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  2. CHINA.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The representatives of the Towers in Pekin are arranging a basis of settlement with China. The Ambassadors meanwhile are granting ...

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  3. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--"The Times" states that the Duke and Duchess of York will sail for Australia in the new royal yacht, the Victoria and Albert, and that the ...

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  4. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    Here, on the sloping decks of her Majesty's transport Salamis, with an uneventful career behind and God alone knows what ahead, shut oft temporarily from the world, cabined and confined ...

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  5. THE BOER WAR.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--A commando of 1500 Boers, under ex-President .Steyn, is barring the British advance along the railway line towards the Portuguese, ...

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  6. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--At the weekly sales of Australasian tallow to-day 2175 casks were offered, and 1550 casks were sold. Prices realised were as follow:--Mutton, fine 27s ...

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  7. PROPORTION BETWEEN MEMBERS AND ELECTORS.

    Some figures were issued from the Premier's office yesterday to show the proportion of voters in each of the States under Federation for the House of Representatives and for the Senate. ...

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  8. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The, Royal proclamation dissolving Parliament has been gazetted. Polling for some of the constituencies will ...

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  9. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Parliament having dealt with its local address to the Queen on the visit of the Duke of York, the Legislative Assembly settled down to the Federal Electorates Bill, ...

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  10. UNI PROCLAIMED.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A royal proclamation referring to the Australian Commonwealth and dated Balmoral Castle September 17, hits been gazetted. ...

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  11. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--In the Legislative Assembly, in reply to Mr. Bell, the Minister for Lands said his attention had unofficially been drawn to the large aggregations of grazing ...

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  12. THE TEXAS HURRICANE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The recent hurricane which worked such havoc at Galveston destroyed also a seaside resort at High Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, on the coast of Texas. ...

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  13. DAVITT DISILLUSIONED.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon. -- Mr. Michael Davitt, the well-known Irishman, now. declares that his visit, to. South. Africa. has disillusioned him with regard to the ...

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  14. POSITION AT PEKIN.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Some Russians are going to winter in Pekin. The repairs to the Tien-tsin-Pekin railway, which is now in the hands of the Russians, will ...

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  15. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--In the Legislative Council, a motion by Mr. Charleston, to apply the Here-Spence system of effective voting to the elections for the Federal Parliament, was carried ...

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  16. FEELING IN THE COLONIES.

    Sir William Lyne states that a cable message was sent yesterday, at his instance, by the Governor, conveying the appreciation of tho Government and the people of Now South wales on the ...

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  17. THE KAISER'S POLICY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A Socialist Congress at Mainz, Germany, has passed a resolution condemning the Kaiser's policy in regard to Germany's relations with the outside world. ...

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  18. THE ALLIED ARMY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Twelve thousand Germans and 200 Australians have arrived at Tien-tsin. Count Von Waldersee, the German ...

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  19. COLONIALS TO VISIT BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Lord Roberts has decided to select at once, some men from the colonial contingents who will be given leave to go home to Britain. ...

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  20. THE GERMAN LOAN.

    LONDON. Wednesday.--The German loan of £4,000,000 in Treasury bonds has been floated in America. The amount was over-subscribed. ...

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  21. GRATEFUL SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE. Wednesday.--Lord Tennyson received a cablegram, while at Gawier, on Wednesday morning from the Secretary of State for the Colonics to the effect that her Majesty the Queen ...

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  22. SWIMMING.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--In a 500yds. swimming contest at Glasgow, the English longdistance amateur champion swimmer J. A. Jarvis (conceding 30sec.) beat the New South Wales ...

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  23. THE LATE TROOPER KING.

    GLEN INNES, Wednesday.--Mr. Horatio King received news to-day that his son Frank, of the Bushmen's contingent, had been killed in action in South" Africa. Trooper King, who' was'only ...

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  24. THE CHINA CABLES.

    The Postmaster-General has received the following from Adelaide:--"Berne notifies that the Great Northern Company advises the restoration by the Eastern Extension Company and the Great ...

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  25. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Wednesday.--In the Legislative Council, the Legal Practitioners Amendment Bill, Introduced by Mr. Hayues, the object of which is to allow women to practise as ...

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  26. REMOUNTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    By the steamer Norfolk, which left Sydney on Tuesday night, another shipment of remounts (750 in all) left for South Africa. The vessel also took large lines of frozen meat and other cargo. The ...

