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  2. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received April 1, 1 a.m.] STUDYING THE WORLD.

    The council of the University of Chicago has deputed Mr. Alleyne Ireland, a member of its staff, to act as special travelling commissioner to study the modes of ...

    Article : 81 words
  3. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received April 1, 1 a.m.] THE CONDOR.

    Sir Charles Cameron, M.P. (managing director of the Glasgow "Mail"), whose daughter is the widow of Commander[?] Clifton Sclater, of the doop of war Condor, ...

    Article : 85 words
  4. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received April 1, 1 a.m.] PEACE PROPOSALS.

    General Christian De Wet and Mr. M. T. Steyn have returned to Parys, a town on the south bank of the Vaal River, in the vicinity of Vredefort. All efforts on ...

    Article : 432 words
  5. VICTORIA.

    The ketch Wave, immediately after leaving Camden Haven on Saturday, was dismasted, and signalled that a man had been lost overboard. ...

    Article : 108 words
  6. THE PRETORIA EXECUTIONS.

    Mr. J. F. Thomas, who acted as couns[?]l on behalf of Lieutenants Mora[?] Hancock, and Witton at the court-martial, held at Pretoria, when they were charged with ...

    Article : 823 words
  7. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

    It is a long jump from Cicero to Major Wardill's team, but in the circumstances it is hardly inappropriate. Those who have studied the classics may recollect the ...

    Article : 1,723 words
  8. THE TEA DUTY.

    Owing to the great loss of revenue that will ensue to the smaller States, particularly through the abolition of the tea and other duties by the Federal Parliament, and in ...

    Article : 109 words
  9. DAMAGE BY FLOODS.

    Reports from the country show that in several cases serious damage has been don[?] by floods resulting from the recent downpour. At Toolem Creek a number of ...

    Article : 92 words
  10. ITALIAN AFFAIRS.

    A company of 400 Italian soldiers belonging to the reserves of railway men who were recently called to the standard as a precaution against the threatened strike, on ...

    Article : 85 words
  11. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.

    A youth, Richard Storey, aged 18, who was on a visit to Dromana, was loading a double-barrelled gun to-day preparatory to resuming rabbit shooting, at which he had ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. FRANCE AND TURKEY.

    A Yellow-book, published by the French Government, shows that France threatened to retain Mitylene recently unless the Sultan yielded to the demand of the ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. AN EASY VICTIM.

    That fictitious character, "My rich uncle in Fiji," has just claimed another victim in the person of a visitor from West Australia. The guileless one was in Fremantle ...

    Article : 162 words
  14. CATTLE TRADE WITH THE EAST.

    A copy of a notice in the "Gazette of the Netherlands Indian Government has been forwarded to the Federal Government. It sets out the conditions under which ...

    Article : 264 words
  15. THE STEAMER GABO.

    The steamer Gabo, which grounded in Hopetoun Channel on Friday last, is still aground. ...

    Article : 17 words
  16. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

    The Berlin "Post," in an inspired paragraph, states that as a result of the visit of Count von Bulow to Rome the renewal of the triplice commercial tariff between ...

    Article : 48 words
  17. THE KING.

    The Parisian correspondents of the London papers state that the shopkeepers of Paris [?]ament the abandonment by King Edward of his contemplated visit to that ...

    Article : 76 words
  18. MELBOURNE BICYCLE CLUB'S RACES.

    At the Melbourne Bicycle Club's Autumn meeting at St. Kilda on Saturday, the weather was pleasant and the fields select and large, but the attendance was small. The ...

    Article : 690 words
  19. A SOMNAMBULIST'S DEATH.

    Miss Sarah Braven, 35 years of age, lately residing in Cardigan-street, Carlton, has died from burns sustained a few days ago. The deceased was a somnambulist, ...

    Article : 91 words
  20. MACEDONIA.

    The Macedonians resident in Athens are petitioning the Great Powers to prevent the Macedonian Committee at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, from [?]omenting disturbances ...

    Article : 44 words
  21. CHINESE TROUBLES.

