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  2. A YEAR IN OFFICE.

    The first anniversary of the Lyne Administration is reached to-day. The subject was mentioned at a deputation to the Minister for Works yesterday, and Mr. O'Sullivan, upon being seen ...

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  3. CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

    The morning session of the Roman catholic Congress yesterday was exclusively devoted to the reading of a series of practical papers on education, with special reference to teaching ...

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  4. VICTORIA.

    At the inquiry into the Fairfleld ballast train disaster to-day. Mr. Anderson, C.E., who continued his expert evidence, gave at the request of the Coroner, bin view of the causes of the ...

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  5. MILITARY ATTACHES LEAVING.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Captain Reichma[?],. the United States military attache with the Boer forces, has cabled to his Government from Delagoa Bay that owing to the turn ...

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  6. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The will of the late Mr. Samuel Tomkinson, M.L.C., of Fitzroy, has been lodged for probate. The estate is sworn at £30,000, and is bequeathed to his widow absolutely. ...

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  7. THE COUNTRY.

    INVERELL, Thursday.--The Inverell Gas, Coke, Coal, and Electric Lighting Company has been registered with a capital of £12,000 in £1 shares, with the object of acquiring land, ...

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  8. COLONIAL SOLDIERS ENTERTAINED

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has entertained 85 colonial Invalided soldiers at her home. ...

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  9. THE ANNUAL SHOW.

    The Spring Show of the Royal Agricultural Society was opened to-day in fine weather. There was a very large attendance, visitors from the country being considerably more this year owing ...

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  10. COLONIAL CASUALTIES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The following particulars are reported with reference to Australasian troops engaged in active service in South Africa:— ...

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  11. AN UNPROMISING YOUTH.

    George Vostock. who fell foul of Detective M'Manamy in an attempt to procure a partner in an alleged turf company, was to-day sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Accused, who ...

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  12. SHEARING SEASON.

    COROWA, Thursday.--Shearing is being somewhat interfered with by rain. Kentucky, which is one of the early stations, will shortly cut out. Burrajaa made a start, but the whole board was ...

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  13. ADVANCES OF SEED WHEAT.

    A representative deputation of northern farmers waited upon the Premier this afternoon and made requests for an extension of time for the repayment of seed wheat loans and for a ...

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  14. INDIGNATION ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

    The result of a trial crushing of six tons of quartz from Glenfine No. 1 mine, Pitfleld, was 3dwt. 10grs. Both Melbourne and Ballarat Stock Exchanges intend to make a vigorous inquiry ...

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  15. VICTORIAN TROOPS.

    Troopers W. SEYMOUR and J. ROGERS, who were reported missing at Thabanchu, have rejoined their regiment. ...

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  16. ALLEGED LIBEL.

    Dr. John William O'Brien, of Warrnambool, is seeking to obtain £1000 damages from Dr. Thomas Scott, also of Warrnambool, for alleged libel. The trouble arise out of a communication to the ...

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  17. QUEENSLAND TROOPS.

    Trooper J. DONKIN, reported missing at Thabanchu, has rejoined his regiment. ...

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  18. BALLINA WATER SUPPLY.

    BALLINA, Thursday.--A public meeting or ratepayers, the Mayor presiding, was held last night, to consider the matter of a water supply for the town. The following resolution was ...

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  19. NEWCASTLE.

    The annual meeting of delegates to the Newcastle District Cricket Association was held last night at the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. T. H. Raysmith was in the chair. Mr. J. D. Beeston, ...

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  20. CONGRATULATIONS FROM NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday.--When nows came through of the annexation of the Transvaal, Mr. Seddon cabled congratulations to Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Roberts. Both have replied ...

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  21. THE MEN WHO RESCUED THE GUNS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The invalided soldiers who returned by the steamer Nineveh were entertained at the barracks to-day, Major-General Downs presiding, in the unavoidable absence of ...

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  22. ROUMANIA.

    Sir,--in your issue of September 12, Mr. S. S. Bond re-quotes figures referring to the gross Ignorance of Roumania, and asks information as to the religion of the people. In absence of an ...

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  23. QUARTER SESSIONS.

    SINGLETON, Thursday.--There were no District Court eases, and only one Quarter Sessions case, before Judge Murray yesterday. William Rigg was charged with stealing two bullocks, the ...

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  24. MODERN PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY.

    The affairs of the Modern Permanent Building and Investment Society are in an encouraging condition. At a meeting to-day, it was stated that the loans had increased to nearly £180,000. ...

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  25. HOME FROM THE WAR.

