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  2. OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

    The R.M.S. Carthage, with the Earl of Jersey and suite on board, is expected to enter the harbor between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning, and the official landing of his Excellency is fixed ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. THE COUNTRY.

    GOULBURN, Wednesday.--In his letter to Captain Rossi the Bishop proposed that the former should wait and have an interview with Mr. Simpson, the chancellor of the diocese, who ...

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  4. FLOODS EXPECTED.

    Last night the Government astronomer received a telegram from Walgett stating that there had been heavy rains in the whole district round, and that these would probably lead ...

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  5. THE IRISH PARTY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--A section of the Irish Parliamentary party is agitating for the election of Mr. John Dillon, M.P., as successor to Mr. Parnell in the ...

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  6. MOSS VALE SCHOOL OF ARTS.

    MOSS VALE, Wednesday.--The first annual meeting of the Moss Vale School of Arts was held last night, when Mr. N. H. Throsby presided. A satisfactory report and balance-sheet ...

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  7. GENERAL BOOTH'S SCHEME.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--General Booth has refused to agree to the appointment of trustees to control the expenditure of the money subscribed for carrying out the ...

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  8. THE INDIAN REVOLT.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The Sioux Indians who are in revolt at Pine Creek, Nebraska, have made no attempt to advance and everything is reported to be ...

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  9. THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING OF NEWCASTLE.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The Mayor of Newcastle yesterday received the following wire from Mr. J. Williams, Crown Solicitor :-- "Take notice that the Electric Lighting ...

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  10. THE EXPORTATION OF STOCK TO HOBART.

    A few weeks ago a number of letters appeared in the columns of the Hobart Mercury drawing attention to several cases of cruelty to animals on board of some of the steamers plying ...

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  11. MIGRATION OF RUSSIAN JEWS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The first batch of Jews who are emigrating from Russia, in consequence of the persecution to which they have been subjected, have arrived in ...

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  12. ABOUT LADY JERSEY.

    Unfortunately for New South Wales society the Earl of Jersey could not be accompanied in his voyage to Australia by his wife. Lady Jersey is descended from a Whig house which ...

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  13. GALE OFF NEWCASTLE.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The schooner Fern, which left here for Sydney on Monday night last, returned to port this afternoon. When off Terrigal yesterday she encountered the full ...

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  14. THE SCOTCH RAILWAY STRIKE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The strike on the Scotch railways has caused a complete congestion of traffic, and miles of unloaded trucks are standing on the lines. ...

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  15. WASHING CHINESE BONES. AN ALBURY LIBEL CASE.

    ALBURY, Wednesday.--In the District Court to-day, before Judge Forbes, Thomas Affleck and William Frew, proprietors of the Albury Border Post, newspaper, were defendants in an ...

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  16. ANOTHER CANADIAN MYSTERY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--A young Englishman named Wadsworth is reported to be missing in Canada, under similar circumstances to those attending the disappearance ...

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  17. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The Countess of Jersey sailed from England to-day to join her husband in New South Wales. ...

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  18. THE PASTORALISTS AND THE SHEARERS.

    Mr. W. G. Spence, president of the Shearers' Union, informed a Daily Telegraph reporter last night that the union had not yet received any official notification from the Pastoralists' Union ...

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  19. THE REV. DR. BARRY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The Rev. Dr. Barry, late Primate of Australia and subsequently Assistant-Bishop of Rochester, was to-day installed as a Canon of the ...

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  20. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Nothing further has transpired in reference to the supposed cases of smallpox on board the Airlie. According to the captain, the disease is merely ...

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  21. EARLY CLOSING.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A public meeting was held this evening in front of the Criterion Hotel, in favor of the early closing movement. There was a large attendance, the Mayor of ...

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  22. A ROYAL NAVAL APPOINTMENT.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, C.B., Superintendent of Naval Reserves, is to succeed Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony H. Hoskins, K.C.B., in the ...

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  23. MEMBERS AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

    URALLA, Wednesday.--Mr. J. Inglis, M.P., has addressed large meetings at Bendemeer and Bundarra, and has been enthusiastically received. Many prominent protectionists have ...

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  24. DR. BARNARDO'S APPEAL.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Mr. J. H. Angas, M.L.C., has sent to the editor of the Advertiser a bank draft for £500 in answer to the appeal for help for Dr. Barnardo's Home in London. ...

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  25. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Yesterday a female prisoner named Annie South, who on Friday last escaped from Melbourne Gaol, was recaptured. The easy manner of her escape ...

