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  2. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPERS.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--At a meeting of Australian shippers held to-day it was decided that the freight committee should consist of eight shippers, four brokers and ...

    Article : 123 words
  3. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

    WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--At an inquest held by the coroner (Mr. A. Vindin) as to the cause of a fire breaking out in the drapery store of Mr. John Barlow, in West Maitland, last ...

    Article : 101 words
  4. THE WOMEN'S EXHIBITION.

    The interior of the Exhibition Building at Prince Alfred Park presented a brilliant spectacle yesterday afternoon on the occasion of the opening of the Exhibition of Women's ...

    Article : 676 words
  5. THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.

    Under date October 1, Mr. D. M'Donald, the miners' secretary, has sent the following to Mr. W. Wilson, manager of the South Bulli Colliery: ...

    Article : 1,899 words
  6. EDUCATIONAL.

    The portion of the catalogue dealing with department V, and which comprises the educational side of women's industries, will be found of little assistance to the visitor. Eleven ...

    Article : 379 words
  7. THE BANQUET TO MR. BRUNKER.

    WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--The residents of West Maitland have finally determined to entertain the Minister for Lands, Mr. James N. Brunker, at a banquet on Tuesday, October 9. ...

    Article : 50 words
  8. THE BROKEN-HILL WATER SUPPLY.

    BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--The adjourned meeting on the water question, which was to have been held to-night, has been postponed till Friday, owing to the absence of several ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. CUSTOMS RECEIPTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 words
  10. PECULIAR SHOOTING CASE.

    ALBURY, Tuesday.--A shooting case, presenting some peculiar features, is reported to hare occurred at Brocklesby, an agricultural centre in this district. Alice Parnaby, a girl ...

    Article : 158 words
  11. THE MURDERS IN LONDON.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The excitement over the horrible murders in London continues unabated. The newspapers have urged the ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. GRAFTON HARBOR AND RAILWAY LEAGUE.

    GRAFTON, Tuesday.--At the meeting of the executive committee of the Harbor and Railway League held to-day all the sheets of signature were sent in, and it was decided to forward the ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. MECHANICAL WORK.

    Mrs. Fairfax is the delegate of the subdivision upon which has been bestowed this comprehensive term. From a merely spectacular point of view the department is the most ...

    Article : 1,421 words
  14. NEEDLEWORK. KNITTING. &c.

    Mrs. Gurney is the delegate for both these departments, 1 and 2, in which there are more than 3000 exhibitors. In the first--needlework and lace--there are 11 sections for general ...

    Article : 169 words
  15. SMUGGLING SUGAR.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--At the police court, Tenterfield, to-day a hawker named August Glohe was fined £100, or three months, for smuggling 48 bags of sugar across the border. ...

    Article : 31 words
  16. THE BRISBANE WATER SUPPLY.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--In consequence of the continued dry season the Water Works Board have notified that they will turn the water off should consumers be found wasting it. ...

    Article : 33 words
  17. THE FREETRADE ASSOCIATION.

    COOMA, Tuesday.--Mr. Alfred Miller, representative of the Freetrade Association, lectured last evening from the balcony of Cohen's Hotel on the subject of freetrade. The Mayor ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. QUEENSLAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE AGENCY COMPANY.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--At a meeting of the shareholders of the proposed Queensland Farmers' Co-operative Agency Company held to-day it was stated that the company promised ...

    Article : 65 words
  19. IMMIGRANTS FOR QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Five hundred emigrants left London yesterday for Queensland. ...

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  20. THE CENTENARY FAIR.

    It is chiefly upon the Centenary Fair that the profits of the Exhibition as a whole depend, and no pains have been spared to make it as attractive as it is large. Inasmuch as it offers ...

    Article : 683 words
  21. THE DIFFICULTY IN THE CARPENTERING TRADE.

    The difficulty in the carpentering trade has not undergone any important development since the aggregate meeting held in the Temperance-hall on Saturday night. The ...

    Article : 87 words
  22. QUEENSLAND WOOL.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The R.M.S. Merkara, which leaves on Thursday morning, takes 5000 bales of wool from Brisbane and 2000 from Townsville. ...

    Article : 23 words
  23. BOULANGER AND HIS PARTY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--M. Goblet, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a speech delivered yesterday maintained that if the French people elected supporters of General ...

    Article : 69 words
  24. THE BRISBANE SLANDER CASE.

    BRISBANE Tuesday.--The slander action Sir Thomas M'llwraith versus Mr. Grimes, a member of the Assembly, was before the Full Court to-day, the plaintiff seeking to expunge ...

    Article : 48 words
  25. THE FINE ARTS.

    There is a profuse and a very interesting, but, at the same time, a disorderly display in the Department of Fine Arts, which covers all the gallery wall-space. At the north end, ...

