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  2. THE WEATHER IN THE COUNTRY.

    The weather is fair. PORT MACQUARIE, MONDAY. Seasonable showers fell here yesterday. LISMORE, MONDAY. ...

    Article : 493 words
  3. ENGLAND AND RUSSIA/

    India has 50,000 troops ready to march, to the Afghan frontier, if required, to prevent Russian aggression. ...

    Article : 45 words
  4. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

    Her Majesty the Queen has beon ordered by her medical adviser to proceed to Aix-lesBains, a town in France, near Lake Bourget, in order to recruit her health. ...

    Article : 50 words
  5. THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

    Mr. Dalley received yesterday the following additional contributions:—Mr. Charles Cropper,£5 5s.; Mr. At Finlay, £25; Captain Mann, H.A., £2 10s.; J. Hurst, 321, George-street, £5 53.; J. Williams, Bondi, £10; ...

    Article : 1,080 words
  6. COMMERCIAL.

    The sales at Darling Barbour this morning were fairly attended by the trade. Good supplies of wood were offered. The supply of forage forward this mornins was not nearly so large as at previous sales, but was ...

    Article : 760 words
  7. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    An extensive discovery of silver has been made at Yam Creel by Mr. M. O'Connor, late of Auckland. There is ample wood and water on the ground for machinery. ...

    Article : 34 words
  8. TASMANIA.

    The down train ran off the line to-day near Oaklands, on the main line of railway, but nobody was hurt. Tho arrival of the train at Hobart was delayed two hours in consequeuce. ...

    Article : 139 words
  9. THE FRENCH IN TONGUIN.

    A telegram has been received from Hongkong, stating that the French troops in Tonguin have been placed in serious difficulties by their inability to obtain supplies, ...

    Article : 39 words
  10. (REITER'S TELEGRAMS.)

    The Daily News publishes a paragraph stating that orders have been given for the mobilisation of a force consisting of 25,000 men in India, with the object of ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) DEATH OF SIR HARRY PARKES.

    The death is announced of Sir Harry Parkes, her Britannic Majesty's Minister at the Court of Pekin, aged 57. ...

    Article : 30 words
  12. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    The contract for a further portion of the Bacchus Marsh line of railway, has boen accepted for £39265. Mr. George Buckley, contractor, of Hawthorn, is the successful tenderer. The new portion of the work will ...

    Article : 320 words
  13. NEW ZEALAND.

    A Maori prophetess at Kawa Kawa has fixed the beginning of the Millennium for tho 28th instant. At Hokianga a Tominga has arisen, who states that Christ's modiation in only for the Pakchas, and he ...

    Article : 119 words
  14. NEW SOUTH WALES MILITARY AND NAVAL MOVEMENTS.

    In consequence of the withdrawal of mon from the Permanent Force for the Soudan contingent, the ranks were reduced to a very low ebb. Originally, the strength of the force was 320, but 211 volunteered for ...

    Article : 310 words
  15. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mr. George Hobson, a well-known resident of Tigho's Hill, had a narrow escape. While leading a pistol to fire at a hawk, the weapon went off accidentally, and part of the shot entered his forehoad above the left eye. Dr. C. ...

    Article : 713 words
  16. [BY TELEGRAPH.]

    A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was hold this evening for the purpose of considering the advisability of establishing a branch of the New South Wales Patriotic. Fund. Owing to the very unsettled state of the weather, ...

    Article : 695 words
  17. LECTURE BY MR. GEO. AUGUSTUS SALA IN MELBOURNE.

    ThE Town Hall who quite filled to-night to hear Mr. Georger Augustus Sala's lecture, and when Mr. Sala walked on the platform he was greeted with a roar of applause that was calculated to disconcert the self-posssession ...

    Article : 823 words
  18. WOOL SALES—MONDAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 295 words
  19. QUEENSLAND.

    The labour schooner May Queen, which left for the South Seas on the 4th December last, has arrived here with 12 recruits, She was ordered back by the Government agent for alleged breach of the regulations, which ...

    Article : 647 words
  20. THE EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

    The arrangements for the Easter encampment have been completed, and the staffs of the different regi menta will go into camp early next week. The headquarters staff will be stationed at Middle Hoad, with ...

    Article : 320 words
  21. LONDON WOOL SALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 358 words
  22. NEW GUINEA.

    Sir,—Without any disclaimer from Lord Derby, a very slight examination of the chart would convince whoever makes it that the announcement of parrallel 8· south having been finally fixed as the line of boundary between the ...

    Article : 759 words
  23. NAVAL DEFENCES.

    Some few days ago Mr. Dalley telegraphed to the Agent-General, requesting him to obtain the permission of the Admiralty to the Government availing themselves of the servicesof a naval adviser to to be selected here, ...

    Article : 117 words
  24. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    The local stock movements are as under:—700 store cattle from Talanunta for Orangeo, passed here to-day WALGETT, MONDAY. The weather during the week has been very hot. On ...

    Article : 220 words
  25. WAR MATERIAL FOR VICTORIA.

    The Ministor for Defence has received a notification from the Agemt-General that a considerable quantity of war material has been shipped for the colony. It includes six 6-inch 4-ton naval breech-loading guns on ...

    Article : 100 words
  26. ASTRONOMICAL PRIZES.

    Sir,—It is a remarkable circumstance that most of the comet discoveries during the past few years have been made by amateur observers in the united States, and this is probably due in some measure to the offer of prizes in ...

    Article : 407 words
  27. AMUSEMENTS.

    A successful concert was givon at the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, last night by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Benedict's Conference, under the patronage of Sir Patrick and Lady Jennings, and ...

    Article : 321 words
  28. MINING INTELLIGENCE.

    The manager of the Lubra Silver-mining Company reports, under data March 14:—"Main drive progressing favourably, considering nature of the rook. This drive will intersect the lode at about 40 foot from the vertical shaft, ...

    Article : 241 words
  29. FATAL FIRE AT LOUTH.

    A disastrous fire took place here at 4 a.m. yesterday. The Louth Hotel, theproporty of Thomas A. Mathews, and occupied by John Buckely, who lately sublet it to a party named Bridge. was burned down. A child of Mr. ...

    Article : 218 words
  30. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The University Musis School opens to-morrow. Professor Ives lectures on the course of study necessary to obtain degrees in music. The Government has received a telegram from the ...

    Article : 258 words
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