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  2. AMERICA AND SPAIN.

    The leading merchants in Manila have petitioned Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, to prevent Spain from regaining supremacy in the Philippines. ...

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  3. THE CZAR'S PROPOSAL.

    The proposal pat forward by the Czar of Russia for a general disarmament has evoked widespread attention. The foreign press generally is ...

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  4. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

    A terrible tragedy was enacted this morning in a tobacconist's shop in George-street, near the railway station. A tobacconist named Napoleon Jean ...

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  5. INTERCOLONIAL.

    The Mount Gambier Building Society, in liquidation, which was recently involved in litigation, is likely to be subjected to further trouble, the liquidator ...

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  6. IMPORTANT PROPOSAL.

    Some members of Parliament, intend to form an association to be known as the Institute of South Australia. One of the objects will be to establish a ...

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  7. VALUABLE DISCOVERY.

    John Passfield, lately of Western Australia, has made an important discovery of a large pyrites lode in the neighborhood of Macclesfield. The lode, which ...

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  8. RETURN OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS.

    The return to New York from Cuba of the 71st regiment of the American army was made the occasion for a great popular demonstration. ...

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  9. QUEENSLAND.

    Speaking at Rosewood in advocacy of the inoculation of cattle against tick, the Minister of Agriculture advised the farmers and graziers not to put it off in ...

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  10. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Mr. John More, of Gumeracha, at the age of 86. He arrived in the colon in 1840. ...

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  11. ALLEGED ABANDONMENT.

    In the City Police Court to-day Isabelle Moir was committed for trial on a charge of having abandoned an infant. It is alleged that soon after its birth ...

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  12. FREMANTLE

    Miscellaneous.—Hugh Kilpatrick and Mary Davenport, a well-dressed young woman, were separately charged with, drunkenness, and fined lOs. each. James ...

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  13. BURGLARIES.

    Two burglaries are reported from Murray Bridge. The sum of £28 was stolen from the house of Mr. Opie, and a small amount from the residence of a ...

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  14. PEACE COMMISSIONERS.

    The Spanish Government has appointed the following representatives to take part in the Peace Commission which is about to meet in Paris:—Senor Leon ...

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  15. ACCIDENT ON BOARD SHIP.

    Miss Ferule, during the voyage of the steamer Narrung from Cape Town, fell down a coal-bunker and broke her leg. ...

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  16. ROEBOURNE.

    Mr. L. Prince has been appointed mining registrar for West Pilbarra, in succession to Mr. Grimish. Mr. Prince is at present clerk of the courts, and will ...

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  17. TREES AND VINES.

    During the recent season the Forests Department distributed for planting 236,589 trees of various sorts and 21,140 vines. ...

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  18. MOUNT MORGAN MINE.

    The Mount Morgan mine has paid a dividend of 7d. per share for August. This is equal to £29,166. ...

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  19. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Last week, 900 tons of Newcastle coal were shipped to Western Australia. ...

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  20. DEATH FROM "BERI BERL"

    A Chinaman named Chang You, who was suffering from "beri ben," died in the hospital to-day. ...

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  21. TICK BOUNDARY LINE.

    The Cabinet discussed the proposed alteration of the tick quarantine boundaries to-day. It is understood that the line acceptable to New South Wales has ...

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  22. COUNTRY NEWS.

    In the police court August 30. before Mr. Wright, R.M., and Mr. F. Bird, J.P., James Hazel, at the request of his wife, was pat on the prohibited list for 12 ...

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  23. NILE EXPEDITION.

    Refugees from Omdurman report that new earthworks have been constructed by the dervishes and that Osman Digna and one of the Emirs are in the vicinity ...

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  24. CONVICTION QUASHED.

    In the Banco Court to-day a Chinaman appealed against a conviction recorded against him of having carnally known an aboriginal girl under 16 years ...

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  25. FALSE PRETENCES.

    At Broken Hill to-day, William Rite was sentenced to five months imprisonment on two charges of having obtained money by means of valueless cheques. ...

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  26. CONTROL OF WHEAT EXPORT.

    A meeting of farmers to-day formed a company for the control of the export of milling wheat. Mr. J. Darling, of South Australia, created a scene by ...

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  27. ALLEGED LIBEL.

    The action brought by Mr. M. C. Cowlishaw for £2,000 damages from William M'Leod for an alleged libel published in the "Bulletin" in connection ...

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  28. TRADES UNIONISM.

    The 31st annual Trades Union Congress was opened at Bristol to-day. The Chief subject of discussion was that of the federation of the various ...

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  29. CHARGES OF BURGLARY.

    A man named Patrick Chalmers has been committed for trial on several charges of burglary. ...

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  30. NEARING KHARTOUM.

    The Anglo-Egyptian force at Wadi-Obed, which is 18 mills from the Khalifa's advance post at Kerreri, has occupied a camp which had been just ...

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  31. SUSPICIOUS CASE.

    At the inquest held at Bendigo to-day on the skeleton found at 5-Mile Creek, a patient in the hospital said that he knew that two mates at the creek had ...

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  32. MISSING SECRETARY.

    No trace has been discovered of Kitchener, the defaulting Rechabites' secretary, although a diligent search has been made for him for months. ...

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  33. A.J.S. BANK.

    Sir Joseph P. Abbott has resigned his seat on the board of directors of the Australia Joint Stock Bank. He declines to give any reason for his retirement. ...

