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  2. THE ROYAL VISIT.

    An official announcement has been made which contradicts the Portsmouth report that the Ophir, conveying their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of ...

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  3. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    An interesting gathering tool place at the Grand Hotel yesterday, when the Mayor (Cr. S. Gillott) entertained the Prime Minister (Mr. Barton) at ...

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  4. THE FEDERAL POLICY.

    Mr. Barton, Prime Minister of Australia, addressed a crowded assemblage in the Melbourne Town Hall last night. The hall was densely thronged some time before the ...

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  5. THE BOER WAR.

    The issue of Exchequer bonds, bearing 3 per cent, interest, to the amount of £11,000,000, for war purposes, was to-day more than twice subscribed. The ...

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  6. KING AND QUEEN.

    It is announced that King Edward and Queen Alexandra will next month proceed to Germany, and after paying a visit to the Empress Frederick, sister of King Edward, ...

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  7. PAY OF THE CONTINGENT.

    Trouble has arisen in the ranks of the Federal Contingent over the question of pay. The men have been led to believe that they would receive 5 per day ...

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  8. GENERAL FRENCH'S SUCCESS.

    Lieutenant-General French, who is operating vigorously against the forces which Commandant General Louis Botha has gathered together in the Eastern Transvaal. ...

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  9. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

    No information whatever is obtainable with respect to the speech with which King Edward will open Parliament in full state. The strictest secrecy is maintained ...

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  10. UNSEATED FOR BRIBERY.

    Mr. John Barker (Liberal), member for Maidstone, was unseated yesterday on the petition of Mr. F. S.W. Cornwallis, the Conservative candidate. The seat has ...

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  11. DATE OF ARRIVAL.

    His Excellency the Governor-General has received a cable message from London to the effect that the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York will arrive in Melbourne on ...

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  12. PILFERING MILITARY STORES.

    Recently it has been discovered that extensive thefts of military stores are being perpetrated in Natal, and investigations have resulted in the arrest of six railway ...

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  13. AFRIKANDERS FOR PEACE.

    The Dutch Afrikanders of Cape Colony now appear to be seriously alarmed as to the consequences likely to result to themselves from the Boer guerilla warfare, and ...

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  14. CANADIAN EMPIRE LEAGUE.

    The Canadian Empire League has passed resolutions recommending the formation of an Imperial Consultative Council, to arrange for the early organisation of the defensive ...

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  15. OFF TO SOUTH AFRICA.

    To-day the Fifth Victorian Contingent together with 250 men of the Marquis of Tullibardine's Horse, leave in the Orient for South Africa. All the arrangements have ...

    Article : 226 words
  16. BELGIAN GAMBLING HOUSES.

    In the Belgian Chamber of Deputies yesterday a resolution was passed demanding the suppression of all the gambling houses in the country, including the well-known ...

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  17. MESSAGE FROM LORD HOPETOUN.

    The Lieutenant-Governor, yesterday received the following telegram from the Governor-General:--"At present instructed there is no ...

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  18. THE ITALIAN CRISIS.

    The Ministry of Signor Saracco having resigned in consequence of the hostility of the Italian Chamber of Deputies to its general policy, the task of forming a new Cabinet ...

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  19. MESSAGE FROM THE AGENT-GENERAL.

    The Premier (Mr. Peacock) yesterday received the following cablegram from the Agent-General in reply to the cable forwarded by the Cabinet on Wednesday night ...

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  20. BRITISH REMOUNTS.

    No more trouble is now being experienced in Cape Colony by the British authorities in securing horses for remounts or reserves, the whole colony, except the ...

    Article : 103 words
  21. A NEW INDIAN PROVINCE.

    Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, with the view of minimising future tribal disturbances and strengthening the north west frontier of India, has created a new ...

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  22. THE TRAMWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

    The Tramway Company notifies that on account of the march through the city today, cars whose routes include either Bourke, Collins, Elizabeth or Sivanston ...

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  23. PREVENTING A DUEL.

