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  2. SHIPWRECK RELIEF AND HUMANE SOCIETY.

    The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Human Society was held at the Town Hall last evening. As a rule those gatherings have been regarded as ...

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  3. THE ADELAIDE DIVORCE SUIT.

    When the hearing of the Hall divorce case was resumed this morning Judge Boucaut, addressing the counsel for the respondent, said:—Mr. Piper: I have been thinking over this case since Friday very ...

    Article : 2,453 words
  4. THE SHEARING DIFFICULTY.

    Yesterday was a quiet day so far as the shearing difficulty was concerned. Inquiries made at the headquarters of the A.W.U. were met with the reply that nothing fresh had transpired. The rain which ...

    Article : 366 words
  5. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

    The following players have been selected to represent Middlesex in the match against the Australians to commence at Lords to-day:— G. E. MacGregor, P. F. Warner, J. Douglas, ...

    Article : 66 words
  6. SECOND EDITION.

    The weather is fine; but when play commenced in the match between the Australians and Middlesex at Lord's the wicket was uncertain. ...

    Article : 236 words
  7. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The indemnity bills, covering the acts of the Executive und unauthorised expenditure, have been read the second time in the Cape House of Assembly. The debate revealed the ...

    Article : 185 words
  8. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir.—As a shearer of 37 years' experience, as an ex-delegate of the Shearers' Union (now A.W.U.), and as one who has been loyal to that union since its inception, and still believes ...

    Article : 668 words
  9. CHINA.

    Mr. J. R. Bruce and Mr. R. H. Lowis, British missionaries attached to the China Inland Mission, have been beaten to death at Chin-ehow, in the province of Hunan, Central ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. QUEENSLAND.

    On Tuesday last a mob of sheep belonging to Mr. I. Payton, of Charleville, depasturing near the eighteen-mile dam on the Charleville to Augathella-road, were taken to a waterhole, the banks of ...

    Article : 62 words
  11. BOER GENEEALS IN EUROPE.

    In Boer circles at Brussols it is affirmed that after an agitated discussion at Utrecht (Netherlands) the conference of Boer leaders approved of'General Louis Botha's moderate ...

    Article : 58 words
  12. THE CONDITIONS AT COONAMBLE.

    Coonamble is now the centre of the disturbance in the shearing world. On arrival in town one sees that the camp of the shearers' forces is now about 300 strong. Every train is watched along the line ...

    Article : 285 words
  13. CIVIL SERVICE RETRENCHMENT.

    Although the special retrenchment bill has not yet been finally dealt with by the Council the salaries of the public servants for August are being made out on the reduced scale. ...

    Article : 122 words
  14. REORGANISATION OF THE ARMY.

    Yuan-shi-kai, Viceroy of Chi-li, has prepared a plan for the complete reorganisation of the Chinese army. ...

    Article : 24 words
  15. SILVER.

    The price of bar siller to-day is 2s 0 3-16d per ounce standard. ...

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  16. INFLAMMATORY SPEECH BY MR. BEITZ.

    At the Netherlands Literary Congress at Courtrai Mr. Reitz delivered un inflammatory harangue on the sufferings of Boer women and children. ...

    Article : 39 words
  17. THE KING OF BAROTSELAND.

    Lewanika, the King of Barotseland, has sailed for Africa. He has been greatly impressed with his visit, and intends to adopt European methods as fur as practicable. ...

    Article : 36 words
  18. FRANCE.

    A large majority of the Departmental Councils in France hare carried resolutions in support of the action of the French Government aguinst the conventual schools which ...

    Article : 51 words
  19. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A successful raid on alleged betting and "tote" shops was made by detectives and uniform police on Saturday afternoon, A number of persons, including 60 visitors to the places, were arrested. The ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. MR. SEDDON.

    Mr. R. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, in accepting the freedom of Annan (in Dumfriesshire, Scotland), said that it was right for the British to exhibit generosity towards the ...

    Article : 72 words
  21. THE JOHANNESBURG POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

    The projected political association at Johannesburg has drooped. An address sighed by Sir A. Wools-Sampson, Major Karri Davies, and other of the principal ...

    Article : 45 words
  22. VICTORIA.

    Writs were issued to-day at the instance of John A. Martell upon David M'Ewan, president, and Arthur Allen Wilson, secretary of the Victorian Coal Miners' Association, and George Gregory, president, ...

