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  2. OUR SPECIAL CABLES

    LONDON, Friday.--An infernal machine was exploded yesterday outside the Chamber of Deputies at Rome, seriously injuring eight persons and mortally ...

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  3. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--The barque William Hanson arrived last night after a recruiting cruise in the South Sea Islands. Captain Vos took with him a phonograph and magic ...

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  4. NOTES OF THE DAY.

    All the mute inglorious Miltons or Cromwells, guiltless of their country's blood, have not been buried in the churchyard which suggested Gray's elegy. One of them, for ...

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  5. OUR SPECIAL CABLES

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--It is reported that during the attack on the rebel stronghold at Gondor, near Bathurst, the capital of Gambia, West Africa, the ...

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  6. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    Owing to the quarantining of the P. and O. R.M.S. Massilia, her departure from Sydney for London has been postponed until Wednesday, the 21st inst., at noon. A wire ...

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  7. THE COUNTRY.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday.--A special meeting of the hospital committee was held to-night. The principal business transacted was the consideration of a report submitted by a ...

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  8. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--A good many geological authorities in Australia hold the theory that, the M'Donnell Ranges, in the centre of Australia, were at one time an immense ...

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  9. THE WEATHER.

    STROUD, Friday.--The weather continue fine, and the creeks and river are steadily subsiding. Men are engaged repairing the damage caused by the floods to roads on the ...

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  10. BRITISH MINISTERIAL CHANGES.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--It is officially explained that Mr. Herbert Colstoun Gardner, President of the Board of Agriculture, has not resigned that position, ...

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  11. QUEENSLAND DEPOSIT BANK.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--A meeting of the creditors of the Queensland Deposit Bank was held yesterday."The directors announced that since issuing their scheme of ...

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  12. OTHER DISTRICTS.

    BODALLA, Friday.--The rain has cleared off; 580 points fell from Sunday to Wednesday night. To-day the weather is very hot, the thermometer registering 95deg. in the ...

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  13. THE IRISH PARTY.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--The Parnellites have issued a manifesto, assorting that the retirement of Mr. Gladstone is part of a scheme to defeat the ...

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  14. QUARTER SESSIONS.

    KEMPSEY, Friday.--The Quarter Sessions were commenced yesterday before Judge Merewether. Only one case was heard, that of James Macken, late postmaster at ...

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  15. PROTECTIONIST DEMONSTRATION.

    A demonstration under the auspices of the Waterloo Protection Union was held last night in the Alexandria Town-hall. There was a crowded attendance. Mr. James W. ...

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  16. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--The first hatch of men working under Sir John Downer's gold prospecting scheme for the relief of the unemployed left Adelaide to-day for the ...

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  17. THE WESLEY AN CONFERENCE.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--At the Wesleyan Conference to-day a telegram was read from the New South Wales Conference offering a certain minister in exchange for the Rev. W. ...

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  18. RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

    LONDON, Friday, 1 p.m.--The proposed commercial treaty between Germany and Russia has been adopted by the committee of the German Reichstag by a ...

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  19. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Times, in an article to-day, congratulates the Australian colonies on the distinct advance made towards the realisation of the ...

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  20. THE WHARF LABORERS' STRIKE.

    ADELAIDE, Friday.--No fresh developments took place to-day in connection with the labor dispute at Port Adelaide. Work on the steamer Eurimbla was proceeded ...

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  21. H.M.S. CRESCENT.

    LONDON, Friday, 1 p.m.--H.M.S. Crescent, with relief crews for the vessels on the Australian naval station, has been disabled through an accident to her ...

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  22. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Friday.--The debate on Sir Edward Braddon's no-confidence motion was resumed in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. A. J. Clark, who spoke for ...

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  23. THE GENERAL ELECTION.

    Mr. E. W. Molesworth, M.P., addressed a meeting of his constituents from the balcony of the municipal-chambers, Erskinevilla, last evening. ...

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  24. THE ZAMBEST TELEGRAPH.

    LONDON. Thursday Night.--Considerable trouble is being experienced on the Zambesi River, East Africa, in the erection of the African Transcontinental ...

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  25. MUNICIPAL.

    Meeting held March 8. Present : Aldermen Taylor (Mayor), Judd, Clayton. Cooke, Green, Godfrey, Callinan, and Hegerty. Mr. J. H. Carruthers, M.P., wrote stating that ...

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  26. VICTORIAN PRODUCE.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--Mr. Robert Reid, Victorian Minister for Defence, has suggested to his Government that the colony should exhibit butter and other ...

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  27. THE "HARD GASH" LIBELS.

