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  2. SECOND EDITION.

    The Great Boulder output for the fortnight was as follows:—Stone treated, 1025 tons, yielding 3308oz. smelted gold, being an average of 3oz. 4dwt. 12gr. to the ton. ...

    Article : 301 words
  3. THE INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH CODE.

    There has been a good deal of correspondence lately in the Herald and several questions have been asked in Parliament about a proposed change in the telegraph code. Judging by the correspondence there ...

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  4. POLITICS IN AUSTRIA.

    Startling scenes have occurred in the Austrian Reichsrath during the debates upon the question as to whether officials in parts of Bohemia should be obliged to ...

    Article : 328 words
  5. WAR IN EUROPE.

    Russia is willing to assume the amount of the Greek war indemnity demanded by Turkey (£9,000,000), on condition that she shall be allowed to ...

    Article : 83 words
  6. THE CUBAN REVOLT.

    An excited debate took place in the Spanish Senate at Madrid recently over the decision of the United States to accord equal belligerent rights to the insurgents ...

    Article : 121 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    At the meeting on Friday last of the Parliamentary Select Committee to inquire into the circumstances of the Jameson raid several fiery scenes occurred between Dr. ...

    Article : 379 words
  8. IN PARLIAMENT.

    Although the Legislative Council sat for only two hours yesterday, it got through a considerable amount of work in that time. The Cook's River Improvements Bill was read the third time ...

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  9. DISQUIET IN ATHENS.

    Great disquiet prevails in Athens, where the outbreak of a revolution is feared. ...

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  10. BRITISH POLITICS.

    In the House of Commons last night the Speaker (the Right Hon. W. C. Gully) overruled all directions to the committee on the Employers' Liability ...

    Article : 144 words
  11. THE TURKISH VICTORIES.

    The Mohammedans at Bombay are rejoicing over the victories by the Turks over the Greeks, and have sent messages of congratulation to the Sultan. ...

    Article : 33 words
  12. COUNTRY NEWS.

    A man named John O'Brien while driving home last night alone was thrown from his cart and killed when within a mile of his home, near Razorback, seven miles from here. Deceased had been in ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. AFFAIRS IN CRETE.

    The leaders of the insurgents is Crete have asked the Government at Athens to direct the movement for the union of the island with Greece. ...

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  14. A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.

    A little girl seven years old, daughter of Mr. A. Norris, was yesterday burnt to death at Buckinbah. The child, with several others, was playing round a burning log, when her clothes ignited, and, seized ...

    Article : 701 words
  15. TERMS OF PEACE.

    The joint Note drawn up by the Ambassadors in Constantinople defining the views of the Powers as to the terms of peace has been presented to the Porte. ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. THE DROUGHT.

    Any information tending to throw light upon the causation of the present protracted drought, and the probability of it breaking [?] at an early date, is a matter in which every section of the community is ...

    Article : 1,022 words
  17. GREAT BRITAIN'S ISOLATION.

    Speaking at a dinner given by the officers of the Queen's Westminster Volunteers last night, Lieutenant-Colonel Lassetter, commander of the N.S.W. ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. A GREEK SECRET SOCIETY.

    There is an outcry in Athens against the Ethnite Hetairia, a Greek secret society whose movements have given rise to considerable uneasiness. The ...

    Article : 42 words
  19. VICTORIA.

    At a public meeting held in the Town Hall to-day a resolution was carried that a fund be opened with the view of raising a statue to the late Sir Wm. Clarke, in recognition of his many virtues. ...

    Article : 329 words
  20. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Volksraad of the Orange Free State has negatived, by the Chairman's casting vote, a proposal to restrict the franchise. ...

    Article : 43 words
  21. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The Hon. J. Rose Innes, C.M.G., Under-Secretary for Native Affairs in the Cape Government, has given notice of his intention to move in the Cape Assembly ...

    Article : 66 words
  22. LETTERS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

    MR. H. W. LUCY'S VIEW OF THE SITUATION. Mr. Henry Lucy, writing from London on 23rd April, says:—The shriek[?]ng brotherhood who from the security of their homes in England have ...

    Article : 1,633 words
  23. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE TRANSVAAL.

    A Royal salute was fired at Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, in honour of the Queen's Birthday. Both Houses of the Volksraad ...

    Article : 41 words
  24. THE SOUDAN.

    News from Cairo states that the Dervishes are making raids upon Tokar, in the Soudan. ...

