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  2. BRITISH PRISONERS AT WATERVAAL.

    An officer of the Natal Police Force, writing to the "Standard" an account of his treatment by the Boers, after capture in Zululand, says:— ...

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  4. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY:

    John Hennessy, a fireman on the Rockton, and Harry Anderson, a fireman on the Leura, went swimming on Saturday evening at Townsville (Q.), from the eastern ...

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  5. FEDERATION.

    The "London Gazette" publishes the proclamation of her Majesty the Queen, dated "Balmoral, September 17," declaring that on and after January 1, 1901, the six ...

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  6. A SAILORS' BRAWL.

    During Saturday evening a number of the crews of the Loch Katrine and of the ship Bracadale, which are moored stern to stern at the Australian Wharf, Melbourne, were ...

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  7. THE BOER WAR.

    TT has been decided that the burghers now surrendering to the British will not be deported to Ceylon or St. Helena, except the officers. The latter will be left to Lord ...

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  8. REFUGEES AND MERCENARIES.

    All the heavy ordnance of the Boers is at Komati Poort, the station on the Portuguese East Africa border. The Boer army is a broken and ...

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  9. OFFICIALS SUICIDE.

    Two hundred Chinese officials and their families committed suicide in Pekin during the recent disturbance. ...

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  10. ROYALTY TO OPEN THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT—VISIT OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK.

    On the recommendation of the Marquis of Salisbury, her Majesty the Queen has assented to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Duchess of York visiting Australia ...

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  11. RUSSIA GRABBING.

    The Russians have seized the railway property consisting of a frontage to the river at Tien-tsin, intending to make a Russian settlement. ...

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  12. ANOTHER HARBOR COLLISION.

    A good deal of excitement was occasioned at Circular Quay, Sydney, on Monday night, by a collision between the Port Jackson Steamship Company's steamer ...

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  13. FIGHTING NEAR PEKIN.

    A German, naval force, assisted by the Bengal Lancers, captured Liang-hsien, 20 miles south-west of Pekin. Five hundred Boxers were killed. ...

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  14. LORD ROBERTS TO RETURN TO ENGLAND.

    The "Daily Mail" states that Lord Roberts will start for home on October 3, and that on his way he will visit the battlefields of Natal. ...

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  15. MORE WHITE FLAG TREACHERY.

    Lord Roberts is at Nelspruit, 60 miles; from the Portuguese frontier. He reports two gross cases of white-flag treachery on the part of the Boers. ...

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  16. CHINESE ACTIVE IN MANCHURIA.

    The Chinese destroyed 200 miles of the Russian railway in Manchuria, and killed many Russians. Five Russian regiments have left Pekin ...

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  17. BIG CAPTURES.

    Lieutenant-General Sir Hector Macdonald pursued 800 Boers, who had three guns, between Winburg and the Vet River, and captured 33 waggons, comprising half the ...

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  18. ADVENTURE OF THREE CANADIANS.

    Three members of the Canadian mounted force lost their way, and in endeavoring to regain their company passed, unperceived, through the Boer lines, and entered the ...

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  19. AN ORPHANAGE SCHOOL.

    As an outcome of the recent disclosures before the Royal Commission concerning the management of Stoke Industrial School, a Roman Catholic institution, two Marist ...

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  20. AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENTS FOR ENGLAND.

    A representative number of Colonial officers and men now in South Africa will return with the first batch of the army from active service after the proclamation of ...

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  21. AUSTRALIAN BRAVERY.

    An officer of Major-General R. G. Broadwood's division describes the recent defence of Elands River by the Australian Bushmen under Lieutenant-Colonel C. O. Hore ...

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  22. KRUGER INTERVIEWED.

    Mr. Bennet Burleigh, of the "Daily Telegraph," sought an interview at Delagoa. Bay with Paul Kruger, who deputed Mr. Berdell, the ex-Commissioner of Police of ...

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  23. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED.

    The Imperial Parliament has been dissolved. The first elections take place on October 1. Mr. Herbert J. Gladstone, speaking at ...

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  24. BOTHA'S RESIGNATION.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts reports ne has heard that General Botha temporarily resigned the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Boer army owing to ill-health. ...

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  25. FRENCH AT BARBERTON.

    Lieutenant-General French, at Barberton, took 500 prisoners and seized specie to the value of £10,000, besides 93 locomotives. Lieutenant-General French was so ...

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  26. BRITISH EMBASSY TRAGEDY.

    A tragedy has taken place at the British Embassy here, the Hon. Hugh Grosvenor, one of the second secretaries, committing suicide by shooting himself with a ...

