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  2. GENERAL NEWS.

    The state of affairs in South Africa is not getting better. That it is desirable to have the new High Commissioner, Sir Alfred Milner, at his post as soon as possible, is ...

    Article : 372 words
  3. SHIPPING NEWS.

    HIGH WATER—Morning, 10.15; evening. 10.39; Sun; Rises, 6.22; sets, 5.25. Moon: Rises, 7.38; sets, 9.39. ...

    Article : 23 words
  4. CURRENT EVENTS.

    The Sydney Cup was won by Tricolor. Wallsend races passed off most successful yesterday. N.S.W. cricketers defeated Queesland by ...

    Article : 2,004 words
  5. THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

    The following description of the latest addition to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line has been received by the agents. Messrs. Burns. Philp, and Co:—The Kanagawa Mara has four pole masts and one massive ...

    Article : 261 words
  6. ARRIVALS.—April 19.

    Dunbritten, barque, 1471, Tucker, from Melbourne. Coastwise.—Gosford, s, from Port Stephens. ...

    Article : 13 words
  7. THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ON BETTING.

    The Lord Chief Justice recently heard an action brought by the "Field Syndicate," a firm of turf commission agents in Haymarket, London, against an auctioneer, to ...

    Article : 143 words
  8. DEPARTURES.—April 19.

    Eagle Crag, barque, for Cadlera. Costwise—Gosford, s, for Port Stephens; Alice and Namoi, steamers, for Port Stephens. ...

    Article : 21 words
  9. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

    Sydney.— Arrivals, April 18; Manipouri, s, from New Zealand; Newcastle and Balmain, steamers, from Newcastle; Allowrie, s, from Eden; City of Grafton, s, form Grafton; Macleay, s, form ...

    Article : 154 words
  10. COMMERCIAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 words
  11. FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.

    Some interesting details are to hand regarding the great forgery of Bank of England £20 notes to the amount of £20,000, to which brief reference was made some time ...

    Article : 350 words
  12. SHIPPING IN PORT.

    4 Dunayre, ship, 2056. Gunson; Duckenfield, for Acapulon. J. and A. Brown 5 Iolanthe, ship, 1593, Stanton; Duckenfleld, for Acapulco. J. and A. Brown ...

    Article : 664 words
  13. BY ORDER OF THE CZAR.

    Not so very long ago one of the worst aggravation of a sentence of exile to Suberia was that the prisoner should walk from European Russia to his distant destination in ...

    Article : 280 words
  14. Advertising

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    Advertising : 129 words
  15. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 38 words
  16. UP TO DATE SURGERY.

    At a recent meeting of the Liverpool Medical Institution, Dr. Thelwall Thomas produced a patient, 16 years of age, on whom he had operated seven months previously. ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. Mails Close at Newcastle.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
  18. WANT OF WATER.

    The condition of the colony becomes more serious every day owing to the persistent drought. Even from Sydney a warning note comes to the effect that it is necessary there ...

    Article : 229 words
  19. FATAL QUARREL.

    A FATAL quarrel between two sailors occured tonight on board the ship Westgate, lying at Dibbs' wharf, Miller's Point. The men were Gustav Larsen and Alexander Jackson, ...

    Article : 292 words
  20. Sale by Auction This Day.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 words
  21. AUTOMATIC SIGNALLING LOCOMOTIVE.

    Among the patents recently granted in the United States, is an arrangement for giving automatic signals to a locomotive by means of a lever placed so as to be actuated as the ...

    Article : 167 words
  22. Index to Advertisements.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 words
  23. NOTES.

    The barque Eagle Crag sailed yesterday for Caldera. The barque Estrella arrived at the Bluff from Newcastle on Sunday. ...

    Article : 129 words
  24. THE DOGS OF WAR.

    WITH the arrival of Easter came the intelligence to Europe that the Turk had risen indeed. The irregular warfare which has been in progress in ...

    Article : 1,335 words
  25. A BOON TO TYPEWRITERS.

    A typewriter prism, according to a daily contemporary, has been brought out with the object of rendering the writing of a typewriter visible to the operator as it is being ...

    Article : 102 words
  26. THE CONDITION OF TURKEY.

    The Rev. W. M. Alexander recently gave a lecturette on the Holy Land at the conference of the Presbyterian Fellowship Union of Victoria. The Turks, he said, cared ...

    Article : 284 words
  27. SPOKEN.

    Captain Crighton, of the steamer Maritta, which arrived yesterday from West Australia, reports having spoken the ship Argo 60 miles west of Gabo Island. The Arge is bound to Newcastle, and ...

    Article : 39 words
  28. FAST STEAMING OF THE WESTRALIA.

    Messrs. Huddart Parker and Co.'s new steamer Westralia has completed her maiden coastal trip. The vessel brought round from Melbourne upwards of 100 passengers, who speak in high terms of the ...

    Article : 83 words
  29. AN ELECTRIC BRAKE.

    An electric brake has been tried on a French railway, the Chemin de For de Onest, which has been designed to obviate the troubles which arise when it is attempted ...

    Article : 109 words
  30. VICTORIA THEATRE.

    As was to be expected after the exceptionally fine performance of "The Silver King" on Saturday night, the Theatre was last night packed from floor to ceiling by an exuberantly ...

    Article : 231 words
  31. BRITISH LIFEBOAT SERVICE.

    In the February number of the Lifeboat Journal" it is stated that during 1896 the committee of the Royal National Lifeboat institution expended £71,476 on its 298 lifeboat establishments; 812 lives ...

    Article : 110 words
  32. A 1000 MILE RAILWAY TICKETS.

    In July last an experiment in railway fares was introduced by the North-eastern Railway Company, the principle of what has now become wail known, in the district which ...

    Article : 237 words
  33. THE MARITTA.

    The A.U.B.N Company's steamer Maritta arrived here early yesterday morning from Geraldton (W. A.) to load again for West Australia Of the passage Captain Crighton reports:—Left Geraldton on April ...

    Article : 109 words
  34. HOW PEOPLE READ THEIR NEWSPAPERS.

    It is an interesting study in human nature, a London contemporary says, to watch how different people when opening a newspaper turn first to different parts of the varied ...

    Article : 246 words
  35. LATEST IN OCEAN RACING.

    The race from San Francisco to England between the four Clyde built sailing vessels Queen Maragret, Rahane, Ross-shire, Cromartyshire, and the American ship Puritan resulted in a win for the ...

    Article : 143 words
  36. LAUNCH OF A FERRY STEAMER.

    At the shipbuilding yards of Messrs. Young, Son. and Fletcher, Rozelle Bay, Balmain, on Saturday morning the Currabella a new steamer built for the North Shore Ferry Company, was launced. The ...

    Article : 121 words
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