A clever forgery was disclosed on Saturday. Recently a young man booked a pasage here for a lady by the German mail steamer Stuttgart, and paid for it with a ...

    Article : 109 words
  7. THE CROPS.

    A more satisfactory position of things is reported from the country, a fairly steady and general rainfall being reported from various centres, as well as from the ...

    Article : 42 words
  8. THE DEATHS AT ALDERSHOT.

    The coroner's enquiry into the circum-stances surrounding the sudden death of three soldiers at Aldershot, has now been concluded. ...

    Article : 123 words
  9. MINING TROUBLES.

    A strike has occurred at the Barrambogie mine, Chiltern Hill. The men refused contract work, and the feeling between the parties ran high. The secretary to the ...

    Article : 398 words
  10. THE TRADE OP THE COLONY.

    For the first nine months of the current year, the total trade of the colony is £22,946,404, an increase of a million as compared with the same period of last ...

    Article : 60 words
  11. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 431 words
  12. TWO FISHERMEN MISSING.

    News conies from Portland that two fishermen, Arthur Patterson and Charles Beglin, left there this morning to haul in their crayfish-pots at Cape Nelson. When ...

    Article : 78 words
  13. "JACK THE RIPPER."

    Two murders are reported from Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, which resemble in a most striking manner the crimes committed by the notorious, but ...

    Article : 52 words
  14. A DROWNING ACCIDENT.

    Ernest Wittington, aged 21, son of the proprietor of the Australian mills, Marshall Town, was drowned this morning while crossing the Barwon River, near ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. A MAD BULLOCK.

    A mad bullock occasioned a good deal of excitement in Ballarat to-night. It was being driven to Sebastopol, but became unmanageable, and rushed wildly about the ...

    Article : 72 words
  16. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced at the age of 80 of Lord Farrer, who was for many years Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade, being elevated to the peerage in ...

    Article : 43 words
  17. FOUND DROWNED.

    An inquest was held to-day on the body of Elizabeth Polson, found in Albert Part Lake a week ago. Evidence was given by a clerk that while sitting with ...

    Article : 128 words
  18. DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM.

    Annie Gilroy, a married woman, aged 46, of South Melbourne, died under chloroform at St. Vincent's Hospital to-day. She was about to be operated on for an ...

    Article : 34 words
  19. EARTHQUAKE AT CERAM.

    A terrible earthquake is reported to have occurred at Ceram, an island in the Eastern Archipelago, the largest of the Amboina Islands, west of New Guinea. ...

    Article : 50 words
  20. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Governor, who returned to-day from his visit to the Barrier, explains that his remarks, of which French citizens have complained, referred more especially to the ...

    Article : 91 words
  21. A THIEF PUNISHED.

    James Skehan, a ring snatcher, who made off with a case from the Mont de Piete a week ago, was to-day sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. ...

    Article : 28 words
  22. ENGLISH RACING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 words
  23. AN INFANT BURNT TO DEATH.

    A three-year-old daughter of Mrs. G. Irwin, a widow, residing near Kerang, has succumbed to severe injuries sustained in consequence of her nightdress becoming ...

    Article : 89 words
  24. A CASE OF SUICIDE.

    Richard Stockdale, a groom at Geelong, determinedly ended his career this morning. He was called for breakfast, but a little later the landlord of the hotel where ...

    Article : 101 words
  25. A SHOCKING FATALITY.

    A report from Maclean states that a boy, Ambrose Davis, lost his life this morning at Newly's sugar mills in a shocking manner. His duty was to attend to ...

    Article : 131 words
  26. CRUSHED TO DEATH.

    At the Berry Consols mine to-day Frederick Clennell, aged 34, was crushed to death by an engine rod. He was working beneath the engine-room floor, and ...

    Article : 80 words
  27. THE PHILIPPINES.

    Another engagement bas taken place between the Americans and the insurgents in the Philippines. The conflict, which was of a sanguinary nature, resulted in the defeat ...

    Article : 49 words
  28. SHIPPING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 words
  29. RAIN, HAIL. AND SNOW.

    Severe and wintry weather has been experienced throughout the colony to-day. Hailstorms of great violence have been frequent in the city, and in various parts of ...

    Article : 47 words
  30. A RIDING FATALITY.

    A riding accident, which terminated fatally, is reported from Corndale, near Casterton. Glen Dancock, son of a well-known farmer, was riding home on ...

    Article : 350 words
  31. ST. KILDA SHOOTING CASE.

    Mrs. Fraser was before the St. Kilda Court this morning, and was further remanded for three weeks, Bail, as before, was accepted. Dr. Fraser is still improving ...

    Article : 71 words
  32. DEATH OF LORD FARRER.

    The remains of the late Lord Fairer, who died at the age of 80 years, have been cremated. Lord Farrer was elevated to the peerage in 1893 in recognition of his ...

    Article : 43 words
  33. A SAD BATHING FATALITY.

    John McCulloch, aged 16, met his death by drowning in a waterhole near Bowral on Sunday. He was bathing in company with others, and after swimming for a ...

    Article : 267 words
  34. Advertising

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  35. THROWN FROM A HORSE.

    Thomas Hickey. aged 12, was thrown from a horse at Dobbin on Wednesday, and was found in the bush in an unconscious state on Thursday, with his skull ...

    Article : 184 words
  36. THE AMERICA CUP.

    After seven unsuccessful attempts to cover the 30-mile course within the prescribed period of five and a half hours, the first of the series of five races for the ...

    Article : 128 words
  37. Advertising

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    Advertising : 154 words
  38. SILVER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 words
  39. A YOUNG MAN KILLED.

    William Thomson, aged 20, son of a well-known farmer, living at Echuca, employed on the Wharparilla estate, was killed by being thrown from a bolting horse ...

    Article : 34 words
  40. A RAILWAY FATALITY.

    A fatal accident occurred at the Coota-mundra railway-station on Wednesday last. George Bickley, a shunter, whilst in the act of coupling some tracks, go caught ...

    Article : 77 words
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