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  2. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Royal navy estimates were last night introduced in the House of Commons. The total aggregate amount is £34,457,000 ...

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  3. GREAT DISASTER IN QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The cyclone which visited Townsville was fearful. One of the wards at the hospital collapsed, killing six patients and injuring several ...

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  4. THE FRENCH CONVENT SCANDAL.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--M. E. Combes, the French Premier, has given orders for the closing of the Convent of the Good Shepherd at Nancy. ...

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  5. A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR ALARMED.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Mr. Scott, secretary to the central postal administration, received on Monday evening and this morning telegrams from Mr. Buzacott, Deputy Postmaster-General at ...

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  6. DESCRIPTION OF TOWNSVILLE.

    Townsville is the principal city in North Queensland, situated on the shore of Cleveland Bay, and about 870 miles north-west of Brisbane. It was discovered by John Medwin Black in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. THE SAXON ROYAL SCANDAL.

    LONDON, Tuesday--The actress Annita Adamovitch has abandoned her lover, Herr Woelfling (formerly the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Tuscany) since he has lost his money. ...

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  8. CONTINUOUS SERVICE IN THE NAVY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Lords of the Admiralty intend to supplement the continuous service system in the Royal Navy by the enlistment of men for a limited period, ...

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  9. MR. BRODRICK'S NEW SCHEME.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Mr. W. St. John Brodrick (Secretary of State for War) explained last night in the House of Commons that his new army scheme provided for an ...

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  10. HUNDREDS RENDERED HOMELESS.

    Every portion of the town and suburbs suffered, particularly the North Ward aud Hermit Park districts, hundreds of people being rendered homeless. ...

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  11. HARBOR WORKS.

    The harbor works at Townsville constitute the biggest undertaking of their character in Queensland, if not in Australia. Prior to the carrying out of the enterprise, the deep-sea shipping was ...

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  12. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Mr. Justice Wright has ordered Sir Blundell Maple to pay the well-known jockey, T. Loates, his retaining fee of £2000 tor the 1902 season, on the ground that ...

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  13. INTERVIEW WITH A NORTHERN VISITOR.

    A resident of Townsville who has been on a visit to Sydney for several weeks, commenting on the cyclone and its effects on the North Queensland city, is of the opinion that the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. IMMIGRANTS WANTED IN CANADA.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, is endeavoring to secure the immigration of 5000 mechanics, skilled in various industries. ...

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  15. SMALLPOX AT BIRMINGHAM.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The epidemic of smallpox at Birmingham is spreading. ...

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  16. COMMUNICATION AGAIN INTERRUPTED.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday Afternoon.--Townsville is now again completely cut off from telegraphic communication. A few short messages came through early ...

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  17. REDUCTION OF THE ARMY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--It is expected that the growth of the naval estimates will strengthen the movement in favor of the reduction ef the army ...

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  18. INTERVIEW WITH MR. RUSSELL.

    Seen last evening by a representative of "The Daily Telegraph," Mr. Russell, Government Astronomer, said he had some knowledge of the kind of cyclone which had caused so much damage ...

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  19. RE-ORGANISING TURKISH GENDARMERIE.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The Porte is engaging German officers to re-organise the gendarmerie. ...

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  20. EARTHQUAKES AT DOMINICA.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Severe and prolonged shocks of earthquake have been experienced at Dominica, West Indies. ...

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  21. A VAST INHERITANCE.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Owing to the expiration of the Bridgewater Canal Trust, the Earl of Ellesmere has inherited the vast canal properties of his ancestor, the last Duke of ...

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  22. BOER IRRECONCILABLES.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who is acting in his father's absence as Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated last night in the House of Commons that ...

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  23. ISSUE OF SEED WHEAT.

    PARKES, Tuesday.--Speaking on the subject of the drought and the supply of seed wheat to farmers, the Mayor of Parkes, Mr. S. E. Close, recently said that it was not the farmers who ...

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  24. THE TOWN PRACTICALLY WRECKED.

    TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday, 3.15 p.m.--The cyclone increased in velocity about 1,30 p.m. yesterday, and continued during the afternoon, surpassing in violence the storm "Sigma" of 1896. ...

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  25. THE "SIGMA" GALE.

    It this disturbance has exceeded in violence the cyclone, of 1896--which is popularly known by its meteorological associations as the "Sigma gale"--it must have established something near ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  26. THE SUGAR CONVENTION.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Mr. Gerald Balfour, President of the Board of Trade, announced last night that the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia had intimated that ...

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  27. BIG FIRE AT TEMORA.

    TEMORA, Tuesday.--A big fire occurred last night, about 10 o'clock. The fire broke out at Foley's produce store, a very old wooden building, and the adjoining shops soon caught. From ...

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  28. NO INSTRUCTIONS RECEIVED.

    GOULBURN, Tuesday.--A number of applications have been made to the local Government offices for seed wheat. The applicants are informed that no instructions have been received ...

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  29. THE HOSPITAL BUILDINGS.

    "Terrible cyclone yesterday. Bridge stone and mills suffered badly. . . . Will wire full particulars to-morrow." These were the cheerful words contained in a telegraphic message handed ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  30. STORM VELOCITIES.

    At a meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, London, some months ago, Mr. C. Harding read a paper on "The Gale of December 21-22, 1894, over the British Isles." In the course of ...

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  31. DESTRUCTION OF AUSTRALIAN FRUIT.

    AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--The steamer Sierra brings news that on her last trip to San Francisco the authorities there sent a consignment of fresh fruit from Sydney to the garbage ...

    Article : 96 words
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