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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    A painful accident yesterday befell a miner named Riobard Hawkins, who, while cantering a horse, came in contact with a wire clothes-line, which inflicted a severe cut in his throat, beside ...

    Article : 44 words
  3. SECOND EDITION.

    The Boers in the Transvaal are disarming. Twelve thousand Boer troops inarehed through the streets of Johannesburg ...

    Article : 42 words
  4. THE WEATHER.

    Light rain fell nil through the carly morning before sunrise, and continued with a break now and then throughout yesterday. At 9 a.m. 27 points had been recorded, or a total ...

    Article : 317 words
  5. EUROPEAN SITUATION.

    The Admiralty has called for tendors for the construction of 10 new cruisers for the Navy. The cruisers are to be completed within ...

    Article : 52 words
  6. SPECIAL CABLES.

    There is muck effusive friendship between the Turks and the Russians on the Asiatic frontior. Ismail Bey, the author of the Armenian ...

    Article : 65 words
  7. THE TRANSVAAL.

    Mr. W. Davies, of Johannesburg, and formorly an Australian, has been arrested at the instance of President Kruger. Mr. Barney Barnato, in addressing a ...

    Article : 101 words
  8. Advertising

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    Advertising : 9,056 words
  9. PETITION FOR AID TO SELECTORS.

    Mr. Austin Chapman, M.L.A., is prcpnring a potition to the Minister for Lands asking that special consideration might be extended to selectors in the drought-atricken districts to enable them ...

    Article : 2,279 words
  10. AN ANGLO-GERMAN WAR.

    Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, the leader of the Dutch party iu the Cape Legislature, has expressed his beliof, in the course of an intorviow, that in an Anglo-German war ...

    Article : 54 words
  11. THE MESSAGE FROM THE COLONIES.

    The Marquis of Salisbury has replied to the message sent by Mr. G. H. Roid, Premier of New South Wales, at the request of the Governments of Australia and ...

    Article : 167 words
  12. THE INSURRECTION AT GOA.

    Telegraphic advices have been recoived in Lisbon stating that the insurgonts in the Portuguese settlement at Goa, on the west coast of India, had entrapped and ...

    Article : 47 words
  13. INDUSTRIES ON THE RAND.

    Fearing that the arrests of members of the National Union at Johannesburg, which have been made at the instance of President Kruger will endanger the ...

    Article : 92 words
  14. TURKEY AND ARMENIA.

    The Duke of Westminster, chairman of the Armenian Belief Uommittee, who has been approached in the interests of the suffering Armenians, says that the ...

    Article : 63 words
  15. PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG.

    The latest accounts as to the condition of Prince Houry of Battenberg, who is suffering from fover at Prahsu, in the Gold Coast territory, West Africa, stete ...

    Article : 39 words
  16. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) FOUR FURTHER DEATHS AT BALRANALD.

    The intense heat here during the past week has had a fatal effect on a number of old residents. William Hull, a man of independent means, 61 years of ago, died suddenly on Saturday. William ...

    Article : 142 words
  17. DEATH DUTIES IN ENGLAND.

    Mr. Chamberlain, Secrotary of State for the Colonies, has issued an order absolving the relatives of Victorian colonists who may die in England from ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 6[?]d per ounce standard, being an advance of [?]d since last quotati ...

    Article : 24 words
  19. THE ORANGE FREE STATE.

    The Volksraad of the Orange Free State has pnssed a reselution declaring that it will always assist the Transvaal, and demanding the cancellation of the ...

    Article : 40 words
  20. BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY SHARES.

    Broken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at £2 17s 6d, being an advance of Is 3d since last quotation. ...

    Article : 26 words
  21. THREE DEATHS FROM HEAT AT WELLINGTON.

    The heat still continues, with no sign of abatement. Every day this week the thermometer has registered over 100, and on some days an high as 107. The nights also are oppressively hot. ...

    Article : 81 words
  22. THE STEAMER RAKAIA.

    The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kakain, which left London on 25th December for New Zealand, went on a sandbank off the Capo de Verde ...

    Article : 57 words
  23. ME. BALFOUR AT GLASGOW.

    Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury and leader of the Government in the House of Commons, was presented with the freedom of the City of Glasgow ...

    Article : 81 words
  24. THE EMPEROR WILLIAM AND THE TRANSVAAL.

    Mr. J. H. Hofinoyr, the leader of the Dutch party in the Cape Legislature, who has been interviewed, expressed the opinion that the recent action of the ...

    Article : 49 words
  25. VICTORIA.

    Very few bookmakers supplied the Commissioner of Tuxes with details of their income last year, but a eireiilar has new been issued to them stilting that every bookmaker must supply a ...

    Article : 73 words
  26. THREE CASES OF SUNSTROKE.

    The shade temperature was 114 yesterday. and 108 to-day. Turce cases of sunstroke occurred yesterday, one terminating fatally. Another sufferer is not likely to recover. ...

    Article : 35 words
  27. OPENING OF THE YOLKSEAAD.

    The Transvaal Volksraatl was formally oponed yesterday. In his message President Kruger exhorts the Volksrnad to discuss in its calmer moments the situation ...

    Article : 153 words
  28. THE PAPACY.

    The biography of the late Cardinal Manning has been published. It contains a statement to the effcet that the Cardinal was invited to allow hitnsolf to be ...

    Article : 62 words
  29. INCREASING HEAT AT WALCHA.

