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  2. THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    The House of Commons, by a vote of 149 votes to 2[?]4, rejected the motion by Mr. John Dillon (Nationalist) that the House should adjourn as a mark of protest ...

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  3. CHINA.

    The Ministers of the various foreign Powers at Peking held a meeting yesterday, at Which it was decided that the replies of the Chinese Court to the ...

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  4. THE BOER WAR.

    It now transpires that the Zand Dr[?], by which Commandant De Wet crossed into Cape Colony, was the only one on which the British forces had not laid down ...

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  5. GREAT BRITAIN.

    [?] serious charge has been made against the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies. In a speech delivered at Peterborough Mr. W. R. ...

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  6. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    We are in a position to give below particulars of the dates that will probably be adopted for the election of members of the House of Representatives. It will be ...

    Article : 557 words
  7. ILLNESS OF SIR GEORGE TURNER.

    Sir. George Turner, the Federal Treasurer, is suffering from an [?]lineas which will necessitate perfect rest. He will, therefore, be unable to accompany his colleagues ...

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  8. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    For the Imperial Contingent 1574 men have passed all, tests, and have been provisionally enrolled in two squadrons. Of 111 applicants for enrolment examined by ...

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  9. THE DEFENCE DEPARTMENT.

    Sir John Forrest stated that he intends for six months at least to administer the Federal Defence Department from Melbourne. He has not the slightest ink[?]ng ...

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  10. PRINCE TUAN AND DUKE LAN BANISHED.

    It is announced that the Imperial Court has now admitted that the previous sentences passed upon the different officials for their share in the Boxer rebellion, ...

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  11. THROWING IN CRICKET.

    The committee of the Sussex County Cricket Club has resolved that the action of the captains in regard to the question of throwing is ultra vires. ...

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  12. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    At the Central Criminal Court to-day Isabella Widgery and James Stanlty M'Gifford, who were convicted of the manslaughter of Edith Eva May Short, were ...

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  13. DE WET'S MOVEMENTS.

    The correspondent of the London "Dally Mail" states that Commandant De Wet, whose force was reported to be making for Britstown after their defeat at ...

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  14. VICTORIA.

    The Government have decided, to intimate to the Imperial authorities that they object to South African officials visiting the State to recruit men for the South ...

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  15. GERMAN EXPEDITIONS.

    The commissariat department attached to the German forces in China have ordered 1000 transport waggons, to be in readiness in three weeks time, for an expedition ...

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  16. VISCOUNT CRANBOURNE ON CHINA.

    When the debate on the Address in reply was resumed, Viscount —Cranbourne, the Conservative member for Rochester, said that the friendly representations which had ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. NEW ZEALAND.

    Applications are coming in freely for the Seventh Contingent. It is expected that the first draft of 300 men will be despatched before the middle of March. ...

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  18. THE MOBILITY OF THE BRUTISH.

    It is stated that the mobility of the British forces who are now engaged in the pursuit of De Wet exceeds that of the enemy. ...

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  19. QUEENSLANDERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    The strength of the camp at Lytton yesterday morning was:—24 officers, 520 men, and 557 horses. The Commandant visited the camp ...

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  20. BEHEADING BOXER LEADERS.

    Prince Chang Chih Tung, one of the Chinese Commissioners for arranging terms of peace with the representatives of the foreign Powers at Peking, has beheaded ...

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  21. WHEAT FOR ENGLAND.

    The barque Invermay cleared the Customs to-day with 22,470 bags wheat for England. Four vessels are now loading wheat at Darling Harbour. ...

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  22. COMMANDANT BOSMAN CAPTURED.

    Among the captures made after the recent engagement at Houtkraal was Commandant Bos[?]an, who was in command of the Boer force at Boshof when it was ...

    Article : 45 words
  23. ANT[?]TING THE BUDGET SPEECH.

    In anticipation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget Speech, which, it is expected, will contain proposals for fresh taxation, enormous clearings have taken ...

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  24. A RACEHORSE FOR QUEENSLAND.

