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  2. THE BALKAN CRISIS.

    The foreign ambassadors in Constanti[?]ople have co-operated in a demand for the adoption by, the Porte of measures for the better protection of consuls and foreign ...

    Article : 699 words
  3. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Mr. Chamberlain has stated that the Legislative Council of the Transvaal is entitled to authorise the importation of Asiatics to work the mines without the ...

    Article : 79 words
  4. LONDON WEEK BY WEEK.

    We are accustomed to hear so much nowadays about the decay of religious observances, empty churches, the passing of the power of the pulpit, that it must have come ...

    Article : 2,216 words
  5. BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

    The British Parliament has been prorogued, and the closing hours were marked by a series of wrangles, owing to the action of the Opposition in endeavoring to compel ...

    Article : 212 words
  6. FATAL MINING ACCIDENT.

    Mr. J. A. Greenwood and Mr. Peter Roberts were killed yesterday at the Yudnamutana mine, through the falling in of a quantity of earth and timber. No ...

    Article : 86 words
  7. A RAILWAY DISASTER.

    An accident, which but for the fatalities attending it would have had a ludicrous aspect, occurred last Wednesday evening to a Lancashire and Yorkshire express train ...

    Article : 1,529 words
  8. THE FEDERAL MINISTRY.

    A representative of The Advertiser had an interview with Senator Playford on Saturday afternoon at Norton's Summit. When asked if it were true that he had been ...

    Article : 291 words
  9. THE FAR EAST.

    The Daily Mail correspondent at St. Petersburg reports that the Japanese Minister there has had an interview with the Czar in reference to Manchuria. The ...

    Article : 105 words
  10. VICTORIA.

    A girl, Kate Corbett, upon finding herself in the wrong train at Glenferrie station yesterday afternoon, jumped out on to the platform as the train was moving. She fell ...

    Article : 47 words
  11. THE RESULT OF A BOLT.

    Three persons were more or less seriously injured as the result of a horse, attached to a cart laden with timber, bolting at Brunswick yesterday afternoon. The cart ...

    Article : 142 words
  12. THE WEST INDIES CYCLONE

    News has been received from the West Indies that sixty lives were lost at Jamaica during the cyclone, that devastated Martinique and Jamaica, and that the damage ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    Lord Carrington, speaking at HighburyCombe yesterday, strongly denounced Mr. Chamberlain's preferential trade proposals. The Colonial Secretary's "last wild ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. AN UNPROFITABLE ESTATE.

    The schedule of Thomas Lees Field, of Queen- street, city, mining engineer, was filed in the Insolvency Office yesterday. The debts are given at £16,408, and the assets ...

    Article : 34 words
  15. A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.

    The two-year-old daughter of Mr. Lawrence Phelan, a resident of Albert Park, was burnt to death to-day while playing in front of the kitchen fire. ...

    Article : 33 words
  16. BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.

    The Hon. Gerald Fitzgerald, K.C., has had a sensational experience, while mountaineering in the Alps. He was accompanied by two guides, and when descending ...

    Article : 118 words
  17. MR. TOM MANN ON PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    Speaking at Wodonga last night Mr. Tom Mann said he was unable to see how Mr. Chamberlain's preferential trade proposals could benefit the workers of England. He ...

    Article : 48 words
  18. THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

    Sir Philip Fysh has been installed into his office as Postmaster-General, and will begin this week the inevitable work of receiving deputations. He does not intend to ...

    Article : 122 words
  19. SEAMEN V. CIVILIANS.

    Shortly after 11 o'clock on Saturday night a brawl between some foreign seamen, belonging to the German-Australian steamer Magdeburg, which arrived from ...

    Article : 343 words
  20. A NOVEL INSURANCE FUND.

    Considerable interest is being taken by railway employes in the proposal to form an insurance fund against dismissal. The idea is to create a fund from small monthly ...

    Article : 68 words
  21. REDUCING MINERS' WAGES.

    In connection with the proposed new scale of wages at the Mount Lyell mines, Tasmania, and upon receipt of the following telegram, "Reduction operates Thursday ...

    Article : 48 words
  22. LORD SALISBURY.

    Lord Salisbury's condition has slightly improved. Lord Robert Cecil, his son states that his father's illness is of a grave character, but that there is no immediate ...

    Article : 37 words
  23. PARIS TUBES.

    It is reported that a fire has occurred on another of the underground railways in Paris, but that the flames were extinguished before any damage had been done. ...

    Article : 37 words
  24. FATAL QUARREL AT SEA.

    On the arrival of the British barque Samanco at Newcastle, from Mauritius, last night, Captain Beadon reported to the police that he had William J. Moore, a ...