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  27. PERFIDIOUS HOLLAND.

    The English Press presents the effusive patronage and the signal honors which Holland is bestowing on Kruger. The "Standard" states "these honors are ...

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  28. A BOER APPEAL.

    The Boer peace delegates in Europe have appealed to tae nations to intervene in South Africa "now," as they say "that the regular war has ended, and inhuman, ...

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  29. NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS.

    Mr. W. E. Armit, goldfields warden in New Guinea, now on leave for his health, says Australia would be astonished at the result of the gold bags that have been ...

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  30. JEALOUS HUSBAND COMMITS TEN MURDERS.

    A terrible tragedy of jealousy is reported from. Caserta, near Naples. Gaetano Longo, being jealous of his wife, murdered her, two men whom he alleged ...

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  31. WHERE THE BOERS ARE.

    Lord Roberts reports that the Boers have destroyed several of their "Long Toms" and field guns. He also cables that 3000 of the enemy ...

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  32. KRUGER'S POSITION AND INTENTIONS.

    The Governor of Delagoa Bay has informed Mr. Kruger, who is nominally a prisoner in the Governor's house, that the restrictions on his liberty are necessary in ...

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  33. FIGHTING IS NIGERIA.

    Two hundred of the West African Frontier Force have captured Limu, a stronghold of the Kedari tribe in Nigeria, after a fierce fight. ...

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  34. A SAD END.

    Between 7 and 8 o'clock on Sunday morning the body of Mr. H. H. M'Mahon, aged 26, was found in Albert-street, Willoughby, immediately under the railway bridge. His ...

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  35. THE CHINESE CRISIS.

    IT is reported from Berlin that the Allies attacked and captured the Peitang and Lutai forts, after sustaining heavy loss. ...

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  36. IN PARLIAMENT.

    In the Assembly on Tuesday the Wollongong Water Supply Bill and Indecent Publications Act Amending Bill passed the third readings. The Racing Association ...

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  37. THE ASIATIC PROBLEM.

    It has been noticed, as a curious instance of the irony of fate (says "To-Day"), that hundreds of Chinese carpenters were employed at the Calcutta Docks to prepare the ...

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  38. COPYING THE BOERS.

    The literati are circulating leaflets in Canton giving accounts of Chinese victories over the Allies, and stating that the Powers are craving for peace. ...

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  39. OUTRAGES MUST BE PUNISHED— BRITAIN AND GERMANY [?]PERATIVE.

    The Shanghai, correspondent of the "Express" has been, officially informed that the Marquis of Salisbury has cabled to Li Hung Chang, stating that the presence of the ...

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  40. COTTON TRADE CRISIS.

    There is a crisis in the cotton trade, owing to the shortage of present supplies and the bad prospects of the American cotton season. ...

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  41. THE CIGARETTE HABIT.

    The Edinburgh School Board have issued the following circular:—The prevalence of the practice of cigarette smoking by boys and young lads calls for serious attention. ...

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  42. ALLEGED RUSSIAN MASSACRES.

    The Moscow correspondent of the "Standard" states that the massacres were perpetrated by the Russians at Blagovyeshchensk, the capital of the Amur province of ...

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  43. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED BANK FRAUD.

    At the Water Police Court, Charles. Cook, alias Charles Werner (40), hairdresser, was charged with obtaining the sum of £99 from George Turnbull, the property of the ...

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  44. THE PLAGUE.

    There were five fresh cases of plague at Glasgow on Tuesday, all of a mild character. ...

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  45. A PIGEON-SHOOTING RECORD.

    On Thursday, at New South Wales Gun Club Ground, a match between Mr. A. W. Eales, of Sydney, and "Bobby," of Ballarat (who won the Championship of New South ...

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  46. THE TEXAS DISASTER.

    Ten thousand persons are in a destitute condition in the city of Galveston, and 20,000 others on that part of the mainland of Texas affected by the recent storm ...

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  47. 50,000 CHRISTIANS MASSACRED.

    Mr. J. Goodnow, the United States Consul-General at Shanghai, estimates that the Boxers have massacred 50,000 native Christians. ...

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  48. FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.

    The steamers Stormaran (bound from Manchester to Hamburg) and Gordon Castle (West Africa to Barrow-in-Furness) collided during a fog in Cardigan Bay. ...

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  49. MAIL STEAMER WRECKED.

    The Egyptian mail steamer Chaxkieh has been wrecked at Rosetta. One hundred lives were lost. The Socialist Congress in Germany has ...

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