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needl.es
"Short, Sharp, bJiiny.
Copper is quoted at £51 5/ a ton.
The Peter's beat the Alfred's easily.
Wireless telegraphy across the Atlantic.
Further captures of Boers are reported.
The Christmas "Chronicle" has sold out.
Nurse Bidmead has applied for transport
duty. •
Mr. Cohen is distributing Christmas
cheer.
Further casualties to Australasians are re
ported. -
, Three. fatal accidents are reported from
- Sydney. • '
Bill Martin is going to settle do to as an
hotelkeeper. •
The Governor-General has assented to the
Kanaka Bill.
Lord Bosebery condemned the atrocities
of the Boers.
••'The Glasgow'4Exhibition was attended by
11,497,220 persons. .
"The Council Compromises." Bead "The
"Advertiser" leader. >
'British Consols (Gosehen's 2? per cents)
have risen £1 17/6.
Nurse Glennie has returned f;o South
'Africa from Bngland.
MacLaren declares that his team owes its
' victory, to the .bowling. . A
. Widespread interest is manifested in
Lord Boseberr's speech.
Mr. A. C. Moller, of Goodwood, was
found dead at his house.
General Botha has been deprived of his
highest signalling station. . .
Alexander Cowan & Sons have issued a
beautiful calendar for 1902.
The students will present a programme at
; the "Com." this afternoon. . -
■ The prospects of an early termination of
the war are now improving.
The Wafiowav accident inquest was con
cluded on Tuesday afternoon.
The threatened attack on the Peacock
Government has fallen through.
Major Carroll, a Queenslander, has been
attached to the B.F. Artillery.
MacLaren is proud of the victory of the
Englishmen in the lest cricket match.
The cattle steamer Tangier, from Wynd
ham to Fremantle, is two days overdue.
The Council Opposition will not insist
upon the Constitution Bill amendments.
• John Gavin, of Wellington, New South
Wales, has died at the age of 105 years.
Henry McCormack, a lamp-trimmer, was
lost overboard from the steamer Herbert.
Donations wanted towards the Murray
Flats distressed farmers' seed wheat fund.
A New South Wales girl dreaded school
work so much that she committed suicide.
No fewer than 15,000 people applied for
tickets to hear Lord Bosebery speak on tiie
war, -
' J. Darling is of the opinion that tlie Eng
lish Eleven lias been very much under
rated.
A team renresenting the 1st Begiment
of Infantry will leave for. Ballarat next
week.
Tne Danish barque Cimbria has been
towed to Sydney, having been damaged in a
storm. •
Owing to the drought the parcels post to
• Arltunga Inns had' to be temporarily sus
pended. .
It was a waste of time to make those
amendments to the Constitution Bill in the
Council. - .
.Three then have been arrested at Albany
for having assaulted three non-unionist
lumpers. ; .
Lord Bosebery. would not listen to over
tures from Mr. Kruger and his exiled Go
vernment.
- Mr. T. H. Jones. Musi Bae., will preside
at the organ in the Conservatorium this
afternoon.
Patriotic Polish women have resolved ta
boycott German governessets, shops, and
newspapers.
The trouble- .with reference to the ap
pointment of the first Bishop of Bendigo
still continues.
A married woman living in Melbourne
has been brutally assaulted by a man un
known to her.
• The English • captain considers that the
Australian Eleven was the best that could
have been chosen.
The jury thought the Walloway accident
r was caused by the driver of the up train
' running past the siding.
7 Three horses were struck down by light
ning.while working in n stripper on a farm
not far from Port Pixie.
"A Supplementary Financial Statement"
is the subject of the second leader in "The
' Advertise!"" this morning.
The German authorities are reported to
, be ill-treating the Polish • people in the
eastern provinces of Prussia.
Admiral Sir Nathaniel Bowd.en-Smitb
supports Admiral Beaumont's proposals for
the naval defence of Australia.
Mr. Morgans, the Premier of West Aus
tralia. is going to consult the Governor with
regard to a dissolution of Parliament.
The Liverpool Bank lost £163,804
through Goudie's frauds. Gambling debts
mopped up most of the stolen money.
A deputation waited on the Commissioner
of Public Works to-day regarding the ex
tension of the broad gauge in the south
east.
In view of the unsatisfactory state of the
railway revenue it is necessary that savings
should be effected to avert further taxa
■ tion.
"You will, I know, rejoice with me over
. my honors, but I do wish some of the other
nurses could share in them."—Nurse Bid
mead.' -
' The Engineers' and Firemen's Association
at Broken Hill has passed a resolution de
clining to accept the proposed reduction of |
wages. 44
Prince Citing has asked Bussia to pre
sent a more precise statement as to what |
site wishes inserted in the Manchurian
treaty. . ■.
• Mi". A. B. Moncriefi's report on th'er South
Australian section of the West Australian
railway is being considered by the Federal
Government.
It is intended .. to summon Commander
Desselinann, of the. Prinji-Begent Luitpold,
in Melbourne, for alleged breaches or the
Customs Act. •
Mr. Barton states that it is still the in
. iention of the Federal Government not to
take further steps just now to send more
trcops to-South Africa.
. The jury disagreed and were discharged
in the case against Acland Oronhyatekha, I
who is accused of having assaulted a lady ]
typewriter at Melbourne.
A number of probationary officers of the
1st Begiment of Infantry passed their
theoretical and practical examinations, and
are entitled to commissions.
The Premier of New South Wales re
fuses to make any, recommendation to the
Commonwealth Government.with regard to
the site for the Federal capital.
The Federal Cabinet has agreed that the
Commonwealth should accept the obliga
tions of the several States in the matter
of the agreements-with the Eastern Ex
tension Telegraph Company:
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