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  2. CABLEGRAMS.

    LONDON, Friday.—A cable from the Soudan stated that the Egyptian garrison at Berber, on the Nile, has been strengthened. Detachments of troops ...

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  3. TELEGRAMS.

    THE police made a raid on a dancing saloon in Castleroagh-street last night, while a lot of larrikins were engaged in a free fight. The police used their batons and arrested nine ...

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  4. DISTRICT NEWS.

    ON Friday evening at Mr. Thos. Watson's Colliery Inn, a pleasing ceremony took place, the occasion being the departure of Mr. John Laverick, who for many years has held ...

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  5. CHRISTMAS DAY.

    CHRISTMAS Day passed off quietly, the day being observed as a close holiday throughout the city. The weather, though warm, was fine, and a considerable number of people ...

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  6. FATAL ACCIDENT.

    A THRRIBLE accident occurred shortly before 4 p.m. yesterday by which a miner named Ralph Carr, residing at Plattsburg, met his death. It appears that Carr, accompanied ...

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  7. THE DERVISHES ADVANCING.

    LONDON, Sunday.—The Dervishes at Dhendy and Metammeh are advancing on Berber. ...

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  8. THE HOSPITAL.

    No efforts were spared to make Christmas Day as pleasant as possible for the inmates of the hospital, and owing to the generosity of the citizens the patients generally had a ...

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  9. The Transvaal.

    LONDON, Sunday.—Mr. Kotze has asked President Kruger why the promised measure for revising the constitution is not forthcoming. ...

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  10. INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

    The Victoria Theatre was prettily decorated with palms and other greenery and flowers yesterday evening for the Christmas choral services in connection with the ...

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  11. The No-balling of Jones.

    LONDON, Sunday.—The editor of Wisden's Almanac says that nothing but good can come from Phillips no-balling Jones. The fault lies, he ...

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  12. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. W. K. Simms, a wealthy colonist, Exmember of the Legislative Council, and Ex-Mayor of Adelaide, died at his residence at Glenelg on Christmay Day. He was ...

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  13. HAMILTON.

    On Saturday afternoon the scholars in several of the classes at the Wesleyan Sunday school were examined preparatory toe the giving of prizes and certificates to the ...

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  14. HOLIDAY TRAIN TRAFFIC.

    THE train traffic from Sydney to the various country districts on Friday was remarkably large, and the resources of the Department were fully taxed. Notwithstanding the great ...

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  15. Fogs in London.

    LONDON, Sunday.—Dense fogs are being experienced in London. Such is their density that the traffic of the metropolis is being impeded. ...

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  16. THE BENEVOLENT ASYLUM.

    In the general rejoicing the old folks at the Benevolent Asylum were not forgotten. Special provision was made to enable the old people to enjoy the Christmas festival in a ...

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  17. INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET MATCH.

    The cricket match between the N.S. Wales Junior versus the Queensland Commbined National Cricket Association, commemced on the Exhibition ground on ...

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  18. ST. MARY'S.

    A choir of over 60 voices rendered the music at the mass at St. Mary's R.C. Church in an exceptionally fine manner. The choral portions were given with great ...

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  19. Conference of Trades.

    LONDON, Sunday.—A conference of the engineering and kindred trades discussed a proposal to co-operate in the demand for 51 hours. The ...

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  20. AT THE CHURCHES.

    At the Pro-Cathedral the first service took place at 8 a.m., the Very Rev. Dean Selwyn officiating. Holy communion was partaken of by a large body of worshippers, both at ...

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  21. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    THE R.M.S. Orizaba is due at Sydney to-day, having boon delayed at Melbourne on Thursday by heavy rains. Among the passengers for Sydney by the Orizaba are ...

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  22. WAR DEVELOPMENTS.

    THE latest cables regarding Russian activity with regard to China have been read with general interest in the metropolis, and in many circles with a feeling of uneasiness in ...

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  23. THE RUSSIAN MEAT ORDER.

    SOME of the newspaper which have gleaned on inkling of Russia's inquiry for a meat supply from Now South Wales have published statements which at the best are more ...

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  24. Outrage in Crete.

    LONDON, Friday.—A number of Moslems at Heraklion, in Crete, have massacred 15 Christians connected with a coast caravan. ...

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  25. The Great Strike.

    LONDON, Friday.—Mr. G. Barnes, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, says that the engineers at Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, ...

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  26. VICTORIA THEATRE.

    THE Messrs. MacMahon have made liberal arrangements for the brief season which will be inaugurated at the Victoria Theatre to-night. The company, from the Lycoum ...

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  27. THE SCRAMBLE FOR CHINA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 words
  28. SACRED HEART, HAMILTON.

    Special services were also held at the Sacred Heart Church, Hamilton. The choir, under the conductorship of Mr. Len Williams, was supplemented by a special ...

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  29. The Klondyke Goldfield.

    LONDON, Friday.—News has reached Ottawa, Canada, to the effect that 2000 miners and others have left Dawson City, the centre of the ...

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  30. HAMILTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

    At the Hamilton Presbyterian Church on Christmas night George F. Root's beautiful cantata "Under the Palms," descriptive of the Jewish feast of tabernacles or harvest ...

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  31. CHRISTMAS IN SYDNEY.

    NOTWITHSTANDING adverse forecastings, the weather was delightful yesterday, and the conditions during the evening were all that could have been desired. The ...

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  32. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BROWN-STREET.

    At the Brown-street Congregational Church the Rev. Chas. Whyte, M.A., conducted a Christmas service at 11 a.m., special music being rendered by the choir and ...

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  33. PLATTSBURG.

    On Saturday Mr. Watkins, M.P., received a letter from the Principal Under-Secretary, intimating that the sum of £100 had been granted in aid of our local Fire Brigade. ...

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  34. The Scramble in China.

    LONDON, Friday.—Russia has demanded the dismissal by China of the English engineers employed on the Chinese railways, and their replacal ...

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  35. ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

    A writer in the "Musical Times" has remarked that during the whole of the nineteenth century no Christmas night has passed without a performance of the sublime ...

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  36. SAINTS' CHAPEL.

    Yesterday was a special day for the people worshipping at Saints' Chapel. Gosford-road, Hamilton West. A critical observer could not but conclude that, ...

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  37. A TREASURE ISLAND.

    AN engineer on board the Imporieuse has sent a letter to his father at Exeter respecting the stories of treasure on Cocos Island, from which it seems that there is more truth in ...

    Article : 355 words
  38. Russia and Germany.

    LONDON, Friday.—The "Cologne Gazette," a well-informed German journal, says that open resistance on the part of any of the other Powers ...

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  39. ADAMSTOWN.

    Christmas Eve passed off without anything unusual transpiring. Of the local business people Messrs. Adams and Nichols were the only persons who went in for decorations. ...

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  40. ERONI'S CIRCUS.

    MESSES, ERONI BROS', Palace Cirous and menagerie is to open for the first time this evening in Newcastle on the ground adjoining the Technical College, Hunter-street ...

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  41. The Late Sir William Maxwell.

    LONDON, Friday.—Later particulars concerning the death of Sir William Edward Maxwell, Governor of the Gold Coast colony, West Africa, show ...

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  42. General Cables.

    The Bengal Chamber of Commerce is urging the adoption of a gold standard. Canada has been officially informed ...

    Article : 73 words
  43. Advertising

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    Advertising : 80 words
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