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  2. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    Just when the satisfactory progress of the other Victorian bubonic plague patients avarice to a hope that Melbourne was successfully passing through the fire of ...

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  3. KRUGER APPLYING FOR PEACE.

    The "Express," the now London evening journal, which has already shown great enterprise in war matters, affirms that President Kruger has personally telegraphed to ...

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  4. MAFEKING RELIEF.

    No official details of the relief of Mafeking have yet been published, and the War Office has not even disclosed the name of the officer who commanded the relief ...

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  5. CLEARING SHIPS AT THE HEADS.

    When questioned yesterday as to the difficulties in the way of granting the ship owners' requests as to the clearance of vessels at the Heads, Dr. Gresswell said:-- ...

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  6. DEATH OF A VICTORIAN.

    The Premier received a cablegram yesterday from the Governor of Capetown reporting with regret that Private H. J. Hiscock, of the Victorian Contingent, died ...

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  7. THANKSGIVING SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S.

    To-morrow morning special services of thanks giving will be held in St. Paul's Cathedral, namely, 8 a.m., Holy Communion, and 10 a.m. a brief fully choral ...

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  8. RELEASE OF CONTACTS.

    Yesterday the contacts in the Byron case recovered their freedom, to-morrow those from Montague-street, South Melbourne, will be released, and on Wednesday the ...

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  9. A BANK HOLIDAY.

    It is announced by advertisement that Mucking day has been proclaimed a bank holiday throughout Australia. ...

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  10. MAFEKING RELIEF DAY.

    To-morrew (Wednesday) has been proclaimed a public holiday throughout Australia in honor of the relief of Mafeking. The proclamation issued by the Victorain ...

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  11. A PROCESSION OF CYCLISTS.

    On the motion of the president, Mr. R. W. Best, M.L.A., seconded by the vice-president, Mr. W. E. G. Salter, the council of the League of Victorian Wheelmen ...

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  12. SUBURBAN ACTION.

    In the Fitzroy council last night, Cr. Wheeler, chairman of the health committee, referred to the Westgarth-street ease of plague. It was not of local origin. On the ...

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  13. CLEARING THE FREE STATE.

    General Sir Leslie Rundle, who, with General Brabant's Colonial Brigade, has been engaged in clearing the eastern portion of the Free Stale of Boers, and has kept ...

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  14. MORE COLONIAL TROOPS ENLIST.

    After months of waiting it is probable that the members of what is known as the third contingent will go to South Africa, but if they go it will not be as a contingent, ...

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  15. PATRIOTIC DINNER AT THE ATHENAEUM CLUB.

    The patriotic dinner which was held at the Athenaeum Club last evening in honor of the relief of Mafeking was a brilliant function. The president, Mr. Justice ...

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  16. A DEPOSITION MOVEMENT.

    It is repented from Pretoria, that the Transvaal Progressive party, which was entirely overborne by Kruger and his clique in respect to Sir Alfred Miner's franchise ...

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  17. PRETORIA'S OFFICIAL REPORT.

    Though British official reports are silent, the Pretorian Government, which found it impossible to further conceal the fact, has deemed it advisable to publish an ...

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  18. AMERICA AND THE BOERS.

    The United States citizens of Capetown have drawn up and are signing in large numbers a memorial to be transmitted to America, urging the leaders of both the ...

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  19. THE CITY CORPORATION AS RAT BREEDERS.

    Sir,--A petition has been presented to the corporation, as landlord of the Western Markets, signed by nearly every tenant on the ground floors of the offices abutting on ...

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  20. A FITZROY CELEBRATION.

    The Fitzroy council, immediately the mayor, Cr. Gross, took his chair last evening rose and sang the National Anthem. This was followed by three cheers for the ...

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  21. BOER FORCE CAPTURED.

    A very different story from the Pretorian official repent is telegraphed front Delagoa Bay, where Portuguese officials reported the relief of Mafeking three days before ...

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  22. THE PASSION PLAY.

    At Ober Ammergau, in Bavaria, the famous decennial performance of the Passion Play, in which the life and death of Christ is realistically represented, has commenced, ...

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  23. SURRENDERING FREESTATERS

    Further in formation with respect to the capture of Lindley, the new "Free State capital" by General Sir Ian Hamilton's Division, shows that a Free State ...

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  24. POSITION IN SYDNEY.

    Two additional cases of plague, one of which was fatal, were reported to-day. They were those of Chesney Plant, a child of 4 year's, living at Woollahra, and William ...

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  25. THE BRITISH REJOICINGS.

    On Saturday evening her Majesty the Queen was serenaded at Windsor Castle, in celebration of the Mafeking relief, by the students of Eton College. ...

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  26. TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION AND FIREWORKS

    The Government has also made arrangements for a grand torchlight procession and pyrotechnical display in the evening. All the metropolitan fire brigades will take part ...

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  27. THE PRESENT POSITION.

    The news to-day, both military and political, though not of great importance in themselves, yet give promise of important developments. We hear, for the first time ...

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  28. THE CAPTIVE BOTHA.

    It is officially explained that the Botha captured with a field cornet, a number of Rand policemen and other Boers, by General Hutton's Colonel Mounted Infantry, 30 ...