    The Chinese Government are insisting on the payment of what are considered to be prohibitive royalties in respect to the mining concessions granted to Germany ...

    Article : 206 words
  22. FATAL MINING ACCIDENT.

    On Thursday an accident occurred in the New Chum Consolidated mine, Bendigo, resulting in the death of a miner named John Kelly and in a sever[?] injury to his mate, J. ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. TASMANIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 249 words
  24. THE EDUCATION BILL.

    It is probable that the "permissive clauses" of the Education Bill now before the House of Commons will be abandoned by the Government. ...

    Article : 32 words
  25. SIR ANDREW CLARKE DEAD.

    The death is announced at the age of 78 years of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke, R.E., G.C.M.G., C.B., C.I.E., Agent-General for Victoria, and the ...

    Article : 44 words
  26. THE STATE FINANCES.

    The State revenue returns for the nine months ended March 31 were £3,591,187, an increase over last year's total of £94,523[?] When the money from the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 124 words
  27. SYMPATHY IN VICTORIA.

    The State Premier, who is spending his holidays at Creswick, to-day received the following telegram from the State Governor (Sir George Sydenham Clarke):— ...

    Article : 553 words
  28. MR. CECIL RHODES.

    The Cape Town correspondent of the London "Daily Express" states that Mr. Cecil Rhodes has bequeathed a sum of £100,000 to Oriel College, Oxford ...

    Article : 103 words
  29. THE DRUIDS' GALA.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 306 words
  30. TENNESSEE FLOODS.

    Immense floods have occurred in the state of Tennessee. It is reported that 22 persons have been killed, and that property worth 4,000,000 ...

    Article : 37 words
  31. CONGO NATIVES.

    The Aborigines' Protection Society has memorialised Lord Lansdowne (British Minister for Foreign Affairs) with the object of inducing him to unite with other ...

    Article : 56 words
  32. A MEMORIAL SERVICE.

    A united memorial service in honor of Mr. Cecil Rhodes was held in the Good Hope Hall, Cape Town, on Sunday, and there was a crowded attendance. ...

    Article : 64 words
  33. THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY.

    News comes from Wangaratta that a firm of Adelaide tobacco manufacturers are erecting a steamery at Adelaide for the purpose of treating Victorian tobacco leaf. ...

    Article : 145 words
  34. IMPERIAL REVENUE.

    The quarterly returns published by the British Treasury Department show that the revenue for the three months ended with March was £58,342,207, of which Customs ...

    Article : 59 words
  35. MALLEE WATER SCHEME.

    The view which Mr. Catani (engineer of the Public Works Department) takes in putting forward his scheme for providing the mallee country with water by flooding it ...

    Article : 119 words
  36. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    William Bott, who was taken from Miller's Point on Saturday suffering from plague, died in the coast hospital late tonight[?] ...

    Article : 109 words
  37. COAL MINE FIRED BY AN INCENDIARY.

    Some maliciously inclined incendiary lighted four fires in different parts of the Great Morwell brown coal mine, Gippsland, last week, with the result that the cutting ...

    Article : 57 words
  38. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The steamer Aberdeen to-day brought back 34 returned soldiers from South Africa. The wife of Signor E. de Beaupuis, the well-known pianist, died in Sydney to-day, ...

    Article : 38 words
  39. A HEALTH DEPARTMENT DIFFICULTY.

    The agreement between the Orient Pacific Company and the Health Department, by which the company's crews are exempted from medical inspection when coming ...

    Article : 183 words
  40. A SAD FAMILY RECORD.

    Mr. John McKenzie, of North Lismore, an old and highly respected resident, was found dead in a shed on his premises this morning, with a bullet wound in his head ...

    Article : 94 words
  41. Advertising

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  42. THE FEDERAL DIVORCE BILL.

    An organised movement has been instituted among the churches of New South Wales to protest as strongly as possible against the Federal Divorce Bill, which ...

    Article : 132 words
  43. TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS.

    Two little children ran in front of an electric tram in Waters-road, North Shore, this afternoon. One managed to clear the track, but the other, a little girl four years of ...

    Article : 99 words
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