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  2. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

    AN antarctic expedition is likely to be fitted out in Germany. MR. WADHAM has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council of South Australia. ...

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  3. PARLIAMENT.

    AT midnight, debate was proceeding in Committee of the Whole for the further consideration of the proposal for widening the street to the north of the General Post-office, ...

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  4. THE CHINESE RESTRICTION BILL.

    THE debate on the motion for the second rending of the Chinese Restriction Bill was concluded in the Legislative Council on Thursday evening, says the S.M. Herald. ...

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  5. LATEST DISTRICT NEWS.

    The Fire Brigade, in procession, turned out last night in company with the Druids, and paraded the streets of the town. The turn-out was creditable on the whole on the ...

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  6. CABLEGRAMS.

    SOME excitement has been caused by the French taking possession of the Minquiers, a mass of uninhabited rocks, between Jersey, one of the ...

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  7. Australian Cricketers in England.

    The Australian Eleven commenced a match to-day against the Players of England. The latter team were the first to bat, and made a total ...

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  8. UNCOMPLIMENTARY TO SIR HENRY.

    THE Telegraph's Melbourne correspondent states that during a discussion at a meeting of the committee of the Benevolent Asylum as to the admission of an applicant hailing ...

    Article : 137 words
  9. Nundle.

    Steadily, but no less surely, these goldfields are asserting themselves, as our numerous visitors coming and going testify. With the assistance of capitalists, we have securely ...

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  10. A GERMAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    The Berlin journal, National Zeitung, states that plans are being matured by Henry Villard for the dispatch of an exploring expedition to the ...

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  11. TELEGRAMS.

    THE case against the two bookmakers, Thomas Bailey and Alfred Saville, of robbing Richard Haddan, billiard-marker, of £350, has been dismissed. ...

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  12. THE CHINESE QUESTION.

    The Times this morning publishes a letter from Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., on "Australia and the Chinese Question." He says that Lord ...

    Article : 85 words
  13. POLICE COURT.—FRIDAY.

    Marshall Broyden was charged with assaulting a Chinaman named Ah Chee. Mr. Gorrick appeared for the defendant. It was elicited from the evidence that on Tuesday ...

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  14. ANTI-CHINESE MEETING.

    The Chinese question has lately, taken up such a large share of public attention that the meeting convened for Monday night at the Criterion Hotel, Hunter-street, is expected to ...

    Article : 156 words
  15. FRANCE AND HUNGARY.

    The French press declares that Prince. Bismarck and M. Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, are endeavouring to create a panic in the public ...

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  16. SPIRIT DUTIES IN FRANCE.

    The French Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill placing a permanent prohibitive duty on imported spirits. This duty will, chiefly affect German ...

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  17. A TERRIBLE FATE.

    EVERY day the truth of Lytton's adage is borne out that "Truth is strange—stranger than fiction," News comes from Parramatta of an accident, which, if worked into a ...

    Article : 224 words
  18. New Lambton.

    I regret to announce the death of a well-known resident, especially among the cricketing-loving portion. Mr. William Jobling has passed away at the early age of 35 years, ...

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  19. JOHN BRIGHT'S HEALTH.

    The dangerous symptoms in the case of Mr. John Bright, who is suffering from congestion of the lungs, have passed. He is improving and is now ...

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  20. BONANG GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

    THOSE who have applied for shares in the above company, which has been formed to work the gold-mining property formerly known as the New Rising Sun, situated in North ...

    Article : 358 words
  21. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LAND COMPANY.

    The report of the South Australian Land, Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, shows profits amounting to £24,000, out of which it is ...

    Article : 44 words
  22. Islington.

    As will have been seen by advertisement, a grand concert is to be held in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Monday night. The committee have been working with a ...

    Article : 196 words
  23. THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.

    Mr. J. G. Blaine has finally announced that he declines to allow himself to be nominated for the Presidency of the United States. ...

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  24. THE NEWCASTLE TRAMWAY.

    WE hear upon good authority, though not from an official source, that great changes will be made in the tramway system of Newcastle within a comparatively short period. ...

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  25. NEWCASTLE DISTRICT COURT.

    NEXT Monday the June sittings of our local District Court will commence. Since the last sittings upwards of eighty cases have been entered, but fifty of these have been ...

    Article : 680 words
  26. [BY WIRE FROM THE SYDNEY PAPERS.]

    The Acting Agent-General cables to the Premier that he is unable to find an eligible person to fill the Chief Commissionership of Railways at the ...

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  27. Hamilton.

    The weekly meeting of the Hamilton Mutual Improvement Society was held last evening in the Wesleyan Church. The Rev. Mr. Hirst, vice-president, occupied the chair, ...

    Article : 183 words
  28. BRITISH NEW GUINEA.

    An order in Council has been passed creating portion of New Guinea British territory. ...

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  29. VISIT OF HENRY GEORGE TO AUSTRALIA.

    A letter has, been received from New York from Henry George, the land law reformer, stating that he purposes visiting Australia next ...

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  30. VICTORIA.

    Scott's Hotel, Collins-street, Melbourne has been sold for £1800 a foot frontage; or a total sum of £92,400, exclusive of stock, ...

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  31. [Reuter's Telegrams.]

    The chief Kantibai, who is endeavouring to negotiate terms of peace between Italy and Abyssinia, has returned to Massowah, bringing letters ...

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  32. Wickham Requirements.

    THE deputation that was to have interviewed the Minister for Works to-day re requirements for Wickham Municipality did not put in an ...

    Article : 69 words
  33. PRIMITIVE METHODIST BAZAAR, STOCKTON.

    THE above attractive exhibition opened yesterday at 3 o'clock, and bids fair to be again extensively patronised. Mrs. Parkinson, the president, was actively engaged ...

    Article : 295 words
  34. THE SYDNEY TRAMS.

    THE New South Wales Tramway Company has boon registered with a capital of one million sterling, and with power to increase to two millions. This company has been ...

    Article : 290 words
  35. A NEW ZEALAND LOAN.

    Tenders have been called for a new loan for New Zealand, of £2,000,000, at a minimum of 96½. Tenders will be opened on the 7th. ...

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  36. West Maitland.

    In the School of Arts, West Maitland, on Thursday evening, Mr. R. T. Booth, of the Blue Ribbon Army, began a Gospel Temperance Mission. The attendance was large, ...

    Article : 478 words
  37. THE POPE'S RESCRIPT.

    At a meeting of Irish Bishops it was resolved that the Pope's Rescript was restricted to the morals of the Irish people, and did not moddle with ...

    Article : 60 words
  38. Advertising

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  39. THE CHINESE QUESTION.

    In the House of Commons, to-day, Sir James Fergusson, in replying to a question, said that the correspondence on Chinese emigration to Australia is ...

    Article : 42 words
  40. FRANCE AND HUNGARY.

    M. Goblet, the French Premier, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, declared that Herr Tisza's recent speech was unjustifiable. Count ...

    Article : 81 words
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