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  2. NEWCASTLE.

    The first local case under the provisions of the Federal Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 was heard by Mr. Love, S.M., in the Summons Division of the City Police Court to-day, when an important ...

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  3. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    Up to midnight yesterday no less than five additional cases were pronounced as true plague, while a sixth case was reported as suspicious. The first case reported that of John Ponsomby, ...

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  4. QUEENSLAND.

    The members of the Spencer-Gillen Expedition arrived at Brisbane to-day, and received a warm welcome, being entertained by the Royal Society of Queensland. Both leaders are in good health. ...

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  5. SECOND EDITION.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day ?d lower, at 2s ld per ounce standard. ...

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  6. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The House of Commons last night negatived by 224 votes to 158 a proposal to limit the underground working hours of youths under 21 years of age in collieries to 8 hours a day. ...

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  7. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    Reuter's correspondent supplies details of the encounter which the New Zealanders had with the Boers near Bothasberg, south of Vrede, at the commencement of the second ...

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  8. COMMONWEALTH NOTES.

    Over two score senators were in attendance when to-day's sitting of the Senate began. A couple of petitions against Senator Dobson's Divorce Bill were presented and received, and then Senator Keating ...

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  9. THE TRANSPORT ENGLISHMAN.

    The transport Englishman will arrive at Brisbane on the 23rd, to embark the Queensland unit of the second Commonwealth contingent. The vessel will probably leave on the same day as the Governor ...

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  10. THE NEW GOVERNOR.

    Advices received at Brisbane state that Sir Herbert Chermside will arrive here on the 24th instant. Lady Chermside will travel overland. Arrangements are well forwarded for welcoming the new Governor. ...

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  11. THE CHANGES IN THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

    The Premier views with some concern the proposal of the Federal Government to strike out the duties on tea, kerosene, and rice, and also making imports for State Governments dutiable. Concerning ...

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  12. THE LIBERAL PARTY.

    Mr. Morley, in the course of his speech at Manchester last night, in referring to affairs in South Africa, deplored the disaster to Lord Methuen's column. That disaster, he ...

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  13. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A large deputation representing commercial interests asked the Treasurer to-day not to proceed with the outer harbour scheme at Lights passage until Parliament had had the opportunity of sanctioning the ...

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  14. THE WOOL SALES.

    The second series of wool sales was opened to-day. The market was strong. Prices compared with the closing rates of the last series realised from par up to 7½ per cent. ...

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  15. IRELAND.

    It is officially announced that the King, with the advice of his Ministers has expressed his regret to Earl Cadogan, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, that the visit of the King ...

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  16. ESCAPE OF DE WET.

    Advices from Heilbron state that Commandant de Wet and Mr. Stoyn, on the night of the 9th instant, crossed the railway line northwards of Wolvehook and marched ...

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  17. HEALTH OF THE PATIENTS.

    The latest reports received last evening from the Coast Hospital showed that the young man Watkins, who was reported yesterday to be in a critic state, had shown no signs of improvement. ...

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  18. SMALLPOX IN LONDON.

    The mortality returns of the metropolis for the past week show that 80 deaths were due to smallpox. ...

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  19. TASMANIA.

    The Fisheries Commissioners have renewed the regulations against seeling in Bass Straits, though the members admitted it is impossible to enforce them. The skins of seals captured, it was stated, were ...

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  20. VICTORIA.

    Two miners named William and Thomas Kelly had a sensational experience in a claim at Coffee Hill, near Snake Valley, whilst working close to some old ground. The air became bad, and they ...

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  21. NEW QUARANTINE AREA.

    The premises known as Kidman's-buildings, of which the Central Exchange Coffee Palace forms part, were yesterday placed in quarantine. It was in this coffee palace that a case of plague was discovered on ...

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  22. THE QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.

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  23. COMMANDANT DE WET'S STORES.

    Commandant do Wet's cave, which was recently discovered in the Reitz district, contained 10 waggon loads of ammunition, a Krupp, a pom-pom, and a Nordenfeldt gun ...

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  24. DISTRIBUTION OF GARBAGE BOXES.

    There was quite a rush yesterday at the Sydney Town Hall from residents of the city for approved garbage boxes. Six clerks were busily engaged throughout the day registering over 900 applications. ...

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  25. SUPPRESSION OF GAMING-HOUSES.

