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  2. GREATER BRISBANE- I.

    In Brisbane, as in other Australian cities, population is extending itself in de[?] suburban settlement, and the problem of local government is annually becoming ...

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  3. THE BOER WAR.

    Further particulars of the surprise of a Boer langer at Watorval by Colonel Colenbrander, of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts, states that the Boer casualties included ...

    Article : 69 words
  4. GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN.

    Replying to a question by Count Stolberg in the German Reichstag yesterday, Count Von Bulow, the German Imperial Chancellor, stated that if Mr. Chamberlain ...

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  5. AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

    News from Peking states that the publicity which attended the return of the Imperial Court to the capital is regarded in a revolutionary light, according to ...

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  6. CABLE MESSAGES.

    News from Washington states that President Roosevelt has agreed to review the case of Rear-Admiral Schley, which was recently decided by a Court of Naval ...

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  7. MR. RUTLEDGE AT ROMA.

    The Hon. A. Rutledge addressed a large meeting of his constituents last night in the Hibernian Hall. The Mayor (Alderman Bonor) presided, and several prominent ...

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  8. ENROLMENT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    In connection with the Commonwealth Contingent, between fifty and sixty additional applications for enrolment were received to-day. This brings the number up ...

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  9. BUNDABERG SUGAR GROWERS.

    A deputation from the Council of Agriculture waited on Dr. Maxwell to-day to discuss with him the practical operation of the rebate and tariff proposals in ...

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  10. QUEENSLAND SOLDIERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Chief Secretary has received a cablegram, stating that Private T. Garella (No. 40), of the Fifth Contingent, was dangerously ill of enteric fever at Charlestown, ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. DISASTROUS RAILWAY COLLISION IN NEW YORK.

    A disastrous collision between two trains occurred yesterday in a tunnel on the New York Central Railway, seventeen persons being killed and forty injured. ...

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  12. THE AMERICAN STEEL TRUST.

    Mr. Schwah, president of the American Steel Trust, is now visiting Europe. He states that the Steel Trust intends to identify its workmen with the business by ...

    Article : 52 words
  13. COMMONWEALTH MATTERS.

    Mr. Drake, Postmaster-General, states that he is not surprised at the success of penny postage in Canada, as reported by cable, but he points out that the reduction ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. BOER SURRENDERS.

    At the instance of the Burgher National Scouts, who are serving with the British, twenty-one of their relatives surrendered at Middelburg on the 7th instant. ...

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  15. CANADIAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    Captain Bernier, a Canadian, is now in England for the purpose of raising £10,000 to complete a sum of £30,000 required for the outfit of his proposed expedition to the ...

    Article : 65 words
  16. FURTHER CAPTURES OF BOERS.

    Reports are to hand that General Elliott, on the 5th instant, captured nine Boers, and also found a destroyed Krupp gun, at Kroonstad, in the north of the Orange ...

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  17. REGISTERING TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES.

    The Postmaster-General has been asked to agree to firms exchanging interstate telegrams registering code addresses, in order to reduce the cost of their messages, ...

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  18. COLLISION BETWEEN RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AND AMERICAN SAILORS.

    A serious collision has taken place at Niuchwang, in the province of Laotung, China, between Russian soldiers, and a party of American, sailors from the United ...

    Article : 123 words
  19. BRITISH PRESS COMMENTS.

    The " Standard," commenting upon Count Von Bulow's speech, states that the tone of the German Chancellor was little short of offensive. ...

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  20. CRETAN INDEPENDENCE.

    It is stated that the Czar Nicholas has offered to build at Canea a palace for Prince George of Greece, High Commissioner of Crete, and this is interpreted as ...

    Article : 47 words
  21. BREWERS' LICENSES.

    Mr. Deakin has advised Mr. Barton, in respect to both the Federal and State Governments charging brewers for licenses, that the Customs Department is quite right ...

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  22. THE BLOCKHOUSE SYSTEM.

    The extension of the British blockhouses in the Eastern Transvaal is giving General Bruce Hamilton a firmer grip of that portion of the country. ...

