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  2. FINANCIAL REFORM.

    Last night, at the Protestant Hall, Mr. B. R. Wise delivered an interesting address on "Financial Reform." In spite of the inclement state of the weather, there was a large ...

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  3. VICTORIA.

    The Chief Justice commenced to-day to deliver his reserved judgment in the action brought by Joseph Webster, retired mariner, against George Shaw, as chairman of the ...

    Article : 187 words
  4. THE NAVIGATION BILL COMMISSION.

    Dr. Wollaston was again under examination to-day before the Royal Commission to which the Navigation Bill has been referred. He said the bill dealt with foreign seamen, which ...

    Article : 1,441 words
  5. VISUAL POLICY.

    The commission appointed by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain to inquire into the fiscal system of the country, and as to what changes are necessary, has issued ...

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  6. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The House of Commons has had a continuous session of 24 hours, owing to the Opposition tactics regarding the Finance Bill, and is still sitting. ...

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  7. THE WAR.

    Telegrams from Tokio state that the Vladivostock cruiser squadron, without torpedo boats, entered the North Pacilic Ocean, and steamed eastward at 7 o'clock ...

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  8. RED SEA RAID.

    It is reported that the Cabinet has sent a strongly-worded despatch to St. Petersburg respecting the action of the Russian Volunteer Fleet steamers in overhauling ...

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  9. FRANCE AND THE VATICAN.

    M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has informed the Vatican that relations with France will be rupturcd unless the Papal letters to the Bishop ...

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  10. TRANSFERENCE OF 500 SOVEREIGNS.

    The disappearance from the possession of Mr. Henry W. Lutwyche, in Sydney, of 500 sovereigns, and the transference of them to Melbourne under peculiar circumstances, have ...

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  11. TWO DAYS' FIGHTING.

    General Kuropatkin reports that his forces were engaged for two days with [?]e Japanese on the road from Sai-matse, in Eastern, Manchuria, to Liao-yang. ...

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  12. VICTORIAN ARTISTS' RECEPTION.

    The first reception by the Victorian artists exhibiting at the Institute of Watercolours was given yesterday, and was attended by 400 ladies and gentlemen. ...

    Article : 138 words
  13. BRITISH SQUADRON FOR ALEXANDRIA.

    Additional warships have left Malta to join Admiral Sir Compton Domvile, the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean squadron, who is now on his way to ...

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  14. COMMENTS ON THE SITUATION.

    That villainous gathering place of the scum of nations—Port Said—now attracts the attention of the world. The P. and O. Company's steamer Malacca—which has suddenly become ...

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  15. ESTATE OF THE LATE WILLIAM JONES.

    Litigation which has been engaging the attention of the Courts for some time past with reference to the determination of persons who are next of kin of the late William Jones, ...

    Article : 160 words
  16. THE MALACCA AT PORT SAID.

    The P. and O. steamer Malacca, taken as a prize by the St. Petersburg, of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, has arrived at Port Said in charge of a Russian crew. ...

    Article : 262 words
  17. RUSSO-GERMAN COMMERCIAL TREATY.

    M. Witte, the President of the Russian Council of Ministers, and Count von Bulow, the German Imperial Chancellor, have come to a compromise over the ...

    Article : 67 words
  18. DEPORTATION OF LEPERS.

    A deportation of lepers is being arranged for by the Sydney Health authorities, and negotiations are taking place between them and Dr. Gresswell. chairman of the Victorian ...

    Article : 202 words
  19. BISLEY RIFLE MATCHES.

    In the "Graphic" competition at the prize meeting of the National Rifle Association at Bisley, Colour-sergeant Irvine, of Nelson, New Zealand, and Colour-sergeant ...

    Article : 208 words
  20. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Abdul Hazlz, an Afghan, and Khan Jam, alias Charlie Jackson, a native of Calcutta, who escaped from the steamer Beckenham while at Port Adelaide, have been recaptured, ...

    Article : 44 words
  21. PRESS OPINIONS.

    The "Standard" says that the report of the Tariff Commission is not impartial. The verdict was determined [?]fore the case was submitted. To be of value such ...

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  22. OUR INDUSTRIAL LAWS.

    Time after time men have written in the public press and speakers have stood on the platform to tell how the prospects of the expansion of trade in this State have been ...

