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  2. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

    The second match of the Australians' tour entered upon its second day this morning. When play closed yesterday the Notts' innings of 287 finished just upon time for ...

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  3. SECOND EDITION.

    Natives, whose kraals the Boers have burned, discovered a Boer langer. The natives attacked the encampment, and killed 30 Boers, a majority of the commando. They ...

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  4. THE GREAT VOLCANIC ERUPTION.

    A St. Thomas cablegram states that thousands of people were killed at St. Pierre, Martinique, by the eruption of Mount Pelee. A stream of boiling mud, which has been ...

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  5. COMMONWEALTH NOTES.

    Mr. D. C. M'Lachlan, Federal Public Service Commissioner, arrived in Melbourne yesterday, and immediately made arrangements for taking up his duties to-morrow. Mr. M'Lachlan had an interview ...

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  6. THE WEST INDIES.

    The news of the volcanic disturbantes in the West Indies continues to be of a sensational character. The town of St. Pierre is swept away with all its inhabitants and the ...

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  7. DESCRIPTION OF MARTINIQUE.

    Martinique is one of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indian Islands. It has an area of 390 square miles, anti a population of 187,900, of whom only 10,000 are whites. It was discovered by the Spaniards in 1493, ...

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  8. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY.

    Sergeant William Russ, of the 5th South Australian Bushmen, has died of enteric fever at Kroonstad. ...

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  9. THE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    Sir Clements Markham, the President of the Royal Georgraphical Society, urgently appeals to tho public for £6000, to despatch a relief ship for the Antarctic Expedition. ...

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  10. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The transport Englishman with Australian troops aboard from Sydney March 21 has arrived at Durban. ...

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  11. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

    A cyclist named Joseph Bennett Andrews, 26 years of age, residing at Excelsior-parade, Marrickville, met with a serious accident on Saturday afternoon near the Enmore tram terminus. It appears that ...

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  12. THE EXTRAORDINARY FRAUDS.

    The solicitor of the brothers Crawford, the nephews of Mr. Crawford, who was alleged to have bequeathed £4,000,000 to Mme. Humbert, has been arrested. ...

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  13. NEW ZEALAND CASUALTY.

    Private A. L. Way, of the 8th New Zealand Contingent, has succumbed to a fall at Vaalbunk. ...

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  14. THE OTHER ISLANDS AFFECTED.

    St. Vincent is one of the Windward group of islands in the West Indies, and has an area of 147 square miles, and a population of 47,700, of which it is estimated that about seven-eighths are negroes and ...

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  15. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Charles Arnold, of Sydney, has presented the cricket club of Derbyshire, his native county, with 500 guineas. ...

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  16. THE COMMONWEALTH HORSE.

    The detachment of 25 men, in command of Lieutenant J. D. Bathgate, of the 5th Battalion Commonwealth Contingent, which proceeds ahead of the remainder of the battalion in charge of 147 horses ...

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  17. EXTRAORDINARY CONSPIRACY IN FRANCE.

    Warrants have been issued for the arrest of M. Humbert, a son of a Minister of M. de Freycinet's Cabinet, of his wife, Mme. Humbert, and of his wife's sister Mdlle. Marie ...

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  18. KNOCKED DOWN BY A BICYCLE.

    Daniel Egan, a labourer, living at Ultimo-road, Ultimo, was admitted to the Sydney Hosptial on Saturday suffering from a fracture of the skull, caused through being knocked down by a bicycle in ...

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  19. POISONED WITH MATCH HEADS.

    About 11.30 a.m. yesterday, a married woman named Beatrice Walters, residing temporarily at 72 Abattoir-road, was admitted to the Balmain Hospital suffering from the effect of phosphorus poisoning. ...

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  20. INJURED BY A FALL.

    On Saturday night an engineer named Robert Rutherford, residing at 13 Nicholson-street, Balmain, was getting off the ferry steamer at the Darling-street wharf, when he tripped and fell, and his ...

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  21. ACCIDENT AT A FOOTBALL MATCH.

    During the early part of the football match on the Birchgrove reserve on Saturday afternoon, between Balmain H. and Newtown H., H. Dick, one of the local players, met with a very painful accident, ...

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  22. A BYE-ELECTION.

    The bye-election yesterday for the vacancy in the representation of Bury, Lancashire, in the House of Commons, owing to the resignation of Mr. James Kenyon (Conservative), ...

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  23. AN INFANT'S BODY FOUND.

    The dead body of an infant, wrapped in newspapers, was found in the ladies' lavatory on No. 5 platform at the Redfern railway station on Friday night by one of the attendants. The body was taken ...

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  24. RUN OVER BY A CART.

    Michael Kennedy, 60, a gardener, residing at 54 South-street, Rushentter Bay, was conveyed to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday afternoon by Constable A. T. Dowse, of Darlinghurst Police Station, ...

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  25. CAREERS OF SQUADRON OFFICERS.

    Captain Ernest Alfred Blow, who has been appointed to the command of A Squadron, is 33 years of age, and obtained his first military experience in the old Illawarra Light Horse. After two years' service ...

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  26. A FRACTURED LEG.

    Benjamin Morson, a painter, 58 years of age, residing at 27 Samuel-street, Surry Hills, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday morning suffering from a broken leg. The injury, it is ...

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  27. DUTCH NEW GUINEA.

    Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has cabled to Lord Hopetoun stating that the Netherlands Minister in London (Baron Gericke van Herwijnen) has ...

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  28. THE MATCH AGAINST SURREY.

    The Australian team will commence a match against Surrey at Kennington Oval on Monday. The Surrey eleven will be selected from the following:—D. L. A. Jephson, V. F. ...

