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  2. THE "UNEMPLOYED."

    From the facts and figures given on Friday it will have been seen that the operations of the Casual Labor Board have been on a much more extended scale than the public hay ...

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  3. FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY CATASTROPHE.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--News has been received from America of a frightful railway catastrophe. A Roman Catholic excursion was being ...

    Article : 124 words
  4. MELBOURNE SPORTING.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A disposition was shown last night to back Locksley at knockingout figures for the Caulfield Cup, but the best offer was 100 to 4. and nothing came of it. ...

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  5. THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Further particulars of the disturbance at Wallsend on Friday evening show that when the laborers employed filling small coal had knocked off work, the manager ...

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  6. LORD KNUTSFORD ON THE COLONIES.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Lord Knutsford, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, speaking at Ipswich yesterday, said that the object of the late Imperial Conference ...

    Article : 110 words
  7. CARDINAL MORAN.

    LONDON, Friday.--Cardinal Moran sails for Australia in the R.M.S. Cuzco, and will be accompanied by 30 priests and sisters of mercy. ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. THE COLONIAL POLICY OF THE FUTURE.

    LONDON, Friday.--Speaking at Leeds, yesterday, Lord Rosebery referred to the growing importance of the colonies, and said that in the future the colonial policy would ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. HORRIBLE MURDER BY A LUNATIC.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A man named Spellacy, a patient in the Ararat Lunatic Asylum, in a paroxysm of rage murdered another patient named John Foster by smashing in his ...

    Article : 48 words
  10. SIR MORELL MACKENZIE.

    LONDON, Friday.--Sir Morell Mackenzie, in his reply to the attacks made upon him by the German medical men, maintains that the treatment to which the late Emperor ...

    Article : 50 words
  11. BISHOP BARRY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Bishop Barry, Primate of Australia, will visit Perth, Western Australia, and Ballarat, Victoria, on his way to Sydney. He does not expect to ...

    Article : 114 words
  12. A CHAPTER OF RAILWAY HORRORS.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Several railway casualties occurred on Saturday and to-day. On Saturday night a working man, name unknown, was found on the line near Richmond, ...

    Article : 181 words
  13. A BARQUE MISSING.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The barque Trevelyan, which sailed from Glasgow on March 23 for Port Chalmers (N.Z.), not having reached her destination has been posted ...

    Article : 93 words
  14. THE ENGLISH COAL DIFFICULTY.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--It is announced that the Staffordshire coal-owners have conceded the demands of the men for an increase in wages, and a strike in the ...

    Article : 47 words
  15. THE SUDEST GOLDFIELD.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--The acting Governor has received a telegram from the Administrator of New Guinea stating that there are over 200 miners at the Sudest goldfield. ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. THE EMPEROR WILLIAM.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Emperor William of Germany is at present in Rome on a visit to the King of Italy. ...

    Article : 27 words
  17. ENGLISH COMMERCIAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 words
  18. TRAINED NURSES FOR SYDNEY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Lady Samuel, the wife of the Agent-General for New South Wales, has received numerous applications from trained nurses for positions in ...

    Article : 61 words
  19. THE RIVAL CABLE SYSTEMS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Sir John Pender, Chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, says that his company are masters of the situation and have crushed ...

    Article : 40 words
  20. THE WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

    The exhibition has now successfully run through a fortnight. Each day's existence has added to its popularity, and Saturday saw the largest attendance that has yet visited Prince ...

    Article : 432 words
  21. CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--A company has been formed to purchase the Cheshire salt mines, the capital being £3,000,000. Shares, were applied for equal to £35,000,000. ...

    Article : 33 words
  22. ENGLISH SPORTING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 words
  23. UNION MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Union Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia, Limited, has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. ...

    Article : 26 words
  24. MONETARY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--3 per cent. consols are 2s. 6d. higher at £100 7s. 6d. The market rate of discount is 1 per cent. below the bank rate, which remains at 5 per ...

    Article : 97 words
  25. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

    WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--At a special meeting of the West Maitland Borough Council held on Friday night, a resolution was carried to the effect that the Australian Mutual ...

    Article : 63 words
  26. A LOCAL OPTION CONVERT.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Sir William Vernon-Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the last Gladstone Administration, speaking at Manchester yesterday ...

    Article : 38 words
  27. THE LAKE VICTORIA YACHTING

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The body of Mrs. Wilson, one of the victims of the yachting disaster in Lake Victoria, has been discovered, but her son's body has not yet been found. ...