    Article : 100 words
  23. RUSSIA.

    The Russian Ministry of Marine has ordered that materials of Bussian origin shall be used exclusively in the construction of all ships built for Russia. ...

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  24. TASMANIA.

    At a moss meeting of the A.M.A. hold at Gormanston yesterday to consider the labour trouble at Lyell Blocks it was decided to take a ballot of all members before calling the men out, and it was ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. THE LATE COMMANDANT LUCAS MEYER.

    General Botha, Commandants do Wet and Delaroy, and a greutassemblage of the public were prosent yesterday at the laying of the body of the late Commandant Lucus Meyer in a ...

    Article : 51 words
  26. CANADIAN PREMIER IN PARIS.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who visited M. Delcasse, Minister for Foreign Affairs, denies the report that he is negotiating with the French Govornment for the admission of Canadian ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. UNLAWFUL ACTS.

    At the police court to-day, before Mr. H. Giles Shaw, P.M., the shearers' cases were heard. The evidence was not very long, though a good deal of time was occupied on the first case in arguing the ...

    Article : 590 words
  28. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED.

    Owing to a blunder in the use of the signalling levers an alarming situation was recently created at Fairfield Park Station, on the Heidelberg line. One of the up passenger trains got on to the wrong set of ...

    Article : 69 words
  29. THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL WAY.

    The plans and sectional surveys of the proposed formation work on the Great Western Railway have been lodged with the Minister of Lands and Works, covering 77 miles northward from Glenora. The ...

    Article : 76 words
  30. RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

    In obedience to the military rule forbidding ordinary seamen to frequent the Boulevard on Sundays, the Commandant at Odessa recently ordered the removal of two sailors ...

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  31. PROPOSED RAILWAY EXTENSION.

    Mr. P. M. Murray, Mayor of Balranald, waited to-day upon the Minister for Railways to urge that the proposed extension of the Victorian railway system from Ultima to the ...

    Article : 124 words
  32. SUBSCRIPTION LISTS OPENED.

    The principal Dutch nowspapers have opened subscription lists on behalf of the Boers, and they are headed with large anonymous donations, which are attributed to Mr. ...

    Article : 36 words
  33. LONDON MINING MARKET.

    On the Stock Exchange yesterday the following were Australian quotations:—Broken Hill Proprietary, £1 12s 6d; New Chillagoe, 2s; Great Boulder Proprietory, 19s 3d; Ivanhoe; ...

    Article : 60 words
  34. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN QUEENSLAND.

    The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from the inspector at Maryborough, dated Saturday, stating that the Nanango police reported that Albert May, a selector at Wooroolin, 35 miles ...

    Article : 222 words
  35. CATTLE PLAGUE IN BHODESIA.

    The Johannesburg correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the cattle plague in Rhodesia originated through the importation of Australian cattle. The Chartered ...

    Article : 56 words
  36. PUBLIC SERVICE CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.

    At a meeting of the committee of the Public Service Association to-ngiht consideration was given to a proposal to form a co-operative association. It was thought that at least 10,000 subscribers to such ...

    Article : 61 words
  37. THE UNITED STATES.

    President Roosevelt, in the course of a speech at Providence, Rhode Island, said that the nation must assume control of trusts, Using their powers with moderation. ...

    Article : 38 words
  38. BRITISH SUBMARINE BOATS.

    The latest type of British submarine boat has been severely tested at Barrow-inFurness. The vessel maintained a speed of 15 knots. ...

    Article : 448 words
  39. A SHOCKING FATALITY.

    Alfred Wright, aged 20, in the employ of the Electric Light and Traction Company, met with u shocking death this afternoon. He was engaged in fixing a wire to an insulator on a pole at the corner ...

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  40. SWORDS IMPORTED IN A SADDLERY CASE.

    A case marked "Saddlery," consigned by a British firm to a Trannvaal firm, burst when on a Durban wharf, showing that it was full of swords. ...

    Article : 36 words
  41. GANADA.

    The Government of Canada recently invited a party of British journalists to tour the principal cities of the Dominion. Yesterday they were conveyed in a special train, and ...

    Article : 44 words
  42. DIFFICULTIES OF SETTLEMENT.