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  23. THE CONTINENT.

    In the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the Prussian Diet, the Emperor William expressed a determination to cultivate the German national spirit in ...

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  24. PERMITS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    Four hundred people have now applied in Victoria for permits to go to South Africa. All have to prove that they possess £100 in cash, and the majority have ...

    Article : 54 words
  25. GREAT BRITAIN.

    H.M.S. Venus, twin-screw cruiser of the second class, 5600 tons, 8000 i.h.p., is to be put, into commission on the 21st January for service on the Australian station. ...

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  26. DE WET REINFORCED BY BOTHA.

    It is reported that General Botha has reinforced General De Wet's force at Bethlehem, in the east of the Orange River Colony. ...

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  27. SYDNEY, JANUARY 9.

    A despatch has been received by Mr. Barton Horn the Colonial Office containing further information in regard to the system of issuing permits to persons desirous ...

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  28. MR. BARTON AT MAITLAND.

    The Right Hon. E. Barton, Federal Premier, on his arrival at West Maitland to-day, was welcomed by the Mayor and aldermen and the members of his election ...

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  29. BOTHA CONCENTRATING.

    General Bootha is reported to be concentrating his forces in the vicinity of Nongoma, in the south-east of the Transvaal. Commandant Grobelaar is at ...

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  30. NEW IRISH REGIMENTS.

    His Majesty King Edward has authorised, the raising of two new regiments of Irish troops. They are to be designated respectively the North and South of Ireland ...

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  31. POPE'S ADMONITION TO FRENCH CATHOLICS.

    His Holiness the Pope has urged the Roman Catholics in France to accept the Republic. He is greatly displeased with the Monarchists for having disobeyed him, ...

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  32. QUEENSLAND BUSHMAN WOUNDED.

    Corporal D. Sheehan, of the Sixth Queensland Bushman's Contingent, has been severely, mounded at Boginsel. ...

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  33. UNITED IRISH LEAGUE CONVENTION.

    A convention of the United Irish League, at which there was a large attendance, was opened in Dublin yesterday. Mr. J. E. Redmond, leader of the Irish ...

    Article : 105 words
  34. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IN ITALY.

    The Italian authorities are making experiments with Signar Marconi's wireless telegraph app[?]tus, with a view to connecting by this means the mainland of ...

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  35. OTHER ITEMS.

    Lord Kitchener is now engaged in transforming the Imperial Light Horse (a South African force organised by Messrs. Wools Sampson and Karri Davies on the outbreak ...

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  36. ITALIAN OCCUPATION OF TRIPOLI.

    The " Allgemeine Zeitung," a prominent German newspaper, publishes the statement that Itly is mobilising 100,000 troops for the purpose of occupying Tripoli[?] ...

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  37. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    In connection with the request by the Wharf Labourers' Union for an increase of wages to 1s. 3d. per hour, a conference took place to-day between the ...

    Article : 133 words
  38. BRITISH ACADEMY OF HISTORICAL SCIENCE.

    A movement has been started, with influential support, with the object of establishing a British Academy of Historical Science. ...

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  39. LOANS FOR SUGAR MILLS.

    The Hon. R. Philip wired Mr. Barton the Federal Prime Minister, on Monday, as follows:—" Before the introduction of your Kanaka legistation my Government had ...

    Article : 209 words
  40. EXPENDITURE FOR HORSES.

    The British War Office has expended the sum of £13,000,000 in the purchase of horses since the beginning of the war. ...

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  41. LONDON TO BRIGHTON ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

    The private bill to empower the construction of an electric railway between London and Brighton, a distance of fifty miles, has been deposited with the officials ...

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  42. CONCENTRATION CAMP AT PORT ELIZABETH.

    The British authorities are now constructing a concentration camp, in which accommodation will be provided for 2000 Boers, at Port Elizabeth, in Cape Colony. ...

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  43. SYDNEY WOOL SALES.

    At the wool sales to-day, 11,524 bales were sold. The market closed for the week very firm at a fun maintenance of the advance which was so strongly in ...

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  44. THE STIGER VORTX.

