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  4. THE CORRECTNESS OF SCALES.

    SCALES are now made of such nice adjustment that they will weigh anything to the smallest hair plucked from the eyebrow. They are triumphs ...

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  5. Cricket.

    The return match between the Drayton School Girls and Middle Ridge School Girls was played on the grounds of the Middle Ridge School on Saturday, the 18th May. Owing to ...

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  6. TELEGRAMS.

    The Bill to provide for the appointment of colonial Judges as members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which Sir William Harcourt intimated a few days ago ...

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  7. AN INFORMATION BUREAU.

    Mr. W. M'Millan, M.L.A., of Sydney, is advocating the establishment of an information bureau as a branch of the Agent-General's Department, and has discussed the matter in a ...

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  8. ORIGIN OF THE POSTAL CARD.

    POSTAL cards have been in circulation a little less than twenty four years. The idea originated with Dr Emanuel Hormann, a professor of national ...

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  9. COLONIAL APPLES.

    The market for colonial apples is firmer, and the shipment by the Oceana is fetching 8s. to 13s. per case, while a few selected lots of Victorian apples have been sold at 12s. 6d. to ...

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  10. MEAT TAX IN CAPE COLONY.

    News received from Capetown states that a public meeting is being organised there to protest against the proposal of the Government of Cape Colony to include frozen meat in the ...

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  11. DISASTROUS GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.

    An explosion has occurred in a gunpowder factory at Sin Francisco with disastrous results, fourteen persons being killed. ...

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  12. TERRIBLE MINING ACCIDENT.

    A terrible mining accident has occurred in Virginia, U.S.A. where 130 miners are reported to have been entombed. ...

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  13. THE RACEHORSE CARBINE.

    The racehorse Carbine has arrived at Gravesend. The horse appears to be none the worse for the treatment he underwent at Colombo. Carbine will proceed to Welbeck Abbey, the ...

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  14. A DISASTROUS WRECK.

    Information has been received that the Spanish steamer Gravina, 1245 tons gross register, belonging to the port of Barcelona, has been wrecked at the Philippine Islands, and 168 ...

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  15. MINING ACCIDENT IN AMERICA.

    It was reported yesterday that a mining accident had occurred in Virginia (U.S.A.) by which 120 miners were entombed. Fortunately, however, there has been no lose of life, as later ...

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  16. BRITISH POLITICS.

    The Marquis of Salisbury delivered a speech at Bradford last night, in which he urged that the Government should attend to matters of social reform instead of pursuing a policy which would ...

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  17. DO NOT EAT FRUIT SKINS.

    The following paragraph is going the rounds:--The skins of fruit should never be eaten, not because they are not palatable or digestible, or are ...

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  18. THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

    Speaking in the City last night on the subject of bimetallism; Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, appealed to the experience of the past fifty years in favour of maintaining the ...

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  19. SENSATIONAL ROBBERY.

    A sensational robbery was committed to-day at the London branch of the Manchester and Salford Bank. The thief snatched from the counter a case containing £3000 and succeeded ...

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  20. GOVERNORSHIP OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    It is rumoured in official circles that the Earl of Glasgow, now Governor of New Zealand, will be appointed Governor of New South Wales in succession to the late Sir Robert Daff. ...

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  21. COLONIAL APPLES.

    The shipment of Tasmanian apples by the steamer Aberdeen has arrived in bad condition, and some of the fruit is rotten. ...

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  22. TIMBER SHIPMENTS.

    Of the shipment of stringy-bark timber sent by the steamer Echuca 954 planks have been sold at 8½d,. per cubic foot. The brokers consider that it is useless to ship this timber to ...

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  23. COSTLY PARLIAMENTS.

    IT may not be generally known that the costliest Parliament in the world is the democratic one of France, the two Chambers annually costing the ...

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