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  2. MR. BARTON AT MELBOURNE.

    The Town Hall was filled to overflowing to hear Mr. Edmund Barton, the Federal Premier. The Mayor of Melbourne presided, and the Prime ...

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  3. DISTRICT NEWS.

    In the course of reviewing the situation of the borough, the retiring Mayor (Alderman John Kidd) at the Mayoral election on Wednesday night ...

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  4. THE ROYAL VISIT.

    The cable news that Sydney would be the first port of call in Australia of the Duke and Duchess of Connwall and York is received with disfavour here. The matter ...

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  5. INTERNATIONAL NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The King and Queen will visit the King of Denmark, at Copenhagen, in March, after their visit to the Empress Frederick ...

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  6. MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

    A meeting of this council was held last evening. There were present: Alderman R. M'Cann (Mayor), and Aldermen Rodgers, Doran, Murray, Morison, Thornton, Graham, ...

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  7. WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Among the dispatches just published is one from Lord Roberts, in which he mentions the following as having distinguished ...

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  8. QUEENSLAND.

    Lieut.-Colonel Aytoun, who went in charge of the Fourth Queensland Contingent, had his engagement with the Queensland Defence Force as Infantry Staff Officer ...

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  9. THE PLAGUE IN SIBERIA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Plague is raging in the Khirgiz Steppes and Western Siberia. Many thousands of people have died between Mipalatinsk ...

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  10. ANOTHER HAUL BY FRENCH.

    LONDON, Thursday.—In attacking a laager at Ermelo last week, General French killed forty of the enemy and captured two hundred prisoners and a ...

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  11. FATAL ARMY DUEL.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—In consequence of an insult an officer of the German Army stationed at Metz, Staff-Surgeon Rueger, challenged ...

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  12. AN OCEAN RACE.

    A cable from Auckland states that greet interest is taken in the ocean race to Sydney between the Union Company's steamer Mararoa and the ...

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  13. THE AFRIKANDER BOND.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The President of the Afrikander Bond is coming to Capetown to consult Piet De Wet, who desires to send a deputation to ...

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  14. THE DEFENCES OF THE EMPIRE

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Empire League of Canada recommends the establishment of an Imperial Consultative Council to arrange an early ...

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  15. TRAM FOR WEST WALLSEND.

    A deputation, comprising Mr. Watkins, M.P., Alderman Drummond, of Wallsend, and Alderman Hill, of Plattsburg, waited on the Minister for Works this afternoon, ...

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  16. THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    Mr. Alfred Edden, one of the candidates in the field for selection by the political Labour League for contesting the Newcastle district seat in the Federal Parliament, addressed a ...

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  17. NEWCASTLE ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL SOCIETY.

    With a large measure of success artistically the Newcastle Orchestral and Choral Society has since [?] years ago given secular concerts. In the Masonic Hall ...

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  18. FATAL GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—An explosion has occurred at the works of the Chilworth Gunpowder Company, Chilworth, near Guildford, Surrey. ...

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  19. ENTERIC AT THE CAPE.

    LONDON, Thursday.—A deputation representing the Congress of Cape Colony municipalities, has urged Sir Gordon Sprigg, Premier of Cape ...

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  20. SPANISH CONSTITUTION SUSPENDED.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Fresh disturbances have occurred in Madrid. The Constitution has been suspended. ...

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  21. EXTENSIVE STORE ROBBERIES.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Extensive thefts of military stores have been discovered in Natal. Six railway employees have been arrested. An ...

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  22. THE EMPEROR OF CHINA.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching assure the Ministers that the Emperor is solely directing the affairs of the Empire. ...

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  23. ADAMSTOWN.

    On Wednesday night the council met for the purpose of [?]ecting the Mayor. There were present: The retiring Mayor (Alderman Court) in the chair, and Aldermen Thwaites, ...

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  24. THE ADMIRALTY AND AUSTRALIAN WINES.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Admiralty has accepted Australian wines for the christening of warships. ...

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  25. CARING FOR REFUGEES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The British residents at Bloemfontein are inviting tenders for the supply of clothing and boots for distribution among ...

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  26. A NEW INDIAN PROVINCE.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, has granted a new frontier to a province formed out of four trans-Indus districts of the ...

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  27. BRITISH COMMANDEERING

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The British military authorities have commandeered 2000 horses and mules in the Malmesbury district of Cape Colony. ...

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  28. SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING HOUSES.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Belgian Chamber of Deputies has voted for the suppression of gambling houses, including Ostend Spa. ...

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  29. BADEN-POWELL'S POLICE FORCE

    LONDON, Thursday.—There are thirty thousand applications in London to join Baden-Powell's constabulary, and 2600 have been accepted. ...

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  30. VICTORIA THEATRE.

    At the Victoria Theatre last night, for the first time in Australia, Mr. Arthur Shirley's farcical comedy "Cleopatra," adapted from the French, was produced by the ...

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  31. MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT UNSEATED.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—At the recent general election, Mr. John Barker (Liberal) was returned, defeating Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, Conservative, ...

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  32. AN AUSTRIAN CRITICISM OF THE WAR.

    The South African war correspondent of the "Pester Lloyd," a witness described as rather partial to the Boers, writing from Pretoria in the middle of November says:— ...

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  33. BOTHA SEEKING A REFUGE.

    LONDON, Thursday.—General Botha is apparently seeking a refuge in the Pongolo bush for tens of thousands of cattle and a convoy extending for ...

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  34. TWO TRAINS CAPTURED BY BOERS

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Boers captured two trains near Belfast, and robbed the passengers. They then started the trains against each other, ...

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  35. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Colonel Picquart, who was dismissed from the French Army, owing to his connection with the Dreyfus case, has formally ...

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  36. THE SWAZI QUEEN AND THE BOERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Swazi Queen has informed Lord Kitchener that she desires to prevent the Boers from entering Swaziland. ...

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  37. GENERAL CABLES.

    The Hon. Arthur Lawley, the newly-appointed Governor of West Australia, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of St. ...

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  38. A FIGHT ON A WRECK.

    Before Mr. J. E. Ellis, M.P., and a bench of magistrates at Scarborough (Eng.), Captain William Mosey, Lloyd's Scarborough agent, and his clerk, Harry Goodricke, ...

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  39. ALLEGED PUSH OUTRAGE.

    Senior-Sergeant Brodrick shortly after 10 o'clock last night found a Chinaman named Sing Lee, at the corner of Carlton-street and George-street West, suffering ...

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  40. A TALE OF THE NAVY.

    A wild party of boys they had in command of the frigates in former days, amongst whom Sir John B. and Sir Harry B. were not the least distinguished. On ...

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  41. THE FURNITURE TRADE.

    Messrs. Hughes and Smith, Ms.P., introduced a deputation from the United Furniture Trades to the Minister for Works to-day, in regard to Chinese furniture in ...

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