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  2. GENERAL NEWS.

    Lady Carrington will hold her farewell reception at Government House on Saturday, the 26th inst., at 3.30 p.m. Lady Carrington yesterday consented to ...

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  3. THE STRIKE.

    Intermediary edicts were published yesterday by the two parties to the struggle. The labor leaders revert to past events to show that at a time when they had proclaimed the "ethics of ...

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  4. IRISH MEMBERS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Messrs. John Dillon and William O'Brien, Ms.P., who are under remand charged with conspiracy in inciting tenants to refuse to pay rent, left ...

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  5. THE SOUTHERN COLLIERIES.

    WOLLONGONG, Wednesday. -- Considerable commotion was caused amongst the mining community in this district this morning when it became known that two contingents of ...

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  6. MESSRS. WESTGARTH AND CO.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The financial difficulties of the firm of W. Westgarth and Co. are said to be largely due to the depression in Victorian stocks and to the ...

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  7. THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The unsettled condition of affairs in the Argentina Republic led yesterday to a renewed panic in business circles in Buenos Ayres, the capital. It was ...

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  8. THE EFFECT ON THE RAILWAY RECEIPTS.

    The present disastrous strike is beginning to have a serious effect on the railway receipts. We are informed by the Chief Commissioner that during the past fortnight there has been a ...

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  9. THE SCOTCH IRON STRIKE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Scotch ironmasters remain firm in their determination not to concede the eight-hour principle to the furnacemen in their employment. ...

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  10. THE BOMBO QUARRIES.

    The agreement entered into by the Railway Commissioners with the men employed at the Bombo quarries will come into operation in about a week's time. The men have formed ...

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  11. DOCK LABORERS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Messrs. Tom Mann and Benjamin Tillett both emphatically refute the assertion of the directors of the Allan line of ocean steamers--viz., that ...

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  12. HOW THE SHEARERS WERE NOTIFIED TO RESUME.

    The following, which is an exact copy of a printed circular issued to the Cobar shearers, gives the reasons of the Labor Conference for terminating the strike against the pastoralists ...

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  13. THE WESTERN COLLIERIES.

    LITHGOW, Wednesday.--The miners' aggregate meeting was held to-day in the racecourse paddock, when Mr. Cook (general secretary), who returned from Sydney ...

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  14. A FARMERS' CONFERENCE.

    WAGGA, Wednesday.--A conference of delegates from the Wagga, Albury, Corowa, Doodle, Cooma, Germaton, Hume, Murrumburrah, Temora and Young District Farmers' ...

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  15. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.-- Considerable uneasiness prevails in Portugal as to the result of the Ministerial crisis which has arisen over the Anglo-Portuguese Convention. ...

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  16. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE CONTROL OF THE COLONIES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The papers publish a letter from Mr. Gladstone this morning in which he denounces the manner in which the British colonies are controlled ...

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  17. AT NEWCASTLE.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The executive committee of the Lambton miners to-day declined to entertain the request of several members to get coal at one of the small local ...

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  18. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--In the Legislative Council to-day the Vermin and Distillation Bills were read the third time and passed. Mr. Mr. Krichariff moved the second reading of ...

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  19. COAL FOR THE RAILWAYS.

    The Mayor has been trying for the last two days to get the Labor Defence Committee to allow the miners to hew coal for consumption on the railways. He has had several interviews ...

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  20. ENGLISH SPORTING.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--At the Newmarket Second October meeting yesterday the Cambridgeshire Trial Plate was run, Mr. J. E. Savill's Ringmaster being fourth and Mr. ...

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  21. IN VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Strike matters are absolutely without animation. The executives of the Employers' Union, Pastoralists' Union and Shipowners' Association will ...

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  22. THE NEW RABBIT BILL.

    FORBES, Wednesday.--At a meeting of the Crown Tenants' Union last week the following resolutions moved by Mr. Curr and seconded by Mr. Muir wore carried :--That this ...

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  23. ON THE BARRIER.

    SILVERTON, Wednesday.--The Umberumberka miners have received a reply to the proposals made by them through the A.M.A. to the directors of that mine, that the directors ...

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  24. VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In the Assembly the second reading of the Courts of Conciliation Bill was carried and taken into committee. Mr. Gillies wanted to know why no provision had ...

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  25. PASTORALISTS' UNION.

    A meeting of the council of the Pastoralists' Union was held on Tuesday. The following were elected members of the council :--Messrs. Alexander Wilson (Alexander Wilson and Co.), ...

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  26. A RAILWAY STATION BROKEN INTO.

    NARRANDERA, Wednesday.--The railway stationmaster's office was entered by burglars last night. The door of the ticket-room was found open this morning, the till used for ...

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  27. THE SHEARING DIFFICULTY.

    MURRUMBURRAH, Wednesday.-- Strike matters are quiet bore. All the sheds are busy shearing, no trouble having been experienced right through. ...

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  28. EMPLOYERS' OBJECTIONS TO A CONFERENCE.

    The following semi-official statement on behalf of the employers was prepared for publication :-- "The attitude assumed by the employers ...

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  29. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

    The sum of £2300 was yesterday received towards the strike fund. £320 came from the Typographical Society, £200 from the shipwrights, £100 from the gas-stokers. £50 from ...

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  30. A GOODS TRUCK ON FIRE.

    MURRUMBURRAH, Wednesday.--A track attached to the mixed train from Blayney to Harden, which arrived here at 8.15 p.m. yesterday, caught fire while between Cowra and ...

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  31. A CHARTERS TOWERS SHOOTING CASE.

    CHARTERS TOWERS, Wednesday.--Anthony Convey, a corporation laborer, whose wife died recently, had his children adopted by a man named Fraser. Convey had been drinking and ...

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  32. IN QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Four more stewards applied to be reinstated this morning, but were told there were no vacancies. The companies intimated that they did not intend to discharge ...

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  33. EMBEZZLEMENT AND FORGERY.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--At the criminal sittings to-day Thomas Edward Jenner, for embezzling the sum of £395 10s while engaged in the Hindmarsh branch of the Bank of ...

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  34. A LABOR MANIFESTO.

    The following manifesto was yesterday issued by the Intercolonial Labor Conference:--" Report and recommendations to unionists and the general public: ...

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  35. HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A return famished to the Minister for Education by the Inspector- General of Schools shows that the expenditure on advanced schools for 1889 was ...

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  36. IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--In strike matters the chief centre of attraction to-day was the police court, where the Broadbent assault case was being re-tried. It will be remembered that ...

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  37. MELBOURNE SPORTING NOTES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Nothing of importance transpired in this morning's gallops, either at Flemington or Caulfield. The following scratchings were made to-day : ...

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  38. THE QUEENSLAND SEPARATION MOVEMENT.

    TOWNSVILLE, Wednesday.--Mr. Parkes has received a letter from Mr. Finch Hatton stating that the Colonial Office distinctly favors separation since Governor Norman's dispatch was ...

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  39. THE PACIFIC MAIL SERVICE.

    AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--The New Zealand Government tins received advices that Messrs. J. D. Spreckels Brothers, of San Francisco, have accepted an offer for the renewal of the ...

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  40. CAUGHT IN A HURRICANE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Martin Scott arrived here to-day from Grimsby. She met with a very severe hurricane on September 16 in 1st. 39deg. 33min. south and long. 59deg. 33min. ...

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