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  2. ILLEGAL BETTING.

    The result of recent police raids on several small shops where betting on horse races was carried on under the guise of a tobacconist's business was reached in the Police Court on ...

    Article : 139 words
  3. CABLE MESSAGES. THE EUROPEAN CRISIS.

    The Russian fleet in the Black Sea is now massed near the mouth of the Bosphorus in readiness to advance on Constantinople at a moment's notice. ...

    Article : 104 words
  4. CABLE MESSAGES. THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

    Abbas Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, has made another anti-British move, which take as a place in the same category with his [?] to an anti-British Ministry, and to [?] ...

    Article : 190 words
  5. CABLE MESSAGES. THE DYNAMITERS.

    Messrs. J. E. Redmond and John Dillon on Saturday met on the same platform at a public meeting at Tipperary, convened for the purpose of agitating for the release of the ...

    Article : 71 words
  6. OUR AMERICAN LETTER.

    The Presidential campaign seems to be watched in Europe with an altogether unusual degree of interest, and Americans smile to see that the casual statements of the stump orators ...

    Article : 3,232 words
  7. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The water in the Arrow Lake is rapidly falling, and is becoming salt as it decreases in volume Already the lake has lowered about 2 feet, and almost all over ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. THE STATE SCHOOLS.

    The first conference held by the Stats school teachers of the colony was commenced at the Trades Hall, Grote-street, on Monday morning. The convention originated with the ...

    Article : 4,678 words
  9. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The Orient line R.M.S. Orotava passed Cape Borda at 8.15 on Monday evening and should reach Large Bay between 4 and 5 O'clock this morning. The Orient line R.M.S. Orient, ...

    Article : 179 words
  10. AUSTRALASIAN MINING.

    The prospectus has been issued of the Champion Extended Home Rule Gold Mining Company. The capital is set down at £150,000, of which shares to the amount of £60,000 are ...

    Article : 41 words
  11. OPINION IN ENGLAND.

    The Earl of Rosebery, reverting to the Eastern Situation, in a speech on Saturday, declared that a time had now arrived when the peace of the world could be preserved only ...

    Article : 293 words
  12. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS

    The Mayor of Melbourne promised a deputation to-day that he would consider a request for the use of the Town Hall to discuss, the Constitution Act Amendment Bill. ...

    Article : 578 words
  13. FIRE IN MELBOURNE.

    A destructive fire broke out about 6 o'clock this evening at Messrs. Scott & Morton's Cycle Agency. The [?] originated in a storeroom at the ...

    Article : 94 words
  14. INTERCOLONIAL SHIPPING.

    The movements among intercolonial steamers will be rather limited this week so far as the Port is concerned. Two boats, the Bulimba and Marloo, are fixed to leave for Albany and ...

    Article : 79 words
  15. THE TRANSVAAL.

    The Volksraad of the South American Republic, besides directing that newspaper articles shall have their writers names appended to them, has authorised President ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. THE LATE MR. ROBERT DAVENPORT.

    Probate in the estate of the late Mr. Robert Davenport, of Baltunga, has been granted to the Executor, Trustee, and Agency Company, the value of the estate being sworn at under ...

    Article : 56 words
  17. BUSINESS IN SYDNEY.

    Considerable activity is being shown in the building trade all over the colony. At the Government Labor Bureau during the past three months there has been a steady growing ...

    Article : 260 words
  18. THE POPE AND ITALY.

    The Pope has carried his quarrel with King Humbert to the length of refusing permission for the marriage of the Crown Prince of Naples and Princess Helen[?] of Montenegro to take ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. THE CZAR.

    The Czar and Czarina, who are guests of the Queen at Balmoral, yesterday accompanied her Majesty to [?] Church, and joined in a prayer that the amity now existing between ...

    Article : 55 words
  20. THE DANUBE.

    The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria to day opens the channel through the " Iron Gates of the [?] with great ceremony. The work, which is state to be one of almost ...

    Article : 44 words
  21. CRIME IN SYDNEY.

    A peculiar case came before the Central Criminal Court to-day. Joseph Lee, a young man, was charged with having broken into the house of his father, Philip Lee, and stolen a ...

    Article : 175 words
  22. THE CAB STRIKE.

    The general managers of the principal railway companies propose to establish permanent cab exchanges in London and other large cities of Great Britain so as to avoid such disputes ...

    Article : 40 words
  23. A GREAT HURRICANE.

    A terrible hurricane has been raging during the last few, hours on the coasts of England, France, and Spain. Already news of many marine catastrophes ...