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  34. LIGHTING OF THE CITY.

    A special meeting of the Adelaide Municipal Council has ratified the provisional agreement with the Electric Light and Motive Power Company for ...

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  35. MUNDIJONG.

    The Mundijong Literary and Debating Society held its fortnightly meeting last Friday. The subject for debate was, The Legalisation of the Totalisator." ...

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  36. INSURANCE RATES.

    During the past six months there has been friction in Sydney over what is practically a combination of leading English insurance companies doing ...

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  37. POLICE COURTS.

    Assault.—George Burkinshaw wag fined 5s. for having assaulted George West, licensee of the Great Western Hotel The informant did not press ...

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  38. THE GORDON BOYS.

    The chaplain of the Gordon Boys' Home at Cobham, Surrey, recently received a letter from General Gatacre, in the Soudan, in which he expressed his ...

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  39. ESPERANCE.

    Hews has been received that a human body has been found at the Thomas River, near the spot where the body of a man named Allan M'Donald was ...

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  40. KALGOORLIE.

    John Power, whose alleged stealing of a purse lay at the foundation of the Thornett-Power shooting sensation, was brought up on Aug. 30on a charge of ...

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  41. GENERAL RAINFALL.

    Sir Charles Todd reports that splendid general rain fell during the last 24 hours. It extended as far north as Hergott. Upwards of an inch and a ...

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  42. ALPINE ACCIDENT.

    Another serious Alpine accident is reported from Switzerland. Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., the celebrated electrical engineer, and his two daughters ...

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  43. FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

    The present famine in Russia is accentuating the distress in that country. In the provinces of Kazan and Yaroslav, where the Restitution is particularly ...

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  44. INDIA.

    The bubonic plague is raging with, renewed virulence in Bombay. Sixty deaths are reported daily. Among the latest victims is Dr. ...

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  45. EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

    The Produce Export Depot last week received 2,940 gallons of wine, 17,000 rabbits, a number of sheep and lambs, and 600 gallons of wine for shipment ...

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  46. DEFENCE FORCES.

    A public meeting at Newtown decided be form a new volunteer regiment, 600 strong, from, the Newtown and South Coast districts. A number of those ...

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  47. ODDFELLOWSHIP.

    The half-yearly meeting of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows was held to-day. There was a credit balance of £200. Satisfactory progress has been ...

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  48. GERALDTON.

    The steamer Albany on Sunday brought from the Nor'-West 100 bullocks for Mr. S. Burges. The animals were in splendid condition, although a ...

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  49. THE WEATHER.

    Rain, the outcome of the disturbance from Western Australia was almost general throughout the colony to-day. ...

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  50. HEAVY MORTALITY.

    During the past week two thousand three hundred deaths from the plague have taken place in the Bombay presidency. ...

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  51. CAPE POLITICS.

    Mr. Rhodes, in a final speech to the electors, said that the whole colony would be with him five years hence, and meanwhile he would continue to advocate the ...

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  52. VICTORIA.

    The action brought by Letitia Williams, widow, against James Christopher, chemist, for damages for the death of her husband, was continued to-day. The ...

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  53. AGED POOR.

    The Royal Commission which was appointed to consider the best means for the alleviation, of the sufferings of the aged poor met to-day, after a two ...

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  54. SHIPPING.

    Departures.—For Sydney-Steamer Prinz Regent Luitpold, 3,920 tons; steamer Ivanhoe, 1,437 tons; ship Dechmont, 1,727 tons; and the dredger ...

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  55. STANDARD TIME.

    Sir Charles Todd, the Postmaster-General, reporting on the proposed alteration of standard time, says:—"Our zone system of time reckoning has met ...

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  56. BUSSELTON.

    In response to a request from the settlers of Newtown, Mr. E. C. B. Locke, M.L.A., addressed a meeting in the Agricultural-hall on Saturday afternoon. ...

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  57. CYCLING.

    Mr. Foster Fraser, who left London on July 17, 1896, with Mr. Edward Loan and Mr. Henry Lowe, cycle round the world, has returned with his two ...

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  58. CHINA.

    Active negotiations between [?] Britain, and Russia in connection [?] the Chinese question are being carrie on between Sir Charles Stewart ...

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  59. R.M.S. ARCADIA.

    The R.M.S. Arcadia, which left to-day, took gold Shipments to London. The National Bank of Australasia sent £20,000 and the Bank of Victoria ...

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  60. FIRE IN SMYRNA.

    A serious fire has occurred at Smyrna, in Asia Minor. The Customs Houses were destroyed. ...

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  61. SAMOAN NEWS.

    King Mabetoa, of Samos, died from [?] typhoid fever on August 22. There consuls, with the Chief Justice as president, from a board of control pending ...

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  62. THE LATE W. K. SIMMS.

    In the Banco Court to-day the will of the late W. K. Simms, a wealthy brewer, was again considered. The questions for decision were whether, before he-died ...

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  63. Advertising

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  64. THE LATE MR. LINDSAY.

    The will of the late Mr. William Lindsay, station-owner, of Woolsthorpe, has been filed for probate. The estate in valued at £62,947, and is bequeathed to ...

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  65. Advertising

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  66. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

    The annual exhibition of the Roya Agricultural Society was opened to-day The entries were the heaviest yet received, the total being 4,450, as against ...

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