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  2. Sporting.

    The weather at the present time promises to be fine for the second day's races at Caulfield, and the racing good. The content for the Cup will be a grand one, and at the time of writing it looks as if all the horses left in will ...

    Article : 796 words
  3. SECOND EDITION.

    The Central Criminal Court was occupied to-day with a case of fraudulent insolvency against Robert Carter, who has figured so prominently before the public lately. When the court ...

    Article : 151 words
  4. TO-DAY'S CABLES.

    LONDON, October 18.—The trial trip of the New Zealand steamship Tongariro took place on the river Clyde to-day, when a speed, of 14½ knots was attained. ...

    Article : 34 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 160 words
  6. Shipping.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 780 words
  7. Victorian Railways.

    LONDON, October 18.—There are several eligible applicants for the position of chairman of the Victorian railways. ...

    Article : 21 words
  8. South Australian News.

    In the Assembly yesterday the Crown Lands Bill and the Government Farm Bill passed their third reading, and now await the consideration if the Council. The District Councils Act ...

    Article : 277 words
  9. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 140 words
  10. Italy and the Vatican.

    VIENNA, October 18.—There are rumours of the Austrian Government tendering its good offices for a mediation between the Vatican and Italy, with the object of bringing about the ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. France aud China.

    HONGKONG, October 18.—The Chinese Government having failed to arrive at an understanding with France on the Tonquin question, the former is preparing to block the port of ...

    Article : 41 words
  12. Newcastle Items.

    The new locomotive on the Great Northern line did a trial trip yesterday to Maitland and back. The engine was made in Glasgow, and ran at an average of 60 miles an hour, two miles being ...

    Article : 251 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 93 words
  14. Commercial News.

    LONDON, October 18.—The weekly returns of the Bank of England show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 43 per cent., and the total reserve in notes and gold £13,000,000. Tin, ...

    Article : 47 words
  15. Oriental Bank.

    LONDON, October 18.—The court of directors if the Oriental Bank Corporation reccommend the payment of no dividend for the past half year, bat that £30,000 be carried to the reserve. ...

    Article : 33 words
  16. The Potost's Mails.

    LONDON, October 18.—The mails by the Orient Co.'s steamship Potosi, which left Melbourne on September 5, were delivered to-day. ...

    Article : 24 words
  17. The Selectors' Conference.

    At a special meeting of the Crookwell Land Reform League it was resolved that Messrs. Howard (president) and Broderick (secretary) should represent the league at the coming ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. Showing his Teeth.

    One of those political mysteries which occasionally arise to puzzle those who are curious enough to try to understand them was solved in the Assembly on Tuesday last. The rupture between ...

    Article : 1,540 words
  19. CABLE MESSAGES.

    LONDON, October 17.—It is announced that 20,000 people have been rendered homeless by the earthquake in Anatolia. ...

    Article : 28 words
  20. Insolvency Court.

    W. E. Thornton and S. C. Thornton, trading as Thornton Bros., of Sydney, Stonemasons. Liabilities, £85 2s 9d; assets, £5. Mr. L. T. Lloyd, official assignee. ...

    Article : 141 words
  21. MEMS.

    Mr. Nolan's nomination of bay horse Respite, 6 years old, was accidentally omitted from the list of the Sydney Cup and Anniversary Handicap. The entries of Daughter of the Regiment, Kingdom, and Morceau were received too ...

    Article : 88 words
  22. Newcastle Items.

    Yesterday's exports consisted of 750 tons of coal, 8940 spokes, 80 tons of cote, to Adelaide, 270 tons of coal to Napier, 2000 tons to Hongkong, via Sydney; 900 to Launceston, and 3611 to ...

    Article : 61 words
  23. Victorian Sporting.

    There was a great amount of betting done during the morning either under the verandah or at Bowes. The scratching of Sweet William has caused a few to invest upon Belmont, while The Gem also finds some support. ...

    Article : 143 words
  24. New Guinea Expedition.

    LONDON, October 17.—General Mac Iver reports that £20,000 have been subscribed in aid of his expedition to New Guinea, and 500 persons have applied to join the expedition. ...

    Article : 34 words
  25. Accidental Death.

    Yesterday the coronor held an inquest on the remains of Mr. George Alexander Single, J.P., who was killed on Wednesday. The inquiry disclosed the fact that the deceased had been riding ...

    Article : 92 words
  26. Deputations.

    A deputation, consisting of Messrs. M'Culloch, Parves, adn Holtermann, M.'s L.A., and Messrs. John Graham, F. Ferrier, J.T. Wilshire, C. H. Smith, J. J. Cooper, F. H. Hodson, J. M. Tayler, P. R. ...

    Article : 121 words
  27. A Timely Warning.

    LONDON, October 18.—Mr. Coutts Trotter, in a letter to the "Times," warns the public against the dangers which surround General Mac Iver's expedition to New Guinea. ...

    Article : 30 words
  28. Commercial.

    Business in the import market continues remarkably quiet, and no transactions of any public interest have transpired during the day. Candles are very scarce at the moment, and command lOd per lb for ...

    Article : 383 words
  29. The County Franchise.

    LONDON, October 18.—The Parliamentary Conference, which is now assembled, has resolved that the county franchise question shall precede the scheme of London municipal reform in ...

    Article : 37 words
  30. Late Shipping.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 words
  31. Gas Explosion.

    Through some defect in the gas chandelier on the premises of Messrs. Lloyd and Hoborow, drapers, George-street, last evening, an explosion took place. Two constables happened to be passing, and at once ...

    Article : 62 words
  32. Blayney Items.

