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  2. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    With the view of impressing: on the ignorant Chinese populace the reason for the recent invasion of the country and the occupation of the capital by the troops of the ...

    Article : 167 words
  3. CAULFIELD GRAND NATIONAL MEETING.

    The twentieth Grand National Meeting of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club was commenced on Saturday at Caulfield, when everything conducive to a successful ...

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  4. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    Under clause 15 of the Defence Bill "no combatant officer of the defence force above the substantive rank of major in the military forces, or above the rank of commander ...

    Article : 268 words
  5. THE FACTORIES ACT.

    Mr. F. W. Niven who has taken up his residence in Melbourne, has been entertained at a farewell banquet by the Master Printers' Association of Ballarat. In ...

    Article : 103 words
  6. A MYSTERIOUS CRIME.

    An unexpected and sensational development has taken place in connection with the suspicious death at Invermay of the young woman, Elizabeth O'Reilly, aged 25, who, as ...

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  7. THIRD WAR STAGE.

    In the House of Commons last night, during the discussion of the Colonial Office vote on the estimates, the leader of the Opposition, Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, made ...

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  8. THE MURDERED SCOUTS UNARMED.

    In the House of Commons last night Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary to the War Office, who during last year was chief press censor in South Africa, stated, in answer to ...

    Article : 110 words
  9. BUTCHERS' HOURS.

    The local Master Butchers' Association has decided to co-operate with similar organisations in Melbourne and Ballarat in an effort to have the hours of work prescribed ...

    Article : 102 words
  10. CAPTURE OF A LAAGER.

    Another capture of a Boer lunger is reported as having been made on Monday last, 29th July, when the British surprised a large party of Boers encamped at the ...

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  11. EVACUATION OF PEKIN.

    In the House of Commons last evening Viscount Cranborne, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that the date which had been officially decided on for ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. THE PRINTING TRADE.

    Sir,-- Now that it is almost recognised that the wages boards under the Factories Act are a failure, it may be of interest to many of your readers to know the businesslike ...

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  13. NEW SOUTH WALES AND THE UNIFORM TARIFF.

    During the debate in the Legislative Council on the Factories Act it was stated that £10,000,000 worth of goods were stored in Sydney, and would be flooded into ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. RHODES AND HIS CRITICS.

    The arrival in England of Mr. Ceil Rhodes, member for Barkly West in the Cape Assembly, gives point to a letter published by the "Spectator," in which the ...

    Article : 131 words
  15. ADMINISTRATION OF WEL-HAI-WEL.

    The Colonial Office has taken over from the Lords of the Admiralty the administration of the port and settlement at Wel-hal-wel on the north side of the Shan-tung ...

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  16. THE STEEL TRUST STRIKE

    There are growing indications that the basis on which the great strike among the American Steel Trust employes was settled will not meet with the approval of ...

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  17. "FATHER OF THE COMMONS."

    The death has occurred of the Right. Hon. W. W. B. Beach, Conservative member for Andover, and the "Father of the House of Commous," at the age of 75, as the result of ...

    Article : 138 words
  18. FEDERAL SERVICE.

    Since the announcement by the Premier that the allowances to officers in the Federal service are to be discontinued pending some other arrangement, the question ...

    Article : 339 words
  19. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    The following officers are reported as being convalescent and as having resumed duty:-- Surgeon-Major Thomas Burns, of the New Zealand Bushmen; Lieutenants H. Grover, ...

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  20. A RAILWAY TO KHARTOUM.

    Sir W. E. Garstin, K.C.M.G., Under-Secretary for Public Works, and formerly Inspector-General of Irrigation in Egypt, in submitting to Earl Cromer, British Minister for ...

    Article : 107 words
  21. THE RETURNING QUEENSLANDERS.

    It will be remembered that some days ago the Federal Prime Minister made a declaration regarding the sending of further men to South Africa, which was apparently meant ...

    Article : 171 words
  22. EMPRESS FREDERICK DYING.

    Telegrams from Berlin state that the Dowager Empress Frederick, eldest sister of his Majesty King Edward VII., and mother of the Emperor William of Germany, who ...

    Article : 198 words
  23. MAJOR KARRI DAVIS.

    The London "Gazette" announces that his Majesty King Edward has accepted the resignation by Major "Karri" Davis, of the Imperial Light Horse, of the Companionship ...

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  24. ANGLICAN CHURCH DOCTRINE.

    The Right Rev. A. F. W. Ingram, D.D., Bishop of London, has issued a pastoral in which he directs the abolition of the reservation of the sacrament, and orders that in ...

    Article : 154 words
  25. SHIPPING MISHAPS.

    At daybreak yesterday the lookout at Queenscliff reported that the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Innamincka, which left Hobson's Bay on Saturday afternoon, was ...

    Article : 132 words
  26. FATAL FIRE.

