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  2. CITY MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

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  3. THE WRECK OF THE ELINGAMITE.

    The inquiry into the wreck of the Elingamite was resumed to-day. Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M., presided, and he was assisted by Captains Waddilove (Lyttelton) and C. G. Smith (Wellington) as nautical ...

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  4. SOMALILAND.

    The Aden correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that as the rams have ceased in Somaliland an advance is impossible till next August. Meanwhile the posts held by ...

    Article : 79 words
  5. SPECIAL CABLES.

    A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a German painter named Christian Allers, a resident of Capri, on charges of committing offences which he falsely attributed to the late ...

    Article : 107 words
  6. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Johannesburg correspondent of the "Standard" reports that the Boers and the British in the Transvaal are amazed at the request of Mr. Kruger to return. The rural ...

    Article : 76 words
  7. THE MULLAH DEFIANT.

    The Mullah in Somaliland has returned the British stores which he captured in the engagement with Colonel Swayne near Erego. Accompanying the stores was a message of ...

    Article : 49 words
  8. HELP FOR LOYALISTS IN THE CAPE.

    Lord Milner telegraphs that his letter to the Lord Mayor of London published on October 29 has been misunderstood. Lord Milner says that in that letter he referred strictly ...

    Article : 120 words
  9. THE SITUATION IN VENEZUELA.

    The Government of Venezuela has seized four British merchantmen on the Orinoco. Famine and much sickness prevails at Ciudad Bolivar, the town on the ...

    Article : 82 words
  10. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL COBBE'S FORCE.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Cobbe, who is now at the B[?]hotle advanced post, will on the 12th instant march for Balman Wells, a post 40 miles in advance of his present position. ...

    Article : 36 words
  11. INSUBORDINATION OF LEVIES.

    The Somali levies are proving insubordinate. They simulate sickness in order to secure hospital comforts and camel transportation to the coast. When the deception is ...

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  12. NO FURTHER FREE GIFTS.

    Mr. C. T. Ritchie, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, explains that neither he nor Mr. Chamberlain intends that the British taxpayer should supplement his free gift to the ...

    Article : 69 words
  13. INDIA.

    The British expedition on the north-west frontier of India has convinced the Waziris of the undesirability of raiding British territory. The troops destroyed 59 towers and three ...

    Article : 53 words
  14. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The revenue for November was £264,056, the lowest for any month of the present financial year, and £2901 below the corresponding month of last year. ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. ACCIDENT TO LORD MILNER.

    Lord Milner, who is making a tour of the Orange River Colony, has arrived at Harrismith. He has had a fall from his horse, but his injuries are slight. ...

    Article : 39 words
  16. SCHOOL TEACHER FATALLY BURNED.

    Miss Mary Walker, who was burned to death at Cunderdin yesterday, is a sister of Dr. Walker, of Port Pirie. Miss Walker, who was a State school teacher at Canderdin, was engaged cooking her ...

    Article : 82 words
  17. CANADA.

    A disastrous fire has occurred at Rat Portage, a town on the Lake of the Woods, Canada. Many houses, six steamers, and 25,000,000ft. of lumber were destroyed. The ...

    Article : 77 words
  18. GENERAL BOTHA AND IRISH LEADERS.

    Mr. John Redmond, M.P., leader of the Nationalists, and Mr. Patrick O'Brion, M.P., had interviews lasting an hour with General Botha yesterday. ...

    Article : 31 words
  19. THE GOLD YIELD.

    The gold output for the month was 197,198oz., which is, with one exception, the largest on record. ...

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  20. CLAIM AGAINST A MINE FOR INJURIES.

    At the Circuit Court to-day a miner named Roderick Watts sued the Burbank Birthday Gift Gold Mines, Limited, Coolgardie, for £1500 damages for personal injuries alleged to ...

    Article : 220 words
  21. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

    The camps in the Orange River Colony have been transferred to the colonial Government. They will all be empty by the end of the year, except those at Springfontein and Brandfort, ...

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  22. HEAVY POLLING IN ALL THE WARDS.

    The elections for the City Council took place yesterday. On this occasion the elections lacked features that were prominent characteristics of those of two years ago, when the first council was elected ...

    Article : 704 words
  23. FRANCE.

    In consequence of the shipping strike large military reinforcements have arrived at Marseilles. The crews of 40 vessels have deserted. ...

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  24. THE ISSUE OF PERMITS.

    Henceforth permits to enter the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony will be issued exclusively at South African ports. ...

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  25. RAILWAY ROLLINGSTOCK ORDERED.

    The Government has ordered from Neilson and Reid, of Glasgow, 60 locomotives for South Africa. The Scotch waggonwrights have received ...

    Article : 29 words
  26. BLIGH WARD.

    Electors of Bligh Ward expressed their approval of the services of their two retiring aldermen by again returning them at the head of the poll. There were three candidates, Alderman John Lane Mullins, ...

    Article : 308 words
  27. RUSSIAN EMISSARIES IN AFGHANISTAN.

    Russian emissaries disguised as traders are assiduously plying the aristocracy and officials at Cabul with presents. ...

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  28. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    Recently the Premier received a letter from Sir E. Barton, drawing attention to the Trans-continental Railway Act passed last session by the State Parliament, and asking if the offer of territory to the ...

    Article : 220 words
  29. THE NATIONALISTS AND THE EDUCATION BILL.

    Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., speaking at Carrick-on-Shannon, defended the attitude of the Nationalist members of Parliament on the Education Bill. He blamed ...

    Article : 80 words
  30. THE BRITISH LABOUR COMMISSION.

    The British Labour Commission, organised by Mr. Mosely, and now touring America, will submit to British trade unions the question of forming an ...

    Article : 51 words
  31. THE KING OF PORTUGAL.

    The King of Portugal is spending the week end with King Edward at Sandringham. King Carlos will visit Lord Iveagh and the Marquis of Lansdowne (Secretary of State for Foreign ...

    Article : 52 words
  32. FITZROY WARD.

    In Fitzroy Ward, which embraces that portion of Woolloomooloo lying to the north of William-street, the general interest taken in the present contest was keen. Alderman A. M. Elhone and E. Milner Stephen, ...

    Article : 286 words
  33. SHAN INSURGENTS IN SIAM.

    Five hundred Shan insurgents have crossed the Mekong River, and have surrendered to the French, opposite Kiangkong. ...

    Article : 73 words
  34. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

    At a public meeting, at which many ladies were present, in Menangle Hall on Saturday. Mr. J. Hickey presiding, a branch of the People's Reform League ...

    Article : 229 words
  35. BOURKE WARD.

    Polling for Bourke Ward went on steadily all day at 117 Pitt-street. The arrangements made for the conduct of the election worked very smoothly, and there was no hitch of any kind. Four livisions were ...

    Article : 179 words
  36. THE ATLANTIC SHIPPING COMBINE.

    In connection with the Atlantic Shipping Combine (the International Mercantile Marine Company, and the International Navigation Company), Mr. ...

    Article : 88 words
  37. LANG WARD,

    A considerable amount of interest was manifested at the polling booth for Lang Ward. There were two selected reform candidates, and two of the Political Labour League nominees, the other two of ...

    Article : 322 words
  38. TASMANIA.

    At the municipal council meeting the city surveyor and the city electrical engineer submitted a joint report on a tramway system for Launceston. The experts find that they cannot advise the council to ...

    Article : 124 words
  39. THE NEW GUINEA MISSION LAUNCH.

    Mr. Low, the donor of the oil launch for the New Guinea Missions, has ordered a copper bottom to be affixed to the vessel and other alterations to be made, so as ...

    Article : 59 words
  40. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 1s 10[?]d per ounce standard—a rise of 7-16d since Saturday. ...

    Article : 21 words
  41. THE SUGAR CONVENTION.

    The "Novoe Vremya" reports that if Great Britain should refuse to proceed to arbitration on the question whether countervailing duties on sugar would be an ...

    Article : 73 words
  42. COOK WARD.

    The polling booth for Cook Ward was the Congregational School-hall at the corner of Riley and Devonshire streets. There were five candidates, and the proceedings during the day were of an animated ...

    Article : 282 words
  43. FLINDERS WARD.

    There was a total absence in Flinders Ward yesterday of the excitement usually attendant upon the city municipal elections, [?] conspicuous comparison with the conduct of the electors in some of the other ...

    Article : 294 words
  44. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The new blue funnel liner, Jason, left Port Adelaide last week with the largest cargo of wool and sundries ever shipped from Australia, the cargo including 26,290 bales of wool. The Calcas, of the ...

    Article : 103 words
  45. NEW ZEALAND.

    The island council, Rarotonga, has forwarded for the Governor's consent an ordinance regulating the sale of liquor there. It provides that only one license be granted for first 10 years, and that no spirituous ...

    Article : 89 words
  46. HOMEBUSH STOCK MARKET.

    With 34,000 sheep and lambs penned at the Metropolitan Fat Stock Market yesterday the wants of the ordinary trade were more than well supplied, but the rains ...

    Article : 252 words
  47. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    It is reported that a man named William Parker Owen, secretary of the Premier Sunrise (New Zealand) Gold-mining Company and the Indian Glenrock Mining Company, has ...

    Article : 134 words
  48. MACQUARIE WARD.

    Keen interest was steadily maintained throughout the day in connection with the contest in Macquarie Ward, and the voting, was exceptionally heavy, Aldermen Lees and Lindsay Thompson, who were ...

    Article : 250 words
  49. THE SCULLING CHAMPION AT ADELAIDE.

    George Towns, the champion sculler who was on the R.M.S. Orontes, which arrived in Port Adelaide to-day, was met by several representatives of the South Australian Rowing Association. In the course ...

    Article : 195 words
  50. BELMORE WARD.

    Throughout the day the proceedings in this ward were of a spirited nature. During the morning a steady stream of electors flowed into the polling booth at the I.O.O.F. Hall, a noticeable feature ...

    Article : 319 words
  51. THE QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.

    The legislative Assembly sat to-day for the first time during the session. The Speaker read a letter of apology from Mr. Lesina, who was recently suspended for a fortnight, and on the ...

    Article : 154 words
  52. DENISON WARD.

    Coffill's Hall in Harris-street, which has the polling booth for this ward, was a scene of some animation throughout the day. As the afternoon wore on and the electors left their work the polling ...

    Article : 268 words
  53. GIPPS WARD.

    For the greater part of the day the polling in Gippe Ward went on smoothly and quietly, and the presiding officers, Messrs. A. A. Dearin, M. Wilson, and Henry W. Bradford, with their assistants, ...

    Article : 398 words
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