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  29. MESSAGE TO LORD ROBERTS.

    The Lorenzo Marquess correspondent of the New York "Herald" telegraphs that it is reported at Delagoa Bay that President Kruger has telegraphed to Lord Roberts ...

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  30. IN QUEENSLAND.

    W. E. Walker, the plague patient lately from Mackay, died in the quarantine hospital to-day. He was in a dying condition from cancer when he contracted the plague. ...

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  31. THE BRITISH VOLUNTEERS.

    In the House of Lords last night, a bill was introduced by the Marquis of Lansdowne Secretary for War, providing that volunteers in Great Britain may on enlisting ...

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  32. COLLING WOOD ENTERTAINMENTS.

    The mayor of Collingwood (Cr. Beazley, M.L.A.) has arranged for a free patriotic entertainment this evening, both inside and outside the local town hall, in honor of the ...

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  33. FESTIVITIES AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE.

    Invitations have been issued by the Government to members of both Houses of Parliament to meet in the Queen's Hall at 2.45 p.m. to-morrow, for the purpose of ...

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  34. MIDNIGHT OUTRAGES.

    The burglary charges preferred against Wm. King, a negro, were investigated in the Prahran court yesterday. The Sensational circumstances connected With the Windsor ease attracted a great ...

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  35. THE CHURCH SERVICES.

    In most of the churches throughout Great Britain "Te Deum" services Were given in thanks giving for the relief of Mafeking. The Australian federal delegates received ...

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  36. BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT THE UNIVERSITY.

    In response to the representations of Dr. Morrison and Dr. Cherry, the Treasurer, as already notified in "The Age," has agreed to place £500 on the estimates for next ...

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  37. TWO NEW QUEENSLAND CASES.

    Another case of plague was reported in the city shortly before midnight. The patient, named M'Mahon, 26 years old, is storeman in a large warehouse, and there ...

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  38. THE NAVAL AND MILITARY PROCESSION.

    The following corps will take part in the naval and military procession, in the order named:-- Naval forces. ...

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  39. A CAPE DUTCH REBEL.

    Great satisfaction has been caused among loyalists at the Cape by the effective prosecution of Mr. Vermooten, a Dutch Afrikander lawyer, resident in the Dordrecht ...

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  41. CONGRATULATIONS.

    The Premier despatched yesterday the following cable message to Colonel BadenPowell:-- Victoria sends heartiest congratulations to self ...

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  42. HOLLAND PROCLAIMS VICTORIA.

    The Consul of the Netherlands Government, though the Premier, yesterday informed the Heath department that Victoria had been proclaimed by the ...

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  43. A STOCK EXCHANGE JOKE.

    On the London Stock Exchange the news was received with immense patriotic fervor. All business was suspended, and the brokers sang with tremendous enthusiasm ...

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  44. MESSAGE TO LORD ROBERTS.

    Yesterday Mr. M'Lean also sent the following cablegram to Lord Roberts:-- Victoria sends heartiest congratulations on successful relief of heroic defenders of Mafeking. ...

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  45. IN NATAL.

    The War Office has published a despatch from General Sir Redvers Buller, whose head quarters are at Newcastle, 80 miles north of Ladysmith, reporting that ...

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  46. THE COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY.

    At the meeting of the Council, of the University of Melbourne yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor (Sir Henry Wrixon) moved-- ...

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  47. AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

    A striking demonstration occurred yesterday in the Paris Exhibition. The English visitors, when the Mafeking news was announced in the Exhibition, gathered ...

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  48. MUNDELL'S BAGS.

    The disinfection and destruction processes applied to Messrs. Mundell's bags were continued yesterday, and have not yet been completed. Dr. Gresswell is having the ...

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  49. DELAGOA BAY TO PRETORIA RAILWAY.

    In view of the rapid advance of the British force in Natal towards the Transvaal border. Lord Dundonald, at the head of General Buller's brigade, being already at ...

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  50. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

    Railway arrangements for to-morrow ("Mafeking Jubilation day") and for Thursday (Queen's Birthday) provide for the suspension of the ordinary suburban services. ...

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  51. THE SHIPPING REGULATIONS.

    Dr. Gresswell yesterday visited the wharves on the Yarra and inspected their condition, and the extent to which the regulations are obeyed by ship owners. He ...

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  52. A COMMEMORATION FUND.

    A fund has been opened in London with the object of suitably commemorating the gallant and successful defence of Mafeking. A sum of £10,000 has already been ...

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  53. CITIZENS' MEETING AT FITZROY.

    At the invitation of the mayor of Fitzroy (Cr. Gross) a large number of citizens, met after the council meeting in the mayor's room to do honor to the event of the hour. ...

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  54. BOERS IN ZULULAND.

    Some Boer commandos have recently entered Zululand, whence they have been making threatening demonstrations. General Buller has sent a force to expel these ...

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  55. ADDITIONAL HOLIDAY FOR STATE SCHOOLS.

    The junior cadet corps attached to State schools within the metropolitan area will Join the military parade to-morrow, and the Minister of Education has decided to grant ...

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