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  2. LABOUR DIFFICULTIES.

    The proprietors of the cotton mills in Lancashire have given notice to their employes that owing to the state of trade they find it necessary to reduce wages ...

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  3. THE WAR IN THE EAST.

    Upon the advance of the Japanese vanguard towards Pekin a terrible state of things was found to exist. Fearing that if their women and ...

    Article : 180 words
  4. DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR G. HORNBY.

    The death of Sir Geoffrey T. P. Hornby, G.C. B., an Admiral of the Fleet and First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, is announced. ...

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  5. GROUNDING OF THE R.M.S. OROYA.

    The R.M.S. Oroya, which left London for Australia on February 22, has gone aground in the Bay of Naples. The vessel is resting on a sandy bottom, ...

    Article : 166 words
  6. THE IRISH LAND BILL.

    In the House of Commons the Chief Secretary for Ireland; the Right Hon. John Morley, has introduced his longpromised Irish Land Bill. ...

    Article : 277 words
  7. CUBA

    The Spanish Government is reinforcing the garrison in the colony of Cuba in the West Indies by eight battalions. This is in consequence of the recent revolt which ...

    Article : 51 words
  8. NEW GUINEA.

    The Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers presided over the meeting of the members of the Royal Colonial Institute at which Sir William McGregor read his ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. AFFAIRS IN AFRICA.

    Further reports concerning the expedition in Africa under the command of Captain Monteil have been received. It transpir [?] that though mapy ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. THE UNITED STATES.

    Mr. Wilson, the author of the Tariff Revision Bill, has been nominated for the office of Postmaster-General of the United States. ...

    Article : 227 words
  11. HAWAII.

    The Court at Hono ulu, the capital of Hawaii, has passed sentence upon those convicted of being concerned in the late royalist rising on the islands. ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Mr. Clement Markham, in a paper which he will read before the members of the Imperial Institute on Monday, urges that England and the Australasian colonies ...

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  13. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF VICTORIA.

    Lord Brassey has appointed the following to form the Government House Staff in Melbourne during his occupancy of the viceregal office in Victoria: — ...

    Article : 128 words
  14. COLONIAL COMMERCE.

    Canada proposes to send a delegate to Cape Colony for the purpose of carrying on neg [?]tiations for the conclusion of a commercial treaty. ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. REBELLION IN COLOMBIA.

    The discontent long seething in the Republic of Colombia has taken the form of an organized revolt against the Government. ...

    Article : 179 words
  16. THE AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS BILL.

    Mr. Sydney Buxton, the UnderSecretary for the Colonics, has undertaken to introduce in the House of Commons the Australian Customs Bill, ...

    Article : 92 words
  17. THE LATE SIR HENRY RAWLINSON.

    The death at the age of eighty-five of Sir Henry Cres wick Rawlinson, Bart., G.C.B., F.R.S., D.C.L. Oxon., LL.D. Cantab., K.L.S., is announced. ...

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  18. THE SOUDAN.

    The Mahdi has failed in his attempt to organize the Dervishes for a great attack upon the Italians at Kassala, in the Soudan. ...

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  19. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTS.

    Mr. Valentine, the New South Wales dairy expert, has reported to the Agent-General for the colony, Sir Saul Samuel, urging New South ...

    Article : 370 words
  20. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

    The Daily News, in referring to the fifth test cricket match in Melbourne, remarks that the chances seem in favour of the Australian team winning. The ...

    Article : 105 words
  21. DEATH OF AN EX-KHEDIVE.

    The death of 1smail Pasha, formerly Khedive of Egypt, is announced. He was sixty-five years of age. London, March 4. ...

    Article : 469 words
  22. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.

    In the House of Commons the Bill for the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Wales has been read a first time. ...

    Article : 71 words
  23. AUSTRALIAN MINING.

    Shares for £87,000 in the Australia Go'dmining Company, formed to acquire aud develop the mining lease 147 at Coolgardie, have been allotted. ...

    Article : 163 words
  24. THE INFLUENZA.

    Five hundred deaths have been registered in Paris within the past week as due to influenza. London, March 4. ...

    Article : 127 words
  25. SWAZILAND.

    The King of Swaziland, who recently declared his determination to remain faithful to Queen Victoria's rule, has summoned his best regiments to assemble ...

    Article : 62 words
  26. AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES.

    To-day the Sydney Harbour Collieries Company, formed with a capital of £500,000, will issue 30,000 £10 preference shares bearing interest at the ...

    Article : 48 words
  27. BROKEN HILL SHARES.

    Broken Hill Proprietary shares are now quoted at 17s., showing a fall of 6d. since the 28th ult. London, March 5. ...

    Article : 47 words
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