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  2. THE PREMIER AT ORANGE.

    After the brilliant reception given to the Premier and other members of the Assembly accompanying him on Saturday night at Orange Mr. Reid anticipated a quiet rest until this evening, when he was ...

    Article : 4,682 words
  3. THE WEATHER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 247 words
  4. COUNTRY NEWS.

    On Saturday evening last, as Mr. D. Tierney, secretary to the Yass Wool-scouring Company, was proceeding home from town, one of the employees followed him and came up with him near ...

    Article : 166 words
  5. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 907 words
  6. VICTORIA.

    The Premier cabled to the Agent-General to-day as follows:—"Impress upon the Imperial Government the importance of the Pacific cable, and urge an early meeting of a joint commission ...

    Article : 117 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    Horrible revelutions have been made as to tortures inflicted upon the inmates of a Roman Catholic asylum at Aix-laChapelle, in Prussia. ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. THE INCOME TAX.

    Up to noon on Saturday the Income Tax Department had received about £95,000. To-day was the last day appointed to receive payments, and the officials were kept busily engaged. ...

    Article : 127 words
  9. THE PRICE OF MILK.

    The milk suppliers are complaining much at the low prices received from the city companies, it being impossible to hand-feed except at great loss. One supplier has discontinued sending his milk, ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. THE ARMENIAN COMMISSION.

    The European delegates to the Joint Commission appointed to investigate the circumstances of the late atrocities in Armenia have refused to continue to act ...

    Article : 64 words
  11. THE GRAIN DUTIES.

    A public meeting was held on Saturday night, under the auspices of the Farmers' Union, of all persons opposed to the repeal of the duties on agricultural products. About 100 people were ...

    Article : 439 words
  12. HOW THE GALE WAS FELT IN THE CITY.

    Had rain continued with the change yesterday everybody would have been prepared to hear that it was the wettest and coldest day of the year. As it was, many people were heard to say that it ...

    Article : 164 words
  13. THE RAILWAY EARNINGS.

    The railway earnings for the week ended the 6th instant amounted to £44,645, being an increase of £2070 as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The aggregate earnings to ...

    Article : 75 words
  14. THE CHINESE LOAN.

    Much irritation has been displayed in Germany at the action of Russia in placing in Paris the Chinese loan of 400,000,000 francs (£16,000,000), which is to provide ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.

    The captain of the ship Hillaria, which arrived on Saturday from New York laden with kerosene, has been placed in an awkward dilemma through a case of detonators having been included in the ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. WHERE THE STORM CAME FROM.

    "There was nothing of this to be seen on Saturday," Mr. Russell remarked. "It came at a great pace across from the westward, and in 18 hours the barometers fell half an inch—a most ...

    Article : 69 words
  17. THE LIVE CATTLE TRADE

    Of the shipment of 73 head of cattle despatched by the steamer Port Victor, which left Sydney for London on the 13th April, 17 perished on the voyage, ...

    Article : 72 words
  18. HOW THE R.M.S. ARCADIA WAS DELAYED.

    For five hours and 20 minutes the powerful P. and O. liner Arcadia, a mail steamer of 6000 tons, and capable of steaming 17½ knots per hour, lay helpless at the wharf. She was timed to leave ...

    Article : 264 words
  19. ALFRED SHAW AND CO., LIMITED.

    The directors of Alfred Shaw and Co., Limited, hardware merchants, applied to Mr. Justice A'Beckett to-day for the sanction of the Supreme Court to be given to the scheme of compromise ...

    Article : 149 words
  20. PARIS SUMMER MEETING.

    At Longchamps to-day the contest for the leading event of the current season resulted as follows:- GRAND PRIZE OF PARIS of 200,000f. (8000 sovs.)— ...

    Article : 238 words
  21. DEATH OF MR. A. STANGER LEATHES.

    Mr. A. Stanger Leathes died at 10.30 on Saturday night at his country residence. The Rifts, Bowral, from congestion of teo lungs. The deceased gentleman was 76 years of age. ...

    Article : 88 words
  22. SOUTHERN COAL TRADE.

    The southern coal trade generally, which has been somewhat depressed during the last six weeks, shows no sign of improvement. The average working time, including all collieries from ...

    Article : 274 words
  23. FACILITIES TO MINERS.

    In accordance with the policy recently introduced by the Mines Department the surface areas of leases worked at the South Wattle Gully and the Southern Cross Companies' leases ...

    Article : 112 words
  24. THE SCENE IN THE HARBOUR.

