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  2. CABLE MESSAGES. MR. GLADSTONE.

    There is still keen speculation as to the probabilities of Mr. Gladstone's retirement from the House of Commons. In the lobby to-day a rumor was current ...

    Article : 112 words
  3. AN AUDACIOUS BURGLARY

    The house of Mr. Frank L. Clausen, of Clifton-street, Malvern, was broken into on Sunday, and the detectives are now endeavoring to obtain some cine which may lead to the ...

    Article : 583 words
  4. CABLE MESSAGES. WHITEHALL AND THE COLONIES.

    The London press is unanimous in condemning the indiscretion of the Treasury in permitting the publication of Mr. A. R. Peel's paper on "The ...

    Article : 152 words
  5. GENERAL NEWS.

    His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor will entertain the members of the three Metho. dist Conferences at a garden party at Government House to-morrow afternoon. Guests , ...

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  6. CABLE MESSAGES. THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK.

    The Paris Debate rejoices in the announcement of the forthcoming meeting of the three Emperors as likely to tend to the establishment of an entente cordiale ...

    Article : 55 words
  7. CABLE MESSAGES. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.

    By the explosion of a large boiler today in a foundry at Alexandrovsk, a town six miles south-east of St. Petersburg, 25 workmen were instantly killed, while ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. CABLE MESSAGES. FIRE IN A WOOLLEN MILL.

    A terribly destructive fire has taken place at the extensive woollen factories of Messrs. Henry Pease & Co., "The Mills," Darlington, Durham. ...

    Article : 160 words
  9. ADELAIDE BUTTER.

    The Adelaide factory butter shipped to London by the P. and O. mail steamer Arcadia, which left Largs Bay on January 17, has been sold at 115s. per ...

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  10. MELBOURNE WORKS BOARD.

    Messrs. Panmure, Gordon, & Co. have offered to take immediately at par, exclusive of expenses, the whole of the new 4½ per cent loan of £500,000, for which ...

    Article : 76 words
  11. BRITISH POLITICS. NEEDFUL SCOTCH LEGISLATION.

    Mr. Gladstone has promised that next session he will refer such measures relating to Scotland as are urgently needed to a Grand Committee so that their passage ...

    Article : 47 words
  12. BUTTER FREIGHTS.

    The Hon. B. Reid, Victorian Minister of Defence, who has been in communication with the various steamship companies trading with Australia with ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. THE CANADIAN SCANDALS

    Mr. Thomas McGreevy, ex-member for Quebec, who with Mr. N. K. Connolly, president of the Richelieu-Ontario Steamboat Company, one of the largest companies in Canada, was in November last ...

    Article : 63 words
  14. RUSSIA AND COREA.

    The Russians are persisting in their intrigues to obtain a footing in Corea. They have applied to the King for permission to establish in the province of ...

    Article : 96 words
  15. A CURIOUS MARRIAGE.

    A sensation has been caused by the circumstances attending the marriage of Miss Hopkins, an immensely wealthy American heiress, who has been staying ...

    Article : 95 words
  16. THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

    Her Majesty the Queen is deeply grieved at the loss sustained by the naval forces in their attack upon the slavedealers on the Gambia coast, and has ...

    Article : 60 words
  17. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    For the second series of London wool sales 9,300 Australian bales have been catalogued. ...

    Article : 22 words
  18. THE BRAZILIAN REVOLT.

    It transpires that in the sinking of the insurgent warship Jupiter by the Brazilian Government cruiser Niethbroy, the entire crew were drowned. ...

    Article : 29 words
  19. THE PACIFIC ROUTE.

    Sir Andrew Clarke, Acting-AgentGeneral for Victoria, strongly commends the request of Huddart, Parker, & Co. for an Imperial subsidy few their new ...

    Article : 68 words
  20. BABY FARMING IN ITALY.

    The Sicilian Criminal Court is engaged in the trial of several heartless scoundrels who are accused of strangling some of the inmates of the orphanage at ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. NEW SOUTH WALES STOCK.

    New South Wales 3½ per cents, are quoted at £100 10s. ...

    Article : 19 words
  22. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 21 words
  23. THE SILVER QUESTION.

    A mass meeting, embracing natives and Europeans, has been held at Calcutta, at which a resolution was carried demanding the adoption of measures to ...

    Article : 48 words
  24. VICTORIAN WEHLEYAN CONFERENCE

    The annual Conference in connection with die Victorian and Tasmanian sections of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church was opened to-day, ...

