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  2. THE PREMIER'S TOUR.

    If anything could have convinced the premier and his party of the necessity for the construction of a railway from Mudgee to Cobbora it was the magnificent country ...

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  3. THE ENGLISH MAILS.

    The Orient Company's steamer Ormuz, which left London on April 7, embarks mails for Australia at Naples. The "Times" states that her crew is ...

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  4. SPECIAL CABLES.

    It is reported at Tangier, Morocco, that a German mission is proceeding to Fez with a draft treaty of commerce. The Paris "Temps" quotes documents ...

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  5. BALTIC FLEET.

    The Baltic fleet, four abreast, looking magnificent, but in a foul condition, steamed fast Singapore on Saturday, seven miles but, and disappeared at 5 o'clock in the ...

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  6. COMMENTS ON THE SITUATION.

    The impression of English and European naval experts is that the Japanese will engage in battle with the Baltic fleet off the Japanese coast. Hence it is not anticipated ...

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  7. SETTLEMENT EFFECTED.

    The mail contract trouble has now been settled, a definite agreement having been come to between the Postmaster-General and the Orient Company. The service will start ...

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  8. THE VISIT TO GULGONG

    In his speech on Saturday Mr. Carruthers said he had reason to believe that the accumulated overdraft would be reduced below the amount which he forecasted in the budget ...

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  9. INDIAN EARTHQUAKE.

    The "Daily Express" reports that it is officially estimated that the casualties by the great earthquake on Tuesday last in Northern India were 20,000, half being in ...

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  10. STATEMENT BY MR. REID.

    The Prime Minister, seen by a press representative this afternoon, and asked a few questions about the mail contract, said:—"I have just received a telegram to the effect ...

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  11. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Five hundred Chinese coolies on Sunday afternoon broke out of a compound and tried to reach Johannesburg. The police arrested 28, and compelled the rest ...

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  12. A CRYPTIC UTTERANCE.

    Sir Edward M'Callum, the Governor of Natal, in unveiling a war memorial at Durban on Saturday, observed that a war cloud was always present in South Africa. ...

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  13. LADY CURZON ENDANGERED.

    The earthquake in Upper India on Tuesday caused the stone chimney of a room of the vice-regal lodge at Simla, above Lady Curzon's apartments, to fall and ...

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  14. CALAMITIES IN SPAIN.

    The new waterworks reservoir which was in course of construction at Madrid, and formed a quadrilateral 300 metres (984 feet) long by 150 metres (492 feet) ...

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  15. A WET AND MUDDY DEPUTATION.

    Shortly before noon a contingent of pastoralists and farmers arrived from Cobbora, and increased the gathering to about 150 men, every one of whom cried out, "Give us a ...

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  16. RECORD IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Hogben has developed a record tape on the seismograph indicating the recent earthquakes in Upper India. The tape shows that the first tremors of the main shock reached ...

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  17. RUSSIA.

    Several members of the Medical Commission at Moscow have been arrested. Further arrests have been made at St. Petersburg. ...

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  18. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The hearing of the charge against Albert James Conell and William Kingston of having stolen battery plates at the Devon Consols mine on the morning of March 31 was ...

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  19. THE KING'S CRUISE

    King Edward and Queen Alexandra have left Marseilles for their cruise in the Mediterranean. April 10. ...

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  20. FAMINE IN ANDALUSIA.

    The Government of Spain is devoting 1,000,000 pesetas (about £40,000) to the construction of roads, with the object of providing relief work for the ...

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  21. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Lord St. Heller (Sir Francis Jeune), aged 01 years. Lord St. Holler, bettor known as Sir Francis Jeune, did not long enjoy his release from ...

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  22. MR. COGHLAN AND THE "TIMES."

    Mr. T. A. Coghlan, the Acting Agent-General for New South Wales, writing to the "Times," correcting the Sydney correspondent of that newspaper, shows that ...

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  23. THE PLAGUE.

    The Health Department reported three fresh, cases of plague in the metropolis yesterday. Dr. Ashburton Thompson said that a young man named Albert Pritchard, who lived at ...

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  24. QUEENSLAND.

    Speaking at Winton, on Saturday night, Mr. Afrey, the Home Secretary, referring to the hospitals, said that where hospitals were solvent he proposed no interference in the ...

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  25. CONJECTURED DESTINATION.

    It is conjectured that Admiral Rozh[?]estvensky, with the Baltic Fleet, is endeavouring to make Saigon, French Cochin-China. ...

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  26. THE JAPANESE FLEET.

    It is believed that Admiral Togo commands five battleships, 23 cruisers, besides torpedo boat-destroyers and liners concerted to cruisers. ...

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  27. STARVING STOCK CONCESSIONS.

    Pastoralists in the Winton district are again approaching the Government to endeavour to obtain a further concession of half-rates for starving stock travelling from ...

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  28. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.

    The "Times," in referring to the report of Dr. Roth on the treatment of aborigines in Western Australia, urges that provision should be made for reserves for natives, ...

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  29. FORECAST OF STRATEGY.

    The "Times" says that Admiral Togo's best policy is to lure Admiral Rozhdestvensky on until he is within hail of the Japanese base. ...

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  30. ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.

    At Longreach, Alice Beattie, a girl who about a week ago came in from a selection in the neighbourhood, and stayed at the Longreach Hotel, yesterday gave birth to a male ...

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  31. LORD CHELMSFORD.

    The death is announced of General Lord Chelmsford, who commanded in the Zulu war, aged 77 years. [Lord Chelmsford is best known as the ...

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  32. CAMPAIGN AGAINST MUSIC PIRATES.

    Owing to the want of protection against music pirates, 19 of the chief publishing houses have decided not to publish new music, or to pay composers, or to ...

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  33. THE NEWCASTLE CASES.

    The three plague patients in the hospital continue to improve. A week has now elapsed since the last case was reported. The cleansing staff, under the joint control of the ...

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  34. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES.

    George Cooper, an industrial school boy, [?] years of ago, boarded out with Wm. Chandler, a fruit-grower, of Bayswater, met with a shocking death to-day. The lad was leading ...

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  35. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 1[?]d per ounce standard, an advance of ½d since Saturday. ...

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  36. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Edith Lambert, a young woman, was charged to-day at the Criminal Court with having murdered her infant female child, at Teotree Gully, on March 31. After evidence, ...

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  37. IN MANCHURIA.

    General Linievitch is reinforcing Vladiwostock, and has stationed strong detachments at Yao-tsiao-tse, on the Mongolian frontier, at Si-ping-kai, on the railway, ...

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  38. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The recent collision between the German cruiser Prinz Friedrich Karl and the British battleship Prince George, at Gibraltar, was due to the signalman of the ...

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  39. TASMANIA.

    The Psyche will probably leave Hobart on Wednesday for Sydney, and the flagship the same day leaves for torpedo practice, returning to Hobart in the evening. The Clio, ...

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  40. NEW ZEALAND.

    The barque Helen, grain laden from Timaru to Auckland, was picked up in distress by the Haupirl off East Cape. The Haupirl towed the barque to Teararoa, where she was ...

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  41. MUNICIPAL IRREGULARITIES.

    The City Council to-day held a lengthy meeting, dealing with the charges of irregularities against council officials in regard to the unauthorised use of materials for works. ...

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  42. GUNS AND AMMUNITION.

    Russia is ordering 500,000,000 cartridges abroad. The firm of Schneider and Co., at Creusot, France, has contracted for guns and ...

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  43. BURGLARS ON THE RAILWAY.

    The Amberley Railway Station, north of Christchurch, has been broken into. Two safes were dynamited by burglars, who secured £200. ...

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