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  2. VICTORIA.

    The Damascus to-day look £50,000 in sovereigns on account of the Bank of Victoria for South Africa, and 2,705 boxes, or 67½ tons, of butter to South Africa. ...

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  3. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    Sir William Lyne clings tenaciously to his proposal to take the Federal members on an excursion trip around Australia during the recess, and never loses an ...

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  4. THE EDUCATION BILL.

    The agitation against the clause of the Education Bill which denies the right of popular control over the board schools is growing in intensity throughout Great ...

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  5. A MINING DISASTER.

    A terrible collapse occurred in the southern workings of the Central mine about 3 o'clock this morning, resulting in the burial of two men, who were working in the ...

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  6. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The Lords of the Admiralty intend to increase the strength of the cruiser squadron to four armored and four protected cruisers. ...

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  7. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Lord Milner, High Commissioper for South Africa, is at present touring the Lydenburg and Zoutpansberg districts of the Transvaal Colony for the purpose of ...

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  8. THE AMERICAN STRIKE.

    Some 43,000 troops have been massed in the mining districts of the State of Pennsylvania to maintain order among the anthracite strikers. ...

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  9. THE APPROPRIATION BILL

    The Senate has been debating all the afternoon and evening the second reading of the Appropriation Bill. Sir Josiah Symon condemned the Government for not ...

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  10. THE PROROGATION.

    Cabinet decided to-day to restrict the ceremonies connected with the prorogation of the Federal Parliament to,bare formalities. The Acting Governor-General will ...

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  11. MONETARY CRISIS IN CANADA.

    A financial panic has occurred in the Montreal aud other Canadian markets. The stringency of money after intemperate speculations has led to the liquidation of ...

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  12. IRISH PARTY'S ATTITUDE.

    Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, in a letter to Mr. J. E. Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalist Party, strongly appeals to the Nationalists to ...

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  13. AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN.

    An application was made to Mr. Justice Holroyd in the Practice Court to-day by Mr. Jones for the release on bail of Rachel Samuel, who was committed for trial on ...

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  14. THE DRAYTON GRANGE ENQUIRY.

    At a meeting of members of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the state of affairs on the troopship Drayton Grange to-day, the report was not finally ...

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  15. CANADIAN WHEAT.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Premier of Canada), speaking in the Corn Exchange, Liverpool, yesterday, expressed his conviction that within ten or twenty years the Dominion ...

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  16. FRANCE AND SIAM.

    As the result of the visit to Paris of Phya Sri, the special envoy from Bangkok, Second Minister of the Interior in Siam, cousin of the King, and Privy Councillor, ...

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  17. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The death at his sister's residence. Challeris, Cambridgeshire, is announced of Mr. Justice Hensman, of West Australia, the cause being double pneumonia. ...

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  18. THE DANDENONG MURDER.

    Consideration will he given by Cabinet on Friday to the death sentence passed by the Chief Justice last month on August Tisler and Mrs. Sangal, convicted of the murder ...

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  19. CUSTOMS PROSECUTION.

    To-day Mr. C. Payten, S.M., gave his decision in the Customs prosecution in which the firm of Sargood, Butler, Nichol, and Ewen were proceeded against on a charge ...

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  20. A CHEAP CHARACTER CERTIFICATE.

    In the District Court to-day William Hendy asked for a verdict for £20 against J. J. Quinlan, hotel broker, being a refund of a deposit paid on the purchase of an ...

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  21. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A married woman, Catherine Rowling, 51 years of age, who resided with her husband at William-street, Double Bay, committed suicide by hauging herself in the bathroom ...

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  22. QUEENSLAND.

    The inter-State rifle match, Brisbane police team versus Perth police team, fired simultaneously at Brisbane and Perth, was won by Brisbane with 796 points to 709. ...

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  23. RAILWAY RETRENCHMENT.

    The heads of the various branches of the Railway Department were consulting today with a view to carrying out the instructions of the Government that the working ...

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  24. THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN

    The Mayor of Cape Town yesterday welcomed the Australian cricketers, whom he subsequently entertained at dinner. Major Wardill, in responding to the toasts of the ...

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  25. AN AWFUL COLLISION.

    An accident which was attended with fatal consequences occurred near Wagga. Cecil Facy, aged 22, was riding homeward for lunch, when his horse bolted. It made ...