    At the police court yesterday Ah Caw, Chinese merchant, was fined £10 and costs for allowing gambling to be carried on at his shop. Twentythree Celestials who were found on the premises ...

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  26. PROCEEDS OF A CONSULTATION.

    A question which arose out of a prize obtained in a consultation on the Grand National Hurdle Race, run at Melbourne on July 6, 1901, and which formed the subject matter of an notion tried before Mr. ...

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  27. THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

    The Minister for Customers is expected to return to Melbourne on Saturday. With the Treasurer he will then put the finishing touches to the bill for imposing customs and excuse duties according to the ...

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  28. ANOTHER ALEXANDRIA AREA.

    A "Gazette" was issued last evening quarantining another area in the borough of Alexandria. The boundaries are as follow:—Commencing on the Kerb-line at the intersection of Wyadham-street and ...

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  29. COMMANDANT DELAREY'S CAPTURES.

    Commandant Delarey captured at Tweebosch much clothing, rifles, and artillery ammunition. [The disaster to Lord Mathuen's column occured ...

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  30. THE IRISH OUTBURST IN THE COMMONS.

    Mr. John Morley, M. P., speaking at Manchester last night, admitted that it was difficult to discuss the Irish question after the incident in the House of Commons on Monday, ...

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  31. THE WEATHER.

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  32. ACTION AT NORTH SYDNEY.

    At a meeting of the general purposes committee of the North Sydney Council on Tuesday evening, a letter was received from the City Council requesting further co-operation in the work of rat destruction by a ...

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  33. DECREASE OF SHIPPING.

    The Melbourne shipping list of vessels with outward destinations is now very small, and is likely to shrink still further, the cargo weight forthcoming being at a minimum. The Cambu[?] Kenneth to-day ...

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  34. BOER STRATEGY.

    The Brussels correspondent of the "Standard" reports that the move of General Botha southwards, and his ordering of Commandant Delaroy to advance, had as their ...

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  35. THE OUTBREAK IN QUEENSLAND.

    Another case of plague was reported this morning. The patient is J. Harsant, residing in Peel-street South Brisbane. No further cases of plague were reported to-night. ...

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  36. A SEAMAN SHOT.

    A seaman named Axel Strane. aged 29, employed on the American ship John Briggs, was treated at the hospital to-day for a bullet wound in the right arm. It appeared from inquiries made by the police that ...

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  37. MR. MACNEILL THREATENED.

    Mr. J. G. S. MacNeill, member for South Donegal, who was the most demonstrative cheerer among the Irish Nationalists in the House of Commons on the occasion of the ...

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  38. ANOTHER CASE AT MELBOURNE.

    A case of bubonic plague was reported to have been discovered at Yarraville to-night. The patient is a boy, and the attack is so severe that it is likely to be fatal. ...

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  39. A FATAL EXPLOSION.

    A minor named David Davis, aged 65, employed at the British Queen mine, Ballarat East, was killed this morning by an explosion of gelinite. The unfortunate man had charged a hole with gelignite. ...

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  40. LEADERS OF RAIDERS KILLED.

    Commandant Odendaal and Captain Van der Walt were killed in a skirmish near Pearston, in the Graaf Reinct district of Cape Colony. ...

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  41. THE GERMAN TRIBUTE TO GREAT BRITAIN.

    Baron von Richtofen, the German Foreign Secretary, in his speech in the Prussian Diet yesterday, admitted that his Anglophile sentiments were inspired only by regard for ...

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  42. OUR TONGA LETTER.

    The acceptable change in the weather, which broke up our drought still continues, greatly to the benefit of the country. On the night of the 2nd instant we had a storm, accompanied by much thunder and ...

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  43. LADY METHUEN.

    Lady Methuen on reaching Madeira heard of the disaster to Lord Methuen, and returned to South Africa. ...

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  44. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Frederick John Orme, late sub-inspector of police at Cue, was arrested to-day on a warrant charging him with the Inr[?]eny of £2 odd, the property of the Crown, during June, 1900. Orme was brought up at ...

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  45. COMMISSIONS FOR AUSTRALASIANS.

    The following have obtained commissions in the Imperial Yeomanry, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the army:— H. H. Covell (late corporal N.S.W. Lancors), W. ...

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  46. CHILLIAN NAVY.

    Chili has ordered from Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., and Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, two 12,000 ton cruisers. The vessels will cost over £1,000,000 each, and ...

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  47. NEW ZEALAND.

