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  2. FEDERATION. QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. D. Thomson directed the attention of the Premier to the fact that the police were now compiling a roll of every man in the ...

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  3. THE TRANSVAAL BRITISH MARCH ON LIDENBURG.

    General Sir Redvers Buller has reached the northern bank of the Crocodile River. Later. General Sir Redvers Buller is marching ...

    Article : 38 words
  4. CHINA. PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL FROM PEKING.

    The opinion prevails at the Chinese treaty ports that the withdrawal of the Allies from Peking will inevitably be the beginning of the partition of China. ...

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  5. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The Czar has presented President Loubet with the decoration of the Order of St. Andrew, and has sent the President an autograph letter conveying his felicitations ...

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  6. LATE EDITION. HERALD OFFICE, 8 a.m. THE TRANSVAAL.

    Four commandoes, under Generals Grobeldar, Fouries, Lemmer, and Sasebroek, are besieging Ladybrand. The Boers have commandeered all the ...

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  7. IN PARLIAMENT.

    The Legislative Assembly met yesterday to deal with a long programme of private members' business; but early in the evening the sitting had an abrupt termination. Formal matters occupied ...

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  8. TASMANIAN SOLDIERS WOUNDED.

    His Excellency the Administrator has received a cablegram from Sir Alfred Milner stating that during the engagement at Warmbaths on September 1 the following Tasmanian Bushmen were slightly ...

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  9. THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

    The situation in the Yangtse Valley is now disquieting. At Talung, in the Anhui province, a disturbance has been caused by the Kolasbui. Hitherto that society had kept quiet, its leader, Su, ...

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  10. LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.

    Private advices from Lieutenant Vaughan, of the 1st Australian Horse, report that he had been recommended by the Colonel of the Scots Greys for promotion, and the latest letter, dated "July 20, 50 ...

    Article : 180 words
  11. THE PLAGUE IN SCOTLAND.

    The continental countries have declared Glasgow an infected port, and have decided to quarantine vessels arriving from that city. Two more deaths of ...

    Article : 51 words
  12. DRASTIC MEASURES BY LORD ROBERTS.

    When the railway was blown up by the Boers near Krugersdorp, 25 miles west of Johannesburg, Lord Roberts ordered a sudden descent upon the village of ...

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  13. THE EX-PRESIDENTS.

    Ex-President Kruger and Ex-President Stoyn are living in railway carriages at Nelspruit. The vehicles are covered with red-cross hoods. ...

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  14. STAFF-SERGEANT FRASER.

    Staff-Sergeant Robert Fraser, writing to his brother, Mr. Hugh Fraser, from Heidelburg on June 29, says:—"We have been droving, fighting, and goodness knows what since we left Bloomfontein on ...

    Article : 158 words
  15. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE PLAGUE AT LONDON.

    Rigorous sanitary precautions are being taken in London to prevent an outbreak of the plague. ...

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  16. 5.30 a.m. CHINA.

    The Circular of Count Lamsdorf, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating that Russia at the outset of the Chinese crisis, laid down the principles ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. TRADES-UNION CONGRESS.

    The Trades-Unions' Congress has been opened at Huddersfield. The Congress represents 1,250,000 trades-unionists. ...

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  18. A BOER OUTRAGE.

    The correspondent of the "Standard" at Belfast states that the Boers deliberately shot Surgeon O'Neill whilst he was collecting wounded on the field, and that ...

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  19. CORPORAL R. NEILSON.

    Corporal R. Neilson, New South Wales Mounted Rifles, writing from Kroonstad on July 20, says that after his comp[?]reached Bronker"s Spruitthey were ordered back to Pretoria, and from there the writer ...

    Article : 161 words
  20. WHEAT.

    Wheat is 6d a quarter dearer than it was last week. ...

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  21. THE RELEASE OF PRISONERS.

    Seventy-one of the British prisoners who were released at Nooitgedacht hospital have arrived at Delagoa Bay. ...

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  22. CRICKET.

