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  2. REUTER'S MESSAGES

    London, October 20.--It is stated that the preparations for the Nile expedition will be completed early in November, and that the whole force will then advance into Upper Egypt. ...

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  3. KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.

    Yesterday morning Mr Shiell, the City Coroner, held an inquest at the Sydney Hospital, touching the death of Kenneth M'Leod, aged 60 years, lately employed as a labourer at Redfern Station. ...

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  4. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

    Mr Charles Bright lectured in the Oddfellows' Hall, Goulburn, on Sunday night to a very large audience, the subject being the difference between orthodoxy and freethought. ...

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  5. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

    PARRAMATTA, Monday.--A meeting of the Borough Council took place to-day. A large amount of correspondence was read with reference to a dispute between the council and the ...

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  6. THE WRECK OF THE MADJUS.

    The Marine Board delivered the following decision in the matter of the wreck of the Madjus yesterday afternoon, at the Board offices, viz.:--"That on account of the vessel's bottom having ...

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  7. The Cholera in Europe.

    London, October 20.--The cholera epidemic has now almost entirely ceased in France, and advices from Italy state that the disease has greatly decreased in that country. ...

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  8. Shipping.

    London, October 18.--The Orient Steamship Company's s.s. John Elder left Plymouth on the 17th instant, with full cargo and passenger list. Suez, October 18.--The Orient Steamship ...

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  9. Goulburn Circuit Court.

    GOULBURN, Monday.--The Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Justice Innes, was occupied the whole day in hearing the case of rape alleged to have been committed by James Simpson on ...

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  10. MR. SERVICE IN A "CRISIS."

    The cable messages which have reported the rumoured agreement between France, Germany and Great Britain, to "partition" the Pacific between them, have worked the Melbourne papers ...

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  11. NEW COAL DISCOVERY AT WALLS END.

    Mr J. Coghlan, of George-street, has received from his engineer in charge of the diamond drill at Wallsend, a telegram stating that they have got a five feet seam of coal with only a half-inch band. ...

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  12. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

    ADELAIDE, October 20.--The R.M.S. Carthage, Captain Hector, arrived from Colombo at 10.30 this morning. Saloon passengers for Glenelg are--Mr and Mrs Symms, Mr and Mrs Chambers and ...

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  13. A Miners' Dispute.

    NEWCASTLE, Monday.--A disturbance took place this morning at the tunnels at Tickhole amongst the miners employed there, and the police were sent for and three mounted constables were despatched. ...

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  14. H.M.S NELSON.

    By the latest English files we learn that the Admiralty have decided to recommission the warship Nelson for a further term of service on the Australian station. "The present crew of the ...

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  15. Brutal Treatment of a Horse.

    QUIRINDI, Monday.--At the Police Court to-day, before Messrs Nowland and Allnutt, J.s.P., Francis Gilbert was charged with wilfully maiming a horse. The animal presented a revolting ...

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  16. FIRE IN CLARENCE-STREET.

    Shortly before 7 o'clock last evening an alarm of fire was given from Messrs Jonas Brooks' sewing machine cotton warehouse, 89 Clarence-street, by a boy named Diamond. The Metropolitan Brigade ...

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  17. THE RAILWAY PROPOSALS.

    GLEN INNES, Monday.--A public meeting has passed a resolution to the effect that great surprise is caused by the statement made by Sir John Robertson in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday ...

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  18. LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE.

    Last evening the committee of the Local Option League met at the Temperance Hall, Pastor D. Allen in the chair. The Secretary reported that since the last fortnightly sitting ...

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  19. Sympathy with Mr. Fletcher, M.L.A.

    NEWCASTLE, Monday.--As an evidence of the strong practical sympathy felt for Mr. Fletcher, M.L.A. for Newcastle, donations continue to flow in daily from remote parts of the colony. The ...

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  20. GENERAL SUMMARY.

    London, September 19, via Suez.--At a Cabinet Council held at Paris on Saturday it was decided to pursue energetically the policy of reprisals towards China. It is reported that some great ...

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  21. PILING UP THE AGONY.