    Article : 857 words
  26. NEWCASTLE BRANCH OF THE LONDON CHARTERED BANK.

    NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The foundation stone of the new London Chartered Bank, at the corner of Scott and Bolton streets, was laid this afternoon by Mrs. W. A. Orr, wife of the ...

    Article : 136 words
  27. VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The debate on tHe second reading of the Redistribution of Seats Bill occupied nearly the whole of to-day's sitting of the Legislative Assembly, but speeches ...

    Article : 94 words
  28. THE DIARY OF THE LATE FREDERICK III.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--It is stated that Professor Geffcken, of Hamburg, who bas been arrested at the instance of the German authorities on suspicion of having ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. THE OPENING CEREMONY.

    Shortly before 3 o'clock, the hour fixed for the opening of the exhibition, his Excellency the Governor arrived in the Park, accompanied by the Hon. Rupert Carrington, A.D.C., and ...

    Article : 1,844 words
  30. DEEP SEA SOUNDINGS.

    AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--H.M.S. Egeria, which is at present engaged in taking soundings for the proposed cable via Vancouver, has made the deepest sounding yet known off ...

    Article : 54 words
  31. CONGREGATIONAL JUBILEE.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Rev. Dr. Hanney and Mr. Henry Lee, delegates from England to the Congregational Jubilee Congress, to commence in Melbourne on Monday, arrived ...

    Article : 36 words
  32. THE RIVER DARLING.

    WILCANNIA, Tuesday.--Gerald H. Halligan, of the Harbors and Rivers Departments, is now here for the purpose of examining the river between this place and Wentworth, in order to ...

    Article : 90 words
  33. THE CHINESE IN SIBERIA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Russian newspapers strongly advocate the adoption of measures excluding Chinese from Siberia. ...

    Article : 25 words
  34. THE ALBURY LAND SALE.

    Sir,--Your correspondent leads us to infer that the sale of Crown lands was a grand one and that one lot brought £41 per acre. There were 500a. sold for an average at half the above ...

    Article : 105 words
  35. THE SHEARING DISPUTES.

    ALBURY, Tuesday.--Some difficulty appeared imminent on the starting of the shearing at the Wallendool shed in this district, but the men were eventually induced to proceed to ...

    Article : 156 words
  36. CHINESE EXCLUSION IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--President Cleveland has approved of the bill providing for the total exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the United States, inserting a proviso, ...

    Article : 50 words
  37. OVERLAND PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 662 words
  38. CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Bishop Kennion, of Adelaide, yesterday delivered a sermon to the members of the Church Congress now sitting at Manchester. ...

    Article : 35 words
  39. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

    A hall of entertainment for the Centenary Fair has been formed in the north-west corner of the main building, where some 200 persons can see the show and about twice that number ...

    Article : 168 words
  40. LOOKOUT OF ENGINEERS IN ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Thirty engineers in the employment of the firm of Messrs. Fulton, and Co., engineers, have been locked out. They were required to work throughout Monday, ...

    Article : 72 words
  41. TASMANIAN REVENUE.

    HOBART, Tuesday.--The total revenue for the first nine months of 1887 was £416,020, and for the same period of the present year, £455,365, an increase of £89,345. In all items ...

    Article : 96 words
  42. CARDINAL MORAN AND THE FREEDOM OF DUBLIN.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--The Corporation of the City of Dublin have decided to confer the freedom of the city on Cardinal Moran, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of ...

    Article : 36 words
  43. HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE.

    Because the floral annexe formed the principal entrance for privileged visitors, and by reason of its intrinsic beauty, Department VI, "Horticulture and Floriculture," attracted' as much ...

    Article : 906 words
  44. THE IMPERIAL FEDERATION LEAGUE.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Mr. Thomas Archer, C.M.G., the Queensland Agent-General, has retired from the Imperial Federation League, he objecting to the Home ...

    Article : 42 words
  45. DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES.

    Though leas ostentatious on the surface than most others in the exhibition, this department, numbered three in the catalogue, well repays a close inspection. It deals ...

    Article : 717 words
  46. THE PROTECTION MOVEMENT.

    YOUNG, Tuesday.--Mr. James Fletcher, M.P. for Newcastle, delivered an address on protection in the Mechanics'-hall last night to a large audience under the auspices of the ...

    Article : 158 words
  47. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--In the Legislative Council to-day the Mining on Private Property Bill met with strong opposition from the squatting members while in committee. The ...

    Article : 185 words
  48. BETWEEN SYDNEY AND BRISBANE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 words
  49. "CRIMPING" IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce to-day petitioned the Commissioner for Customs to secure the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire ...

    Article : 64 words
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