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  2. TERRIBLE CALAMITY AT MIDDLE HEAD. PREMATURE EXPLOSION OF A MINE.

    A terrible calamity has to be recorded just on the ovo of the break up of the military camp at Middle Head. The week's camp life had proceeded without the occurrence of a single unpleasant incident, ...

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  3. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) VICTORIA.

    After a long search Colston's knife was found by the police this afternoon in the bush behind Davis's house at Narbethong. The knife is large and very sharp, and is covered with blood and ...

    Article : 270 words
  4. THE NATIVE RISING IN INDIA.

    It is believed that the British losses in the Manipur rising are under 100 lives. It is ascertained that in the attack on the Residency one British officer was ...

    Article : 104 words
  5. CABLEGRAMS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) NORTH MELBOURNE MUNICIPAL

    A North Melbourne Town Council loan of £60,000, at 4½ par cent., has been placed on the London market. The minimum is fixed at 102½, and tenders ...

    Article : 48 words
  6. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    A TERRIBLE disaster ocourred at Middle Head yesterday afternoon, owing; to the premature explosion of a mine suspended on the port said of a cutter engaged in preparing for the explosion. ...

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  7. INTERVIEW WITH A SURVIVOR.

    Sapper J. Grant, who was one of the two men who escaped unhurt, was interviewed in his tent, where he sat on his bed surrounded by a number of comrades, all of them talking, of course, of the event which had ...

    Article : 852 words
  8. THE MINERS' CONGRESS IN PARIS.

    At the International Miners' Congress, now sitting in Paris, representing nearly a million miners, it has been decided that in determining the various questions ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. THE CABLE REDUCTIONS.

    It is announced pat the cable tariff reductions to Australia will be brought into force on May 1st. ...

    Article : 28 words
  10. ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES.

    The leaders of the lynching movement in New Orleans profess their willingness to submit to indictment by the State authorities of Louisiana, in the hope of ...

    Article : 131 words
  11. PROMOTION OF MR. E. BEAN.

    Mr. Edward B[?]n, headmaster of All Saints' College, Bathurst, has been appointed headmaster of Sir Anthony Browne's Grammar School, Essex, ...

    Article : 30 words
  12. QUEENSLAND.

    A prisoner named Edward Wheeler, who was serving a sentence of three months for vagrancy, committed suicide in Brisbane Gool last night by hanging himself with a hammock rope. His time ...

    Article : 37 words
  13. THE PITTSBURG STRIKE.

    Four hundred strikers at Pittsburg made an attack on the cokeworks, and, resisting dispersion by the Sheriff, fired upon his force, who returned the fire killing seven ...

    Article : 75 words
  14. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A numerous deputation of members of Parliament and others waited on the Commissioner of Crown Lands to-day, asking that the travelling stock reserves in the hundred of Malcolm, and also ...

    Article : 321 words
  15. THE VICTORIAN LOAN.

    The general opinion in the city is that the prospects of the "Victorian loan at a miuimum of 99 are hopeless. ...

    Article : 27 words
  16. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. MACROSSAN.

    The funeral of the late Mr. J.M. Macrossan took place from St.Stephon's Roman Catholic Cathedral this morning at 11 o'clock. There was a solemn requiem mass held at the church, after which ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. A COLASSICAL PROFESSOR.

    Mr. Pond, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, has accepted the professorship of classics is the Auckland University, and will sail in the steamship Tongariro. ...

    Article : 32 words
  18. THE MELBOURNE BAPTIST CHURCH.

    The Rev, Mr. Ellis, of the Devonshiresquare chapal, has been appointed to the charge of [?]he Albert-street Baptist Church, Melbourne He will sail for Australia in ...

    Article : 39 words
  19. POLITICS IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The following are the principal bills which the Government propose to introduce next session:— Legislative Council Reform, Consolidation and Amendment of the Electoral Laws, ...

    Article : 130 words
  20. THE FIJI APPEALS.

    In answer to a question put by Mr. W. A. M'Arthur M.P. for St. Austell, Cornwall, in the House of Commons, the UnderSecretary of State for the Colonies said ...

    Article : 44 words
  21. NEW ZEALAND.

