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  2. FEDERAL POLITICAL NOTES.

    It has been announced on more than one, deration that the Treasurer will deliver his budget speech on the first or second Tuesday in September, hut up to Inst night Ministers ...

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  3. STATE POLITICS.

    Over two hours wore spoilt by the Legislative Assembly yesterday in considering some fifteen questions on the notice paper. The practice has grown up in the State ...

    Article : 1,311 words
  4. TAMMANY AND HOME RULE.

    Recently the London "Globe," commenting on the conduct of the Irish Nationalist members of the House of Commons, Insinuated that some of them were guilty of corrupt ...

    Article : 188 words
  5. LAND BUYING BY POST.

    A story of alleged gross deception was Investigated at the Leongatha court to-day, before Mr. Smallman, P. M., and Messrs. M'Cartin and Ewen, J's.P., when a man ...

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  6. A POSTAL BLOCK.

    There are a few things which the Postmaster-General might consider whilst he is organising his central administration, and one of these is what power he is going to ...

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  7. THE BOER GUERILLAS

    Colonel Thorneycroft, with his famous corps of mounted irregulars, has been clearing the cast of the Orange River Colony on the Basutoland border, and in the ...

    Article : 139 words
  8. THE TRANSVAAL DEBT.

    The Transvaal 5 per cent. debentures yesterday rose £1 on the Stock Exchange in consequence of an official announcement that Great Britain will pay on presentation ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. THE PRICE OF MEAT.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon Mr. Reay asked the Premier whether the State Parliament had any power now that the Customs deparment ...

    Article : 440 words
  10. SURPRISING A LAAGER.

    Captain Wood, an officer of the South African Constabulary (Baden-Powell's police), with 150 of his men, recently surprised a Boer laager near Middleburg, on the ...

    Article : 98 words
  11. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    Though the final draft of the peace treaty protocol has been signed by the representatives of till powers at Pekin, a further hitch in the settlement has occurred. At the ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. NATIONALISTS AND FENIANS.

    Mr. John Dillon, M.P., late leader of the Irish Nationalists in the House of Commons, has contradicted through the London newspapers the American telegrams reporting ...

    Article : 137 words
  13. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    In the Legislative Assembly a lengthy discussion took place on a motion by Mr, A. Griffith that State employes should receive for Sunday work at least 25 ...

    Article : 70 words
  14. KRUITZINGER'S EXPULSION.

    The flight of the rebel guerilla Kruitzinger out of Cape Colony Into tho Orange River Colony was a most. ignominious affair. Colonels Gorringe and Crabbe on two ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. SHIPPING TRUST MOVEMENTS.

    Mr., J. R. Ellerman, chairman of Fred. Leyland and Co. Limited, the great Liverpool Shipping firm, in which Mr. J. P. Morgan a few months ago obtained the ...

    Article : 128 words
  16. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Only the Assembly sat to-day. Mr. Caldwell intimated his Intention to move a request, to the Federal Government to conserve the waters of the Darling and ...

    Article : 460 words
  17. AN IMPROVED SUPPLY OF BEEF.

    In accordance with the forecast of "The Age," of last Friday, the exceptionally high prices which last week filled for beef have worked out their own cure. The increase in ...

    Article : 217 words
  18. TUBERCULOSIS.

    At the late International Tuberculosis Congress in London, professor Koch, the celebrated German bacteriologist, announced his firm belief that bovine tuberculosis Is not ...

    Article : 132 words
  19. DEATH FROM MEASLES.

    The War Office reports Private J. Jacobs, of the New South Wales Mounted Ritles, dead from measles at Kroonstad. ...

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  20. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and York, with the Duchess and suite, yesterday left Simonstown, where the Ophir lay,for Capetown. Their Royal Highnesses received a ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. BACK TO THE WAR.

    About 3OO men who had secured indulgence passages by the transport Britannie embarked to-day for South Africa. The vessel was lying off Neutral Bay, and the ...

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  22. BUTCHERS DECIDE TO RAISE PRICES.

    When the rise in the price of live stock took place last week, some of the butchers immediately raised the price of meat by nil extra 1d. per lb. The Master Butchers' ...

    Article : 170 words
  23. THE FRISCO DOCK STRIKE.

    San Francisco telegrams report that the strike of dock laborers there is detaining in port 29, grain loading and 10 sugar loading vessels. ...

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  24. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

    The "Times," commenting on the verdict of the commission appointed by the New Zealand parliament to investigate the question of federation with the Australian ...

    Article : 97 words
  25. VICTORIANS RETURNING TO THE FIGHTING.

    The arrangements, are now complete for the return to South Africa of some 120 Victorian troopers who are anxious, to join Imperial regiments. The imperial transport ...

    Article : 65 words
  26. SWEATING IN SYDNEY.

    A mass meeting of female operatives in the tailoring trade was held in the Trades Hall to-night, to call attention to the sweating which exists in Sydney, and to put the ...

    Article : 318 words
  27. FRANCE AND THE CZAR.

    It Is semi-officially announced at Paris, that the Emperor Nicholas of Russia has arranged to attend the forthcoming review of the French northern squadron. After ...

    Article : 54 words
  28. EMPIRE PATRIOTIC FUND.

