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  2. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] OUR SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

    The Volkeraad is still stubborn in regard to the ratification of the Anglo-Boer Convention. The Daily News, however, takes a hopeful view of the situation, and believes a ...

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    We published on Wednesday last the judg[?] ment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case BLACKBURN V. FLAVELLE. The chief interest in this matter was dissipated ...

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  4. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    In the Council to-day, the Port Augusta Bridge and Wharf Bill was read a first time. The report of the select committee on the Town and Country Bank Bill was adopted. ...

    Article : 650 words
  5. INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL CONGRESS.

    The sittings of the International Social Congress have been commenced at Grisons, in Switzerland. ...

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  6. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TURKEY AND GREECE.

    The Turco-Greek frontier question is not yet settled. Greece, it is likely, will have some difficulty in obtaining possession of the ceded territory of Thessaly, owing to ...

    Article : 58 words
  7. THE PORTE AND THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS.

    Some excitement has been occasioned here in consequence of the Sultan having, without consulting his Cabinet, sent a special mission to Egypt to inquire into the cause of the ...

    Article : 87 words
  8. THE IRISH LAND ACT.

    Sir Stafford Northcote, in addressing a meeting at Hull, referred to the Irish Land Act, and said that rigorous measures would he necessary to prevent the Land ...

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    The Eight-hours' Labour demonstration at Parramatta on Monday, tested by the number of the demonstants, was a very successful event. When twenty thousand persons can be got together for ...

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  10. THE WAR IN TUNIS.

    News from Tunis states that the Arab tribes are vigorously prosecuting the war against the French. They have destroyed the railway station at Oneclzergha, and ...

    Article : 38 words
  11. MEAT SHIPPED BY THE ORIENT.

    The meat shipped in Australia by the steamer Orient has been examined, and found to be in admirable condition. ...

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  12. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAM.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) VICTORIA.

    At the sitting of the Tariff Commission this afternoon, the chairman stated that a comparative statement of the Australian tariffs was being prepared, but as a similar statement was in course of preparation by the ...

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  13. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Rev. L. B. Brown, formerly of Kyneton, Victoria, has died at Napier. Nearly all the vacancies caused by the strike at the Canterbury railway workshops have been filled up. ...

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  14. PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA.

    The legislative Council had a short sitting, and passed the third reading of the Police Offences Acts Amendment Bill, the object of the measure being the consolidation of all statutes relating to police offences, ...

    Article : 560 words
  15. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    THE English and Eastern mails brought by the R.M.S. Venetia, via Suez, arrived overland from Melbourne, and were delivered from the General Post Office yesterday morning. In another page we publish ...

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    The recent railway accident in Melbourne has been followed by a spirited discussion on the questions of railway fares. Although the discussion can hardly be said to have ...

    Article : 1,374 words
  17. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Legislative Council a series of new clauses was inserted in the Police Jurisdiction Bill, to permit the whipping of larrikins for certain offences, and also empowering municipalities to make by-laws to prevent ...

    Article : 353 words
  18. SEARCH for the BARQUE PRINCE VICTOR.

    The Government steamer Ajax returned to port at 10.15 last night from her second cruise in search of the abandoned barque Prince Victor. Captain M'Cue reports that on Sunday last, at noon, in latitude 32-12, longitude 154-20, ...

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    From a paper ordered to be printed by the Legislative Council, it appears that the balances owing to the State by free selectors on the 31st of January, 1881, amounted to £5,331,540. That ...

    Article : 567 words
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    If the Dotorel had (says World) self-acting ventilators in her coal-bankers, there is absolutely nothing in the theory that she was sunk by an explosion of coal-gas, unless some practical reason can be riven for supporting that ...

    Article : 73 words
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