    Ever since Mr. Wragge's recent visit to Charleville rumours have been going round of the possibility of the Stiger vortex guns coming up to Charleville. The matter was ...

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  45. A NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE.

    The Earl of Dysart has offered, conditionally, to subscribe £10,000 towards a sum of £500,000 for the construction of a National Opera House in London. ...

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  46. LAND PURCHASES BY THE GOVERNMENT.

    The Government are stated to be purchasing vast tracts of land in the south-eastern portion of the Orange River Colony. ...

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  47. SMALLPOX IN LONDON.

    Fifty three fresh cases of smallpox were reported in London yesterday, and twentyeight deaths from the disease oacurred last week. ...

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  48. THE COMMONWEALTH CONTINGENT.

    A number of additional men for the contingent have arrived in Brisbane, and will undergo the necessary examination in Brisbane. Instructions have been issued to ...

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  49. A SUICIDE'S LETTER.

    The man H. Alliier, supposed to be Milner, from Queensland, who shot himself in a boarding-house in Sydney yesterday, left the following note:—" I do solemuly ...

    Article : 101 words
  50. OVERLAND PASSENGERS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 words
  51. EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.

    An exhibition of American manufactures is to be held at the Crystal Palace, London, during the coming summer. ...

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  52. THE BYRNES MEMORIAL.

    (Mr Bertram [?] (writes our London correspondent) is putting the finishing touches to the [?] of the bronze statue of the late Mr. T. J. Byrnes [?] ...

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  53. FLORA DORA WINDOW.

    "'Neath the shade of the palms." Specially artistic display of Gents' Fashionable Shaped Straw Hats, Palms, Brazilians, Manilas, Tuscans, Pedals, Sennets, ...

    Article : 61 words
  54. FASHIONABLE GREASE-PROOF HATS.

    B. Mountcastle and Sons, Hat Manufacturers and Importers, are celebrated throughout the whole of Australia for Fashionable Hats—silk Hats, Stiff Felt ...

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  55. THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS AT STAWELL.

    Our Sydney correspondent telegraphs, under yesterday's date, that the English cricketers, who had lost eight wickets for 523 runs on Wednesday in a two-days' ...

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  56. TO BE SEEN

    At Wiley's Studio, Queam-street, some Beautiful Photographs of all the leading weddings of the last few weeks. Studio open Saturday Afternoon and all Holidays.* ...

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  57. " A VERY CURIOUS HEAD"

    That cannot he both fitted and suited with a hat at Charles Gilbert's Queen-street (near Bridge). He guarantees to give a finer selection and better value in felt and ...

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  58. A MOST NOTORIOUS FACT

    About ready-made clothing: Charles Gilbert supplies a perfect-fitting ready-made Suit from an immense variety. Better fitting, better finished, and much lower in ...

    Article : 55 words
  59. MEN'S SERGERETTE SUI[?]S.

    All wool, original price 27s. 6d., now being cleared at 18s. 11d. at T. C. Beirne [?] Co.'s Summer Sale.* ...

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  60. "ONLY FORTY-FIVE SHILLINGS."

    Small as it sounds, this is the price of a first-class Suit, to measure, at Charles Gilbert's the leading tailor and outfitter, Queen-street (near Bridge), in pare indigo ...

    Article : 86 words
  61. LADIES' NIGHTDRESSES.

    Fifty dozen Calico and Madapol[?] Nightdresses, trimmed lace or embroidery, full, sizes, reduced from 3/6 and 3/11 to 2/6 each at T. C. Beirne and Co.'s summer ...

    Article : 41 words
  62. TOSCA FRAMING WORKS.

    Corner of Queen [?] George streets, wish to call the attent[?] of their customers, also the public in ganeral, to their extensive framing department. We have the largest ...

    Article : 64 words
  63. WHITE CONVENT HATS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 words
  64. A NEW YEAR'S GIFT.

    A Framed Enlargement given [?] if cost with each Dozen Cabinets at the Tosca Studio for One month only.* KING TOBACCO, king of soothers. ...

    Article : 40 words
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