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  2. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    The Federal Prime Minister is due in Melbourne to-morrow, and at night will deliver an address at the Town Hall, in the course of which he is expected to make ...

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  3. THE ROYAL VISIT.

    It is reported at Portsmouth, where in the royal naval dockyards preparations for the forthcoming visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and York to Australia, to open ...

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  4. THE LATE QUEEN.

    The Lord Mayor of London has forwarded to King Edward VII, a respectful suggestion that a small committee of members of the present and past ...

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  5. THE COMMONWEALTH

    Mr. Barton, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, arrived in Adelaide by the Melbourne express this morning, accompanied by Mr. Drake, the Federal ...

    Article : 155 words
  6. THE BOER WAR.

    The Pretoria correspondent of the London "Standard" report's that great consternation has been caused among the Boer leaders by the active operations which ...

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  7. MAYORAL BANQUET.

    A large and representative gathering attended tho Mayoral quarterly banquet at the Melbourne Town Hall last night. The Mayor of Melbourne (Cr. S. Gillott, M.L.A.) ...

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  8. "THE AGE" SHILLING FUND FOR A NATIONAL MONUMENT TO THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA.

    Sir,--Everyone will desire to give something towards the Queen's Memorial Statue Fund, but small sums are difficult to collect, especially in outlying districts. ...

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  9. THE CALL FOR MORE MEN.

    Major Parnell said yesterday that he and his staff are now within sight of the resumption of their ordinary work, as practically everything has been completed with regard ...

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  10. NATIONAL LIBERAL ORGANISATION.

    An important conference of delegates from city and suburban branches of the National Liberal Organisation was held yesterday in Melbourne, and some two hours ...

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  11. THE QUEEN'S LAST DAYS.

    The American mail brings New York papers dated 20th January, which contain cablegrams from London giving further details about the illness of the late Queen ...

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  12. BOERS NEAR THE RAND.

    Brigadier-General Cunningham, who during the past three weeks has been following and, as occasion offered, fighting Commandant De la Rey in his wanderings around ...

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  13. SUBSCRIPTION LIST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 378 words
  14. TELEGRAPHIC INTERRUPTION.

    Owing to the interruption of the telegraph lines between Adelaide and Melbourne through stormy weather, Mr. Barton's Adelaide address had not reached ...

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  15. WHY THE BOERS STILL FIGHT.

    In explanation of the obstinate persistency with which the Boers are continuing the campaign under utterly hopeless conditions, it has transpired that ...

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  16. THE POSTAL CONFERENCE.

    The conference between the permanent heads of the various State Postal departments, which will be taken over by the Federal Postmaster-General on 1st March. ...

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  17. DISCUSSION AT SOUTH MELBOURNE.

    At last evening's meeting of the Melbourne South branch of the United Labor Party, Mr. T. Scott in the chair, a letter was received from the Albert Park branch ...

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  18. AMERICAN ESTIMATES OF THE QUEEN.

    The following expressions of leading Americans regarding the life of the late Queen Victoria are contained in American papers brought by the Californian mail:-- ...

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  19. PREPARATIONS IN ENGLAND.

    The preparations for the visit to Australia of the Duke and Duchess of York are being steadily pushed forward. At Portsmouth Naval Yards four 42 feet steam ...

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  20. THE CAPE INVASION.

    A sharp encounter between a patrol composed of detachments of South African Light Horse and the 7th Dragoon Guards are one of the Boer guerilla, Kruitzinger's, ...

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  21. MARCH THROUGH MELBOURNE.

    The transport steamer Orient left Sydney for Melbourne at 2 p.m. yesterday. Arrangements for conveying the troops by train on Friday have been made by the ...

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  22. THE QUEEN'S STATUE.

    Mr. Charles F. Summers, the well known artist, of Grosvenor-chambers, Collinsstreet, has addressed a letter to the Mayor of Melbourne as chairman of the Queen ...

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  23. "TIMES" SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.

    It is announced that Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, who was director of the foreign department of the London "Times" from 1891 to 1899, will accompany H.R.H. ...

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  24. DEATH OF EX-KING MILAN.

    The death is announced of ex-King Milan Obrenovitch I. of Servia, at the age of 46 years. Ex-King Milan died at Vienna from the ...

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  25. THE COMMANDEERING OF DUTCH FARMERS.

    In order to defeat the attempts of the Boer commandants invading Cape Colony to recruit their forces by commandeering the Dutch settlers and compelling them to ...

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  26. THE MELBOURNE VISIT.

    Even at this early stage a great number of requests have been received from residents in different States for invitations to the celebrations which are to take place in ...

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  27. DETERMINED TO BE A SOLDIER.

    Lawrence Muir, youngest son of Mr. Alexander Muir, farmer, of Witchipool, who passed for the Fifth Victorian Contingent, was prevented by his parents from going ...