    Nowhere is the tendency of human nature, like history, to "repeat itself " more clearly demonstrated than by a reference to the records of our Police Courts. Although it might reasonably be ...

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  22. The Proposed Colo Relieving Line.

    RICHMOND, Monday.--The announcement in the "Daily Telegraph" of Saturday that the practicability of the whole of the proposed Colo relieving line is to be taken for granted upon ...

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  23. THE CZAR AT WARSAW.

    "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" is well exemplified in the recent visit of the unfortunate Emperor of Russia to his subjects at Warsaw. The most powerful autocrat in Europe, the ...

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  24. EXPLOSION OF LITHOFRACTEUR.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--About 9 o'clock this morning an explosion occurred at the Lithofracteur Manufactory, Braybrook, near Footscray, resulting in the destruction of a great deal of property ...

    Article : 137 words
  25. Affairs in the Northern Territory.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--Telegrams from the Northern Territory report that the natives are again troublesome, and that several were collecting near Barrow's Creek, including some of the ...

    Article : 61 words
  26. The Protectorate over New Guinea.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--With reference to the protectorate over New Guinea, Mr Chester, police magistrate at Thursday Island, will represent Queensland at the ceremony at New Guinea. Mr. ...

    Article : 79 words
  27. REGULATIONS UNDER THE FIRE BRIGADES ACT, 1884.

    The following is a condensation of certain regulations, dated 13th October, 1884, made by the Fire Brigades' Board, under clause 6 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1884. ...

    Article : 334 words
  28. MULGA TREES AS FOOD FOR SHEEP.

    The attention of the Forest Branch of the Mining Department has been directed to the very extensive destruction of Mulga trees in the neighbourhood of Cobar, for the requirements of the Great ...

    Article : 298 words
  29. The South Australian Institute of Surveyors.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--The President and members of the South Australian Institute of Surveyors interviewed the Commissioner for Lands to-day, urging several alterations in the law relating to ...

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  30. PLATFORM ON THE ILLAWARRA LINE.

    Some time ago a deputation including among others Mr John Sutherland and Mr Gibbes M.s.L.A., waited on Mr Wright, Minister for Public Works, and presented a petition signed by ...

    Article : 350 words
  31. Casualties at Prospect.

    PARRAMATTA, Monday.--A young man named Jas. Clark, while working on the top of a shaft at Prospect this morning, suddenly fell down to the bottom, a distance of nearly 70 feet, owing to the ...

    Article : 132 words
  32. BANQUET TO SIR JOHN ROBERTSON.

    A dinner was given last night by the members of the Reform Club to their president, Sir John Robertson, on the occasion of his birthday. The chair was occupied by Hon. Geo. Thornton, M.L.C., ...

    Article : 220 words
  33. VICTORIAN SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--The bookmakers are complaining greatly at the settling to-day on the Caulfield meeting, at the absence of a number of backers. The metallicians have won largely. A ...

    Article : 185 words
  34. Memorial Scholarship to the late Mr. Robert Whinham.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--A meeting of the old scholars in connection with Whinham's College was held to-night, presided over by the Treasurer, the Hon. W. B. Rounsevell. It was resolved to ...

    Article : 64 words
  35. ALLEGED MURDER AND KIDNAPPING IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--The prisoners, Neil M'Neil, second mate and recruiting agent, and Bernard Williams, boatswain of the labour schooner Hopeful, charged with having, on the 13th ...

    Article : 119 words
  36. Advertising

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  37. Disgraceful Scene at a Public Meeting.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.--A most disgraceful scene occurred to-night at a meeting held in the Assembly Hall, Collins-street, under the auspices of the Sunday Observance Society, for the ...

    Article : 221 words
  38. WHARFAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.

    A meeting of the committee of the Wharfage Improvement Association was held on Friday afternoon to take into consideration the course to be adopted consequent upon the exposition of the ...

    Article : 563 words
  39. Advertising

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  40. SUSPECTED ARSON.

    About 9 o'clock yesterday morning Nos. 1 and 6 bedrooms, in the International Dining Booms, 529 George-street, kept by Robert Behn and Paul Gunther, were discovered to be on fire, by a ledger ...

    Article : 332 words
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