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  2. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH,

    Tenders have been called for a postal mail service between England and Australia to take effect on the termination of the present contract with ...

    Article : 114 words
  3. THE STEAMER GAMBIER DISABLED.

    Early this morning Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons received a telegram from Phillip Island, from the first mate of the steamer Gambier, stating that he, with a crew of four ...

    Article : 287 words
  4. FEDERAL COUNCIL.

    The Federal Council reassembled this morning at 11 o'clock, when the president announced the receipt through the Governor of a reply from the Secretary of State for the ...

    Article : 875 words
  5. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Recently [?] safe in the china warehouse of Messrs. Wright, Hansen, & Co., Little Collinsstreet. was robbed of £43 in cash and £150 in cheques. On Friday a young man named ...

    Article : 417 words
  6. The Advertiser TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1886.

    OF all classes of the community the one least sympathised with in its time of misfortune and least believed when describing its losses is the squatting class. ...

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  7. PROBABLE NEW MINISTRY.

    It is expected that the new Ministry now being formed will include the following:—The Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer; ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM.

    The following is the final selection of the Australian cricketing team to visit England under the auspices of the Melbourne Cricket Club:— ...

    Article : 179 words
  9. SIR CHARLES DILKE.

    Among the members of his last Cabinet with whom Mr. Gladstone in his task of forming a new Ministry has been in communication is Sir Charles ...

    Article : 76 words
  10. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The annual meeting of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company was held to-day. The profit and loss account showed that £8,234 1s. 4d. was available for disposal, and ...

    Article : 528 words
  11. THE IMMENSE BUSH FIRES IN VICTORIA.

    A public meeting was held in the Town Hall to-night, the mayor presiding, for the purpose of raising funds towards the assistance of the settlers and their families who were ...

    Article : 150 words
  12. THE LORD CHANCELLORSHIP.

    It is stated that the Earl of Selbourne will decline if invited to accept again the post of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. ...

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  13. [Reuter's Telegrams] THE POLITICAL CRISIS.

    It is announced that the Marquis of Hartington, who agreed to accept a seat in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet, has withdrawn his consent. The Earl of Derby ...

    Article : 55 words
  14. THE STEAMER VENICE OVERDUE.

    Considerable anxiety is felt for the safety of the steamship Venice, which left Hongkong for Sydney on December 28 via Port Darwin, She is now thirty-five days out, and no news ...

    Article : 79 words
  15. BULGARIA AND ROUMELIA.

    M. Isanoff, the Bulgarian Minister who is charged by Prince Alexander to negotiate for an absolute union of Bulgaria and Roumelia, has drawn up an ...

    Article : 44 words
  16. BULGARIA AND SERVIA.

    The Great Powers have formally presented to the Bulgarian and Servian Governments a further demand for the demobilisation of the armies of those ...

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  17. NEW SOUTH WALES AND QUEENSLAND WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

    The financial statement of the Tongan district, which was laid before the Wesleyan Conference to-day, showed a deficiency of £2,000, A subscription-list to defray this amount was ...

    Article : 93 words
  18. SPECIAL SHIPPING TELEGRAM.

    Arrived : From Newcastle—Camba, ship, sailed October 24. From Port Augusta, Oaklands, barque, sailed October From Cossack, Chiselhurst, barque, ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. FAREWELL ADDRESS TO BE PRESENTED TO THE BISHOP OF MELBOURNE.

    A meeting of the laymen of the Church of England was held in the Diocesan Registry this afternoon, when a resolution to the following effect was passed:—"That a committee be ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. LOCAL OPTION.

    Sir—Your correspondent " George " is quite mistaken. If our scheme is adopted and the people decide for a reduction in the number of hotels, the Licensing Bench would be expected ...

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  21. PICNIC TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL.

    The members of the Federal Council were entertained by the Tasmanian Ministry on Saturday at a picnic on the Huon River on board the Southern Cross. The guests, ...

    Article : 51 words
  22. UNEMPLOYED AT SILVERTON.

    Sir—As I know your paper is read all over the colonies I take this opportunity of requesting yon to insert these few lines for the benefit of any person who may have any intention of ...

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  23. WRECK OF THE MIRA FLORES.

    The Mira Flores, barque, 500 tons, bound from London to Fremantle, struck on a reef at the northern aid of Rotness Island, and has since become a total wreck, but without loss ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. QUEENSLAND. [From our own Correspondent.]

    Heavy rains fell last night in the south, intermediate, and western districts, and also along the coast. In the north-west of the colony a splendid rainfall is recorded. ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    Wool sales.—Since our last telegram there is no change for the bulk of wools. Prices for good wools are well maintained, but for inferior sorts are ...

    Article : 74 words
  26. HORRIBLE CASE OF INFANTICIDE.

    A horrible child murder was committed on Saturday at Indoroopilly. A young married woman named Mary Newman was observed setting some bushes on fire in the back yard of ...

    Article : 314 words
  27. COUNTRY TELEGRAMS.

    A deputation from the corporation and town waited on the district council on Saturday requesting that the district road leading to Beetaloo might be made fit for traffic. The ...

    Article : 95 words
  28. NORTHERN TERRITORY. [From our own Correspondent.]

    The Feilung, steamer, arrived yesterday from China, and left at noon today with the following passengers: —Mr. Fullwood, for Thursday Island; Messrs. J. D. McDonald ...

    Article : 84 words
  29. WRECK OF THE BRIG NORMAN.

    The Swedish brig Norman, Captain Ohlsen, was wrecked on January 16 on Dungeness Reef, where the Queensland Government schooner Mavis was lately lost. The wreck ...

    Article : 64 words
  30. YE SHALL BE NUMBERED.

    In 1883 shopkeepers in Rundle-street received notices from Mr. Worsnop, town clerk, ordering them to paint out or otherwise obliterate the numbers by which their places ...

    Article : 126 words
  31. DROWNED IN A TANK.

    A case of supposed suicide occurred to-day. It appears that early this morning Mrs. Daniel Jane was discovered drowned in a tank on her premises, Wallaroo Mines. The deceased had ...

    Article : 70 words
  32. BURNED TO DEATH.

    On Friday evening a farmer and vigneron named John Plum, of Wangaratta, was found burned to death in his house at Eastcourt. The deceased lived by himself apart from his ...

    Article : 89 words
  33. SYDNEY SEAMEN'S GRIEVANCES.

    A deputation from the Seamen's Union waited on the Treasurer this morning asking him to appoint a commission to enquire into a number of abuses in connection with shipping, ...

    Article : 95 words
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