    Article : 36 words
  28. THE MAORI FOOTBALLERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Maori team of footballers yesterday played a match against Kent, again beating the English team. ...

    Article : 22 words
  29. LATEST BETTING.

    As was fully anticipated, yesterday's running at the V.A.T.C. meeting affected the betting on subsequent events, but yet comparatively little was done, and so far wagering has been so ...

    Article : 230 words
  30. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The wheat market is strong. Off-coast Australian is quoted at 42s. to 42s. 6d. Australian flour, ex store, has advanced ...

    Article : 297 words
  31. A PRINTERS' CONFERENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Melbourne Typographical Society intend giving a banquet in honor of the delegates to the Intercolonial Printers' Conference, to be held in Melbourne ...

    Article : 108 words
  32. THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. T. M. Stewart, acting manager of the Melbourne branch of the Bank of New Zealand, is to supersede Mr. F. Larkworthy as managing director of ...

    Article : 38 words
  33. THE PRICE OF BREAD.

    A meeting of master bakers was held at the Temperance-hall on Saturday night to consider the present condition of the flour market. Mr. A. Shadier presided, and some 50 or 60 members ...

    Article : 225 words
  34. A MILITARY APPOINTMENT.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Captain Lasseter, of the South Staffordshire Regiment, has been appointed to the command of the corps of mounted infantry now being formed ...

    Article : 34 words
  35. THE FIJIAN AGROUND.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Yesterday morning as the steamer Fijian was entering the harbor she grounded near the lightship and remained hard and fast till the flood tide, when, with the ...

    Article : 47 words
  36. THE BROKEN-HILL WATER SUPPLY.

    BROKEN-HILL, Saturday.--Mr. Grainger Barton, manager of the Australian Water and Mineral Boring Company, has made an inspection of the district, with a view to ascertaining ...

    Article : 205 words
  37. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. Bonnor, the Australian cricketer, will not return to the colonies with the remainder of the team but will remain in England for a year. ...

    Article : 32 words
  38. TRAINING NOTES.

    At Flemington yesterday morning Morrison maintained his reputation as the early bird among the Flemington trainers, but did not set the ball folling till nearly half-past 5. The ...

    Article : 524 words
  39. THE SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Mr. Emil J. Trechmann, B.A. of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, has been appointed lecturer in modern languages at the Sydney ...

    Article : 31 words
  40. THE TRADES.

    On Saturday morning about 20 of the principal employers met at the Builders' Exchange to discuss in an informal way the present position of the strike. Mr. John Jaggers was ...

    Article : 212 words
  41. THE KING'S SCHOOL, PARRAMATTA.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The Rev. G. C. Harrison, M.A., formerly of Oxford University and now one of the assistant masters at the Clifton College, Bristol, has ...

    Article : 41 words
  42. CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Mr. James Mirams, M.P., entertained the English delegates to the Victorian Congregationalist Jubilee Conference and a large number of intercolonial visitors at a ...

    Article : 65 words
  43. THE FREEHOLD INVESTMENT COMPANY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Freehold Investment Company of Australia has opened a branch office in London. Sir Graham Berry, the Agent-General for Victoria, has ...

    Article : 38 words
  44. AUSTRALIAN FREIGHTS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The shipping committee have appointed the following gentlemen as a permanent committee to confer with the freight ring in regard to ...

    Article : 76 words
  45. THE MELBOURNE BRIDGE TRAGEDY.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The body of the woman who committed suicide by jumping over the Johnston-street Bridge has been identified as that of Mrs. Mary Morris, of ...

    Article : 47 words
  46. THE REDUCED OCEAN POSTAGE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--It is announced that the reduced ocean postage will come into operation in January. ...

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  47. LATE SHIPPING.

    BRISBANE.--Arrival. October 13: Jumoa, str., from London. Departures: Gambler, str., for Sydney; Catterthun. str., for Hongkong; Cintra, str., for Cooktown; Kurimbla, str., for Bundaberg; ...

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  48. RICH GOLD FINDS IN VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A very rich reef has been discovered on the Champion line of reef, Wedderburn, 2ft. below the surface. The lode is 6ft. thick, and 6½lb. of specimens brought ...

    Article : 81 words
  49. THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Nicaraguan Consul in New York has notified that his Government will only recognise the company formed in New York for constructing ...

    Article : 40 words
  50. THE VICTORIAN CADET CAMP.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The cadet camp at Langwarrin was broken up on Saturday and the youthful warriors drafted to their homes. The boys behaved splendidly, going through ...

    Article : 41 words
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