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  2. THE WEATHER.

    "This morning's map and reports," said Sir Charles Todd on Thursday, "show that a great change has taken place during the last twenty-four hours. On Wednesday we ...

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  3. BRITISH AND FRENCH IN AFRICA

    "A mountain range is generally a safe boundary between two countries; but a river never. "This is one of the most ancient of political maxims ...

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    Colonel Templeton told a story yesterday at the meeting of the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, says the Melbourne "Argus" of Wednesday, illustrating ...

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    The number of births registered in South Australia during January was 766; average for five years, 815; total for 1899, 766. Number of deaths registered during January ...

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  6. EARL BEAUCHAMP.

    Last evening the members of St. George's Club, whose head-quarters are at Hanover-square W., entertained Earl Beauchamp, the Governor-elect of New South Wales ...

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  7. THE SOUDAN.

    Lord Kitchener, the Governor-General of the Soudan, has replied to the severe criticisms which have been levelled against him by the Redmondites and others in the ...

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  8. GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

    The terms of the Anglo-French Convention respecting Central Africa appear to have given pleasure in France, The Paris newspapers congratulate the ...

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  9. LORD SALISBURY.

    The Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister and Secretary of Foreign Affairs, has started for the Riviera, where he will remain for several weeks. ...

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  10. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain said that the Government were willing to refer the Hon. L. R. Holland's Old-Age Pensions Bill to a ...

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  11. BRITISH PRESS FAVOURABLE.

    The "Times" considers that the terms of the Anglo-French settlement are reasonable, and says that they are satisfactory to both the nations concerned. The Middle Nile ...

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  12. THE KHALIFA IN DESPERATE STRAITS.

    Two hundred and fifty starving Dervishes and Soudanese, who deserted from the Khalifa's standard, have arrived at Omdurman. They declare that the Khalifa ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. MADAME MELBA.

    Madame Melba, who sustained an injury in a drawing-room at San Francisco on Tuesday through being struck on the head by a falling bro[?] statue, has forwarded a ...

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  14. INFLUENZA IN LONDON.

    An epidermis of influenza is gaging in portions of the metropolis. One hundred and twenty-five deaths from the malady have occurred within a week. ...

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  15. THE TRAMWAY SYSTEM.

    It is stated in political circles that the Government policy, which will be disclosed by the Premier at the Town Hall on Thursday next, includes a scheme for the ...

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  16. MILLWALL DOCK COMPANY.

    George Raymond Birt, the Chairman and Managing Director of the Millwall Dock Company, has appeared at the Police Court on a charge of converting to his own use ...

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  17. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Rev. Dr. De Witt Talmage, who is in his sixty-eighth year, has resigned the pastorate of the Central Presbyterian Church, Brocklyn, U.S.A. ...

    Article : 96 words
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  19. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    The weather on Wednesday night was dark, dirty, and dismal; a very strong wind knocked up a rough sea; and heavy showers of rain made the task of boarding ...

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  20. THE FAR EAST.

    A compromise has been arranged between the Great Powers respecting the claims for an extension of the cosmopolitan and the French land concessions at Shanghai. It is ...

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  21. THE NILE RAILWAY.

    Chiefly through the energy of Lord Kitchener the desert railway from Egypt, which for the purposes of the recent campaign was continued to the northern bank ...

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  22. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of the Rev. James Archer Spurgeon, D.D., a brother of the late Mr. C. H. Spurgeon, the noted Baptist preacher. He received his ...

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  23. ITALY'S DEMANDS REFUSED.

    After having reconsidered the claims of Italy for a lease of Sanmun Bay and a sphere of interest, with various concessions, in the Province of Che-kiang, the ...

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  24. THE PHILIPPINES.

    The Commissioners who were appointed by President. McKinley to study the Philippines problem have proclaimed at Manila the intention of the United States to lose ...

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  25. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    The wool market to-day was firm. There were several withdrawals from the auctions. London, March 23. ...

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  26. NEW QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

    At the meeting of the Executive Council this week the Lientenant-Governor approved of a new set or quarantine regulations. The first provides that the Health ...

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  27. FRANCE.

