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  2. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Brussels correspondent of the London "Standard" reports that Botha, De la Rey and Scbalk Burger are going to make another appeal to Mr. Chamberlain. They ...

    Article : 147 words
  3. ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

    The Emperor William of Germany, who arrived in England on Saturday, is the guest of his Majesty King Edward at Sandringham, where also the Premier and ...

    Article : 195 words
  4. KING'S BIRTHDAY HONORS.

    The annual list of honors conferred in connection with the King's birthday was published to-day. The list is a long one, but is barer than usual of colonial names, one ...

    Article : 390 words
  5. STATE GOVERNOR'S LEVEE.

    Although "Stonington" may be an ideal place of residence, it is rather too remote from the busy haunts of Melbourne citizens to be suitable for such a formal function as ...

    Article : 2,724 words
  6. MAYORAL DINNER.

    The Mayor of Melbourne (Cr. Sir Samuel Gillott, M.L.A.) gave the inaugural dinner of his third year of office at the Town Hall last night. There were present—The ...

    Article : 4,534 words
  7. WRECK OF THE S. ELINGAMITE.

    News has just been received of the disastrous wreek of Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co.'s well-known intercolonial steamer Elingamite, which left Sydney on 7th inst. ...

    Article : 235 words
  8. SEARCH FOR THE BOATS.

    The agents of the Elingamite have arranged for the Cape Maria Van Diemen lighthouse to signal the steamer Zealandia to-morrow morning, and also to request the ...

    Article : 104 words
  9. A PREVIOUS DISASTER.

    Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co. lost a steamer of their fleet called the Tasmania on the night of 29th July, 1897. The vessel struck an uncharted rock off Table Cape ...

    Article : 92 words
  10. ORANGE RIVER LAND SALES.

    South African telegrams report that enormous tracts of land in the Orange River republic will shortly be offered for sale by auction in farms with an area of 44,000 ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Though the French colliers on strike in the Pas de Calais department agreed, on the intervention of the Premier, M. Coombes, to submit their demand for ...

    Article : 90 words
  12. THE INTERNATIONAL "ILL HUMOR."

    The London "Standard," commenting on the desire expressed by the leading German newspapers that the Kaiser should, during his present visit to King Edward, ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. REPAIRING WAR'S RAVAGES.

    The work of repairing the ravages of war on the Boer farms is being pushed on with the utmost vigor by the Government. In addition to the building material and farming ...

    Article : 66 words
  14. INTER-STATE CHESS MATCH.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 622 words
  15. NATIVE WAGES ON THE RAND.

    The difficulty of procuring native labor for the Band mines, arising chiefly because the kaffirs strongly resented the reduction of their pay from war rates to ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. DELAG0A BAY ACQUISITION.

    The "Daily News," organ of the Opposition party and the anti-Chamberlain faction, declares that the German Emperor is now asking for "compensation" for German ...

    Article : 122 words
  17. LIST OF PASSENGERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 words
  18. THE CAPE CABINET.

    Further reports of the manner in which the Cape Colony Ministerial difficulty was tided over show that after the Bond members had decisively struck out, on the ...

    Article : 140 words
  19. THE AUSTRALASIAN HONORS.

    His Excellency the Acting Governor General yesterday received a cable from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, announcing the bestowal of three birthday ...

    Article : 364 words
  20. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    The Shanghai correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" reports, in connection with the negotiations for the evacuation of Shanghai by foreign troops and England's ...

    Article : 112 words
  21. THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS.

    Little or no information is available here concerning the disaster which Has befallen the Elingamite, one of the finest and best known of the Huddart, Parker fleet. ...

    Article : 448 words
  22. ELECTIONS AT CAPETOWN.

    Elections took place on Saturday in Capetown for two members of the Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony. In both cases Progressive (or loyalist) candidates were ...

    Article : 37 words
  23. THE S0MALILAND OFFER.

    Telegrams form Johannesburg report that great disappointment is felt among the Boers at the decision of the War Office not to accept the services of a South ...

