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  2. PARNELLISM AND CRIME.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--At to-day's sitting of The Times-Parnell Special Commission, Sir Richard Webster, Attorney- General and leading counsel for The Times, ...

    Article : 328 words
  3. GENERAL NEWS.

    Sir Henry Parkes addressed a crowded meeting of the Bogan electors in the Masonic-hall, Dubbo, last night, on the subject of freetrade. Mr. Soane, Mayor of Dubbo, was in the chair ...

    Article : 3,023 words
  4. THE ELECTIONS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 374 words
  5. THE INTERCOLONIAL TRADES CONGRESS.

    HOBART, Friday.--The Intercolonial Trades and Labor Congress resumed the debts this morning on the motion requesting at all maratime and building councils be ...

    Article : 1,436 words
  6. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--At a meeting of the Central Board of Health to-day, Professor Orme Mason moved, "that the Government be recommended to create a new office in ...

    Article : 94 words
  7. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LOAN.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--Tendering is still proceeding for the South Australian 3½ per cent. loan of £1,300,000. Bankers generally do not agree with the ...

    Article : 72 words
  8. A MINER KILLED AT BULLI.

    BULLI, Friday.-- A miner named Andrew Tressider was killed to-day in the South Bulli Colliery through a piece of coal falling on him and breaking his back and leg. ...

    Article : 36 words
  9. THE LATE FIRE AT NARRABRI.

    NARRABRI, Friday.--At the inquiry held yesterday into the late fire at Narrabri West, where several business premises and stocks, valued at £8000, were destroyed, the jury ...

    Article : 37 words
  10. TEACHING THE BROKERS A LESSON.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Government have received a cablegram from the Agent-General stating that a further sum of £137,000 of the new loan has been subscribed for at par, making ...

    Article : 166 words
  11. FIRE AT FORBES.

    FORBES, Friday.--A fire occurred on North Hill last night in a weather-board cottage occupied by "Tim" Lewis. The brigade arrived in an incredibly short time, but found ...

    Article : 70 words
  12. A SEA CAPTAIN DROWNED.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Captain Lucas, of the schooner Walcon, and a seaman named Scott left Queenscliffe last night to board the schooner which was lying off a jetty near the ...

    Article : 77 words
  13. AN EIGHT-OARED CREW FOR ENGLAND.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A meeting of gentlemen avorable to the proposal to send an Australasian eight-oared crew to compete in England was held in the Town-hall last night. There was a ...

    Article : 240 words
  14. THE NEWCASTLE COLLIERIES.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The first referee's court under the miners' new general agreement wan held to-day at the Newcastle Courthouse. Mr. Alex. Oliver, the referee appointed by the Judge ...

    Article : 1,122 words
  15. TO-DAY'S NOMINATIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 words
  16. GENERAL NOTES.

    In the 19 elections that take place to-day, the freetraders expect to win at least 20 out of the 30 seats. Some leading members of the party think that 23 seats will be secured by ...

    Article : 509 words
  17. SUICIDE OF A WELL-KNOWN MELBOURNE MAN.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A great sensation has been caused in Melbourne by the suicide of a well-known city man, Mr. James Taafe, manager for many years for Messrs. Martin and Co., ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. THE COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--It is believed that the steamer which collided with the barque Large Bay off Beachy Head, in the English Channel, and which sank with all ...

    Article : 45 words
  19. SIR HENRY PARKES AT DUBBO.

    DUBBO, Friday.--Sir Henry Parkes arrived here this morning, and was met at the station by Mr. D. Soane, the Mayor, and several prominent residents, with whom he drove to the ...

    Article : 2,745 words
  20. AN APPEAL TO THE CHARITABLE.

    In our issue of Thursday Miss Myra Kemble made an appeal to the ever-generous public on behalf of a gentlewoman and her five children, who are in the last stage of distress--viz. ...

    Article : 380 words
  21. AGRARIAN CRIME IN IRELAND.

