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  2. NEWS BY CABLE.

    LONDON, July 8, 2.36 p.m.—The Forbidden City has been closed to the public preparatory to refurnishing for the return of the Court to Pekin. ...

    Article : 65 words
  3. THE STATE CABINET.

    Ministers held a long sitting in Cabinet yesterday evening, and dealt with several important questions. In regard to the vacant Justice portfolio, it was decided, after mature consideration, ...

    Article : 384 words
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  5. NEWS BY CABLE.

    LONDON, July 8, 2.36 p.m.—Dozens of cablegrams have passed between President Kruger and General Louis Botha, the latter urging the acceptance of the terms offered by Lord Kitchener. ...

    Article : 102 words
  6. THE W.A. RAILWAY STRIKE.

    PERTH (W.A.), Tuesday.—The situation in regard, to the strike of railway laborers continues unchanged. The conference between the executive of the Railway Works Association and the ...

    Article : 263 words
  7. THE PAOTING-FU RAILWAY

    LONDON, July 8.—France has notified China that French troops will permanently guard the railway from Pekin to Paoting-fu. ...

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  8. THE KING.

    LONDON, July 8, 2.36 p.m.—The High Church and Ritualist newspapers denounce as fatuous and inadequate the amendment proposed by the House of Lords' Committee to the declaration against ...

    Article : 135 words
  9. PAY FOR THE BUSHMEN.

    LONDON, July 8, 2.36 p.m.—The War Office is promptly honoring the New South Wales demands on account of the Imperial Bushmen. Mr. H. Copeland, the Agent-General, has received within ...

    Article : 42 words
  10. " WIND-TOSSED BALCONIES."

    "Being a political candidate is not all it's cracked up to be," said one of the aldermen (not a candidate at the recent elections) at Monday night's meeting of the Paddington Council., "To ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. THE AMERICAN PRISONERS

    LONDON, July 8, 2.36 p.m.—The British Government has declined to release the Americans among the prisoners of war. (Early in the campaign an American regiment ...

    Article : 62 words
  12. A BUS DRIVER'S ADVENTURE.

    The Paddington Council, at Monday night's meeting, received a letter from Mr. H. Alexander, bus proprietor, calling attention to the very bad state of the roadway in Hargrave-street, ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. LARGE SUBURBAN CONTRACT.

    For some time past the Leichhardt Council has been in communication with the Water and Sewerage Board with reference to what the council regards as the deficient supply of water to the ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

    LONDON, July 8, 2.36 p.m.—Westminster Abbey will be closed for three months prior to the coronation of the King and Queen. ...

    Article : 28 words
  15. IN ORANGE RIVER COLONY.

    LONDON, July 8, 2.36 p.m.—Rimington's Scouts took a Boer position, in Orange River Colony, on the 5th instant, capturing 19 of the enemy, including Commandant Barkhuizen, an ...

    Article : 214 words
  16. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    LONDON, July 8.—The Duke of Cornwall ana York will on September 16 open as a park the Plains of Abraham, Quebec, will lay the stone of a memorial to soldiers who have fallen in South ...

    Article : 287 words
  17. MR. W. ARCHER, M.L.A.

    Prior to the business of the Burwood Council being entered upon on Monday night, the Mayor (Alderman W. G. Crane) took occasion to congratulate Alderman W. Archer on his re-election ...

    Article : 208 words
  18. MINISTERS AS LICENSED VICTUALLERS.

    The feet that the Government, in resuming certain portions of the city, has taken over twentynine hotels is causing some trouble to Ministers. It appears they do not wish to he regarded as ...

    Article : 136 words
  19. MARKET FOR ARTISTS' MODELS.

    Children of the sunny south, all of whom, they congregate daily round the fountain of the Place Pigalle, Paris, from November to June, and there they wait, undeterred by frost, snow, or rain; ...

    Article : 304 words
  20. A BOAT WASHED ASHORE.

    FORSTER, Tuesday.—A boat bearing no same was found on the beach on Monday, between here and Halliday's Point. It is supposed to have been washed ashore during the late gales. The ...

    Article : 54 words
  21. THE MAYOR'S VALEDICTORY.

    The Mayor of Sydney (Sir James Graham) addressed his committee for the Belmore Division election at the Cambridge Club Hotel Hall on Monday night. There was a very large attendance, and ...

    Article : 771 words
  22. A GIFT OF FLAGS.

    At Monday night's meeting of the Leichhardt Council a letter was received from the Government Architect's office, stating that, in accordance with the decision of the Minister for Works ...

    Article : 110 words
  23. THE PHILIPPINES.

    LONDON, July 8.—General Bellarmine and 1000 Filipinos, with 284 rifles, have surrendered to the United States authorities. ...

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  24. IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, July 8.—On July 3 three of the Scottish Horse were killed and nine wounded at Elandshoek (on the Delagoa Bay railway, 176 miles east of Pretoria). ...

    Article : 90 words
  25. HUNGARY.

    LONDON, July 8.—The "Times" states that a French syndicate is investing 60,000,000fr. (about £2,400,000) in Hungary, where enterprise is now less dependent on the German market ...

    Article : 31 words
  26. KING DIVISION.

    Mr. E. C. V. Broughton, the successful candidate for the King Division, addressed a number of the electors of that constituency in the Protestant Hall on Monday night. Captain Douglas ...

    Article : 555 words
  27. THE FROZEN MEAT.

    LONDON, July 8, 2.36 p.m.—The London and India Docks joint committee is erecting at the Royal Albert Docks additional storage for 200,000 carcasses of sheep. ...

    Article : 92 words
  28. GENERAL BOTHA.

    LONDON, July 8.—General Botha, who was recently reported to be encamped on the high veldt east of the Springs, has returned towards Ermelo (sixty-three miles south-west of ...

    Article : 35 words
  29. A SCHOOL STORY.

    On the "Leodienslan"—which is the organ of the Leeds Grammar School—there is (says the "Outlook") a treasure of a journalist, who unites in one person an observing eye and a ...

    Article : 178 words
  30. THE BRUGHSPRUIT ENGAGEMENT.

    LONDON, July 8.—Details of the attack on two blockhouses on the Delagoa Bay railway, near Brughspruit, on the night of June 26, state that 200 men of Ben Viljoen's commando attempted to ...

    Article : 159 words
  31. BAR SILVER.

    LONDON, July 8, 2.35 p.m.—Bar silver is to-day quoted at 2s 3d per ounce standard. ...

    Article : 21 words
  32. BURWOOD SEWERAGE.

    On June 13 last the Burwood Council wrote to the Water and Sewerage Board, drawing attention to the necessity for laying reticulation sewers in that portion of the municipality in ...

    Article : 93 words
  33. A CASE OF ABSENTMINDEDNESS.

    Some stories about absent-minded men are rather difficult to swallow; but a correspondent, of whose integrity we are convinced, vouches for the following: "I have (he says) a friend, still at ...

    Article : 90 words
  34. DAIRIES SUPERVISION.

    At Monday night's meeting of the Burwood Council, a letter was read from the actingsecretary, Board of Health, forwarding copy of a report made by a veterinary officer of the ...

    Article : 195 words
  35. LIEUTENANT TOLLMER.

    LONDON, July 8.—Lieutenant Tollmer, of South Australia, who has been in hospital, is convalescent, and has resumed duty. ...

    Article : 22 words
  36. A STORY OF VLAKFONTEIN.

    LONDON, July 8,—Mr. Edgar Wallace, in a letter to the "Daily Mail," gives a sensational narrative regarding the battle at Vlakfontein, on May 29. ...

    Article : 92 words
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