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  2. THE COUNTRY.

    ALBURY, Saturday.--A report to hand from Germanton to-day conveys particulars of further disastrous bush tires in that locality. A great deal of damage has been ...

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  3. POLITICS AND THE PEOPLE.

    In response to a requisition, Mr. William M'Millan, M.P (ex-Colonial Treasurer), addressed the electors of East Sydney at the Protestant-hall on Saturday evening. There ...

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  4. THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Sir James F. Garrick, the Agent-General for Queensland, has twice cabled to his Government asking to be supplied with the names of ...

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  5. THE NEW GOVERNOR.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.--It is reported that the Right Hon. R. W. Duff, P.C., M.P., who has been appointed Governor of New South Wales, will be ...

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  6. BRITISH ELECTIONS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Mr. James Francis. Hogan, formerly of Melbourne, author of "The Irish in Australia" and biography of the late Lord Sherbrooke, ...

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  7. IN TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Saturday.--At a meeting held in the Launceston Town-hall last night a committee was appointed to collect money in aid of the Queensland flood sufferers. ...

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  8. SILTING UP OF THE BRISBANE RIVER.

    BRISBANE, Saturday.--It was unlikely, with the wholesale silting up of the channels in the lower parts of the Brisbane River, that the upper parts would escape, and the ...

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  9. ANARCHISTS IN ROME.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Telegrams from Rome report that 14 anarchists have been arrested in that city for conspiring to dynamite the Pope during his attendance ...

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  10. THE HUNTER RIVER MINERS.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The Lambton, Stockton, and Burwood miners' lodges have adopted the following minutes from the delegate board:--"That the whole facts of ...

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  11. NEW ZEALAND.

    AUCKLAND, Saturday.--The. R.M.S. Alameda, from Sydney to 'Frisco, arrived here at G o'clock to-night. Captain Morse reports a very stormy passage throughout, ...

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  12. SLAVERY IN AFRICA.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Baron von Soden, the civil governor in German East Africa, is accused of having acquired a fortune by carrying on a slave trade. The baron has ...

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  13. IRISH HOME RULE.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Delegates from the Ulstor Irishmen have addressed a meeting of 10,000 men in Trafalgar-square. They threatened a civil war if Mr. Gladstone's ...

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  14. THE CHICAGO STRIKE.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The strike of pointsmen employed on the railways at Chicago has ended in the defeat of the strikers. ...

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  15. HAY BOILING-DOWN WORKS.

    HAY, Saturday.--Further additions are being made to the Hay Boiling-down Company's works by the erection of a large building for the purpose of cooperage, it ...

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  16. SUICIDE AT TAURANGA.

    AUCKLAND, Saturday.--An Englishman named Penny, visiting Tauranga for the benefit of his health, he having been suffering from acute neuralgia, committed ...

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  17. SEVERE COLD IN RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Terribly severe cold weather is being experienced in Central Russia. At Kalouga, the capital of the province of that name, 12 children were ...

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  18. THE LOSS OF H.M.S. HOWE.

    LONDON Friday Night.--The Admiralty have refused to accept tho finding of the court martial which recently inquired into the loss of H.M.S. Howe at the entrance ...

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  19. SEED POTATOES AND CEREALS FOR FARMERS.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Secretary for Agriculture has received a telegram from the Secretary for Agriculture in Queensland requesting the Victorian Department to ...

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  20. ROBBERY AT A BANK COUNTER.

    AUCKLAND, Saturday.--A clerk in the employment of the Auckland Tramway Company was robbed of £40 this morning when paying the previous day's takings over ...

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  21. THE RABBIT PEST.

    BARMEDMAN, Saturday.--A representative public meeting was hold this afternoon at Gibson's Hotel of sheep farmers, selectors, and others interested in stamping out the ...

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  22. THE NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER.

    The A.U.S.N. Company's steamers Warrego and Arawatta, which were delayed at Brisbane by the floods, arrived in Sydney on Saturday and yesterday respectively. "It ...

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  23. QUEENSLAND SEPARATION.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.--The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has received a deputation consisting of members of the London ...

