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  2. MR. IRVINE BANQUETED. AN INTERESTING SPEECH.

    Mr. W. H. Irvine, late Premier of Victoria, was entertained at a banquet at the Trocadero Restaurant yesterday by the Australian mercantile organisations ...

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  3. GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON JEWS GOING TO AMERICA.

    Seven hundred Jews in Whitechapel are taking advantage of the present cheap steamship rates to proceed from London to America. ...

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  4. COMMONWEALTH MATTERS

    General Hutton, who returned to Melbourne yesterday, will meet the Prime Minister and Mr. Dawson, Minister for Defence, to-morrow afternoon, with ...

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  5. THE WAR. GREAT JAPANESE VICTORY.

    Reuter's correspondent at Tokio reports that, after five days' fighting, the Japanese captured Kin-chan on Thursday evening. The Russian stronghold at Hand-shan ...

    Article : 132 words
  6. DEATH OF SIR JOHN M'NEILL.

    The death is announced of MajorGeneral Sir John Clarke Carstairs M'Neill, V.C., G.C.V.O., at the age of 73 years. ...

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  7. THE MANCHESTER CUP.

    In the race for the Manchester Cup, 1½ mile, to-day, Scullion (by St. Florian —Tindar) and Roe O'Neill (by Sweetheart—(Troublesome) ran a dead heat for ...

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  8. INTERSTATE TELEGRAMS. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A shooting affray, the outcome of a disturbance at the Ultimo Hotel, occurred yesterday afternoon. Two men, one of them named Thomas Kenny, visited the ...

    Article : 200 words
  9. GYMPIE SHARE MARKET.

    The "Miner's" weekly report states that this week has been a very ragged one so far as the share market is concerned, the characteristic tendency being towards ...

    Article : 646 words
  10. STORMING THE RUSSIAN POSITIONS.

    Further particulars of the storming of Kin-chau state that the lighting lasted continuously for sixteen hours. The Japanese were originally posted on Mount Samphon, ...

    Article : 383 words
  11. OTHER OPERATIONS.

    The Japanese have announced that they are maintaining an effective blockade of the coasts of the Liao-tung Peninsula southward of a line between Pi-tsz-wo, on ...

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  12. VICTORIA.

    A telegram was received yesterday from the police in Sydney, stating that Hugh K. Jamieson, formerly accountant in the Melbourne office of the Vacuum Oil Company, ...

    Article : 271 words
  13. MILITARY TRAINING.

    The continuous training of the Commonwealth military forces has been systematised, and is no longer uniform as to term. The Light Horse Regiments ...

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  14. LANDING IN SOUTHERN MANCHURIA.

    General, Kuropatkin has reported that the Japanese have landed several heavy guns at Taku-shan, each drawn by eighteen horses, and also some troops, who are ...

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  15. WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT PORT ARTHUR.

    The women and children at Port Arthur are being sheltered from the Japanese bombardment in dugout caves within the inner line of fortifications. ...

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  16. RUSSIAN PRIVATEERS.

    Lloyd's have been officially warned that some fast steamers which Russia has recently purchased are being equipped as privateers. ...

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  17. MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

    The Royal Commission appointed in March last year, under the chairmanship of the Duke of Norfolk, "to inquire into the pay, terms of service, and efficiency of ...

    Article : 177 words
  18. WARWICK AND DISTRICT.

    The following gentlemen having undertaken to conduct experiments with the seed wheat supplied by the Department of Agriculture, have received the necessary ...

    Article : 876 words
  19. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Sir Edwin Smith, president of the Commercial Travellers' Association, yesterday laid the foundation-stone of a building on the North-terrace, which is being erected ...

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  20. COUNTRY NEWS. IPSWICH AND WEST MORETON

    The rainfall for the twenty-four hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday, as registered at the pumping station of the Ipswich Waterworks, was 40 points, and for the ...

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  21. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    The Russian nobles and public bodies are subscribing largely to a patriotic fund to provide a new fleet. It is intended to construct a large ...

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  22. FEDERAL POLITICAL SITUATION.

    No developments in the political situation are expected until Wednesday, when there will be caucus meetings of all the three parties. Mr. Watson's proposals to ...

    Article : 604 words
  23. TIN AT PORT DARWIN.

    Although very little has been heard regarding the discovery of tin at Port Darwin, it appears that a huge alluvial field is now being opened up in that district. ...

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  24. CREWS OF THE KORIETZ AND VARIAG.

    An officer of the Russian gunboat Korictz, which, with the cruiser Variag, was sunk by the Japanese at Ohemulpho in February last, declares that the bulk ...

    Article : 57 words
  25. NAVAL CASUALTIES.

    An official report states that Captain Hayashi, of the Japanese gunboat Chokai, was killed in the engagement at Kinchau, and there were nine other naval ...

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  26. FRANCE AND THE VATICAN.

    Speaking during a debate in the Chamber of Deputies, the French Premier, M. Combes, stated that owing to the recent protest of the Pope in connection with the ...

    Article : 176 words
  27. JAPANESE OFFICIAL REPORTS.

    Mr. Iwasaki, Acting Consul-General for Japan, has received the following cablegram from Baron Komura, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs:—The ...

    Article : 729 words
  28. DANGER FROM FLOATING MINES.

    It is announced that, in view of the danger from drifting mines, the British fleet on the China station will not proceed further north than Wu-sung, on the ...

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  29. THE CHILLAGOE DISTRICT.

    Mr. G. C. Willcocks returned from a visit to the Chillagoe district to-day. He states that Mr. Gibb, who accompanied him, met with an accident through falling ...

    Article : 294 words
  30. THE POSITION AT PORT ARTHUR.

    Some interesting details regarding the position in the East were obtained from Mr. C. W. Taylor, of Tientsin, a passenger on board the China Steam Navigation ...

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  31. NOTES ON THE WAR.

    Our cable messages to-day convey particulars of another severe battle in the Liao-tung Peninsula this time, and another victory for Japan. The engagement ...

    Article : 1,415 words
  32. GENERAL CABLE MESSAGES.

    A terrible balloon fatality occurred yesterday. An aeronaut named Zanchi made an ascent at Paternopolo, and had reached a height of 7000ft., when he fell to the ...

    Article : 42 words
  33. CHINESE EXCLUSION AT THE CAPE.

    A bill to exclude Chinese from Cape Colony, unless they are British subjects, has passed its third reading in the Cape House of Assembly. ...

    Article : 31 words
  34. GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY.

    The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Bill has passed its third reading in the Dominion House of Commons by a majority of 46. ...

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  35. THE AMERICAN WHEAT CROP.

    The May crop report issued by the United States Government estimates that the acreage under wheat has been reduced by 16 per cent as compared with the ...

    Article : 54 words
  36. TOOWOOMBA AND DISTRICT.

    The weather is still unsettled. Very little rain fell during the day, and the wind changed to the west, blowing fairly strongly. Fine weather is anticipated. ...

    Article : 867 words
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