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  29. ACCIDENT AT MEADOWBANK.

    A girl named Alice Purkes, who resides at Churchstreet, Concord, attempted to jump over a small culvert at Meadowbank on Saturday afternoon, when she fell, fracturing her left leg. She was conveyed ...

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  30. AN ESTIMATE OF THE LIVES LOST.

    It is estimated that 30,000 persons, including the Governor, perished in the destruction of St. Pierre. May 10. ...

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  31. NOTES ON THE MATCH.

    The third engagement of the campaign will be against Surrey, and will commence to-day at Kennington Oval. This willmake the seventeenth match between the Australians and that country. Of ...

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  32. AN INDIAN LOAN.

    A 3 per cent. loan of £1,500,000 was put on the market by India at a minimum of 99. The loan was covered sevenfold Applicants at 101? are entitled to 47 per cent. of the ...

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  33. FALL FROM A TRAM.

    Shortly after 7 o'clock last evening a lad named William Downes, 17, residing at Kingsclear-road, Alexandria, attempted to alight from a tram whilst it was in motion on the Botany-road Downes was ...

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  34. CHINA.

    The Kwang-si rebels bombarded the town of Nanning-fu. 350 of the inhabitants were killed. ...

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  35. A BUGGY ACCIDENT.

    Esthan King, 23, barmaid, residing at Simmsstreet, Dalinghurst, was treated at the Sydney Hospital yesterday for a fracture of the shoulder. The injury was caused in a buggy accident. ...

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  36. TOUR OF THE MINISTER FOR LANDS.

    The long and arduous tour of the Minister for Lands, Mr. Crick, through a portion of the droughtstricken Western Division, in company with Mr. C. J. M'Master, chairman of the Western Lands Board, ...

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  37. MR. RHODES'S EXECUTORS.

    Mr. W. T. Stead explains that from 1891 to 1899 he was, under the wills of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, entrusted with the sole execution of his imperialistic ideals. Just before the war ...

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  38. OTHER ISLANDS AFFECTED.

    The Soufriere volcano in St. Vincent, Windward Islands, is smoking ominously. Active craters at Dominica, Leeward Group, are in a state of eruption. ...

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  39. ACCIDENT AT THE HAWKESBURY RIVER.

    An elderly woman named Ellon Cox fell from the verandah at her residence, Mangrove Creek, Hawkesbury River, on Saturday, dislocating her left thigh. She was brought to Sydney by train, ...

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  40. STRIKE OF ANTHRACITE MINERS.

    A strike of anthracite miners in Pennsylvania has been ordered to commence on Monday. The miners, who number 150,000, demand the recognition of eight hours as a ...

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  41. LAUNCH OF A NEW TUG.

    The launching of a new tugboat for the Adelaide Steamship Company formed the occasion of a pleasing ceremony on Saturday at the company's yards, Peacock's Point, Balmain. The new steamer was ...

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  42. THIRD DAY.

    The weather when play was resumed to-day was dull, though warmer than on Friday. The attendance was again meagre. Notwithstanding the hail and rain of the previous ...

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  43. THE WOOL SALES.

    At the wool sales to-day prices were very firm, especially for best wools. May 10. The following prices were realised yesterday ...

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  44. THE NAVIGATION SYNDICATE.

    The "St. James's Gazette" states that the British nation regards the Navigation Syndicate with resentment and distrust. The flower of the finest lines of British steamers has passed ...

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  45. THE LITHGOW IRONWORKS.

    A powerful company has been formed in London with a capital of £730,000 to acquire Mr. Sandford's Lithgow Works, New South Wales. The company has ordered two blast ...

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  46. ARRIVAL OF NEW ZEA LANDERS.

    The troopship Cornwall, which left Durban on April 10, arrived in Sydney on Saturday afternoon and anchored at Watson's Bay. She had on board 9 officers and 300 non-commissioned officers and men ...

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  47. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Tenders for the outer harbour are to be sent in by September 30. Plans and specifications will be available at the Engineer-in-Chief's office on Monday. The contract includes the making of a channel ...

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  48. A VESSEL IN DISTRESS.

    A distressed vessel, bull down, painted white, apparently a barquentine with fore and maintop mast and mizzen mast carried away, is heading south under jib staysails and mainsail. It is thought that ...

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  49. LAUNCH OF A STEAMER.

    The largest steam scow on the coast was successfully launched at Tuncarry this morning. The vessel (a twin-screw steamer) was built for Mr. J. Wright. Her dimensions ...

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  50. ENGLISH RACING.

    At Kempton Park yesterday the race for the principal event on the card resulted as under:— The Sixteenth Year of the Kempton Park Great ...

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  51. FEMALE TEACHERS FOR BOER CHILDREN.

    Aboard the steamer Westralia, due at Melbourne on Monday morning, are 20 female teachers from New Zealand proceeding to South Africa to instruct Boer children in the refugee camps. Hearty cheers ...

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  52. TO-DAY.

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  53. MOURNING IN FRANCE.

    As a sign of mourning the flags in France are hoisted half-mast. Sir Edward Monson, the British Ambassador, has expressed to M. Delcasse, the ...

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  54. THE TROOPSHIP COLUMBIAN.

    The troopship Columbian, which arrived here late on Saturday night from Adelaide, resumed her voyage to Sydney this evening. ALWAYS ASK FOR ...

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  55. ALWAYS EVEN

    and excellent in manufacture, always made with the children in view—ARNOTT'S Milk Arrowroots are the CHILDREN'S BISCUITS.—Advt. ...

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