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  2. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    In response to a cablegram to the Queen informing her Majesty of the loyal feeling which her long and happy reign has created in Victoria, the Governor has received the ...

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  3. ZANZIBAR.

    Said Khalid, who attempted to usurp the throne of Zanzibar, and on failure took refuge with the German Consul, who recently smuggled him off in a war ship, ...

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  4. THE CZAR'S TOUR.

    The Emperor and Empress of Russia, who embark at Portsmouth to-morrow to proceed to France, have been most lavishly generous in the presents they made on ...

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  5. THE RAILWAYS.

    Although a great deal has been done to curtail useless expense in directions where reform was once declared impossible, the report of the Railway department for the year 1895-96 shows ...

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  6. GOLDEN GIPPSLAND.

    Messrs, Cadwalladder, Drew and Lawrence, prospectors, report a new find at Mount Tara. The lode is principally solid quartz, and in places the formation is 2 or 3 ...

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  7. CITY BANK PROSECUTIONS

    The trial of the City of Melbourne Bank directors and auditors was continued before Mr. Justice Holroyd and a special jury of 12 in the Second Civil Court yesterday. The ...

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  8. THE INDIAN HARVEST FAILURES.

    Telegrams from India report that the failure of the grain crops through drought is most serious. The stocks of food grains in both Upper and Central India are low, ...

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  9. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    Henry Maclure, Meakes and Wheeler, William Travis, Alfred Tartakover, George Harrison, A. Hughes and the Hay Cash Store Company, being the whole of the storekeepers ...

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  10. TASMANIA.

    Mr. R. S. Hales, diocesan registrar, died to-day, aged 40 years. He leaves a widow and one child. Deceased was a son of Archdeacon Hales, of Launceston. ...

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  11. NAVIGATION OF THE DARLING.

    Still another barge, with a valuable cargo of wool, has been snagged and sunk in the Darling River, 1½ mile this side of Cox's Darling Hotel, old Tarcoola, the place being known as Kapana. ...

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  12. PARIS CROWDED AND EXCITED.

    Paris is in a state of high feverish excitement about the approaching visit of the Czar. The city is thronged with visitors, and so many persons have flocked ...

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  13. THE GERMAN CONSUL'S ACTION.

    The Cologne Gazette, a leading German journal, declares that the German consul at Zanzibar acted in obedience to orders given him from Berlin in consequence of ...

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  14. THE DYNAMITARDS.

    The Dutch authorities at Rotterdam have discharged Kearney and Haines, members of Tynan's dynamite gang, who were arrested in that city after leaving ...

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  15. DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS.

    The superintendent of the Bairnsdale School of Mines telegraphed to the Mines department yesterday that a cleaning up of 6 tons 16 cwt, from the Beehive mine at Bulumwaal gave 95 ...

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  16. ANOTHER FIRE IN A TRUCK OF FURNITURE.

    On Friday morning, as previously reported, a large truck loaded with furniture, the property of Mr. Thompson, the local agent of Wright, Heaton and Company, who ...

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  17. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    An inquest was opened to-day on the body of an infant found on the North Park lands, and it was adjourned till 14th October. Mr. A. Wyatt Mortimer, a well-known ...

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  18. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Captain and Mrs. Freeman Thomas returned to Perth on Saturday, after a visit to the gold fields. They are the guests of the Governor. ...

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  19. THE CUBAN INSURRECTION

    Telegrams from Havana report that Macco, one of the leaders of the Cuban insurgents, has gained a series of successes over the Spanish troops, defeating them in ...

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  20. THE RAILWAY MANAGER ON TOUR.

    A deputation from the Bendigo and Eagle-hawk District Traders' Association waited on Mr. Mathieson, the Railway Commissioner, this morning, and brought under his notice the ...

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  21. EXCHANGE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS.

    Le Gaulois, a Parisian journal, has published a statement, so far unconfirmed, that the Governments of France, Germany, Italy and England, have arrived at a ...

