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  2. SPECIAL EDITION.

    LONDON, February 24.—The Palace of tile Governor of Crete at Canea has been destroyed by fire. The fire is believed to have been the work ...

    Article : 153 words
  3. RAILWAY EXTENSION.

    The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, sitting as a Royal Commission, to-day continued the inquiry into the proposed extension of the railway into the city of Sydney. ...

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  4. Federation.

    MACLEAN; Wednesday.—Mr. John See addressed a large meeting of electors here last night. The Mayor occupied the chair. The candidate said the fact of Queensland not consenting to send ...

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  5. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The committee of the Stockton Colliery disaster fund has prepared the following recommendations for the distribution of the fund amongst the sufferers by the disaster: That to the ...

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  6. THE SHARE MARKET.

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  7. Criminal Court.

    The trial of Joseph Horatio Amora on a charge of having in May last stolen the sum of £290, the property of James Walter Kerr, was concluded yesterday. After a lengthy retirement, the ...

    Article : 125 words
  8. TRIAL OF WILLIAM ASTLEY.

    His Honor Mr. Justice Cohen presided this afternoon when William Astley was placed upon his trial on a charge of having at Sydney on August 21, 1896, obtained a sum of £15 ...

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  9. Death of Mr. G. A. Porter.

    Information was received in Sydney to-day that Mr. G. A. Porter, who was for some time manager of the South Coast and West Camden Co-operative Company, Sussex-street, had died at his country ...

    Article : 93 words
  10. Water Police Court.

    Peter Hawkins, 36, traveller, for cruelly ill-treating a horse by working it whilst suffering from sore shoulders, was fined 106, with, an alternative of forty-eight hours. ...

    Article : 130 words
  11. The R.M.S. Orotava.

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  12. Kensington Pony Races.

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  13. A TEMORA COMPLAINT.

    TEMORA, Wednesday.—There is considerable indignation at the parsimony in the conduct of the Federal Convention elections. Hitherto the practice has been to employ a poll clerk to assist the ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. Luddenham Show.

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  15. Mysterious Drowning Case.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The body of the young woman, which was found on Mentone beach on Sunday, has been identified as that of a domestic servant named Martha Woodgate, 22 years of ...

    Article : 152 words
  16. Canterbury Park Pony Races.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 373 words
  17. Woman's Mysterious Death.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Dr. Neild, who made a post-mortem examination of the body of Mrs. Hall, exhumed at Bendigo yesterday, says positively that death was due to suffocation from a forcible ...

    Article : 95 words
  18. New England Anglican Synod

    GLEN INNES, Wednesday.—The Anglican Synod continued its sittings last evening. The most important business dealt with was as follows: Parochial council ordinance, patronage ordinance. The ...

    Article : 173 words
  19. The Mountain Murders.

    The delay that has occurred in connection with the extradition of Butler, alias Horwood, has occasioned, of course, much speculation, and the officials in Sydney, anxious to know the reason of ...

    Article : 166 words
  20. Dynamite Explosion.

    LONDON, February 24.—A disastrous explosion occurred at Nobel's dynamite manufactory at Steventon to-day. Six persons were killed on the spot. ...

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  21. American Wheat Supply.

    LONDON, February 23.—The visible supply of American wheat, according to "Bradstreet's," is estimated at 63,500,000 bushels, against 65,000,000 bushels a week ...

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  22. Central Police Court.

    William J. Corrigan, 40, was charged with stealing a pint measure value 17s 6d, the property of H. B. Butler, licensee of the Premier Coffee Palace HoteL He was arrested last night by Constable ...

    Article : 272 words
  23. Another Mining Company.

    LONDON, February 24.—Burbank's No. 1 South Extended, Coolgardie, has been floated into a company with a capital of £80,000, of which £54,000 will be offered to the ...

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  24. The Weather.

    West Australia: Thundrestorms and heavy showers north from Geraldton; fine in the south. Northern Territory: Heavy local rains and thunderstorms. ...

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  25. Breach of Promise.

    An application was made to the Registrar in Bankruptcy yesterday on behalf of Walter Smith, or Singleton, for a certificate of discharge. The applicant was described as a butcher's assistant ...

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  26. The Late Mr. A. Forster.

    LONDON, February 24.—The will of the late Hon. Anthony Forster, M.L.C., of South Australia, who died in January last at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, has been proved. The ...

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  27. Tenders.

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  28. The Colonial Office.

    LONDON, February 24.—Mr. Edward Wingfield, C.B., one of the assistant Undersecretaries, has been appointed permanent Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office in ...

    Article : 109 words
  29. Parramatta Sewerage.

    Mr. T. Moxham, Mayor of Parramatta, was further examined before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works yesterday regarding the views of the Municipal Council upon ...

    Article : 49 words
  30. A Peculiar Discovery.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Messrs. A. Geouge and mate made a peculiar discovery in the old Avoca lead. They were fossicking for gold, and were taking out dirt from an old drive, when 17ft from ...

    Article : 101 words
  31. Advertising

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  32. Auction Sales.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 words
  33. Deputations.

    Messrs. E. M. Clark and F. Clarke, Ms.L.A., accompanied a deputation from the North Sydney Council to the Minister for Works to-day, and urged that the sewerage works in that municipality ...

    Article : 89 words
  34. Bush Fires Near Penrith.

    PENRITH, Thursday.—Extensive bush fires are raging on the mountains. The nouses on Lapstone Hill had a narrow escape last night from being destroyed. The wind was luckily ...

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  35. In Bankruptcy.

    The applications of Marcus Orpen Hungerford, Evan Robert Williams, George Turner, and Thomas Connor, were adjourned to March 10 to enable the applicants to file affidavits in answer to the report ...

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  36. Queensland Politics.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Hon. Jas. Robert Dickson, who was Treasurer in the notable Griffith Ministry from 1883 to 1887 was this morning sworn in as Minister for Railways and member of the ...

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  37. Late Shipping.

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  38. ROSE BAY TRAM.

    A deputation from the Woollahra Council to-day asked the Minister for Works to have the proposed extension of the tram to Rose Bay carried along Bay and William streets instead of along South ...

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  39. The Wesleyan Conference.

    During a ministerial cession of the Wesleyan Conference held in the Centenary Hall this morning, under the presidency of the Rev. James Woolnough, the status of the native preachers on trial ...

    Article : 240 words
  40. Adelaide Items.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Nearly 400 bootmakers came out on strike this morning, and at a meeting held shortly afterwards the men expressed themselves determined to hold out. Three ...

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  41. A Painful Accident.

    ALBURY, Thursday.—Mr. J. P. Laughton, a musician well known in Victoria and in this colony as matter of the town band, had his first two fingers of the tight hand out off this morning in some ...

    Article : 49 words
  42. Lord Brassey's Accident.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Lord Brassey, who was thrown from his horse on Monday, has so far recovered as to be able to leave his room. ...

    Article : 47 words
  43. Advertising

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