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  2. SOUDAN WAR.

    CAIRO, Thursday.—According to news received the body of reliable Egyptian soldiers, who started from Omdurman on the 23rd of November have arrived at Wady ...

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  3. THE MAORI FOOTBALLERS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The Maori footballers played the Bradford Football Club at Bradford yesterday, the local players being victorious. The play was witnessed by ...

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  4. CABLEGRAMS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.— Reports from Suakim state the followers of Osman Digna are abducting the women of friendly tribes. LONDON, Thursday.— Osman Digna has ...

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  5. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

    THERE is a potato famine in Ballarat. TASMANIAN Parliament meets on Tuesday. THE gold find at Sud Est is not a rich one. ...

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  6. NIHILISM IN RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Thursday.—It has been discovered that the accident which occurred to the Czar's train on the Azoff railway, in which the Czar narrowly escaped death, was ...

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  7. AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.—The Earl of Aberdeen, speaking to-day on the difficulty which has arisen over the appointment of colonial Governors, said that Queensland ...

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  8. AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Admiralty have issued orders for relief crews to leave for the Australian naval station to take the place of the crews on Her Majesty's ships Royalist, ...

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  9. BOULANGER'S MANIFESTO.

    PARIS, Thursday.—General Boulanger has issued a manifesto to the electors of the Department of the Seine, in which he reiterates his warning that the Republic is weary of ...

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  10. CAPTAIN LAKE, R.N.

    LONDON, Wednesday. — Captain Lake, R.N., who served for a period on the Australian station, has been appointed president of the Naval College at Greenwich. ...

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  11. TUNBRIDGE WELLS MURDER.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.— Mr. Henry Matthews, Q.C., the Home Secretary, has refused to recommend Her Majesty to grant a reprieve in the case of the two youths, ...

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  12. THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.—The Pall Mall Gazette says that Her Majesty the Queen recently donated £25 to the fund which is being raised to assist Miss Weidemann, a ...

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  13. THE SCOTCH CHURCHES.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Parleyings are being renewed with a view to the union of the Free and United Churches of Scotland. ...

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  14. Latest Intercolonial News.

    All the unemployed at work on the public relief works are to be discharged in three batches on the first of February, March, and April respectively. ...

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  15. THE SUGAR MARKET.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Dunn, the sugar expert, reports that the prices obtained for sugar last year averaged the highest for five years. He believes that the bounties system ...

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  16. FIENDISH NEGRO PLOT.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Telegrams from New York state that seven negro servants employed by a Colonel Plaxton at Arcola, a township in Illinois, plotted to rob the ...

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  17. GLADSTONE AND THE POPE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Gladstone has written a letter which modifies the report in the Pall Mall Gazette wherein he was described as having urged that the European ...

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  18. CLERGY FOR QUEENSLAND.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Bishop Webber, of Brisbane, who is about to return to Queensland, has secured 15 clergymen for that colony. He has also obtained a half-grant ...

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  19. NEW MODE OF MANUFACTURING GAS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.— Water gas has been manufactured by the Leeds Forge Company, the use of which will result in a saving of £10,000 a year in the works of the ...

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  20. GERMANY AND ZANZIBAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.—News has been received from Zanzibar to the effect that the Arabs have made a determined attack on the Germans at Daressalem, and heavy fighting ...

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  21. IRISH AFFAIRS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Gladstone contributes an article to the Nineteenth Century on the Irish question. Referring to Daniel O'Connell, Mr. ...

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  22. DR. PARKER ON THE THEATRE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Dr. Parker, the eminent Congregational divine, in the course of an interview has expressed the opinion that some theatres are like churches in the ...

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  23. THE NEW ZEALAND FAILURE.

    LONDON, Thursday.—In the matter of the failure of Messrs. David Clarkson and Sons, of Christchurch, New Zealand, the debts of the firm are estimated at £180,000. ...

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  24. AUSTRALIAN FINANCE.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. William Westgarth will read a paper on the subject of "Australian Finance" at a meeting of the Colonial Institute on February 12. ...

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  25. GREAT COPPER SYNDICATE.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Standard says that the English copper syndicate will have the control of 150,000 tons of copper and a capital of £12,000,000 invested, the interest ...

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  26. FOGS IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Heavy fogs prevailed throughout England yesterday, and numerous railway and shipping fatalities are reported this morning. ...

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  27. VICTORIA.

    The Melbourne City Council have requested the police to prosecute any persons infringing the 30th section of the Police Offences Statue in regard to Sunday trading. ...

