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  2. THE MANUFACTURERS' FEDERAL CONFERENCE.

    At a meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures Committee on Saturday, the secretary reported that a letter had been sent to the secretary of the Western Australian chamber, inviting delegates to ...

    Article : 119 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 218 words
  4. FARM AND STATION NOTES.

    Both as a fodder plant and for grazing purposes Income receives less attention than might be expected. Within recent years large areas have been laid down to lucerne in this colony, ...

    Article : 2,358 words
  5. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING.

    Departure: Pa[?]nul, s., for London, from Wellington; Pakehs, s., from Lyttelton, for London. (For continuation of shipping see page 8). SHIPPING REPORTS. ...

    Article : 805 words
  6. IN THE LAND OF THE FAMINE.

    Pierre Loti, who is in India, has sent to the Paris "Figaro" a letter descriptive of famine scenes about Jeypore. He writes:—"At the end of May we came to the pink city Jeypore across a dying country. ...

    Article : 1,048 words
  7. RIFLE SHOOTING. AT THE RANDWICK BANGE.

    A large complement of officers and men visited the Randwick Rifle Range from H.M S. Royal Arthur on Thursday and Friday. The Public Schools' Cadets were represented to the ...

    Article : 172 words
  8. RUSSIA AND KOREA.

    Commenting on the action of Russia in regard to Korea the "Times" of May 25 writes:—"It was stated in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. Brodrick that the assurance given in 1886 by the ...

    Article : 933 words
  9. POLITICAL LABOUR LEAGUE.

    The executive of the Political Labour League met on Friday evening last, Mr. T. Thrower presided. It was decided to organise a number of electorates for federal purposes. The electorates chosen so far ...

    Article : 172 words
  10. FIRST REGIMENT RIFLE CLUB.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 words
  11. NEWCASTLE. UNDERMINED THOROUGHFARES.

    The subject of the constant danger to life and property by reason of the undermining of the streets in the Wallsend and Plattsburg district has again received the attention of the Plattsburg Municipal ...

    Article : 167 words
  12. SECOND REGIMENT RIFLE CLUB.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 words
  13. THE COAL EXPORT TRADE.

    The quantity of coal exported to intercolonial and foreign markets during the week ended at noon yesterday was 75,173 tons, distributed as follows:— Victoria, 11,900 tons; Chili, 21,670 tons; Java, ...

    Article : 224 words
  14. EIGHTH REGIMENT (IRISH RIFLES) CLUB.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 213 words
  15. LUND'S LINE.

    Messrs. Gilchrist, Watt, and Co. report the movements of the above line of steamers as under:— Wilcannia sails for London, via South Africa, September 24. ...

    Article : 36 words
  16. UNION LINE.

    Waihora leaves Auckland to-morrow for Sydney. Mokois leaves Melbourne this afternoon for Bluff, via Hobart. Whangape leaves Bluff on Wednesday for Sydney, via ...

    Article : 34 words
  17. THE EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN S.S. COMPANY'S FLEET.

    The Airlie sails from Kobe, Japan, on the 28th instant for Australian ports, via Foochow and Hongkong. The Australian sailed from Port Darwin on the 17th instant en route from Sydney to Manila, Hongkong, and ...

    Article : 120 words
  18. CHARITABLE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

    A pleasing ceremony was witnessed at the Sandkills, Newcastle, yesterday alternoon, when the railway employees presented a neat weatherboard cottage to the family of one of their comrades, ...

    Article : 314 words
  19. NAVAL BRIGADE RIFLE CLUB.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 words
  20. SUFFERINGS OF HOUSES ON SHIPBOARD.

    A passenger by a vessel carrying horses which left this port for South Africa gives a painful account of the sufferings of many unfortunate horses before being killed outright by being dashed against fittings or ...

    Article : 161 words
  21. THE TYRIAN.

    Captain J. D. Joy reports that the Tyrian left Melbourne on Wednesday. August 22, at 11.20 p.m., cleared Port Phillip Heads at 1.39 a.m. on the 23rd, passed Wilson's Promontory at 10.10 a.m. on the 23rd, ...

    Article : 146 words
  22. ST. LEONARDS CIVILIAN RIFLE CLUB V. NATIONAL GUARD RIFLE CLUB.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 280 words
  23. THIRTY-SIX KNOTS PER HOUR.

    On the 6th ultimo the torpedo-boat destroyer Viper, fitted with Parsons' steam turbine engines, went for a final trial off the Tyne. On six runs backwards and forwards a mean speed on 36.58 knots was attained. She has ...

    Article : 79 words
  24. FOREIGN OFFICE AND MISSIONARIES.

    Lord Salisbury was the principal speaker on June 19 (the "Pall Mall Gazette" states) at the bi-centenary meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. ...

    Article : 611 words
  25. A WHEAT-LADEN BARQUE'S ESCAPE FROM WRECK.

