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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    At the borough council meeting, last evening, the special lighting committee's report was submitted. It stated that six firms had tendered for supplying the electric light and plant to Grafton at prices ranging ...

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  3. THE INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET MATCH.

    The Intercolonial Cricket Match was resumed to-day. There was a good attendance, the stand made by the New South Wales team the previous day having caused a good deal of interest to be taken in the result of the ...

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

    Yesterday addresses of welcome were presented to the Governor from the borough of Wangaratta and the shire of Alexandra. Mr. Deakin arrived in Melbourne to-day by the ...

    Article : 517 words
  5. DEATH OF THE EX-EMPRESS OF BRAZIL.

    The death is announced of Theresa Christina Maria, Ex-Empress of Brazil; sister of Francis I., late King of Naples. [The late Empress of Brazil was born in 1822, and ...

    Article : 136 words
  6. CABLEGRAMS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. Gladstone and Mr. J. A. Froude have written to Sir Henry Parkes upon the question of granting responsible government to Western Australia. ...

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  7. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    THE ex-Empress of Brazil is dead. RACIAL troubles are reported from Georgia. The negroes and whites came into collision, and fatalities resulted on both sides. ...

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  8. THE BLUESPUR GOLD-MINING COMPANY.

    It has been determined to reconstruct the Bluespur Gold-mining Company, Otago, New Zealand, recently formed. Proceedings will he begun against Mr. Hume Webster ...

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  9. THE HEALTH OF EMIN PASHA.

    Emin Pasha, who was reported to be recovering from the accident which happened to him at Bagamoyo, has had a serious relapse. ...

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  10. RACIAL DISTURBANCES IN GEORGIA.

    Racial troubles have occurred in the Southern States of North America. In a drunken riot which took place at Jessup, in the State of Georgia, between the ...

    Article : 70 words
  11. PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

    Captain O'Shea, formerly the Home Rule member for Clare, has petitioned for a divorce from his wife on the ground of her alleged adultery with Mr. Parnell. ...

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  12. THE PATRIOTIC INSURANCE CORPORATION.

    The Patriotic Insurance Corporation has absorbed the business of the Federal Fire Insurance Company, except only in regard to the Australian liabilities of the latter ...

    Article : 33 words
  13. EARTHQUAKE IN SICILY.

    A serious earthquake has occurred in Sicily. Several persons were killed. ...

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  14. PUGILISM IN ENGLAND.

    Mr. Abington, believing that Slavin won the recent match with Smith, the English champion, has deposited £500 with the New York Herald to bind a match with ...

    Article : 84 words
  15. THE EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALASIA.

    The capital required for establishing the agency for the exploration of Australasia has been subscribed. ...

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  16. A FRENCH COLONIAL CONGRESS.

    A French Colonial Congress is to be held in Paris in January to discuss the question of the introduction into New Caledonia of Rifflian Moors from Algiers, ...

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  17. QUEENSLAND.

    Sir Samual Griffith, who left for Western Australia on Friday, will remain a few days in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and although a holiday is the main object of his departure from Brisbane, ...

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  18. BRUTAL MURDER NEAR BRISBANE.

    What appears to have been a brutal murder was committed at Downfall Creek, a few miles from Brisbane, early this morning. Very few details bave transpired, but it appears that John Joseph ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. THE GAS STOKERS' DISPUTE.

    The Gas Stokers' Union intend to call out the stokers employed at the North London Gasworks unless the South London Gas Company expel the non-unionists in ...

    Article : 35 words
  20. MOUNT ZEEHAN SILVER AND LEAD MINES.

    The Mount Zeehan Silver and Lead Mining Company, Tasmania, with a capital of £275,000, has been registered. ...

    Article : 26 words
  21. COMMERCIAL.

    In the Bank of England the issue department stock of gold, coin, and bullion is £17,318,000. The banking department reserve in notes and coin is £8,876,000. ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A Port Darwin telegram states that the revenue of the Palmerston railway for the week ended December 21 was £857. The Customs revenue amounted to £204 received from Macarthur River, ...

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  23. MR. HASSALL, M.L.A., BEFORE HIS CONSTITUENTS.

    Mr. T. H. Hassall, M.L.A., addressed his constituents here last night at the School of Arts. The hall was crowded, a large number of ladies being present. The greater portion of his speech was in ...

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  24. FATAL FIRE AT BROKEN BILL.

    A fire, attended with fatal results, occurred a little after midnight on Saturday. The fire broke out in a wood and iron building near Weir's public-house, in the railway township. The building was totally ...

    Article : 137 words
  25. NEW ZEALAND.

    At the Commercial Travellers' dinner at Dunedin, Mr. Fergus, Minister for Public Works, stated that the Government were about to enter into a reciprocal treaty with South Australia for the admission of ...

    Article : 77 words
  26. OPENING OF THE BINGERA HOSPITAL.

    Boxing Day in Bingera was one that will long be remembered by all in the district as being the day on which the first hospital was opened. Bofore 10 a.m. the town was crowded with people who came from miles ...

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  27. THE HAMILTON PIT.

    The manager of the A. A. Company, Mr. W. Turnbull, has a number of men engaged in the Hamilton pit, where the late disaster occurred, endeavouring to recover the skips buried by the fall. It is expected that ...

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  28. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN QUESTION.

    His Excellency Lord Carrington has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies the following despatch relative to the granting of responsible Government to Western Australia:— ...

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  29. ARRIVAL OF THE M.M.S. SYDNEY AT ALBANY.

    The M.M.S. Sydney arrived at 3 p.m. from Marseillos; in quarantine, having had one case of typhoid fever on board. The patient is now convalescent. ...

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  30. THE DIFFICULTY WITH PORTUGAL.

    Four ironclads of the British Mediterranean squadron stationed at Malta have received instructions to proceed to Lisbon. DEC. 28. ...

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  31. STRANDING of the BARQUE APOLLO, NEAR PORT AUGUSTA.

    The barque Apollo is ashore a few miles from Fort Augusta. The captain and two seamen took off a boat, intending to go to Port Augusta, but when some distance away from the ship the boat ...

    Article : 398 words
  32. THE DISPUTE IN THE MELBOURNE IRON TRADE.

    In connection with the dispute in the iron trade the district committee of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers on Saturday evening considered a letter from the secretary of the Employers' ...

    Article : 170 words
  33. OVERLAND PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

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  34. THE REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL.

    The European powers will refuse to recognise the new regime in Brazil until the National Assembly of that country has formally confirmed the establishment of ...

    Article : 39 words
  35. THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

    The rate of mortality in Paris of late, from maladies indirectly the result of the prevailing influenza epidemic, is higher than during an epidemic of cholera. ...

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  36. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Stock passings: Wednesday—7000 ewes from Mungadal and 7200 ewes from Gunbar, 272 rams and 53 ewes from Hay, en ronte from Trinkoy, C. W. Simpson and Son owners; 176 cows, 6 bullocks, fats, from ...

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  37. FATAL FALL OF EARTH IN VICTORIA.

    A fall of earth occurred on Saturday, near Broadford on the North Carlton Railway line, at an excavation for a large building for Messrs. Sands and M'Dougall. Several workmen were buried in the ...

    Article : 73 words
  38. CASUALTIES.

    Julia Jack, dressmaker, 26 years of ago, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from the effects of a dose of poison, taken by mistake. When admitted she was in an unconscious ...

    Article : 81 words
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