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  2. EMPEROR FREDERICK'S DIARY.

    LONDON, Sunday.—Professor Geffcken, who was arrested on a charge of having revealed State secrets by publishing the diary of the late Emperor Frederick, has been ...

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  3. CABLEGRAMS.

    LONDON, Friday.—The personalty of the late Sir William Pearce, Bart., M. P. for Govan, Laneashire, and a member of the shipping firms of John Elder and Co., and ...

    Article : 55 words
  4. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

    REPAIRS to the Fijian are said to have cost nearly £1000. MAORI footballers defeated a Yorkshire team, at Kirkstall. ...

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  5. "JACK THE RIPPER."

    LONDON, Friday.—In connection with the terrible crime recently perpetrated at Yeat-bridge, Somerset, by which a young girl, 10 years of age, was outraged, murdered, and ...

    Article : 70 words
  6. LATE LADY BRASSEY.

    LONDON, Friday.—It has been announced that the book written by the late Lady Brassey, containing a description of her last voyage in the Sunbeam, during which she ...

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  7. Sir Robert Morier Incident.

    BERLIN, Sunday.—The semi-official German papers to-day insinuate that the statement made by Sir Robert Morier, to the effect that Marshal Bazaine had denied ...

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  8. SYDNEY SELECTIONS.

    THE editors of the metropolitan daily papers are kept so busy teaching the Government and everyone else how to administer the affairs of the country that they have no time ...

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  9. THE NICARAGUAN CANAL.

    LONDON, Saturday.—The United States Congress has passed a bill incorporating the Nicaragua Ship Canal Company. [It is estimated that the preparatory work of the ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. BISHOP WEBBER.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.—Bishop Webber of Brisbane, who is about to return to Queensland, speaking at a farewell meeting stated that, in all probability, Australia will, ...

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  11. BISHOP BARRY'S BILLET.

    LONDON, Saturday.—Sixty-four subscribers have guaranteed Bishop Barry a stipend of £1000 per annum if he accepts the bishopric of the proposed new See of Southwark. ...

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  12. AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORS.

    LONDON, Saturday.—The appointments of Sir Henry Wylie Norman as Governor of Queensland, and of the Earl of Kintore as Governor of South Australia, have been ...

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  13. MINE EXPLOSION IN SPAIN.

    LONDON, Saturday.—A serious colliery explosion is reported from the city of Orviedo in the north-west of Spain. The effects of the explosion have not yet been fully ascertained, ...

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  14. TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION.

    LONDON, Sunday.—A terrible fire is reported from Cochin, a large seaport town south-west of India The oil yards belonging to the firm of Messrs. Aspinwall were ...

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  15. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    As instancing wonderful effects caused by recent rains to the squatting interest, a station in the north, whore no rain had fallen for over a year, was sold on Friday ...

    Article : 203 words
  16. THE NEW VICTORIAN LOAN.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.—Mr. Williamm Westgarth, the well known stockbroker, recommends that the coming Victorian loan should be issued as a 3 per cent. instead of a ...

    Article : 62 words
  17. A GREAT RACEHORSE.

    LONDON, Sunday.—Lord Randolph Churchill has completed the purchase of the well-known racehorse Iddesleigh for the sum of 2000 guineas. ...

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  18. EARTHQUAKE AT COSTA RICA.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.—A terrible earthquake has occurred at Costa Rica, Central America, involving many fatalities and great destruction of property. ...

    Article : 92 words
  19. BRITISH DEFENCES.

    LONDON, Sunday.—An important deputation was introduced on Friday to the Marquis of Salisbury by Lord Armstrong, to urge the necessity of proceeding at once ...

    Article : 317 words
  20. IRISH AFFAIRS.

    LONDON, Saturday.—Mr. Gladstone has written a letter concerning the prospects of the Home Rule movement, in which he expresses his earnest conviction that the people ...

    Article : 254 words
  21. RELIEF OF EMIN BEY.

    LONDON, Saturday.—Captain Weisman, who has recently been promoted from a lieutenancy, will proceed to East Africa next month, in order to enrol troops to accompany ...

