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  2. THE FEDERAL CRISIS.

    Both galleries were well filled when the House of Representatives met this afternoon, and there was an unusually large number of members present. The first business done was to swear in Mr. G. H. Reid, ...

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  3. THE WILLOUGHBY ELECTION.

    The interest which has surrounded the byelection for a representative to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. George Howarth in the Legislative Assembly culminated yesterday in a ...

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  4. THE UNITED STATES.

    In consequence of disclosures which have been made as the result of an investigation into the affairs of the Post Office Department of the United States by President ...

    Article : 521 words
  5. VICTORIA.

    Replying to-day to a deputation which urged the necessity for certain reforms of the prisons system, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Murray, said that when a man had committed ...

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  6. THE BALKANS.

    Turkey claims to have pacified the vilayets of Kossovo and Salonika in Macedonia. Reuter's correspondent at Sofia states that the Macedonian leaders assert that 150,000 ...

    Article : 96 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    Dr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the "Times." states that the Russian Note to China notifying that Russia would evacuate Manchuria on october 8, undertakes that China ...

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  8. BREACH OF THE CUSTOMS ACT.

    In the District Court to-day. Dalgety and Co., Limited, were fined £6, with £4 3s costs added, for an offence under the Customs Act. The offence consisted in describing a ...

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  9. POWERS TO WARN BULGARIA.

    Russia and Austria have invited the other Powers with them to unitedly urge Bulgaria to sever all connection with the Macedonian committees directing the insurrection in ...

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  10. RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

    At the instance of Admiral Alexieff, the Russian Viceroy of the East, the crows of the Japanese fishing vessels recently arrested off the coast of Kamschatka have been acquitted. ...

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  11. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    About 5000 people were present at the interstate sharebrokers' walk on the Adelaide Oval this afternoon, in dusty and unpleasant weather. The following were the teams:—South ...

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  12. BULGARIAN EXARCH IMPRISONED.

    It is reported that the Bulgarian Exarch at Constantinople has been imprisoned in his palace for refusing to urge the Macedonians to relinquish their arms. ...

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  13. LESE MAJESTE IN GERMANY.

    The German Emperor has directed (that a rigid censorship should be exercised against the socialist press so as to detect cases of lese majeste. ...

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  14. THE LIGHT OF THE PRESS.

    The Sublime Porte has ordered all European newspaper correspondents to leave Macedonia. The Sublime Porte accuses the correspondents of circulating falsehoods. ...

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  15. FRENCH WOOLBUYERS.

    M. George Playoust, a large woolbuyer, president of the French Chamber of Commerce, Sydney, is returning by the Ville de la Clotat from a six months' business trip to France. ...

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  16. THE SERVIAN CONSPIRACY.

    The Government of Servia minimises the conspiracy of officers, discovered at Nish, to kill the regicides. The Government declares that the conspiracy was not directed against ...

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  17. PLAGUE AT MARSEILLES.

    The "Daily Mail" reports that 11 cases of plague have occurred at Marseilles recently, seven being fatal. It is supposed that the disease was ...

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  18. THREATENING TO SHOOT THE PRESIDENT.

    John Miller, a German, has been arrested at Syracuse, New York, on a charge of threatening to shoot President Roosevelt during a labour review. ...

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  19. THE PARIS TUBE RAILWAY.

    There is a scare in Paris regarding the electric tube railway, owing to a passenger's umbrella, in falling upon the permanent way, causing short circuit and a small fire. ...

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  20. MASSACRE AT BEYROUT.

    On Sunday last, the Mohammedans at Beyrout, Syria, attacked the Christian quarter of the city, and killed ton Christians, including one citizen of the United States, and wounded ...

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  21. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Johannesburg Chamber of Mines has informed the Labour Commission of the Transvaal that the total South African supply of native labourers is 235,600. ...

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  22. PURCHASE OF A CITY PROPERTY.

    At auction to-day the Colonial Mutual Fire and Accident Company purchased the office premises which have been occupied by them in King William-street for the past 20 years ...

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  23. THE MISSING LADY DOCTOR.

    Much anxiety continues to be felt regarding Miss Sophie Frances Hickman, M.D., the missing lady doctor, who has not been heard of since leaving the Royal Free Hospital, ...

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  24. ASKING AID FROM AMERICA.

    The British Consul at Beyrout, Mr. R. Drummond Hay, has threatened to ask the United States squadron in the harbour to land marines, in the event of a renewal of the ...

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  25. TASMANIA.

    The French barque Brenn, now in port, has arrived from Port Louis in ballast for orders. She is one of a fleet of mercantile vessels constructed under the French bounty law and is ...

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  26. REFORM PARTY SATISFIED.

    The Opposition and Reform party, said Mr. Garland, were very satisfied with the result of the election. The vote polled was a very large one considering it was a by-election. The vote cast for the ...

