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  2. THE ENGLISH-JAPANESE TREATY.

    The new treaty recently completed between Great Britain and Japan has been formally ratified at Tokio, the capital of Japan. The treaty provides that British subjects in Japan, after the expiration ...

    Article : 59 words
  3. TROUBLE IN CENTRAL AMERICA.

    The local troops at Bluefields, in Nicaragua, Central America, arrested Mr. Hatch, the British Consul, and eight foreign residents, and convoyed them to Grayton on the Coast. A British warship ...

    Article : 89 words
  4. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Tho English hop crop is good. Cholera is increasing in Russia. There is a revival of trade in New York. The death is announced of the Karl of Albemarle, ...

    Article : 631 words
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  6. The Week's liable News.

    A number of residents at Boschewen, Austria, on Sunday brutally murdered the whole of the members—nine in numbers—of a wealthy Jewish family residing in town. ...

    Article : 37 words
  7. MISSIONARY OUTRAGE IN CHINA.

    Further details of the murder of the Rey. Mr. "Wylie, a Presbyterian minister, have been received. Meeting a body of Chinese soldiers in a street, Mr. Wylie stood aside, but as they passed some soldiers ...

    Article : 72 words
  8. A TIDAL WAVE.

    By a tidal ware at Azov, situated on the Sea of Azov, in the south of Russia, a number of Tillages have been destroyed, several ships have been wrecked, and the crews thereof perished. ...

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  9. THE PROROGUING OF PARLIAMENT.

    The Imperial Parliament was formally prorogued on Saturday. The Queen's Speech alluded to the fact that the foreign isolations of the Empire were peaceful, but expressed regret that the questions ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. THE BISHOP OF WELLINGTON.

    It ia announced that the Bishop-designate of Wellington, New Zealand, the Rev. Frederic Wallis, Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, will marry Miss Williams in October. ...

    Article : 32 words
  11. AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

    Tho Hod. William Forrest, M.L.C., of Queensland, who has been on a mission to English in connection with the Queensland Meat Export Company, will sail from London in November on ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. THE EIGHT HOURS DAY.

    Having been found to work unsatisfactorily, the experiment which was being made with regard to the night-hours principle in the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey, England, has been ...

    Article : 35 words
  13. AUSTRALIAN WINE.

    As the result of an appeal made by Mr. Thos. Playford, Agent-General for South Australia, to the Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Customs authorities have withdrawn ...

    Article : 113 words
  14. VICTORIAN MILITARY STUDENT.

    Mr. T. R. Price, a Victorian military student, has passed his examination with high honors at the Sandhurst Military College. Mr. Price is the son of Mr. T. Price, commanding officer of the Victorian ...

    Article : 39 words
  15. ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN.

    A diabolical attempt has been made to wreck a train near Plymouth. Shortly before a passenger train was due, it was discovered that a lump of stone weighing about 1 cwt. had been placed on the ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. A TRAGIC SUICIDE.

    Miss Wabnitz, a well-known literary lady, who held pronounced Socialistic views, met with a tragic end in Berlin. She repaired to a grave of a revolutionist of '48, and committed suicide by ...

    Article : 42 words
  17. EGYPTIAN TROUBLES.

    Ali Cherif Pasha, President of the Egyptian Legislative Council, Has resigned. Hassan Pasha, a retired General of the Egyptian Army, has been arrested, and is being tried by ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. MINING.

    Broken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at £3 2s 6d. The price oE bar silver on Tuesday was quoted at 2s GJd per ounce standard, being a decline of 3/8d ...

    Article : 34 words
  19. CRICKET.

    Surrey has won the championship in county cricket in England. Mr. A. C. MacLaren, a well-known amateur cricketer, of Lancashire and Harrow, will join Mr ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. AUSTRALIA AND CANADA.

    Mr. J. S. Larke, who was the Canadian delegate at the Chicago World's Pair, has been appointed to proceed to Australia on behalf of the Dominion Government on a mission in connection with the ...

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  21. RELEASE OP A VESSEL.

    The steamer Islam, which was seized at Glasgow on August 20 by order of the Foreign Office, has been released. The seizure was made on account of the fact that the vessel had on board a large ...

    Article : 85 words
  22. A MINT FOR WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The Treasury is favourable to the establishment of a mint at Perth, "Western Australia, on conditions similar to those under which the mints at Sydney and Melbourne are carried on, the colony ...

    Article : 47 words
  23. THE ACTION OF THE LORDS.

    A mass meeting of Radical societies and Trade Unions was held in Hyde Park on Sunday to protest against the recent action of the House of Lords in reference to Irish affairs, and to urge ...

    Article : 148 words
  24. TROUBLE IN HAWAII.

    News has been received of a rising in Hawaii. : The reported occurrence has given rise to a mutual feeling of suspicion on the part of the English and , United States cruisers in those waters, and a vessel ...

    Article : 89 words
  25. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

    At the general meeting of shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand on Tuesday, Mr. E. H. Glyn, chairman of the board of directors, stated that the Estates Company had never earned more than 1½ ...

    Article : 51 words
  26. MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL.

    At a meeting of shareholders of the Manchester Ship Canal Company the Chairman stated the net revenue of the canal for the past half-year was £30,000 and the traffic was enormously increasing, ...

    Article : 46 words
  27. ROMANTIC TRAGEDY.

    A romantic tragedy ia reported on board a steamer in the Black Sea. A sailor became enamoured of a fair American, and avowed his love, hat the fair one scorned the homage thus ...

