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  2. SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN WOOLLOOMOOLOO. MURDER AND SUICIDE.

    About half-past 1 yesterday afternoon a tragedy occurred in a house in Bourke-street, Woolloomooloo, which resulted in the death of a married woman named Annie Godlington Wilson, and also the death ...

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  3. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE HERALDS LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. THE PANAMA CANAL BRIBERY.

    It is reported that M. de Freycinet, lately Minister of War in the French Cabinet, admits having received 2,000,000 francs from the Panama Canal Company ...

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  4. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE HERALD'S LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. COLONIAL BORROWING.

    The Standard, states that New Zealand is preparing for the conversion of loans, including the defaulting Harbour Board loans. ...

    Article : 50 words
  5. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    A TRAGEDY, involving the murder of a woman and the suicide of a man, was perpetrated yesterday in a house situated at No. 195 Bourke-street, Woolloomooloo. Mrs. Annie Godlington Wilson ...

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  6. M. EIFFEL BEFORE THE COMMITTEE.

    In connection with the investigations of the Panama Inquiry Committee, M. Eiffel, the eminent engineer, who constructed the Eiffel Tower at the Paris ...

    Article : 58 words
  7. MOROCCO.

    The Moorish Governor of Tangier has ordered the arrest of three of the Civic guards on a charge of having murdered a British subject in that city. This course ...

    Article : 128 words
  8. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

    The disclosures made in connection with the Panama Canal prosecutions are weakening the relations between France and Russia, which have hitherto been of a ...

    Article : 43 words
  9. VICTORIA. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

    With regard to the political situation, Mr. Service has definitely declined to accede to the wish that he should come forward and take office with the leading men of both sides. A ca[?]s of ...

    Article : 72 words
  10. THE FRENCH CABINET.

    Les Debats says that the action of M. Alexandre Ribot in breaking the bond attaching the Ministry to the Radical party is to be approved. There is no evidence, it ...

    Article : 80 words
  11. REMOVAL OF OFFICIALS IN IRELAND.

    Mr. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is removing the Protestant governors of numerous lunatic asylums in Ireland, and is replacing them by Roman ...

    Article : 33 words
  12. L. STEVENSON AND SONS, LIMITED.

    A meeting of shareholders of L. Stevenson and Sons, Limited, was hold to-day, and was one of the most excited seen in Melbourne for some time past. The object was to appoint a committee to ...

    Article : 191 words
  13. BANK DIVIDENDS.

    The directors of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank propose to declare a dividend of 6 per cent., and to carry forward £11,600. ...

    Article : 44 words
  14. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    In reference to the proposal of Canada for the appointment of a commission to examine into the feasibility of a Pacific cable between America and Australia, ...

    Article : 142 words
  15. STATEMENT BY MR. EDWARDS.

    Mr. George Edwards, brother of the murdered woman, and employed as a collector by the Citizens' Life Assurance Society, states that Mrs. Van Kaspelen left her husband about a mouth ago owing to ...

    Article : 387 words
  16. BROKEN HILL SHARES.

    The price of Broken Hill Proprietary shares to-day is £3 17s 6d. ...

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  17. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted at 3s 2¼d per ounce standard. ...

    Article : 19 words
  18. A CYCLING RECORD.

    T. D. Scott, of the Normanby Cycling Club, has just broken the record for the journey from Adelaide to Melbourne, doing the 539 miles journey in four days 19 hours 59 minutes, over some of the ...

    Article : 277 words
  19. QUEENSLAND SEPARATION.

    The Central Queensland Separation Committee in London has asked Lord Ripon to receive a deputation from that body. ...

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  20. EIGHT HOURS.

    The miners' general conference, now being held in Birmingham to consider the eight-hours question, has voted in favour of a legal eight hours and the creation of ...

    Article : 51 words
  21. SIR ROBERT HAMILTON.

    The Gladstonian-Liberal party is endeavouring to find a seat in the House of Commons for Sir Robert Hamilton, lately Governor of Tasmania and formerly ...

    Article : 52 words
  22. STATEMENT OF MRS. VAN KASPELEN.

    Mrs. Van Kaspelen said "I arrived at the house just about five minutes before Mr. Edwards. I intended to pay a visit to Mrs. Wilson; who was a friend of mine. I had been waiting about five ...

    Article : 359 words
  23. AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.

    The bill introduced in the United States Senate prohibiting the landing of immigrants in America for one year has been abandoned. ...

    Article : 26 words
  24. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) APPROACHING DEPARTURE OF THE COUNTESS OF KINTORE.

    The Countess of Kintore, accompanied by Ladies Ethel and Hilda Keith Falconer, left by the Melbourne express this afternoon en route for New Zealand. The trip will be an immediate ...

    Article : 182 words
  25. THE MONEY MARKET.

    The money market is firmer. Three months' bills are quoted at 1½per cent., an increase of ¼ since the 5th. ...

    Article : 26 words
  26. QUEENSLAND. [BT TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) THE TREASURY BILLS.

    The balance of the Treasury bills, amounting to £222,500, has been taken up by the Government Savings Bank under the provisions of the Savings Bank Act. The Treasury bills issued in ...

    Article : 75 words
  27. DEATH OF GENERAL BUTLER.

    The death is announced of General Benjamin Franklin Butler, the celebrated Union Army officer in the American Civil War. He was in his 74th year. ...

    Article : 404 words
  28. STATEMENT BY THE HUSBAND OF THE MURDERED WOMAN.

    Mr. Joseph Wilson, the husband of the murdered woman, says Mrs. Van Kaspelen had told him her husband had threatened to shoot her. He also was of opinion that Van Kaspelen had mistaken Mrs. ...

    Article : 56 words
  29. THE CHARACTER AND ABILITY OF THE MURDERER.

    Mr. Aldenhoven, when informed of the tragedy, was greatly shocked, and said he had lost his best man. Van Kaspelen had been his principal artist in French crayon portraiture, and had been in his ...

    Article : 279 words
  30. THE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

    The total value of the imports into the colony last year was £4,258,863, being a decrease of £682,902 as compared with the previous year. The exports, exclusive of live stock overland, ...

    Article : 61 words
  31. DEATH OF A PIONEER.

    The death is announced of Mr. J. Hoare, who came to the colony in the Oygn[?]t in 1836. An interesting ceremony of last Commemoration Day proceedings was the meeting of Mr. Hoare and ...

    Article : 88 words
  32. DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE AND THIRST.

    The weather yesterday was excessively hot. A drayman named Michael Walsh died from the effects of sunstroke. The Commissioner of Police has received information from Barcaldine that a ...

    Article : 89 words
  33. GORED TO DEATH BY A BULL.

    An inquest was held to-day on the body of a man named Woods, who was gered to death by a bull yesterday afternoon, near the Grange-road. The dec[?]sed was mustering cows when a bull ...

    Article : 179 words
  34. RESCUE OF A CASTAWAY.

    A telegram from Cairns states that the Star of Hope while on the way from Townsville to Cairns picked up a man yesterday floating on a raft in an exhausted condition. He is now in ...

    Article : 150 words
  35. NEW ZEALAND.

    The annual championship meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association was opened at Trentham, Wellington, to-day. At a meeting of the council of the Association it was resolved to allow ...

    Article : 108 words
  36. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Sir William Wiseman, Bart. He served in the New Zealand war in 1864-65, and also in the Nig[?]r Expedition in 1869. ...

    Article : 32 words
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