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  27. AN ADDRESS FROM VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In the Legislative Assembly this afternoon the Attorney-General, on behalf of the still-absent Premier, moved an address to the Queen in connection with the ...

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  28. FEDERAL ELECTORATES.

    Yesterday, in the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Drunker, for Mr. Reld, asked the Premier it he could give any information to the House as to the considerations which guided the Electoral ...

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  29. THE PLAGUE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--death from bubonic plague has occurred at Glasgow. ...

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  30. TIDE VERSUS STEAM.

    BUNDABERG, Wednesday .--Shortly after 4 o'clock tills afternoon the schooner Lochiel, owned by Messrs. Young, of Fairymead plantation, was preparing to leave on a recruiting trip to ...

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  31. INVALIDED HOME.

    BERRY, Wednesday.--The returned soldiers. Trooper Pestell and Private Watts, were accorded a public welcome at a monster picnic held at Meroo Meadow to-day. Visitors were present ...

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  32. COLONIAL PRODUCE FOR CHINA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The steamer Hyson cleared to-day for Taku with 3253 bags New Zealand and 11,936 bags Victorian oats, 14,472 bales of hay, and 7388 bags of chaff. ...

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  33. TOWNSVILLE OUTBREAK UNDER CONTROL.

    TOWNSVILLE, Wednesday.--At a meeting of the Epidemic Board to-day Dr. Turner's official report expressed the opinion that the epidemic ...

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  34. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.--A start, will be made to-day, with sinking the Iron Duke's main shaft below the 400ft. leyel. The north drive In this lever shows the [?]ode to be opening up ...

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  35. THE LAST HOURS OF A PRINCE.

    It is now some months ago since the physicians made the awful discovery that the late Prince of Saxe-Coburg (the Duke of Edinburgh) was stricken with the same terrible disease as his ...

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  36. INVITATION FROM BALLARAT.

    BALLARAT, Wednesday.--The Ballarat soldiers statue committee have cabled to the Duke of York as follows:--"The citizens of Greater Ballarat extend. their cordial invitation to the Duke ...

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  37. MESSAGE FROM QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Willi reference to the telegram received from Mr. Chamberlain relative to the visit to Australia of the Duke and Duchess of York, the ...

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  38. OFFERS FOR BARRIER MINES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--At the board meeting of the North Broken-hill Company this afternoon, a letter was received from Messrs. Clark and Company, and E. and L. C. Baillieu. ...

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  39. GOULBURN DEMONSTRATION.

    The demonstration which is. to take place at Goulburn to-morrow in connection with the advent of Federation will be attended by the Governor, the Premier (Sir William Lyne), Mr. Barton, ...

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  40. WAR LETTERS IN BRIEF.

    Private J. C. Cripps, one of three brothres in the New South Wales Mounted Infantry at the front, should be the envy of his comrades. He has been in almost ...

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  41. DR. QUICK TO RE ENTERTAINED.

    COROWA, Wednesday.--A public meeting is to be held at au early date to consider what steps shall be taken to entertain Dr. Quick, of Bendigo, at a public banquet, and at the sumo time ...

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  42. INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

    The final mooting of the Parramatta. famine committee was held on Tuesday evening the Mayor presiding. The receipt was reported of £8 15s 6d, proceeds of the concerts organised by ...

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  43. THE BREELONG BLACKS.

    TAMWORTH, Wednesday.--The Governors were seen yesterday afternoon at Alleyn River, about, four miles from the headwaters of the Paterson River. They stuck up two ...

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  44. APPROPRIATE AND ECONOMIC.

    The American missionaries in Chefoo sent an appropriate cable message to New York to tell of their doliverance from the Chinese, and, economically, used a Scriptural text to tell their ...

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  45. INVITATION FROM NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--A motion is to be passed by tile Mouse of Representatives, inviting the Duke and Duchess of York to visit New Zealand. ...

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  46. OPENING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

    ORANGE. Wednesday.--The first meeting in connection with the forthcoming Federal campaign was held last night, when Mr. T. M. Dalveen, of Sydney, addressed a meeting in the ...

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  47. AN AUSTRALIAN QUESTION.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--An agitation has sprung up here for the opening of the Federal Parliament under the dome of the Exhibition Building. The argument Is that no other ...

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