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  2. A TOUR THROUGH INDIA. No. IX.

    We read of the neighborhood of what is now called Delhi in the commencement of the oldest poem that the literature of India contains—the Mahabarata. Here ...

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  3. THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.

    The hearing of the petition for the voluntary liquidation of the Australian Joint Stock Bank has been postponed until June 7. The directors in the ...

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  4. CABLE MESSAGES. THE CRISIS IN GERMANY.

    As the result of a meeting of the Prussian Cabinet yesterday Count von Caprivi has announced his willingness to modify the provisions of the Army Bill, ...

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  5. THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

    The attendance was small when the game between the Australians and the Gloucestershire men was resumed today, owing to the poor display made by ...

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  6. CABLE MESSAGES. SIR ALFRED STEPHEN.

    The appointment of Sir Alfred Stephen, G.C.M.G., C.B., Lieutenant – Governor and ex-Chief Justice of New South Wales, as a Privy Councillor is gazetted. ...

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  7. CABLE MESSAGES. ABOLISHING THE "SPOILS" SYSTEM.

    President Cleveland has announced his intention of abolishing the system of political patronage and of reforming the Civil Service of the United States. ...

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  8. The Advertiser. FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1893.

    Now is the time for a financial genius to arise in Australia. If there is any truth in the " great man " theory offered by way of explaining historical events, it ...

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  9. CABLE MESSAGES. THE HOME RULE BILL.

    Clause 2 of the Home Rule Bill, which empowers an Irish Parliament to make laws for the government of Ireland, has ...

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  10. KING, KING, & CO.

    Messrs. King, King, & Co., Australian merchants, who have called a meeting of their creditors, propose to go into voluntary liquidation. ...

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  11. SPEECH BY MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

    Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, addressing his constituents in Birmingham yesterday, declared that there were manifest ...

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  12. SLAVE-DEALING IN MOROCCO.

    The British Anti-Slavery Society are memorialising the Government in reference to the increase of slave-dealing in Marocco. It is alleged that in Tangier ...

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  13. AUSTRALIAN FRUIT.

    The Tasmanian fruitgrowers are stated to be negotiating with the shipowners for the reduction of freights to 50s. a ton. Mr. Shoobridge declares that the demand ...

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  14. THE ROYAL BANK OF QUEENSLAND.

    The London manager of the Royal Bank of Queensland states that he is confident of being able to reconstruct the institution as its financial position is very ...

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  15. SCOTCH DEPOSITS.

    The Edinburgh and Glasgow papers are urging Scottish depositors in suspended Australian banks to adhere to the proposal for the appointment of a local ...

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  16. IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

    Sir John Lubbock, M.P., D.C.L., LL.D., M.D., F.R.S., addressing a meeting of the Imperial Federation League, said the recent change of ...

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  17. PARIS BANK SUSPENDED.

    The suspension is announced of the National Fund Bank, a Paris institution, whose liability is estimated at £1,000,000. ...

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  18. THE BOHEMIAN DIET.

    A disorderly scene was witnessed in the Bohemian Diet yesterday. During a debate on the constitution the. Czech members, after a warm protest against ...

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  19. COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

    Application was made to the court today by Mr. Guinness for an order for the compulsory winding up of the Commercial Bank of Australia. The petitioner argued ...

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  20. AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.

    The cargo of wheat by the barque Phyllis, 932 tons, from Port Broughton January 26, has realised 30s. 9d. a quarter. ...

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  21. THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION.

    The visitors at the World's Fair at Chicago are falling off in number, and the diminution of popular interest is exciting much concern on the part of the ...

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  22. PROPRIETARY SHARES.

    Broken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at £3 as. ...

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  23. THE MATCH AGAINST M.C.C.

    The Australian Eleven this morning began the match against M.C.C. and Ground. The M.C.C. team consisted of the following players:— ...

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  24. THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE.

    The reception given by the Prince of Wales at the Imperial Institute yesterday proved a specially brilliant affair. Some 15,000 persons, including distinguished ...

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  25. VISCOUNT GORMANSTON.

    Viscount Gormanston, the Governordesignate of Tasmania, will sail for Hobart on June 27. ...

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  26. THE FRENCH IN SIAM.

    The hostilities between the French and the Lhams and other tribesmen in Siam have resulted .in the repulse of the former with heavy loss, many officers .being ...

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  27. THE BANK OF VICTORIA.

    A committee of seven, appointed at a meeting of dissatisfied depositors in the Bank of Victoria, waited upon the management to-day and discussed the ...

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  28. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    Silver has risen [?]., the latest quotation being 3s. [?]. per oz. ...

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  29. COLONIAL STOCKS.

    New South Wales 3½ per cents, are quoted at £84, Victorian at £81, and Queensland £73. ...

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  30. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN MELBOURNE.

    A terrible tragedy took, place at South Melbourne last night, when a woman, Margaret Clark, aged 45 years, was shot dead by John Smith at the woman's ...

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  31. MERCANTILE BANK CASES.

    A great deal of discontent was manifested in the city to-day at the decision of the Attorney-General not to proceed with the prosecution of Sir Matthew ...

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  32. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    Before the Legislative Assembly rose this morning the Military Estimates had been put through. The estimate was set down and passed at £214.000 as ...

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  33. SMALLPOX IN WEST AUSTRALIA.

    No fresh cases of smallpox have broken out. ...

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  34. NEWSOUTH WALES COLLIERIES.

    The ballot amongst the Western colliery district lodges has resulted in a large majority voting against the compromise of the management at three of the pits. ...

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  35. THE ACCIDENT ON THE LIZARD.

    An enquiry was held to-day on board the lizard into th6 fatal accident that occurred in the stokehole of the vessel. Captain Johnson, of the Ringarooma, ...