    Article : 43 words
  24. THE CHEN-CHOU MURDERS.

    An imperial edict was lately issued at Pekin, owing to the demands of the British ambassador, Sir Ernest Satow, ordering the decapitation of the military official at ...

    Article : 140 words
  25. MERCANTILE MARINE MEDAL.

    His Majesty King Edward has announced his intention of granting a special South African war medal to the officers of the British mercantile marine who were ...

    Article : 39 words
  26. WELCOME TO MAJOR PURCELL.

    Major F. G. Purcell, A.I.R., returned to Yea this morning, and was tendered an enthusiastic welcome. Upwards of 200 leading residents met him at the railway ...

    Article : 163 words
  27. ANOTHER CHILI REBELLION

    The exactions of the Chinese tax collectors in the imperial province of Chi-li have caused the peasants in the south-western part of that province—who have been told ...

    Article : 60 words
  28. PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

    At the last meeting of the council of the French Chamber of Commerce at Sydney, the question of a preferential tariff by Australia in favor of products of Great ...

    Article : 157 words
  29. MR. HACKETT DECLINES.

    Mr. Hackett has respectfully asked to be allowed to decline the honor of knighthood proffered him. ...

    Article : 22 words
  30. THE DOUKHOBORS' PILGRIMAGE

    The Canadian Government has at last been obliged to take strong coercive measures against the mad pilgrimage of the crazy Russian sectaries, the Doukhobors, ...

    Article : 152 words
  31. THE 0UTTRIM MINE.

    The quarterly ballot for working places in the Outtrim-Howitt colliery was drawn at the mine office on Saturday. There were places available for all the ...

    Article : 119 words
  32. ANGLO-TURKISH DISPUTE.

    Further friction between England and Turkey with respect to the "hinter-land" of the British Aden protectorate in Southwestern Arabia is reported from ...

    Article : 100 words
  33. THE EDUCATION BILL.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Balfour, gave notice in the House of Commons on Saturday that the patience with which the Government has endured the obstruction ...

    Article : 102 words
  34. PARTICULARS OF THE VESSEL AND CREW.

    The Elingamite is a steel steamship, costing originally £50,000, and about £20,000 has been spent upon her since. Twelve months ago she was surveyed and reclassed ...

    Article : 318 words
  35. THE FACTORIES ACT.

    Mr. Martin, M.L.A., speaking at the installation of the mayor of Geelong to-day, observed that the Legislative Council's amendment of the Factories Act could not ...

    Article : 63 words
  36. FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE.

    The "Novoe Vremya," a leading St. Petersburg journal, has forcibly expressed its discontent with the manner in which France has failed to "play up" to her ally, ...

    Article : 128 words
  37. A CHINAMAN'S MISTAKE.

    About 12.30 a.m. on Saturday Mrs. Gleeson, wife of Constable J. Gleeson, of Studley Park police station,Kew, was awakened by the continued barking of their ...

    Article : 240 words
  38. AMUSEMENTS.

    At the monthly social of the Melbourne Burns Society, in the Protestant Hall, Exhibition-street, this evening, a leccturette will be given by Mr. T. A. Paterson ...

    Article : 67 words
  39. THE FRENCH SUGAR DUTY.

    The Budget committee of the French Chamber of Deputies, which, in view of the large deficit, objected to the proposal of the Minister of Finance for the ...

    Article : 76 words
  40. STEAMERS ON FIRE.

    The P. and O. steamer Candia, 6182 tons, bound from Yokohama, in Japan, to London, has arrived at Ismailia, on the Suez Canal, between Suez and Port Said, with ...

    Article : 93 words
  41. FIRES IN THE COUNTRY.

    BENDIGO.—On Monday afternoon a shed at the rear of Mr. C. Osmond's residence, in Olinda-street, Quarry Hill, was burned down. While the firemen, with a horse hose and reel, were driving ...

    Article : 194 words
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