    Further results of the county cricket contests this season, in which Yorkshire (unbeaten) won the championship, are as follows:—Lancashire second, Kent ...

    Article : 123 words
  23. BOERS SEIZE AMBULANCE MULES.

    Commandant Viljoen, near Nooitgedacht, seized a number of ambulance mules which General Sir Redvers Buller had sent to the released prisoners who were ...

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  24. TROOTER ALLEY.

    Trooper Alley, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, who was taken prisoner by the Boers, writes to his mother, Mrs. Alley, of East Orange, from Kroonstad on July 27, a letter in which he ...

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  25. MEMBER OF THE TSUNG-LI-YAMEN ARRESTED.

    At the instance of the Austrian Legation at Peking Chung-li, a member of the Tsung-li-Yamen, has been arrested for having protected rebels. ...

    Article : 32 words
  26. BOER DEFEATS.

    Brigadier-General Plumer has again defeated the Boers at Rooitkop, capturing 100 rifles, 40,000 cartridges, and large quantities of supplies. ...

    Article : 99 words
  27. POSITION AT PEKING.

    Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of Customs, has re-opened the Customs-house at Peking. The Allies have occupied, the Imperial ...

    Article : 67 words
  28. THE SEIZURE OF THE BUNDESRATH.

    Hamburg advices state that Great Britain will pay an indemnity of £87,500 for the seizure of the steamer Bundesrath in Delagoa Bay some months ago. ...

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  29. VICTORIA.

    The Ballarat City Council has received an offer from an anonymous donor of £1200 for the purchase of an organ for the Town Hall, the only condition attached to the offer being that the city hall should ...

    Article : 161 words
  30. AN AUSTRALIAN PEDESTRIAN.

    Stanley Rowley, the New South Wales pedestrian, is returning to Australia by the Oceana. ...

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  31. A LOCAL LOAN OF £500,000.

    Tenders for the locally offered loan of £300,000 in the shape of Treasury bills, bearing interest at the rate of 3½ per cent., and having a currency of five years, were opened yesterday by the officers of the ...

    Article : 404 words
  32. CHINESE OPPOSITION TO GERMAN EXPANSION.

    Twenty thousand Chinese regulars are massed in the direction of Kiao-chau, the German possession on the coast of the Shantung province, for the purpose of ...

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  33. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4½d per ounce standard, a rise of l-16d since friday. ...

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  34. THE QUESTION OF EXCISE DUTIES.

    A deputation of manufacturers of tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes waited on the Premier yesterday for the purpose of representing the position in which they would be placed on the inauguration of the ...

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  35. BOERS IN THE SOUTHERN TRANSVAAL.

    Five hundred Boers released and armed the prisoners in the gaol at Klip river, 66 miles south of Pretoria. ...

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  36. QUEENSLAND.

    In connection with the meeting held yesterday to protest against the law recently passed by the German Reichstag prohibiting the importation of meat from Australia, a deputation waited upon the Premier ...

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  37. GERMAN TROOPS AT WUSUNG.

    The Germans are landing a force at Wusung, 11 miles north of Shanghai. ...

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  38. SHOOTING AFFRAY AT ROCKHAMPTON.

    A serious shooting affray occurred about 8 o'clock to-night at the rosidence of Mr J. S. Henderson, of Rockhampton, the owner of Casuarina Island, lately of Merchant. A ...

    Article : 258 words
  39. LADYBRAND HARD PRESSED.

    Ladybrand, near the south-eastern border of the Orange River Colony, is hard pressed by several commandoes. Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter is ...

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  40. A SYDNEY BOUND BARQUE ON FIRE.

    A few days ago Messrs. Spicer and Co., of Clarence-street, received a cable from their London house in which it was stated that the barque Almora, that left Liverpool for Sydney in May last, had been ...

    Article : 534 words
  41. THE RUSSIANS IN MANCHURIA.

    Russia has occupied every fortress in Manchuria except Mukden, the capital. She relies upon the agreement authorising her to protect the railway being ...

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  42. COLONIAL TROOPS VISIT TO WINDSOR.