    Article : 315 words
  25. CIVTL SERVANTS AND POLITICS.

    A notification which has been issued by the Victorian Commissioners to all railway employes, informing them that they must take no part in municipal or Parliamentary ...

    Article : 59 words
  26. A RESTFUL NIGHT.

    Lord Salisbury's condition still shows something of an improvement. He has passed a restful night, and is stronger. His physicians, however, are still uneasy, and ...

    Article : 37 words
  27. WARNER'S ELEVEN.

    The Daily Express reports that C. B. Fry, the well-known Sussex amateur, has declined the offer of the Marylebone Cricket Club to join Mr. P. F. Warner's team, which will ...

    Article : 41 words
  28. SUICIDE OF AN EX-PUBLICAN.

    John Mahon, licensee for many years of the Middle Park Hotel, committed suicide to-night by cutting his throat with a razor. He had lately been mentally affected. The ...

    Article : 39 words
  29. AN ABORTIVE LIBEL ACTION.

    At the Geelong County Court yesterday, Alice Clarke, spinster, was proceeded against for £249 damages for libel. The alleged libel was contained in a letter ...

    Article : 74 words
  30. FINANCIALNEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 words
  31. CARDINAL VAUGHAN'S ESTATE.

    Cardinal Vaughan's gross estate has been sworn not to exceed £743. ...

    Article : 21 words
  32. A LETTER SORTERS' CONFERENCE.

    A reception and smoke concert was given by the Victorian Letter Sorters' Association on Saturday evening for the purpose of welcoming delegates from kindred ...

    Article : 69 words
  33. COLLISION OF VESSELS.

    Twenty-five persons were, drowned yesterday as the result of a collision between a German and a Norwegian vessel at the mouth of the Elbe. Both vessels foundered. ...

    Article : 39 words
  34. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Copper.—Copper is quoted at £57 17/6 on spot and at three months. Tin.—Tin is quoted at £128. Lead.—The quotation for lead is £11 6/3. ...

    Article : 196 words
  35. BROKEN HILL WATER FAMINE.

    After being idle for a week ore breaking was resumed yesterday morning at, the South mine, and the general productive work will be restarted on Monday ...

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  36. RUSSIA VIGILANT.

    The Russian fleet in the Black Sea has [?]iled for Turkish waters in anticipation of the straits to which the Porte will be reduced in the event of a general upheaval. ...

    Article : 113 words
  37. TASMANIA.

    Ministers are reorganising the Public Works Department, the result of which will be the dispensing with the services of some six or seven officials. ...

    Article : 151 words
  38. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    It is reported that the International Congress which has been sitting at Berlin to consider the attitude of the various Governments towards wireless telegraphy, has ...

    Article : 63 words
  39. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    One result of the recent heavy rains has been to put about seven hundred millions of gallons of water into the Mundaring dam, the source of the goldfields water supply. ...

    Article : 35 words
  40. SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

    The gale which raged on Friday abated early on Saturday morning. Shipping was considerably inconvenienced. The barque Fram parted her moorings and was slightly ...

    Article : 69 words
  41. PUGILISM.

    In a fight at San Francisco Jeffries has succeeded in retaining the world's championship, beating Corbett in the tenth round. He has been given a purse of ...

    Article : 40 words
  42. THE KING IN BOHEMIA.

    King Edward has begun his cure at Marienbad, in Bohemia. He has suffered considerable annoyance during his daily promenades from the curiosity of tactless ...

    Article : 53 words
  43. KILLED BY A TRAIN.

    Thomas Reid, a fireman employed at the Worsley mills, was cut to pieces by a train near West Collie on Saturday night. How Reed got on to the line is not known. ...

    Article : 36 words
  44. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MEAT

    Mr. E. Burney Young, manager of the South Australian produce depot in London, has obtained a large contract from the War Office for the supply of Mr. L. Conrad's ...

    Article : 43 words
  45. THE LATE POPE LEO.

    Telegrams from Rome allege that the sum of £280,000 has been found in the rooms of the late Pope Leo at the Vatican, together with a jewelled [?]ara, which his Holiness ...

    Article : 45 words
  46. NEW ZEALAND.

    At the provincial football matches Otago beat Wairarapa by 15 to 3; Taranaki beat Hawkesbay by 11 to 3; Auckland beat Thames by 16 to 3. ...

    Article : 55 words
  47. QUEENSLAND.

    In connection with the proposal to send a Queensland exhibit to the forthcoming show in Melbourne Mr. Philp expresses the opinion that the Agricultural Department ...

    Article : 82 words
  48. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A boat containing 30 passengers collided with a steamer at Kieff, in Russia, and 18 were drowned. General von Einem has been appointed ...

    Article : 55 words
  49. Advertising

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