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  2. NOTES OF THE DAY.

    The Political melodrama "Government by Euchre," of which this colony has been an unwilling spectator for close on three years, is now nearing its final act. The long-lost ...

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  3. THE GENERAL ELECTION.

    Mr. William John Ferguson, labor member for Sturt, is a Scotsman by birth, but has spent most of his life in the mining district of Yorke's Peninsula, South ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

    Sir George Dibbs, it seems, has set ms mind on meeting Parliament and encountering a direct vote of censure as best he can. At least, that is his intention at present. ...

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  5. OUR SPECIAL CABLES

    LONDON, Sunday.--From Shanghai t is reported that the Corean difficulty has resulted in war being declared between China and Japan. ...

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  6. OUR SPECIAL CABLES

    LONDON, Friday night.--The Eastern and the Eastern Extension Telegraph Companies are this evening celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ...

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  7. OUR SPECIAL CABLES

    LONDON, Friday Night.--President Cleveland, in his letter to the United Stales Congress on the disagreement which exists between the ...

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  8. THE NEW AUSTRALIA SETTLERS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.-- Mr. G. W. Pope, one of the seceders from the New Australia settlement in Paraguay, writing from Buenos Ayres on June 25 ...

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  9. THE SHEARING TROUBLE.

    BRISBANE, Saturday.--Conflicting accounts continue to be received from Long- reach concerning the shooting case at Coombemartin. the wellshot out-station. ...

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  10. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES.

    The Governor, at 9.59 on Saturday morning, received the following cable message from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales:-- "To the Right Honorable Sir Robert ...

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  11. MR. JOHN FREDERICK BARNES, J.P.

    Mr. John Frederick Barnes, protectionist member for Gundagai, was born in London in 1837, came to the colony in infancy, and received his education at Burwood. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. MR. JOHN MOORE CHANTER, J.P.

    Mr. J. M. Chanter, protectionist member for Doniliquin, is the second son of the late John Chanter, J.P., of Bideford Estate. Arcadia, Victoria, and was born in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. BRITISH WARSHIPS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The British warships are preparing for the autumn naval manoeuvres. In the preliminary tests four warships and two ...

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  14. THE RAILWAY STRIKE IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Over 100 of the leaders of the railway strike in America have been indicted for criminal conspiracy. ...

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  15. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A heavy fall of earth occurred on Friday in a tunnel being cut at Yarraville in connection with the drainage works. Two men named Tom ...

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  16. HOLTZER SHELLS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--A Sheffield firm has discovered the Russian secret of treating Holtzer shells, and has offered to supply the British Government with the ...

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  17. JABEZ S. BALFOUR.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--In the House of Commons to-day a question was asked as to the result of the negotiations with the Argentine Republic ...

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  18. THE PORT MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. --The negro Frederick Jordan was yesterday found guilly of the murder of Minnie Crabtree, with whom he lived at Port Melbourne, and ...

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  19. THE NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The "Spectator," in referring to the result of the general election in New South Wales, says that the labor party held the ...

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  20. RETURN OF MR. SEE.

    The Colonial Treasurer, Mr. See, returned to Sydney last night, from Grafton, by the steamer Tomki. Upon being seen by a "Daily Telegraph" representative, ...

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  21. MR. HENRY NEWMAN.

    Mr. Henry Newman, labor and freetrade member for Orange, was born at Nantes, in France, where his father held a consular position. He received his education ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  22. THE CARRIAGE OF WHEAT.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--One of the consequences of the repeal of the railway by law giving rebates on Riverina wheat was brought under the notice of the ...

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  23. FRENCH SOCIALISTS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The Paris socialists are greatly incensed at the hostility displayed by the Government towards them, and are appealing to the ...

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  24. DISASTER IN RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Through the upsetting of a ferry boat on the Belaia River, at Oufa, Russia, 100 persons have been drowned. ...

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  25. IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Some time ago a report was published to the effect that Marra shearing shod, Coolabah, had been burnt down. Mr. Whiteley King has received word from the station ...

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  26. AFTER THE FIGHT.

    Attention has been very properly directed to the remarkable disparity between the labor vote polled last week and that which signalled the victory of the labor party at ...

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  27. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The directors of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, are dispatching an expert to the colonies ...

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  28. BRITISH COMMERCIAL TREATIES.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, Sir Edward Grey, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office ...

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  29. THE IMPERIAL DEATH DUTIES.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.-- The Premier has received a communication from the Agent-General respecting the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to levy a duty ...