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  24. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Saturday.--The Railway Commissioners were to-day advised of a fearful tragedy near Bundaberg. A Chinaman placed a mattress on the rails crossing a ...

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  25. DEATH OF A CHILD FROM THIRST.

    HAY, Saturday.--A sad circumstance is reported from Toogimble station. A child two and a half years old wandered from the camp of her father, a rabbiter named ...

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  26. VICTORIAN LOAN CONVERSION.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.--City financiers suggest that the Victorian Government should give its Agent-General and bankers a stronger voice in settling the ...

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  27. PROPOSED STOCK DISEASES INSTITUTE.

    BRISBANE, Saturday.--The Government have resolved to establish a bacteriological and pathological institute institute in Brisbane for the special study of diseases peculiar to stock in ...

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  28. A PECULIAR DEATH.

    GOULBURN, Saturday.--An elderly lady named Miss Emma Threadgold, residing at Jacqua, was walking wich a friend in a paddock yesterday, when she came suddenly ...

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  29. THE MAILS.

    The Queensland mails were dispatched for this colony at 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday for the first time overland since the last floods. ...

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  30. THE RELIEF FUND.

    Although Saturday is usually an "off day" in business circles, last Saturday was an exception to this rule, as far as the central relief committee was concerned. The ...

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  31. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.--The Earl of Meath, in an article in the Nineteenth Century, discusses the radical policy of the New Zealand Government. ...

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  32. ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. MASSILIA.

    ALBANY (W.A.), Sunday.--The P. and O. R.M.S. Massilia arrived here from London at 9.30 p.m. on Saturday, and left again at 11.35 p.m. for Adelaide, Melbourne, and ...

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  33. TYPHOID AT WILCANNIA.

    WILCANNIA, Saturday.--Dr. Atkins, the health officer, reported 14 cases of typhoid fever this morning. He says that there does not appear to be any abatement of the ...

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  34. MURDERS IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, Friday Night.—Judge Parker of the Supreme Court of Kansas (U.S.A.), has reported that 25,000 murders have been committed in the United States ...

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  35. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Some boys to-day created a sensation by stating that in the early part of Saturday morning they heard a man and woman quarrelling on the banks of ...

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  36. GERMANY AND THE JESUITS.

    LONDON, Sunday,--Count von Caprivi the German Imperial Chancellor, has again refused to permit the readmission of Jesuits into Germany. ...

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  37. GLACIAL ACTION OF MOUNT KOSCIUSKO.

    The hon. secretary of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia received the following interesting communication from Mr. Richard Helms, now at Mount Kosciusko, ...

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  38. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Paris telegrams report that M. Jules Ferry (ex-Premier) has been elected President of the French Senate by a majority of 145 ...

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  39. THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN BANK TRIALS.

    MELBOURNE Sunday.--The trial of the directors, and other officials of the Anglo-Australian Bank, for concurring in the issue of a false report and balance-sheet, will be ...

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  40. NEW ZEALAND AT THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Mr. W. B. Perceval, the Agent-General for New Zealand, is expediting the completion of that colony's court in the Imperial ...

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  41. IN THE COUNTRY.

    BOURKE, Saturday.--A public meeting, called to raise funds in aid of the Queensland floods' sufferers, was held here last night. Motions were carried that the Bourke Flood ...

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  42. THE IMPERIAL FEDERATION LEAGUE.

    MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The first meeting of the executive council of the Imperial Federation League was held yesterday in the Melbourne Town-hall. The following ...

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  43. ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE BANK.

    LONDON, Sunday.--British shareholders in the English and Australian Mortgage Bunk have appointed a committee of inquiry into the conduct of the bank's ...

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  44. A FALL IN COLONIAL STOCKS.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.--New South Wales 3 12 per cent., and Victorian 4 per cent, stocks have fallen 10s on the London Stock Exchange. ...

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  45. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The Inspector-General of Schools has forwarded to the Minister, for Education a report dealing with religions instruction as forming part of ...

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  46. QUEENSLAND BEEF.

    LONDON, Saturday Night.--Queensland beef by the steamer Pakeha is selling at 4d per lb. for forequarters, and 3d for hindquarters. ...

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