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  2. THE LATE FLOODS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) PUBLIC MEETING IN BRISBANE.

    A public meeting of citizens, convened by the Mayor, was held in the Town Hall at noon to-day, to take into consideration the best means of rendering assistance to the flooded districts of ...

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  3. COUNTRY NEWS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) SPECIAL MEETING OF MINERS' DELEGATES.

    In accordance with a previous notice the miners' delegates held a special meeting to-day in Newcastle, at which all the lodges were represented Messrs. Cook, M'Fadye[?], and James Curley, ...

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  4. A GREAT HURRICANE AND FLOODS. CYCLONE IN NEW CALEDONIA AND THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    March has a bad name in the hurricane region of the Western Pacific. It seems always with a March cyclone that the energies of the elements are let loose among the islands with greater viciousness than at ...

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  5. QUEENSLAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) THE SILTING UP OF THE RIVER.

    Since the silting up of the river by the late floods has prevented most of the steamers coming up to the wharfs, 5s per ton lighterage has been charged on all goods both inwards and outwards. ...

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  6. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE HERALD'S LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. TERRIBLE SNOWSTORM IN SIBERIA.

    Reports have reached Russia of a terrible disaster which has overtaken a gang of exiled prisoners at Tomsk, in Western Siberia. ...

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  7. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    THE wildest weather ever experienced in New Caledonia and the New Hebrides raged in those parts on the 6th, 7th, and 8th instant. In those three days squalls of resistless violence wrought ...

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  8. RETURN OF SIR CHARLES LILLEY.

    Sir Charles Lilley, lately Chief Justice, returned to Brisbane to-day, after a tour of over four months in New Zealand and the other colonies. He was interviewed to-day. He spoke ...

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  9. A BATTALION PARADE.

    On Saturday afternoon a battalion parade of three companies of the 4th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry took place on the Newcastle racecourse, under Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Stokes. The companies ...

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  10. HOME RULE.

    The Roman Catholic Unionists of Limerick are forming a society against Home Rule, which, it is declared, would mean increased taxation owing to the exigencies ...

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  11. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

    The Daily News, the Ministerial organ, declines to accept the principle embodied in Mr. Gladstone's proposed Payment of Members Bill, viz., that payment should ...

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  12. WRECK OF THE SCHOONER ELLERTON.

    The schooner Ellerton, bound from Townsville to Hobart with a cargo of bonedust, struck a reef in Flinder's Pass on Saturday night and became a total wreck. ...

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  13. THE SITUATION IN EGYPT.

    At the request of Lord Cromer, British Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, Riaz Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, has admonished the native press for its hostile ...

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  14. THE FROZEN MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

    J. H. Geddes and Co. (the Pastoral Finance Association, Limited) have issued a circular stating that Mr. T. C. Boyd will visit Gladstone on the 10th April next with the view of discussing ...

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  15. STATEMENT OF A PASSENGER.

    One of the leading merchants at Noumea, who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Armand Behic, states:—The Hoods which New Caledonia has just experienced are the highest which have ever been ...

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  16. THE LATE M. JULES FERRY.

    The Berlin and Vienna newspapers deplore the death of M. Jules Ferry, President of the French Senate, as a sad blow to France. ...

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  17. COMMERCIAL.

    ThE average price of English wheat is 24s 9d per quarter. ...

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  18. INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET MATCH.

    The struggle between the cricketers of Victoria and South Australia was continued to-day under exceedingly favourable conditions. The weather was simply perfect, and just genially warm with a ...

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  19. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) THE APPROACHING GENERAL ELECTIONS.

    The House of Assembly will be dissolved to-morrow, 21st March, being the date to which Parliament was prorogued. The writs for the general elections will be issued to-morrow. ...

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  20. INTERCOLONIAL POSTAL CONFERENCE.

    The Intercolonial Postal Conference met this morning in the Executive Council-chambers, delegates from all the other colonies being present. Queensland was represented by Mr. Theodore ...

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  21. VICTORIA. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) THE MERCANTILE BANK PROSECUTIONS.

    The magisterial inquiry in the prosecution of the directors and officials of the Mercantile Bank was commenced in earnest this morning before Mr. Panton, S.M., and a large attendance of ...

    Article : 178 words
  22. THE NEW MAIL CONTRACT.

    A large deputation representing the Chamber of Commerce waited upon the Minister of Education to-day, and urged upon the Government that the departure for England of the mail steamers ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. FALL FROM A TRAIN.

    As a passenger train was running between Portland and Heywood this morning the door of a compartment opened, and a child fell out and rolled down an embarkment. An alarm was ...

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  24. TESTS OF NEWCASTLE AND LEIGH'S CREEK COAL.

    Comparative tests were made at the railway workshops lately, in the stationary boilers, of the Leigh's Creek and Newcastle coal. The experiments proved unfavourable to Leigh's Creek coal, ...

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  25. THE TRAMWAY ASSOCIATION.

    As the outcome of the meeting of the tramway employees held yesterday morning the directors of the company to-day dismissed l8 of those who took a leading part in the movement for the ...

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  26. MEMBERS BEFORE THEIR CONSTITUENTS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) THE ARGYLE ELECTORATE.

    On Saturday evening Mr. Rose, the senior member for Argyle, addressed a crowded meeting at the Temperance Hall, Crookwell, Mr. William Kennedy, J.P., presiding. Mr. Rose spoke for ...

    Article : 346 words
  27. LORD HOPETOUN'S TOUR.

    Captain Wallington, A.D.C., left by express this evening for Sydney, to meet the Governor, Lord Hopetoun, who is expected to arrive in Sydney from New Zealand on Wednesday. On ...

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  28. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—The wide-spread destitution and devastation caused by the late unprecedented visitation of floods in New South Wales call forth the deepest sympathy and desire to help. Immediate monetary assistance ...

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  29. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE BIRKSGATE.

    The steamer Birksgate was disabled about 200 miles from Noumea. Concerning the hurricane, Mr. Forsyth, Sydney manager of the A. U. S. N. Company, has received a letter from Captain J. B. S. ...

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  30. THE HASTINGS AND MANNING.

    Mr. J. H. Young, M.L.A., addressed a crowded meeting here on Saturday night, and spoke at some length. He had a most enthusiastic reception, and a vote of thanks to and confidence in him was ...

    Article : 45 words
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