    In the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday M. Dupuy, the Premier, alluded to the reports published by boulevard newspapers to the effect that Baron de ...

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  28. THE BERGHOFER DIVORCE CASE.

    In the Berghofer divorce suit to-day, the petitioner's case having been closed, judge Windeyer said that there was no evidence of adultery with the co-respondent ...

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  29. LONDON COMMERCIAL.

    Tallow.—The number of casks offered at auction to-day was 1,800, of which 425 were sold. Prices of all kinds were unchanged. ...

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  30. BREADSTUFFS.

    The American visible supply of wheat now accounts to 51,380,000 busheis, as again at 52,2[?]4,000 on February 24. The ship Endvmion's cargo of Victorian ...

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  31. SEMAPHORE ESPLANADE.

    The condition of a considerable portion of the north esplanade at the Semaphore came in for a good deal of comment at the annual inspection of the seaside ...

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  32. CENTRAL AFRICA.

    It is reported that the Fourneau-Lamy mission, which during last autumn set out to conquer for France the Touat group of oases in West Africa, has lost 100 men in ...

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  33. DEPARTURE OF THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

    The members of the Australian Eleven, with the exception of A. E. Johns, who came round from Melbourne in the Ormuz, left Adelaide by the 11.48 special train for ...

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  34. TODAY'S ENGAGEMENTS.

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  35. SILVER.

    The price of bar silver to-day is 2s, 3 7-16d per oz., a decline of 1-16d, since yesterday. ...

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  36. THE TOULON DISASTER.

    In view of the recent fearful explosion of a naval magazine at Toulon, the War Office in Paris has been making experiments in order to determine whether or not the ...

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  37. THE SYDNEY CORPORATION.

    Lively pr[?]ding characterized a meeting of the City Council which was held to-day to consider the striking of the annual rate. The Mayor Alderman M.Harris, said ...

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  38. THE KLONDYKE GOLDFIELDS.

    A party of Finnish goldminers, while prospecting in country east of Dawson City, are reported to have discovered heaps of boundary stones, which had been ...

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  39. THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

    Sir—At a meeting of railway employes held at Petersburg on February 19 Mr. G. W. Ward, an engineman in the service of these railways, and President of the ...

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  40. BIBLE PRECEPTS.

    In summing up the evidence in the charge of conspiracy against Detective-Sergeant Dungey and Mrs. Dora Bromley yesterday, says the Melbourne "Argus" of Wednesday ...

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  41. THE GATTON ENQUIRY.

    All the officials connected with the Gatton enquiry went to Toowoomba this morning for the purpose of taking the evidence of Mrs. McNeill, she having been previously ...

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  42. PORT FIRE BRIGADE STATION.

    The annexation of the Queenstown and Alberton and Rosewater Districts to Port Adelaide has led the Fire Brigade Board to increase the staff at the Port Fire ...

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  43. A TRANSACTION IN POSTAGE STAMPS.

    In the Bankruptcy Court to-day Andrew Houison, medical practitioner, stated that the causes of his insolvency were long-continued illness in the family and the loss of ...

    Article : 157 words
  44. FEDERATION

    The Legislative Council this afternoon received the message from the Lower House disagreeing with the Council's amendments on the Federal Enabling Bill. Without ...

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  45. THE LUMPERS' STRIKE.

    Six men were charged at the Fremantle Police Court to-day with disorderly conduct as the outcome of the recent attack the strikers made on the non-Unionists ...

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  46. A FATAL ACCIDENT.

    On Wednesday evening Mr. Joseph Morris, who recently came from Melbourne to go into the Teatree Gully Hotel, met with an accident which resulted fatally. Mr. ...

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  47. HOT WEATHER IN SYDNEY.

    A heat wave reached Sydney to-day, causing thermometers to register 90.4 in the shade. This heat, though much less than was recently recorded in the southern ...

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  48. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    Messages passed between the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly to-day with regard to the Advances to Settlers Bill. The Council's amendments ...

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  49. THE LATE MR. E. F. TURNER.

    At the fortnightly meeting of the Marine Board, held on Thursday, the President specially referred to the death of Mr. E. E. Turner, Inspector of Explosives. ...

    Article : 165 words
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