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  22. A BRISBANE BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

    At the District Court to-day, Ellen Watson sued Hy. M. Whittington, otherwise Henry Miles, for £200, for breach of promise of marriage. There was no appearance of the ...

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  23. THE BALLAN MINING DISASTER.

    Six hundred people have visited Ashton's mine since the disaster. Michael Mulrooney's body was rescued at about 6.30 this morning, and was brought into Ballan dressed ...

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  24. THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.

    Telegrams from Dongola report that the relies of the dervish forces routed by the Anglo-Egyptian army are retreating on Berber in terrible plight. The dervishes ...

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  25. THE TICK PEST.

    The chief inspector of stock has received a private letter from Dr. Hunt, who has been in Texas investigating the tick question. Dr. Hunt expects to reach Brisbane on the 13th ...

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  26. TYNAN NOT RELEASED.

    The report current in Paris yesterday that Tynan, the Fenian dynamitard, had been released from custody by the French authorities, and had sailed for the United ...

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  27. A RUNAWAY MARRIAGE.

    A remarkable illustration of the manner in which hasty marriages are contracted was given to the City Court bench yesterday during the hearing of a charge against Alfred Terry, a ...

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  28. THE CZAR AND LORD SALISBURY.

    The Emperor Nicholas has conferred upon the Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister of Great Britain, with whom he was recently in conference at Balmoral, the ...

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  29. POLITICAL MEETING AT BROKEN HILL.

    Messrs. Sleath, M.L.A., of Sydney, and M'Gregor,. M.L.A., of Adelaide, addressed a large open air meeting on the central reserve yesterday, under the auspices of the eight hours ...

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  30. THE REFERENDUM IN SWITZERLAND.

    The result of the referendum vote in the Swiss Republic on the railway question is in favor of passing a Railway Account Bill before authorising the nationalising of ...

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  31. THE RESIGNATIONS OF ADELAIDE FIREMEN.

    A special meeting of the Fire Brigades Board was held to-day to consider the action of the city and suburban firemen in tendering their resignations in consequence of the action of the ...

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  32. THE RHODESIA HORSE.

    The process of enrolling men suitable for service in the Rhodesia mounted police, now under Imperial control, is being carried on in England at the Imperial ...

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  33. THE RICHARDSON DIVORCE CASE.

    The appeal by the petitioner in the divorce suit of Richardson v. Richardson from the decision of the Chief Justice again engaged the attention yesterday of the Full Court, ...

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  34. THE TURKISH CRISIS.

    The Turkish Government, with a view to placating the powers, which have been of late pressing for Armenian reforms, has promised to authorise the election of a new ...

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  35. THE SCULLING CHAMPION.

    Jacob Gaudaur, the Canadian oarsman, who recently defeated James Stanbury, of New South Wales, the ex-champion, over the Thames course in a race for the ...

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  36. EIGHT HOURS DAY IN SYDNEY.

    To-day, being Eight Hours Day, was observed as a public holiday. A procession started from Circular Quay headed by the Eight Hours Banner with the words "Labor, Rest, ...

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  37. THE STRANDED VESSEL DAY. SPRING.

    The sub-collector of Customs at Thursday Island telegraphs to the effect that the Government steamer Albatross has returned from the stranded vessel Dayspring, and ...

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  38. THE RINDERPEST IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The rinderpest, which has wrought such terrible ravages among the cattle herds of South Africa, has now appeared at Vryburg, in British Bechuanaland, near the ...

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  39. THE WEEKLY HALF HOLIDAY MOVEMENT.

    At a meeting of shopkeepers of the town it was decided to petition the Governor in Council to have the whole of the shire of Col[?] brought under the provisions of the Shops and Factories ...

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  40. A NURSE ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.

    Mrs. Cameron, a nurse at Coolgardie, was on Saturday night violently assaulted and robbed of 20 sovs., a bank draft for £70 and other articles. No clue to the perpetrators of the ...

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  41. THE MANLY BOATS RUSHED.

    The holiday resorts were all largely patronised, the tram and steamer traffic being exceptionally heavy. At the Manly wharf the wildest excitement prevailed, and casualties were narrowly ...

