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  2. THE SECOND TEST MATCH.

    All conditions were favourable to-day for the resumption of the test match. The Match, which yesterday was all in favour of the bowlers, was to-day. ...

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  3. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    The Prime Minister has arranged to "Visit Mankind on Thursday of nest week Bud address his constituents. A private cable message was received in ...

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  4. TRAGEDY AT TOWITTA.

    The Commissioner of Police received a telegram from M.C. Moarbray on Thursday morning, stating that a report had reached the Truro Police Station to the effect that ...

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  5. "A NATIONAL POLICY."

    In a preface to a pamphlet entitled "A National Policy," containing a reprint of his famous Chesterfield deliverance, Lord Rosebery remarks that the policy he had ...

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  6. THE KING AND THE TURF.

    His Majesty King Edward VII. has appointed Lord Marcus Talbot de la Poer Beresford equerry and manager of bis thoroughbred stud. This is interpreted to ...

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  7. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    Further advices regarding the attack by Boers upon Col. Dartnell'a column at Langberg show that Gen. Christian De Wet covered the daring charge of his Mowers ...

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  8. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    Interviewed with regard to the presentation of the address of, congratulation from the Agents-General to His Majesty the King upon the occasion of ...

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  9. THE EMPIRE'S NAVY.

    Sir John Colomb, M.P., the well-known authority on naval matters, has forwarded a memorandum to Lord Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, dealing with the ...

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  10. GOVERNORSHIP OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Mr. Copeland, louth Wales, has approached Mr. Chameberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, the appointment of a new ...

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  11. PRESIDENT OF CUBA.

    Gen. Tomas Estrada Palma has been elected first President of the Cuban Republic , under the constitution which was adopted by the island of Cuba, with the approval of ...

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  12. EUROPEAN SITUATION.

    The Czar Nicholas, in his own and the Czarilza's behalf, yesterday telegraphed a special message from St. Petersburg to Paris, conveying new year greetings to ...

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  13. SERVICEABLE BLOCKHOUSES.

    During the week Gen. Louis Botha has made an attempt to dispatch reinforcements from the Transvaal to Gen. De Wet, but the line of blockhouses on the railway in ...

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  14. OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

    No fewer than about 1,000 delegates from the Trades Union Congress and the Co-perative Union Congress are to meet at [?] Hall on January 14, with the ...

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  15. THE RACING CRISIS.

    The racing crisis was again the subject of general conversation on Thursday, and suggestions as to how the serious trouble should be settled were numerous, it was ...

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  16. To the Editor.

    Sir—Those members of the community the have kept clear of racing because they considered what was once sport has been turned into a money-grubbing trade have ...

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  17. DANISH WEST INDIES.

    The inhabitants of the Danish West Indies do not view with pleasure the idea of becoming American subjects. They have forwarded a memorial to the King of ...

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  18. BOERS AT LAING'S NEK.

    Forces of Boers attacked Laing's Nek and Botha's Pass on Saturday. They were repulsed by the British garrisons. The loss on the British side was slight. ...

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  19. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Signor Marconi intends to conduct experiments in wireless telegraphy between the Cape of Good Hope and South. America. ...

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  20. TREACHERY AND MURDER.

    Two British intelligence officers, Capts. Steele and Kerr, have been foully murdered near Warmbaths. They went to a lonely spot to parley with some Boers who had ...

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  21. CAPE-AUSTRALIA CABLE.

    The steamer Scotia has started for Western Australia with the section of the Cape-Australia cable which remains to be laid between Perth and the Grange, South ...

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  22. PENALTIES FOR SMUGGLING CIGARS.

    Several cases arising out of the smuggling of cigars were tried at the water police court to-day. Thomas Joseph Bourke, fireman on the American transport Glacier, was ...

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  23. GAMBLING AT MONTE CARLO.

    It is reported that the Earl of Rosslyn while playing at Monte Carlo this week won £4,000. Throughout Ms play his lordship adopted a system to which he ...

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  24. FAMOUS ARTILLERYMEN.

    The noted Q Battery of Royal Horse Artillery has returned to England. While in South Africa officers and men of the battery were awarded four Victoria ...

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  25. HEALTH OF LONDON.

    Official returns of the mortality in the metropolis during 1901 show that the death ate was only 17.7 per 1,000. In 1899 the rate was 19.8, compared with ...

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  26. A MILITARY COLLEGE FOR AUSTRALIA.

    Mjr.-Gen. French, the retiring Commandant of the New South Wales military forces, to-day expressed the opinion that the Commonwealth must have a military ...

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  27. CANADA'S TRADE.

    Sir R. J. Cartwright, Canadian Minister if Trade and Commerce, states that the exports from the Dominion for 1901 "were worth £39,200,000, compared with ...

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  28. FRANCO-ITALIAN GOODWILL.

    At a reception given by the French Embassy at Rome yesterday. M. Camille Barrere, the French Ambassador to Italy, declared that there was no longer any ...

