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  2. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA TORRES STRAITS, AT PORT DARWIN.

    The E. and A. M. Company's steamship Bowen arrived here to-day from Hongkong, with dates to the 9th instant. She encountered very heavy weather up and down the ...

    Article : 170 words
  3. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] OUR SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

    Advices from the Cape state that Cetawayo, in replying to the demands made to disarm and disband his army, and cede St. Lucia Bay, assented to some points, and asked time to ...

    Article : 73 words
  4. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    After a month's respite the House assembles for the transaction of business to-day, and after the customary interval for the securing of their seats and the preparation of their ...

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  5. QUEENSLAND.

    The Fritz Reuter has been quarantined. During her passage from Hamburg seven deaths from typhoid fever occurred among adults, and 23 children died from diar[?]hoea and other causes. The immigrants by ...

    Article : 233 words
  6. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    THE customary dinner given by the members of the Government to their friends and supporters came off at the Parliamentary refreshment-room yesterday evening. The following gentlemen were present:—Sir G. ...

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  7. FRENCH FAILURES.

    Winding-up orders have been granted against the Blaenavon Iron Company and Messrs. Booker and Company, of Glamorgan, ironmasters. The liabilities of the latter are ...

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  8. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] THE MINISTERIAL-CRISIS IN FRANCE.

    The Ministry have not as yet tendered their resignations to President MacMahon; but that step is regarded as inevitable. ...

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  9. FOREIGN SHIPPING.

    ARRIVED: True Briton, barque, from Melbourne October 8; Ascalon, barque, from Sydney October 14; Chasca, barque, from Wellington September 23; Walmate, ship, ...

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  10. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES at GRAFTON and CARR'S CREEK.

    Carr's Creek Mill, the property of Mr. Bawden, M.L.A., was completely destroyed byfire at daylight on Saturday morning. A fire was lighted in the storeroom of the mill the previous night by a workman, but he ...

    Article : 607 words
  11. VICTORIA.

    Mr. Murray Ross announces his intention to complete the Ross Town Sugar Refinery by the formation of a public company, and the introduction of the best machinery, including every modern improvement ...

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  12. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) WELLINGTON.

    Mr. Shepherd, M.L.A., and Mr. Hurley (Hartley), M.L.A., arrived here on Friday evening. Mr. Shepherd arranged to address the electors the same evening, but a storm arose and the meeting was ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. COONAMBLE.

    Great dissatisfaction is expressed in regard to the present weakness of the police force here. All last week the senior-constable and a trooper were absent on duty, and gaoler Govers was the only member of the ...

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  14. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    The rain has caused an unavoidable suspension of operations at the Exhibition grounds, excepting in the case of the few carpenters who are engaged in putting up the temporary buildings. Though every day's delay is a matter of ...

    Article : 346 words
  15. COROWA.

    The usual half-yearly meeting of the Wahgunyah Murray Bridge Company was held on Saturday last. The traffic report showed an increase in the crossings in nearly every item. The receipts were extremely ...

    Article : 165 words
  16. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Christian Brothers' Catholic Convent and School were opened to-day. Bishop Reynolds spoke strongly against secular education in State schools. A child at Millicent in the south-cast swallowed hall ...

    Article : 222 words
  17. GRAFTON.

    Information reached Grafton this morning that the body of a blackfellow had been found in a hollow log at Brushgrove by some aboriginals on Friday night. There was a tomahawk out on the head, and there is ...

    Article : 55 words
  18. The POLITICAL CRISIS in QUEENSLAND.

    It is understood that the new Ministry will be constituted as follows:—Mr. M'llwraith, Premier and Treasurer; Mr. Macrossan, Minister for Works and Mines; Mr. Perkins, Minister for Lands; Mr. H. ...

    Article : 167 words
  19. BALLINA.

    At a public meeting held at the Court-house, Ballina, to-day, it was carried unanimously that the chairman (Mr. Fawcett) be requested to write to the proper authorities praying that in place of adding to an old ...

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  20. THE TURF.

    The settling over the late special meeting of the Australian Jockey Club took place at Tattersall's last evening. The following were the sums won on Saturday:—Mr. T. Ivory, £280; Mr. A. Loder, £135; Mr. J. S. Smith, £83; ...

    Article : 113 words
  21. ARMIDALE.

    A fire broke out at Moses's tannery last night, and two hundred tons of wattle bark, and also the sheds, were burned. 150 men worked till 3 o'clock this morning, and saved the tanning sheds and machinery, ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Watt, a wealthy sporting man, resident at Napier, is dead. Prospectors on the island of Waiheke have found a metal supposed to be platinum, and also gold, near a ...

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  23. SIR JOHN ROBERTSON'S REPLY.

    Sir,—If there had been no truth in my statement that Sir John Robertson, voluntarily, went to a member of the late Government and, after speaking favourably of their land bill, said he would vote for the second reading, Sir ...

    Article : 281 words
  24. MORE STICKING-UP IN VICTORIA.

    An extraordinary case of sticking-up occurred on White Hill Road, about a mile and a-half from Sandhurst, shortly before midnight on Saturday. A cab containing the driver and seven passengers, including ...

    Article : 335 words
  25. THE LOCK-OUT AT BULLI.

    We are informed that the Union is gaining strength at Bulli, inasmuch as the men who loaded the Woniors last week have left off working, and three of them have joined the Union. Two of the men who were employed to load ...

    Article : 329 words
  26. BINGERA.

    A young man named John Paterson was drowned on Saturday morning, whilst bathing. The body was recovered, and at the inquest a verdict of accidental drowning was returned. ...

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  27. GUNNEDAH.

    The sports went off well last week in aid of the School of Arts. The pigeon match for a silver cup value £30 was won by Tamworth. The Police Magistrate, while sitting in a buggy, was ...

    Article : 60 words
  28. WOLLONGONG.

    Steady rain set in last night and has continued all day. It shows no sign of abatement The grasiers are in great glee at the prospects of plenty of winter feed. ...

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  29. DIBBS v. BROWN.

    Sir,—In your yesterday's issue you have a paragraph stating, from a private cable received, information is to hand that my appeal to the Privy Council in one of the suits against the Messrs. Dibbs "has been dismissed." At ...

    Article : 141 words
  30. WAGGA WAGGA.

    Reynolds's baker's shop at Newtown was burglariously entered on Saturday night, and £40 in cash, and other valuables amounting to £100, stolen. The police have no clue to the robbers. ...

    Article : 170 words
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