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  42. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINES.

    The Lily at North Cue has crushed 25 tons for 84 oz. gold. The Arcadia has crushed 100 tons for 157 oz. The Minister of Mines notifies that exemption ...

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  43. FRANCE AND SIAM.

    Another frontier dispute between the French authorities and the Siamese Government in the Indo-Chinese peninsula has occurred. ...

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  44. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The excursion tendered to the members of the synod at Greycliff, the residence of Mr. Fitz Wentworth, was well attended. The visitors were taken a trip round the harbor, and were ...

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  45. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY SHARES.—Broken Hill Proprietary shares are to-day quoted at £2 9s. 6d. SILVER.—Bar silver is quoted to-day at ...

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  46. GAS EXPLOSION IN NEW ZEALAND.

    A startling affair happened at the Blenheim branch of the Bank of New Zealand this morning. Mr. Mitchell, the teller, struck a match in the strong room, and immediately there was a ...

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  47. AN AUTOCAR RACE.

    A race of autocars (horseless carriages) was completed yesterday in France, the course being from Paris to Marseilles and back, a distance of 1051 miles. ...

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  48. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The R.M.S. Rome arrived at Plymouth on the morning of the 3rd inst. ...

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  49. AN EX-LEGISLATOR IN THE DOCK.

    Benjamin Gould, ex-Grand Secretary of the Ancient Order of Druids, pleaded guilty at the Criminal Court to-day to a charge of embezzling £572, the money of the order. Gould until ...

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  50. THE BROKEN HILL MINES.

    The miners still complain that smoke is still issuing from the open cut immediately above where the fire occurred in July, 1895, in Block 11. Men who have worked for years in the ...

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  51. THE MACEDONIAN REBELS.

    The Macedonian insurgents are again making aggressive sallies from the mountain retreats on the Turkish troops which occupy the villages on the more open ...

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  52. SHOCKING BOATING FATALITY AT PERTH.

    A terrible drowning fatality occurred at Swan River yesterday evening. Shortly after 5 o'clock a party consisting of Wm. M'Pherson, his wife, Emma, and two ...

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  53. WATER TRUSTS CONFERENCE.

    A[?] conference of waterworks trusts was held to-day to consider the report of the royal commission on the trusts. Present: Crs. Foreman and Ogburn, of Charlton; Redgen, Storie ...

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  54. SALVATIONISTS SENT TO GAOL.

    Charles Tyler, "captain" of the Footscray contingent of the Salvation Army, and William Greenham, one of the soldiers, was charged at the Footscray court yesterday with using ...

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  55. TELLING FORTUNES.

    At the Circuit Court at Tamworth to-day, Bernard Fireman, described as a clairvoyant, was charged with having unlawfully undertaken to tell William Condor his fortune. There ...

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  56. BANKS APPREHENSIVE.

    The situation at Constantinople is still highly complicated, and the authorities of the banks there are so apprehensive of outbreaks and disorders that they are ...

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  57. SENSATIONAL BUGGY ACCIDENT.

    Just as the heavy traffic was clearing from the Beaconsfield-parade on Sunday afternoon a young man named William Martin, an employe of Mr. George Rowe, of 57 ...

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  58. QUEENSLAND.

    In accordance with a suggestion recently made by the Chamber of Commerce, the collector of customs has now been instructed to show in his statistical returns the country of ...

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  59. LADIES AND THEIR HATS.

    SlR,—Your correspondent "Old Hat" had better luck at the Prahran mayor's concert than some of the audience at the commercial travellers' evening in the Athenaeum on ...

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  60. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

    The Legislative Council, by 18 to 10, has rejected the bill proposing to give power for national prohibition being adopted by a five, sixths majority vote. ...

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  61. TYPHOON IN THE PHILIPPINES

    The manager of the Melbourne Telegraph Office has received the following advice from Hong Kong:—"4th October, 6.30 a.m. : A typhoon is crossing Luzon, in the Philippine ...

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