    A Marsh and Tapp's cattle sales, the following prices were realised:—Fat Cattle: £6 to £8 12s [?] overage price £7 11s 1d; best beef is selling at 32s 6d per 100lb; store helfers, from ...

    Article : 101 words
  33. Massacres in Anam.

    LONDON, October 18.—The "Figaro" asserts that French sailors and marines at Hue, in Anam, have butchered the people by hundreds. They gave their victims no quarter, and even ...

    Article : 36 words
  34. BRIDGE APPROACHES AT CANTERBURY.

    A deputation from this place waited on the Minister of Works to ask that a certain road approaching the bridge at Canterbury might be made and metalled. The Minister said he would cause inquiries to be made ...

    Article : 45 words
  35. A Foolish Joke.

    A boy named Thomas Patrick Flynn, 11 years of age, was taken to the hospital yesterday erasing suffering from slight concussion of the brain and a few bruises to the right side of the head. It appears that some ...

    Article : 85 words
  36. BRIDGE OVER GEORGE'S RIVER.

    Mr. J. Mackay and the Mayor of Liverpool were introduced by Mr. M'Culloch to the Minister of Works, their object being to ask that a sum of money should be placed on the estimates to construct a bridge over George's River. The minister said if ...

    Article : 91 words
  37. The Trial of O'Donnell.

    LONDON, October 18.—The trial of O'Donnell, for the murder of James Carey, which was to have taken place this week, has been postponed until November. ...

    Article : 32 words
  38. Charge against Ministers.

    Sir John Robertson yesterday moved the adjournment of the House for the purpose of referring to and denying as totally false the statements made by Mr. John M'Elhone, that he had abased his position ...

    Article : 100 words
  39. Wagga Items.

    2198 acres of land were selected at the Wagga land office yesterday. A meeting or the committee, deputed at the free selectors' meeting on Saturday last to ...

    Article : 133 words
  40. The Insurrection in Portugal.

    LISBON, October 17.—The latest news in regard to the Republican rising in western Portugal says that the troops which were sent against the insurgents have succeeded in quelling the ...

    Article : 37 words
  41. The Corporation Officials.

    At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a special meeting of the Council was held, in pursuance of a resolution duly passed at a former meeting, for the purpose of inquiring into the working of the engineers' department. ...

    Article : 708 words
  42. WANTS NEAR NEWCASTLE.

    Mr. Melville, M.L.A., introduced a deputation, consisting of the aldermen of Plattsburg and Walls-end. Their object was to ask that the railway bridge now being constructed over the Cookie Creek should ...

    Article : 72 words
  43. The Waroonga.

    LONDON, October 17.—The Queensland mail steamship Waroonga arrived at Aden yesterday homeward. ...

    Article : 16 words
  44. Heath Under Chloroform.

    This morning Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., city coroner, held an inquest on the body of John Dowd, who died at too hospital yesterday, from the effects of chloroform administered for the purpose of enabling him to ...

    Article : 191 words
  45. THE SYDNEY HOSPITAL.

    The deputation appointed at a public meeting held a few days ago at the Protestant Hall re the removal of the hospital, on Friday waited on the Colonial Secretary to lay before him the resolutions then passed. ...

    Article : 298 words
  46. FARM PRODUCE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 555 words
  47. LATEST TELEGRAMS.

    The Governor has signed a warrant for the extradition to New Zealand of C. Smyth, a bank clerk, who is charged with embezzlement from a bank at Auckland. ...

    Article : 381 words
  48. Gundagai Items.

    The following selections were taken up at the Gundagai Lands Office yesterday:—Janet Dwyer, 320 acres, Nanangroe; Allan M'Kinnon, 60 acres, Brungle; Lawrence Roche, 100 acres, ...

    Article : 187 words
  49. The Horticultural Fete.

    The horticultural fete in the Exhibition, Prince Alfred Park, in aid of the building fund of St. Thomas's Church, North Shore, was commenced yesterday. The fete comprises a horticultural display ...

    Article : 226 words
  50. The Theatres.

    A change in the order of things at the Theatre Royal commences to-morrow night. "Pluck," which we are glad to know, for Mr. Bland Holt's sake, if for no other, has beet a ...

    Article : 134 words
  51. Parramatta Items.

    The spring show of the Parramatta Horticultural Society was opened yesterday afternoon at the Town Hall. There was a fine display of plants and flowers. Oaring the evening a promenade ...

    Article : 83 words
  52. Tenders Accepted.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 words
  53. A Let-off.

    A respectable-looking young man named Oliver Fate was charged before Mr. Dillon on Friday with embezzling the sum of 25s. It appeared that he was in the employ of a Mr. Christie, contracting to ...

    Article : 219 words
  54. Lismore News.

    The average yield of cane at Lismore so far will be 80 to 100 tons per acre, which, at the average density of 10deg gives from five tons sugar per acre upwards. ...

    Article : 39 words
  55. STOCK EXCHANGE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 words
  56. Queensland News.

    The weather is very oppressive; a storm ia threatening. Bishop Hale consecrated St. Paul's Church of England, at Rockhampton, yesterday. About ...

    Article : 163 words
  57. Temora in miner Items.

    Allan sad Bushell have crushed the tailing saved from their washing up. Thirty tons yielded 47oz making about 100oz for three weeks' work. Lucas and party washed up a machineful today. ...

    Article : 58 words
  58. Carriage of Railway Rails.

    In answer to question put by Mr. Poole yesterday, the Minister of Public Works stated that the carriage per ton for rails for extensions was 4d per mile for about distances. For such a distances as ...

    Article : 62 words
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