    Article : 80 words
  28. Official Correspondence.

    Mr. W. C. Wall, M.P., for Rylestone, has been favoured with letters from the heads of various departments in the Government service to the following effect:—1. That the establishment of a ...

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  29. THE FRENCH IN WEST AFRICA.

    It is reported that a French force has arrived at Coomassie, in Aebantee, West Africa, in pursuance of a desire expressed by the King of Ashantee that his country should be placed under the protection ...

    Article : 146 words
  30. THE MIOWERA.

    The steamer Miowera, of Mr. James Huddart'a Canadian-Australian line, which recently grounded while on an excusion to Norway, is undergoing a thorough overhaul. She will sail for Sydney on ...

    Article : 45 words
  31. SHIPPING MATTERS.

    The ship Oakworth, which left Geelong on June 9 for the English Channel, has put into Valparaiso, partly dismasted. The ship Glencricht, which left Adelaide on April ...

    Article : 79 words
  32. THE CANADIAN-AUSTRALIAN LINE.

    The Times urges Great Britain and Australia to subsidise Mr. James Huddart's Pacific-Atlantic line of steamers on national grounds as a means of more complete communication between the distant parts ...

    Article : 49 words
  33. BULLET-PROOF CLOTHING.

    Herr Dowe has been wounded while exhibiting his alleged bullet-proof cuirass, at Aix-la-Chapelle, in Prussia. Attired in the cairass, the inventor allowed himself to be shot at. The bullet pierced ...

    Article : 41 words
  34. ANARCHISTS.

    The Secretary to the Commissary of Police, at Mentone, France, was on Sunday shot dead while entering his premises in company with some friends. The assassin was an anarchist who had been ...

    Article : 71 words
  35. THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

    A Wool Exchange has been started in New York in expectation of an increased trade in that staple as the result of the operation of the new tariffs under which wool will be admitted free. ...

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  36. PANIC IN CYPRUS.

    A panic set in among the population of tho Island of Cyprus in the Levant sea. The scare is due to withdrawal of British troops which are required at Malta. It is thought this step willdead to ...

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  37. THE DUTCH COLONIES.

    News has reached Holland that the Dutch expedition sent from Batavia tn subdue a rising in the Island of Lombok, in the Datch East Indies, has been overtaken by disaster. The forces of the ...

    Article : 83 words
  38. ILLEGAL LOTTERY.

    Counsel has advised Mr. Browne, who came to England to open an office in Londons for the sole of shares in connection with the Bank of Van Diemen'a Land lottery, that the lottery ia illegal in ...

    Article : 56 words
  39. THE CZAR.

    Its was officially announced a few days since that owing to the illness of the Czar of Russin, who was suffering from an attack of influenza, the Russian military manceuvers had been abandoned. It is ...

    Article : 57 words
  40. BULGBRIA AND RUSSIA.

    The Frankfurter Zeitung, a German newspaper, publishes an account of a remarkable interview with M. Stambouloff, ex-Premier of Bulgaria. In the course of the interview, 11. Stambouloff ...

    Article : 85 words
  41. THE COREAN WAR.

    In the battle between the Chinese and Japanese troops at Pingyang and Chungho in Corea, in which the Japanese are reported to have suffered a heavy loss, 25,000 men were engaged on each side. ...

    Article : 416 words
  42. IRISH LAND LEGISLATION.

    The report of the Irish Land Acts Committee has been presented. It is in favour of drastic legislation being introduced in the interest of tenants, and advices the sub-commissioners to fix the judicial ...

    Article : 64 words
  43. MINERS' STRIKE IN SCOTLAND.

    A large body of miners on strike assembled at Killieston and seized and wrecked the colliery. Only four policemen were there and were powerless against the mob, which numbered 2000. ...

    Article : 98 words
  44. WEST AUSTRALIAN LAND CO.

    The directors of the West Australian Land Company, Limited, have formulated a scheme of reconstruction under which it is proposed to exchange the first mortgage and convertible ...

    Article : 64 words
  45. To Find Any Day of the Year.

    Ascertain from any almanac what the "Dominical" letter for the year is, which always stands for Sunday, and may be either of tho first: seven letters of the alphabet, us in music, A, B, 0, D, E, F, G. ...

    Article : 265 words
  46. THE WOOL TRADE.

    In consequence of the removal of the wool duties in America,var and in the hope of making Liverpool the centre of the Australasian wool trade, the Mersey Harbour Board at Lirerpool is increasing ...

    Article : 74 words
  47. THAWING MEAT.

    London experts declare that a now process for thawing frozen beef, patented by Nelson Brothers, meat salesmen, in superior to any previous attempt in a similar direction. ...

    Article : 95 words
  48. BUTTER PROSPECTS.

    According to a forecast of the butter season it is estimated that owing to there being 1600 tons of colonial butter at present stored in London, the large quantity stored in Ireland, and the very ...

    Article : 69 words
  49. RAILWAY DISASTER.

    Telegrams from Antwerp give particulars of a serious railway diester which occurred to a Belgium excursion train from Antwerp carrying a very 1arge number of passengers, including about ...

    Article : 93 words
  50. THE RUSSIAN FLEET.

    The Russian Government denies the truth of the statement made, public on 2nd August to the effect that eight Russian ironclads with troops on board had loft Vladivostok under sealed orders. It, ...

    Article : 69 words
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