    To-day has been probably the bottent ever experienced here. The thermometer registered 104. ...

    Article : 20 words
  30. ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS FOR BRISBANE.

    Mr. W. D. M'Eacharn, of the firm of M'Ilwraith, M'Eacham, and Co., Limited, who has large business interests in Brisbane, has just returned to Melbourne from a visit to Europe, in ...

    Article : 108 words
  31. BRITISH FLEET IN THE LEVANT.

    The British fleet which assembled in Turkish waters during the late crisis in Constantinople has sailed from Salonica. One-half of the vessels proceeded to ...

    Article : 48 words
  32. PRAYERS FOR RAIN.

    Steady rain began to fall early this morning, and has continued all day. Though the rain is slight it is very welcome, and will materially help the water supplies, pastures, and late crops. ...

    Article : 86 words
  33. MURDER AT COOLGARDIE.

    Last Frillly morning im Afghan shot Tagh Mahomet dead while at prayers at the Afghan camp. Tagh Mahomet was a member of the firm of Messrs. Faiz and Tagh Mahomet, the pioneer camel men of ...

    Article : 126 words
  34. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    The first wool sales of the year were opened this afternoon. Prices were very firm, and showed an upward tendency. ...

    Article : 160 words
  35. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A suecssful banquet was held last night in the Town Hall in commemoration of Sir John Forrest's 30 years' connection with the public aervico of the colony. About 250 leading ...

    Article : 208 words
  36. QUEENSLAND.

    The work of reducing the present steep grades on the Northern and Central railway linea is to be immediately gone on with. ...

    Article : 27 words
  37. SUNSTROKE AT BULLI.

    A woman suffering from funstrobe was admitted to the hospital to-day. Splendid rains havo fallen. ...

    Article : 21 words
  38. TWO DEATHS FROM THE HEAT.

    A fettler named Hoyle dropped dead yesterday at Hermidale railway station, near Cobar. Another mau named Cottley was found dead this morning in the bush at Yanda Creek Both deaths ...

    Article : 116 words
  39. CONFERENCE OF FARMERS AND GRAZIERS.

    A representative and important conference of farmers and graziers, consisting of about 10 elected delegates from Tenterfield, Glen Innes, Armidale, Uralh, Inverell, Walcha, and the surrounding ...

    Article : 290 words
  40. NEW ZEALAND.

    A magisterial inquiry into the wreck of the barque Halcione was held to-day. The Court declared that the wreck was the result of an accident caused through stress of weather without ...

    Article : 87 words
  41. THE MESSAGE FROM THE COLONIAL PREMIERS.

    The Premier, Mr. G. H. Reid, yesterday morning received a cablegram from Lord Salisbury in reply to the recent message from the colonial Premiers. The metsage, which is dated from ...

    Article : 185 words
  42. TERRIFIC HEAT AT BOURKE.

    There is no abatement of the intense heat. To-day the highest maximum temperature recorded at the post-office was 118 in the shade. Two more deaths occurred this afternoon, both able-bodied ...

    Article : 1,345 words
  43. THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

    The Premier has been congratulated by many citizens on the excellence of the appointments made to the Public Service Commission, and the respective members of the commission have also been warmly ...

    Article : 630 words
  44. FIRE AT BROKEN HILL.

    Last night at 12 o'clock the minc whistle mounded an alarm of fire, and the continuous small alanu whistle of the Proprietary indicated that the fire was along the line of the lode. Soon a ...

    Article : 235 words
  45. TASMANIA.

    The Sunbeam, with Lord and Lady Brassey aboard, was towed from Norfolk Bay to Hoba[?], arriving at 1.30 in the afteruoou. She a[?]d off Government House. The passage up ...

    Article : 380 words
  46. AUSTRALIAN HARES.

    The New South Wales hares brought by the steamer Yarrawonga were bad. ...

    Article : 17 words
  47. BRITISH BROKEN HILL SHARES.

    British Broken Hill shares are quoted on the Stock Exchange to-day at 12s 6d. ...

    Article : 22 words
  48. PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA.

    In the Assembly to-day Mr. Williams moved that the question of the further extension of railways in the Maline district be referred to the Standing Committce for consideration aud report. ...

    Article : 325 words
  49. TAREE HOSPITAL.

    The annual meeting of subscribers to the hospital was held this afternoon, in the Agricultural Hall. Mr. Basham presided. The report and balance-sheet, which were [?]monsly adopted, ...

    Article : 142 words
  50. QUEENSLAND INVESTMENT AND LAND MORTGAGE CO.

    Sir James Stirling, one of the Justices of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justico, has decided that it is logal for the Queensland Investment and ...

    Article : 55 words
  51. SALE OF WORK UFEXED HY LAW HAMPDEN.

    Lady Hampden to-day opened a sale of work at the School of Arts hall, organised by the Young Women's Christian Association. Lady Hampden and her two daughters were accompanied by Captain ...

    Article : 177 words
  52. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    His Excellency the Governor, Landy Victoria Buxton, and the Misses Buxton, accompanied by the Colonial Treasurer, will leave Adelaide on Monday next for the River Murray, their ...

    Article : 107 words
  53. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 words
  54. A "FIN DE SIECLES" LUXURY.

    Such are thr Dona Maria Mexican Cigars, 5 for [?]:—[ADVT.] ...

    Article : 19 words
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