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  2. CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, the State Premier (Mr. Peacock) rose, amidst cheers, to move the second reading of the bill to amend the constitution ...

    Article : 3,532 words
  3. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Commons last night a motion, proposed by Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, that the whole of the remaining time of the present session be ...

    Article : 175 words
  4. THE BOOT TRADE.

    The boot trade in these States appears to be one of those industries, like the manufacture of clothing and underclothing, which is specially subject to the sweating evil. It ...

    Article : 729 words
  5. THE BOER WAR

    Ex-President Kruger has received from his son-in-law, Mr. Eloff, a cablegram despatched from Pretoria, informing him that Mrs. Kruger, who died of pneumonia, had a ...

    Article : 63 words
  6. STATE ELECTION.

    The electors of Melbourne were called upon yesterday to select a candidate to represent the constituency in the State Assembly in place of Mr. E. Findicy, who was ...

    Article : 739 words
  7. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS.

    The War Office reports Lance-Corporal F. Rudale and Private Carzwell, of the Fifth Victorian Contingent, slightly wounded in action near Middelburg, in the Transvaal. ...

    Article : 29 words
  8. SHALL THERE BE ANOTHER CONTINGENT?

    Unless Mr. Barton and Sir J. Forrest receive a distinct indication on the subject from Imperial quarters, it is not at all improbable that another contingent of troops ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. KRUGER INFLEXIBLE.

    The "Morning Post" reports that Mr. Kruger's grief for the death of his wife is inconsolable, and that he is quite unable to transact official business. Meantime, Mr. ...

    Article : 144 words
  10. THE BRITANNIC MEN.

    In consequence of having received news that the Britannic is likely to proceed direct from Adelaide to Hobart and New Zealand, Captain Collins, Secretary for Defence, ...

    Article : 129 words
  11. TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS.

    H.B.H. the Duke of Cambridge yesterday opened, on behalf of King Edward, who was unable to be present, the international congress convened to consider the problem ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    In the House of Commons last night, Viscount Cranbourne, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, made a statement with respect to the Chinese war indemnity, ...

    Article : 167 words
  13. CLEARING THE TRANSVAAL.

    Major-General Featherstonehaugh's column, which, in conjunction with Lord Methuen's force, has been clearing the country in the Western Transvaal, southward from ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. BUSHMEN'S BRIGADE MEMORIAL.

    On board the s. Morayshire on 24th May representations of the units of the various States former a committee, Surgeon-Captain Griffiths and Farrier-Sergeant Speirs ...

    Article : 391 words
  15. TRADES UNION STATUS.

    The judicial committee of the House of Lords yesterday gave its decision in the appeal case of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants against Mr. Justice ...

    Article : 158 words
  16. ORANGE RIVER OPERATIONS.

    The clearing columns under Colonels Campbell and Harvey have marched from the Wilze River, in the north-east of the Orange River Colony, to Standerton, in the ...

    Article : 77 words
  17. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    At Perth Government House yesterday the Duke of York invested Rear-Admiral Beaumont as a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. Sir L. Beaumont ...

    Article : 962 words
  18. VICTORIAN NAVAL CONTINGENT.

    The Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria has received from Lieutenant-General Gaselee, the officer commanding the British contingent of the China Field Force, a copy of the ...

    Article : 322 words
  19. THE HONING SPRUIT SURPRISE

    In the recent surprise attack on Commandant Collier's laager near Honing Spruit, in the Orange River Colony, north of Kroonstad, Major Pine Coffin's column of mounted ...

    Article : 60 words
  20. CHAPLAIN OF THE FORCES.

    Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary for War, has requested the Rev. Dr. J. C. Edghill, D.D., chaplain-general the force's, who is 66 years of age, and has been in the ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. NORTHERN PROVINCE ELECTION.

    Mr. A. O'Keefe addressed a large gathering of electors in the Agricultural Hall on Saturday evening; Mr. F. K. Shaw presided. The candidate, who has resided in this ...

    Article : 166 words
  22. POLICE PATROL CAPTURED.

    A patrol of South African constabulary, seventeen in number (Baden-Powell's Mounted Police) has been surrounded and captured by a Boer commando near ...

    Article : 45 words
  23. THE WILMANSRUST DISASTER.

    A letter has been received from Trooper Bott, a member of the Sixth Victorian Contingent, in which he states that they have had some very hard marching. In referring ...

    Article : 114 words
  24. STATISTICAL RETURNS OF OUTPUT.

    The discrepancy between the returns of the output of the factories of New South Wales and Victoria, as given respectively by the statisticians of each State, has been the ...

    Article : 626 words
  25. THE FREE STATE BOERS.

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  26. THE ORMUZ PLAGUE CASES.

    The R.M.S. Ormuz, which left Sydney 8th June, and was refused p[?]ratique at Gibraltar on the ground that two of the crew were suffering from bubonic plague, has arrived ...

    Article : 60 words
  27. IMPERIAL APPEAL COURT.

    The conference of judicial representatives of the colonics and the mother country, convened to consider and report upon the scheme for establishing a new court of ...

