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  2. THE WEATHER.

    The forecast of weather in South Australia issued by Sir Charles Todd on Wednesday was as follows:—"Fine, bright, warm weather. Light variable winds. ...

    Article : 79 words
  3. ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Council, Hon. J. Warren lost his motion to return a certain memorandum on the Gawler water scheme to the Engineer-in-Chief, Hons. J. Warren and J. H. Gordon ...

    Article : 235 words
  4. VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT DEFEATED.

    The Legislative Assembly was nearly the whole of to-day on the estimates of the Chief Secretary's Department. A long discussion took place on two subjects concerning ...

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    Mr. Wilson Barrett tells a good story. When he was in Perth—Australian Perth not Scottish Perth—he was entertained at dinner one evening by all the civic ...

    Article : 1,321 words
  6. ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

    The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, in the course of an address at a meeting in Bristol last evening, said that Great Britain had no controversy with either ...

    Article : 134 words
  7. THE SOUDAN.

    Lord Kitchener, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, has appealed to the British public through the newspapers to subscribe £100,000 for the establishment and endowment of a ...

    Article : 334 words
  8. STORMS IN THE UNITED STATES.

    News is hourly being received in the principal cities on the Atlantic coast of the United States of terrible havoc caused by the recent storms. It is feared that seventy shipwrecks ...

    Article : 190 words
  9. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    Major Esterhazy, who has made himself so notorious in connection with the Dreyfus case, has sailed from Rotterdam to the United States. It is surmised that the French War ...

    Article : 217 words
  10. THE SOUDAN.

    It transpires that Osman Digna, the famous Dervish chieftain, was defeated at Sherk-el-Akabab, situated about 100 miles south-west of Khartoum, on the same occasion as the ...

    Article : 52 words
  11. THE CITY COUNCIL ON FINANCE.

    As a general rule the annual report of the Mayor of Adelaide for the time being has been accepted by the City Fathers, who have, it is to be presumed, read ...

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  12. AMERICA AND SPAIN.

    The United States Government has decided that the tariff to be imposed in Cuba shall apply equally to all nations, including America, as will be the case in the ...

    Article : 40 words
  13. NOTES IN THE COUNCIL.

    Fifteen members were in their places when the President took the chair. Members were not in an inquisitive mood. Mr. Addison had on the Paper notice of ...

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  14. THE FAR EAST.

    Lt. Hung Chang, the deposed Grand Secretary of China, has congratulated Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., on having secured from the T'sung-li-Yamon the right to work ...

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  15. GERMANY AND THE PHILIPPINES.

    The German Government has been quick to give the United States sn assurance of its confidence and friendship. An official message has been sent from ...

    Article : 90 words
  16. RITUALISM.

    In a speech delivered at Bristol last evening the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour deprecated the proposal that Parliament should endeavour to bring about the suppression of extreme ...

    Article : 70 words
  17. THE ARMY'S POLICY.

    On the occasion of his retirement from the chief command of the Fourth Army Corps yesterday. General A. Mercier, in an address to the officers of the corps, made significant ...

    Article : 291 words
  18. THE CAROLINES.

    The Washington authorities are expecting that Germany will purchase from Spain the Caroline Islands, situated in the Pacific Ocean, between about 5 and 10 N. and 135 ...

    Article : 77 words
  19. ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP.

    The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech delivered at Escrick, Yorkshire, to-day, stated that there was no permanent Anglo-American alliance of a formal character, but ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. FATAL GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.

    Forty persons were injured yesterday and eighteen were killed outright, by a gunpowder explosion in a magazine in Havana. The catastrophe was caused by the ...

    Article : 51 words
  21. PAIN AND AMERICA.

    In consequence of the re-establishment of peace between Spain and the United States the American Volunteer Army is disbanding, and already this operation has affected 30,000 ...

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  22. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.

    For some time the governing authorities in Prussia have exhibited partisanship towards the German element in Austria, and have become increasingly intolerant of the Czechs and ...

    Article : 89 words
  23. WEST INDIES.

    The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, after examining into the depression which prevails in Jamaica and other West Indian Islands, has earnestly invited British capitalists to ...

    Article : 90 words
  24. REPRESSING ANARCHISM.

    At the International Congress now sitting at Rome to consider the question of repressing anarchism Great Britain is represented by Sir Philip W. Currie, the British Ambassador to ...

    Article : 62 words
  25. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    Du Croz, Doxat & Co., Charles Balme and Co., and Jacomb, Son, & Co. report having sold 12,488 bales of wool yesterday. The wool was a fair selection, aud included 4,366 bales ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. VICTORIA.

    A breach of promise case was heard in the County Court to-day. Miss Agnes Etterahank, of West Melbourne, claimed £500 damages from Charles Henry Cook, mate on the dredge John ...

    Article : 312 words
  27. FRANCE AND ABYSSINIA.

    A great sensation has been caused by the publication in the "Contemporary Review" of startling statements concerning certain diplomatic negotiations ...

