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  2. THE MINEES' STRIKE AT BROKEN HILL. FURTHER. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STRIKE FUND.

    Everything was again extremely quiet in Broken Hill to-day, and, in their determination to fight, beth sides continue firm as a rock. The townspeople await with anxiety the conclusion of ...

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  3. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE HERALD'S LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. THE BELTCHEFF MURDER TRIAL.

    The journal of Milaroff, one of the prisoners condemned to death for the murder of M. Beltcheff in Sofia in 1891, shows that he and his associates made ...

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  4. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE HERALD'S LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. GENERAL ELECTION IN ENGLAND.

    The election for South Tipperary has resulted in the return of Mr. Mandeville, the Nationalist candidate. Mr. Justin M'Carthy will retain the ...

    Article : 195 words
  5. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    YESTEEDAY the Colonial Treasurer completed arrangements with the New South Wales Savings Bank, whereby that institution took up Treasury bills to the value of half a million sterling, at 4[?] ...

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  6. RAILWAY FROM BEULAH TO HOPETOUN.

    The Government laid on the table of the Assembly to-day the draft of an agreement which it is proposed to enter into with E. H. Lascelles for the construction and working of a railway from ...

    Article : 590 words
  7. THE TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL.

    At a meeting ot the Trades and Labour Council, held last evening[?] Mr. M. Burke, an accredited representative of the labour defence committee at Broken Hill, made a statement to the delegates ...

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  8. THE CHOLERA IN EUROPE.

    It is reported that cholora has broken out at Vranja, in Servia. ...

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  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—One could be amused reading the accounts published day by day of the doings of the strike leaders at Broken Hill if the dark immediate future for the wives and children of the majority of the ...

    Article : 401 words
  10. ISSUE OF DEBENTURES.

    The Times says that £550,000 worth of debentures in a prosperous New Zealand industrial concern are to be offered to the public shortly. ...

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  11. COLONIAL STOCKS.

    Colonial Government stocks are very firm. A good many people are investing in Victorian scrip, which closed at a premium of from 1/8 to 3/8. ...

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  12. THE SECRETARYSHIP OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.

    The Daily Chronicle, in discussing the question of the formation of a Liberal Administration, urges that Lord Carrington should be appointed to succeed Lord ...

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  13. NEW SOUTH WALES MORTGAGE AND LAND AGENCY.

    The New South Wales Mortgage and Land Agency Company has authorised the issue of £200,000, of the original unissued capital as preference stock. It is ...

    Article : 52 words
  14. VICTORIA [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) ACTION AGAINST THE TRAMWAY AND OMNIBUS COMPANY.

    The Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company was to-day sued by Mrs. Jessie Gibson, a widow, for £500 damages for injuries received through the alleged negligence of the company's ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    At the City Police Court yesterday Anselmn Freecorn was charged with wife desertion. The parties had been married in Poland, and subsequently, it is alleged, Freecorn deserted his wife ...

    Article : 68 words
  16. MR. G. R. DIBBS IN LONDON.

    The following gentlemen are expected to be present at the [?]ouquet to be given by Mr. Dibbs on Friday evening next to mark the end of his London visit:—The ...

    Article : 214 words
  17. AUSTRALASIAN PARLIAMENTS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) VICTORIA.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the debate on the second reading of the Village Settlements Bill was continued. The measure was opposed by several members, the opinion being expressed that ...

    Article : 236 words
  18. SERIOUS VEHICLE ACCIDENT.

    A serious accident occurred at Job's Gully, near Eaglehawk, last evening. A buggy collided with a tram, and the horse was thrown down. The occupants of the buggy fell into the roadway. ...

    Article : 131 words
  19. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. R. A. Ranking, who acted as Government agent in the Central districts during the shearers' strike, but is now police magistrate at South Brisbane, was to-day presented with an address ...

    Article : 137 words
  20. THE CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURES.

    The report of the committee of the Chamber of Manufactures upon proposed amendments of the tariff was considered by the council of that body last night. Objections were raised to several of ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A petition to the Municipal Corporation of Adelaide is being signed setting out that there is a very large number of labouring men unemployed, and at present unable to get work in order to ...

    Article : 168 words
  22. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

    Mr. Grover Cleveland, in addressing 50,000 Democrats in New York, made a strong freetrade speech, in which he exposed the pretended solicitude for ...

    Article : 43 words
  23. THE INCREASED DUTIES ON LIQUORS.

    Between 500 and 600 hotelkeepers of Melbourne met at the Gaiety Hall to-day to considor the effect upon the trade of the increased duties on liquors. Mr. G. H. Bennett, M.L.A., president ...

    Article : 144 words
  24. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Assembly to day a bill to further amend the Crown Lands Acts was introduced and read the first time. The Railways Construction Land Subsidy Bill was read the third time and passed. ...

    Article : 309 words
  25. THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK.

    The official liquidator in the estate of the New Oriental Bank Corporation (Limited) estimates that the asssets amount to £4,800,000. He thinks that, ...

    Article : 54 words
  26. LIBEL ACTION.

    The action for libel brought by Edward Williams, chief cook of the steamer Barcoo, against the Age, claiming damages £2000, was concluded to-day. The alleged libel was ...

    Article : 162 words
  27. ACTION OF THE NEW LAMBTON MINERS.

    The New Lambton m[?]ners have rejected the motion of the delegate board to forward £1000 to the Broken Hill miners, on the ground that, owing to the great distress in the district, the funds of ...

    Article : 472 words
  28. TASMANIA.

    The Council of Agriculture recommends that the Queensland No. 2 travelling dairy should be secured for this colony, and the services of Mr. M'Cornmack, its manager, be engaged for 12 ...

    Article : 385 words
  29. THE MERCANTILE BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

    The roport of the sub-committee of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, based on the Melbourne scheme, has been partially considered by the official receiver. Its ...

    Article : 41 words
  30. THE MERCANTILE BANK.

    The adjourned meeting of sharcholders of the Mercantile Bank of Australia to-day was attended by about 400 persons. Sir Graham Berry, on behalf of the liquidators, agreed to the ...

    Article : 159 words
  31. A CHAFFEY LOAN.

    Messrs, Chaffey Brothers, of the Murray Irrigation Colonies, will shortly issue £100,000 worth of first mortgage bonds, paying interest at 5 per cent. The ...

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  32. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    In the Assembly the Premier was cross-questioned about the attitude of members of the Ministry towards progressive taxation. The results were so unsatisfactory that Mr. Horn, on ...

    Article : 130 words
  33. A COUNTESS FINED.

    The Countess of Donoughmore has been fined £20 for having removed her daughter in a cab from a lodging-house while the child was suffering from scarlet ...

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  34. MELBOURNE TRAMWAY AND OMNIBUS COMPANY.

    A special meeting of the board of directors of the Melbourn Tramway and Omnibus Company was held to-day to consider the draft balancesheet. The available balance (subject to audit), ...

    Article : 151 words
  35. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    Some of the unemployed were absorbed in Parramatta on Thursday, when the Parramatta Park Trust began to carry out extensive improvements in the park by forming an artificial lake in the ...

    Article : 146 words
  36. THE RELIEF[?]MOVEMENT.

    The progress of the relief movement continues without much change, and in spite of the money spent in relief works started by the Government, and of the efforts to bring the unemployed into ...

    Article : 196 words
  37. THE REVOLT IN AFGHANISTAN.

    It is reported that the Hazara rebels in Afghanistan have twice entrapped portions of the Ameer's forces, of whom the insurgents destroyed hundreds. ...

    Article : 35 words
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