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  36. CITY OF MELBOURNE BANK.

    The Chief Justice has ordered separate meetings of the shareholders and creditors in the City of Melbourne Bank to be held at the Athenaeum Hall on May 30. ...

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  37. POSITION IN SYDNEY.

    The Daily Telegraph suggests that with a view of setting free a portion of the locked-up current accounts in New South Wales the Government should ...

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  38. A BIG FAILURE.

    Edward Lowenstein Yencken, a merchant, of William – road, Toorak, has sequestrated his estate, and to-day he filed his schedule at the Insolvency Court. ...

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  39. SHIPWRECKED NATIVES.

    The lugger Little Jack arrived yesterday, bringing in seven of the mainland natives, who formed a part of a boat's crew which was reported to have ...

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  40. SYDNEY PERMANENT MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY.

    The annual meeting of the Permanent Mutual Benefit Building and Investment Society was held to-day. The report and balance-sheet showed that the receipts! ...

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  41. THE GRAND COFFEE FALACE.

    The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Grand Coffee Palace was held today. The year was started with a balance on the wrong side of £648, but this was ...

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  42. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

    R[?]nding the proclamation of a quarantine ground for stock in the hundred of Davenport; dedicating lands in the hundreds of Bartleth, Stewart, Wauraltee. Yadnaria, ...

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  43. GAMBLING IN VICTORIA.

    The totalizator cases were before the City Court to-day, when Alexander Calder, Edward Harrison, and Henry Cohen were charged with being the keepers of common gaining houses. ...

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  44. SAMOAN NEWS.

    The latest news from Samoa states that Mataafaa's attitude still causes anxiety. Hostilities continue at Tutmett, and severe fighting is expected there. ...

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  45. WRECKAGE DISCOVERED.

    Wreckage, apparently belonging to a vessel of about 400 tons, built of Oregon pine, has drifted ashore at Tutcia. ...

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  46. CASE OF SUICIDE.

    David Crow, a steerage passenger on board the Waihora, jumped overboard and was drowned. Crow was formerly employed in the New South Wales ...

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  47. POSITION IN BRISBANE. SHIPMENT OF SOVEREIGNS FROM SYDNEY.

    The North Brisbane Corporation has arranged with the Union Bank to carry on, and there will be no need to discharge the employes. All laborers ...

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  48. "LONG-FIRM" SWINDLES.

    At the Water Police Court to-day two men named Fred Ogle and Louis Hallstein were remanded on a charge of being concerned with James Leonard in a ...

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  49. A CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

    An inquest was concluded to-day on the bodies of an unmarried woman named H. E. Blom and her child. The woma died ...

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  50. METROPOLITAN PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY.

    At a meeting of the members of the Metropolitan Permanent Building and Investment Society to-day power was given the liquidators to compromise with ...

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  51. FEMALE DEPRAVITY.

    At the District Court to-day a woman, Annie Wilson, was charged with dispatching an obscene letter through the post to Mrs. Cuthbert, whose husband is living ...

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  52. A SHIP DESTROYED BY FIRE.

    The American files show that the ship King James, a four-masted coal vessel from Newcastle to San Diego, was burned at sea. The cargo caught fire on March ...

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  53. LITERARY SOCIETIES.

    The Fort Congregational Literary Society after having been in recess for a number of months reopened for the winter cession on Thursday evening, when Mr. A. W. Dobbie ...

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  54. THE ULIDIA A TOTAL WRECKA.

    The ship Ulidia, which left Fremantle last night in ballast for Newcastle, ran upon a reef a couple of miles south of Rottnest. The steamer Dolphin ...

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  55. CANADA AND AUSTRALIA.

    The Miowera, the pioneer steamer of the new Vancouver mail service inaugurated by Huddart, Parker, & Co., left for Vancouver via Brisbane and Honolulu ...

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  56. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    An enquiry was held at Guildford yesterday into the recent collision on the private zig-zag railway-line of the Canning Timber Company. The evidence showed ...

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  57. THE UNION SHIPPING COMPANY.

    The manager of the Union Shipping Company has notified his intention to maintain the coastal fares at last summer's rates notwithstanding the ...

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  58. GOLD MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Reports are to hand to cue effect that good alluvial gold has been struck on die Burra Burra run, between Parkes and Condobolin, and about 40 miles ...

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  59. UNIVERSAL BUILDING SOCIETY.

    The half-yearly meeting of the Universal Permanent Building and Investment Society was held to-day. During the half-year the company repaid £16,174 ...

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  60. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

    Mr. Seddon, the Premier, delivered at Napier to-night his first public address since his appointment. The Premier declared the intention of the Government ...

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  61. VICTORIAN POLITICS.

    Parliament is to be further prorogued till probably June 28, when it is likely that the Houses will assemble. ...

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  62. THE DRUNKEN MAN'S SAFEGUARD.

    It is held by many that a special providence hovers over drunken people and children, so that they an but rarely injured when they fall down. Of course this is only a theory. The ...

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  63. TROUBLESOME NATIVES.

    The native depredations in the Murchison district have ceased, the additional police protection being sufficient to keep the aborigines in check. ...

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  64. SIR GEORGE DIBBS.

    Sir Geo. Dibbs's examination in bankruptcy was again called on to-day, but with the consent of the petitioning creditor was further postponed till June ...

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  65. GOLD MINING IN WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Some stone has been struck at the 130ft. level at Fraser's South mine which is very rich in quality, and it is estimated that it will average 5 oz. to the ton. ...

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  66. THE ROYAL ENGAGEMENT.

    The Governor has dispatched the following cable to the Queen:—"On behalf of the Government I offer my humble compliments to her Majesty the ...

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