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  23. ENROLLING NAVAL RECRUITS.

    On her arrival on Monday last H.M.S. Challenger required 10 recruits under the new naval agreement, and enrolled one ordinary seamen, four stokers, and five boys. ...

    Article : 33 words
  24. MEAT PACKERS' STRIKE.

    The strike of meat packers in the United States is at an end. The masters agreed that the strikers should be re-employed, and it was then decided to refer the other ...

    Article : 48 words
  25. DEALING WITH DRUNKARDS.

    A deputation representing the commiltee formed to consider the best means of dealing with drunkenness waited to-day upon the Chief Secretary to urge the Ministry to carry out a ...

    Article : 247 words
  26. RELEASE DEMANDED.

    The "Times" says that if European condemnation is not sufficient to compel the Russian Government to observe treaties, some more effective means must be ...

    Article : 109 words
  27. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Governor of Samoa is making arrangements for the importation of between 300 and 400 Chinese labourers for plantation work. WELLINGTON, Thursday. ...

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  28. ENGLISH CRICKET.

    Some big (totals were registered in the round of first-class matches, which commenced on Monday. At Nottingham, where Gloucestershire ...

    Article : 87 words
  29. DISCOVERY OF DIAMONDS.

    Whilst examining some stone at grass, Messrs. Pike and O'Donnell, prospectors of the diamond pipe, Oakey Creck, yesterday discovered another small diamond in the matrix. ...

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  30. QUEENSLAND.

    The wrork of recruiting in Brisbane for the Australian Auxiliary Squadron was completed yesterday. All the vacancies were filled, there being in all 20 stokers and a ...

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  31. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A heat wave is being experienced in America; 100 degrees have been registered in the shade at New York, and there have been many cases of suratroke with fatal ...

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  32. COAL FOR THE MALACCA REFUSED.

    The Russian request made at Port Said that the Malacca should be supplied with coal in order to proceed to Cherbourg, the French naval station in the Channel, ...

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  33. THE JETTISONED CARGO OF THE LAIRA.

    It will be remembered that the barque Laira, now in port at Sydney, was one of the many vessels roughly handled in the violent storm which brought disaster to the Nemesis. The ...

    Article : 308 words
  34. THE SEE OF BRISBANE.

    Archdeacon David, the administrator of the Brisbane diocese, received a cablegram yesterday from London stating that the consecration of the Right Rev. Dr. Donaldson, ...

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  35. TRAM TRAFFIC RECEIPTS.

    The traffic receipts of the Brisbane Tramways Company for June amounted to £9602, an increase of £27 as compared with June of last year. ...

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  36. A TALE FROM BELGIUM.

    It is reported that the steamer St. Peterburg was warned by a message from Antwerp that the Malacca carried ammunition and ironwork for a crane at Moji, a ...

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  37. EXPORT DUTY ON HIDES AND SHEEPSKINS.

    At a meeting to-day of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, a communication was received from the Geelong and Western Districts of Victoria Fellmongers and Tanners' ...

    Article : 134 words
  38. PASSAGE OF THE DARDANELLES.

    Russian naval officials declare that the Russian Volunteer Fleet steamers St. Petersburg and Smolensk passed the Dardanelles flying the commercial flag in ...

    Article : 60 words
  39. HABITABILITY OF QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Fisher, the Minister for Customs, opened the Maryborough show to-day. Speaking at dinner to-night, he said he had found that there was no State more misunderstood ...

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  40. TURKISH "STRICTNESS."

    The Constantinople correspondent of the "Standard" states that the passage through the Dardanelles of the Smolensk and St. Petersburg, of the Russian Volunteer Flee[?] ...

    Article : 58 words
  41. THE SUGAR BOUNTY.

    A curious phase of the sugar bounty has developed. Several small settlers planted areas of cane in October last under bounty conditions. Owing to frost in the closing nights ...

    Article : 101 words
  42. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2[?]d per ounce standard, a fall of [?]d per ounce standard. KEEP A TIN IN THE HOUSE ...

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  43. LATE SHIPPING.

    Mareeba, s, 1747 tons, Captain King, from Brisbane, via Newcastle. Burns, Philip, and Co., Limited, agents. Perth, s, 1799 tons, Captain J. T. Wilson, from ...

    Article : 50 words
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