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  2. A CANADIAN GIANT.

    Canada has produced a giant. Edouard Beaupre, who is at present giving exhibitions in Montreal, is a most remarkable specimen of humanity. He is only 20 ...

    Article : 234 words
  3. THE BOER WAR.

    Captain Gordon Chesney Wilson, of the Royal Horse Guards, who, with, his wife, Lady Sarah Wilson, the war correspondent, took part in the defence of Mafeking, has ...

    Article : 51 words
  4. EASTERN STATES.

    When a man named Geo. Gill returned to his house in a lane off Little Bourke street to-day, after being away ten days, he found the body of a man lying on the ...

    Article : 108 words
  5. FEDERAL COMMANDER.

    The Australians in South Africa are strongly urging the selection of Major-General Reginald Pole-Carew as Commander-in-Chicf of the Australian Federal ...

    Article : 137 words
  6. OLD AGE PENSIONS.

    Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham yesterday at a meeting of the Independent Order of Oddfelows, referred to the question of old age pensions. ...

    Article : 106 words
  7. FEDERAL POLITICS

    The debate on the Address-in-Reply was resumed in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr. M'Donald Patterson (Queensland) ...

    Article : 415 words
  8. OBITUARY.

    Mr. Alfred Simms, well known in mining and sporting circles, died suddenly this evening from heart disease. The deceased, who was 47 years of age, was ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. A BOGUS COUNT.

    The City Court was crowded to-day when "Mr. Ferrars," alias Count De Valesco, was brought up on remand. He was charged under the name of Arthur Morris ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. THE CAPE CAMPAIGN.

    The Boers have evacuated Steynsburg, in Caps Colony, and are trying to escape to the southwards. ...

    Article : 24 words
  11. KRUITZINGER ON THE MOVE.

    Commandant Kruitzinger, who was checked by Colonel Gorringe to the east of Steynsburg, Cape Colony, is reported to be moving eastwards. ...

    Article : 48 words
  12. PENSIONS SUPPORTED.

    The Miners' International Congress in London has unanimously approved of State pensions for the aged poor and others unable to work of a specified age. ...

    Article : 59 words
  13. THE CASE OF J. H. GREY.

    The hearing of the charge against Joseph Henry Gray, solicitor, of Geelong, who was arrested in Fiji recently and brought back to Melbourne, was proceeded with ...

    Article : 132 words
  14. CHINA.

    The Chinese are willing to pay the proposed indemnity to the Allies, amounting to £67,000,000, but they object to pay 4 per cent, interest on that amount. I ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. BOERS AND THE NATIVES.

    The Boers are daringly enforcing the natives but tax in certain portions of the Transvaal. Some of the natives have been brutally flogged, and the Boers threaten to ...

    Article : 45 words
  16. SNOW ON THE MOON.

    Professor Edward Charles Pickering, of the Harvard University, in observations made at Jamaica, has photographed snow on the surface of the moon. ...

    Article : 69 words
  17. AN OMNIBUS STORY FROM PARIS.

    An amusing incident that occurred on the top-of Paris [?] the other day in recorded by the Paris correspondent of the "New York Herald." The persons ...

    Article : 323 words
  18. THE COMING EVACUATION.

    The foreign Ministers at Peking are in favor of China's immediately resuming the administration of the province of Pechili. Count von Waldersee urges that the ...

    Article : 49 words
  19. THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION.

    A meeting of the mineral committee of the Glasgow Exhibition Commission was held in Perth yesterday. Mr. Lawrence Reed presided, there being also present ...

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  20. SUICIDE.

    A youth named Christopher Smart drowned himself in a tank at Camperdown, while proceeding to a dance. The deceased was the son of a prominent ...

    Article : 36 words
  21. EX-PRESIDENT KRUGER.

    Ex-President Kruger is said to be writing a book dealing with the events leading up to the South African war, and implicating some well-known continental officials and ...

    Article : 35 words
  22. ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

    The inquiry into the death of Albert Edward Boldt, contractor, late of Bendigo, who was killed through an arch of a bridge collapsing, on the 14th inst., was ...

    Article : 91 words
  23. PRESBYTERIANISM.

    It was cabled yesterday that the American Presbyterian Assembly had voted in favor of a revision of the West-minster Confession of Faith and ...

    Article : 222 words
  24. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    There were 200 cases of plague at Hong Kong during the week ending May 25, of which no fewer than 187 ended fatally. ...

    Article : 32 words
  25. AUSTRALASIAN TROOPS.

    Captain Malcolm George Hipwell, of the South Australian Bushmen, died of enteric fever at Kroonstad on the 25th inst. Private Charles Hicks, of the South ...

    Article : 183 words
  26. MOTOR CAR RACE.