    A moating of the general committee of tho Empire's Patriotic Fund (Melbourne branch) was held at the Town Hall yesterday for the purpose of considering the important report, ...

    Article : 340 words
  29. RECRUITING ABANDONED.

    Lieutenant A. Kelly, of the Second Scottish Horse, who came to Victoria for recruiting purposes, found that the Federal Government disapproved of any such mission. He ...

    Article : 109 words
  30. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

    The French Minister for War, General Andre, has caused a sensation in Paris by announcing that direct anti-republican attempts have been made to seduce the ...

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  31. A YUKON STEAMER WRECKED.

    A shocking shipping disaster has occurred in Behrings Sea. The Yukon liner Island, when returning from Alaska with, diggers from Klondike and Capo Nome, and ...

    Article : 118 words
  32. BUTCHERS' GRIEVANCE AGAINST GRAZIERS.

    The losses to which butchers are put through the condemnation of cattle after they have bought them was discussed last night by the Master Butchers' Association. ...

    Article : 179 words
  33. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Assembly to-day, Mr. Lesina asked If it was true, as stated recently by Mr. Chamberlain In the House of Commons, that the Queensland Government had consented ...

    Article : 141 words
  34. FOURTH CONTINGENT GRATUITIES.

    Thanks mainly to the energy displayed by Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly and Mr. Ramsay, of the Contingents' office, the gratuity lists for the members of the Fourth Contingent ...

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  35. AN ABSCONDER ARRESTED.

    Herr Terlinder, managing director of Gerhardt and Terlinder metal workers, of Oberhausen, in Rhenish Prussia, who absconded just before the firm failed a month ...

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  36. MEMORIAL AT BAIRNSDALE.

    A public meeting, convened by the local rifle club,for the purpose of obtaining funds for the erection of a permanent monument to the memory of the soldiers from this ...

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  37. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    Beet Sugar.--F. O. Licht's monthly circular of the beet sugar trade states that the production for tho season up to date shows an increase of 370,000 tons of beet sugar. ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. TASMANIA.

    The debate on the financial and the land and works statements has not yet been concluded in the Assembly, but to-morrow night will probably see its conclusion. The ...

    Article : 113 words
  39. CAUSES OF STOCK SCARCITY.

    In well-informed quarters here the chief factor in causing the present high price of cattle is considered to he the tick regulations in Queensland, which, by cutting off ...

    Article : 358 words
  40. THE CONSUL AND THE CABMAN

    An incident which, it is to be hoped, will not lead to International complications, occurred on Monday night. M. Nicholas de Passek, the Russian Consul-General for ...

    Article : 248 words
  41. REMOUNTS FROM QUEENSLAND.

    Seven hundred and fifty horses for remounts In South Africa were shipped from Brisbane on Saturday last, and two other ship loads will be despatched shortly. ...

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  42. THE SHEARING SEASON.

    Shearing is now in full swing in the district of Whiteeliffs. All the strikes have been settled, the squatters generally conceding the verbal agreement. ...

    Article : 141 words
  43. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrived.-- Rakaia, steamer, from Wellington 26th June; Barossa, barque, from Albany 12th April; Sound of Jura," barque, from Bunbury 16th March; Inveresk, barque, ...

    Article : 68 words
  44. RAILWAY REVENUE.

    The Minister of Railways, in response, to a request by Mr. Brown, yesterday furnished the Legislative Assembly with particulars of the transactions between the Treasury and ...

    Article : 335 words
  45. THE CALIFORNIA MAIL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 380 words
  46. THE FACTORIES ACT.

    The shire of Logan's circular, urging that combined municipal action should lie taken to prevent the extension of the Shops and Factories Act, until its principles are ...

    Article : 157 words
  47. A WHEAT SHIP IN TROUBLE.

    The barque Lapwing, 745 tons,, which left Sydney for Falmonth 26th May under command of Captain Torgersen with a cargo of 9819 bags of wheat, has arrived at Monte ...

    Article : 67 words
  48. CRUELTY TO A HORSE.

    A shocking case of cruelty to a horse came before the Border Town' police court on Friday last, when Danied Page of Mundalla, was charged by Mounted Constable ...

    Article : 236 words
  49. SERIOUS FIRE AT WELLINGTON

    The two top stories of a six-floor building on Lambton Quay, owned by the Wairarapa Co-operative Association, were destroyed by fire this morning. A number of Government ...

    Article : 138 words
  50. GOLD JUBILEE EXHIBITION.

    The first meeting of tho Melbourne committee of the approaching Bendigo exhibition was hold yesterday afternoon, at the Chamber of Commerce offices. ...

    Article : 199 words
  51. CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION.

    Sir,--Having recently come from New Zealand, where a Conciliation and Arbitration Act been in force for some time, I think that a protest should be offered with respect ...

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  52. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    WARRNAMBOOL.-- The financial statements of the Farnharm Cheese and Putter Factory Company for the half year ending 31st July show that a profit of £447 103 has been made. The directors ...

    Article : 176 words
  53. LAW LIST.-- (THIS DAY.)

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 words
  54. Advertising

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  55. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    I.G.M.S. Oldenburg arrived Colombo, from Australia, evening 18th I.G.M.S. Darmstadt arrived Southampton 19th. ...

    Article : 17 words
  56. Advertising

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    Advertising : 79 words
  57. Advertising

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