    Article : 70 words
  25. INDIAN RUPEE PAPER.

    Indian rupee paper is quoted at £57 5s. ...

    Article : 15 words
  26. AFFAIRS IN UGANDA.

    Captain Arthur Hardinge has been appointed British High Commissioner to Uganda, Central Africa, in succession to to sir Gerald H. Portal, whose death ...

    Article : 43 words
  27. MESSRS. LORIMER. ROME & CO. INSOLVENT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 257 words
  28. DEATHS UNDER CHLOROFORM.

    Sydney, February 27. Inquests were held to-day on the bodies of Kate Alice Baker and Mrs. Lang, who died yesterday while under the influence of chloroform. In each case ...

    Article : 52 words
  29. HEAVY RAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Bourke reports very heavy rains throughout the pastoral districts towards the Queensland border, ranging from 2½ to 13 in. ...

    Article : 28 words
  30. NEGLECT OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

    Sir—Having been engaged in [?] work in this colony for some 14 year I would ask a small portion of your valuable space to say a few words on the present [?] of ...

    Article : 948 words
  31. FALSE PRETENCES.

    Thomas Brown, a young man, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of obtaining £37 12s. 6d. from Eleanor Wotton means of false [?] The ...

    Article : 89 words
  32. THE MERCANTILE BANK CASE.

    The Mercantile Bank prosecutions have practically closed. Mr. Ducker to-day was not prepared for the continuation of the cross-examination of Mr. Ainsley. ...

    Article : 154 words
  33. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Morgan moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to the necessity for the introduction of legislation ...

    Article : 282 words
  34. ANOTHER GOLD RUSH.

    This morning our little community was thrown into a state of great excitement in consequence of a report of a rich find having been made in the Broken HOI Syndicate claim ...

    Article : 810 words
  35. VICTORIAN PROPERTY DISTRIBUTION. COMPANY.

    The promoters of the Victorian Property Distribution Co. were before the District Court to-day on a charge of conducting a lottery. The case was adjourned ...

    Article : 42 words
  36. SUDDEN DEATH IN MELBOURNE.

    An enquiry was held to-day into the circumstances surrounding the death of Baron Richard Poche Lettmayer, an Austrian, who died suddenly at the Grand ...

    Article : 127 words
  37. SYDNEY WESLEYAN METHODIST CONFERENCE.

    The annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church was opened to-night at the Centenary Hall. The Rev. Joseph Spence, of Rand wick, was elected ...

    Article : 101 words
  38. TASMANIAN POLITICS.

    At a private meeting of members of Parliament this morning the Hon. B. S. Bird was elected for the Speakership by 18 votes to 7. ...

    Article : 118 words
  39. FLOOD IN QUEENSLAND.

    The Railway Department has received a telegram from Rockhampton stating that the railway between Pine Hill and Longreach, for a distance of a mile and a ...

    Article : 51 words
  40. FRESH FOOD FROZEN STORAGE COMPANY.

    The shareholders of the Fresh Food Frozen Storage Company met to-day, Mr. W. T. Webb (Minister of Agriculture) presiding. The ...

    Article : 136 words
  41. BANK OF VICTORIA.

    The Bank of Victoria to-day took action against J. T. T. Smith for the recovery of £7,611 on a guarantee to secure the indebtedness of Sydney Smith. ...

    Article : 50 words
  42. BRAVERY REWARDED.

    Office-keeper Vincent, Henry Cooper, a petty officer of the Ringarooma, and Constable Williams, have been awarded £5 each by the Government for their ...

    Article : 40 words
  43. AUSTRALIAN NAVAL SERVICE.

    Sydney, February The time-expired men from H.M. ships Ringdove and Orlando left for London to-day by the R.M.S. Cuzco. The homeward-bound included ...

    Article : 46 words
  44. CRIME IN TASMANIA.

    At the Supreme Court to-day, before his Honor the Chief Justice, Normoyle, who shot George Knight at Newton, was found guilty of manslaughter. He will ...

    Article : 87 words
  45. WRECK OF THE AARHUS.

    A meeting of the Queensland Underwriters' Association was held to-day when the matter of the barque Aarhus, lost near Cape Moreton on Saturday, was ...

    Article : 44 words
  46. CO-OPERATIVE SETTLEMENTS IN QUEENSLAND.

    Two of the co-operative land settlement groups are applying for further monetary assistance. bus far the groups have been paid £12 per member. The ...

    Article : 47 words
  47. Advertising

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