    Although the crowd assembled on the Norddeutcher Lloyd Wharf yesterday afternoon to welcome the returning invalided soldiers was small, in comparison with the numbers who cheered ...

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  26. CAMELS FOR DROUGHT COUNTRY.

    WILCANNIA, Thursday.--Over 100 camels loaded to-day with stores for White Cliffs, Tibooburra, Milparinka, and Queensland stations. This lot take fully 20 tons. Although the country near ...

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  27. AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

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  28. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    The four-masted German barque Barmbek sailed from Newcastle for Caleta Buena with 3215 tons of Wallsend coal yesterday. She bad been 81 days in port. ...

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  29. DONKEYS AND MULES.

    WILCANNIA, Thursday.--Momba Pastoral Company have made a novel importation in the shape of a email mob of donkeys, it being the company's intention to try the experiment of ...

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  30. NAVVIES ON STRIKE.

    NEWBRIDGE, Thursday.--All the men on the deviation works here have struck for an increase from 6s per day to 7s. They are nearly all going to the Goulburn to Crookwell Hue, where the pay ...

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  31. DOCKING FACILITIES AT MELBOURNE.

    An arrangement has been arrived at between the lessees of the river docks, the shipowners, and the harbor trust for a provision in the renewed leases for considerable improvements in ...

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  32. TRICKSTERS AT RANDWICK.

    Racecourse swindles just at present occupy the minds of the enterprising trickster. The latest device for extracting money from other people's pockets throws a strong light on the ingenuity ...

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  33. PARRAMATTA AND DISTRICT.

    The residents in the districts west of Parramatta and district from the main Western-road have for years been endeavoring to have a traffic route through the park, and are now moving in ...

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  34. A STORY TOLD AT SALE.

    The man, Joseph Dailey, who made a sensational statement about being shot and robbed at Sale last Sunday has been identified as James Daley, son of a farmer living at Little River, ...

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  35. AUSTRALIAN NATIVES' ASSOCIATION.

    The second branch of the Australian Natives' Association In Now South Wales was successfully inaugurated in Granville on Wednesday evening. The board of directors was represented by Messrs. ...

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  36. ARRIVAL OF THE WARSHIP MOEWE.

    The corvette Moewe, flying the German tricolor, arrived in Port Jackson yesterday morning from a surveying cruise in the Bismarck Archipelago. The islands in this division include New Britain. ...

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  37. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    Referring to the correspondence that has passed between the South Australian Government and the Colonial Office, Sir William Lyne said yesterday that the substance of Mr. Holder's reply, in ...

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  38. LABOR TROUBLE AT A MINE.

    The miners and employers at No. 2 Chiltern Valley are again in conflict and about 100 men are out of work. The trouble arose because the management insisted upon tho men at work ...

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  39. AMUSEMENTS.

    Great effort has been made to ensure that the matinee entertainment to be given at Her Majesty's to-day in aid of the Distressed Actors' Fund shall be a pronounced success. If the ...

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  40. THE DECORATIONS.

    Professional men who have had experience in matters relating to celebrations and the attendant decorations, are awaiting anxiously the appointment of the promised committee to take charge of ...

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  41. PACIFIC CABLE TENDERS.

    The Premier has adopted the suggestion of the Postmaster-General, and to-night cabled to the Agent-General asking for full particulars of the tenders for the Pacific cable. ...

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  42. ANOTHER CONFIDENCE TRICK VICTIM.

    John O'Sullivan, a lad of 16, adds another to the long list of those who have fallen into the meshes of the confidence man. This youth left Newcastle early in the week at the bidding of his ...

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  43. QUEENSLAND.

    At the Queensland Rifle Association meeting to-day, the Queen's prize was won by G. Shaw with 361. Shaw was also winner of the Queen's prize last year. ...

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  44. RAILWAY REVENUE.

    The annual report of the Commissioner for Railways for the year ended June 30 last shows that the total length of lines opened for traf[?]c to that date was 2801 milos, an increase of 55½ ...

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  45. A SENATE CANDIDATE.

    As a formal announcement of his intention to seek election to the Senate, Mr. Edward Terry, M.P., addressed a public meeting at Gladesville recently, the Mayor (Alderman Hibbic) presiding. ...

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  46. THE LATE LIEUTENANT W. R. HARRIOTT.

    Recently, at a meeting of the North Sydney friends of the lata Lieutenant W. R. Harriott, one of the killed in the South, African war, it was decided to perpetuate his memory, and a ...

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  47. "HAMLET." AT THE CRITERION.