    LONDON, Friday.--An attempt has been made in Ireland to shoot a man named Halloran, who recently returned from Australia, and who had commenced negotiations ...

    Article : 49 words
  22. PARRAMATTA QUARTER SESSIONS.

    The Parramatta Quarter Sessions commenced yesterday. The list was a very short one and was concluded. Mr. W. H. Coffey prosecuted for the Crown and Mr. Beaver was clerk of the ...

    Article : 187 words
  23. THE DEATH OF A CROWN PRINCE.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Emperor Joseph of Austria has written to the Pope stating that the Crown Prince Rudolph committed suicide after having fought a duel. ...

    Article : 35 words
  24. CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--Mr. E. N. C. Braddon, the Tasmanian Agent-General, is combatting the opposition threatened to the new Tasmanian loan of £1,000,000 by the ...

    Article : 43 words
  25. THE POLLING.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 words
  26. THE SLATTERY AND HEYDON APPOINTMENTS.

    Sir,--The "further facts" cited by Mr Collins as justifying the appointment by Mr. Heydon of influential constituents to lucrative Government positions, do not serve the cause. ...

    Article : 662 words
  27. MONARO.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 words
  28. TRUST FUNDS AND COLONIAL SECURITIES.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--It is believed that the operations of financiers in connection with the South Australian loan have ruined all prospects of the Legislature ...

    Article : 41 words
  29. FLOODS IN THE NEWCASTLE DISTRICT.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday.--It has been raining here all day. Shortly before 8 o'clock a heavy thunderstorm burst over the city, swamping the whole of the lowlands in the district and ...

    Article : 233 words
  30. LAND COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Land Company of Australia has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. ...

    Article : 21 words
  31. THE PREMIER AT KIAMA.

    KIAMA, Friday.--A large public meeting was help in the Temperance-hall here this evening. The Mayor of Kiama occupied the chair. The Premier arrived at 8.30 and at once proceeded ...

    Article : 1,183 words
  32. AN IRISH M.P. IMPRISONED.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. Thomas J. Condon, M.P. for East Tipperary, was yesterday sentenced to two months' imprisonment for an offence under the Crimes Act. ...

    Article : 29 words
  33. THE AMERICAN CONSUL AT SAMOA.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. Bayard, American Secretary of State, has dismissed Mr. H. M. Sewell from the position of United States Consul at Samoa. ...

    Article : 29 words
  34. THE VICTORIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The general elections are to be held on March 29. The present Parliament will be allowed to expire by effluxion of time on March 16, and the writs for ...

    Article : 71 words
  35. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AT PARRAMATTA.

    Yesterday evening Mr. Edmund Barton (the Attorney-General) delivered an address to the electors of Parramatta, in support of the candidature of Mr. Byrnes for that place. The ...

    Article : 3,067 words
  36. COLONIAL STOCKS.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.-- Colonial stocks are depressed on the London market. ...

    Article : 15 words
  37. THROWING OIL OF VITRIOL OVER A MAN.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--A case was investigated at the City Police Court this morning, which revealed a bitter hatred between a man named Fredk, Wheatley and a young woman of the ...

    Article : 225 words
  38. THE VICTORIAN CABINET.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--the Cabinet to-day held its first meeting since the return of the Premier and Chief-Secretary from Hobart. It was decided that Lieutenant-Colonel Templeton's ...

    Article : 101 words
  39. DISASTROUS FIRES IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A disastrous fire broke out at about midnight in the Albion Works, owned by Robinson Bros., Campbell and Ross, Limited, on the south bank of the ...

    Article : 162 words
  40. ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER IN VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A deliberate attempt at double murder was made to-day at Campbell's Creek, Castlemaine, by a young man named James Fawkes. Fawkes entered the ...

    Article : 151 words
  41. THE VICTORIAN FLOODS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The body of Mrs. King, who was drowned in the Mansfield floods, has been found in the Goulburn, nine or ten miles from the scene of the disaster. Great ...

    Article : 83 words
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