    Article : 46 words
  24. VICTORIAN CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURES.

    A special meeting of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures was held to-night for the purpose of considering the question of assimilating the tariffs of the various colonies. The ...

    Article : 264 words
  25. THE NILE EXPEDITION.

    The gunboats attached to the AngloEgyptian expedition against, the Khalifa have reached a point on the Nile south of [?] General Sir Francis Kitchener's plans for ...

    Article : 45 words
  26. NITRIC ACID-THROWING.

    John Mackie, an elderly man, was charged at the Central Criminal Court to-day before Mr. Justice Stephen with maliciously throwing a corrosive fluid upon Robert Ryan. ...

    Article : 133 words
  27. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA.

    The balance-sheet of the Bank of Australasia is published. The deposits are stated at £13,512,608, against which are set down Government and others securities and cash ...

    Article : 36 words
  28. THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE

    Sir J. Somers Vine who some years ago visited the coloines in the interests of the Imperial Institute, has resigned his position as assistant secretary and general sub-director. ...

    Article : 39 words
  29. A MAN AND BOY BROWNED.

    A boating fatality happened last evening off Penguin, on the north-west coast. Frederick Taylor, a brother of Captain Taylor, in company with a boy from the ketch Dauntless, ...

    Article : 60 words
  30. ROBERT BURNS.

    On Saturday, in connection with the national celebration of the centenary of the death of Robert Burns, a statue of the post was unveiled at Paisley by the Earl of ...

    Article : 40 words
  31. NEW ZEALAND-BANKING ENQUIRY.

    Mr. Hanna, the manager of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, was further examined before the Banking Committee to-day. The evidence dealt mainly with the ...

    Article : 54 words
  32. LIEUTENANT PEARY.

    Lieutenant Peary, and his companions in Arctic exploration, Save returned safely from their latest expedition, having arrived at Cape Breton, the northermost point of Nova Scotia. ...

    Article : 35 words
  33. ALLEGED BIGAMY.

    Two cases of alleged bigamy were heard at the Newtown Police Court to-day. Henry Edward Matthews, aged 26, was charged with having on August 5 last married Florence Mary ...

    Article : 160 words
  34. CYCLING IN ENGLAND.

    The Sportsman, commenting on the 10-mile cycling match at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, remarks that J. Megson, the winner, made a grand finish, and that his sprinting ...

    Article : 68 words
  35. STABBING CASE AT TOWNSVILLE.

    A stabbing affray occurred at midnight on Sunday in Collins's oyster saloon, in Flindersstreet. An altercation arose with regard to a fisherman's horse and cart, and William ...

    Article : 60 words
  36. A NAVAL DISASTER.

    A sad accident is reported from Grosevitch Bay, on the eastern coast of Siberia. A boat was proceeding to the shore from the first-class twin-screw steamer Narcissus, which ...

    Article : 79 words
  37. VICTORIAN FURNITURE TRADE.

    The Cabinet to-night considered the question of Chinese in the furniture trade, and it was decided to ask Parliament to amend the Factories Act to make it apply to the ...

    Article : 43 words
  38. PETROLEUM IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Birtchnell, of Melbourne, has completed the purchase of a 20 years' lease of 3,000 acres of land along the petroleum belt in the Taranaki district, between Moturoa and ...

    Article : 83 words
  39. A WOMEN ACCUSED OF CRUELTY.

    Detective Twoomey to-day arrested at Dunwich Marie Christieson, the matron of the Myora Aboriginal Mission, on a charge of causing the death of a half-caste girl, Cassie, ...

    Article : 55 words
  40. MODERATOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

    Sir—At the recent sittings of the General Assembly the right reverend the moderator intimated from the chair that the exmoderators, whose duty it is to nominate the ...

    Article : 257 words
  41. CITY OF MELBOURNE BANK PROSECUTIONS.

    The trial of the directors and auditors of the City of Melbourne Bank was continued to-day. The reading of the depositions, taken before Judge Molesworth, again occupied the ...

    Article : 52 words
  42. THE DAY'S EVENTS.

    Trades Hall, 10-Teachers' Conference. St. Michael's Church, Mitcham, 8 and 11-St. Michael and All Angels' Day, H.C. and Matins and H.C. ...

    Article : 78 words
  43. FOUR CHILDREN POISONED.

    Three children of Mr. George Parden, the licensee of the Gap Hotel, Yackandandah, today ate a quantity of poisonous mixture used for curing skins. One of them, Lillian, died, ...

    Article : 74 words
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