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  2. NEWS BY CABLE.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— The "Montreal Star," a leading daily paper of Canada, replying to German criticisms, says that 18,000 Canadians and Australians have ...

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  3. NEWS BY CABLE.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— The snow is fifteen feet deep in Derbyshire, and the railways are still blocked. The Commonwealth Postmaster-General has ...

    Article : 67 words
  4. COUNCILS OF STATE.

    Why there should have been no business papers available yesterday afternoon when the House met, no man, outside a select circle, knoweth. It may have been that the Government wished to ...

    Article : 142 words
  5. Advertising

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  6. ROSEBERY'S "MANLY PROTEST."

    LONDON, December 18.— Mr. C. T. Ritchie, the Home Secretary, speaking at Kensington last night, said that Lord Rosebery had done a great service to the country by his manly ...

    Article : 56 words
  7. Germany and Venezuela.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— The "New York Herald" states that Germany has informed the United States that, while she is about to compel Venezuela to pay the just ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. ORIGINAL RESEARCH.

    Dr. Ross is so venerable and picturesque of aspect that his long, and involved, and time-wasting interrogations are always received with much more deference and toleration than, would ...

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  9. EX-PRESIDENT KRUGER.

    A Brussels telegram to the London "Daily Graphic" of November 12 says: "In Boer circles it is stated that the Irish Nationalist party have offered to secure for ex-President Kruger the ...

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  10. GERMANS AND POLES.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— Religious instruction in German has been abandoned in the schools at Wreschen. It is feared this will encourage insubordination in other ...

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  11. ROSEBERY'S SPEECH.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— The French and Dutch newspapers are disappointed with Lord Rosebery's speech. They expected he would side with Sir H. ...

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  12. THE MANCHURIA QUESTION

    LONDON, December 18.— Prince Ching is more favorable to Great Britain than was Li Hung Chang. The United States, Great Britain, and Japan ...

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  13. RATS.

    Of Mr. See, Dr. Ross inquired as follows yesterday afternoon:— "How are the ordinary public to distinguish between rats that are healthy from those dying from disease or bubonic rat plague? ...

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  14. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— In the Belgian House of Representatives Dr. Beernaert, the Minister of State, combated M. Van der Velde's proposal for Belgian ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. VICTORIAN DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE.

    LONDON, December 18.— Sir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, is experiencing great difficulty in securing for that State a Director of Agriculture with the ...

    Article : 53 words
  16. MILITARY.

    Our Glen Innes correspondent writes: With reference to the proposal of Mr. Sawers, M.P., as to the formation of a mounted corps in Glen Innes, he has been informed by the ...

    Article : 112 words
  17. ANCIENT HISTORY.

    But it is in a paragraph a little further down the business paper that the peculiarly inquisitive bump of Dr. Ross's cranium manifests itself most notably. After requesting the Premier to obtain ...

    Article : 355 words
  18. THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— Sir Robert Hart, the Director of the Chinese Maritime Customs, states that the receipts from the native Customs pledged for the payment ...

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  19. FLOODS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

    LONDON, December 18.— Great floods have occurred in the State of Pennsylvania (U.S.). doing damage to the amount of 4,000,000dol (£800,000). At Pittsburg the damage was ...

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  20. TALLOW SALES.

    LONDON, December 18, 1.30 p.m.— At the tallow sales to-day 1075 casks were offered, of which 750 were sold. Prices were as follow:— Fine mutton 34s 6d, medium 30s 6d; fine ...

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  21. THE ROBBERY AT GRACE BROS.

    At the Central Police Court this morning, Walter Donovan, 19, laborer, was, before Mr. F. W. Edwards, S.M., on a charge of having insufficient lawful means of support. This was ...

    Article : 128 words
  22. The Hawkesbury Outbreaks

    WINDSOR, Thursday.— The bush fires reported yesterday have been somewhat subdued by the large number of beaters fighting the flames, and through having burnt themselves out in many ...

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  23. TROOPER TASKER RELEASED.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— Trooper Tasker was to-day released from the military prison at Gosport. AUCKLAND, Thursday.— The Premier has ...

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  24. MINING SHARES.

    LONDON, December 18.— The following were yesterday's closing quotations:— Chillagoe Railway and Mines, 2s: Mount Lyell, £3 17s 6d; North Mount Lyell, £1 15s. ...

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  25. BAR SILVER.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.35 p.m.— Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s l5/8d per ounce standard, a rise of 1/8d. ...

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  26. COPPER AND LEAD.

    LONDON, December 18.— Copper, spot, £50 2s 6d, a further decline of 22s 6d per ton; three months, £50 7s 6d, a relapse of 17s 6d per ton. Lead, sofe foreign £10 10s, a fall of 1s ...

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  27. TO-MORROW'S AUCTIONS.

    (For Auction Advertisements see page 1) Stock-in-Trade, Furniture, Rifles, underclothing, etc., at 453 Harris-street, Pyrmont, at 11, by Hyam Hains. ...

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  28. A NURSE HONORED.

    LONDON, December 18, 2.30 p.m.— The King to-day decorated Nursing Sister Williamson, of the New Zealand Contingent, with the Royal Red Cross. ...

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  29. A STEAMER AGROUND.

    FORSTER, Thursday.— The steamer Kingsley, on going out this morning, grounded on the bar. She will probably get off on this afternoon's tide. A tug is standing by. The sea is smooth, and ...

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  30. THE PREMIER.

    Whilst Mr. See is distinctly adept at affording information on abstruse matters concerning bacteriology and archeology, a simple little question such as "What are you going to do about the ...

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  31. METHUEN'S A.D.C.

    LONDON, December 18. 2.30. p.m.— Captain Conway Mason, of the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, has been appointed A.D.C. to Lieutenant General Lord Methuen. ...

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  32. WOOLLAHRA SHOOTING CASE.

    At the Paddington Police Court to-day, the case against the three young men who are on remand on a charge of in company breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Captain Michel Carey, ...

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  33. A £35 VERDICT.

    The hearing of the District Court action brought by Thomas Elliott, trading as Thomas Elliott and Company, and Robert Roberts, carcase butcher, of 700 Harris-street, Ultimo, and Glebe Island ...

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  34. IMPORTANT CAPTURES.

    LONDON, December 18.— Commandant Kruitzinger, while attempting to cross a line of blockhouses near Hanover Road Station, Cape Colony, was severely wounded and was ...

    Article : 94 words
  35. THE TORRIDON.

    Word was received in Sydney this morning to the effect that the ship Torridon, which left Newcastle on August 13 for Astoria (West Coast of America), had not been heard of since she left ...

    Article : 402 words
  36. KITCHENER'S WEEKLY REPORT.

    LONDON, December 18.— Lord Kitchener telegraphs to the War Office:— "Since my last a week ago columns report 31 Boers killed, 7 wounded, 372 prisoners, 48 surrenders. ...

    Article : 57 words
  37. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    LONDON, December 18.— Private W. Kohler, of the 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric fever at Watervalonder. ...

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  38. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    LONDON; December 18.— The King has personally decorated Lieutenant A. C. Doxat with the Victoria Cross. (Lieutenant A. C. Doxat is a son of Mr. E. T. ...

    Article : 115 words
  39. A PROTEST FROM CAPETOWN.

    LONDON, December 18.— The Vigilance Committee at Capetown has passed a resolu tion protesting against the suggestion made by Sir H. Campbell Bannerman for the ...

    Article : 108 words
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