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  2. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

    FIRE BRIGADE badly wanted for Wallsend. POPULATION of the Broken Hill district is estimated at 12,569. THE Tasmanian Parliament has been ...

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  3. THE GENERAL ELECTION.

    NARRABRI, Wednesday.—At the Parliamentary nominations to-day for the electorate of The Namoi, Messrs. T. G. G. Dangar, Freetrader, and W. F. Buchanan, ...

    Article : 61 words
  4. The Resignation of Major-General Downes.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Major-General Downes made a pathetic speech yesterday on the occasion of a reception tendered to the military forces by the major. He was ...

    Article : 211 words
  5. CABLEGRAMS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—News from Hayti states that in the civil war now being carried on in the negro republic, General Legitime and his followers have defeated General Ganaive and ...

    Article : 49 words
  6. Australian Funds.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The promoters of the new Anglo-Australian Bank are parleying with the Bank of England to undertake their issue. Failing that, an alliance will be made ...

    Article : 76 words
  7. The Nepean (1).

    PENRITH, Wednesday.—Messrs S. E. Lees, Freetrader, and T. R. Smith, Protectionist, were nominated for the vacancy in the Nepean electorate to-day. The show of ...

    Article : 38 words
  8. Political News.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday Night.—Mr. Wilfred Blacket, barrister-at-law, has been chosen by the Protectionist party to oppose Mr. R. W. Thompson, the Freetrade candidate, at West ...

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  9. An Overdue Ship.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Ninety guineas per cent, has been offered to re-insure the cargo of the Bay of Cadiz, an overdue ship, which left Sydney on October 16th for San ...

    Article : 38 words
  10. Irish Affairs.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Lecaron, the Fenian military organiser, in continuing his evidence before the Times-Parnell commission of inquiry, deposed that Egan, the Fenian leader, ...

    Article : 88 words
  11. Russia and Germany.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—It is believed that next summer the Emperor of Russia will visit the Emperor of Germany in return to the visit of the latter, paid after his accession ...

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  12. POLLUTION OF THE GWYDIR.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday Night.—The Minister for Mines has taken prompt action to stop the pollution of the Gwydir River by sheep-washing. He is also making full ...

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  13. A Notorious Insolvent.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The notorious W. E. Adcock, lately of the Northern Territory, who was adjudicated an insolvent recently by the Supreme Court, on ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. Irish Affairs.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—At the sitting of the TIMES-Parnell Commission of Enquiry to-day, evidence was given by a Major Lecaron, a Fenian military organiser. He deposed ...

    Article : 254 words
  15. THE CHARGES AGAINST MR. FEHON.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday Night—So that no injustice shall be done the Cabinet have postponed the consideration of the charges against Mr. Fehon, the Railway ...

    Article : 37 words
  16. Australian Finance.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Billinghurst, in a paper read before the institute of bankers, advised the leading colonies to convert their debentures into inscribed stock, and ...

    Article : 145 words
  17. Meeting of Parliament.

    A Gazette supplement issued on Tuesday contains the following proclamation by his Excellency the Governor:—"I do hereby proclaim that a session of the Legislative ...

    Article : 106 words
  18. Exploring Expedition to Central Australia.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A meeting of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia was held yesterday, when a donation of £160 was received ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. The Crisis it France.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—M. Dessaigne, a radical, succeeds General Ferron in the French ministry. ...

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  20. THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 474 words
  21. A TRAGIC DEATH.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Great interest has recently been manifested in Prahran (Vie.) in the intelligence of the tragic death of Mr. William Harrison, for many years a ...

    Article : 447 words
  22. Wool Sales.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The prices at the wool sales remain firm and unchanged. ...

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  23. The Late Archduke Rudolph.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The crush at Court Chapel, where the remains of the late Crown Prince of Austria are lying in state, was so severe that one person was killed and twenty ...

    Article : 79 words
  24. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. John Dillon, M.P., has forfeited his passage-money to Australia and returned to Dublin. The action of Mr. Parnell, M.P., against ...

