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  2. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) VICTORIA.

    The team of riflemen to represent Victoria in the next English tournament is now being chosen. Colonel Price will have personal command. The captain of the team will be Captain M'Leish, of the ...

    Article : 586 words
  3. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL AT ALBANY.

    The R.M.S. Orizaba, G. F. Dixon, commander, arrived from Colombo at 6 a.m. to-day. The following is a list of her passengers:— ...

    Article : 129 words
  4. COLONIAL BORROWING.

    The Economist considers that the South Australian loan of £1,120,000 failed because sufficient inducements were not held out to the underwriters to tender for the ...

    Article : 176 words
  5. CABLEGRAMS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN ITALY.

    Signor Rudini has formed an ad interim Government in Italy, The new Government will take steps to effect reductions in the expenditure of the country. ...

    Article : 38 words
  6. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    A 4½ PER cent, loan of £7,000,000 is about to be issued by China, the minimum being fixed at 95. SEVERAL, woolen firms at Huddersfield are in difficulties. One firm has suspended payment with ...

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  7. THE SILVER QUESTION IN AMERICA.

    In the American House of Representatives a resolution to tack a Free Coinage Bill on to the Supply Bill was ruled out of order on a narrow division. The opinion ...

    Article : 54 words
  8. FAILURE OF A WOOLLEN FIRM.

    A firm of woollen manufacturers at Huddersfield has suspended payment with a liability of £70,000. Two other woollen firms are in difficulties. ...

    Article : 31 words
  9. THE FEDERAL CONVENTION.

    Sir Harry Atkinson has consented to act as one of the delegates at the Federal Convention in Sydney. SUNDAY. ...

    Article : 315 words
  10. A CHINA LOAN.

    China is about to issue a 4½ per cent, loan of £7,000,000. The minimum is fixed at 95. ...

    Article : 27 words
  11. MR. PARNELL AND THE IRISH CONSTITUENCIES.

    Mr. Parnell claims that he has secured the nomination of a majority of candidates in the Irish constituencies at the next election. ...

    Article : 34 words
  12. THE DOCKS DIFFICULTY.

    It is considered probable that the decision of Mr. Justice North as to the power of the dockowners to compel shipowners to discharge their own vessels in dock will ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. MR. CHAMPION AND THE LATE STRIKE.

    The Pall Mall Gazette commends the course pursued by Mr. H. H. Champion in connection with the late strike in Melbourne, and says that subsequent events ...

    Article : 43 words
  14. THE GLADSTONIAN LIBERALS AND MR. PARNELL.

    Upwards of 50 Gladstonian Liberals are manifesting discontent at the arrangements in regard to the leadership of the Irish party. They fear that Mr. Parnell's ...

    Article : 45 words
  15. THE LABOUR DIFFICULTY IN ENGLAND.

    The seamen and firemen at Hull, as well as other labour unions, have refused to work with free labourers. ...

    Article : 43 words
  16. AVALANCHE IN SWITZERLAND.

    By an avalanche at a village in the Canton of Glarus, in Switzerland, 22 persons were killed. ...

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  17. ROMAN CATHOLIC DIGNITARIES.

    Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, and Bishop Moore, of Ballarat, received a cordial welcome on their arrival at Dunedin last night. ...

    Article : 37 words
  18. THE FRENCH DUTY ON COLONIAL SUGARS.

    The French Budget Committee has reduced the duty on colonial sugars to three francs. ...

    Article : 26 words
  19. QUEENSLAND.

    A telegram from Tambo states that strike matters are quiet there. The Charleville carriers refuse to carry Lange's Downs wool, but there is a probability of the Central Queensland carriers conveying it to ...

    Article : 75 words
  20. STEAM SERVICE BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND AND TAHITI.

    Efforts are being made to establish steam communication between Wellington and Tahiti. ...

    Article : 27 words
  21. THE STRIKE AT CARDIFF.

    The Cardiff coal labourers' strike has been endorsed by the Dockers' Union. Three thousand men are idle. The strikers' executive committee has asked the railway ...

    Article : 74 words
  22. THE PORTUGUESE IN SOUTHEAST AFRICA.