    It being such a bright, clear blow, with little dust from either shore, the scene during the height of the storm was particularly interesting. The ferry-boats listed over to port or starboard ...

    Article : 153 words
  25. BEET CULTIVATION.

    Mr. Van De Yelde, the sugar expert, delivered a lecture here on Saturday in connection with beet cultivation experiments. There was a large attendance, and great interest was taken in the ...

    Article : 61 words
  26. NEWCASTLE QUARTER SESSION'S.

    The New castle Quarter Sessions for June began this morning before Judge Backhouse. The Judge opened the court by announcing that Mr. William Hobart Shaw, J.P., of Newcastle, had ...

    Article : 102 words
  27. CENTRAL BROKEN HILL MINE.

    An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the Central Broken Hill Silver-mining Company was held to-day in order to confirm the resolution passed at the meeting on the 22nd May ...

    Article : 443 words
  28. THE STORM AT SOUTH HEAD.—SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

    Our South Head correspondent reports:—At 1 o'clock on Monday morning a heavy squall of wind and rain came up from W.N.W. blowing at terrific force and lasting half an hour. The ...

    Article : 200 words
  29. QUEENSLAND.

    The Governor, who has just returned from his overland trip between Bourke and Charleville, states that, although very large numbers of rabbits are to be seen on the New South Wales side of the ...

    Article : 147 words
  30. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    The purchase money of the Normanby North Cue mines was paid over to the original prospectors in Richmond during the past day or two. Another lot of very rich stone taken from the reef ...

    Article : 434 words
  31. THE CAMPERDOWN TRAGEDY.

    Early yesterday morning Ezra Abrahams, who on the 8th instant shot himself after shooting at and wounding Miss Go[?]dacre, in Thomas-street, Camperdown,died in the Prince Alfred Hospital. ...

    Article : 119 words
  32. THE RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS.

    The Railway Commissioners Messrs. Oliver and Fehon, visited Camdon this afternoon, and were introduced by Mr. Kidd, M.L.A., to the Mayor and aldermen of Camden and the leading business ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  33. THE INQUEST ON ABRAHAMS.

    The City Coroner, Mr. J, C, Woore, held an inquest at the Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday on the body of Ezra Abrahams. Aaron Abrahams, a confectioner, residing at No. ...

    Article : 557 words
  34. WRECK OF A VESSEL IN BASS STRAITS.

    In Bass Straits the gale has raged furiously, and vessels bound across there have had a fearful time of it. One well known ketch, the Strathmore, has come to grief. The following was received ...

    Article : 181 words
  35. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Timely and general rains fell yesterday everywhere, excepting on the Murray Flats and in the north-cast. The ketch Vivid has become a total wreck near ...

    Article : 61 words
  36. AUSTRALIANS' ASSOCIATION.

    Last evening an adjourned public meeting was held in the Glebe Town Hall, presided over by the Mayor (Alderman W.H. Hutchinson, J.P.), for the purpose of establishing a branch in the district of the ...

    Article : 311 words
  37. NEW ZEALAND.

    An analysis of the petroleum discovered at Taranaki shows that 75 per cent[?] is pure paraffin, as against 53 per cent. in American and 33 per cent. in Baka[?] oils. ...

    Article : 70 words
  38. PAST SYDNEY STORM RECORDS.

    In 1893 from the 1st to the 3rd of January, a S. and S.E. gale blew at Sydney, doing a great deal of damage in the eastern suburbs. On that occasion it blew with such violence as to ...

    Article : 121 words
  39. THE CANTERBURY ELECTION.

    Matters are quiet here in connection with the Canterbury election. It is believed that Mr. Parkes will be returned unopposed. Mr. T. W. Taylor, Mr. Parkes's principal opponent at the last ...

    Article : 77 words
  40. THE MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

    The Australian Chilling and Freezing Company began the work of killing cattle for export to-day. The first lot operated upon was 200 head of bullocks from Mr. James White's Edinglassie station. ...

    Article : 108 words
  41. GROUNDING OF THE TOMKI.

    The steamer Tomki, after crossing in from Sydney last evening, grounded on what is known as the crossing inside the entrance to the Richmond River. With the aid of lighters it is ...

    Article : 62 words
  42. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.)

    Yesterday a bitterly cold wind blow all day from the west. At 9 o'clook last night a thunderstorm, accompanied with hailstones, occurred. Since then it has been snowing, the ground this ...

    Article : 1,056 words
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