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    It is to be expected that the Assembly will meet to-day with a firm determination to obey the mandate of the country to put the finances straight. In some instances ...

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  3. CABLE MESSAGES.

    A landlord and tenant quarrel in Ireland has assumed alarming proportions. Colonel Callaghan, of Bodyke, having given his tenants notice that their rent was to be ...

    Article : 82 words
  4. CABLE MESSAGES.

    Sir James Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, has replied to Sir Arthur Gordon's recent expression of opinion that recruiting for Kanaka laborers for ...

    Article : 93 words
  5. FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY IN SYDNEY.

    The harbor suburb of Balmain was the scene of a horrible tragedy this morning. A widow named Mrs. Johnstone, aged 40, killed her three months old male child by partially tearing out ...

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  6. TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES TO RAILWAY EMPLOYES.

    The travelling allowance granted to the officers and employes on the Victorian railways were revised in 1884, and based upon an exceedingly liberal scale. In fact, they are much ...

    Article : 449 words
  7. OUR QUEENSLAND LETTER.

    The enjoyment of our holidays was very much marred by the phenomenal weather that prevailed. Since 1865 there have been no bai[?]l storms equal to some that we have had within ...

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  8. THE RELEASE OE THE POLITICAL PRISONERS.

    Mr. John Redmond, M.P. for Water- ford, the leader of the Parnellite section of the Home Rule party, declares than an essential condition for the settlement of ...

    Article : 66 words
  9. ENGLAND AND AFGHANISTAN.

    Owing to the aggressive action of Afghanistan in respect to the tribes inhabiting the valley of the River Kurram, which, runs from Afghanistan through the mountains ...

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  10. THE IRISH UNDER-SECRETARYSHIP.

    It is reported that Mr. David Harrel, C.B., will succeed Sir Joseph WestRidgway, who has been sent on a special mission to Morocco, as Under-Secretary for ...

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  11. SIR ROBERT HAMILTON IN ENGLAND.

    The Daily Chronicle this morning devotes a leading article to welcoming Sir Robert Hamilton, the retiring Governor of Tasmania, who yesterday arrived in England. ...

    Article : 83 words
  12. SUNDAY FRUIT TRADING.

    A number of fruiterers and confectioners were charged at the District Court yesterday with Sunday trading. The first defendant was Antonio Lucas, of Swanston-street, who was ...

    Article : 368 words
  13. A DARING BURGLAR SENT UP FOR TRIAL.

    At the Central Police Court, Chas. Brown, a shoemaker, was committed for trial on a charge of having burglariously entered the While Lion Hotel, Riley-street, and stolen ...

    Article : 141 words
  14. THE PANAMA SCANDAL.

    It is reported in Paris that M. Baihaut, who held office as Minister of Works in the Freycinet Ministiry of 1886, and who has recently been charged with bribery and ...

    Article : 66 words
  15. NEW ZEALAND'S LAND POLICY.

    Sir Julius Vogel, ex-Premier and ex- Agent General for New Zealand, warmly welcomes the new departure announced by the Government of that colony in ...

    Article : 110 words
  16. CHARGE OF CHILD ABANDONMENT.

    A young man named John Webb was charged at the police court to-day with the abandonment of an infant child found on Friday night on a door mat in front of the Catholic Presbytery. ...

    Article : 369 words
  17. THE ROUMANIAN MARRIAGE.

    The wedding of Princess Marie of Edinburgh, eldest daughter of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, with Prince Ferdinand, nephew and heir of King Charles of ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. THE SPANISH REPUBLICANS.

    The Republican party in Spain is growing greatly in strength and largely extending its influence. The leaders of the party have arranged a "plan of campaign" with ...

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  19. THE REGISTRATION OF LODGING HOUSES.

    A peculiar case was heard at the District Court yesterday, when Charles A. Coles, of the Australian Coffee Palace, King-street, was charged with being the keeper of a common ...

    Article : 215 words
  20. BRITISH AND COLONIAL POSTAL INCREASES.

    Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, M. P. for Canterbury, who has long advocated the establishment of ocean penny postage, points out as an argument for increasing ...

    Article : 78 words
  21. THE POPE'S JUBILEE.

    His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. commenced the celebration of the jubilee of his episcopate yesterday. He addressed a great gathering of Roman children, blessed ...

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  22. A BENEVOLENT BEQUEST.

    Miss Dougall, who is bringing back from America the body of her aunt, Mrs. Brown, of Glen Osmond, has reached Sydney, and has written a letter to Mr. Howard . Davenport. ...

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  23. BATHING FATALITY AT KEW.

    A sad bathing fatality occurred in the Yarra at Hyde Park, Kew, on Sunday evening, the victim being a young man named Wm. M'Neal, aged 25, residing at 209 M'Kean-street, Fitzroy. ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    The members of both Houses of Parliament meet to-day, and after their holiday it is only reasonable to expect that hon, members will devote themselves earnestly to the ...

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  25. TERRIBLE FIRE IN CANTON.

    The steamer Ocampo, which arrived to-day from Japan, brings news that an extensive fire occurred at Canton in the early morning of 30th November. It originated in a temporary ...

    Article : 74 words
  26. THE SKULL FOUND AT KINGLAKE.

    A human skull was found at Kinglake, near Queenstown, in the Heidelberg district, several weeks ago. The discovery has given the police a great amount of trouble, for upon them ...

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  27. TRADES MEETING.

    The adjourned special meeting of the Operative Bakers' Society was held at the Trades Hall on Saturday night; the president, Mr. J. Fraser, being in the chair. It was resolved that ...

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  28. MURDERED BY LARRIKINS.

    The inquest on the body of the Chinese vegetable hawker. Ah Bun, who died from injuries inflicted by a number of larrikius on Christmas day, was concluded to-day. Two youths, ...

    Article : 109 words
  29. A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.

    At the Learmonth police court to-day a man named Alexander Brown was committed for trial on a charge of attempting an outrage on Mrs. Selina Cardingby, wife of a local blacksmith. ...

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  30. NEW INSOLVENT.

    Richard Henry. Thomas, of Beaufort, saddler. Debts, £257 4s. 6d.; assets, £75: deficiency, £182 4s. 6d. Causes of insolvency : Dulness in trade and loss in mining speculations. ...

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  31. THE FEDERATION QUESTION.

    It is understood that certain members of the Ministry and a number of private members are in favor of the further discussion of the federation proposals being postponed for the present. ...

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  32. LAW LIST.--THIS DAY.

    SUPREME COURT.--Mr. Justice Hodges will take Chamber business in the Banco Court at 10.30 a.m. ...

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  33. INQUESTS.

    A tramway accident to a boy named Richard Butler Desmond formed the subject of an inquiry by Dr. Youl, the City Coroner, yesterday, at the Melbourne Hospital. The boy was the ...

    Article : 204 words
  34. POISONOUS COLORS.

    SIR,--Your correspondent, "Householder," writing-in this day's paper says that vermilion or cochineal is made from a poisonous insect. I desire to inform him that they are two totally ...

    Article : 118 words
  35. THE WESTERN BORDER WHEAT TRADE.

    This morning a deputation waited upon the Treasurer and pointed out the difficulty connected with the carriage of Victorian wheat to the mills in the south-east. The bill for ...

    Article : 134 words
  36. TWO BROTHERS DROWNED.

    Yesterday two boys, Edward James, aged 8 years, and Henry Stephen, 10 years, sons of John Clayton, of Gobarup, working at Pook's saw mills, Gobarup, were playing near a dam. ...

    Article : 113 words
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