    A motor car race has taken place in France from Paris to Bordeaux, a distance of 345 miles. The winning car covered the distance in ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    William Henry Pritchard, auctioneer, was committed for trial at the Central Police Court to-day on the charge of embezzling £1,100, the moneys of the ...

    Article : 58 words
  28. THE SENATE.

    The debate in the Senate was resumed by Mr. Dawson (Queensland), who objected to protective duties on mining machinery, but justified them in regard to other ...

    Article : 171 words
  29. THE LATE QUEEN.

    The Governor-General has received a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies intimating that His Majesty the King has commanded that his cordial ...

    Article : 90 words
  30. IRONWORKERS' STRIKE.

    The position of the strike in the iron trade remains unaltered. There was no meeting of the employers to-day, but the chairman received a letter from the secretary ...

    Article : 141 words
  31. PERSONAL.

    Mr. Martin Walsh, a very well-known figure on the goldfields of this State, left by the mail boat yesterday en route for Adelaide. The principal object of Mr. ...

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  32. BRITISH CASUALTIES.

    The following British casualties are reported:— 7th Hussars.—Six killed, one wounded. 1st Munster Fusiliers.—Four killed, two ...

    Article : 80 words
  33. THE PHILIPPINES.

    Four of the strongest judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, including Mr. M. W. Fuller, the Chief Justice, have dissented from the decision giving ...

    Article : 96 words
  34. THE ROYAL VISIT.

    To-day was set apart for naval functions. The Royal party paid a visit of inspection to Garden Island, and in the afternoon the Royal yacht Ophir was ...

    Article : 98 words
  35. THE LABOR PARTY.

    Mr. G. M'Gregor, the leader of the Labor party in the Senate, in response to interrogations, states that the fiscal question is left open. He said:—"We all will vote ...

    Article : 106 words
  36. MARSDEN PARK OUTRACE.

    The Marsden Park outrage was investigated at the Criminal Court to-day, an aboriginal half-caste named Frederick Theodore Locke being arraigned on the charge ...

    Article : 207 words
  37. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    At the Norseman Brewing Co.'s general meeting to-day, the directors stated that the half-year had been better than any previous one. After wiping £305 off the ...

    Article : 58 words
  38. EXTENSIVE SURRENDERS.

    Two hundred Boers have surrendered at Palapye, in Bechuanaland, sear the northern border of the Transvaal. A number of Boors, with 42 wagons, and ...

    Article : 54 words
  39. NEW ZEALAND.

    A fire which caused extensive damage occurred in the city last night. The flames swept Hawker, Shannon, and Moeller streets, and destroyed 23 dwellings, ...

    Article : 80 words
  40. TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.

    A conference of the electrical engineering experts of the various State branches of the Postal Department is to be held in Melbourne next week for the purpose of ...

    Article : 103 words
  41. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN VISIT.

    At the special meeting of the City Council on May 31, a letter was received from the general committee, asking for the control of the streets during that the celebrations. ...

    Article : 120 words
  42. COMMERCIAL.

    The estimated visible supply of wheat in America to the east of the Rocky Mountains is 50,963,000 bushels. ...

    Article : 29 words
  43. A GENERAL'S NARROW ESCAPE

    General W. Knox was on board an armored train which was recently dynamited by the Boers to the south of Vredefort Road, in the north of ike Orange River ...

    Article : 76 words
  44. THE CAPE CABLE.

    The agent of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. has received the following cable from London:—"May 29—Laying the first section of Cape-Australian cable, ...

    Article : 73 words
  45. QUEENSLAND.

    A writ has been issued by Lieutenant-Colonel Ricardo against the Brisbane Newspaper Co., Ltd., claiming £5,000 damages for defamation of character. ...

    Article : 28 words
  46. MILITARY PRECEDENCE.

    A sensation has been caused in Victorian military circles by the resignation of Major-General Downes as a protest against the precedence given to Major-General French, ...

    Article : 114 words
  47. CITIZENS' RECEPTION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 words
  48. R.M.S. OROYA.

    The R.M.S. Oroya, which left Adelaide for London yesterday afternoon, had on board the following passengers for Fremantle:—Messrs. Throssell, Stewart, ...

    Article : 113 words
  49. FORBIDDEN FRUIT.

    Sir,—I thank you for your courtesy in informing me in your issue of the 28th inst. of the names of the members of the Board of Agriculture, which is mainly ...

    Article : 115 words
  50. TASMANIA.

    When the Legislative Assembly met to-day, Mr. Reibey informed the House that he had been appointed leader of the Opposition. The debate was continued on ...

    Article : 66 words
  51. ATTACK ON A CONVOY.

    The "Standard" states that Commandant Viljoen, with 400 men, attacked Colonel Plumer's convoy to the south of Bethel on Saturday. After a sharp engagement the ...

    Article : 48 words
  52. Advertising

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    Advertising : 62 words
  53. Advertising

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