    Article : 110 words
  26. EARTHQUAKES IN GUAM.

    Renter's correspondent states that during the last few weeks 180 shocks of earthquake, of greater or less intensity, have been recorded in Guam, the southernmost ...

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  27. A RECRUITER IN TROUBLE.

    Some days ago the labor vessel Sydney Belle arrived at Bundaberg from the islands, and it was stated that recraiting had been stopped by the Government agent (Mr. A. ...

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  28. THE OUTTRIM MINE.

    By ballot to-day the Jumbunna miners decided by a narrow majority to make a 10 per cent, levy next pay day in aid of the Outtrim strikers. The latter to-day ...

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  29. A SHOOTING AFFRAY.

    A remarkable shooting affray occurred at the intersection of Bourke and Wooloomooloo streets, Wooloomooloo, last night, but forlunately no one was injured, although ...

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  30. THE YACHTING CATASTROPHE.

    No doubt is entertained now that the occupants of the yacht Yankee, which left St. Kilda on Saturday last, have been drowned, To-day the mailsail, cap, and ...

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  31. PUBLIC SERVANTS SALARIES.

    Although the Federal Government have provided a sum of £75,000 for increments to the Civil servants transferred with the department to the Commonwealth, it has ...

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  32. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day Sir John See, in reply to Mr. Williams, stated that he had received a telegram from the sub-inspector of police at Broken Hill, ...

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  33. CARDINAL MORA

    Dr. Moran, Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, in the course of an interview published in the "Pall Mall Gazette" to-day, states that he is much impressed with the ...

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  34. CONSCIENCE MONEY.

    The Federal Minister of Customs has received 25/ as conscience money from an anonymous correspondent, who ascribes the sin, which has borne so heavily on his ...

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  35. LOST AT SEA.

    The voyage of the large four-masted barque, Hinemoa, which was completed from Frederickstad to Melbourne to-day, Avas marked by a tragic incident. Fine ...

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  36. "SETTLED FOR TWENTY YEARS."

    Sir William Lyne, in response to a Sydney interviewer, on Saturday, delivered himself of the following prophecy in regard to the fiscal system of the Commonwealth:—"The ...

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  37. ISLINGTON DAIRY SHOW.

    At the Dairy Show in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, this week, 50 lots'of Victorian and New South Wales butter are on exhibition, but it is noticed that there ...

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  38. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Breadstuffs. — The quantity ot wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is,1,990,000 quarters, as against 1,980,000 quarters last week. The quantity afloat for the ...

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  39. TASMANIA.

    Mr. Mulcahy (Minister of Lands) has issued a writ against the proprietor and publisher of the Hobart "Clipper," claiming £1,000 damages for alleged libel. ...

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  40. RECEPTION TO MADAME MELBA.

    Not many persons, whether in a public or private capacity, certainly no woman before, has received in Melbourne such a welcome as that tendered to Madame Melba ...

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  41. POSTAL CHARGES TO THE STATES.

    Steps are being taken to minimise the inconvenience caused to the State Governments by having in future to stamp their official correspondence when sent through ...

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  42. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    General Perein, private secretany to General Andre, Minister for War in the French Cabinet, has fought a duel with a member of the. staff of "La Gaulois," a ...

    Article : 72 words
  43. THE INDIA AT FREMANTLE.

    The R.M.S. India arrived at 6.45 a.m. today, and she had the following passengers in the saloon:— For Mclbo[?]e—Mr. and Mrs. Gray, Miss ...

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  44. CHINESE AFFAIRS.

    Consequent on the death of Liu-Kun-Yi; Governor-General of Liang-Kiang (KiangeNing and Nankin), Chang-chis-Tung has been provisionally transferred to Nankin. ...

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  45. FINANCIAL NEWS.

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  46. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

    Vice- Admiral Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe has been appointed to relieve Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont, in command of the Australasian Auxiliary ...

    Article : 166 words
  47. LABOR IN FRANCE.

    The strike at Pas-deCalais, the chief coal mining department in France, where no fewer than 20,00O men have adopted this method of protesting aginst a reduction in ...

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  48. MINING SHARES.

    The following are the latest quotations on the London Stock Exchange:— Mount Lyell, £2 12 6. Mount Lyell North. £1 4/. ...

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  49. Advertising

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  50. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    Silver is quoted at 1/11½ per oz. ...

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