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  2. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL PER SUMATRA.

    THE R.M.S. Sumatra, Captain Anderson, arrived in Port Jackson at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Her dates are—London, 21st February, and Galle, 17th March. We have ...

    Article : 265 words
  3. THE NEW JURY BILL.

    The Attorney-General has introduced a measure for improving the system of the selection of juries, and also for altering the jury system. He has a plan for making the rate-books the guide, in place of the present anomalous ...

    Article : 95 words
  4. THE KHIVAN QUESTION.

    The recent mission of a Russian diplomatist to England produced a certain anxiety, inasmuch as the Government, with many merits, is not regarded as always judicious and firm in its dealings with other nations. ...

    Article : 588 words
  5. THE BRITISH AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

    At an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of this company, held on February 7, the Right Hon. Viscount Monck in the chair, the chairman said at the last meeting the directors had taken powers for an extension line from ...

    Article : 205 words
  6. THE INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE.

    A WRITER in the Mail says, the result of the Intercolonial Conference on telegraph and postal subsidies recently in progress in Sydney, was looked forward to with much interest in England; it was hoped that some joint action ...

    Article : 445 words
  7. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

    The Parliamentary Session was opened by Royal Commission on the 6th February. At 2 o'clock Colonel Clifford, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, appeared at the bar and summoned the attendance of the Speaker and hon. ...

    Article : 2,279 words
  8. MR. ROLLESTON'S PAPER ON NEW SOUTH WALES.

    "Anglo-Australian," in the European Mail, observes: —The colony of New South Wales is very much indebted to Mr. Rolleston for the trouble he has taken in its interest. The paper which this gentleman prepared and read before ...

    Article : 634 words
  9. THE WRECK OF THE NORTHFLEET.

    The notion that the vessel which had run down the Northfleet was itself lying deep under the waters of Dungeness Bay is dissipated by the apparently authentic intelligence that the steamer Murillo, which passed Lisbon ...

    Article : 341 words
  10. ABDICATION OF THE KING OF SPAIN.

    The King announced to Senor Zorilla, at 8 o'clock on February 10. his resolution to abdicate. All the efforts of the Cabinet to dissuade his Majesty proved ineffectual. The message in which the King announced his abdication ...

    Article : 381 words
  11. OVERLOADING SHIPS.—REFLECTIONS ON MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Commons, on 20th February, the regular business of the evening was delayed for a short time by an incident arising out of the indictment recently preferred by Mr. Plimsoll against the shipping interest. The matter ...

    Article : 489 words
  12. THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER.

    Her Majesty's surveying corvette Challenger, Captain George S. Nares, sailed from Madeira on February 5 for Teneriffe and the West Indies, in prosecution of her scientific voyage. Between the Straits of Gibraltar and ...

    Article : 303 words
  13. THE WOOL TRADE: MEETING OF SQUATTERS.

    ON February 5, a number of squatters belonging to the Australian wool trade assembled at the Canuon-street Hotel, to take into consideration some of the objections under which the wool was now disposed of at the London ...

    Article : 4,090 words
  14. THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

    In the House of Lords, February 10, Lord Belmore moved that an address be presented for copies or extracts of any communications of importance respecting outrages committed upon natives of the South ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

    The Invalide Russe states that the effective of the Russian army on a peace footing is fixed at 739,000 men, with a reserve of 621,000 on leave of absence, making a total of 1,360,000 men. The number of breech-loading firearms in ...

    Article : 173 words
  16. THE COAL FAMINE.

    From such quotations as can be obtained in London it seems that all descriptions of coals are at least one sovereign a ton dearer than they were a year ago. One firm of high standing in the London coal trade booked orders for 700 ...

    Article : 488 words
  17. THE JUDICATURE BILL.

    The bill of the Lord Chancellor for the constitution of a Supreme Court and for other purposes relating to the better administration of justice in England was issued yesterday. It contains seven parts and a schedule with rules of ...

    Article : 573 words
  18. TERRIBLE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    A fearful explosion, resulting in serious loss of the, took place on the 18th of February, in the colliery known as the Talk-o'-the-Hill, a pit situated about four miles from Tunstall and one mile from Harecastle station. The scene ...

    Article : 298 words
  19. A CHAPTER OF FRENCH CRIME.

    The Paris correspondent of the Daily News, writing on 5th February says:—A hideous page is being added to the French Assize Court annals. Were there such a thing as a digest of the criminal records of the whole world, it ...

    Article : 854 words
  20. MARRIAGE OF THE HON. ELIOT YORKE.

    The marriage of Miss A. Rothschild, daughter of Sir Anthony Rothschild, of Aston Clinton, near Tring, and the Hon. Eliot Constantine Yorke, equerry to H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh, and fourth son of the Earl and ...

    Article : 254 words
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