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  2. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Tenders were opened to-day for a loan for the Metropolitan Gas Company, of Melbourne, of £50,000 at 4½ per cent[?] interest. The minimum was fixed at ...

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  3. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

    A plot has been discovered by which it was intended to destroy the palace of the Czar of Russia at Gatchina, near St. Petersburg, by dynamite. The plotters ...

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  4. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Sir J. F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, has written a letter to The Times on the subject of the employment of kanaka labour in Queensland. He ...

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  5. HEAVY RAINFALL IN VICTORIA AND RIVERINA.

    A very heavy thunderstorm passed over Ballarat this evening, over half an inch of rain [?]alling in half an hour. The total rain[?] fall to this evening was 67 points. Many of ...

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  6. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The Full Court to-day refused the application of Joseph Bourchier, who desired to obtain a mandamus to compel the Medical Board of New South Wales to register him ...

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  7. The Argus.

    Few documents are entitled to more critical attention than that which Ministers are to lay before Parliament to-day stating their reasons for ...

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  8. THE EIGHT HOURS QUESTION.

    The agitation which has been organised amongst the working classes against Mr. Gladstone, consequent upon his recent refusal to receive a deputation in favour ...

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  9. POLITICS IN GREECE.

    Early in March last King George of Greece dismissed the Ministry of M. Delyannis, one reason being that the Chamber of Deputies had rejected a ...

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  10. LABOUR DISPUTES IN THE UNITED STATES.

    One hundred thousand stoneworkers in the United States have been ordered to go out on strike by the executive of their union. ...

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  11. QUEENSLAND.

    The Premiers of Tasmania and South Australia had a lons interview with Sir Samuel Griffith this morning on various matters of colonial importance, but no decision was ...

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  12. MR. PLAYFORD'S REPORTED REMARKS.

    The Agent-General has cabled asking information in regard to the statement telegraphed from England, that Mr. Playford had said the kanakas in Queensland were ...

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  13. THE NEW FRENCH TARIFF.

    Under the new protectionist tariff in Franco tho foreign trade shows a continued decrease. The exports for the past quarter have declined in value to the ...

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  14. THE TURF IN ENGLAND.

    The race for the Kempton-park Great Jubilee Stakes was run yesterday, with the following result:- THE SIXTH YEAR OF THE KEMPTON-PARK GREAT ...

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  15. NEW SOUTH WALES FINANCES.

    During last month the Colonial Treasurer received a cable message from the Agent-General announcing that he believed he could satisfactorily negotiate Treasury bills to ...

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  16. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. George Livesey, chairman of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, has voluntarily granted the eight hours system to the men employed in the ...

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  17. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The stock inspector in the Mount Gambier district, having made a thorough inspection of four quarantine grounds in the neighbourhood of that town, has found everything ...

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  18. THE DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL GRESSER.

    As a result of the post-mortem examination of the body of Lieut.-General Grosser, prefect of police in St. Petersburg, who died from the injection of a ...

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  19. THE NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS.

    The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the charges brought against the Railway Commissioners by Mr. Schey, M.L.A[?] continued its sitting to-day. As ...

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  20. MR. GLADSTONE ON ITALIAN FINANCES.

    Mr. Gladstone, commenting on the present financial position of Italy, has given expression to the opinion that protection and militarism are alike [?] ...

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  21. THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.

    The bill introduced in the local Parliament by Sir William Whiteway, Premier of Newfoundland, proposing certain arrangements in regard to the rights of ...

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  22. SEVERE GALE IN NEW ZEALAND.

    A very heavy southerly gale was experienced in Wellington on Saturday and Sunday, during which the Cook's Strait cable parted. It is not expected to be repaired ...

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  23. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Government has granted Tawhaio, the Maori king, a pension of £225. While the steamer Tarawera was being berthed at Wellington, William M'Donald, ...

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  24. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A FARMER.

    At to-day's sitting of the Supreme Court, the charge against Robert Fairman Jones, farmer, Yalca, of attempting to commit a criminal assault on Alice Stokes, a girl of 14, ...

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  25. THE RAILWAY POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

    There is great dissatisfaction with the new railway arrangements here, the difference in the cost of the first-class return fare between here and Frankston is 3s. 3d. for three miles. ...

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  26. INTERVIEW WITH THE PREMIER OF NEW ZEALAND.

    In the course of an interview to-day with a representative of the New Zealand Herald, the Premier, referring to the speech of Sir William Jervois at the Colonial Institute, said ...

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  27. BALLARAT BANKING COMPANY.

    A largely attended meeting of shareholders and depositors in the Ballarat Banking Company was held in the Mining Exchange to day, Mr. John Murraj presiding. After ...

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  28. THE STOCK TAX PROPOSALS.

    The proposed stock tax in Victoria will seriously affect the raisers of stock in the south-east of South Australia. The stock dealers in Adelaide state that nearly all the ...

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  29. THE STRYCHNINE CURE FOR SNAKEBITE.

    A case of snakebite occurred at Gunbower on Saturday, which is interesting in the light of the recent correspondence in The Argus. A man named Frank Cameron, a fisherman, ...

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  30. THE MILDURA SETTLEMENT.

    The orange and lemon trees in the older plantations are bearing good fruit. Picking is now going on and a fair crop of [?]ine lemons is being harvested from the orchard of Mr. ...

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  31. NEW INSOLVENTS.

    Joseph Smethurst, of Hopkins-street, Footscray, butcher. Complete schedule— Liabilities, £220 10s. 7d.; assets. £85 18s. 4d.; deficiency, £134 12s. 3d. Mr. Jacomb, ...

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  32. DEATH OF AN OLD COLONIST.

    Considerable regret was expressed throughout the district when it became known that Captain Baxter, who was the first white man to settle in this part of the colony, having ...

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  33. LAW NOTICES (This Day).

    At Half-Past 10 a.m.—Laver v. Smith (part heard), Dunbabin v. Basan, same v. same, Hodgson v. Chittenden. FIRST CIVIL COURT. ...

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  34. SUICIDE OF A SOLICITOR.

    Mr. H. B. Sarjeant, solicitor, committed suicide this morning by shooting himself with a gun. He placed the muzzle to his mouth and pulled the trigger with a string fastened ...

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  35. THE BICYCLE NUISANCE ON COUNTRY ROADS.

    A serious accident happened on Jackson's Creek road, a few miles from town, yesterday. A farmer named M'Tigh, accompanied by his wife and five children, were driving ...

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  37. MOVEMENTS OF THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S.S. Aorangi, homewards, sailed from Lyttelton on Saturday evening, the 14th inst. ...

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