    The chestnut colt Palmer, by Pilgrim's Progress-Zeph, who won the Third Caulfield Futurity Stakes for Mr. James Wilson, jun., and did no good afterwards, has ...

    Article : 54 words
  25. THREATENING BOXER SYMPATHISERS.

    An Imperial edict, which has just been issued by the Chinese Emperor, declares that if any of the princes and officials resist the proposals made by the Court ...

    Article : 46 words
  26. A PROTEST AGAINST FLOGGING.

    A report has been received that half the force which constituted (Do Wet's camp held a meeting and protested vigorously against the indiscriminate [?]gging which ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. COMMONWEALTH ELECTION NOTES.

    Our Rockhampton correspondent, under yesterday's date, wires:—A meeting of delegates from the different electorates in the Capricornia Federal division was held ...

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  28. THE BOER WAR.

    Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill, the Conservative member for Oldham, delivered his maiden speech in the House of Commons last night. He justified the war in South ...

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  29. SUPPOSED FATAL ACCIDENT AT NEWCASTLE.

    A boating accident by which two lives are supposed to have been lost occurred at Newcastle to-day. There seems little doubt that Captain Webb, of Morpeth, and ...

    Article : 158 words
  30. ESTATE OF THE LATE LORD ARMSTRONG.

    The will of the late Lord Armstrong, the chairman of the Elswick Ironworks, and the inventor of the famous Armstrong gun, who died in December last, has just ...

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  31. AUSTRALASIAN INTERESTS.

    A meeting of the committee of butter agents and importers has been held in London, the Agents-General of Victoria (Sir Andrew Clarke) and New South Wales ...

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  32. TESTING CYCLISTS.

    In conection with the effort made to have a cyclist detachment attached to the Fifth Contingent, which is being made by Mr. A. Wynyard Joss, of the Cleveland Cycle ...

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  33. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    It is reported that Sergeant F. Spencer (South Australian Bushmen's Contingent), and Private L. Maskell (West Australian Bushmen) were severely wounded at ...

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  34. MR. CHAMBERLAIN REPLIES.

    The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to attacks made upon him by the Opposition, reiterated his assertion that the ...

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  35. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Mr. George Graham, who was once a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. LONDON, February 19. ...

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  36. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    Two cases of suspicious illness among those under Observation at Capetown, have now been proved to be plague, and a coolie employed at the docks has also been found ...

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  37. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

    A proclamation was issued to-day further proroguing Parliament from 27th instant to 10th April. The feeling is growing stronger that there will be no assembling of ...

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  38. THE CONTINENT.

    Great indignation has been aroused at Belgrade, the capital of Servia, over the interment of the late King Milan at Karlowitz in Hungary. Mobs of angry and ...

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  39. QUEENSLAND.

    The heat of this week was almost unbearable, the pastures and crops have been burnt up badly. Yesterday was cloudy all day, a heavy thunderstorm [?]ell in the evening; it was cloudy to-day, ...

    Article : 536 words
  40. A CRUEL ACT.

    A man named Nademan, a Boer resident of the Harrismith district of the Grange River Colony, declares that he was an eyewitness of, a most cruel act perpetrated by ...

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  41. A SUBSTANTIAL CHEQUE.

    A firm of tobacco merchants at Bristol have paid into the Treasury a cheque to the amount of £250,000 in connection with the removal of large stocks of tobacco from ...

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  42. THE VICTORIAN LOAN.

    Owing to the depression in Imperial securities now prevailing, and the further borrowings which will be undertaken by the Government to meet the war ...

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  43. QUEENSLAND ASSISTANCE.

    In connection with the Federal elections, it has appoared[?] that matters have been very much simplified by the presence in Sydney of Mr. E. A. Blackboro, of the ...

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  44. A BIG LIQUIDATION.

    The Paatch Company, a firm of wool and grain exportres at Buenos Ayres, in the Argentina, have suspended business. The liabilities are said to amount to £400,000. ...

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  45. DECREASE IN GERMAN TRADE.

    News from Germany states that there has been a great decrease in the amount of Germany's home trade during the past twelve months, especially in iron ...

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  46. A DARING RIDE.

