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  2. UNIONIST LIBERAL MEETING IN DUBLIN.

    A great assemblage of the Liberal Unionist party was held in Dublin yesterday, comprising the leading representatives of Irish commerce, the manufacturing ...

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  3. THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

    It is reported that, in addition to the ordinary garrisons, 150,000 Russian troops are massed in Poland. Germany is endeavouring to induce ...

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  4. THE DEFENCE OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The report of Major-General Schaw, who was appointed by the Government some months ago to inspect the defences of New South Wales, was laid on the table of the ...

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  5. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Governor is visiting the Newcastle and Hunter River districts, and is meeting with enthusiastic receptions in all the centres of population. ...

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  6. THE NEW SOUTH WALES FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

    The Colonial Treasurer delivered his financial statement shortly after the dinner hour to-day. He commenced by repudiating the statements which had lately appeared in the ...

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  7. THE NEW HEBRIDES SETTLEMENT.

    By the arrival of the R.M.S. Massllia at Adelaide yesterday we have received the following from our London correspondent:— LONDON, OCT. 28. ...

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  8. NEW SOUTH WALES AND THE NAME AUSTRALIA. JOINT PROTEST FROM THE OTHER COLONIES.

    Mr. Gillies has handed to us for publication a copy of the following memorandum which has been forwarded to Sir Henry Parkes:— ...

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  9. THE NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    The stonewalling of the Australasian Naval Forces Bill was carried on untill after 4 o'clock this morning, but the Government eventually succeeded in breaking down the opposition, ...

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  10. THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

    In connection with the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, applications for about 400,000 square feet of space have been received from 650 British and 150 ...

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  11. QUEENSLAND.

    At the Esk Police Court yesterday, Charles Herman Goff was fined £15, or in default six months' imprisonment, for placing a fishplate and several dogspikes on the Brisbane ...

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  12. THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE.

    The Orient and the P. and O. Companies refuse to sign the contract for the conveyance of the Anglo-Australian mails unless parcels are exempted. They also ...

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  13. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon were to-day entertained by Mr. J. C. Bray at a luncheon at his private residence. They afterwards visited Parliament, and in the ...

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  14. THE NATIONAL FIRE BRIGADE ASSOCIATION.

    The board of the National Fire Brigades Association met to-day in the town-hall, delegates being present from Melbourne and its various suburbs,: Sandhurst and its ...

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  15. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN FRAME.

    Great excitement provails in Paris, in view of the presidential election, which takes place to-morrow. The section of the Radical party headed ...

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  16. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (BY CABLE FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) LORD LYONS.

    It is stated that Viscount Lyons, late British ambassador in Paris, who had a paralytic seizure a few days ago, has been received into the Roman Catholic ...

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  17. THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    At a crowded meeting in the Town-hall to-night, it was decided to give Beach a public testimonial, and £500 was collected in the room. Beach, after receiving the stakes in ...

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  18. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon attended the sittings of the Council and the Assembly to-day, and were accorded special marks of honour. The Council were chiefly ...

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  19. THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALIA.

    The Times, in a notice of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia, declares that, for that class of publication, the work is unrivalled. ...

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  20. ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. BHUN[?] DARA AT ADELAIDE.

    The British-India s.s. Bhundara, Sharp master, from Calcutta via Singapore and Batavia, arrived this afternoon. Saloon Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. von ...

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  21. THE QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.

    The Legislative Council to-day referred the Normanton to Cloncurry Railway deviation to a select committee, carried the Supply Bill and the Marsupials Bill through all their ...

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  22. SIR HENRY PARKES'S REPLY.

    Sir Henry Parkes has received the communication from Mr. Gillies protesting against New South Wales assuming the name of Australia, but he is too much occupied with ...

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  23. THE RABBIT PEST IN AUSTRALIA.

    The Times urges that before M. Pasteur's proposal for exterminating rabbits in Australia by the introduction among them of an epidemic disease is tested, a ...

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  24. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE (BY TELEGRAPH FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.)

    LOCKHART.—DEC. 1.—Stock Crossing.—This day, 16 horses and five foals from Tallem Bend, going to Nhill, Robert Sorby owner. Heavy rain fell yesterday, and it is still showery. ...

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  25. THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

    The Australasian Naval Forces Bill was read a first time in the House of Representatives to-day. The Premier stated that New Zealand's contribution would probably ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN CENTENARY CELEBRATION IN LONDON.

    In consequence of the coldness and indifference shown by the agents-general to the proposal for the celebration in London of the centenary of Australia, a ...

