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THE WEATHER.
HOPEFUL ANTICIPATIONS. LIST OF FRIDAY'S RAINFALLS. UN SPOTS AND THE DROUGHT.
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Mr. Wragge spoke in a hopeful strain on being interviewed last night. "From local observations," he said, "I have every reason to confirm my remarks of ...
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The following communication was received on Saturday morning from Mr. C. L. Wragge:- "Capemba Observatory, 9 a.m., 27/9/02. ...
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On Tuesday evening last we had a fine shower, but it was very, patchy, very little falling on the right bank of the creek Round Mount Sturt the ground was white ...
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SPLENDID RAINS IN THE SOUTH.
(By Telegraph from Our Correspondents.) SYDNEY, September 27.
Splendid rains have fallen in the northern, eastern, and southern portions of New South Wales, and many places have had half-an-inch or over, and as the ...
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The "Daily Mail" (London) announces in our columns to-day the final withdrawal of its "Encyclopaedia Britannica" offer in Queensland. This sale was undertaken ...
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CABLE MESSAGES.
(From Our London Correspondent.) RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS QUESTION IN FRANCE. LONDON, September 27.
Major Leroy Ladurie, an officer in the French army, has been tried by court-martial at Nantes for refusing to obey the orders of his colonel in connection ...
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A disastrous railway accident occurred yesterday in France. The express train from Lille to Paris was derailed at Arleux owing to an error on the part of ...
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News is to hand of a disastrous cyclone having occurred in the province of Catania, in Sicily, lasting for twenty-four hours, and a German steamer foundered off the coast. ...
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The craters of the island volcanoes of Stromboli and Vulcano, near the southwest coast of Italy, are reported to be now active. ...
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Further particulars of the disastrous earthquake in Kashgar (Chinese Turkestan) state that the total number of fatalities, including those at Artush, was ...
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The United States Rubber Company is engaged in forming a combination to control the output of rubber from the Republic of Bolivia, in South America. It ...
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A fund has been opened in Denmark for the erection of a bust of Shakspeare at Elsinore, the scene where the tragedy of "Hamlet" is laid. ...
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GREAT BRITAIN.
(By Cable Message.) ARREST OF IRISH MEMBERS. LONDON, September 26.
Mr. John Roche, the Nationalist Member of the House of Commons for Galway East, has been arrested at Woodford for failure to comply with an order calling ...
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Whilst Mr. John Kensit, sen., the wellknown leader of the crusade against ritualism, was leaving the hall in which he had addressed a meeting at Birkenhead, near ...
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The Inland Revenue Commissioners are claiming only £100,000 from the De Beers Diamond Company for income tax during the past two years. ...
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Experimental trials of a motor fire-engine have been made in London. ...
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It is estimated that the Earl of Dudley's new coalfield will yield a profit of nearly £40,000 a year. ...
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The Earl of Dudley, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, received a deputation from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce yesterday, and in his reply to the ...
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SOUTH AFRICA.
(By Cable Message.) CHILLING RECEPTION OF THE BOER GENERALS' MANIFESTO. LONDON, September 27.
The manifesto recently issued by the Boer Generals, in which they appealed to the civilised world for aid for the distressed in the late Republic, and for the ...
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The Boer Generals have been addressing meetings at Groningen, in the north of Holland, and in the course of their speeches they deprecated the singing of the ...
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In connection with the minors' trust moneys in the Transvaal, It was stated yesterday that out of a total of £280,000 intrusted to the Orphan Master, only ...
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The Royal Commission, under the presidency of Lord Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice of England, which was appointed to inquire into the sentences passed under ...
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Major-General Baden-powell has issued a memorandum, asking the South African Constabulary, of whom he is in command, to do their utmost to identify and preserve ...
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The sons of Mr. F. W. Reitz, who was Secretary of State for the late Transvaal Republic, have declared at Marseilles that Viscount Kitchener has not fulfilled several ...
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Mr. F. W. Reitz, late Transvaal State Secretary, accompanied by his daughter, has started for the United States. ...
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CAPE COLONY.
TREASON LAWS IN CAPE COLONY. LONDON, September 26.
Dr. J. W. Smartt, who was Commissioner for Public Works in the Sprigg Ministry, and resigned early in June, has introduced a bill in the Cape Parliament to increase ...
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A Loan Bill, to provide for additional compensation for war losses, has passed its second reading in the Cape House of Assembly. ...
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Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, a leading member and former head of the Afrikander Bond, has been interviewed in London on the situation in Cape Colony, and expressed ...
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No fear of this troubling Charles Gilbert's establishment, as he sells for prompt cash only, and can therefore afford to give a much better article, and at far ...
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The London "Daily Chronicle," commenting upon a Blue-book which has just been issued, states that the broud grounds on which Mr. Chamberlain is upholding ...
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QUESTION OF STATE RIGHTS.
ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH AUSTUALIAN GOVERNMENT. COMMUNICATION WIT[?] CHAMBERLAIN. (By Telegraph from Our Correspondent.) ADELAIDE, September 28.
The Premier has made an important statement with regard to the question of State rights. In August, 1901, some difficulty arose in connection with the crew ...
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STATEMENT BY MR. DEAKIN.
(By Telegraph from Our Special Representative.) MELBOURNE, September 28.
The Acting Prime Minister made an important statement yesterday with regard to the question of State rights raised by the Premier of South Australia in ...
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MADAME MELBA'S CONCERT.
FIRST APPEARANCE IN MELBOURNE. AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION. (By Telegraph from Our Correspondent.) MELBOURNE, September 28.
Madame Melba justified her reputation on her appearance in the Town Hall last night. The scene was a brilliant one, and the attendance numbered 2300, ...
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Public thanksgiving services for peace in South Africa were held yesterday in the Anglican and Catholic Cathedrals, also in the Albert-street Methodist and ...
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On the motion for adjournment in the Legislative Assembly early, this morning (says Friday's "Sydney Daily Telegraph"), Sir John See announced that he had ...
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COMMONWEALTH EXPENDITURE
MR. PHILP'S COMPLAINTS. (By Telegraph from Our Special Representative.) MELBOURNE, September 28.
Mr. Deakin, the Acting Prime Minister, says he thinks that all Mr. Philp's complaints with regard to Commonwealth expenditure are based upon an erroneous ...
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Will reveal the fact that our values are the best on record. Genuine all-wool Suitings, splendid in quality and admirable in design, constantly arriving from our ...
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ACROSS THE TWEED.—III.
THE MERCHANTS' VISIT. MURWILLUMBAH TO LISMORE. (By Our Special Representative.)
Nature intended Murwillumbah, the chief town of the Tweed, to be a pretty, town, and some day, perhaps, it will be, but at present it is very much what Brisbane was ...
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