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  2. NEWS AND NOTES.

    Mail Steamers.—The homeward-bound Orient mail steamer Oruba passed Breaksea at a quarter-past 2 p.m. yesterday, and should reach Fremantle shortly ...

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  3. TELEGRAMS.

    The annual rifle competition for the Fleming Cup took place to-day. The weather was fine and clear, with little wind blowing, though the bitter cold in ...

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  4. TELEGRAMS.

    At a meeting of the Donnybrook Progress Association, it was agreed to take steps to form a railway league to help the Collie people in their endeavours to ...

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  5. CABLEGRAMS.

    Colonel Rawlinson lately visited a part of the Transvaal difficult of access in the Magaliesberg Mountains. He found a number of Boers engaged in ...

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  6. THE FREMANTLE STRIKE.

    During Saturday and yesterday matters in connection with the strike of "farm" labourers at Fremantle were very quiet. An effort was made by the ...

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  7. CABLEGRAMS.

    Mr. Balfour has replied to the memorial lately addressed to him by a large number of Unionists, urging that the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill be referred to ...

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  8. CABLEGRAMS.

    The directors of the Citizens' Life Assurance Co. have engaged Mr. Ralph Price-Hardy, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, London, to conduct the ...

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  9. CABLEGRAMS.

    The Committee lately appointed to report on the expediency of amending the King's Accession Oath have furnished their report. ...

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  10. ATTEMPTED TRAIN WRECKING.

    An attempt was made yesterday to wreck the up and down London to Edinburgh express trains. The plan contemplated a collision near ...

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  11. CHINA.

    A recrudescence of the rebellion in Manchuria is reported. The "Times" correspondent at Shanghai declares that a number of refugees, ...

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  12. THE BRITISH ARMY.

    The debate in the House of Lords on Mr. Brodrick's proposed army reforms has revealed the existence of some anxiety in official circles, as to whether. ...

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  13. AN ART TREASURE.

    Hoppner's famous portrait of Lady Louisa Manners has been sold at auction, realising the enormous sum of 14,050 guineas. ...

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  14. FRANCE.

    The French Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Senate's amendments to the Religious Associations Bill. The measure aims at restricting the civil power ...

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  15. NEW NAVAL DECORATION.

    The King has been pleased to institute a Conspicuous Service Cross as a decoration for warrant and subordinate officers in the Navy. ...

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  16. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    Saturday was the last day of the first financial half-year of the Commonwealth. The actual new expenditure consequent upon federating was £125,943. The ...

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  17. INTER-STATE.

    The selection of a Town Clerk for Sydney is not to be made in London, as the cable received yesterday inferred. The applications of seven of the British ...

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  18. THE LEIPSIGER BANK FAILURE.

    Herr Gentzsoli, second managing director of the Leipsiger Bank, which lately suspended payment, has been arrested. ...

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  19. AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES.

    Mr. Robinson Nelson, an American millionaire, has given 462,000 dollars (about £92,400) to the Harvard University. ...

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  20. COLONIAL SOLDIERS.

    Speaking at a banquet in London, General Sir Frederick Carrington, late Commander of the Rhodesian Field Force, paid a warm tribute to the ...

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  21. LABOUR TROUBLES IN ITALY.

    A strike has occurred among the harvesters of Ferrara, a northern province of Italy. Hundreds of Piedmontese peasants have replaced the strikers. ...

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  22. ARMY CONTRACTS.

    The "Pester Lloyd," a daily newspaper published at Buda Pesth, is responsible for the statement that in connection with the purchase of Hungarian horses ...

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  23. COMMERCIAL.

    Owing to the reports of the splendid crops in America, the wheat market is depressed. The heavy supplies of flour also tend to make the outlook ...

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  24. COLLIE.

    A large and enthusiastic public meeting was held last night in connection with the Collie-Goldfields Railway League. Mr. J. C. Coombes was appointed ...

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  25. FINANCIAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 words
  26. SUBMARINE EXPERIMENTS.

    The British Admiralty are engaged in conducting a series of experiments at Portsmouth with submarine torpedo destroyers. ...

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  27. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    An influential deputation of country members of Parliament yesterday waited upon the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and presented a petition from farmers ...

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  28. THE GIBRALTAR HARBOUR WORKS.

    Sir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, and formerly Director of Works of the Navy, was interviewed yesterday with regard to the harbour works now in ...

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  29. FREMANTLE HARBOUR WORKS.

    Several important alterations in connection with the Fremantle Harbour Works have been decided upon, the chief of which will be the protection of the ...

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  30. KATANNING.

    The Rev. Harry Braddock, of the Church of England Parochial Mission of London, after carrying on most successful services here and at ...

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  31. A BANKRUPT NOBLEMAN.

    The creditors of the bankrupt Duke of Manchester have agreed to accept 12s. 6d. in the £. ...

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  32. BOWLS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 words
  33. THE ROYAL VISIT.

    The Warrimoo, with the Governor-General and Lady Hopetoun and suite, arrived early yesterday morning. The official landing took place at 11 o'clock. ...

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  34. VICTORIA.

    Sir William Lyne had arranged to leave for Tasmania yesterday afternoon, to represent, with Sir Phillip Fysh, the Federal Ministry during the Royal visit, ...

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  35. VICTORIAN FINANCES.

    The revenue for the financial year, which expired yesterday, reached £5,087,264, being £604,914 in excess of the estimate made by the ex-Treasurer, ...

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  36. MINING.

    Following are the latest quotations for the undermentioned Australian mining stocks:—Chillagoe (Q.), 18s. 9d.; Mount Lyells ...

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  37. POISONING CASE IN MELBOURNE.

    Mrs. Craigie McIntosh was poisoned at her house, in Spencer-street, yesterday, under peculiar circumstances. Her youngest child took a box of matches off ...

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  38. FATALITY IN MELBOURNE.

    A fatal accident happened last evening to Thos. Newbond, a labourer employed at the sewer works, in East Prahran. The side of an open cutting ...

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  39. SHIP WRECK IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

    The Taviuni, which arrived from the Islands yesterday, brought news that the barque John Gambles, of Liverpool, bound from Peru to Auckland with 1,600 ...

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  40. THE VICTORIAN MINT RETURNS.

    The quantity of Victorian gold actually received at the Melbourne Mint during June was 82,310oz., as compared with 75,580oz. for June of last year. ...

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  41. WRECK OF A STEAMER.

    A telegram was received from Mildura on Saturday, stating that the passenger steamer Shannon had struck a reef about six miles from Mildura. The ...

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  42. SOUTHERN CROSS.

    A heavy thunderstorn passed over here yesterday. Rain fell in torrents, 47 points being recorded. All the dams are fell. This morning the weather was ...

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  43. A STEAMER IN DISTRESS.

    A telegram was received to-day from Cape Otway stating that a steamer bound eastward, off Moonlight Head, at 12.50 a.m., burned what appeared to ...

    Article : 68 words
  44. Advertising

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