    Article : 165 words
  27. AUSTRALIAN FINANCE.

    The "Times" this morning contains a contributed article, which is given a prominent position, on Australian finance. The article criticises Australian loan ...

    Article : 161 words
  28. ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION.

    The Governor to-day opened tha Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the new Custom-house. The boisterous weather marred the attendance. ...

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  29. THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.

    Owing to business engagements R. H. Spooner, the Lancashire amateur, has been prevented accepting the invitation of the Marylebone Cricket Club to join the team for ...

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  30. THE CAPE CRISIS.

    The Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of Cape Colony have been dissolved. ...

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  31. ROBBERIES BY A GIRL.

    The mystery connected with recent house robberies in Hobart suburbs has been cleared by the arrest of a girl in her teens, who had made presents of stolen jewellery to her ...

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  32. SMALLPOX IN LONDON.

    There has been a severe outbreak of smallpox at South Ealing, London. Black flags have been hung from the buildings in which there are sufferers, to warn ...

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  33. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A hurricane has occurred in Mexico, and has destroyed San Miguel, in Yucatan. Three thousand workers on the Southern raliway in Madrid, Spain, have struck work. ...

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  34. LABOUR PARTY CLAIM INCREASED VOTES.

    The feeling among the Labour party, for whom Mr. Holman was spokesman, was that the contest was but preliminary work towards the ultimate capture of the seat by the party. The figures for the ...

    Article : 220 words
  35. COMMERCIAL BANK OF TASMANIA.

    The half-yearly report of the Commercial Bank of Tasmania shows a profit for distribution of £17,662. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. has been declared, and £5000 ...

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  36. DEBATE IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    In the House of Representatives this afternoon, Mr. G. H. Reid had no sooner been sworn in as the re-elected member for East Sydney than he rose and made reference to the action of the Government ...

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  37. THE DISASTER IN ALGERIA.

    Further particulars of the attack on the French convoy at Taghit, in Algeria, by briglands, show that the assailants numbered 4000. The first volley killed all the officers of ...

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  38. THE ARBITRATION COURT.

    In the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr. FLOWERS asked the Attorney-General, without notice, whether it was correct, as stated in the press that the Government ...

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  39. THE MONEY MARKET.

    The "Times" says that the money market is particularly sensitive to adverse influences, owing to its surfeited condition. Though the recent decision of the underwriters to take ...

    Article : 61 words
  40. MR. WADE'S CAREER.

    Mr. Wade is a native of Sydney, and is a comparatively young man. In 1877 he went to King's School. Parramatta. He left in June, 1880, and went to England with the financial assistance of a ...

    Article : 206 words
  41. PENRHYN QUARRY DISPUTE.

    In the libel action, Lord Penrhyn v. Mr. William John Parry, merchant, of Bethesda, in which plaintiff was awarded £500 damages, defendant has settled the case by paying Lord ...

    Article : 219 words
  42. THE EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH.

    The "News Wiener Tagblatt," published at Vienna, states that the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will visit London during the second half of the month of November. ...

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  43. QUEENSLAND.

    Information has been received that the steamers Herbert and Nelson came into collision last night on the Johnstone River bar. On the Exchange to-day Chillagoe debentures ...

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  44. THE TALLOW SALES.

    At the tallow sales to-day; 1273 casks were offered, and 945 were sold. Prices were:— Mutton, fine 29s 9d, medium 28s; beef, fine 31s, medium 27s 6d per cwt. ...

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  45. NEW ZEALAND.

    A complaint made by Mr. Taylor, the member for Christchurch, in the House of Representatives, that the Flour Millers' Association was increasing the cost of bread, has ...

    Article : 51 words
  46. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    The Trades Union Congress is meeting this year at Leicester. The assembly yesterday briefly discussed Mr. Chamberlain's preferential trade proposals, and condemned them ...

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  47. THE R.M.S. ROME.

    The R.M.S. Rome arrived at 1 p.m. and sails at 6 p.m. Her saloon passengers are:- For Fremantle: Dr. M. O'Connor. For Melbourne: Mrs. L. Rosenthal, Mr. ...

    Article : 70 words
  48. COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY.

    The statistics of the Board of Trade for the first six months of the year indicate remarkable commercial prosperity in most great States. ...

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  49. AUCKLAND GOLDFIELDS RETURNS.

    Returns from the mines of the Auckland goldfields for the past three weeks amounted to £70,638. This brings the output of the present year to £612,302, or £134,000 more than ...

    Article : 63 words
  50. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    The prize shootings for the September quarter in connection with the Cooma Civilian Rifle Club were continued on Saturday, with the following results:—E. E. Evans, 500yds 30,600yds 27 total 57; N. J. Norris, 26, 25—51; E. ...

    Article : 68 words
  51. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2[?]d per ounce standard, a fall of [?]d since yesterday. ...

    Article : 23 words
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