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  2. AUSTRALASIAN PARLIAMENTS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) VICTORIA.

    In the Legislative Council to-day the Probate and Administration Bill was passed. The House, at 6.10 p.m., adjourned till next day. In the Legislative Assembly the Premier, in ...

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  3. MINERS' STRIKE AT BROKEN HILL.

    A fairly-attended meeting of strikers was held on the reserve this afternoon but the proceedings were of an unusually tame character. Mr. Triplett announced that the vice-president of the Zeehan ...

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  4. VICTORIA. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT.

    The annual report of the Raliway Department was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly to-night. It shows a deficiency in meeting the inteaest charges for the year ...

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  5. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE HERALD'S LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. THE BEHRING SEA TROUBLE.

    The Russians have seized another British sealing vessel in Behring Sea. This makes the seventh British sealer seized by the Russians. ...

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  6. SPECIAL CABLES. FEOM THE HERALD'S LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. TASMANIAN AFFAIRS.

    The proposal to abolish the office of Agent-General for Tasmania is looked upon as a confession that the colony is in financial straits; but it is considered ...

    Article : 82 words
  7. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    A MEMBER of the reporting staff of a New York Journal has harmlessly undergone a number of reckless and loathsome tests in connection, with the inoculation of Pasteur's anti-cholers ...

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  8. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FINANCES.

    A Dalziel's Agency cablegram states that the South Australian deficit is under £700,000, but that the colony expects to close the year with a surplus. The ...

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  9. THE GOVERNORSHIP.

    It is reported that Colonel the Right Hon. Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, K.C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary in Ireland, is likely to succeed Sir R. G. C. Hamilton, ...

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  10. GOLD-MINING COMPANY.

    The Eaglehawk Consolidated Goldmining Company is to be reconstructed, with a capital of £120,000. ...

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  11. THE FINANCIAL TENSION.

    From the commencement of the financial crisis to date 47 private compositions with creditors have been completed in Melbourne, and 20 are in progress, making a total of 67. The amount to be ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. [BY TELEGRAPH.]

    Ministers have received no intimation that Sir West Ridgeway is likely to succeed Sir Robert Hamilton as Governor, but his name has been mentioned as a probable Governor. If he should ...

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  13. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Legislative Council to-day the Justices' Act Amendment Bill was introduced and read the first time. The Crown Lands Bill and the Courts of Conciliation Bill were read the third time and ...

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  14. AUSTRALIAN PRECIOUS STONES.

    Mr. Streeter, the well-known jeweller, says that Australia is pregnant with every description of precious stones. He predicts that Australia will become in the ...

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  15. THE MERCANTILE BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

    The committee of British shareholders in the Mercantile Bank of Australia is not inclined to express any opinion upon the report of the Melbourne shareholders' ...

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  16. THE CURRENCY IN INDIA.

    In his reply to the representations from India regarding the coinage of silver, the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for India, merely informed the Indian ...

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  17. THE DEPRESSION IN BUSINESS.

    The wholesale houses are experiencing more demands from their customers for assistance than for many years past. Although matters are worse in the suburbs, yet nearly every country ...

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  18. ADMISSION OF CHINESE INTO THE COLONY.

    Eleven Chinese who arrived by the steamer Guthrie, presented thomselves at the Customs Department to-day for admission to the colony under the Chinese Act. For the first time the ...

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  19. REMARKABLE WILL CASE.

    A remarkable case has been heard in which five persons were implicated in forging the name of the late Mr. Park, of Teddington, to a dcoument purporting to ...

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  20. ENGAGEMKNT OF MEN FOR BROKEN HILL.

    In response to an advertisement in this morning's papers, Messrs. Baxter and Saddler's offices were thronged all day with men eager to engage for Broken Hill, several thousands attending. Some ...

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  21. MOVEMENTS IN SYDNEY.

    At a large meeting of the Ballermakers' and Iron Ship Builders' Society, held in the Trades Hall inst evening, the following resolution was adopted:— "That this society views with intense indignation ...

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  22. CURIOUS DISCOVERY OF BULLION.

    A curious discovery of bullion ingots, stamped "Platinum," has been made by the late Mr. Pound's successors at the smelting works in South Melbourne. Messrs. Heskett and Tait took over ...

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  23. RUSSIA IN THE PAMIRS.

    It is reported that next spring 12,000 troops will reinforce Captain Yanoff, the officer in command of the Russian forces in the Pamirs. ...