    Article : 64 words
  22. VICTORIA.

    At the Port Melbourne police court, to-day, Henry Abbott, a, seaman, was committed for trial on a charge of shooting Captain Copp, of the American ship Earl Greenfield, with ...

    Article : 40 words
  23. QUEENSLAND.

    A serious disturbance occurred at Rockhampton on Saturday night in connection with the early closing movement. All the shops were closed at 1 p.m. except that of G. ...

    Article : 259 words
  24. OUR GRACIOUS QUEEN.

    LONDON, Sunday.—Her Majesty the Queen his signified her intention of bequeathing all the presents bestowed upon her in honour of the Jubilee celebration of her ...

    Article : 68 words
  25. THE CIVIL WAR IN SAMOA.

    AUCKLAND, Sunday.—News from Samoa received by the R.M.S. Mariposa shows that affairs there are more unsettled than over. Shortly after the arrival of the Olga, there ...

    Article : 679 words
  26. SERVIAN CRISIS.

    LONDON, Sunday.—In consequence of the refusal of King Milan to conform to the wishes of his Cabinet in respect to the revision of the Constitution, the latter have sent ...

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  27. S.S. FIJIAN ON THE SLIP.

    THE extensive repairs to the steamer Fijian, which will be completed to-day, show that in Newcastle we possess equal facilities to the metropolis, not only in the matter of ...

    Article : 534 words
  28. GREAT AMERICAN SWINDLE.

    LONDON, Sunday.—Much excitement has been occasioned in Liverpool and Birmingham, in consequence of doubts having been raised as to the bona fides of the Electric ...

    Article : 186 words
  29. Latest Telegrams.

    AT 9 o'clock on Saturday night, on the arrival of the 8.30 train at Hurstville from Sydney, a porter named Thomas Stanley, whose duty it was to examine the carriages, ...

    Article : 739 words
  30. THE POSTAGE QUESTION.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.—The New York Chamber of Commerce has invited Mr. Henniker Heaton M.P., to deliver an address on the postage question. ...

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  31. THE MAORI FOOTBALLERS.

    LONDON, Sunday.—The Maoris met a football team at Kirkstall, in Yorkshire, yesterday, and defeated them. ...

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  32. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.—The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. and a bonus of 5 per cent., and have carried ...

    Article : 49 words
  33. THE BOTANY MURDERESS.

    SYDNEY, Monday Night.—A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Norman, Strafford, Dixon (catechist of the Church of England), Rogers, and Norris, waited upon the ...

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  34. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LAND AND MORTGAGE COMPANY.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.—The South Australian Land and Mortgage Company are issuing £100,000 worth of 4 per cent. debentures. ...

    Article : 30 words
  35. AMUSEMENTS.

    THE proprietors of the Elite Skating Rink intend tendering a grand complimentary benefit on Thursday night to their popular and courteous manager, Mr. J. Garrick. On this ...

    Article : 98 words
  36. CANADA AND AMERICA.

    LONDON, Sunday—At a banquet at Toronto, at which several members of the Ministry were present, Sir John M'Donald, Premier, and Mr. Stanley, Minister of ...

    Article : 135 words
  37. BOULANGER.

    LONDON, Saturday.—The election for the Department of the Seine, for which General Boulanger is a candidate, is causing great excitement in France. The Bonapartists and ...

    Article : 96 words
  38. Olympic Theatre.

    There was a very fair attendance last night at the above place of amusement, when the Minstrel Variety Company, who are now in their second week, gave another successful ...

    Article : 58 words
  39. Advertising

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  40. ARISTOCRATIC BREACH OF PROMISE.

    LONDON, Friday.—It has transpired that Her Majesty the Queen presented 25 guineas to Miss Valerie Weidemann, the plaintiff in the action for breach of promise brought ...

    Article : 73 words
  41. THE PANAMA CANAL.

    LONDON, Saturday.—The Economist contains an article in which the statement is made that the prospects of the Panama Canal scheme are hopeless. ...

    Article : 110 words
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