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  2. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    A London cablegram received yesterday reports that Mr. Justice Hodges, of Victoria, who will represent the judiciary of the Australian Commonwealth at the ...

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  3. FEDERAL POLITICAL NOTES.

    The House of Representatives will meet to-morrow at 2.30 p.m., and the Senate on the following day at the same hour. In the House of Representatives, the Supply and ...

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  4. THE BOER WAR

    Mr. B. Burleigh, the war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," reports that the Boers who are daily surrendering to the British are hotly angry at the folly of the ...

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  5. THE POWERS IN CHINA.

    A further move by German shipping companies to push enterprise in the China trade is reported. The Hamburg-American Steamship Company, which recently bought up ...

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  6. AUSTRALIAN BOWLERS.

    The Australian bowlers played their second rink match on Bound's Green, and were defeated by 28 points. The colonials scored 69 points, while their opponents ...

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  7. FLOODED BUNYIP SETTLERS

    A largely attended meeting of the settlers whose land is situated along the main channel extending from Bunyip on the Warragul line, and Yallock, on the sea ...

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  8. RETURNED AUSTRALIANS.

    By the steamer Aberdeen, of the Aberdeen line, yesterday 69 Australians returned front active service in South Africa. The men looked in splendid health after their ...

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  9. A FRENCH RAILWAY SCHEME.

    It is announced that a French company, with a capital of 70,000,000 [?]. (about £2,800,000) has been formed to construct and work a railway to the province of Y[?]n-nan ...

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  10. AN AUSTRALIAN VICTORY.

    In their third match the Australians yesterday met and the defeated the Brighton team by a narrow majority of 4 points after an exciting struggle. Messrs. C. Wood and J. ...

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  11. CAPTURED LIKE RABBITS.

    Colonel G. E. Benson, whose flying column, after scouring the country north of Middleburg, returned to Belfast, reports that in the course of his subsequent march towards ...

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  12. COLORED QUEENSLAND LABOR.

    In the House of Commons last night, in reply to a question with respect to the vetoing by Imperial authority of the Queensland Sugar Works Guarantee Bill, Mr. ...

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  13. WELCOME HOME TO MAJOR M'lNERNEY.

    On Saturday evening a number of friends of Major T. M. M'Inerney, who has just returned from South Africa after twenty months' fighting and administrating, met at ...

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  14. VLAKFONTEIN FIGHT.

    In the House of Commons yesterday an official contradiction was given to the report, published in England, that a [?]eutenant and a sergeant-major of the 28th Battery of ...

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  15. THE BRITISH BUDGET.

    In the House of Commons last night, Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, announced that Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, would on Monday ...

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  16. THE CAPE RAIDERS.

    Colonel H. J. Scobell, of the Scots' Greys, who has been pursuing Kruitzinger's commando, which lately looted Jamestown, in the north-east Midland district of Cape ...

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  17. ANGLO-ENGLISH CRICKET.

    Mr. A. E. Stoddart, who was captain of the English eleven which visited Australia three years ago, has replied to statements which have been made that the amateur ...

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  18. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

    The Board of Trade returns for the past mouth show that during May the value of imports to the United Kingdom decreased by £1,449,668 as compared with the figures for ...

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  19. WANTED, A MILITARY YEAR BOOK.

    On Wednesday a conference of the military commandants of the six States comprising the Commonwealth will, take place in Melbourne. Sir J, Forrest convened the ...

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  20. THE TRANSVAAL "GOVERNMENT."

    The Boer Government now consists of Mr. S. Burger, the "Acting" President, General L. Meyer aud Mr. Smuts, the ex-Staats Attorney, and Mr. F. W. Reitz., ...

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  21. THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.

    The provisions governing the distribution of the munificent endowment of £2,000,000 by Mr. A. Carnegie, the Scottish-American millionaire, for providing free ...

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  22. RACING IN ENGLAND.

    The Epsom four days' summer meeting was concluded to-day, when the chief race resulted as follows:-- OAK STAKES, of 4500 sovs., by ...

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  23. THE TERMS OF SUBMISSION.

    In the House of Commons last night, Mr. St. John Brodrick, the Secretary for War, in reply to a question with respect to the late visit of Mr. T. Smuts and General ...

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  24. BILLS TO BE INTRODUCED.

    The Home Secretary states that towards the end of the week he will probably introduce a very Important measure, the Interstate Commission Bill. Legislation upon ...

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  25. DEPARTURE OF MORAYSHIRE.

    The Morayshire left Port Melbourne with the New South Wales and Queensland returned troopers aboard on Saturday afternoon, some hours later than was originally ...

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  26. TEE POSTAL SERVICE.

    The monthly meeting of the Victorian Letter Carriers' Association was held on Saturday night at Furlong's, rooms. Mr. Hallo, president, occupied the chair. ...

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  27. A BEECHWORTH TROOPER'S DEATH.

    The family of Trooper J. Hume (Western Australian Bushmen) has received Intelligence of his death in the Fremantle Hospital from typhoid and ...

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  28. SLEEPING ON SENTRY.

    In the House of Commons to-day Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated in answer to a question that in all 31 soldiers in South Africa had been sent ...

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  29. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    An outbreak of bubonic plague has occurred at Shanghai. ...

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  30. RETIREMENT OF MR. H. G. TURNER.

    In our financial column the retirement of Mr. H. G. Turner, the eminent bunker, who has for 31 years occupied the position of general manager of the Commercial Bank ...

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  31. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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  32. FOR THE EMPIRE.

    The neighbors of Mr. S. C. Ferguson, who is now on active service with the Imperial Bushmen in South Africa, met on his farm near Black Flat on Wednesday last and did ...

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  33. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    A disastrous collision, the particulars of which have not yet been received, is reported as having taken place on the railway between Pretoria und Pietersburg, in the ...

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  34. NEW ZEALANDERS BUSILY ENGAGED.

    The New Zealand Bushmen are located at Standerton, and their commander cables that they have been fighting the enemy daily since 20th May. ...

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  35. INVALIDED TO ENGLAND.

    Captain Neill, of the New Zealand Bushmen, and Lieutenant K. J. Beatty, of the Fifth Victorian Contingent, have been invalided, and have sailed for England. ...

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  36. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    CAMPERDOWN.--An enthusiastic welcome was on Friday evening extended to Troopers D. Hay and A. Jones. They were met at the railway station by a large crowd, and a procession, headed ...

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  37. MRS. M'KINLEY'S HEALTH.

    American cablegrams report that Mrs. M'Kinley, whose sudden illness caused President M'Kinley to abandon his great political tour through the United States, is now ...

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  38. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    The War Office reports that Privates W. Lenon and A. Campbell, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, were killed at Mandesfontein. ...

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  39. LAW LIST.--(THIS DAY.)

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  40. SALE OF A FAMOUS PICTURE.

    The famous Gainsborough picture of the Duchess of Devonshire has, after remarkable experiences at the hands of clever criminals, from whose possession it was ...

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  41. AN ANTWERP FIRE.

    A most destructive fire occurred last night at Antwerp, the chief port of Belgium. A whole block of great warehouses was reduced to ashes, and the total loss is put ...

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  42. THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    Sir W. Lyne never loses an opportunity of bringing forward the question of the Federal capital. He intends to have an interview, with the State Premier to-morrow on the ...

    Article : 87 words
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