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  2. LORD BRASSEY IN TASMANIA.

    Lord Brassey returned to Launceston this afternoon, walking many miles along the main road from Longford to the city. The rest of his party have gone on cycles to Hobart. ...

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  3. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    Until the Minister of Lands returns from his holidays nothing will be done by the Government with regard to dealing with the rabbit pest. The Premier, when questioned on the ...

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  4. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    A man named John Casey was admitted to the Adelaide Hospital on Wednesday evening, suffering from injuries received in a fight at Port Adelaide last Saturday, and has died. A ...

    Article : 149 words
  5. CABLE MESSAGES.

    In accordance with the announced intention of the British Government to answer the German Emperor's insolent claim to intervene in the affairs of the ...

    Article : 137 words
  6. THE VENEZUELA REPUBLIC.

    Popular disturbances which have occurred in Venezuela have induced President Crespo to declare the republic in a state of revolution. The revolutionary ...

    Article : 1,356 words
  7. WRECK OF THE HALCIONE

    The barque Halcione, Captain Boorman, from London to Wellington, ran ashore at Wellington Heads, near the lighthouse, last night. She is in a critical position, but the crew are ...

    Article : 466 words
  8. A RUSSIAN PROPOSAL.

    An extraordinary proposal is being advocated by the Russian press for the suppression of England. The suggestion is that as all the chief European powers ...

    Article : 146 words
  9. RAMS KILLED BY SNAKES.

    Messrs. T. H. Mate and Co. Limited, of Brae Springs Station, have lost two valuable rams from snake bite. The least prized of the animals was valued at £40, and the other was ...

    Article : 51 words
  10. BOER FEELING BITTER.

    The Boer burghers of Pretoria are bitterly opposed to the British suzerainty, and vehemently demand that there shall be one sole and undisputed rule, that of ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. ANTHRAX IN CATTLE.

    An analytical examination of the contents of the stomach of one of the bullocks supposed to have died from eating poisonous weed, said to be growing on the Murray flat, shows that the ...

    Article : 78 words
  12. HAWAII AND AMERICA.

    Telegrams from Washington report that the Foreign Committee of the House of Representatives is now considering a proposal to create the Sandwich Islands an ...

    Article : 68 words
  13. DISCOVERY OF A VALUABLE REEF.

    The most sensational strike of stone known on the Croydon field was made in the Waratah mine to day. The stone laid bare was covered with gold. The reef ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. "THE BETRAYAL OF JAMESON."

    At Capetown public meetings have been held by sympathisers with Mr. Rhodes, at which speeches have been made and resolutions passed condemning the "betrayal ...

    Article : 37 words
  15. A BUNGLING BURGLAR.

    A sensational burglary was perpetrated last night at the shop of Cr. Collins, jeweller, Main-street. About 12 o'clock a bank clerk observed a man creeping under ...

    Article : 143 words
  16. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

    H.M.S. Endymion, 7350 tons displacement, of the Channel squadron, will sail for Australia with relief crews for the war ships on the Australian station on 14th ...

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  17. THE BRITISH FLYING SQUADRON.

    Great promptitude has been shown by the Admiralty in organising the new "flying squadron," which Lord Salisbury has ordered to be ready for immediate ...

    Article : 381 words
  18. HOW THE PORT OF MELBOURNE IS HANDICAPPED.

    The facts disclosed recently to the Melbourne Harbor Trust by a deputation of city merchants show that the public has no reason, so far, to congratulate itself upon the net ...

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  19. THE BOERS AND THEIR STARVING PRISONERS.

    The Boers who were engaged in the two days' lighting with Dr. Jameson's troops at and near Krugersdorp admit freely that they fought with the greatest gallantry ...

    Article : 130 words
  20. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

    The Board of Trade statistics for December now issued show an increase in both the import and export trade of the United Kingdom as compared with ...

    Article : 49 words
  21. RIVER SHIPPING.

    The steamer Mande left for Bourke to-day. The Nile and Julia arrived up stream yesterday. The Florence Annie left Wentworth for Darling ports yesterday. ...

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  22. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Mrs. Corbett, wife of a miner at 'Mount Keira, and a child named M'Cormack, have died at Wollongong from sunstroke sustained on Monday. ...

    Article : 372 words
  23. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    SILVER.--Bar silver is to-day quoted at 2s. 6⅝d. per oz. standard. ...

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  24. CAPTAIN COVENTRY SURVIVES.