    A rumour has been put in circulation to the effect that an arrangement has been concluded between France and Portugal whereby the former country acquires the ...

    Article : 102 words
  23. THE WEATHER FORECAST.

    Mr. Wragge issued the following special forecast at 11 o'clock this morning:— Shipping interests are advised that steep barometric gradients exist between Smoky Cape and ...

    Article : 69 words
  24. NEW ZEALAND.

    The death is announced, after a brief illness, of Mr. C. Brown, formerly a member of the House of Reprasentatives. At a meeting in Dunodin, under the presidency ...

    Article : 66 words
  25. THE CABLE SHIP RECORDER ON A REEF.

    The cable ship Recorder and the hulk Baroon Slort were both stranded yesterday morning on the Madgee Reefs. The Recorder, which was under full steam, endeavoured to clear her chains from ...

    Article : 257 words
  26. THE REDUCED CABLE RATES.

    The heads of the agreement between the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the colonies for the reduction in the cable rates, have been cabled to Australia for ...

    Article : 60 words
  27. PRESS BOATRACE IN MELBOURNE.

    The Press Annual Boatrace was rowed yesterday, on the Salt Water River. Three crews competed, representing the Argus, the Daily Telegraph, and the evening Standard, The last-named crow won ...

    Article : 44 words
  28. RISING IN OLD SERVIA.

    A serious rising has taken place among the Arnauts in Old Servia. Troops have been despatched to suppress the outbreak. ...

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  29. SHEARERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

    A large number of shearers' delegates arrived yesterday to attend the annual shearers' conference, which begins to-morrow. Mr. W. J. Spence, president of the A. S. U., stated, in an interview, that ...

    Article : 642 words
  30. THE REBELLION IN CHILI.

    In connection with the Chilian revolt severe fighting has taken place in the streets of Castro and Chilian, when numbers of the contestants were killed. ...

    Article : 118 words
  31. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

    The committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the United States has passed a strong resolution of sympathy with the Jews in the ...

    Article : 68 words
  32. BRIDGE OVER THE MURRAY AT TOCUMWAL.

    The vexed question of the bridge over the Murray at Tocumwal or Corbram is in a fair way of being settled. A Victorian official some time ago reported in favour of Tocumwal, and last ...

    Article : 151 words
  33. AN ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA.

    Lord Sheffield is organising an English cricket team to play a series of matches in Australia in the autumn. The project has been favourably received. ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. FLOODS IN CHINA.

    Terrible floods have taken, place in certain districts of China, and have spread desolation in their course. At present it ib estimated that not less than 1000 ...

    Article : 50 words
  35. WRECK OF THE BARQUE LOCH NAW.

    News from Suva to-day reports the total wreck of the barque Loch Naw, of Sydney, on the northern coast of New Caledonia, having drifted on to a reef during a calm. All the crow were saved. ...

    Article : 49 words
  36. THE AUSTRALASIAN BANKING RETURNS.

    The banking returns for the whole of the Australasian colonies for the final quarter of 1890 are as follows:—Deposits, £110,860,143, a decrease on the preceding quarter of £993,052; advances, ...

    Article : 55 words
  37. A TERRIBLE DEATH.

    A terrible accident occurred on Saturday on the Yarra, near the Queen's Bridge. The Elingamite, for Sydney, was about to swing from the wharf for the voyage to Sydney when two of her seamen, ...

    Article : 189 words
  38. NEW ZEALAND FREIGHTS.

    Freights by steam cargo boats to New Zealand average 7s 6d per ton above rates for sailing vessels. Shippers are objecting to the difference. ...

    Article : 41 words
  39. DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A SPIDER.

    At an inquest held at Wellington on the body of an expressman who died there in the hospital, the doctor said that death was due to the bite of a katipo spider, but that had the deceased's blood not ...

    Article : 132 words
  40. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM FITZHERBURT.

    Sir William Fitzherbert, late Speaker of the Legislative Council, died to-day. Sir William Fitzherbert immigrated to New Zealand in 1842. He was appointed Treasurer of the colony in ...

    Article : 80 words
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