    Article : 143 words
  25. AMUSEMENTS.

    D'ARCY STANFIELD'S Burlesque Company produced the Gaiety extravaganza "Camaralzaman" last evening, with great success, to a capital house, the lower portion being ...

    Article : 447 words
  26. FURTHER FLOODS IN VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Monday night saw a repetition of the calamity by floods in the Castlemaine district on New Year's Day. On this occasion, however, only one life— ...

    Article : 540 words
  27. Fair-trade in England.

    LONDON, Monday Night.—The election of members of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce took place to-day, and resulted in the defeat of the candidates in favour of a ...

    Article : 32 words
  28. INTERCOLONIAL TRADES CONGRESS.

    HOBART, Wednesday.—The sixth annual Trades Congress was opened in, the Town Hall on Tuesday morning. The delegates were received by his Excellency the ...

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  29. Pictures for Sydney.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Mortimer Meapes sends a number of his etchings with the collection of Anglo-Australian artists' pictures which are to be exhibited in Sydney, and ...

    Article : 48 words
  30. Instead of Wimbledon.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—It has been finally decided that Dunstable Downs shall be the site of the Easter volunteer encampment which for many years past has been held ...

    Article : 31 words
  31. Sculling in America.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Muttlebury, the American sculler, who had entered for the Colquhon Sculls, has been disabled in consequence of an accident. It is not likely that ...

    Article : 32 words
  32. Archduke Rudolph.

    VIENNA, Tuesday.—The funeral of the Archduke Rudolph took place to-day. A lengthy and imposing procession, consisting of Government officials and the clergy, ...

    Article : 74 words
  33. Reforms in Russia.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The scheme propounded by Count Tolstoi, the Russian Minister of the Interior, for communal reform, has been rejected by the Council of the ...

    Article : 38 words
  34. The Panama Canal.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The Panama Canal Company of De Lesseps has been dissolved. The Tribunal of Justice, under whose order the Company was dissolved, has authorised ...

    Article : 56 words
  35. LATEST MINING.

    A BETTER and firmer tone was observable in silver stocks to-day. Block 14 shares were firm, and closed with buyers at 90s. Sunny Corners exhibited a slight improvement; and ...

    Article : 108 words
  36. ELECTIONEERING GOSSIP.

    WHENVER the crack player of a local cricket club goes in against a visiting eleven, expecting with his friends that he will pile up a great score, and comes out again without having ...

    Article : 1,008 words
  37. QUONG TART'S HEAD.

    Thus the Evening News: "Some Chinese in Lower George-street got hold of a startling rumour on Monday respecting Mr. Quong, Tart's visit to China. The story was to the ...

    Article : 92 words
  38. Another Wreck.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The barque Roseneath, which had been put on the berth at Glasgow for Adelaide, has been totally wrecked at Port Patrick, on the coast of ...

    Article : 44 words
  39. Prince Bismarck.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The Dowager-Empress Victoria is said to be greatly distressed at the article in the current number of the Contemporary Review, in which Prince ...

    Article : 76 words
  40. A Coming Company.

    ON Saturday night, at the Victoria Theatre, Mr. Harry Rickards, the well-known lion comique, will commence a season with a new Comedy and Speciality Company. Mr. ...

    Article : 120 words
  41. The Bradford Murder.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The inquest on the boy Gill, who was murdered and horribly mutilated in Bradford on December 29th, resulted yesterday in a verdict of wilful ...

    Article : 41 words
  42. "DRY—IMPERIAL" CHAMPAGNE.

    MESSRS. MOET AND CHANDON are the largest vineyard proprietors and champagne producers in the world. Their "Dry-Imperial' 1884 vintage is the pure juice of selected ...

    Article : 61 words
  43. Samoa, America and Germany.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The American man-of-war Mohican will probably be dispatched to Samoa. The National Zeitung of Germany declares that the American rights to ...

    Article : 197 words
  44. Advertising

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    Advertising : 409 words
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