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  2. OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Further particulars have been received from Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, with respect to his attempt to reach the North Pole. ...

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  3. NOTES OF THE DAY.

    The "nicest people" of Balmain have started a high-toned agitation for a law to prevent them being brought into contact with the low-down dwellers in "vulgar shanties" and the idea ...

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  4. MINING IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS.

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  5. OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Charles Dilke urged an immediate increase of the fleet, in view of the hostility of Germany and a possible ...

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  6. OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The match between the Ninth Australian Eleven and Sussex was continued to-day at Brighton. The weather was showery, and tho wicket ...

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  7. THE TWENTY-NINTH MATCH.

    To-day the Australians enter upon their return match with Surrey. When the sides, met three weeks ago, the County was badly defeated by seven wickets. Surrey, when properly ...

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  8. SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.

    The Premier, speaking to a "Daily Telegraph" reporter, stated that the signs of the times were very encouraging, and indicated that the colony was entering upon an era of prosperity. This was ...

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  9. THE LIST OF FIXTURES.

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  10. THE P. AND O. COMPANY.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have decided to construct wharves and warehouses of their own at Clement's Reach, on ...

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  11. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Customs authorities have received a communication from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, enclosing a resolution passed by the last annual meeting of ...

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  12. THE TRANSVAAL FRANCHISE.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Transvaal Volksraad has passed a bill conferring the franchise upon 5000 foreign residents who supported the Government during the recent ...

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  13. THIRD DAY'S PLAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 336 words
  14. SUICIDE.

    MELBOURNE, Saturday.--A man named Robt. W. Poole, aged 33 years, residing in lodgings at Madaline-street, Carlton, committed suicide this afternoon by shooting himself with a ...

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  15. A SYDNEY COUNTY COUNCIL.

    When seen regarding the County Council project, the Mayor of Sydney (Alderman Ives) remarked, "I think of calling a meeting in the Town-hall for the purpose of considering the ...

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  16. THE BRITISH IN ASHANTEE.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The Colonial Office authorities do not attach much importance to the reports from the West Coast of Africa as to the attempt to drive the ...

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  17. CARELESS PREPARATION OF HIDES.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Minister for Agriculture has received a circular sent out by the leather trades section of the London Chamber of Commerce, concerning the careless flaying of ...

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  18. THE EXECUTION OF MR. STOKES.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--"The Times" states that the King of the Belgians, the Sovereign of the Congo Free Slate, intends to express his disapproval of ...

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  19. WHAT MR. CARRUTHERS SAYS.

    During his visit to Wagga, Mr. Carruthers, as previously intimated in "The Daily Telegraph," made inquiries regarding land matters in the Riverina district. The result of those inquiries ...

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  20. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Saturday.--A large and influential deputation from the Perth and Fremantle Chambers of Commerce waited upon the Commissioner for Railways yesterday, and urged him to take ...

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  21. THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The Right Hon. W.L. Jackson, M.P. for Leeds North, and formerly Chief Secretary for Ireland, has been appointed chairman of the ...

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  22. ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.

    KALGOORLIE, Saturday.--A young man, who had been arrested on a charge of forgery, escaped from the lockup last evening. He had a chain on, hut managed to get free by slipping his ...

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  23. THE MAYOR OF NORTH SYDNEY.

    North Sydney is in many respects one of our model boroughs. It has an able council, and its finances are well managed. It is hardly to be expected, therefore, that the ratepayers there ...

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  24. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Saturday.--It is understood that Ministers intend asking Parliament to provide a bonus of £2000 for the first 5000 tons of cement manufactured in the colony. Should the vote ...

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  25. THE GANGRENE OF TURKEY

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Marquis of Salisbury was yesterday formally installed as Warden of the Cinque Ports. In his speech on the occasion, his ...

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  26. THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Jacob Gaudaur, the Canadian oarsman, who is matched to row James Stanbury over the Thames championship course for the championship of the ...

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  27. THE AUSTRALIANS' RECORD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 488 words
  28. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    An elderly man, named Murdoch Grant, was killed on Saturday evening on the railway line between Strathfield and Homebush. Grant travelled from Sydney by the 7.30 train, and upon arriving at ...

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  29. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The Imperial Parliament has been prorogued. ...

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  30. THE MATABELE REVOLT.

    LONDON, Sunday.--From Matabeleland it is reported that Mr. Cecil Rhodes is visiting the Matoppo Hills, with a view to persuading tho rebels to surrender, and a four ...

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  31. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--At an aquatic earnical in Canada yesterday, an American sculler named Rogers defeated Edward Hanlan, Edward Durnan, and George Bubear. ...

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  32. A BURNING FATALITY.

    William Hill, aged 7, died at the Sydney Hospital shortly after noon yesterday from injuries received from burns. The boy resided with his parents at Fowler's-place, off Castlereagh-street, city, and ...

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  33. THE VENEZUELAN DIFFICULTY.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. A.T. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, slated that the Government ...

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  34. ST. FRUSQUIN SCRATCHED FOR THE ST. LEGER.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's br c St. Frusquin, by St. Simon--Isabel, the favorite for the St. Leger, has been scratched for the race, owing to his ...

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  35. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT.

    About 6.30 on Saturday night a boy named David Whiten was knocked down by a tram motor in Flinders-street, and sustained injuries from which he died yesterday morning. Whitten, who was eight ...

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  36. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Mr. A.J. Knight's boot-making establishment was broken into on Friday night by burglars, and boots and shoes to the value of £20 stolen. An entrance had been effected by ...

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  37. DEATH FROM A FRACTURED SKULL.

    An elderly man named William Higgins died on Saturday at Prince Alfred Hospital, death, it is supposed, being due to a fracture of the skull. Higgins left his residence, Wemyss-street, ...

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  38. THE LATE SIR JOHN MILLAIS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The remains of the late Sir John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy, will be interred In St. Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday next. ...

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  39. NEW ZEALAND.

    AUCKLAND, Saturday.--The police raided a gambling house at Christchurch yesterday, and arrested the occupants, and also 19 others, the majority being young men. They were charged ...

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  40. A FLOATING BODY.

    A seaman attached to H.M.S. Mildura on Saturday found the body of a newly born male infaut floating in Farm Cove. Information was sent to the water police, who took the body to the North ...

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  41. THE REBELLIOUS CRICKETERS.

    At a special meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association, to be held this evening, Dr. W. Camac Wilkinson will move, "That a cable be sent to the New South Wales members ...

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  42. THE MACEDONIAN REVOLT.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Active measures are being taken by the Turkish authorities to suppress the revolutionary movement in Alacedonia, and Takris, the insurgent chief, ...

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  43. A PECULIAR ACCIDENT.

    A barman named George Warlock, employed at the Rugby Hotel, King-street, Newtown, sustained a serious injury to the left eye on Saturday. Warlock was opening a bottle of lemonade, when it ...

    Article : 56 words
  44. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--The Logan election was held yesterday. The complete returns are:--Stoddart (Ministerial), 432; Reid (Labor), 250; Plunked (Ministerial), 114. ...

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  45. ACCIDENT AT MIDDLE HARBOR.

    Richard Churchman, a laborer employed at the reclamation works, Middle Harbor, met with an accident shortly after noon on Saturday. He was working at the face of the cutting, when a large ...

    Article : 63 words
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