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  26. A MISSING CIVIL SERVANT.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--E. N. Newbury, receiver of fines and fees in the Lands and Titles Office, has been suspended in consequence of defalcations in his accounts, which amount ...

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  27. MEETING IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Victorian Pastoralists' Association met to-day to consider the threatened stand out of shearers over the new agreement. The secretary reported ...

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  28. THE FAMILY SEAT.

    Osterley Park, where Lord and Lady Jersey have resided daring recent years, is situate in Middlesex, within a few miles of London. For many years the ...

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  29. FATALITIES.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday. -- A fatal accident occurred at the railway station at Port Pirie to-night, when a porter named Walter James Rogers was crushed to death. He was engaged ...

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  30. BALRANALD IRRIGATION.

    BALRANALD, Wednesday.--The council has written to Mr. Robert B. Wilkinson, M.P., inquiring the cost of taking the Balranald Irrigation Bill through Parliament. The council ...

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  31. A WIFE ARRESTED FOR MURDER.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In May last a man named Michael Ryan was found dead at Blackwood with a mark of violence in the vicinity of the ear, but nothing was adduced ...

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  32. HURRICANE WEATHER AT FIJI.

    News of a hurricane at what is known as the windward portion of the Fiji Islands reached Sydney by the A.U.S.N., Company's island steamer Rockton last evening. Just before the ...

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  33. DEATH FROM EXPOSURE.

    BALRANALD, Wednesday. An inquest was held at the courthouse on Saturday touching the death of a Chinaman, named Ah Hung, aged 50, found dead in Green Tree Paddock, on ...

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  34. THE DAYLESFORD TRAGEDY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Avison, the man who nearly killed Hoare, near Daylesford, for improper intimacy with his wife, was brought before the Daylesford Court to-day, but Hoare ...

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  35. GOLD RETURNS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The official gold returns compiled by the Mining Department show that the total yield for the colony last year was 588,560oz., being a decrease of ...

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  36. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--As showing the absurd manner in which the Railway Commissioners have raised the freight tariff the Queensland Carriage Waggon Company at Nudah, ...

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  37. NEW ZEALAND.

    AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--A severe shock of earthquake was experienced at Wellington today, accompanied by a rumbling noise. The direction was uncertain, the shock being more ...

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  38. ARREST FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A young man named W H. De Buriatte, confidential clerk to Messrs. Bloomfield, Brown and Tate, commission agents, Geelong, was arrested in ...

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  39. THE DIRECTOR OF FORESTS.

    WILCANNIA, Wednesday.--Mr. Ed[?]ie Brown, Director-General of Forests, together with Mr. E. B. L. Dickens, M.P., arrived here on Monday. The former gentleman purposes making a ...

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  40. LORD JERSEY'S CAREER.

    Victor Albert George Child Villiers, seventh Earl of Jersey, who is to-day to be installed Governor of New South Wales, was born on March 20, 1845, so that he is now in his 46th ...

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  41. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Three hundred and fifty names of unemployed have been enrolled at the free labor bureau. Employment has been found for 53 of these, but though ...

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  42. NOVA SCOTIA SETTLERS.

    AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--The Government have received applications for assistance from a number of Nova Scotia settlers who are anxious to emigrate to New Zealand. The application ...

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  43. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Wednesday.--The half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Bank of Tasmania was held to-day. The report showed a profit of [?]15,708, which was appropriated thus-- 20 per ...

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  44. FOUND DROWNED.

    GUNDAGAI, Wednesday.--A woman named King was found drowned in the Murrumbidgee River, South Gundagai, this morning. An inquest was held, but no evidence was given as to ...

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  45. THE FEDERATION CONVENTION.

    AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--Sir George Grey has sufficiently recovered from his illness to be able to attend the meeting of the Federation Convention to commence in Sydney on March ...

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  46. THE SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Representations having been made to the Minister for Education as to the inadvisableness of school duties being resumed during the prevalence of scarlet ...

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  47. RAILWAY EXTENSION.

    COONAMBLE, Wednesday.--At a public meeting convened by the Mayor last evening, to confer with Mr. Jones, Examiner of Public Works, proposals on railway extensions, a long ...

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  48. TRAMPLED TO DEATH BY A BULL.

    HOBART, Wednesday.--A Windermere resident named Charles Barnard was killed yesterday by a bull rushing him and trampling him to death. Deceased was for many years on the ...

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