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  2. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    To-morrow's issue of "The Age" will consist of 16 pages. Following her annual custom, Lady Brassey will to-day entertain State school ...

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  3. STATE FIRE INSURANCE.

    The great Melbourne conflagration has been the incentive, at this advanced period of the session, to the introduction of a bill for the inauguration of a scheme of ...

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  4. THE TEST MATCH.

    To-day saw the fourth day's play in the test cricket match at the Sydney cricket ground. The weather was fine, and would have been perfect but for a high wind which ...

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  5. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    Reports from the out districts state that swarms of grasshoppers are doing a great deal of damage in orchards and vineyards at Urangeline and Four Corners. The pest has ...

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  6. CABLE MESSAGES.

    Telegrams received from General Lockhart's Tirah expeditionary force report further severe fighting with the Afridis, who are adhering to their lately adopted tactics, ...

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  7. CABLE MESSAGES.

    The Privy Council to-day delivered judgment in the following appeals from Australian courts:--BANK OF AUSTRALASIA V. ...

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  8. CABLE MESSAGES.

    There are now prospects of an agreement between the representatives of the Employers' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineers in the conference, which ...

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  9. WAGGA PRESBYTERY.

    At a meeting of the Wagga presbytery held yesterday at Culcairn, at which all the ministers of the Presbyterian churches in Riverina were present, the scheme of union of ...

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  10. ADVICE FROM MR. T. A. BRASSEY.

    The Hon. T. A. Brassey (Conservative), M.P. for Banbury, and brother of Lord Brassey, Governor of Victoria, in a speech delivered last night dealing with the ...

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  11. A MAORI "WITCHCRAFT" CASE.

    In connection with the supposed fatal case of Maori witchcraft at Taupo, the Maori girl, Ngapaki, has been discharged from custody, the evidence at the preliminary trial showing that ...

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  12. A "SHAMEFUL VERDICT."

    In the Criminal Court to-day Jno. Shean was charged with shooting at Albert Harrington with intent. The Chief Justice summed up strongly against the prisoner, but the jury ...

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  13. FRANCE IN THE SOUDAN.

    The Governor of the French Congo has informed the French Colonial department that he discredits the reports from the Congo Free State, that the expedition of M. ...

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  14. THE WRECK OF THE FITZROY.

    The wreck of the Fitzroy is making a bed in the sand. The deck from the fore part of the bridge to the bows is just awash. The starboard bulwarks and the fore and after hatches have ...

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  15. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Elizabeth Howe, aged 26, a native of Victoria, was attending a gas stove at the Infants' Home, Ashfield, on 13th inst., when her clothes caught fire, and she was fearfully burnt about ...

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  16. GREECE AND TURKEY.

    The delegates sent to Constantinople by Greece to arrange the definition peace treaty with Turkey have made an appeal to the Porte that the time allowed for ...

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  17. THE DEMANDS OF IRELAND.

    Mr. John Dillon, leader of the National section of the Irish Home Rule party in the House of Commons, and Mr. W. Redmond, leader of the Parnellite section, ...

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  18. THE WINE INDUSTRY.

    An important step has been taken by the Minister of Agriculture with the object of promoting the wine industry by the dissemination of expert knowledge among the ...

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  19. RAILWAY SAVINGS BANKS.

    The Great Northern Railway Company has decided, with a view to improve the saving opportunities of their employes, to establish workmen's banks, paying 3½ ...

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  20. THE QUEENSLAND NATIONAL BANK SCANDALS.

    In the Assembly to-day, Sir Hugh Nelson read the following memorandum he had received from Mr. Wilson, the Acting Attorney-General, are the Queensland National Bank:-- ...

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  21. THE KLONDIKE GOLD FIELD.

    Letters written by emigrants to the Klondike gold field about the end of October have been received in England. At that date 3000 miners and residents were ...

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  22. DEATH OF SIR W. MAXWELL.

    The death is announced of Sir William Edward Maxwell, K.C.M.G., Governor of the British Gold Coast of the Gult of Guinea since 1895. ...

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  23. REINDEER SLEDGE EXPEDITION.

    It is reported that a United States Government agent is now at Trondjhen, in northern Norway, purchasing 1000 reindeer with sledges, and hiring 100 ...

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  24. QUEENSLAND.

    The Under Secretary to the Treasury has been instructed to report on the question of the division of the public account among the associated banks. He will visit Sydney and ...

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  25. THE LONDON FIRE.

    The inquiry into the cause of the great fire in Cripplegate, London, which on 19th November destroyed warehouses, shops and goods to the value of £2,000,000, was ...

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  26. THE BURMAH OUTRAGE.

    The trial of the Burmans arrested for complicity in the murderous attack made on Mandalay Fort, Upper Burmah, in October last, has resulted in the ...

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  27. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A fisherman, name unknown, fell off the steamer Pearl into the River Murray, near Morgan, this evening, and was drowned. ...

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  28. THE BUNGAREE RAILWAY.

    Mr. Murphy has for time been exercising his wits in piloting a bill through Parliament to authorise the construction of a nice little non-paying railway in the hon. ...

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  29. TASMANIA.

    Mr. George Fagg, a well known architect, died to-day somewhat suddenly. Deceased was prominent in all philanthropic and religious works. ...

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  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The United States Senate passed a bill confirming the arrangement made by President Cleveland's Cabinet with Russia and Japan, for the stoppage of pelagic ...

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  31. TURKISH JUSTICE.

    Recently an Armenian girl, aged 16 years, was arrested in Constantinople by the Turkish police for delivering secretly, at the Italian Embassy, letters written by ...

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  32. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    Q.R.M.S. Duke of Argyll left Port Said 14th and Suez 15th inst. for Australia. ...

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  33. DESECRATING SIR ANTHONY BROWNLESS'S GRAVE.

    At the Carlton court yesterday two young women, named Forby Brown and Nelly Brown, were charged with interfering with the floral offerings which were left on the ...

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  34. NEW ZEALAND.

    The steamer supposed to be the overdue Anglian, from Sydney, turned out to be the Hauroto, from Fiji. The Anglian, however, arrived to-day, her lateness being accounted ...

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  35. BURNED TO DEATH.

    The Milloo West post office, kept by a farmer named Tonkin, was burned down last evening. The fire was caused by the clothes of a servant girl named Goar ...

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  36. A DESERVING CASE.

    Sir,--I wish, with your kind permission, to draw the attention of your readers to the following case of sad necessity:--A lady, having been deserted by her husband over ...

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  37. PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

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  38. THE PRESENT POSITION.

    During the discussion of the Bungaree Railway Bill in Parliament on Thursday morning there appeared to be an impression in some quarters that the bill ...

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  39. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    Tallow.--At to-day's auction sales of Australasian tallow 2175 casks were offered, and 1775 casks were sold. Prices were unchanged as follow:--Fine mutton, 21s. 9d.; ...

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