    Article : 102 words
  28. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The promoters of Robert Reid & Co., Limited, general merchants, are issuing 5½ per cent. preference shares for £200,000, and 4[?] per cent. debentures for £130,000. The ...

    Article : 161 words
  29. BREADSTUFFS.

    Wheat.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,720,000 qrs., compared with 1,581,000 qrs. a week ago. The quantity afloat for Continental ports is ...

    Article : 40 words
  30. PLAGUE IN BOMBAY.

    So persistent are the attacks of the bubonic plague in Bombay that the sanitary authorities there are treating it as a permanent malady. All travellers arriving at that point ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. MADAGASCAR.

    The French disciplinary troops who were engaged in Madagascar against the Sakalavas, a number of tribes in the lower plains af the west coast, have broken out in mutiny. ...

    Article : 45 words
  32. COSTS IN HARROLD BROTHERS' CASE.

    Most things come to those who wait and persevere. The Attorney-General and Mr. C. M. Muirhead have made many applications for their costs in connection with ...

    Article : 305 words
  33. LONDON COMMERCIAL.

    Tallow.—At the tallow auctions 2,175 casks were offered, and 600 were sold. Mutton, fine, realized 23s. 3d., medium, 21s.; beef, fine, 22s. 6d., medium, 20s. ...

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  34. THE QUEEN AND THE KAISER.

    It has been arranged that Her Majesty the Queen, while on her homeward journey from Cimiez, the continental health resort, next spring, will meet the Emperor of Germany at ...

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  35. ATTEMPTED DYNAMITE OUTRAGE.

    A diabolical attempt has been made to destroy with dynamite the pile of buildings used as the Bourse in the port of Marseilles, France. Luckily the design was frustrated. ...

    Article : 35 words
  36. STOCKS AND SHARES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 words
  37. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN DIAMONDS

    A journalist who had extended experience on the Kimberley diamond-field in South Africa has sent to us, from Nullagine, the following telegram regarding the recent discovery ...

    Article : 234 words
  38. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    Telegrams from Madagascar stats that the bubonic plague has made its appearance at Tamatave, a maritime town on the east coast at that island. ...

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  39. PARLIAMENTS IN SESSION.

    The Legislative Council read the Justices Act Amendment Bill a second time to-day. Having taken the measure into Committee progress was reported. The Auction Sales ...

    Article : 425 words
  40. A COAL-LUMPERS' GRIEVANCE.

    Statements have of late been persistently circulated that owing to the recovery in strength of the Trades Unions connected with maritime pursuits they intended to adopt a ...

    Article : 330 words
  41. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The body of a man, which was subsequently identified as that of H. M. Bothwell, who arrived from London in the Austral on Friday, was found floating in Sydney Harbour, near ...

    Article : 542 words
  42. SILVER.

    The price of bar silver to-day is 2s. 3 9/18d.—a fall of 1/16d. compared with yesterday's quotation. ...

    Article : 22 words
  43. ANARCHISM.

    The delegates of the nations in attendance it the International Congress on Anarchism in Romo are devoting their attention to formulating a system for the supervision ...

    Article : 82 words
  44. SMALLPOX AT NEWCASTLE.

    A sensation was created at Newcastle to-night when it was reported that the ship Orpheus, from Delagon Bay, had a case of smallpox on board. No information of a ...

    Article : 98 words
  45. A LARGE CARGO STEAMER.

    The steamer Glacus, which cleared out from Port Adelaide for Europe on Wednesday, is about as line a cargo vessel as we have seen in this colony, and she ...

    Article : 417 words
  46. THE HORRORS OF KLONDYKE.

    Mr. W. Alderson, who left here thirteen months ago for Klondyke, says he proved by personal inspection that the gold bearing area of the field was not nearly so large as in New ...

    Article : 118 words
  47. RIGHTS OF PRISONERS.

    An action of a novel character was decided upon strictly legal grounds by Mr. Justice Owen to-day, James Gibson sued the Minister of Works, as nominal defendant, for ...

    Article : 217 words
  48. BREADSTUFFS.

    The American visible supply of wheat is estimated at 45,993,000 bushels. ...

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  49. MINING FATALITY AT KALGOORLIE.

    This evening a fatal accident occurred in the Australia Mine. William John Martin, a married man, was working in a rise a few feet above the 100-ft. level, when a fall of earth ...

    Article : 80 words
  50. NOTES IN THE ASSEMBLY.

    The right of members to question Ministers on matters of administration and policy is one which docs not suffer from undue Appreciation in the House, in view of the journalistic ...

    Article : 986 words
  51. HUMAN REMAINS IN THE YARRA.

    A few days ago a human arm was found floating in this River Yarra, and an examination by medical experts showed that it had been roughly cut off at the shoulder by a ...

    Article : 118 words
  52. TO-DAY'S ENGAGEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 words
  53. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Full Court to-day dismissed an appeal by the Champion Reef Goldmining Company against a verdict obtained by Mr. Howard Yorath in the Civil Court, by which he ...

    Article : 47 words
  54. Advertising

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