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  29. GOOD ADVICE TO MR. KRUGER.

    The "independence Beige, a Brussels newspaper, advises ex-President Kruger to relinquish the idea that the late Boer republics will regain, their ...

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  30. GOOD WISHES FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

    In connection wan the Commonwealth anniversary the Prime Minister received the following cable message to-day from Sir Gordon Sprigg, Premier of Cape Colony:— ...

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  31. WESLEYAN METHODIST CENTENARY FUND.

    Collections were taken up in all the Wesleyan Methodist Churches of the United Kingdom on Sunday in aid of the Twenieth Century Thanksgiving Fund. The ...

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  32. DISCORDANT NOTES IN HUNGARY.

    M. Coloman de Szell, Premier of Hungary, at a reception given to members of the powerful Liberal party at Buda Pesth, complained of the conduct of Continental ...

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  33. THE HOOTING OF NOBLE.

    Considerable sympathy is being expressed in cricketing circles here with M. A. Noble, at the treatment meted out to him on the Melbourne ...

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  34. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    Lieuts. 0. Griffiths and J. Tedder, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, axe convalescent, and have resumed duty. ...

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  35. MARTIAL BLOWHARDS.

    Among the hardships which the later Australian contingents have to endure (writes a facetious correspondent) is the presence in their ranks of ...

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  36. KING EDWARD SOVEREIGNS.

    An interesting ceremony, though devoid all ceremonial observance, took place at the Sydney Mint this afternoon, when the first sovereigns bearing the effigy of King Edward ...

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  37. A THEATRE BURNT.

    The Bowery Theatre at New York has been destroyed by fire. The manager of the Tivoli Theatre, Mr. M. Marcus, who has just returned from ...

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  38. HILL'S REMARKABLE INNINGS.

    In his report of to-day's cricket "Observer," of the "Argus," refers to Clem Hill's performance in the following termss—"Hill only wanted one for his hundred ...

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  39. VICTORIA.

    A fire broke out this morning in a weatherboard cottage at Kanparoo Flat, in the Bendigo district, and the occupant, James Neeson, aged 40, was burnt to ...

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  40. AN UNIDENTIFIED SKELETON.

    Considerable doubt is now expressed, especially in official circles, concerning the identity of the skeleton found yesterday on the beach between Wellington Point and ...

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  41. SIAM.

    King Edward has conferred the Royal Victorian Order upon Chowfa Maha Vajiravudh, the Crown Prince of Sian, to mark the occasion of his becoming of age. ...

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  42. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Mr. Russell, Government Meteorologist, in a report issued to-day, states:—"The month of December was phenomenally dry. Over half of the state not a drop of rain ...

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  43. MR. B. R. WISH IN NEW ZEALAND.

    In the course of an interview at Wellington to-day with reference to the New South Wales Arbitration Act, Mr. B. R. Wiso, Artorney-General of that state, said that ...

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  44. MURDER AND SUICIDE.

    At the inquest on the Doilies of a rather and son named Blennerhassots, who were shot at Tamnaki yesterday by a man named Hill, the evidence showed that the victims ...

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  45. VENEZUELA.

    It is believed that, at the instance of the United States, Germany will delay sending her ultimatum to Venezuela until the present rebellion in the South American ...

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  46. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, has issued 500 invitation for a conversazione to be held at the Imperial institute on the 27th. inst., in honour of ...

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  47. QUEENSLAND FINANCES.

    For the six months ended December 31 the revenue amounted to £2,311,329, an increase of £75,879 compared with the corresponding period of last year. Tho excess of revenue ...

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  48. UNCONSCIOUS FOR 65 DAYS.

    The death occurred this morning in the Children's Hospital of William Dabbo Taylor, aged, four, whose case has excited considerable interest among medical men. The ...

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  49. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Central Queensland Meat Export Company, Limited,—This company has been registered in London. The capital is £150,000, and the intention is to acquire ...

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  51. NEW ZEALAND CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.

    At a chess tournament played at Auckland the championship of the colony was won by Barnes, of Wellington. ...

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  52. IDENTIFYING A PRISONER.

    A member of the Victorian detective force acquainted with John' Henry Sparks, who escaped from the Partridge prison, will pay a visit to Sydney for the purpose ...

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  54. A VICTORIAN OPINION.

    The turf editorial columns of the "Australasian" refer to the racing dispute in Adelaide in the following terms:—"As far as this latest racing trouble in South Australia ...

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  55. FIRE AT BROKEN HILL.

    About 10.30 last night the premises m Carrington Chambers, Argent street, occupied by Messrs. Flannagan &. Conroy, tobacconists, caught fire. Considerable time was ...

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  56. A HASTY "HANDY MAN."

    A couri-martial has been held on H.M.S. Royal Arthur on a seaman who struck a superior officer. He was found guilty, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. ...

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  58. FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

    A youth named Condon, while out shoot ing birds in the New Gladstone to Rockhampton railway, on New Year's Eve, accidently shot Eveline Freeman, who was ...

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