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  2. THE JUBILEE OF FREEDOM.

    However widely Englishmen may differ, and however hotly they may contend on such questions as party politics, social reform, and religious creeds, they ...

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  3. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.

    The President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Professor Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S.) has replied to the request that the Society ...

    Article : 112 words
  4. THE INTERCOLONIAL SANITARY CONFERENCE.

    The Australasian Sanitary Conference met again on Saturday, when the discussion was resumed on the question of compulsory vaccination, and a resolution was unanimously ...

    Article : 269 words
  5. ECHOES FROM THE SMOKING-ROOM.

    There is one good point about Mr. Castine as a public speaker. He does not turn his back towards the Chair and the Press Gallery, and therefore does not muffle that ...

    Article : 1,850 words
  6. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

    The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom amounts to 1,750,000 quarters. Copper (Chilian) has advanced 5s., to ...

    Article : 128 words
  7. QUEENSLAND.

    Thomas Freeman, the chief mate of the Henry Schoolfield, late Government agent, and four seamen of the labour schooner Hopeful were brought up at the Police Court ...

    Article : 137 words
  8. THE S.S. MELBOURNE.

    The Messageries Maritimes Company's s.s. Melbourne passed here yesterday outward bound. London, September 19. ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. DEATH OF MR. GEORGE BENTHAM.

    The death is announced to-day of Mr. George Bentham, C.M.G., F.R.S., formerly of Melbourne. ...

    Article : 23 words
  10. [RECEIVED September 21, 7.40 p.m.]

    It is reported on the London Exchange that the Queensland Government is now meditating the issue of a loan on a more extended scale than any that has hitherto ...

    Article : 138 words
  11. [RECEIVED September 21, 11.20 p.m.]

    Further news has been received from General Gordon to-day announcing that he had twice defeated the rebels with heavy loss towards the end of August ...

    Article : 50 words
  12. NEW ZEALAND.

    Sir Julius Vogel defended the Ministerial statement, which Mr. Wakefield characterized as the most unsatisfactory delivered in that House. ...

    Article : 48 words
  13. ARRIVAL OF THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL.

    The Australia arrived here last night, and left for Sydney at 10 o'clock this morning. Passengers—Messrs. Shearing, Viers, Saunders, Devoy, Fahey, Castner, Vernon ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. EGYPTIAN FINANCE.

    It is understood that the Governments of Austria, France, and Germany have all lodged formal protests against the notification issued by Nubar Pasha that ...

    Article : 57 words
  15. IMPORTANT ANNEXATION CORRESPONDENCE.

    Additional correspondence has passed between Mr. Service and Mr. Stuart on the subject of further united action on the part of the colonies for the establishment of a ...

    Article : 769 words
  16. THOUGHT-READING AT CRYSTAL BROOK.

    On Friday evening Mr. Sebastian George gave a mind and muscle reading entertainment at the Crystal Brook Institute. He read words and numbers, correctly described ...

    Article : 65 words
  17. THE ENGAGEMENT AT FOOCHOW.

    Later news from Foochow confirms the defeat of the Chinese at Kimpai at the mouth of the river Min a few days ago, but the affair was not so serious as at first ...

    Article : 53 words
  18. AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.

    Since last Saturday's quotation no change has occurred in the market for Australian wheat, the price of which remains as before at 34s. 6d. per quarter ...

    Article : 32 words
  19. EARTHQUAKE IN AMERICA.

    A severe shock of earthquake was experienced yesterday in the Western States of America. The disturbance, was very extensive, but up to the present no lives ...

    Article : 40 words
  20. SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE AT QUORN.

    By last night's train from the North a young woman named Margaret Grace McNamara was brought to Quorn in the custody of Trooper Giles. She had been ...

    Article : 178 words
  21. SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND THE PROTECTORATE MOVEMENT.

    Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, has been authorized by the Government of that colony to unite with the other Agents-General of the ...

    Article : 60 words
  22. THE JOHN ELDER.

    The Orient steamer John Elder, which left Adelaide on August 11 with about 5,000 carcasses mutton, has arrived. ...

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  23. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The Iberia arrived at half-past 3 o'clock this morning. Melbourne, September 21. The Belcher v. Belcher divorce suit was ...

    Article : 523 words
  24. MAILS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Fawcett, the Postmaster-General, has been appealed to in regard to his recent decision that the Post-Office will dispatch mails for New Zealand ...

    Article : 103 words
  25. THE WEATHER IN THE COUNTRY.

    The weather has been showery all night and during to-day. There is every appearance of a heavy thunderstorm. Rain is badly wanted. ...

    Article : 786 words
  26. SIR R. R. TORRENS'S SUCCESSOR.

    The successor of the late Sir R. R. Torrens in the Directorate of the Bank of South Australia is Mr. Grant, the senior partner in the Portsmouth banking ...

    Article : 59 words
  27. MAIL SUBSIDIES CONDEMNED.

    Mr. Fawcett, the Imperial Postmaster-General, has made known the fact that he favours the abolition of fixed mail subsidies, and approves of the substitution ...

    Article : 62 words
  28. FEDERATION AND THE REAL PROPERTY ACT.

    At last night's meeting of the Social Science Congress at Birmingham Mr. F. P. Labilliere, barrister, formerly of Victoria, read a paper on the federation ...

    Article : 119 words
  29. [RECEIVED September 21, 9.45 p.m.]

    Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor-in-Chief of Cape Colony, has addressed the Imperial Government in reference to the disturbed condition of parts of South ...

    Article : 99 words
  30. LIBEL ACTION BETWEEN TWO PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS.

    In the County Court to-day the Rev. Arthur Paul, of the Free Presbyterian Church, St. Kilda, sued the Rev. John Arnot Nicol, of the same Church, for libel. ...

    Article : 123 words
  31. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    James Kingsbury was drowned by the capsizing of a sailing boat at Double Bay on Saturday evening. Four others were rescued. ...

    Article : 340 words
  32. EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN QUIETING.

    News from Upper Egypt is to the effect that in consequence of the recent reverses of El Mahdi's troops on the Upper Nile the Egyptian troops have ...

    Article : 93 words
  33. SUICIDE OF AN AMERICAN COLONEL.

    The dead body of Colonel James G. Jeffress, Manager of the New York Insurance Company, was found on the rocks below the cliffs at Coogee Bay on Saturday ...

    Article : 111 words
  34. Advertising

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  35. AUSTRALIAN ELECTRIC LAUNCH.

    The new electric launch Australia, which has been built to the order of an Australian gentleman, has been tried on the Thames, and accomplished a trip in ...

    Article : 44 words
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