    Article : 145 words
  28. BACK TO THE WAR.

    The troopship Orient sailed to-day for Capetown. About twenty men, chiefly returned soldiers from South Africa or China, desirous of seeing active service once more, ...

    Article : 52 words
  29. THE LAW AS TO ELECTION EXPENSES.

    At the police court to-day, Mr. .A. J. Smith, a candidate at the recent Parliamentary election for Daudenong and Berwick, was proceeded against by Messrs. Swords ...

    Article : 91 words
  30. THE AMERICAN IRON STRIKE.

    The great strike of employes of the American Steel Trust manufactories, for the exclusive adoption of union labor, is having an appreciable effect on the iron industry ...

    Article : 65 words
  31. FURTHER DRAFTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Premier has not yet received a reply from the War Office to his inquiries as to the proposal to send more men from Queensland to South Africa. In reference to the ...

    Article : 124 words
  32. LORD KITCHENER'S CLEMENCY.

    Lord Kitchener, as Commander in Chief in, and Acting High Commissioner of, South Africa, has commuted the sentences of death passed by court-martial at Graaf ...

    Article : 168 words
  33. THE TESTIMONIAL TO MR. WATT.

    Sir,--I am sorry to note that the appeal so justly made by Mr. Fitz Gibbon on Mr. Walt's behalf has not been liberally responded to. Where are those who raised the ...

    Article : 142 words
  34. DESOLATION ISLAND.

    The suggestion made in Australia that the Imperial Government should take possession of Kerguelen Land, or Desolation Island, which lies mid way between Australia and ...

    Article : 126 words
  35. THE WAR SHIPS' RACE.

    An accident happened on the cruiser Hyacinth (fitted with Belleville tube boilers) during her race with the Minerva (fitted with Scotch cylindrical boilers) from ...

    Article : 172 words
  36. THE BRITANNIC TROOPS.

    Among the troops arriving by the Britannic from South Africa are six drill instructors for the Queensland defence force. ...

    Article : 27 words
  37. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    ALLENDALE.--The welcome home accorded to Trooper R. J. Wingate by the Allendale fire brigade, the rifle club and the citizens was most enthusiastic. Accompanied by his parents and ...

    Article : 987 words
  38. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

    An early opportunity is to be afforded members of the new Parliament of announcing their intentions as regards parties. A meeting of the Opposition was held this ...

    Article : 167 words
  39. FRENCH IN CAPE COLONY.

    In Cape Colony, General French, who has been placed in command of the operations against the guerilla invaders in the Midland and North-eastern districts, is steadily ...

    Article : 47 words
  40. GERMANY'S NORTH SEA CANAL.

    The Kaiser Wilhelm ship canal, connecting the Baltic with the North Sea, which was completed and opened with great ceremony by the Emperor William in 1805, is ...

    Article : 63 words
  41. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    At yesterday's sales the market was firm at the recent rates. The following prices were realised for Australasian brands:--Mag, 7[?]d.; Colino, 9d.; Walla Walla, 9[?]d.; ...

    Article : 85 words
  42. BOER LOSSES FOR THE WEEK.

    Lord Kitchener reports to the War Office that since 15th inst, the following casualties and captures have been reported by column leaders:--Boers killed, 43; wounded and left ...

    Article : 69 words
  43. AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE.

    An adventurous marine feat has been accomplished by Captain Blackburn, an American merchant seaman, who, embarking alone in a little boat at Gloucester, in the State ...

    Article : 60 words
  44. NO MORE MOUNTED TROOPS.

    With reference to the doubts expressed in cable messages which have been published from Australia as to whether any further contingents of Australian troops ure ...

    Article : 103 words
  45. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    Beet Sugar.--Debt's monthly "Beet Sugar Circular" states that the production of beet sugar for the season shows an increase of 375,000 tons, and estimates that the ...

    Article : 95 words
  46. FREE-TRADE FALLACIES.

    Sir,--This morning's cable tells us that free-trade Britain objects to China increasing her customs duties to pay the war indemnity, because, as the bulk of her trade ...

    Article : 97 words
  47. ASHORE IN THE RED SEA.

    News has been received from Suez that the Auchor liner Numidia, owned by Henderson Bros., Glasgow, has run ashore on Brother's Island, in the Red Sea, off Kosseir, ...

    Article : 50 words
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  50. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrived.--Tokomaru, steamer, from Wellington, 26th June; Indraghiri, steamer, from Lytteiton, 28th May: Croisset, barque, from Port Pirie, 29th March; Nestor, ...

    Article : 63 words
  51. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    I.G.M.S. Darmstadt arrived Colombo from Australia 21st. I.G.M.S. Karlsruhe arrived Southampton from Australia 22nd. ...

    Article : 18 words
  52. THE AMERICAN BOOT AND SHOE INDUSTRY.

    In the course of his evidence before the royal commission, a leading boot manufacturer in Sydney stated that the average rate of pay in one of the great factories in ...

    Article : 397 words
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