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  28. THE WOOL MARKET.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Buxton, of the firm of Buxton, Ronald and Co., the well-known wool auctioneers, states that wool will remain steady and firm during 1889. ...

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  29. LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The brewing business of Messrs. Trueman, Hanbury and Buxton has been converted into a limited liability company. ...

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  30. ILLNESS OF JOHN RUSKIN.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night. — Mr. John Ruskin, the celebrated art critic, is reported to be suffering from severe illness. LONDON, Wednesday Night. — Great ...

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  31. THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Colonial Institute will give a banquet to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on March 13. ...

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  32. IMPERIAL DECORATIONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday—The following New Year honours have been conferred by Her Majesty.— Mr. Leonard Henry Courteney, M.P. for ...

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  33. MORE DECORATIONS.

    LONDON, Thursday.—Sir Herbert Sandford, K.B., and Mr. R. T. Goldsworthy, C.M.G., formerly Governor of British Honduras, have been created, Knights ...

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  34. KILRAIN-MITCHELL MATCH.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.—The authorities at Saint Louis, in the United States have prohibited a boxing exhibition proposed to be held there between Jake Kilrain, the, ...

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  35. MURDER IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.— A horrible murder is reported from Philadelphia, United States A boarding-house keeper named Schloops ...

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  36. OBITUARY.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The death is announced of General Bligh, who was engaged in the New Zealand Maori war. ...

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  37. ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.—The Board of Trade have resolved to compel electric companies to obtain the sanction of Parliament before undertaking contracts for lighting the ...

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  38. AMUSEMENTS.

    THE attractive nature of Messrs. Hiscocks and Friedman's company is great, large audiences have witnessed and thoroughly enjoyed the excellent performances. Again ...

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  39. THE SERVIAN CRISIS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.—A committee of the Servian Skulpstchina, or National Assembly, has had an interview with King Milan and requested him to agree to amendments in the ...

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  40. GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

    BERLIN, Thursday.—The Cologne Gazette, in an article which is obviously inspired, persists in accusing Sir Robert Morier, the British Minister at Darmstadt during the ...

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  41. "JACK THE RIPPER'S" IMITATORS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night —The inquest was resumed to-day at Bradford on the body of the boy found murdered and horribly mutilated. ...

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  42. THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE.

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The Primrose League, founded in 1883 in memory of the late Earl of Beaconsfield, has now 800,000 members, an increase of about, 150,000 during ...

    Article : 43 words
  43. Olympic Theatre.

    This new and popular place of amusement was visited by a fairly large audience last night, and the performance was well received. A specially attractive bill is promised for ...

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  44. AN AMBASSADOR ROBBED.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—A daring burglary is reported from Bournemouth, a watering-place situated upon Poole Bay, in Hants. The residence of Count Deym was forcibly ...

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  45. Elite Skating Rink.

    The results of the six days' go-as-you-please skating contest at the above link up till last night were as follows :—C. Cooper, 37 miles 6 laps; E. Cooper, 33 miles 2¾ laps; Kelly, ...

    Article : 67 words
  46. Advertising

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  47. THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Emperor William a[?] Germany has conferred the order of the Black Eagle upon Herr Von Puttkamer, Vice-president of the Prussian Council of ...

    Article : 60 words
  48. RAILWAY DELAYS.

    THE train from Sydney yesterday afternoon was detained twenty-five minutes between Mullet Creek and Gosford, owing to the breakage of the spring link of the engine. ...

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  49. EUROPEAN SITUATION.

    LONDON, Thursday.—King Hambert, of Italy, in addressing his Ministers, expressed his ardent desire that the peace of Europe should be maintained. He believed that ...

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  50. MELBOURNE GAS CO.

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Melbourne Gas Company have issued a 4½ per cent. loan of £50,000. The minimum is fixed at 105, and tenders will be opened on the 8th instant. ...

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  51. SIR WM. GULL'S ILLNESS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.—Sir William Withey Gull, Bait., the eminent physician and surgeon, who was reported to be seriously ill, is recovering. ...

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  52. [Reuter's Telegrams.]

    LONDON, Thursday. — A man named Stevenson, aged 19, has been arrested at Glasgow for attempting to commit a similar crime to those perpetrated in Whitechapel by ...

    Article : 64 words
  53. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE,

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  54. THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The Hon. Edward Stanhope, Secretary of state for War, in a letter to the newspapers, states that the recent Imperial Conference was unanimous in ...

    Article : 62 words
  55. ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.—The arrangements made in America for viewing and photographing yesterday's eclipse of the sun were very successful. ...

    Article : 23 words
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