    An extraordinary murder has been tried before a military court at Metz, the great military fortress on the Franco-German frontier. ...

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  24. RECEPTION ARRANGEMENTS.

    The committee of electricians appointed by the Government to make recommendations in regard, to the illuminations of the city on the occasion of the visit of the Duke ...

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  25. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES.

    Among the colonial officers specially mentioned for distinguished behavior by Lord Roberts in his South African despatches, now published by the War Office, are the ...

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  26. THE SYDNEY TROOPS.

    The first thousand men of the Federal Contingent will leave Sydney during the first week in March. ...

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  27. WHO RULES CHINA?

    Pekin telegrams report that Li-Hung-Chang has assured the Ministers of the Powers that the Emperor Kwang-su himself is wholly and solely directing the affairs ...

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  28. DECORATION OF THE CITY.

    Until the committee of the Cabinet appointed to arrange the programme of festivities in connection with the Royal visit Shall have adopted a scheme for the ...

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  29. THE SPANISH TROUBLE.

    The disturbances in Spain, caused by popular antipathy to alleged Jesuit influence at the Court of the Queen Regent Christine, and to the approaching marriage ...

    Article : 107 words
  30. BADEN-POWELL'S POLICE.

    Great popular readiness has been shown in London in response to the call for men for General Baden-Powell's Transvaal Mounted Police. Over 30,000 applicants ...

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  31. AUSTRALIAN WINES.

    The Admiralty has notified its intention of accepting Australian wines as suitable for the purposes of christening war vessels, in which ceremony a bottle of champagne ...

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  32. BOER TRAIN ROBBERS.

    On the Delagoa Bay railway, near Belfast, a Boer railway raiding party succeeded in stopping two unarmed passenger trains. Having robbed the passengers of all they ...

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  33. THE DREYFUS COMPLICATIONS

    Colonel Piequart, of the French Army Staff, whose unfaltering straightforwardness and honesty led ultimately to the disclosure of the perjuries and forgeries ...

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  34. A MUNICIPAL SUGGESTION.

    The mayor of Richmond (Cr. Willis) made a proposal at the last faceting of council that the 24 municipal arches should be erected on the line of route to be ...

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  35. CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC.

    Members of the Council of the Melbourne University in view of the fact that the Ormond Professor of Music, Mr. Peterson, will arrive in a short time, and that the ...

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  36. BOTHA'S REFUGE.

    Since his recent defeat near Ermelo and Bothwell, near Piet Retief, Commandant General Louis Botha has been making south eastwards on the Pongola River, on ...

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  37. SANITATION AT THE CAPE.

    At Capetown yesterday a deputation, representing a congress of the municipalities of Cape Colony, held in view of the bubonic plague outbreak and of the prevalence of ...

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  38. PREPARATIONS IN ADELAIDE.

    A Cabinet committee, consisting of the Chief Secretary (Mr. J. G. Jenkins), the Attorney-General (Mr. J. H. Gordon), and the Commissioner of Public Works (Mr. R. ...

    Article : 132 words
  39. POWDER FACTORY EXPLOSION.

    A terrific explosion occurred this morning at the Chilworth gunpowder works at Guildford, in Surrey. Fortunately, the factory was not working at the time, or the ...

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  40. SWAZILAND AND THE BOERS.

    With respect, to the Boer design to make a last stand in the rocky fastnesses and caves of Swaziland, the Queen of that native State, which made the strongest ...

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  41. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    It now transpires that the bubonic plague has for some time past been raging virulently among the nomadic Tartars of the Kirghiz Steppes, and in Western Siberia, ...

    Article : 107 words
  42. TRADES UNIONS AND LIBELS.

    In the Court of Queen's Bench to-day Mr. Justice Mathew granted an order directing the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants to pay out of the funds of the union ...

    Article : 86 words
  43. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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  44. THE BOER REFUGEES.

    The British authorities at Bloemfontein, finding that the Orange River burghers who are gathered in various camps of refuge from guerilla raiders under military ...

    Article : 58 words
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