    A sensational account of the voyage of the barque Castor, 1943 tons, which left Geelong in March last with wheat for the English Channel, has been received from Valparaiso, at which port she put in for repairs, The third officer, ...

    Article : 283 words
  26. NEWCASTLE SHIPPING REPORT.

    In his circular Mr. R. B. Wallace, under Newcastle date the 24th instant, says:—The detention to vessels loading from some of the collieries in serious, and is receiving severe comment from shipowners, but until the tonnage ...

    Article : 104 words
  27. MELBOURNE SHEEP SHOW.

    In the prize list of the Australian sheepbreeders in the strong wool section prizes were as follows:— Open class, ewe under 2½ years and over 1½ years: Samuel M'Caughey, 1 and 2; executors late D. ...

    Article : 54 words
  28. COST OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

    In an article on the cost of the Transvaal War the "Saturday Review" says: During the last year of its existence in 1899 the Boer Government took from the mining industry, in round figures, some ...

    Article : 704 words
  29. CHARTERS,

    Anerley, s., 1887 tons, Melbourne and New Zealand to South Africa—Produce. Rav Dars, s., 3830 tons, Australia to China—Produce and horses. ...

    Article : 36 words
  30. SMALLNESS OF LONDON SOCIETY.

    In an interesting article on the enlargement of London Society, a writer in the "Saturday Review" says:—London society is no doubt very large now, compared with what it was during the ...

    Article : 811 words
  31. MATCH AT OAKHAMPTON.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 385 words
  32. SAILING VESSELS DUE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 words
  33. DEATH ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.

    A young single man named Robert Clement, 21 years of age, dropped dead whilst participating in a football mutch at Jesmond yesterday afternoon. The game was between two scratch teams ...

    Article : 53 words
  34. NEW SOUTH WALES OR SOUTH AFRICA.

    Sir,—It it generally, if not universally, admitted that the loss to this colony would be very serious if our gailant soldiers now fighting in South Africa, and who have stood shoulder to shoulder with the ...

    Article : 861 words
  35. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    A French seaman named Alexandre Chamsavoir, belonging to the ship Bothwell, met with an accident in the railway yards opposite the Custom-house late last night. The unfortunate sailor was in the act of ...

    Article : 69 words
  36. THE CHURCHES.

    The Rev. J. T. Robertson, of Adelaide, who is at present on a visit to this city, preached at the Hamilton Presbyterian Church this morning and evening, and occupied the pulpit of the Lambton Presbyterian ...

    Article : 672 words
  37. SALES OF SHIPPING.

    The following sales are advised by mail:— The iron ship Wallacetown, 1626 tons register, built at Sunderland in 1874, carries 2500 tons deadweight, just passed through here special survey No. 3, owned by Messrs. ...

    Article : 146 words
  38. SOME FAMOUS SIEGES.

    Writing with reference to the relief of Mafeking the "Pall Mall Gazette," says:—"A few facts connected with some of the famous sieges that have been witnessed since the Norman Conquest ...

    Article : 366 words
  39. THE BELLEVILLE BOILER.

    It was cabled recently that the British Admiralty had decided to continue the use of the Belleville type of watertube boilers in the warships. An English exchange commenting upon the so-called defects which have been said to ...

    Article : 279 words
  40. THE INDISPOSITION OF THE POPE.

    The Rome correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette" wired to that paper on June 14:—It is one of the veriest commonplaces to say that Leo XIII, is a marvellous old man, but he really is. Just now ...

    Article : 348 words
  41. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 314 words
  42. THE BRITISH INDIA LINE.

    On July 10 the steamship Ismalia, built by Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., Middlesbrough, to the order of the British India Steam Navigation Company, of London, was taken out to sea for her official trials. She is a three-decked vessel, ...

    Article : 219 words
  43. DOMESTIC SERVANT DIFFICULTY.

    Australia and other parts of the world used to look to Great Britain to supply them with domestic servants. Now England has herself to look to the new world for helps. On May 23 the subjoined cablegram ...

    Article : 190 words
  44. HUNTER'S HILL MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

    A meeting of this council was held on August 17. The Mayor (Alderman J. M. Rooke, J.P.) presided, and there were present—Aldermen Joubert, Schleicher, M'Neil, Aspinall, Edgington, and ...

    Article : 93 words
  45. STORMY WEATHER OFF CAPE HORN.

    The dismasting of the large ship Mistley Hall off Cape Horn on June 6 is calculated to cause uneasiness in the minds of owners of vessels which were due in that locality about the date in question, as the weather has evidently ...

    Article : 200 words
  46. N.S.W. ABORIGINES' MISSION.

    A well-attended meeting, under the auspices of the New South Wales Aborigines' Mission, was held at the Scots Church on Friday evening. The Rev. W. M. Dill Macky presided, and among the audience ...

    Article : 97 words
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