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  2. ANLO-COLONIAL GOSSIP.

    Respecting Mr. Chamberlain's Zollverein scheme an anonymous correspondent writes to Truth to say that the principal product that Australia exports is wool, and some £20,000,000 Mr. J. C. F. Johnson states that he has sold the Australian rights of the gaseous fuel, which does away with both oil and water for steam-engine use. ...

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  3. GREEKS AND TURKS.

    "Como over into Macedonia and help us," is still the cry of the oppressed Greeks and other Christians who have the misfortune to continue under Turkish THE GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST.—Mr. H. Y. L. Brown, the Government Geologist, who is returning from the MacDonnell Ranges, hopes to arrive at Oodnadatta on the 12th inst, and THE MASONIC GUIDE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—We have received from tho compiler, K.W. Brother Philip Sansom, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in this Death of Mr. Thomas Williams.—On Monday morning, at his residence, Percy-street, Nailsworth, another one of our old colonists Mr. Thomas Williams, died at the ripe age ...

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  4. THE RAID UPON THE RAND.

    President Kruger, in the course of an interview, has expressed his opinion upon the recent trial in England of Dr. Jameson and his brother officers. ...

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  5. THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

    The Australian Eleven commenced the twenty-fifth match of their tour at the Edgbaston Ground, Birmingham, today against an eleven representing Warwickshire. ...

    Article : 221 words
  6. BRITISH POLITICS.

    The Irish Landowners' Convention estimate that 120 Unionist Peers sitting in the House of Lords will support the leading amendments they desire to see made in the Irish Land Law ...

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  7. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

    Mr. G. W. Smalley, the Now York correspondent of the Times, telegraphs that thirty-six out of the forty-five States representing the Union have given in their adhesion to the ...

    Article : 74 words
  8. THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.

    Two men have succeeded in pulling a small rowing boat named The Fox across the Atlantic Ocean in fifty-five days. ...

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  9. BELGIUM.

    The colleries in Mons, the capital of the province of Hainault, in Belgium, have been closed down by order of the proprietors, owing to the increased cost of labour. ...

    Article : 54 words
  10. MATABELELAND.

    Captain Hurrell, the officer commanding the column of Rhodesian troops which recently succeeded in effecting a junction with the Fort Victoria force, reports to General ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. THE SOCIALIST CONGRESS.

    At the Congress of Socialist Workers yesterday the French delegates moved a resolution demanding the establishment of universal free education for the people, including the ...

    Article : 73 words
  12. GERMAN EAST AFRICA.

    Herr Schroder, who has been the local agent in Africa for the German East Africa Company for some time, has been sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment for brutality to the ...

    Article : 47 words
  13. COLONIAL STUDENTS.

    Messrs. John Alexander Watt, of Sydney University, and Ernest Rutherford, of New Zealand, who last year were awarded Science Research Scholarships by the Commissioners ...

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  14. CHOLERA IN EGYPT.

    The cholera epidemic has now spread to Firkeh, one of the outposts of the Anglo-Egyptian expeditionary force to Dongola. Mr. Joseph Shakour, one of the railway ...

    Article : 77 words
  15. THE SOUDAN WAR.

    In consequence of the annual rise of the River Nile having set in, the authorities at Wady Haifa have decided to utilize steamboats for tho conveyance of stores for the ...

    Article : 62 words
  16. LI-HUNG-CHANG.

    Prince Li-Hung-Chang, the Chinese Viceroy, who recently visited Moscow as the Ambassador extraordinary and representative of the Emperor of China at the Czar's ...

    Article : 137 words
  17. THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The date for the sculling match for the championship of the world between James Stanbury, the Australian, and Jake Gaudaur, the Canadian sculler, has not yet been settled. ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. FIRE IN FRANCE.

    A huge conflagration has occurred at Mantes, a populous city in France, and the capital of the Department of Loire-Inferieure, on the River Loire. ...

    Article : 58 words
  19. THE CRETAN INSURRECTION.

    The Christians have again attacked the Turkish troops in the Island of Crete. A number of the rebels succeeded in enticing the Herakleion garrison into an ambush, and ...

    Article : 234 words
  20. BULGARIA.

    The tomb of M. Statmbuloff, the ex-Premier of Bulgaria, who was assassinated in the streets of Sofia last year, has been destroyed by a bomb. ...

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  21. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM GROVE.

    The death is announced this morning of the Right Hon. Sir William Robert Grove. [The Right Hon. Sir William Robert Grove, D.C L., LL.D., F.C., F.R.S., son of John ...

    Article : 404 words
  22. THE NEW ZEALAND BANKING ENQUIRY.

    In connection with Mr. William Booth's evidence it has been explained that the Bank of New Zealand does not intend to forego any good business in Australia. Mr. Booth stated ...

    Article : 168 words
  23. THE VICTORIA RACING CLUB.

    The annual general meeting of members of the V.R.C. was held this afternoon. Mr. Septimus Miller occupied the chair, and there were without 200 memoirs present. The ...

    Article : 331 words
  24. RENMARK IRRIGATION TRUST SELECT COMMITTEE.

    The Select Committee arrived here on Friday, and a meeting of ratepayers was held at night. The Committee examined Messrs. Turner, Harrison ...

    Article : 161 words
  25. THE WESTERN GOLDFIELDS.

    Mr. Banks, an experienced American miner, has been appointed mining Manager of the Lake View property, and is now in charge. A lode 25 ft. wide has been struck at a ...

    Article : 305 words
  26. THE PRIMATE ON CHURCH WORK IN AUSTRALIA.

    The foundation-stone of a new schoolroom in connection with All Saints' Church, Nurthcote, was laid this afternoon by the Governor, Lord Brassey, in presence of a large company ...

    Article : 84 words
  27. VICTORIA.

    The case of Ponting v. Huddart, Parker, and Co., in which the plaintiff claimed £500 as damages for loss and injury in connection with the foundering of the Albert, was concluded ...

    Article : 68 words
  28. TRAGEDY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.

    William Stumbles, aged twenty-one, was found dead at Wollongong yesterday evening with a bullet wound through his head. The evidence of the father indicated that the young ...

    Article : 282 words
  29. PRAISE FOR THE SALVATION ARMY.

    The Centenary Hall was thronged to-night when the Salvation Army held their annual demonstration in connection with the social reform work carried on hv the organization. ...

    Article : 106 words
  30. QUEENSLAND.

    The nominations for the Log[?] Tectorate are:—Thomas Plunkett, Independent, farmers' candidate; James Stodart, Ministerialist; Mathew Reid, Labour; and William Castles ...

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  31. TO-DAY'S ENGAGEMENTS

    Zoological Gardens—All day. St. Luke's Hall, at 8 p.m.—Lecture by the Rev. W. G. March on "Striking Contrasts—Red. White, and Black." ...

    Article : 116 words
  32. BROKEN HILL.

    A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest to-day on the body of the little boy William Bayly, who was killed on Saturday at South Broken Hill by being run over by ...

    Article : 206 words
  33. THE TICK SCOURGE.

    At a meeting of stockowners at Townsville to-day it was decided to petition the Government for a reduction of rents owing to the heavy losses caused by the tick pest; also that ...

    Article : 54 words
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  35. WATER SUPPLY IN WOOLUNDUNGA DISTRICT.

    The Woolundunga District Council has passed the following resolution:—"That, considering the loss to gardeners and stockowners from scarcity of water during last summer. ...

    Article : 68 words
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