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  2. PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

    Mr. David Murrey has so far had little success in his fishing in Perthshire, but this causes him no disappointment, as the weather is the weather is too bright and tranquil for trout. ...

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  3. 10TH SIDES OF THE RAIL.

    Perched up here on the top rail, able to look down on this party and on that, and, as a looker on, seeing more of the game than most of the active players. I have been ...

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  4. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Minister for Defence, Representative Sir John Forrest, states that his department has not entered into any negotiations for a further supply of rifles for the ...

    Article : 471 words
  5. A TROOPSHIP AT ALBANY.

    The transport Harlech Castle arrived from Cape Town at 3 o'clock this afternoon. She was decked with bunting fore and aft, and expectation ran high as to what could ...

    Article : 474 words
  6. UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA.

    The leading American newspapers, which were formerly friendly in their references to Russia, have for some time taken up a hostile attitude towards the Czar's ...

    Article : 185 words
  7. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    A column of Irregular Horse, under the command of Col. John George Dartnell, Commandant of the Natal mounted forces, accompanied by Major "Karri" Davies ...

    Article : 74 words
  8. CHINA.

    The members of the Chinese expiatory mission, of which Prince Chun is the head, are still lodging at an hotel on the Swiss bank of the Rhine. They declare that ...

    Article : 468 words
  9. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

    Last night on the road from White Cliffs to Wilcannia the mail coach was stuck up and robbed of opal and mails. The robber—an armed man, who to masked—had a ...

    Article : 556 words
  10. BRITISH MISFORTUNES.

    Additional particulars are to hand regarding the disaster which occurred on the Pietersburg railway, between Waterval and Human's Kraal, a few miles north of ...

    Article : 147 words
  11. NEW BATTLESHIP.

    The first-class steel battleship Exmouth, 14,000 tons, was launched on Saturday from Laird & Co.'s yard at Birkenhead. Her dimensions are:—Length, 405 ft.; beam, 75 ...

    Article : 90 words
  12. DISASTROUS RAILWAY COLLISION.

    A terrible accident occurred yesterday at Nyack, a large village in Rockland County, State of New York, on the Northern Railroad of New Jersey. A freight train bound ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. FRANCE.

    Reuter's Agency reports that President Loubet and the members of the Waldeck-Rousseau Government will on September 18 go to sea on board the torpedo gunboat ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES.

    An epidemic of measles continues to rage among the inhabitants of the refugee concentration camps, and the rate of mortality is very high. During July 1,067 deaths ...

    Article : 59 words
  15. VICTORIA.

    Mrs. Morrison and Miss Alma Steele, who were removed to the Melbourne Hospital last evening suffering from severe burns caused by the explosion of a kerosine lamp. ...

    Article : 361 words
  16. IMPROVED PROSPECTS.

    Thanks to the protection afforded by Lord Kitchener to the commercial and mining interests in the Transvaal, the value of the goods imported for purely ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. THE AMERICA CUP.

    The yacht Constitution, which is to defend the America Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock H., has had 17 trials against the Columbia, which beat ...

    Article : 267 words
  18. THE NEW GERMAN TARIFF.

    Public interest in Germany is at the present time almost entirely centred in the new Customs Tariff draft Bill, particulars of which, together with the tariff itself, have ...

    Article : 804 words
  19. LOOTING BY BOER WOMEN.

    An armed force of Boer women on Saturday entered the little township of Jagersfontein, in the south of the Orange River Colony, looted the houses and stores, and ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. DENMARK.

    Following upon the resignation of M. Schested's Conservative Government at Copenhagen, King Christian summoned Professor Deuntzer, a Radical, to form a ...

    Article : 245 words
  21. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    Capt. H. N. Schofield, Royal Field Artillery, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at the battle of Colenso on December 15, 1899. Capt. (then Lieut.) ...

    Article : 62 words
  22. THE REGENCY BOARD.

    Laffan's Agency telegraphs from Pekin:—The new board, which was lately formed, and which is called the Regency Board, although it is properly a board to consider ...

    Article : 480 words
  23. EDUCATION IN VICTORIA.