    Article : 25 words
  25. THE CANADIAN TARIFF.

    The Hon. W. S. Fielding, Minister of Finance in the Canadian Government, stated in the Canadian House of Commons last night that Canada proposes to extend ...

    Article : 60 words
  26. GREAT BRITAIN AND MADAGASCAR.

    Great Britain has abandoned her Consular Courts in Madagascar. ...

    Article : 19 words
  27. BRITISH SOLDIERS IN INDIA.

    Princess Christian, the Duchess of Connaught, the Duchess of Teck, and many leading ladies, have drown up a petition to Lord Salisbury requesting the ...

    Article : 52 words
  28. TASMANIA.

    Sir Philip Fysh has received an intimation that an Adelaide syndicate has paid £10,000 as a deposit for the Great Western Railway scheme, due this day, into the Commercial Bank at Hobart. ...

    Article : 102 words
  29. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN BERLIN.

    A terrible tragedy occurred in Berlin to-day. A showman who was shooting at a glass ball placed upon the head of his ...

    Article : 46 words
  30. OUR BUTTER INDUSTRY.

    The Government dairy expert, Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, has written a report to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture in regard to the butter industry in New South Wales. This report contains ...

    Article : 701 words
  31. ASSAULT ON THE HIGH SEAS.

    Before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., in the Summous Division of the Water Police Court yesterday, George Binney Ramsay, master of the vessel Tsinan, was charged in company with William ...

    Article : 520 words
  32. THE INDIAN FAMINE.

    Nearly 4,000,000 persons are cow employed on the relief works in the famine-stricken districts of India. ...

    Article : 24 words
  33. PROSPECTING IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The North Island of New Zealand Prospecting Syndicate has been formed with a capital of £50,000, of which £40,000 is being issued in shares for ...

    Article : 36 words
  34. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Bookmakers' Association has decided to appeal to the Privy Council against the decision of the Appeal Court in excluding bookmakers from the racecourse. ...

    Article : 91 words
  35. WAGES OF SEAMEN ON MAIL STEAMERS.

    Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, M.P. for Middlesborough, and a member of the Parliamentary Commission of the Trades Union Congress, has been examined ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. QUEENSLAND.

    In commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee it was decided by the Minister of Public Instruction to grant to all State schools a special vacation of a week. ...

    Article : 64 words
  37. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.

    Mr. T. T. Ewing, M.L.A., presided at a meeting of the Public Works Committee yesterday, when further evidence was taken with regard to the proposal to erect new Parliamentary buildings. ...

    Article : 388 words
  38. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

    The report for 1896 of the Minister for Education was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday. It states that the school attendances show a considerable improvement, the gross ...

    Article : 368 words
  39. FRENCH WHEAT CROP.

    It is estimated that the French wheat crop will be 22¼ million hectolitres (7,650,000 quarters) below that of 1896, which stood at 42,000,000 quarters. ...

    Article : 31 words
  40. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    At a mass meeting of strikers in the boot trade held to-day, the following motion was carried unanimously:—"That the union regrets the action of the employers in refusing to grant a ...

    Article : 206 words
  41. ENGLISH SPORTING.

    The following is the latest betting o[?] the English Derby, to be run on the 2nd June:—8 to 1 v. Velasquez, 10 to 1 v. Vesuvian, 33 to 1 each v. Berzak, Eager, ...

    Article : 84 words
  42. COAL TRADE.

    Shipments of coal at the port of Bellambi last week totalled 3700 tons, of which 700 tons were consigned to Melbourne, and the balance to Sydney. This is slightly below the weekly average. During the last ...

    Article : 110 words
  43. FISHER AND CO.'S FAMOUS "NATARA,"

    Cures the Throat, Cures the Chest, Cures the [?]ad. One dose relieves, one bottle cures. Nover [?] 1s 6d per bottle. All chemists and storekeepers, and at the Pharmacy, 337 George-street, ...

    Article : 72 words
  44. LATE SHIPPING

    ADELAIDE.—Arrivals: May 26, Eliza Davies, from Circular Head; Acacia, from Hobart. May 25, Onoway, barque, from New York, Departure; May 26, Innaminck[?] (s.), for Western Australia[?] ...

    Article : 32 words
  45. NESTLE'S FOOD.

    for Infants, Children, and Invalids.—[ADVT.] ...

    Article : 8 words
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