    To-night Mr. Alfred Dumpier is to present "Hamlet" for the last time at the Criterion Theatre. Next Friday night he will stage "Macbeth." ...

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  48. ST. MARY'S, WAVERLEY.

    A concert was held in the Paddington Townhall last evening in aid of the church choir fund of St. Mary's (Anglican) Church, Waverley. There was a large attendance, but until the total of the ...

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  49. THE PLAGUE.

    A little girl named Gladys Ballard, aged three years and a half, residing at Rosalie, died in the hospital yesterday. A post-mortem examination revealed that the cause of death was plague. At Now Farm to-day Charles Lackey (21) was ...

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  50. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LABOR CANDIDATES.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--At a meeting of the united labor party to-night, it was decided, in connection with the Federal Parliament, to support two candidates for the Senate and two for ...

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  51. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Three men, charged at Bridgetown Police Court with stealing a cow and calf, the property of M. Waters, were discharged. The Court held that the Cow and calf not being branded, were the ...

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  52. TASMANIA.

    The Premier has forwarded the following telegram to the broker in reference to the Great Western Railway:—"Expecting report dally from officer sent to inspect works. The Executive will ...

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  53. THE BREELONG BLACKS.

    CONDOBOLIN, Thursday.--An old resident here received an anonymous letter recently signed "Jimmy Governor," threatening, amongst other things, to bash his brains out "a la ...

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  54. ASHORE IN HOBSON'S BAY.

    A telegram was received from the signal master at Queensland, Victoria, yesterday, stating that the American four-masted schooner Churchill, which had Just arrived after a somewhat ...

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  55. HE SEA-SERPENT.

    Captain Campbell, of the steamer Perth, who saw the sea-serpent recently, has received a letter from the Royal Society of Tasmania, asking for full particulars regarding the locality in which ...

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  56. CASUALTIES.

    A member of the Coal Lumpers' Union, Edward Buckley, fell down a coal bunker on the steamer Euryalus last evening. He sustained such severe injuries to the spine that it was ...

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  57. NEW ZEALAND.

    Lady Vogel and family have presented a petition to Parliament asking for £2000, being commission duo to the late Sir Julius Vogel on the conversion of £1,600,000, part of the 1897 loan of ...

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  58. LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

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  59. POLICE PARTIES RECALLED.

    WALCHA, Thursday.--Instructions have been received for the recall of the Uralla and local police from the pursuit of the Breelong outlaws, owing to the necessity of collecting the electoral ...

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  60. SWINGING ON A GATE.

    Whilst swinging on a gate at her residence, Ivystreet, Redfern, last evening, Lily Abbott (12), received a serious injury. The gate became loosened with the motion, and fell on the child's ...

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  61. NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL.

    Mr. J. Randal Carey presided last night at a meeting of the committee of the North Shore Cottage Hospital, held in the North Sydney Town hall. ...

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  62. EARLY CLOSING ACT.

    Sir,--As our organisation bear[?] an almost similar title to that of which Mr. W. Main is hon. secretary, would you permit to state, so as to prevent possible misunderstanding, that the ...

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  63. SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE.

    The Postmaster-General, while the Estimates were being discussed last night, said the House would be given an opportunity later of considering the San Francisco mail service. It was not, ...

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  64. RETURNING TO OLD HAUNTS.

    ALLYNBROOK, Thursday.--Sergeants Mayo and Preston, with a body of police, passed through late this evening on the way to the head of the Allyn. The Governors having been ...

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  65. MISHAP AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE.

    A Parliament House messenger, named Laurence Do[?]en (29) was going downstate to the Government room last night, when he slipped, and fall ...

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  66. A MAN CHOKED.

    WOLLONGONG, Thursday.--Yesterday evening, when the steamer Allowrle was off Bulll on her voyage from Sydney to this port, a passenger [?]amed Ob Olsen, about 60 years of age, whilst ...

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  67. MR. REID'S FREETRADE POLICY.

    ALBURY, Thursday.--Mr. T. H. Griffith, M.P., responding to the toast ot "Parliament" at the show banquet to-day, referred to what he termed the masterly speech delivered by Mr. Reld in ...

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  68. ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL OPENING.

    Sir,--At a meeting of the Evango[?]cal Council, held to-day. the following resolutions were adopted, and directed to be sent for publication, ...

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  69. Advertising

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  70. THE CITY SIGN-BOARDS.

    It was announced by the civic authorities yesterday that two business people in one of the principal streets of the city having defied the council by re-crecting signboards, which had ...

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  71. Advertising

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  72. Advertising

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  73. Advertising

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