    A fatal fire happened about 4 o'clock this morning. An eight-roomed weatherboard house, belonging to Mr. W. F. Watkin, a contractor, was completely gutted, and the ...

    Article : 216 words
  27. DEATH OF A RETURNED SOLDIER.

    Trooper Lewis Lemcke, a returned soldier from the Capo by the steamer Britannic, died in the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday evening. Trooper Lemcke was 23 years of ...

    Article : 66 words
  28. THE BOOT TRADE.

    Sir,--In view of the keen competition expected from the sweated manufacturing labor of Sydney and the preparations now being made there by manufacturers to ...

    Article : 384 words
  29. A CENSORED CABLE MESSAGE.

    The receipt of the last mail from the Cape discloses the fact that a very interesting cable message, despatched by Renter's correspondent at Standerton on 5th July last, ...

    Article : 149 words
  30. TROOPERS RETURNING VIA ENGLAND.

    The Defence department has received a letter from Shorncliffe camp, in England, via the Agent-General, stating that the following troopers are returning to Australia ...

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  31. VON WALDERSEE'S RETURN.

    It has been arranged that in consequence of the departure from Cronberg of the Emperor William of Germany, owing to the very serious illness of his mother, the ...

    Article : 76 words
  32. THE KING'S TITLES BILL.

    The King's Titles Bill, which empowers his Majesty to adopt and proclaim at anytime within six months after the passing of the measure any new title he may select, ...

    Article : 60 words
  33. S. BUNINYONG BREAKS DOWN.

    When the steamer Kensington arrived from Melbourne yesterday afternoon she reported having passed a steamer towing another one In a disabled condition, bound west, ...

    Article : 127 words
  34. A TRIBUTE TO THE BOERS.

    Lieutenant and Quartermaster Akins, writing on 13th June, says:--The Boers' plan was perfect, and was carried out as well as any troops in the world could have ...

    Article : 390 words
  35. TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYED.

    An unfortunate accident occurred to-day in connection with the autumn naval manoeuvres in the English Chanel, when torpedo boat No. 81 struck a sunken rock near ...

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  36. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    New Zealand Sheep--Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes (55 to 65 lb.).--Canterbury, 3¾d.; Dunedin and Southland, 3[?]d.; North Island, 3 1-16d. ...

    Article : 325 words
  37. A MUCH GOVERNED COUNTRY.

    Sir,--In the face of the discussion now proceeding in the Federal House of Representatives and the anxiety of several of its members that strick economy should be ...

    Article : 231 words
  38. CAPTURES BY ELLIOT.

    Major-General Elliot reports that the columns under his command, which are engaged in clearing the northern districts of the Orange River Colony, were fired upon by ...

    Article : 164 words
  39. MINING TRIBUTE LAWS.

    At the adjourned half yearly meeting of the Bendigo branch of the A.M.A on Saturday night the tributing question, which is exciting a deal of interest on this and other ...

    Article : 428 words
  40. BURGLARIES IN THE SUBURBS.

    Burglaries from suburban shops have been very frequent of late, and in most cases the wholesale thefts of merchandise have been ...

    Article : 235 words
  41. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The outbreak of bubonic plague in South Africa appears to have almost totally abated. During the past week only one case was reported, the locality being Port Elizabeth. ...

    Article : 64 words
  42. BOER MURDERS OF NATIVES.

    Intense indignation is expressed throughout the United Kingdom at the barbarity shown by the Boers in having, as reported by Lord Kitchener, after the recent ...

    Article : 119 words
  43. STOREKEEPERS AND TUE DISCOUNT SYSTEM.

    The Victorian Storekeepers and Traders Association has issued to its members a circular as follows:-- Dear Sir,--Re Coupons.--A bill has been ...

    Article : 165 words
  44. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    Mr. J. Austen Chamberlain, Financial Secretary to the Treasurer, announced yesterday in the House of Commons that the Pacific Cable Board engineers were satisfied ...

    Article : 47 words
  45. WELCOMING RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    Major Dallimore, Sergeant Finlayson and Troopers H. T. Wells, G. M. Wells, T. Delaney, J. Gardiner and A. M. Bourke, who recently returned from the war, have been ...

    Article : 837 words
  46. REVENUE RETURNS.

    A return prepared by the Treasury officials respecting the account current of the revenue receipts aud expenditure for the year ended 30th June, shows that the year ...

    Article : 111 words
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  48. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    It is officially stated at Washington that the gold reserve in the Treasury of the United States is now £100,000,000. The recent remarkably successful trials of ...

    Article : 62 words
  49. LAW LIST.--(THIS DAY.)

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  51. STREET ACCIDENT.

    Mr. Harvey, assistant town clerk to the Brunswick council, met with a serious accident on Saturday night by falling from a tram car near the corner of Victoria-street and Sydney-road. He ...

    Article : 81 words
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  53. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 17 words
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