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  2. AGRICULTURE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    There is no doubt that agriculture in this colony has suffered great disadvantage from its geographical situation in relation to the capital. The great areas on which the ...

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  3. THE NEW LOAN.

    LONDON, Thursday Night. -- It has now been ascertained that the New South Wales 3½ per cent. loan for £3,500,000, floated on Tuesday, realised 6s 8d nett less than the ...

    Article : 51 words
  4. THE SHEEP SALES.

    The stud sheep sales, which have occupied the attention of breeders and woolgrowers during the week, were concluded yesterday afternoon, when Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. ...

    Article : 399 words
  5. THE NEWCASTLE MINING DISASTER.

    NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- The inquest touching the death of Herbert Pettit, killed by the disaster at the Glebe B mine, was resumed at the council-chambers to-day. In the absence of ...

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  6. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The bill introduced by Lord Knutsford providing for the granting of responsible government to West Australia was read the second time in the House ...

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  7. THE TOTALISATOR AND GAMBLING.

    In the Summons side of the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. O'Malley Clarke, S.M., a number of persons were proceeded against for carrying on "place consultations. Bernard ...

    Article : 96 words
  8. THE TASMANIAN BUDGET.

    HOBART, Friday. -- In the Assembly to-day the Colonial Treasurer prefaced his Financial Statement by bringing in a message recommending the granting of supplies amounting ...

    Article : 420 words
  9. THE ALLEGED BREACH OF FAITH.

    The question of the alleged breach of faith by the present and the late Colonial Treasurer, Mr. Burns, was again referred to in the Assembly yesterday when Mr. Burns, as a ...

    Article : 267 words
  10. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CIVIL SERVANT.

    Hugh C. S. Hiddlestone, the well-known cricketer, was charged at the Water Police Court yesterday with having embezzled Government moneys. No evidence was adduced, ...

    Article : 102 words
  11. THE OPIUM DENS OF THE CITY.

    A celestial named Chi Ong was charged before the Central Police Court yesterday, Summons side, with being the keeper of a common, ill-governed and disorderly house at No. 4 ...

    Article : 207 words
  12. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    LONDON, Friday. -- In the coarse of the debate in the House of Lords last night, on the second reading of the West Australian Responsible Government Bill, the Earl of ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- In the Assembly to-day Mr. Powers gave notice that on Tuesday he would move for leave to introduce a bill for the better administration of justice. Mr. Groom ...

    Article : 250 words
  14. MELBOURNE EXHIBITION.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Mr. R. Burdett Smith, the New South Wales Commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition, met the exhibition trustees to-day and on behalf of New South ...

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  15. GENERAL NEWS.

    Mr. Alfred Allen has received from the Works Department communication with reference to the bridge on the New South Head-road. In this letter it is stated that the ...

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  16. BOULANGISM.

    LONDON, Friday. -- A series of violent scenes occurred in the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday, ending in the expulsion of M. Laguerre, the prominent Boulangist ...

    Article : 63 words
  17. NEW GUINEA.

    COOKTOWN, Friday. -- The schooner Hygeia has arrived here from Port Moresby, reporting that Sir William M'Gregor, Administrator of British New Guinea, has ascended Mount ...

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  18. ASSAULT AT A FOOTBALL MATCH.

    HOBART, Friday. -- At the police court this morning Angus Evans, manager of the South Melbourne football team, was fined 40s and costs for striking Chapman, the central umpire, ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. THE CLAN-NA-GAEL.

    LONDON, Thursday Night. -- It is reported that Major Le Caron, the British spy who gave such sensational evidence before The Times-Parnell Special Commission, has ...

    Article : 51 words
  20. SERIOUS GAS EXPLOSION.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A serious gas explosion took place this morning at the Government printing office. When a charwoman was cleaning one of the rooms some escaped gas ...

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  21. FLOODS AT BALRANALD.

    BALRANALD, Friday. -- The water has flowed over the banks of the river at places and inundated the country to a great extent. It is expected that no shearing will take place this ...

    Article : 68 words
  22. THE REBELLION IN HAYTI.

    LONDON, Thursday Night. -- The latest reports from Hayti show that the rebellion continues, and that General Legitime, one of the provisional presidents and in charge of ...

    Article : 54 words
  23. THE RICHMOND RIVER BAR.

    BALLINA, Friday. -- A heavy sea is running upon the bar to-day. As the tug Protector was towing the schooner Daphne in yesterday, both vessels got aground in Shaw's Bay ...

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  24. THE MOUNT KEMBLA DISPUTE.

    WOLLONGONG, Friday. -- The impending straggle between masters and men at the Mount Kembla Colliery is attracting much attention. Dr. Robertson, the managing ...

    Article : 120 words
  25. CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The Imperial Federation League intend to propose that an Imperial Conference be held to discuss the general question of federation. ...

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  26. THE FLOODS ON THE HUNTER.

    WEST MAITLAND, Friday. -- Mr. Gordon, the hydraulic engineer, who has been engaged by the Government to formulate some scheme for relieving the Hunter River district from floods, ...

    Article : 118 words
  27. THE IRISH TENANTS' LEAGUE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- It is understood that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. John Morley have determined to support the new Irish Tenants League now being formed by Mr. ...

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  28. THE DEASY LETTERS.

    BRANXTON, Friday. -- The Rev. E. D. Madgwick, of Sydney, delivered an address last evening is the local School of Arts, taking for his subject, "Orangeism: What it is and What it ...

    Article : 143 words
  29. MATTERSON AND BUBEAR.

    LONDON, Thursday Night. -- Neil Matterson, who is conducting Searle's training for the match with O'Connor, has declined to accept Bubear's challenge for a match on ...

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  30. THE CHILD MURDERS IN VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The inquest on the skeletons found on M'Carron's farm at Karimba was resumed at Nathalia to-day. Esther M'Carron, a sister of the female prisoner, ...

    Article : 142 words
  31. ARREST OF JOHN L. SULLIVAN.

    LONDON, Friday. -- John L. Sullivan, who fought a prize fight with Jake Kilrain last Monday in defiance of the prohibition of the American authorities, has been arrested. ...

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  32. THE BEGA-EDEN RAILWAY.

    EDEN, Friday. -- At a largely-attended public meeting, held in Eden to-day, Mr. W. J. Moorhead, J.P., in the chair, the following resolutions were unanimously carried: -- ...

    Article : 215 words
  33. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD RENEWS ACTIVE SERVICE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Lord Charles Beresford has resigned his seat in the House of Commons for East Marylebone. It is understood that he intends to again enter upon ...

    Article : 42 words
  34. THE TASMANIAN RAILWAY CASE.

    HOBART, Friday. -- Chief Justice Dobson to-day delivered judgment in the case of the Queen v. the Main Line Railway Company. The pith of the judgment is that the contract to ...

    Article : 119 words
  35. BELGIAN STEAMERS FOR AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The Belgian Government have agreed to grant an annual subsidy to a proposed line of steamships trading to Australian ports. ...

    Article : 29 words
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