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  28. A DISLOYALIST PUNISHED.

    At Kimberley a disloyalist has been placed on trial, charged with speaking insultingly of the late Queen Victoria and with disfiguring a portrait of her Majesty. Being ...

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  29. THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 words
  30. THE TROOP SHIPS PROVIDED.

    The following steamers have been chartered to take the new contingents to South Africa:--The Paree, with accommodation for 680 men and 214 horses, or can take a ...

    Article : 102 words
  31. THE INVASION OF DELAGOA.

    The Boer invasion of Portuguese territory at Delagoa Bay, the purpose of which was at first not comprehended, proves to have been intended to facilitate the landing at ...

    Article : 74 words
  32. THE SPANISH MARRIAGE.

    A strong popular feeling against the dominant influence which the Spanish Jesuits are believed to exercise in the court of the Queen Regent Christine is ...

    Article : 148 words
  33. ROBBING ROYAL TOMBS.

    An act of atrocious vandalism, ascribed generally to Socialists, has been perpetrated in the Pantheon at Rome (Church of Santa Maria Rotondo). The tombs of ...

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  34. BENDIGO "PEOPLE'S PARTY."

    A meeting of the People's party was held at the Trades Hall on Tuesday night, the president, D. Smith, in the chair. It was decided to alter the name of the ...

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  35. KING EDWARD VII.

    The ceremony of proclaiming King Edward VII, on Montefiore Hill has been postponed, because it is now,impossible that the Imperial and Indian troops can arrive ...

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  36. A ST. HELENA EPISODE.

    Commandant Eloff, grandson of President Kruger, who was captured by General Baden-Powell in an attempt to capture Mafeking, has, with four other Boer ...

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  37. THE FEDERAL COTINGENT.

    The State Premier has received a cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the effect that the pay and allowances to the nem of the Federal ...

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  38. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 224 words
  39. MR. G. H. REID'S AMBITIONS.

    Mr. G. H. Reid addressed a meeting at Cowra to-night in order to re[?] to Mr. Barton's speech in the Sydney town hall last week. He said it was for the Federal ...

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  40. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    Silver.--Bar silver is to-day quoted at 24⅓ per oz. standard. Received by Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Limited:-- ...

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  41. THE DREADED PLAGUE.

    Fearing that the plague will sooner, or later be carried to London, the local authorities are taking timely precautions. The London County Council has resolved to ...

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  42. QUEENSLAND OFFERS MORE MEN.

    The Government has decided to cable an offer to send additional troops to South Africa over and above the 500 already going. ...

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  43. MORE AUSTRALIANS WANTED.

    Australians have played so prominent and creditable a part in South Africa that, despite the considerable response already made, the demand for more men still ...

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  44. THE AFRIKANDER BOND.

    The Secretary of State for the Colonics, has officially notified his full approval of the reply given by Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony and High ...

    Article : 163 words
  45. THE LONDON WOOL SALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 494 words
  46. IMPERIAL TROOPS IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Detachments of the Imperial troops have visited Wanganui and Wairarapa, and have been enthusiastically received, the Maoris being particularly cordial. ...

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  47. WEST MELBOURNE LABOR PARTY

    At a meeting of the West Melbourne branch of the Labor party last evening it was decided to nominate Mr. Stephen Barker as one of the candidates to be selected ...

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  48. A RAILWAY TO SAN REMO.

    The Railways Standing Committee met yesterday under the chairmanship of Mr. Cameron, M.L.A., for tho purpose of taking evidence on the question of constructing a ...

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  49. THE A.N.A. FETE.

    Yesterday afternoon and evening the elocutionary and musical competitions in connection with the annual fete, of the A.N.A. wore commenced at the Masonic Hall, ...

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  50. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrived.--Maori King, steamer, from Capetown 3rd January; Bangaree, steamer, from Adelaide 8th December; Pindari, steamer, from Melbourne 10th December; ...

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  51. VICTORIAN AGENT-GENERAL'S OFFICE.

    The general office of the Victorian Agent General was, at 8.30 a.m. yesterday, partially wrecked by an explosion of escaped gas, but the damage was not of such a character ...

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  52. DIED OF FEVER.

    Corporal Campbell Parkinson, of the New Zealand Rough Riders, has died of enteric fever at Pretoria. ...

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  53. SYDNEY WOOL SALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 words
  54. Advertising

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  55. DEATH OF AN AUSTRALIAN.

    Captain D. H. Maclean (Yeomanry), son of a New South Wales land owner, formerly an Australian student at Oxford and a member of the University eight, has ...

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  56. Advertising

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  57. THE SOMMERFELD'S CARGO.

    Telegrams from Hamburg report that 500 tons of the cargo of Norddentscher-Lloyd's Australian liner Sommerfeld, 2606 tons, which a week ago stranded on a sand bank ...

    Article : 61 words
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