    Captain Coventry, a son of the Earl of Coventry, one of Dr. Jameson's officers, who was desperately. wounded at Krugersdorp, and was afterwards reported to have ...

    Article : 43 words
  25. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s R.M.S. Tongariro left Capetown for Hobart and New Zealand on 5th inst. Published in part of yesterday's issue. ...

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  26. A GERMAN BACK DOWN.

    The Times correspondent at Berlin reports that the German newspapers, which at first enthusiastically applauded the scheme of landing German marines at, ...

    Article : 99 words
  27. TASMANIAN PARLIAMENT.

    The Enabling Bill was passed through its final stages in both Houses to-night, with a few minor amendments. Provision is made for the payment of members. ...

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  28. A STRANGE CASE.

    Last night Constable Foster, of the Albert Park police, arrested a young man named Martin M'Grail and placed him in the South Melbourne lockup on a charge of having ...

    Article : 366 words
  29. THE CAPE SQUADRON.

    Rear-Admiral Harry Holdsworth Dawson, C.B., of the Cape and West Africa squadron, has sailed in his flagship for Delagoa Bay, where the cruisers Phœbe, ...

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  30. MODIFIED TONE OF THE GERMAN PRESS.

    The German press generally has abandoned the aggressive tone which marked its earlier deliverances on the Transvaal difficulty, and now states that it is the ...

    Article : 128 words
  31. NAVAL AND MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN ENGLAND.

    The Horse Guards authorities have been instituting pressing and urgent inquiries into the effective strength and mobilising capabilities of the English militia ...

    Article : 79 words
  32. QUEENSLAND.

    An application, heard by Mr. Justice Real to-day, made by James Hughes, of Melbourne, for the adjudication as an insolvent of Alfred Shaw, formerly of Melbourne, but now of ...

    Article : 56 words
  33. CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

    An arrest was made yesterday afternoon by Plain Clothes Constables Vivian and Tucker of a man named Daniel Joseph Shine, 30 years of age, who described himself as a laborer, on a ...

    Article : 146 words
  34. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    On New Year's day Mr. W. H. Smith, post master at Ardrossan, was capsized out of a trap when going home from a picnic, and sustained a serious injury to the right ankle. ...

    Article : 226 words
  35. THE POSITION AT JOHANNESBURG.

    Telegrams from Johannesburg announce that Sir Hercules Robinson, High Commissioner in South Africa, has effected a settlement of the crisis between the ...

    Article : 204 words
  36. A FUNERAL EXPENSES CLAIM.

    The Prahran bench was perplexed yesterday in respect to an action brought by Mr. Henry Drayton, undertaker, High-street, against Mrs. Flora Fallu, of South Yarra, to recover £7 ...

    Article : 287 words
  37. THE POSITION OF ENGLAND.

    The Times this morning, in an article on the Transvaal question, deals with the modified German demand that the suzerainty question should be submitted to ...

    Article : 105 words
  38. A REMARKABLE LICENSING CASE.

    At the North Melbourne court yesterday Edward Hickey, licensee of the North Melbourne Hotel, Howard-street, was charged with selling liquor on Sunday and with having his ...

    Article : 253 words
  39. LETTERS IN BRIEF.

    PAUL A. THEINER writes to state that, in the Bechuanaland expedition of 1884, commanded by Sir Charles Warren, only about 4000 troops were sent from England, and that his force ...

    Article : 107 words
  40. TASMANIA.

    The squadron is still engaged in naval manœuvres in Norfolk Bay. The Karrakatta leaves to-morrow morning, but her future movements are unknown. ...

    Article : 157 words
  41. A SUGGESTION.

    SIR,--As an old "volunteer," might presume, in the present agitated state of affairs, to suggest that the Government allow all who have the spirit to enrol as volunteers, and give ...

    Article : 114 words
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  43. THE WAR SPIRIT IN ENGLAND.

    The war feeling still runs high in England, and both in London and throughout the provinces public meetings are held nightly, and resolutions are passed strongly ...

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  44. LIBERATION OF JAMESON PROMISED.

    Intelligence has bean received from Pretoria that President Kruger has promised to set Dr. Jameson and his men who were taken prisoners at the battle of ...

    Article : 150 words
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  47. NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. Reeves is to represent this colony at the Pacific Cable Conference in Sydney. It is not the intention of the Government to send a delegate to represent New Zealand at the ...

    Article : 67 words
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