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  2. PARLIAMENT.

    When we went to press yesterday the House was still sitting, the discussion on the estimates continuing until 6.30 a.m. For seven hours the members debated land ...

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  3. AMENDED MUNICIPALITIES BILL

    A conference of municipal representatives, convened by the local council, was held at the spacious council chamber at New Lambton last night to discuss the ...

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  4. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The "Standard's" Tientsin correspondent states that it is believed that the threats to destroy the Ming Tombs and to ...

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  5. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Colonel Bethune ambushed a Boer commando near Vryheid, killing sixty, wounding thirty-five, and capturing sixty-five. ...

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  6. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Colonel Gordon, Military Commandant, arrived from South Africa via Melbourne this morning, and was welcomed back at the Naval and Military Club. In ...

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  7. CONVICTED OF TREASON.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Projesty, a German missionary, has been sentenced at Durban to a year's imprisonment and fined £500 for treason. ...

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  8. MORE WHITE FLAG TREACHERY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—While a body of New South Wales patrols were inquiring for concealed arms at a farm house, a woman snatched a white ...

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  9. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Assembly, the discussion on the Callide Creek Railway Bill in committee was kept going till 3 this afternoon. To-day's sitting then commenced, private ...

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  10. MR. W. M. OATTS' MISSION.

    In the Masonic Hall Mr. W. M. Oatts (representative of the English National Council of the Y.M.C.A.), who has been conducting a ten days mission in ...

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  11. TROOPS AND SUPPLIES.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Yangtse is covered with junks, carrying troops, provisions, and ammunition from Hankan to Hanchung, whence canals ...

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  12. MARAUDING BOERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.—There are constant skirmishes with small marauding bands of Boers at Wepener, Ventersburg, Welverdiend, and ...

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  13. REPLACING TSUNG-LI-YAMEN.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—A proposal has been made by Sir Claude Macdonald that a Minister for Foreign Affairs should replace the ...

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  14. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

    Mr. SUTTOR moved the second reading of the Justices Bill. He explained that the necessity for a measure to amend the existing law had long been apparent. It was ...

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  15. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18.

    The Speaker took the chair at 4.30 p.m. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. The COLONIAL TREASURER, in answer to Mr. Chanter, said that if the ...

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  16. CANTON IN DANGER.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Sunyatsen has captured the city of Muchan, on the East River, and there are fears for the safety of Canton. ...

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  17. FAREWELL SERVICE.

    Last evening, in the Y.M.C.A. Hall, there was a service in connection with the 10 days' mission conducted in Newcastle, under the auspices of the Newcastle ...

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  18. DR. M'CORMACK HONOURED.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Dr. M'Cormack, of Sydney, who went to South Africa with the New South Wales Medical Corps, has been appointed ...

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  19. THE BREELONG BLACKS.

    The theory that the Governors had conjointly committed murder and suicide has been dispelled by their re-appearance on the Upper Macleay River on Tuesday ...

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  20. THE RUSSIAN MINISTER IN PEKIN

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Russian Minister and his staff have been ordered to return to Pekin. ...

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  21. N.S.W. CASUALTIES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The following casualties among the N.S.W. Bushmen are reported as having occurred at Molopo, in the Mafeking district, on ...

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  22. INTERNATIONAL NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Sir Wilfrid Laurier, speaking in Toronto, said that he agreed with Mr. Chamberlain that free trade was the only basis of an ...

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  23. BRITISH ELECTIONS.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Unionist vote polled in Britain totals 2,360,852, an increase of 93,904; the Liberals, 2,055,951, an increase of 36,196. One ...

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  24. THE PLAGUE IN LONDON.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The suspicious case at Limehouse, London, which was supposed to be plague, turns out not to be plague at all. ...

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  25. THE AMERICA CUP.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge to sail for the America Cup has been accepted. The race takes place in August. ...

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  26. MELBOURNE WOOL SALES.

    Dalgety and Co. report that the wool sales opened yesterday with a small but fairly representative catalogue, and was continued to-day with a ...

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  27. GENERAL CABLES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 words
  28. DEATH AT WALLSEND.

    A youth named George Hooey, nearly 17 years of age, died in the Wallsend Hospital yesterday afternoon from lockjaw, the result of injuries ...

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  29. MORPETH.

    The Mayor of Morpeth has received an official communication from the Hon. J. N. Brunker, informing him that the Government will have the ...

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  30. NEWCASTLE WHARF LABOURERS.

    The directors of the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co., at their meeting in Sydney on Wednesday, came to a decision respecting the ...

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  31. VICTORIA THEATRE.

    The Criterion Dramatic Company, who on Wednesday evening successfully opened a short Newcastle season and gratified a full house by ...

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  32. "AUSTRALIAN GORILLAS."

    The animus of the French press against everything British has long been notorious, but (says the "Argus" London correspondent) it has seldom ...

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  33. A SUCCESSFUL NOVOCASTRIAN.

    Mr. Reg. Robertson, formerly assistant librarian at the Newcastle School of Arts, who left for the old country about five years ago to complete his ...

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  34. ADAMSTOWN.

    The social on Tuesday night, under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church, was, as usual, a success; but owing to other attractions the ...

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  35. WARATAH.

    On Wednesday, while Mr. J. M'Nulty, a resident of Tighe-street, and his family were absent from home holiday-making, some one entered his ...

    Article : 211 words
  36. Advertising

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