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  2. THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

    Though floods and a severe depression have combined to injure manufacture and production, the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales make a brave display ...

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  3. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--A deputation of unemployed waited on Sir Thomas M'llwraith to ask the Government to provide work. Sir Thomas sympathised with the men, but said ...

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  4. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The whole day in the Mercantile Bank cases was occupied by further cross-examination of Mr. Ducker principally on behalf of Sir Matthew Davies. ...

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  5. THE T[?]AN LOAN.

    LONDON, Tuesday, 2.35 p.m.--Tenders for the Tasmanian Government loan of £800,000 at 31½ per cent., with a minimum of 92, were opened to-day. ...

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  6. IRISH HOME RULE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--A deputation from the Belfast Chamber of Commerce to-day had an interview with Mr. Gladstone, and explained to him the ...

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  7. DISSOLUTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Assembly is to be formally dissolved on Wednesday next. April 5, and the writs for the elections will be issued immediately afterwards. The ...

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  8. THE FEDERAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The liquidator of the Federal Bank of Australia has proceeded so far with the liquidation as to pay off tho Government deposits and redeem the ...

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  9. FARM PRODUCE.

    The display of farm produce is somewhat disappointing. Not that the quality of the exhibits is inferior, but because of the absence of so varied an assortment as in ...

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  10. L. STEVENSON AND SONS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The annual meeting of L. Stevenson and Sons, Limited, was held to-day. The report states that the directors arc carrying out a saving of £2320 ...

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  11. PROTEST OP LONDON BANKERS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--A deputation of London bankers also waited upon Mr. Gladstone to-day to protest against Home Rule for Ireland, as they pointed out that ...

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  12. A NEW ZEALAND COAL COMPANY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--A meeting of shareholders in the Westport (New Zealand) Wallsend Coal Company, Limited, was held, to-day under the presidency ...

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  13. THE COUNTRY.

    ALBURY, Wednesday.--The local P.M. takes a somewhat different view of the alien hawker nuisance to the majority of his metropolitan confreres. In granting a license to ...

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  14. THE CANIAMBO TRAGEDY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The inquest was resumed yesterday in the case of the Caniambo tragedy, in which three children were killed by their father, a man named ...

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  15. THE STONE-THROWING MYSTERY AT MACLEAN.

    MACLEAN, Wednesday.--The imprisonment of the three men for the persecution of Mrs. Hart, at Maclean, does not seem to have acted as a deterrent to the cowardly ...

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  16. THE DEEMING MURDERS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The box containing the personal property of the unfortunate Emily Mather, murdered at Windsor by Deeming, was to-day placed aboard the ...

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  17. REVOLT OF RUSSIAN CONVICTS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--From St. Petersburg it is reported that a revolt has occurred among a detachment of convicts on the march to Siberia. ...

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  18. THE VICTORIA RACING CLUB PROGRAMMES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The V.R.C. committee intend to make certain alterations in the conditions of the remaining stakes to be run at Flemington during tho current ...

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  19. A MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED.

    COOMA, Tuesday.--At a selection four miles from Berridale two children of a selector named Primmer went to a waterhole for water. The younger fell in, and the ...

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  20. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Sir Andrew Clarke, the Acting Agent-General for Victoria, replies this morning to the letter published in The Times from Mr. L. ...

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  21. ANOTHER FIRE AT BROKEN- HILL. FIVE SHOPS DESTROYED.

    BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--At daybreak this morning a fire broke out in a block of wooden and iron shops in Argent-street, and rapidly assumed large proportions. The fire ...

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  22. A TRUST FUNDS BILL.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Harry Robert Graham, Conservative member for St. Pancras West, introduced a bill ...

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  23. DAIRY PRODUCE.

    Excellent is the collection of dairy produce, and no little difficulty was experienced by the judges in making their awards. Since last year, if the samples shown can be taken ...

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  24. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons last night the Opposition showed determined obstruction to the passing of the Estimates. Mr. Gladstone ...

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  25. THE SILVER COINAGE QUESTION.

    LONDON,Wednesday.--The Agents- General of New South Wales and Victoria have been making joint proposals to the Treasury with regard to the ...

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  26. HORSES.

    The horse section occupies, as it very properly should, its old place in the catalogue, and although many old studmasters have long since tired of sending their stock for ...

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  27. NEW ZEALAND.

    AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--A meeting of the creditors of Harper and Co., solicitors, Christchurch, was held to-day. The liabilities of the firm were shown to ...

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  28. TRIAL BY JURY IN INDIA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Trial by jury is being resumed in the province of Bengal India, where an order was issued by the provincial government last year restricting ...

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  29. THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

    WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--An influential deputation, representing the free trade interest in this electorate, to-day waited on Mr. F. Woodward, one of the ex-members ...

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  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The will of the late Sir Andrew-Barclay Walker, Bart., the chairman of directors of the brewery firm of Peter Walker and Son, ...

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  31. FRUITS.

    William Fagan and Sons (Galston), S. R. Watkins (Seven-hills), C. H. Packham (Gara, near Molong), and C. Gibbs (Kent- hurst) have appropriated the ...

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  32. SHEEP.

    Neither the public nor the society expect numerous entries in this class. A special sheep show is usually held in March, and therefore the pens at this particular ...

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  33. THE BRITISH ARMY MEAT SUPPLY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Replying to a question in the House of Commons today, Mr. Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Secretary of State for the War ...

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  34. THE QUEENSLAND AGENT- GENERAL.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Sir James F. Garrick is to remain in Loudon as Agent- General for Queensland until July, when he will be succeeded by Mr. W. Forrest. ...

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  35. MR. WADDELL, M.P., AT BARRINGUN.

    BARRINGUN, Wednesday.--Mr. Waddell, M.P., addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting here to-night. He dealt with the leading questions now interesting the ...

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  36. THE BURTON-STREET TRAGEDY.

    Detectives Sawtell and Roche are ongaged in making further inquiries into the matter of the Burton-street tragedy. Yesterday they succeeded in tracing tho movements of ...

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  37. PIGS.

    There is a slight falling off in the entries in this department. The New Zealand exhibit, by Mr. Rowe, is missing--a rather regrettable fact, as it proved one of the ...

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  38. A NEW ZEALAND COLONISING COMPANY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The New Zealand Colonising Company is being formed with the object of working several New Zealand estates of the value of ...

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  39. VICTORIAN LOAN CONVERSION.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Victorian Government have sanctioned the conversion of the £2,000,000 worth of 5 per cent, debentures, which fall due in January next, ...

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  40. CATTLE.

    No fault can be found with the quality of the cattle penned at this show, but everyone deplores the " lack of competition." This is accounted for in some measure by the fact ...

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  41. THE WOOL MARKET.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The wool market is firm, and it is expected that wool will shortly experience a rise of ½d per 1b. ...

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  42. SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Bundey, Valesea Pearce petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with William Pearce, on the grounds of incestuous ...

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  43. FOOD.

    One of the several things in the main pavilion that attracts particular attention in the display of jams, jellies, preserves, and pickles, The arrangement thereof is ...

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  44. TASMANIAN STOCKS.

    LONDON, Wednesday, 1 p.m.--On the London Stock Exchange to-day, Tasmanian stocks have fallen 15s. ...

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