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  2. DEATH OF MR. JOHN SUTHERLAND, M.P.

    Last evening, shortly after 8 o'clock, Mr. John Sutherland, a good man and true, passed over to the great majority. As a public man his memory will ever remain green as a good ...

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  3. SHIPPING DISASTERS.

    BRISBANE, Saturday.--Captain Edgett and his wife and a portion of the crew of the wrecked barque Brazos arrived in Brisbane by the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Glanworth at ...

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  4. "THE IRISH RAILWAY DISASTER.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The inquiry into the cause of the recent railway disaster near Armagh, Ireland, by which a large number of Sunday-school children, teachers and ...

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  5. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE CAPE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--It is definitely announced that Sir Henry Brougham Loch, Governor of Victoria, who is now on a visit to England, has accepted the offer of the ...

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  6. MINING CATASTROPHE AT NEW CASTLE.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The great fall in the A. A. Company's B pit at the Glebe will be remembered as one of the most terrible incidents in the history of coal-mining in ...

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  7. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

    WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--Mrs. Miles, an old resident of East Maitland, is reported to have been drowned in Wallis Creek to-day. How the unfortunate occurrence happened is at ...

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  8. THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Right Hon, H. C. Raikes, Postmaster-General, has been again interviewed by the Agents-General of New South Wales, Victoria and South ...

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  9. A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.

    KEMPSEY, Sunday.--A series of accidents occurred here yesterday. George Bull, farmer, was driving a cart in East Kempsey when a back strap broke, letting the shafts fall. The ...

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  10. FOUND DEAD ON THE ROADSIDE.

    MOLONG, Saturday.--An inquest was held last night by Mr. Kinna, district Coroner, on the body of a man found dead about two miles from town, on the road to Warne. The man ...

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  11. THE ELECTRIC SUGAR SWINDLE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The man Howard, the stepfather of Mrs. Friend, the widow of the originator of the New York electric sugar swindle, who was found guilty of fraud, has ...

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  12. THE LATE MAITLAND FLOODS.

    WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--An influential deputation from the Maitland Flood Prevention Committee has been arranged to interview the Minister for Works in Sydney on Thursday ...

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  13. FREETRADE VERSUS PROTECTION.

    NARRANDERA, Saturday.--The protection league held a meeting last night to deal with a letter sent to it by the local freetrade association requesting the co-operation of the league ...

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  14. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Mr. John Bridge, one of the magistrates of the Bow-street Police Court, has been called upon by Lord Chief Justice Coleridge to show cause for ...

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  15. ACCIDENTS AT WEST MAITLAND.

    WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--Thomas Platten, underground manager at the South Greta colliery, near Maitland, met with an accident yesterday. Some skips of coal were being ...

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  16. DELAYS IN COACHING--TERRIBLE STATE OF THE ROADS.

    CROOKWELL, Saturday.--The mail from Goulburn was again five hours late to-day, the roads being in such a terrible state. The cause of delay was an accident to the coach ...

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  17. IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The annual meeting of the Imperial Federation League was held yesterday, the chair being taken by Sir Farrar Herschell. The Australian ...

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  18. NEWS FROM SAMOA.

    AUCKLAND, Saturday.--From files to hand by the R.M. Mariposa matters at Samoa seem very quiet. Messrs. A. M'Arthur and Co. have appealed to the Supreme Court of Fiji against the ...

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  19. BUTTER FACTORY FOR MUDGEE.

    MUDGEE, Saturday.--A meeting was held hero to-day for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a co-operative butter factory. A feir number of farmers were ...

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  20. COLLISION IN HOBSON'S BAY.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A shipping, disaster occurred in the bay to-night, resulting in the sinking of the ship Cape Verde. The ship Iolanthe, from Liverpool, while coming ...

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  21. THE MURDER OF A CHILD.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--M'Carron, the farmer at Kaurimba, and his daughter, charged with the murder of the letter's illegitimate child were brought up again to-day aud further ...

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  22. THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    LONDON, Saturday.--William O'Connor, the Canadian sculler, who has accepted Henry Searle'a challenge to row on the Thames for the championship of the world ...

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  23. EXPORT OF PEARLSHELL

    THURSDAY ISLAND, Friday.--The steamer Taroba took from here 850 cases of pearlshell, valued at £8500. ...

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  24. THE RAILWAY TO FORBES.

    FORBES, Saturday.--At a special general meeting of the Crown Tenants' Union hold yesterday, the following resolution was passed unanimously :-- ...

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  25. DEATH OF A STEAMER INSPECTOR.

    AUCKLAND, Friday.--Mr. James Nancarrow, for many years engineering inspector of steamers in New Zealand, has just died in Wellington of apoplexy. ...

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  26. THE SANITARY QUESTION IN BRISBANE.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--The city council have finally decided to deposit the nightsoil of the city five miles outside of Cape Moreton. ...