    BLACKHEATH, Friday.--Joseph Schellenberg, who failed to appear at the present Criminal Court, Sydney, to answer a charge of criminal libel in connection with the ...

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  28. TO-DAY'S EVENTS.

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  29. FIGHT FOR THE POSSESSION OF A CHURCH.

    HOBART, Friday.--A serious fracas occurred lust night at West Devonport over the possession of a church. Pastor Rogers was lighting up, when three men entered ...

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  30. THE PROPOSED ZIG-ZAG TUNNEL.

    LITHGOW, Friday.--The members of the Parliamentary Public Works Committee arrived by special train to-day with a view of making an inspection and taking evidence ...

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  31. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--An application was made to Judge Molesworth in the Insolvency Court to-day far the dispensation of service and for the release from sequestration of the ...

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  32. LAND GRANT RAILWAYS.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--Sir Thomas M'llwraith, who is negotiating for the construction of railways in Queensland on the laud grant system, says the ...

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  33. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.

    ALBURY, Friday.--At Black Range yesterday a young man named J. Monk lost his life by being accidentally shot by a gun lie carried. At daybreak this morning Monk's ...

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  34. SETTLEMENT OF THE VICTORIAN CLUB DISPUTE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--A settlement has been effected between Mr. Samuel Grimwood, chairman of Bowes's Tattersall's Club, and the Victorian Club. Mr. Grim wood was ...

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  35. SUNDAY OPENING.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--The London City Council has decided, by the casting vote of the Lord Mayor, to throw open on Sundays the picture gallery and ...

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  36. SUNDAY SERVICES.

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  37. AGRICULTURAL SHOWS.

    PICTON, Friday.--The agricultural show was continued to-day. Heavy rain fell in the afternoon. The attendance was only limited, owing to the rivers round the ...

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  38. THE AMERICAN TARIFF BILL.

    LONDON, Friday.--The finance committee of the United States Senate, reporting on the proposed amendments in the new Tariff Bill, disapprove, as a whole, of a ...

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  39. THE TRADES-HALL AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Trades-hall Council to-night considered a letter from the Premier's secretary, in which regret was expressed that they could not put their views as ...

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  40. THE EARL OF HOPETOUN.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--It is stated that the Colonial Office has allowed the Earl of Hopetoun time to consult his business agents before he decides whether ...

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  41. CROOKWELL.

    CROOK WELL, Friday.--The annual show in connection with the Crookwell Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held yesterday and to-day, and proved a groat ...

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  42. PENNY POSTAGE TO ENGLAND.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Premier is strongly opposed to the proposed penny postage between Australia and England, as lie considers 2½d a very reasonable charge. ...

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  43. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Friday.--A case of smallpox was reported at Perth this morning. A half-caste girl, in the service of Mr. G. Williams, of Adelaide-terrace, developed suspicious ...

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  44. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--The directors of the Bank of Australasia have announced a dividend of 7½ per cent., the same as last year, and £11,000 is to be ...

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  45. NEW ZEALAND.

    AUCKLAND, Friday.--Trouble has arisen over the surveys being carried out on the Waikato. The Maoris have been obstructing the surveyors, and yesterday a force of ...

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  46. BILLIARDS.

    LONDON, Friday.--In a match between J. Roberts, jun., the billiard champion, with Memmott, the Melbourne player, Roberts won by 600 points in a game of ...

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  47. THE COAL TRADE.

    WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Work at the different collieries has been materially interfered with during the week owing to the heavy sea preventing steamers from loading ...

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  48. COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

    NOWRA, Friday.--Mr. William Kennedy bus announced himself as a candidate for the Shoalhaven electorate. He favors liberal land laws and tenant rights. ...

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  49. THE LONDON WOOL SALES.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.--At the wool sales to-day prices were steady. The Koolo Mart clip realised 9½d per lb. ; the Foxlow clip, 9d per lb. ; and the Polia ...

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  50. THE NORTHERN COLLIERIES.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Owing to a "creep" which occurred in the Lambton colliery recently, it was found necessary to suspend work iii the portion of the mine thus ...

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  51. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    LONDON, Friday, 3 p.m.--Bar silver today is quoted at 2s 3d 5-16th per oz. ...

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  52. DEPARTURE OF SIR GEORGE GREY.

    AUCKLAND, Friday.--A large number of representative citizens, including the delegates to the latercolonial Postal Conference, assembled on the White Star liner Gothic ...

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  53. NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

    LONDON, Friday, 1 p.m.--The New Zealand factory butter by the steamer Rimutaka has reali[?]d 10[?] per cwt. ...

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  54. VICTORIAN WHEAT.

    LONDON, Friday, 1 p.m.--Victorian wheat is quoted at 26s per quarter. ...

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