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  30. COAL STRUCK AT WILLIAMSTOWN.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The efforts of the Williamstown and Newport Coal Prospecting Company were rewarded on Thursday evening by the striking of a seam of ...

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  31. ELECTION DIFFICULTIES.

    As an indication of the difficulties experienced in some of the electorates owing to the state of the weather at polling time, the returning-officer at Tumut, writing to ...

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  32. THE PEEL RIVER LAND AND MINERAL COMPANY.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--At a meeting of the Peel River Land and Mineral Company to-day Mr. Oscar de Satge, one of the directors, said that ...

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  33. THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The issue of £2,000,000 guaranteed preference capital by the Bank of New Zealand is quoted at £102 5s. The subscription ...

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  34. MR. W. G. SMAILES.

    Mr. W. G. Smailes, labor member for Granville, was born in 1862 in a mining township in Durham, England, and at the age of 10 went into the mines to work. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  35. THE COUNTRY.

    COBAR, Saturday.--An accident happened to the mail train from Nyngan to Cobar to-night. When near Meryula some of the trucks and carriages left the rails. The ...

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  36. NEW ZEALAND MEAT-- A DANGER TO LIFE.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The newspapers complain that barbed hooks, used in fastening and in covering carcases of New Zealand meat, are permitted to ...

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  37. THE PROTECTIONIST COMMITTEE.

    A meeting of the general committee of the protectionist party will be held this week for the purpose of winding up matters associated with the elections. A ...

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  38. THE SOUDAN.

    LONDON, Saturday.--It is reported Unit the British Government have assented to the Italian occupation of Kassala, in the Soudan, a place recently ...

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  39. MOLESTATION OF NON-UNIONIST MINERS.

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Two non-unionist minors, employed at the Co-operative colliery, Plattsburg, reported to the police on Saturday that the windows of their ...

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  40. AUSTRALIAN BANK SHARES.

    LONDON, Sunday.--On the London Stock Exchange Australian banks are quoted as follows :--Bank of Australasia, £40 shares, £66 10s; Union Bank, £25 ...

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  41. NEW ZEALAND.

    AUCKLAND, Saturday.--A woman named Ada Lippert, licensee of the Scotia Hotel, North Dunedin, has been burned to death. On going to bed last night she left the ...

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  42. THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

    LONDON, Sunday.--At the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association at Bisley Private Rennie, of the 3rd Lanarkshire Regiment, won the Queen's ...

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  43. CARDINAL MORAN ON THE ELECTIONS.

    Speaking at the opening of a new convent and school at Pymble yesterday afternoon Cardinal Moran made passing reference to the recent elections. "This ...

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  44. ENGLISH SPORTING.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--At the Sandown Park Second Summer Meeting to-day the Eclipse Stakes was the principal event, and resulted as under:-- ...

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  45. THE OVERDUE STEAMER

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--There in considerable uneasiness and anxiety locally, in consequence of the steamer Duckenfield having been reported missing. The vessel ...

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  46. A BANK MANAGER MISSING.

    AUCKLAND, Saturday.--Mr. M'Keligan, manager of the Lyttelton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has disappeared under circumstances of a mysterious nature. ...

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  47. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Frederick G. Symes, chief clerk in the office of the Commissioner of stamps, died yesterday, after a short illness. The cause of death was hemorrhage of the stomach. ...

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  48. AUSTRALIAN ORANGES.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The shipment of Australian oranges by the R.M.S. Oruba has arrived in good condition. ...

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  49. MR. EDWARD WILLIAM O'SULLIVAN.

    Mr. Edward William O'Sullivan, protectionist member for Queanbeyan, was born in Tasmania, and is in his 42nd year After serving at the printing trade he became ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  50. THE PRESERVATION OF MILK.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Mr. Foley, produce merchant, Sydney, is at present visiting Denmark making inquiries into M. Pasteur's method for the ...

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  51. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A sailing boat containing two men was struck by a squall and swamped near the mouth of the Murray yesterday. One of the men. an engineer ...

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  52. PARRAMATTA-- A PROBABLE PROTEST.

    Mr. Hugh Taylor has taken counsel's opinion respecting the formality of Mr. Dowell O'Reilly's nomination paper, and has been advised that he can succeed in ousting the ...

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  53. THE LONDON WOOL SALES.

    LONDON, Sunday.--At the current London wool Bales 195,000 bales have been sold to date. Special clips have realised as follow :-- Morbella. 6¾d: ...

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