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  2. SHIPPING.

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  3. Disastrous Accident Near Yass.

    Yass, Wednesday.—This morning a fatal accident occurred at O'Brien's Swamp, near this town, through the flood. Mr. Olliver, Lands Office Inspector, left Yass for Gunning this morning, in a ...

    Article : 102 words
  4. TELEGRAMS THIS DAY.

    The Grand Duke Nicholas, brother to the Czar, and the Sultan have exchanged visits. In consequence of friendly representations by Russia, the Turkish troops have evacuated Bojukdere, near ...

    Article : 93 words
  5. PARLIAMENT.

    THE PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. Mr. BOURNE RUSSELL presented a petition from 62 inhabitant of the county of Cumberland against the Game Protection Bill. ...

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  6. NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS

    The loss of H.M.S. Eurydice, is a national disaster that will be most keenly felt in Great Britain. This fine vessel, of 5000 tons, has foundered with all her crew, in sight of land, after a ...

    Article : 749 words
  7. Stock and Share Market.

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  8. The Victorian Stock Market.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—1170 head of cattle were yarded, which sold at an advance of fully 10s. 1600 sheep were penued, and prices were fully one shilling lower than last week. ...

    Article : 36 words
  9. Family Notices

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  10. Latest Queensland Items.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—A fatal accident has occurred at Stanthorpe. The eldest son of Mr. Mahoney, the recently appointed postmaster, was accidentally shot. The contents of the gun lodged ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. IMPORTANT POLITICAL CHANGES IN GERMANY.

    An essential modification of the Government of Germany is imminent. By it Count Otho de Stolberg Wernigerode, German Ambassador at Vienna' will partially replace Prince Bismarck. ...

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  12. (Herald's Message.)

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—In the Legislative Council to-day the payment of Members' Bill was read a second time without division. Mr. Cuthbert said it was the intention of the Government to ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. ASTRONOMICAL MEMORANDA FOR MARCH 28.

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  14. THE RUSSIAN OF PEACE.

    The Emperor of Russia is inclined to reduce the terms on which he had been disposed to accept peace, provided Turkey will accept an offer he makes for her to enter into an offensive and ...

    Article : 48 words
  15. CHARGES AGAINST ENGLAND.

    It is semi-officially stated here that the conduct of England in insisting on a submission by Russia of the terms of peace is an act of chicanery, and that it has been done with the view of revealing ...

    Article : 48 words
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    THE Electoral Bill has been introduced into the House in constitutional form, with additions designed to make it more equitable. If the House were willing to go on without any unnecessary ...

    Article : 656 words
  17. Cricket.

    Arrangements have been made for a three days' cricket match at Easter between eleven of Newtown and fifteen chosen from the Grafton district. This interesting contest will take place at the latter place, ...

    Article : 79 words
  18. THE RUSSIANS RETURN HOMEWARD.

    The Russian troops are embarking for home. ...

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  19. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

    Ministers stated in answer to questions: School sites have been granted in the towns of Walgett and Baradine, and the site for the latter place has been measured. It is not at present the intention ...

    Article : 3,064 words
  20. TERRIBLE SHIPPING DISASTER.

    The British training-ship Eurydice has been capsized in the English Channel, and 400 lives were lost. ...

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  21. Heavy Loss of Sheep.

    The Wellington Gazette, reports that 150 sheep were found dead in a paddock at Namma last week, which were believed to have been poisoned by eating the plant known as the wild pea, or indigo, the recent ...

    Article : 59 words
  22. SERIOUS ASPECT OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

    Increased difficulties beset the proposed Congress of European Powers, and telegrams from various European capitals express fears that the present situation will issue in war. Russia is indisposed ...

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  23. Committal for Gas Thieving.

    The case of George Russell, charged with felonously stealing 50,000 cubic feet of carburretted hydrogen gas, goods and chattels of George Mansfield, was again brought on at the Water Police Court to-day, ...

    Article : 214 words
  24. VISIT OP THE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS TO THE SULTAN.

    The GranD Duke Nicholas with a large stuff of officers visited the Sultan. To-day the Sultan returned the visit. The Duke says the Russian Embassy was cheered ...

    Article : 46 words
  25. PEDESTRIAN CONTEST.

    In the pedestrian contest at the Agricultural Hall, O'Leary won the first prize, walking 520 miles. ...

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  26. CATASTROPHE AT SEA.

    The training ship Eurydice, while returning from a training cruise from the West Indies to Spithead, capsized this afternoon, in a squall, off Dunnose Isle. The number lost is 300, including ...

    Article : 50 words
  27. Dead Body Found.

    The dead body of a man, name unknown, was found floating in the water at the Circular Quay. The body was removed to the dead-house, where it awaits identification pending an inquest. The ...

    Article : 87 words
  28. Child Drowned.

    About I o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, a child named Minnie Elizabeth Cox, aged one year and nine months, daughter of William Cox, a farmer at Hen and Chicken Bay, Concord, was found drowned in a ...

    Article : 144 words
  29. DISASTROUS FIRE AT PHILADELPHIA.

    A disastrous fire occurred to-day at Philadelphia. The destruction of property was immense. The Elephant and Castle Hotel and the Theatre were burned down. ...