    The members of the Technical Education Commission formally presented the Premier to-day with a copy of their report, a substantial volume of 260 odd pages. The ...

    Article : 237 words
  24. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    Lieut. W. S. Wedd, of the Fifth Victorian Contingent, has sailed for England. Capt. A. W. Butterworth, of the Queensland Imperial Bushmen, has accepted a ...

    Article : 41 words
  25. ACTIVITY OF NEW ZEALANDERS.

    Col. Porter, who is in command of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent, has sent a cable message to the Premier from the Orange River Colony with reference to the ...

    Article : 124 words
  26. VICTORIAN SANATORIUM FOR CONSUMPTION.

    A well-attended meeting of friends and supporters of the Victorian Sanatorium for Consumptives was held in the town hall this evening. Sir Samuel Gillott, Mayor of ...

    Article : 184 words
  27. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The inquest concerning the death of the labourer Henry Francis Mills, who was garrotted last week, was concluded to-day. The medical testimony was that death was ...

    Article : 179 words
  28. DAMAGES FOR SEDUCTION.

    An action for alleged seduction, in which the damages claimed amounted to £1,000, was concluded in the Supreme Court to-day. The plaintiff was Peter Everington ...

    Article : 238 words
  29. MUSICIANS IN THE DIVORCE COURT.

    In the Divorce Court to-day, before Mr. Justice A'Beckett, Emma Catherine Ceschina sought a divorce from Angelo Ceschina on the ground of desertion. Both ...

    Article : 359 words
  30. RETURNING SOUTH AUSTRALIANS.

    The following is the nominal roll of the South Australian details on board the Harlech Castle, which culled here white en route from South Africa:—Tpr. J. E. Walker ...

    Article : 101 words
  31. VICTORIAN REVENUE.

    The return of the revenue for the Victorian Customs Department for August has been issued. The gross receipts for the month amounted to £250,819, which ...

    Article : 115 words
  32. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Savings Bank returns show that the balance to the credit of depositors at the end of August amounted to £1,646,203, being an increase of £28,063 compared with ...

    Article : 166 words
  33. "THE LESSON."

    The latest special poem by Mr. Rudyard Kipling is published in the "Times" of July 29, and entitled "The Lesson." It is short and characteristic. The poet begins ...

    Article : 347 words
  34. ANTI-FOREIGN FEELING.

    Reuter states that the following anti-foreign placard has been posted near the foreign chapels in Canton:—"This house tax is entirely owing to the need of paying ...

    Article : 189 words
  35. ATTEMPTED ROBBERY BY AN ARMED MAN.

    It has been reported to the police that at Burwood last Saturday night three women were accosted by a man armed with a revolver who demanded money. In one ...

    Article : 114 words
  36. LIGHT GENERAL RAIN.

    Monday's showers appear to have been fairly general, though light, south of Goyder's [?] butthe rain did not penetrate to the far north. The following special ...

    Article : 161 words
  37. MAINTENANCE OF NEW GUINEA.

    Mr. Le Hunte, Lieutenant-Governor of New Guinea, had an interview with the Premier to-day in respect of funds required to carry on the government of the ...

    Article : 82 words
  38. TASMANIAN REVENUE.

    The state and Commonwealth revenue returns for the month of August show that the Commonwealth collections for the month were £50,855, and the expenditure ...

    Article : 61 words
  39. VALEDICTORY.

    In the Colton Hall on August 27 a farewell social was tendered to Mr. and Mrs. B. A. McCaffrey and Miss Stephens. Mr. McCaffrey has been master ...

    Article : 142 words
  40. CHARGE AGAINST AN EX-BANK MANAGER.

    At the Westbury Police Court to-day James Harry Stewart, formerly manager of the Commercial Bank at Westbury, was committed for trial on a charge of having ...

    Article : 37 words
  41. THE POSITION IN CAPE COLONY.

    The "Daily Mail" correspondent, in a letter from Cape Town on July 10, says that there is no doubt whatever that the present invasion on the part of the minor ...

    Article : 379 words
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