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  2. BREVITIES.

    The Customs revenue received in Sydney yesterday was £6745. Signor Hazon, returned to Sydney this morning from New Zealand by the steamer Mararoa. ...

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  3. FAREWELL TO MR. BARTON.

    At the invitation of the Mayor (Sir Matthew Harris) a large gathering of representative citizens assembled at the Town Ball on Friday afternoon to bid farewell to the Hon. Edmund ...

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  4. THE BOER WAR.

    LONDON, February 2.—The Mayor of Kimberley (Mr. H. A. Oliver) heliographs that the citizens will endure any privations in defence of their honor. ...

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  6. THE FORCES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, February 2.—During the debate on the Address-in-Reply to the Speech from the Throne in the House of Commons last-night, Mr. George Wyndham, Under-Secretary of State for ...

    Article : 298 words
  7. A QUEENSLAND HOWL.

    Queensland has suddenly burst out in fiery opposition to the Cape cable idea. Whether this bellicose attitude is due to the martial spirit at present stalking through the land we are unable ...

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  8. RHODES'S PRIVATE SECRETARY CAPTURED.

    LONDON, February 2, 4.12 p.m.—Mr. Cecil Rhodes's private secretary, Mr. Jourdaan, has been captured by the Boers, while carrying verbal messages from Kimberley. ...

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  9. THE LONDON VOLUNTEERS

    LONDON, February 2, 4.12 p.m.—Three squadrons of the newly formed irregular corps, Kitchener's Light Horse, are ready for the front. Lord Roberts is actively engaged in organising ...

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  10. THE MANSION HOUSE FUND

    LONDON, February 2.—The Mansion House Belief Fund now amounts to £661,300. ...

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  11. DEALING WITH TRAITORS

    LONDON, February 4, 12 p.m.—A corporal of irregulars, who was engaged at Spion Kop, has been shot by the British for shaking hands with an acquaintance, who was in the enemy's lines. ...

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  12. THE MONEY MARKET.

    LONDON, February 2.—The open market rate of discount for three months' bill is [?] higher at 3[?] per cent. The Bank of England rate remains at 4 per cent., to which it was lowered from 4½ ...

    Article : 54 words
  13. CHRISTMAS FARE.

    Many of us have read of the pauper family described by Mr. Bumble, whose head was so insolent as to decline to take some good, strong, wholesome medicine, the same as had been given ...

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  14. WELSH STEAM COAL.

    LONDON, February 2.—Owing to foreign Powers contracting largely for Welsh steam coal, the "Times" expects that famine prices will prevail until the middle of March. ...

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  15. LORD DUNDONALD'S POSITION.

    LONDON, February 2, 4.12 p.m.—Lord Dundonald's troops at the Tugela River have reconnoitred as far as Honger's Poort without being molested. ...

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  16. THE SPION KOP MISSING.

    LONDON, February 2.—There are 215 men missing from Spion Kop, mostly belonging to the Lancashire Fusileers. The report of the speech of General Buller on ...

    Article : 121 words
  17. FRANCE AND BRITAIN.

    LONDON, February 2, 4.12 p.m.—At a memorial service held for French Soldiers in the cathedral at Nimes, France, Father Valney, the preacher, referred to the humiliation of the French at ...

    Article : 57 words
  18. Family Notices

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  19. THE INDIAN FAMINE.

    LONDON, February 2, 4.12 p.m.—The sum of £3,750,000 is to be expended on relief works in ai[?] of the sufferers from the famine in India. ...

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  20. FIRES.

    Between 8 and 9 o'clock last night a fire broke out in the private dwelling of Mr. William Power, of Ivy-street, Darlington, but the flames had been extinguished by the neighbors before the ...

    Article : 124 words
  21. THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING.

    LONDON, February 2.—Colonel Baden-Powell reports from Mafeking that on January 17 he forced the Boers to remove several big guns to ineffective positions. ...

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  22. RUSSIA AND PERSIA.

    LONDON, February 2.—It is stated that the arrangement under which Russia has guaranteed the Persian loan has tied the hands of Persia for 75 years. ...

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  23. NO AMENDMENTS.

    During the complimentary proceedings in the Town Hall yesterday in connection with the departure of Mr. Barton as federal delegate to London, the recipient of unanimous good wishes ...

    Article : 358 words
  24. AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION.

    LONDON, February 2.—During the debate on the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons all references to Australian federation were greeted with cheers. ...

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  26. CAPTURE OF CATTLE.

    LONDON, February 2.—The Cape Police have captured 1000 cattle belonging to the rebel Dutch in the neighborhood of Dordrecht. ...

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  27. THE QUEENSLAND COMMANDANT.

    LONDON, February 2.—Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Finn, of the 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers, who has been appointed Commandant of the Queensland Defence Forces in succession to ...

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    Mr. George Scott, owner of the gold paddock, Canadian lead, died at Gulgong on Friday. Mr. J. Patrick, of Myall Park, has purchased Wondobbie Station, Warren, from Mr. J. A. ...

    Article : 477 words
  29. BOERS INCITING THE BASUTOS TO FIGHT.

    LONDON, February 2, 4.12 p.m.—The "Times" correspondent states that the Boers in the Sterkstroom district are distributing pamphlets printed in the Basuto language inciting the ...

    Article : 48 words
  30. BAR SILVER.

    LONDON, February 2.—Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3[?]d per ounce standard. ...

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  31. THE KENTUCKY SHOOTING AFFAIR.

    LONDON, February 1.—In connection with the recent shooting of Mr. Goebel, the Democratic Senator, who had just been elected Governor of Kentucky, it is stated that the authorities made ...

    Article : 273 words
  32. BOER MERCENARIES.

    LONDON, February 2.—A Hanoverian who is on the staff of the French. Colonel Villebois-Marcuil, who is now with the enemy at Colesberg, declares that 10,000 trained European ...

    Article : 47 words
  33. THE TURNING POINT.

    WAR news is very scarce to-day; in fact, con[?] actual operations there is not much more than the announcement of a reconnaissance by Lord Dundonald, on the Tugela, the significance ...

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  34. THAT HARRIS-ST. TRAM ACCIDENT.

    An elderly man named Andrew Dunn, who was run over by the electric tram in Harris-street on January 20, died at the Sydney Hospital this morning from the effects of the injuries he ...

    Article : 135 words
  35. THE AFRIKANDER BUND.

    LONDON, February 2, 4.12 p.m.—At a meeting of the Capetown branch of the Afrikander Bund, Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, who presided, condemned the Action of Great Britain towards the Cape, in ...

    Article : 60 words
  36. A N.Z. TROOPER ILL.

    LONDON, February 2.—Trooper John Henry Hurford, of No. 2 Company of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry, is reported to be seriously ill. ...

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  38. DISGUSTED VOLUNTEERS.

    LONDON, February 2,—Volunteer officers are profoundly disgusted with the War Office for placing obstacles in the way of the employment of volunteers at the front, and its refusal to allow ...

    Article : 44 words
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