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  24. THE CHOLERA.

    M. Haffkine, the assistant of M. Louis Pasteur, the eminent French bacteriologist, has inoculated with Pasteur's anti-cholera vaccine a reporter named Stanhope ...

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  25. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Legislative Council sat four hours and 20 minutes to-day. The greater portion of the time was occupied with the resumed debate in reference to the attitude of the Ministry in respect to the ...

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  26. COUNTRY NEWS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) DESTRUCTION OF PRODUCE.

    The river continued to rise on Saturday afternoon with great rapidity, but did not go over the banks. The flood came down in the quickest time on record, as on Friday night at 10 o'clock there was not the ...

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  27. RAILWAY WORKMEN IN GERMANY.

    Eight hundred workmen employed in the German State railway workshops have protested against a reduction in the rates of wages for unskilled labour below 22d ...

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  28. THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE FUNDS.

    Fearing lest the funds of the Irish National League, banked in Paris in the name of trustees, should fall into the hands of the French Government, the ...

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  29. ANARCHIST PLOT IN ITALY.

    An anarchist plot has been discovered at Bologna and Pavia, in Italy. Eighty arrests have been made, and many bombs seized. ...

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  30. AFFRAY IN NEWCASTLE.

    A desperate fracas took place last night in Hunterstreet, about 11 o'clock, and the police attempted to arrest Robert M'Nilles, a well-known rough. The [?]ob prevented his arrest, and the man escaped, but ...

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  31. QUEENSLAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) THE STEAMER WOOLLOOMOOLOO AGROUND.

    An official telegram from Cooktown states that the master of the Chingtu reported that the steamer Woolloomooloo was aground off Clarement Point, Princess Charlotte Bay. He offered ...

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  32. NEW ZEALAND.

    The public works statement was submitted to Parliament to-day by Mr. Seddon. A sum of £200,000 of the estimated surplus of the year is to be devoted to public works. Amongst other ...

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  33. THE LIFE GUARDS.

    The alleged outbreak in the ranks of the First Life Guards stationed at Windsor is now reported to have been confined to the action of one man. ...

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  34. ARAB REVOLT IN ARABIA.

    The Ottoman troops, after a whole day's fighting, have defeated the rebel Arabs in the province of Yemen with enormous loss. It is believed that the country is now ...

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  35. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.

    A very old resident of this district, Mrs. Jordan, died on Sunday, aged 103 years. The deceased arrived in the colony, together with her husband and two children, in the year 1833, and had since resided at ...

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  36. TRAGEDY AT FULHAM.

    An actress named Ruby Russell, residing at Fulham, London, with Mr. Heron, surgeon, of the Crown colony of Gambia, West Africa, ...

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  37. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The annual business meetings of the South Australian Baptist Association were commenced in the Flinders-street Baptist Lecture Hall this morning. The Rev. J. Viner Smith, the ...

    Article : 241 words
  38. THE INTERCOLONIAL RIFLE TEAM.

    Fifteen men have been selected to form the Queensland team to compete in the Intercolonial Rifle Match at Sydney. It is expected that at least 15 more Queenslanders will go to Sydney to ...

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  39. THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE.

    The World asserts that her Majesty the Queen will open the Imperial Institute on 2nd May next. ...

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  40. PUGILISM.

    Peter Jackson fights 20 rounds with Joe Goddard for a purse of 10,000dol. at San Francisco. ...

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  41. THE SHIPBUILDING TRADE ON THE CLYDE.

    It is estimated that about 15,000 men connected with the shipbuilding trade on the Clyde are now out of employment. ...

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  42. TRADES MOVEMENTS.

    The ceremony of unfurling the new banner of the Australian Society of Engineers was performed at the Temperance Hall last evening, when a pleasant social and concert, attended by about 250 persons, ...

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  43. THE LATE HEAVY RAINS.

    Owing to an expected big flood hers, people are building embarkments round their houses for protection, the river is now just over the banks, and is still rising. It is anticipated that we shall have the ...

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  44. THE BAPTIST TABERNACLE

    The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, lately of New Zealand, son of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, is willing to accept the pastorate of the London Tabernacle, but the ...

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  45. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Stock passings:—[?]000 wethers, from Terrick for Norman by, Wallace and Casey owners. Ross drov[?]r; also 10,000, Cowen drover. These sheep look remarkably well considering the long stage travessed ...

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  46. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Premier, the Hon, John Ballance, has suffered a relapse and is seriously ill. ...

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