    The correspondent of the "London Standard" tells of a daring cross-country journey made by a man named Malcolm Clark. He started from Leydsdorp, about 250 ...

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  47. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

    In connection with the opening of the Federal Parliament, efforts will be made to secure the presence of representative bodies of troops from the various States of ...

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  48. A NEW ZEALAND GOLD MINE.

    The New Waitekauri Extended Gold Mining Company has been registered, with a capital of £100,000, to work properties which have been acquired in the ...

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  49. THE SYDNEY RAILWAY DISASTER.

    For the inquest in connection with the Tempe railway disaster the coroner has obtained the services of experts to assist him in the investigation of the cause of ...

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  50. BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION.

    Herr Licht, of Magdeburg, in his monthly [?]cular, states that the production of beat sugar for the current campaign has increased by 345,000 tons, compared with the ...

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  51. SIXTH CONTINGENT.

    The Government has wired to the transport officer at Sydney, asking if one of the transports to arrive there con be spared for the purpose of carrying the Sixth ...

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  52. COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL LEAGUE.

    A meeting under the auspices of the Commonwealth Electoral League was held in the School of Arts, Bulimba, last evening. Mr. R. Jamieson was moved into the chair. ...

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  53. THE BOERS INSULTING QUEEN VICTORIA.

    A Reuter's correspondent in South Africa has reported that[?]when the Boers of Commandant Hertzog's commando at Calvinia heard the news of Queen Victoria's death ...

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  54. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

    Arrivals.—Varzin, s., from Sydney and Melbourne: Lotfthus, ship, from Melbourne; South Australia, s., from Sydney and Melbourne. ...

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  55. SOUTHERN ITEMS.

    At a meeting of the Federal Executive to-day it was decided to issue the writs for Western Australia, polling to take place on Friday, 29th March, the writs to be returned ...

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  56. OVERLAND PASSENGERS.

    The following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth, Mrs. A. H. Stratton, Mrs. Betteridge, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver ...

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  57. LATEST BETTING.

    Fulminate has been backed to win about £3000 at 100 to 6 and 100 to 7, for the Newmarket Handicap. MELBOURNE, February 19. ...

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  58. THE BOERS AND PEACE.

    Mr. A. Wolmarans, one of the three Boer peace envoys in Holland, has stated that the Boers in the late South African Republics will accept peace upon terms granting ...

    Article : 64 words
  59. Advertising

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  60. CONDITION OF THE PATIENTS.

    Of the sufferers by the late railway disaster it is now thought that none of those in the hospitals will succumb to their injuries. Two of the injured, whose condition ...

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  61. Advertising

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  62. DR. LEYDS ROBBED.

    Dr. Leyds, the European representative of the Boers, has made a complaint of having been robbed at Brussels of a handbag containing diplomatic documents. ...

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  63. MR. BARTON'S QUEENSLAND VISIT.

    Hon. E. Barton leaves for Queensland on Monday next. He speaks at Toowoomba on Tuesday night, and will be present at the A.N.A. banquet in Brisbane on ...

    Article : 88 words
  64. THE IMPERIAL TROOPS.

    Our Wellington correspondents under yesterday's date, telegraphs as follows:—The Imperial troops left Auckland for Adelaide to-day. Mr. Seddon obtained the consent ...

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  65. Advertising

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  66. THE "I.O.F."

    The Independent Order of Foresters, an organisation which combines the benefits of life insurance with those of those of the friendly society, has just commenced ...

    Article : 144 words
  67. QUEENSLAND CASUALTIES.

    A telegram has been received by his Excellency the Governor from the General of Communications, under date 17th February, stating that "40, Corporal ...

    Article : 286 words
  68. Advertising

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  69. THE POSTAL CONFERENCE.

    The conference of permanent heads of the Postal Departments of the various States was concluded to-night. Further consideration was given to-day to the draft of ...

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  70. Advertising

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  71. CURRENCY REFORM ADVOCATED.

    At a meeting of the executive of the New South Wales Silver League last night resolutions were carried urging upon all federal candidates the necessity of a ...

    Article : 83 words
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