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  2. THE DOCK LABORERS' STRIKE.

    LONDON, August 30.--The whole country has been convulsed this week by the strikes. These originated with the London dock laborers, who struck work to the number of 3000, demanding ...

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  3. THE A.J.C. SPRING MEETING.

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  4. THE JUBILEE PLUNGER.

    LONDON, August 30.--"How I lost £250,000 in Two Years." Under this heading Ernest Benzon has written in one volume an interesting sketch of his racing and gambling career. The ...

    Article : 1,116 words
  5. THE NEW SOUTH WALES OYSTER FISHERIES.

    In one of his charming poems Whittier has embalmed an incident of the old colonial days of the State of Connecticut-- the days, as he cynically puts it, "when, a custom laid aside ...

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  6. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

    WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--The ceremony of dedicating the tower to accommodate the bells belonging to St. Paul's Church, West Maitland, took place yesterday afternoon in the ...

    Article : 103 words
  7. THE COST OF PROTECTION IN AMERICA.

    Mr. Carruthers (writes a correspondent) seems to have thrown a bombshell into the protectionist camp by his statements that the protected labor of America numbered about ...

    Article : 924 words
  8. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL FOR SHEEP-STEALING.

    GUNDAGAI, Saturday.--At the police court to-day Charles Field, a selector and an old resident of the district, was committed for trial to the Gundagai Sessions on November 15 next on ...

    Article : 42 words
  9. THE GRAFTON-TWEED RAILWAY.

    GRAFTON, Saturday.--The passing of the Grafton-Tweed railway line has given general satisfaction throughout the district, and the Commissioners' report thereon, published here ...

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  10. AN ENGINE DERAILED AT QUEANBEYAN.

    QUEANBEYAN, Saturday.--An engine and tender, while being prepared to take the Sydney train on to Cooma at 6 o'clock this morning, became derailed, through the points being left ...

    Article : 68 words
  11. GRAFTON COUNCIL VACANCY.

    GRAFTON, Saturday.--The nomination of an alderman for the vacancy in the borough council took place at noon to-day. Mr. Herman Schaffer was declared elected, Mr. ...

    Article : 49 words
  12. PRESENTATION TO A SCHOOL TEACHER.

    GLOUCESTER, Saturday.--Mr. T. G. Pyman, teacher of the public school, Barrington, who is proceeding to Rothbury, was made the recipient of two handsome testimonials ...

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  13. THE LAND BILL.

    WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--Considerable satisfaction is expressed in local circles at the Land Bill having been passed through both Houses. The new bill is expected to prove a ...

    Article : 39 words
  14. THE HOPEFUL PRISONERS.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.-- The Chief Justice is considering the case of the Hopeful prisoners, and his report is daily expected to be handed to the Government. ...

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  15. A NOVEL WILL CASE.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--In the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Harding, a novel will case was heard. Thomas Pain, of Bowra station, near Cunnamulla, made a will which ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. THE NEWCASTLE COURTHOUSE.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--An inspection of the local courthouse has been made by Mr. Lewis, inspector of public buildings, and a number of alterations will be made to the building in order ...

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  17. A SYDNEY PUBLICAN INJURED.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A man named Samuel Simmonds, landlord of the Black Dog Hotel, Sydney, met with a serious accident on Friday. He was staying at the Crystal Palace Hotel, ...

    Article : 87 words
  18. DROWNING OF A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.

    AUCKLAND, Sunday.--Major Jackson, member of the House of Representatives for Waipa, fell overboard and was drowned during the voyage of the steamer Rotorua, which arrived ...

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  19. DEATH OF A CHIEF OFFICER.

    AUCKLAND, Sunday.--The barque William Turner, belonging to Mr. J. C. Ellis, of Sydney, arrived here to-day from Fiji with sugar. The captain reports the death of Chief-officer ...

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  20. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE NEAR ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Mrs. M. A. Loudes, wife of Mr. Edward Loudes, engineer, of Islington, has mysteriously disappeared. She left her home last Monday to proceed to the ...

    Article : 58 words
  21. HORRIBLE DEATH IN A MINE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A fatal accident occurred at the Smeaton Reserve Gold Mine, Creewick, on Saturday. Assistant -shaftman William Gillies, 36 years of age, while fastening ...

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  22. A SOMNAMBULISTIC SWIM.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--A young man in a state of somnambulism was found yesterday morning in the middle of the Brisbane River attempting to swim across. He was awakened ...

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  23. VICTORIAN DUTIES AND FEDERATION.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The annual banquet of the Locomotive Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association was held last night in the Town-hall. Amongst the guests were the Chief ...

    Article : 392 words
  24. WAGGA CIRCUIT COURT.

    WAGGA, Sunday.-- The Wagga Circuit Court concluded its sittings on Saturday afternoon. A German farmer named Samuel Christian Rigea, living in Narrandera, charged with ...

    Article : 195 words
  25. OPPRESSIVE WEATHER IN BRISBANE.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--The weather yesterday and to-day has been most oppressive. A thunderstorm passed over the city last night, daring which the lightning struck the Long ...

    Article : 48 words
  26. ACCIDENTS.

    A schoolboy named William John Stitt, residing with his parents at Pyrmont, was on Saturday riding on a baker's cart along Point-road, near the sugar-works, when he was jolted ...

    Article : 119 words
  27. THE WRECK OF THE KORANUI.

    AUCKLAND, Sunday.--The divers are already at work endeavoring to get at some of the valuables lost by the foundering of the steamer Koranui on Thursday night. Captain Hill ...

    Article : 63 words
  28. BISHOP OF CHRISTCHURCH.

    AUCKLAND, Sunday.--The diocesan synod at Canterbury have almost unanimously elected Archdeacon Churchill Julius, of Ballarat (Vic.) Bishop of Christchurch. ...

    Article : 90 words
  29. THE SHEARING SEASON.

    GUNNEDAH, Saturday.--Shearing in the Liverpool Plains district will shortly be terminated. Burburgate station have now a full board working under station rules; Gunnible ...

    Article : 69 words
  30. THE TRADES.

    The Balmain Associated Laborers' Union celebrated the unfurling of a new banner on Saturday afternoon on Montague -hill, Balmain. The Naval Volunteer Band provided an ...

    Article : 224 words
  31. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS !

    Sir,--A very painful case of distress, which I am quite unable to relieve without help, has been brought to my knowledge within the last few days, and I venture to ask you to do me ...

    Article : 208 words
  32. ROBBERY AT A MELBOURNE HOTEL.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Sir Robert Peel Hotel, in Collingwood, was the scene of a daring robbery on Saturday night. Two men entered the bedroom of the proprietor and stole ...

    Article : 67 words
  33. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

    Mrs. Johnson, who was recently assaulted by her husband at Currier (Q.), has died from her injuries. The husband, charged with the assault, will now be indicted for manslaughter. ...

    Article : 141 words
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