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  2. NEEDLES:

    A liliputian letter. Rustenburg has been evacuated. Heavy showers fell during the night. A cheerful given—Mr. R. Barr Smith. ...

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  3. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received August 15, 1.40 a.m.] A RAILWAY FATALITY NEAR ROME,

    Intelligence has been received of a terrible railway fatality which has occurred near Rome. Amongst the passengers by the train ...

    Article : 86 words
  4. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received August 15, 1.40 a.m.] THE WAR.

    President Kruger, it is stated, is retiring to Barberton, a town in the Transvaal, 70 miles west of Lorenzo Marqnez and the centre of the De Kaap goldfields. ...

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  5. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received August 15, 1.40 a.m.] THE CHINESE CRISIS.

    It is reported that Chang Yin Huan, who acted as Chinese envoy at the Queen's Jubilee celebrations in England, has been put to death. He was executed at IIi, a ...

    Article : 221 words
  6. IN MALE ATTIRE.

    Fortunately, each man filled his own glass from the beetle, and Zella had learnt the trick of small quantities. Digges was in an unusuallt good humor; and Zella ...

    Article : 1,449 words
  7. A NATION'S BIRTH.

    During the present century there have been few more epoch-making events than the passing into law of the statute which creates a "Nation for a continent and a ...

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  8. LORD HOPETOUN.

    At a meeting of the Agents-General of the various colonies, presided over by the Hon. H. Copeland, the representative of New South Wales, it was decided to ...

    Article : 77 words
  9. THAT LAST STAND.

    It is reported that Lydenburg, where the Boers, it is understood, have accumulated immense supplies, in anticipation of their making their final stand in this difficult ...

    Article : 60 words
  10. THE ASHANTI RISING.

    It is reported that out of a total of 3,000 combatants, the recent defence and relief of Kumasi entailed a loss of 105 killed, 39 missing, and 680 wounded, many of the ...

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  11. THE TORPEDO BOAT FATALITY.

    It is reported in connection with the collision between the new French torpedoboat, the Framee, and Admiral Fonrnier's flagship, Brennus, in the Straits of ...

    Article : 59 words
  12. RUSTENBURG EVACUATED.

    Latest advices from the front announce the evacuation of Rustenburg, and state that all tne British residents have been taken to Pretoria. ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. SITUATION FAR FROM HOPEFUL.

    The latest news from China reports that the situation is still far from hopeful. Imperial edicts instigating the destruction of foreigners are stated to have been issued ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. AUSTRALIAN NAVAL STATION.

    It is reported that the cost of refitting and rearming the third-class cruiser Archer, 1,770 tons, which is to be commissioned on August 30 for the Australian station, will ...

    Article : 40 words
  15. VICTORIA.

    Twenty-eight Chinese, sought admission to the colony to-day, 15. on exemption certificates, 9 on naturalisation papers, and 4 on tonnage regulations. All were admitted ...

    Article : 102 words
  16. LORD SALISBURY.

    In deference to the advice of his medical attendant, the Marquis of Salisbury has gone to Scrhucht, a health resort in Vosges, a department in Eagfc France, on the ...

    Article : 60 words
  17. ALLIES ON THE MARCH.

    In their march towards Pekin the allied forces encountered the Chinese at Hossina, but the enemy fled panic-stricken at the first shot. The correspondent of the "Daily ...

    Article : 93 words
  18. BULLER'S ADVANCE.

    It is reported that General Sir Redvers Buller's forces have now occupied Ermelo, a towm in the Transvaal situated 63 miles south-west of Barberton. No opposition ...

    Article : 224 words
  19. SWIMMING.

    The 1,000 metres International Swimming Championship was won in Paris yesterday by J. A. Jarvis the champion long-distance racing swimmer of England. Jarvis's time ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. THE STRANDED MAGNAT.

    Salvage operations with the stranded barque Magnat have been interrupted by the recent heavy weather. To-day the steamtng Rescue, with anchors and gear on ...

    Article : 41 words
  21. SHIPMENTS OF GOLD.

    The shipments of gold by the R.M.S. India to-day included £50,000 on account of the London Bank of Australia for London, £8,000 on account of the P. & O. Company ...

    Article : 46 words
  22. MESSAGES FROM PEKIN.

    Further messages are to hand from the besieged Legations, the most important bearing the signatures of the Russian and British Ministers. ...

    Article : 165 words
  23. A BIG WATER SCHEME.

    In the course of his examination by the Railways Standing Committee to-day, Mr. John McGregor, C.E., whose two-million scheme for the supply of the mallee ...

    Article : 88 words
  24. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced at the age of 64 of William Steinitz, the famous chessplayer. ...

    Article : 21 words
  25. QUEENSLAND.

    At the Mount Morgan Police Court to-day Claude Brown, a miner, was charged with shooting a man named Lowry on Sunday night. The police deposed that ...

    Article : 86 words
  26. NEW SOUTH WALES,

    The Manly ferry steamer Brighton was sueessfully floated this morning off the beach at Chowder the hole in her side having been patched up. She was towed to ...

    Article : 72 words
  27. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The R.M.S. Ormuz will earn a sum of about £1,300 as freight on gold, which was shipped by her yesterday, which would have been lost to the company in favor of ...

    Article : 48 words
  28. THE PEKIN LEGATIONS.

    Replying to the edict of the Pekin authorities appointing Li Hung Chang plenipotentiary, with full powers to arrange for a pacific settlement, the American ...

    Article : 229 words
  29. THREE MINERS NEARLY SUFFOCATED.

    Three miners, Albert Davis, Edward Smith, and Thomas Flannery, had a narrow escape from suffocation at the Mitchell's Creek Freehold Gold Estate. A dynamite ...

    Article : 74 words
  30. A MINISTERIAL SPLIT.

    Concerning the recognition of the Railway Employes' Association, matters are seriously strained between Mr. Piesse and the other members of Cabinet. The ...

    Article : 166 words
  31. WOUNDED ANd MISSING BUSHMEN.

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  32. THE BREELONG BLACKS,

    The Governors were tracked to McGee's last night, at Arrowamie, 35 miles south-west of Narrabri. They are making in the direction of Coringle Creek, tending ...

    Article : 419 words
  33. LOVE IN A COTTAGE.

    They may talk of love in a cottage, And bowers cf trellised vine— Of nature bewitehingly simple, And milkmaids half divine; ...

    Article : 213 words
  34. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The coasting steamer Konookarra arrived from McArthur River on Sunday with seven tons of silver ore from Perry's claim. The passengers were Messrs. McLeod and ...

    Article : 43 words
  35. Advertising

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    Advertising : 48 words
  36. LETTER FROM AN AUSTRALIAN.

    Mr. Bands, Government Geologist, has received a letter from Dr. Jack, dated from Chingtu, the capital of Szechuan, June 18, which makes no mention of ...

    Article : 37 words
  37. THE DROUGHT.

    In connection with the drought rains have fallen on parts of the tableland sufficient for good grass. The stock shifted from Brunette are still on the Robinson River. ...

    Article : 214 words
  38. MESSAGE FROM THE SALAMIS.

    A message from the troopship Salamis was discovered on a dead pigeon picked up on the railway line, near Ourimbah, by the statiomnaster. It reads:—"All well and ...

    Article : 142 words
  39. TO-DAY'S ENGAGEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 words
  40. CHAPTER XXXIV.—DANKES APOLOGISES.

    Dankes was up early the next morning He had spent a bad night. Zella had not slept well. Dankes felt, remorseful. Zella was resolved to have her eight hours' sleep ...

    Article : 384 words
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