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  2. THEOLOGY AND RELIGION.

    The spectacle must have been somewhat of a surprise to Sir Hartley Williams when he entered the Methodist Church in Fitzroy yesterday afternoon with Lady Williams for the ...

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  3. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    The present week should see the close of the committee stage of the tariff discussion in the Legislative Assembly. There are stiff one or two new duties to be dealt with, Mr. Gurr ...

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  4. CABLE MESSAGES.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P. for Canterbury, raised the question of ocean penny postage, and complained that the ...

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  5. CABLE MESSAGES.

    The Aborigines Protection Society today presented an address to Sir John B. Thurston, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific ...

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  6. THE TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

    The Minister of Education has been looking into the question of technical schools of the colony, and he has resolved to reform the system under which they have hitherto been ...

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  7. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINES.

    Roeburne telegraphs sensational news from Marble Bar. Two men named Murphy and Curtain have struck rich alluvial near the Day Dawn claims. Falga Falga, and have obtained ...

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  8. CABLE MESSAGES.

    The House of Commons yesterday passed a vote of £200,000 for the commencement of the proposed railway in British East Africa from Mombassa to Lake Victoria ...

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  9. THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW

    The Royal Agricultural Society brought their annual show to a close on Saturday, when there wan again a very large attendance. The receipts at the gates for the four days were as ...

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  10. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    The body of Samuel Willis, who to all appearances murdered his wife at Alma Plains, was found to-day in an empty house about 15 miles from his home. He committed suicide by ...

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  11. THE ALLEGED BUSHRANGING MASSACRE.

    Inspector M'Kenna, of Coolgardie, has telegraphed to the Commissioner of Police as follows:--"Re alleged outrage near Mount Margaret, a prospector named A. Hovell arrived ...

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  12. BELGIAN DISASTER IN AFRICA.

    Intelligence has been received from Central Africa that a party of Belgians has suffered severe loss in an engagement with the Mahdists, Lieutenant Cassart and 19 ...

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  13. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

    The returning officer for the north-western province yesterday declared Mr. Joseph Major Pratt duly re-eltcted, his being the only nomination. Mr. W. F. Tatchell, ex-M.L.A. ...

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  14. DISASTROUS BUSH FIRES.

    Bush fires continue to devastate the country, especially in the Northern districts. A telegram from Kempsey, the centre of a series of conflagrations, states that Friday was intensely hot ...

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  15. GHASTLY DISCOVERY IN SYDNEY.

    Early this (Monday) morning the body of a woman about 25 years of ago was discovered enclosed in an old box in a by street of Woolloomooloo. The woman had boon recently ...

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  16. THE HOUSE OP COMMONS

    The House of Commons sitting on Friday lasted all night in consequence of the aggressive attitude of Mr. Timothy Healy, the well known Home Rule ...

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  17. THE BRITISH ARMY.

    In the House of Commons to-day, in reply to a question, Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, stated that her Majesty's Government did ...

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  18. WELLINGTON PROVINCE ELECTION.

    Mr. E. Morey was yesterday declared reelected unopposed as one of the representatives of the Wellington province in the Legislative Council. Among those in attendance at the ...

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  19. THE KING OF SERVIA.

    The young King Alexander of Servia yesterday had a narrow escape from drowning while bathing in the sea at Biarritz, in the south of France. ...

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  20. A DETERMINED SUICIDE.

    At Kuaotuna Benjamin Stoure, a Russian Jew, has committed suicide by taking an overdose of morphia. He had previously attempted suicide at Wellington and Sydney. In a letter ...

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  21. THE ESTIMATES PASSED.

    The House of Commons in yesterday's sitting disposed of the estimates. The tone of the debate on the army vote showed that the House as a whole approved of the ...

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  22. COMPETITION FOR TRAFFIC.

    It is considered that the effect of the reduction of railway freight on sugar, fencing wire, and merchandise in general, as determined upon by the New South Wales Railway ...

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  23. STRANGE DISCOVERY.

    What appears a singular discovery has been made by Mr. J. E. Knight on some land at Reed's Creek, Bagshot, which he is preparing for a vineyard and orchard. In ploughing up the ...

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  24. RUSSIA AND THE PAMIRS.

    Mr. G. Macartney, a representative of the Indian Government, stationed at Kashgar, in Chinese Turkestan, has been arrested by the Russian authorities in ...

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  25. A ROUGH VOYAGE.

    The barque Mark Twain, bound from Buenos Ayres to Fiji in ballast for a cargo of copra, arrived at the anchorage this evening, and on the health officer going aboard he found ...

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  26. LIVE CATTLE SHIPMENT.

    The steamer Southern Cross, which left Sydney with a large shipment of live stock for London, has touched at St. Vincent, and reports the loss of 11 sheep ...

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  27. STATE OF THE MURRAY.

    The spring freshet, consequent upon the melting of the snow on the mountains, has set in, and the Murray has risen rapidly during the past three days. To-night the stream is 11½ ...

