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  2. THE WAR.

    The destruction of twenty miles of railway north of Kroonstad caused, neither surprise nor alarm. Indeed, the manner in which thousands of miles ...

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  3. VICTORIA.

    Mr. Breeze, sen, a man of over seventy years of age and a very old resident of Percy Bridge, Stratford, was feeding a boar pig, when the animal changed han, knocked ...

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  4. QUEENSLAND.

    According to the Register General's figure the percentage of [?]llegitmacy in Queensland during 1890, in proportion to the total births was 507, compared with ...

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  5. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    Parliament was opened to-day by the Governor with the usual pomp and ceremony. The weather was not favourable for the outside display. Notwithstanding this ...

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    Private Cunningham was wounded in a r reconnaissance from Slingersfontein. A section of the Inniskilling Dragoons and a party of Western Australians, numbering ...

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  7. TROUBLED CHINA.

    Active international interference in Chinese affairs now appears to be inevitable. Yesterday crowds of fanatics surrounded the Embassies at Pekin and threatened to ...

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  8. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    The action of General Sir Redvers Buller in conceding an armistice of three days to the Doers under Commandant Christian Botha is criticised on the Grounds that by ...

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  9. ASHANTEE.

    Advices from Accra state that Colonel Carter, with a native force, has had a severe engagement with a large body of Ashantees who occupied an entrenched ...

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  10. LOYAL KAFFIR CHIEFS.

    Sixty native, chiefs representing tribes in Natal and Zululand have met in conference at Pietermaritzburg. They joined in expressions of loyalty, to Queen Victoria and ...

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  11. AUSTRALIANS AT THE FRONT.

    Lieutenant C. W. Lamb, of the New South Wales Artillery, has been appointed. Assistant Commissioner in the Jagcrsfontein and and Fauresmith districts of the Orange ...

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  12. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The ship Windsor Park, which left Newcastle on February 20, with a cargo of coal from the Waratah colliery, has arrived at San Francisco. The captain reports that ...

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  13. NEW ZEALAND.

    The casualties among the New Zealand contingents so far have been 5 killed, 12 wounded, 10 dead from disease, and 17 taken prisoners. ...

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  14. "LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA."

    From Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. we have received a copy of Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill's new book, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria." The writer was ...

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  15. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London—Invercargill, ship, from Wellington February 25; Westland, ship, from Timaru March 10; Olivebank, barque, from Melbourne March 13: Giueseppi, barque. ...

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  16. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

    The Public Library, which, has been closed since June for the annual cleaning and examination, will be reopened to-day. There are ever 43,000 volumes in the institution ...

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  17. CLAUSE 74

    It was mentioned in the cable messages published on ]Monday that it was proposed to redraft the appeal compromise" clause in the Commonwealth Bill, with the ...

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  18. AN INCORRECT SOCIAL PARAGRAPH.

    The action for libel brought by Maurice Herbert Simon against the proprietors of the. "Evening News," in which he sought to recover compensation placed at £1,000 ...

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  19. THE BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR.

    Sir—One would think that the latest development of Boer inhumanity would be the means of alienating their most ardent sympathizers, even those in the Assembly. ...

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  20. OPERATIONS IN THE ORANGE RIVER COLONY.

    Advices from Bleemfontein show that the destruction of the railway between America and Roodeval was accompanied on Thursday last by the defeat of the ...

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  21. A STORMY PASSAGE.

    The crew of the small schooner Jane had a sensational experience in the recent stormy weather. The craft, timber-laden, left Nelson's Bay last Thursday for Sydney. ...

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  22. SPLENDID VICTORY FOR GENERAL BRABANT.

    Despatches from Bloemfontein on the 2nd inst. stated that the column of Cape Irregular Horse under General E. Y. Brabant, together with a portion of General Rundle's ...

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  23. A STEAMER IN A GALE.

    The recent severe gales which. raged along the New South Wales coast, and which played sad havoc with shipping, were accountable for the large steamer Tolosa ...

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  24. CHAMPIONS AT BILLIARDS.

    The billiard match between F. Weiss, champion of Australia, and F. Smith, champion of Victoria, in which the former is conceding 2,000 points in 10,000 was ...

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  25. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The coastal steamer Coraki, 320 tons, in trying to cross the bar at Taree this morning went ashore on North Beach. The passengers were safely landed, and it is ...

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  26. CANUCK AND KANGAROO.

    The following verses are taken from the new paper, the "Daily Express":—With your money in the Banks, And your troopers on the tides ...

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  27. A PILLS TESTIMONIAL REPUDIATED.

    Judge Backhouse and Jury were engaged in the District Court to-day in considering a rather peculiar case, arising out of the publication of a patent medicine ...

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  28. FEDERATION.

    On Monday evening the Premier (Hon. F. W. Holder) received the following telegram from Mr. McLean. Premier of Victoria:—"Commonwealth Bill—In view of the strong ...

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  29. SUCCESSES IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    Following upon General Sir Archibald Hunters arrival at Veatersdorp, a township thirty-six miles from. Potchefstroom, 250 burghers in the district surrendered and ...

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  30. RELEASE OF BRITISH PRISONERS.

    The War Office his published the gratifying intelligence that, consequent upon the capture of Pretoria by Lord Roberts's army 151 British officers and 3,500 ...

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  31. IRONWORKS AT PORT KEMBLA

    Great satisfaction exists at Wollongong at the statement made by the Premier in his speech at North Botany, that he had receiver a proposal from a number of wealthy ...

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  32. A COSTLY ADVERTISEMENT.

    In the Supreme Court to-day Francis Page, a commercial traveller, sought to recover . £l,000 from William Stevenson and Abraham Moses Hart for alleged libel. it ...

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  34. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day verbal amendments made by the Legislative Council in the Federal Enabling Bill were agreed to. ...

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  35. BACK FROM THE WAR.

    Private James Cunningham, of The First Westralian Contingent, is returning by the steamer Kalgoorlie, which arrived at Port Adelaide en route on Tuesday morning. ...

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  36. PATRIOTIC STUDENTS.

    Last night at half-past 10 the resident students of Ormond College mustered in force to the number of fifty, and, bedecked with sundry patriotic flags and colours. ...

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  37. MR. SCHREINER WISHES TO DISFRANCHISE REBELS.

    Greatly to the delight of loyal British subjects in Cape Colony, Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the Premier, has intimated his intention of introducing a Bili into Parliament to ...

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  38. A STRANGE DEATH.

    A death, in peculiar circumstances, was reported to the police to-day. Patrick Brophy, aced forty, living at St. Kilda with his wife and two children, left home this ...

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  39. BURNT TO DEATH.

    At Shadforth, near Violet Town, early tins morning Michael Bowers a labourer, was returning home when he called at Mr. Thomas Harton's place. The inmates being ...

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  41. WOOL TRADE WITH FRANCE.

    The Minister for Mines and Agriculture has received a report from the Foreign Office, in which attention is drawn to the prospects of increased trade with France ...

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