    Sir Joseph Ward says that if the inspection of the Manawatu railway is satisfactory the line will be taken over by the Government under the Act of last session. ...

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  48. A MISSING PRIVATE.

    Private A. Guy, of the 5th Victorian Contingent, who was reported missing, has rejoined his regiment. ...

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  49. NAVAL CADETS.

    Mr. H. O. Arnold-Foster, secretary to the Admiralty, favours the proposal of Mr. C. P. Trevelyan, M.P., that preliminary examinations should be held in the colonies, of ...

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  50. THE FEDERAL CONTINGENT.

    Yesterday morning the third battalion paraded in the Centennial Park for mounted drill In the afternoon C company had a second mounted parade, whilst A and B companies were served out with kits ...

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  51. INTERVIEW WITH THE PREMIER.

    Now that the results of the elections are more definitely known the Premier still regards the voting as satisfactory to the Government, which will go back with about the same working majority. Labour had ...

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  52. DEATH OF A PRO-BOER AMERICAN.

    Mr. Altgeld, an ex-Governor of Illinois, addressed a pro-Boer meeting at Joliet, Illinois, on Tuesday, and vehemently accused Lord Pauneefote of intermeddling in ...

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  53. QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES.

    Lord Lamington, formerly Governor of Queensland, in a paper which he read at a meeting of the Colonial Institute yesterday, dwelt upon the appallingly swift ...

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  54. THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

    The monthly meeting of the general committee of the Newcastle and Northumberland Benevolent Society was held to-day. The progress reports for the month of February, together with the financial ...

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  55. IMPERIAL TRANSPORTS.

    The steamer Templemore left Melbourne yesterday for Sydney, and the Manhattan arrived at Albany from South Africa on her way to Sydney. ...

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  56. AUSTRALIAN NURSES DECORATED.

    King Edward held an investiture at St. James's yesterday. During the course of the proceedings he handed to Sisters Bidsmead and Nixon, of the Australian Nursing Sisters, ...

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  57. THE NINTH NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT.

    The Premier, in an interview, said he recognised the necessity of a tenth New Zealand contingent. He was consulting the Cabinet on the matter. Legislators will be asked to give an opinion on the ...

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  58. FEDERAL CAPITAL SITE.

    A public meeting was held in the council-chambers last night, the Mayor being in the chair, for the purpose of urging the claim of Canoblas as the best site for the federal capital. The following resolutions ...

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  59. LATE COUNTRY NEWS.

    At a meeting of the committee of the A., H., and P. Association held this afternoon, it was decided to give a prize of £50 for a two-mile handicap trot with 15 seconds limit, open to all comers. ...

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  60. THE RAT CRUSADE.

    The arrangements in connection with to-morrow's crusade against rats have been completed, and the whole of the suburban muncipal councils have agreed to co-operate with the city authorities. ...

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  61. CYCLING IN NEW ZEALAND.

    At the Invereargill cycling meeting the following were the results:— Milo Championship.—Martin, 1; Sutherland, 2; Palmor, 3 Time, 2 minutes 17 seconds. ...

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  62. THE SILTING OF THE HARBOUR.

    A good deal of complaint is being made by those interested in the shipping of the port respecting the silting of the harbour at various points, but particularly in the vicinity of the ballast jutfies and dolphins ...

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  63. AMUSEMENTS.

    The fifth concert of the Potersham Choral Society was held at the Petersham Town Hall last night. The attendance was large, and the same high standard of musical culture already shown by the ...

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  64. LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.

    The New Zealand bred horse Levanter, by Captivator—Steel All, has been withdrawn from the Grand National Steeplechase. ...

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  65. LATE SHIPPING.

    PORT ADELAIDE.—Arrivals: March 12, R.M.S. India, from Melbourne: Paroo, from Melbourne. Departures: March 12, R.M.S. India, for London; Agapanthus, for Newcastle. ...

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  66. DEATH OF A TROOPER.

    The following is a copy of a telegraphic despatch received by the State Premier through the Lieutenant Governor from the Chief Casualty Officer, Capetown:— ...

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  67. THE SECRET OF HEALTH

    is suitable food. Give the growing children ARNOTT'S Milk Arrowroots, and they will grow healthy and strong.—Advt. ...

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  68. THE CHILDREN KNOW

    the difference and always prefer ARNOTT'S Milk Arrowroots to any other biscuits. ARNOTT'S are made specially for children.—Advt. ...

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