    Captain Arthur Stourton took a party of invalided Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders to Windsor. The Mayor of Windsor entertained the ...

    Article : 96 words
  43. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A large deputation from the Workers' Association, headed by Mr. J. Resido, waited upon the Chamber of Mines on Saturday in respect of payment of a uniform rate of wages at all the mines, more ...

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  44. THE SITUATION.

    According to all accounts, the majority of the Powers would seem now to have made up their minds to withdraw from Peking, leaving the city a pre[?] to mob rule. A communication in the Paris ...

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  45. BROKEN HILL MUNICIPAL APPEAL CASES.

    The adjourned Municipal Appeal Court opened this afternoon at the courthouse, Mr. Maitland, P.M., and Mr. Wait, J.P., occupying the Bench. Mr. Justin M'Carthy, with Mr. A. J. Hall, appeared on ...

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  46. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. FOUND DROWNED.

    The body of a woman named Tee, the wife of a shearer named John Tee, who is at present in the far north working, was found in a disused sawpit near Mount Pleasant on Monday. Owing to the recent ...

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  47. NEW SOUTH WALES VOLUNTEERS.

    The Premier, in answer to inquiries forwarded to South Africa, has received the following information; Parkhill, of the New South Wales Medical Corps, embarked for Sydney on the Kumara on August 28; ...

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  48. NEW ZEALAND.

    In connection with the demand for New Zealand coal for export, the request of the Indian Government for 7500 tons, has been made to the Mokihinui Coal Company. It is stated that the only difficulty ...

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  49. DEATH OF MR. GRIFFITHS.

    Mr. Walter Griffiths, senior member of Parliament for the Northern Territory, died to-night, aged 33. Mr. Griffiths, who represented the Territory for six years, recently returned from London, where ...

    Article : 192 words
  50. THE IMPERIAL BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

    The Premier informed Mr. Wright in the Legislative Assembly last night that from private and official documents that he had received he could say that the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent, under ...

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  51. TROOPER CHANTER.

    A letter from Zearust, South Africa, dated July 21, has been received by Mr. J. M. Chanter, M.L.A., from his son. Trooper Chanter, who left here as a member of D Squadron, Citizens' Bushmen's ...

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  52. LATE MINING.

    The transfer of the South Tharsia mine to the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company having been signed, the company to-day paid over £45,000, the amount of the purchase money. ...

    Article : 369 words
  53. THE FUGITIVE BLACKS.

    A party of police from Port Macquarie and Kempsey, accompanied by two black trackers, reached Paterson last night, en route for Tomalla Tops, via Moonan Brook, to intercept the blacks. ...

    Article : 85 words
  54. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT.

    A tram accident, by which a man whose identify is unknown lost his life, occurred in George-street last evening. The desceased was a passenger in a tram proceeding to the Quay. When near the ...

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  55. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    Sergeant Grace, invalided from South Africa, who returned by the steamer Persic, arrived at Dubbo by the mail train on Saturday morning, and was met at the station by the Dubbo Volunteers, of which ...

    Article : 101 words
  56. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 words
  57. THE WEATHER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 words
  58. INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

    On Saturday last at the Brighton Hall, Lady Robinson's Beach, a number of young ladies, amongst whom were the Misses Clayton, Chilcott, and Walford, conducted a sale of work in our of the ...

    Article : 163 words
  59. THE LATE PRIVATE DUFF.

    At a meeting at Millie a committee was formed to arrange for a memorial to the late Trooper[?] Duff; £60 was collected in the room. ...

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  60. ANNEXATION OF THE TRANSVAAL.

    There was a general display of bunting this morning on the publication of the news that Field-Marshal Lord Roberts had annexed the Transvaal. LAUNCESTON, Tuesday. ...

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  61. THE IPSWICH COLLIERY STRIKE.

    No important developments were reported to-day in connection with the colliery strike at Ipswich. About 100 slrikers met the New Chum colliers when the latter knocked off work this afternoon, and the ...

    Article : 80 words
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