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  28. THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

    New Zealand Government debentures have not been affected by the bill introduced in the New Zealand Parliament dealing with the affairs of the Bank of ...

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  29. REGULATING THE LABOR TRADE.

    In the course of his speech Sir John Thurston declared that his policy as Commissioner of the West Pacific would remain unaltered, except that he proposed ...

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  30. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Messrs. J. and A. Brown, tug proprietors, of Newcastle, have reduced the wages of their hands by 20 per cent. The engineers struck against the reduction, but their places have been ...

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  31. THE ENGLISH MAIL.

    The R.M.S. Ormuz(F. M.Tuke commander) arrived from Colombo at 10.30 on Friday night, Passengers in saloon--For Adelaide: Mr. Fitzgerald, Rev. Mr. Davis. For Melbourne: ...

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  32. NEW MINING COMPANIES.

    The following new mining companies have been registered ;-- Anglo-American Exploration Company, Perth; capital, £100,000. ...

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  33. A MISSING ROAD BOARD SECRETARY.

    There has been missing from Perth, in West Australia, since the early part of the present year, the secretary of the Canning Road Board, in that colony, a man named ...

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  34. THE NEW GUARANTEE BILL.

    On Saturday morning, after an all night sitting, the Banking Bill was passed through committee. The chief amendments were to give the House the right to veto any scheme for ...

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  35. THE NEW HEBRIDES QUESTION.

    The French Minister for the Colonies states that he is not aware that any negotiations have taken place between the Governor of New Caledonia and ...

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  36. FATAL GAB ACCIDENT.

    A serious accident occurred on Saturday night about 10 o'clock to a party of four persons, who had been to the Mentone races and were returning in a cab drawn by two horses. Some of the ...

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  37. A QUEEN'S FALL FROM

    An accident occurred yesterday at Spa to the Queen of Belgium, during a riding excursion. Her majesty, while leaping her horse over a fence, sustained a serious ...

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  38. THE INDO-CHINESE PENINSULA.

    The Marquis of Salisbury, in reply to a question in the House of Lords to-night as to the recent treaty between France and China relating to the boundaries of the ...

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  39. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    Best Danish butter is selling at 108s. per cwt. LONDON, 1ST SEPTEMBER. The Australian butter brought by the ...

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  40. QUEENSLAND.

    A Rockhampton petition with over 1000 signatures will be presented to the Governor next week, praying for the release of John Reilly, now under a life sentence at St. Helena for ...

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  41. THE AUSTRALASIAN

    The Australasian Smelting Company is arranging for contracts to last three years for the supply of 50,500 tons of sulphide ores yearly from both Block 10 and the ...

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  42. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Elizabeth Williams, 2½ years of age, daughter of John Williams, of Norwood, was killed on Saturday by some planks falling on her at Cowell's timber yard. ...

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  43. ANOTHER VEHICLE ACCIDENT.

    About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon an accident occurred on the St. Kilda-road to John King and Denis Kelly by the buggy in which they were driving coming in ...

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  44. CHOLERA AT HONOLULU.

    An outbreak of cholera is reported at Hawaii, and nine deaths from the disease have occurred at Honolulu. In consequence of this outbreak the Pacific mail ...

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  45. DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE HARDING.

    Mr. Justice Harding, who fell ill suddenly on Wednesday, died at the Supreme Court at 3 o'olock this morning. [The late Judge Harding was born on 3rd ...

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  46. TASMANIA.

    The final competition for places in the intercolonial rifle team took place at the Sandy Bay range yesterday, and the following secured positions:--Lieutenants Croft, Pitt and Gatty ...

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  47. THE JUTE STRIKE.

    The strike which recently commenced among the jute factory employes in Glasgow is now collapsing. ...

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  48. A DISCLAIMER.

    SIR,--My attention has been to-day called to a case in the Prabran Court reported in your issue of the 16th inst., in which the wife of Colonel Windridge was defendaut. In her ...

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  49. BELGIAN TRAWLERS IN ENGLISH WATERS.

    An extraordinary encounter took place yesterday near Lowestoft, on the Suffolk coast, between a British coastguard boat and a Belgian trawler, which was poaching ...

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  50. MR. BARRETT, M.L.A., AND HIS BAKER.

    SIR,--In your report in Saturday's Age re the above, you mention my name as the baker who has been supplying Mr. Barrett with bread. I beg to emphatically deny that such is the case. ...

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  51. THE DISTRESS IN NEW FOUNDLAND.

    The report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the distress prevalent in Newfoundland, in consequence of the financial crisis, shows that the ...

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  52. NEW ZEALAND

    Arrangements have been concluded between the Huddart, Parker and Union Companies to terminate the cutting of fares and freights between Sydney and Auckland, and in the New ...

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  53. THE NEXT AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN'S MANAGER.

    At the annual social of the Norwood Cricket Club on Saturday, Mr. James Hall referred to the next Australian eleven. He trusted [that a team would go to England in 1896, and he ...

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  58. ENGLISH CRICKET.

    In a match played yesterday between the county elevens of Middlesex and Kent, A. E. Stoddart scored 131. ...

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