    The work of dismantling the steamer Wanaka and saving the cargo commenced to-day. The vessel is expected to become a total wreck. The crow have been paid off. ...

    Article : 111 words
  22. DEATH OF MR. T. C. BARING, M.P.

    The death is announced of Mr. T. C. Baring, [?].P., at the age of 78 years. Thomas Churles Baring was elected in July, 1887, unopposed, as Conservative member for the city of ...

    Article : 72 words
  23. STATEMENT OF AN EYE-WITNESS.

    Mr. F. S. Adams, who was an eye-witness of the terrible occurrence, makes the following statement:— "I was standing near the table close to which the Governor and the Vice-Regal party were located, from ...

    Article : 431 words
  24. A FEDERATION FESTIVAL.

    A choir of ten thousand voices, selected from the advanced classes of the State schools, is being organised to sing at the festival concert in the Exhibition Building on an early date, in honor of the ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. THE BURNING OF THE GERMAN BARQUE LUDWIG.

    Further particulars concerning the burning and abandonment of the German barquentine Ludwig show that the vessel was bound from Natal to Port Adelaide with 400 tons of coal. After being ...

    Article : 130 words
  26. CRITICISM UPON AUSTRALIAN CREDIT.

    The Hon. John William Forteseue has published in the current number of the Ninettenth Century an article headed "The Seamy Side of Australia." This is ...

    Article : 83 words
  27. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CORNISH ASSOCIATION.

    The second annual banquet of the South Australian Cornish Association was held last night in the Town Hall banqueting room. His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, who is ...

    Article : 146 words
  28. SINGULAR FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN INFANT.

    Yesterday afternoon an elder sister took an infant, aged 18 months, in a perambulator out on the Mornington cliffs. She left the vehicle for a moment, when it ran down the slope and over the ...

    Article : 64 words
  29. THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE.

    Owing to the small response made by the colonies appealed to, the soheme of the Imperial Institute for a permanent mining exhibition in connection with that ...

    Article : 79 words
  30. ARREST OF A DEFAULTING POSTMASTER.

    O'Halloran, the defaulting postmaster at Whangarei, who has been in hiding for some time, was arrested to-day. ...

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  31. A MELBOURNE WILL CASE.

    To-day Mr. Justice Molesworth delivered his reserved judgment in the matter of the will of Henry Ferguson, of South Melbourne. He made a will on the 4th June, 1888, devising to A. D. J. ...

    Article : 196 words
  32. COLLISION IN NEWCASTLE HARBOUR.

    Last night at 10 o'clock an alarm was given that a collision had taken place up the harbour. It proved to be that the Iron barque Conference had run into the barque Ellen while trying to make her ...

    Article : 145 words
  33. BRUTAL ASSAULT UPON A CONSTABLE.

    Constable Conside, of Williamstown, was savagely assaulted about midnight. Loud cries of "murder" attracted attention, when the constable was found terribly kicked and battered about the head ...

    Article : 86 words
  34. THE LONDON WOOL SALES.

    Messrs. Charles Balme and Co. and Jacomb, Son, and Co. held the opening auctions of the second series of London wool sales to-day, when 11,700 bales were ...

    Article : 142 words
  35. THE COOMA LAND BOARD.

    The Land Board was engaged yesterday and this morning in dealing with over 80 cases, the most important case occupying a day and a half. It was that of Montague V. Worland, which was referred back to the ...

    Article : 125 words
  36. THE WEATHER FORECAST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 words
  37. THE INFLUENZA IN AMERICA.

    The Wellington Board of Health held a meeting to-day to consider the advisability of declaring the American ports infeeted in consequence of the influenza, but it was decided that there was not ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. PRESENTATION to the REV. T. E. OLOUSTON.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 words
  39. DETERMINED SUICIDE NEAR GRAFTON.

    A young man named Thes. Foley shot himself dead at Buccarumbi last night. The deceased had been ailing for some time from consumption, and was suffering acutely, and very despondent. He was staying ...

    Article : 102 words
  40. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF BISHOP SUTER.

    Bishop Sutor is seriously ill from an apoplectic stroke, and no hopes are entertained of his recovery. He had intended to make a trip to England, and had taken his passage in the Rimutaka. ...

    Article : 48 words
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