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  27. THE TRAFALGAR-SQUARE RIOTS.

    Burns, the Socialist leader, and Mr. R. G. B. Cunninghame Graham, M.P. for Lanarkshire, who were arrested for participating in the recent unemployed ...

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  28. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    ALBURY, DEC. 1.—Stock Movements—9,004 wethers from The Olives to Victoria, Mitchell and Sons owners; 3,200 owes from Round-hill to Twyford, Wm. Coward owner; 2,200 owes [?]nd 30 rams from ...

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  29. THE NAMING OF AUSTRALIA.

    Sir,—Give me leave to mention, in justice to myself, that a paper of mine on Jacques Sadeur's book, bearing the title, "The First Imaginary Voyage to Australia," appeared in ...

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  30. STRANGE POISONING CASES.

    An extraordinary case of poisoning is reported from Manns station, near Tumbarumba. It appears that on Tuesday evening a number of shearers, just after supper, were ...

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  31. THE NEW QUEENSLAND CLIP.

    The wool buyers complain that the "tops" made out of the new Queensland clip are harsh and of a bad colour. ...

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  32. THE HASTIE BEQUEST BILL.

    Sir,—The select committe of the Legislative Assembly to which the Hustie Bequest Bill was referred seems to have been of a particularly easy-going and uninquisitive ...

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  33. GOLD DISCOVERY IN WEST AFRICA.

    A missionary reports that five Australian diggors have discovered a goldfield at Oljimbingue, in Damaraland, richer than any in Australia. It is stated ...

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  34. ARREST OF AN IRISH MEMBER.

    Mr. David Sheehy, member of Parliament for South Galway, has been arrested for having delivered speeches of a seditious character. ...

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  35. QUEENSLAND.

    BARCALDINE, DEC. 1.—Showers have fallen daily since Monday, culminating in heavy rain, the quantity registered being 207 points. More is likely to follow. Rain is much needed, owing to the large extent of ...

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  36. ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF A TRADE MARK.

    Mr. G. F. Morris, the Victorian vigneron, has withdrawn his action against Messrs. P. B. Burgoyne and Co., wine merchants, London, in connection with ...

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  37. THE SUGAR BOUNTIES CONFERENCE.

    Baron de Worms, M.P., the president of the Sugar Bounties Conference now sitting in London, speaking at a banquet in the city last night, said that the fair ...

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  38. THE V.C.A. AND THE MELBOURNE C.C.

    Sir,—Referring to Mr. Atkinson's letter, in The Argus of to-day. I beg to state that the sentence he cites owes its insertion to misapprehension. No such clause ...

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  39. PROPOSED EMIGRATION TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    It is proposed to establish an emigrants' aid society, with a capital of £1,000,000, for the purpose of settling 10,000 persons on a large tract of ...

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  40. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED SWINDLER AT RICHMOND.

    A young man giving the name of Thomas George Brett was arrested yesterday by Constable Fitzgerald, of South Richmond, on a ...

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  41. THE ISLAND BLOCK CLAIM.

    A company with a capital of £60,000 is being forined to work the Island Block Claim, Otago, New Zealand, the arrangements for the purchase of which from ...

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  42. AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

    MELTON, DEC. 1.—Heavy rain last evening, culminating in a flood about 3 o'clock this morning. Much damage was done to crops, and many of the farmers must lose nearly all their harvest. ...

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  43. CHRISTMAS CARDS.

    We are now showing the largest and best assorted stock of Christmas Cards in the colony, whilst the value far exceeds any previous season, hence the extraordinary daily ...

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  44. PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

    Sir,—With reference to Dr. Dobson's remarks on the Instruments and Securities Statute Amendment Bill, I have heard Mr. Justice Stephen state that he wished that the ...

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  45. FIRE AT HAWKSBURN.

    At a quarter-past 4 on Thursday morning a shed at the rear of a new building in course of erection at the corner of Howitt and Hobson streets, Hawksburn, was found to be on ...

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  46. OVERLAND PASSENGERS TO AND FROM ADELAIDE.

    The following passengers left Melbourne for Adelaide by the express train yesterday:— D. Tweddle, M. E. Kearney, Schmidt, Adelaide; ...

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  47. "HARDLY ANY OTHER ORDERED."

    "Mr. William O'Neill, lessee of the Cathedral Hotel, Swanston-street, Melbourne, says:—"We pronounce Clausen's New York Champague Lager Beer a great success. All our patrons praise it highly, and ...

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