    Reuter's ageney reports that there are many complaints on the Rand, and oversea colonists are leaving because there is no land under the settlement scheme enabling them to obtain ...

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  43. GROUNDING OF THE PAROO.

    When steaming up the harbour from the heads this morning the Paroo took the ground in the west channel, and romained fast from 10 past 11 till 1 o'clock, when she floated of apparently uninjured, ...

    Article : 46 words
  44. NEW ZEALAND.

    Nine surveyors selected by the Government at the request of the Imperial authorities for work on the Gold Coast, Africa, leave by the Ventura for San Francisco on Friday. ...

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  45. TROUBLE IN THE SHIPBUILDING TRADE.

    No fresh developments were reported yesterday in connection with the strike of the shipwrights employed in the yards of Messrs. Morrison, Sinclair, and Co., at Pyrmont, and Messrs. Drake and Sons, ...

    Article : 389 words
  46. GENERAL NEWS.

    Er-Judge Kock has been admitted to practise as an advocate at Pretoria. The rinderpest is ravaging the Barberton (Transvaal) district. ...

    Article : 123 words
  47. AFGHANISTAN.

    The "Novoe Vremya" asserts that Habibullah, Ameer of Afghaniston, is not cordial with the British, and that the time is opportune to establish a Russian representative at ...

    Article : 49 words
  48. AGRICULTURAL AND, PASTORAL.

    The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the West End Creamery Co-Operative Company, Limited, was held in the central factory, Bemboka, on Saturday afternoon. There was a ...

    Article : 372 words
  49. SPEECHES BY LABOUR MEMBEBS.

    Messrs. N. Neilsen and H. Macdonald, M.L.A., addressed a large meeting of unionists and townspeople in the School of Arts on Saturday night. The Mayor (Alderman J. J. Piper) presided. ...

    Article : 344 words
  50. LORD KITCHENER.

    Lord Kitchener is the guest of the Marquis of Londonderry, at Wynyard Fark, Stocktonon-Tees. Lord Kitohenor has advocated the adition of elementary military schools to ...

    Article : 55 words
  51. CATASTROPHE IN RUSSIA.

    Despite official secrecy, it has leaked out that in the recent military manoeuvres near St. Petersburg, a squadron of cavairy was ordered to plunge into the river. The order ...

    Article : 53 words
  52. THE SHAH.

    The Shah of Persia visited Windsor and placed a magnificent wreath on life tomb of Queen Victoria Subsequently the Shah visited the Crystal ...

    Article : 47 words
  53. THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION.

    Venezuela has declined to consider the protest made by Great Britain, the United States, France, and Germany against the inoffciency of the blockade of the ports of the Republic, ...

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  54. THE ALPINE DISASTERS.

    The brothers who were killed on the Wettor[?]orn were named Fearon. Ono was a London curate, and the other was a Government factory inspector. There was a terrific storm ...

    Article : 112 words
  55. BRITISH GUIANA.

    A party of 300 East Indians attacked an state in British Guiana. The police fired on the mob. Twenty-one Indians were killed and 32 others wero injured. ...

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  56. LATE SHIPPING.

    Roseley, s., 4880 tons. Captain Robertson, from New York, via Melbourne. Houlder Bros. and Co., Limited, agents. Eden, s., 693 tons, Captain S. Bishop, from South Coast ...

    Article : 44 words
  57. THE SITUATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Negotiations are pending between the parties in the dispute regarding the shearing conditions, which, it in expected, will lead to an early settlement of the difficulty. Mr. Nixon, the secretary of the ...

    Article : 166 words
  58. IMPORTS.—August 26.

    Roseley, s., from New York, via ports: 618 packages oil, 1850 cases paraflin, 84 cases nuts, 1155 packages agricultural implements, 50 cases elgarottes, 50 cases prepared oats, 27 cases carriage materials, 600 cases wire nails, ...

    Article : 92 words
  59. THE TINDERRA MYSTERY.

    The new inquest on the body of Rankon will be opened to-morrow. The body was re-exhumed to-day. Twenty-[?] witnesses, inoluding the coroner and [?]rymen of the first inquest, have been summoned. ...

    Article : 47 words
  60. REPORTED BEQUEST OF MR. RHODES.

    The Countess of Warwick denies that M Rhodes has made a bequest to her. ...

    Article : 26 words
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