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  30. The Rabbit Pest.

    The collectors of agricultural statistics have, says the BURRA NEWS, nearly finished their labours. We hear that those for the Hundred of Hallett are completed, and if the same were to be read aloud in ...

    Article : 242 words
  31. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS TO THE EVENING NEWS.]

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Mr. Francis intends opposing Sir Bryan's re-election, and a severe contest is anticipated.——The Governor of New Caledonia, with his aid-de-camp and private secretary, ...

    Article : 131 words
  32. A Seafaring Bigamist.

    William Clementmaville Speeding, master of the steamer Bowen, was on Tuesday, at the Water Police Court, charged with bigamy, he having on the 29th of November, 1877, married with one Emily Conlon,— ...

    Article : 282 words
  33. An Innocent Mail Driver.

    QUEANBEYAN, Thursday.—Bartholomew Moral, mail driver, and son of the well-known contractor down this way, was acquitted yesterday of stealing a watch from a passenger by his coach. The ...

    Article : 51 words
  34. COMMERCIAL.

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  35. University of Sydney.

    A meeting of superior graduates of the University was held yesterday afternoon, at the Academy of Art, Sydney, to consider the question whether the graduates should have a voice in the election of the ...

    Article : 226 words
  36. The English Cholera.

    During the last few weeks several cases of typhoid fever have occurred in the city and suburbs, aud they should act as a caution to everyone to look to the purity of the water consumed. Within the I ...

    Article : 83 words
  37. Heavy Stock Losses.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—A mob of cattle from Glenpearie to Barcoo, became subject to a peculiar attack shortly after passing Clarke's lagoons, a favourite camping ground. Fifty head died within ...

    Article : 76 words
  38. Pedestrianism.

    Watson, now that Carver has accepted his challenge, will have his hands full for some time to come. The match between them was made at Fulford'a Hotel, West Maitland, on Monday evening last. The ...

    Article : 148 words
  39. City Improvements.

    All who pass observingly through the City are doubtless agreeably surprised at the large number of new and handsome buildings being erected in many parts of the metropolis. Besides the magnificent ...

    Article : 388 words
  40. Late Queensland Items.

    BRISBANE. Wednesday.—Captain Moore, late of the Royal Artillery has been appointed paid adjutant of the Queensland Volunteer Force, on the recommendation of Colonel scratchley.—The ...

    Article : 50 words
  41. Fires in the City.

    About 7 o'clock on Tuesday night, an alarm of fire was rained, and on the firemen going to the Park House Hotel in Park-street, it was discovered that the wind had blown a window blind across a table on ...

    Article : 150 words
  42. Heavy Rain at Yass.

    YASS, Wednesdny.—It has rained incessantly here since daybreak yesterday. The heaviest rain for years fell last night and this morning. It still continues pouring. ...

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  43. The Disaster to the Eurydice.

    H.M.S. ship Eurydice, a sixth-rate training ship for ordinary seamen bus, according to our cable messages, capsized in the British Channel, entailing a, loss of 400 lives. The navy list gives the following as the ...

    Article : 114 words
  44. Amusements.

    THE GHOST.—The Ghost at the Guild Hall, Castle-reagh-street, excites the wonderment of the sight-seers. To attempt to convey an idea of this curious phenomenon is almost impassible; ordinary spectral ...

    Article : 75 words
  45. A Flood Expected at Yass.

    YASS, Wednesdsy.—There is every indication now of a great flood. The river is now rising rapidly, and it is already higher than it has been since the flood of 1870. The rain continues. ...

    Article : 40 words
  46. A Cheap Church.

    Our readers, says the Words of Grace, will remember Dr. Somerville recommended a tent, and some young ladies went to work in earnest, and as a proof of their zeal and energy, we have a beautiful ...

    Article : 202 words
  47. The Queensland Governor.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Great preparations are being made at Rockhampton for the reception of Sir Arthur Kennedy. Outside the School of Arts will be a triumphal arch, and a grand ball will be ...

    Article : 40 words
  48. Uttering a forged Cheque.

    At the Central Police Office, this morning,before Messrs. A. Thompson, Waugh, Counell, and Murray, a man, described at a commercial traveller named William Jeffery alina Percy, was brought up by ...

    Article : 96 words
  49. Accident Through Jumping from a Train.

    A female passenger by one of the early trains from Parramatta this morning was rather severely hurt by stepping from the carriage on to the Croydon platform while the train was in motion. She was ...

    Article : 72 words
  50. Anarchy on the Barcoo.—Debauchery—Shooting—Arson.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Anarchy reigns supreme on the Barcoo. Intelligence from Whittington Station, states that law and order have fled from the whole district, and the ...

    Article : 102 words
  51. Interruption to Railway Traffic.

    The heavy rains which fell in the southern districts yesterday, caused the submergence of the southern line of railway between Binalong and Murrumburrah, and the train from Sydney, yesterday, ...

    Article : 72 words
  52. Produce Merchants' Picnic.

    The Sydney produce merchants are having an outing to-day with their families and friends. The steamer Coonanbara steamed gaily down the harbour this morning, with a large party on board, bound for ...

    Article : 54 words
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