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  27. KILLED IN THE HUNTING FIELD.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Wm. F. Bickford, a young man, son of Wm. Bickford, of Bickford and Sons, was killed while hunting oh Saturday near Glonelg. The horse struck a fence ...

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  28. CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The local liquor prohibition law at Rhode Island, United States, has been repealed by a large majority of votes. ...

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  29. ARREST OF BURGLARS IN ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Two men named Brewstor and William Hunt were arrested yesterday for the robbery at Sawtell's jewellery establishment. Brewston is an old Western ...

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  30. DANISH CONSUL IN SYDNEY.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. Theodore Augustus Boesen, a member of the firm of Petersen, Boesen and Co., of York-street, Sydney, has been appointed Danish Consul in Sydney. ...

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  31. THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Government, after mature consideration, have decided to appoint a Royal Commission and to take the usual steps necessary for the official ...

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  32. THE REV. DR. HIGGINS.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--the Rev. Dr. .Higgins, Assistant Roman Catholic Bishop of Sydney, arrived by the R.M.S. Austral on Friday. Dr. Higgins was met on arrival at ...

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  33. MEETING OF MINERS' DELEGATES.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.-- At an adjourned meeting of miners' delegates yesterday a letter was read from Mr. Justice Owen, intimating the appointment of Mr. Edmund Barton, Q.C., ...

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  34. A NAVAL CAPTAIN FINED.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Captain Woodward, of H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, who was recently arrested for contempt for not producing a seaman under a writ of habeas ...

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  35. AN ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Crompton Electric Light Company, formed for the purpose of supplying Australia with the Crompton light, has been registered with a capital of ...

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  36. ROAD ACCIDENT NEAR NEWCASTLE—A VEHICLE CAPSIZES.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A party of gentlemen returning in a waggonette from witnessing the experiments of Roburite, at Red Head, yesterday afternoon, narrowly escaped a catastrophe. ...

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  37. CONGREGATIONALISM AND THE SINGLE TAX.

    Sir,--The letter of Mr. Percy Meggy published in your issue of to day contrasts the action of the Congregationalists of this colony with their brethren in England in respect to the ...

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  38. THE FLOODS ON THE MURRAY.

    ALBURY, Sunday.--The river remains stationary at about 18ft. above summer level, the continued wet weather keeping the water up to flood level. Heavy showers fell to-day, and ...

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  39. GOLD DISCOVERED IN IRELAND.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Payable gold is reported to have been discovered at Crookhaven, in the County of Cork, Ireland. The discovery has created considerable ...

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  40. FALL INTO A VAT OF BOILING TALLOW.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--On Friday Alex. M'Pherson, one of the firm of Worley and M'Pherson, soup makers, of Newtown, was engaged in stirring a vat full of boiling tallow, ...

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  41. ACCIDENT TO THE GLANWORTH.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--The A.U.S.N, Company's s.s. Glanworth, en route to Sydney, which left here leat night, on rounding the bend struck the Toombul wharf at Breakfast ...

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  42. THE STRIKE AMONG BRITISH SAILORS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--There appears to be no probability of an early termination of the seamen's strike. The shipmasters on the Clyde are locking out union men. ...

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  43. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A collision occurred at the North Creawick railway station early this morning between the 11.10 p.m. train from Ballarat to Allendale and the 10.6 p.m. train ...

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  44. THE CHARGE AGAINST A VISCOUNT.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The prosecution by the Treasury of Viscount Mandeville, on a charge of obtaining the sum of £925 by means of false and fraudulent pretences, has ...

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  45. STRIKE OF WEST WALLSEND MINERS.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--It is reported in town to-night that the West Wallsend miners have struck work. It appears that some difficulty has arisen between the management and the ...

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  46. A DISLOYAL VOLUNTEER.

    TOWNSVILLE, Sunday.--At the conclusion of the drill of the Naval Brigade on Friday Lieutenant Ackors said that he had seen by the papers and by a ...

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  47. THE GOVERNOR OF WEST AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Sunday.--It is rumored that Viscount Gormanston will be appointed to succeed Sir Frederick Napier Broome as Governor of Western Australia. ...

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  48. LATEST PARTICULARS.

    NEWCASTLE, Monday, 1 a.m.--I have just returned from the pit. As expected, there was no truth In the rumor as to the satisfactory progress with the relief work. On the ...

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  49. THE IRISH DELEGATES.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--Mr. Dillon, M.P., arrived at Charters Towers last night and met with a tremendous ovation. He was escorted through the town by an immense crowd. He ...

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  50. THE LONDON WOOL SALES.

    LONDON, Sunday.--At the wool sales yesterday New Zealand crossbreds ruled a halfpenny higher. There was a strong demand. ...

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