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  2. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A Parliamentary paper from the Colonial Office gives details of the conference between the Beer Generals Botha, De la Key, and De ...

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  3. THE SHEARERS' STRIKE.

    Members or the A.W.U. are authorised to accept the P.U. rates. This was the effect of the announcement made yesterday by the executive officers of the Australian Workers' Union in ...

    Article : 675 words
  4. THE RAILWAYS.

    It is becoming increasingly evident that all is not well with the railways in some really vital respects, and if the commissioners arc at all jealous for their reputation as administrators, it ...

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  5. SECOND EDITION.

    The Municipal Bill was under consideration in committee when the first edition was published. In clause 15, dealing with the qualification of aldermen, an amendment was moved by Mr. ...

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  6. AUSTRALIA AND CANADA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Australian visitors from the Coronation now in Canada have arrived at Ottawa. Responding to the hearty welcome which ...

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  7. THE SECOND WAR MEDAL.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The King has approved of a second war medal being awarded to those who, serving on January 1, 1902, had completed 18 months' ...

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  8. CHINA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--M. Lessar, the Russian Minister at Pekin, has advised the officer commanding the military forces in Manchuria to expel certain British officials who ...

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  9. ENGLISH SPORTING.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The principal event of the Doncaster September meeting was run to-day, and resulted as under:-- THE ST. LEGER STAKES, of 25 sovs. each, for ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The editor and publisher of the "Irish People," tho organ of the extreme Irish Nationalist section, published in Dublin, have been summoned on an ...

    Article : 130 words
  11. VICTORIAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

    MELBOURNE. Thursday.--The State Cabinet sat for several hours this evening, considering the procedure they intend taking, in view of the impending dissolution. The date of the ...

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  12. THE KING.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Their Majesties the King and Queen, who are at present at Balmoral, have arranged to visit "the city" on October 18, returning to Buckingham Palace ...

    Article : 57 words
  13. WAGES OF WATERSIDE WORKERS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The conference between the Waterside Workers' Federation and the shipowners was held in Melbourne yesterday, to consider various matters. The workers were ...

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  14. THE HAYTIEN INCIDENT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A cable message from Gonavies, a small town on the west coast of Hayti, off which the gunboat Crete a Pieter was said to have been sunk last week by the German ...

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  15. FURTHER PARTICULARS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In addition to the subjects already mentioned as having boon submitted for discussion by the Boer generals in their interview with Mr. ...

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  16. FRANCE AND SPAIN.

    LONDON, Thursday.--There exists what appears to be a well-founded impression in Paris that a Franco-Spanish alliance has virtually been arranged. ...

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  17. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Signer Marconi is communicating perfectly by means of his wireless system of telegraphy between the stations which he has established on the Cornish coast, at ...

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  18. GERMANISATION OF POLAND.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The conciliatory speech which the Kaiser recently delivered in Posen has not allayed the excitement in the Polish provinces of the German Empire. ...

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  19. EDUCATION IN GERMANY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Professor James Dewar, president of the British Association, speaking yesterday at a meeting of that body in Belfast, declared that Germany is two generations ahead ...

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  20. THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A force of 2000 Venezuelan Government troops have surrendered to the rebel leaders at Agua Dulce, near Barcelona. The surrender was brought about by the ...

    Article : 44 words
  21. THE MANIFESTO.

    The terms of the manifesto in which the leaders of the strike announce to tho members of the union their surrender are as follows:-- "Fellow-members.--Force of circumstances has ...

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  22. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--At the instance of those interested in the butter trade, and the Agricultural Society. Mr. Hanbury, President of the Board of Agriculture, has agreed ...

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  23. THE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Parliamentary paper already quoted in connection with the Boer requests, shows that Mr. Chamberlain agreed to re-transfer to the owners ...

    Article : 227 words
  24. LUCKNOW MINERS' WAGES.

    ORANGE, Thursday.--The Lucknow branch of the Australian Miners' Association has submitted to Mr. Newman, superintendent of the Darcy Wentworth mine, Lucknow, a scale of wages ...

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  25. ANOTHER BANK BOBBERY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Robbers have succeeded in stealing £8800 in specie from the Bank of France. ...

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  26. FROZEN MEAT CARGO JETTISONED.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The steamer Niwaru, from New Zealand ports, which sprung a leak in her No. 2 hold on the voyage to London, jettisoned 26,000 carcases of frozen meat. The ...

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  27. CHARGE AGAINST A. B. WORTHINGTON.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The charge against Arthur Bentley Worthington, late of the Unitarian Church Sydney, of obtaining £1096 from Madame de la Juvency, a widow, by means ...

    Article : 409 words
  28. AN OVERDUE SHIP.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Fifteen guineas per cent, have been paid to re-insure the ship Pleione, which sailed from Sydney on April 25 for London. ...

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  29. SEISMIC DISTURBANCES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The volcanoes at Kilanea, in the Hawaiian islands, and Stromboli ("the lighthouse of the Mediterranean"), off the italian coast, and also two Alaskan volcanoes, are in ...

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  30. BRITISH PRESS COMMENTS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The British newspapers generally characterise the Boer Generals' proposals as audacious and astonishing, and hold that they were inspired from the ...

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  31. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The Premier announced in the Legislative Assembly that the measure providing for tho redistribution of seats and electoral reform was being drafted, and would be introduced shortly. ...

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  32. W. HOWARD SMITH COMPANY.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The half-yearly general meeting of Howard Smith Company, Limited, was held this afternoon. Mr. W. G. Sprigg, chairman of directors, presided. The ...

    Article : 155 words
  33. THEFT FROM A MUSEUM.

    When the' officials of the Museum opened the building this morning they found that tho place had been visited by thieves during tho night. A valuable collection of coins was missing. They ...

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  34. THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Royal Commission which has been appointed, with Lord Elgin as president, to inquire into the conduct of the Boer war, will be constituted ...

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  35. IS MAN WHOLLY MORTAL?

    ST. MARYS, Thursday.--A most interesting debate took place here last evening in tho Protestant-hall between Mr. J. Bell, of Sydney, of the Christadelphians, and Mr. J. w. wight, of ...

    Article : 112 words
  36. IMPORTANT TRIP THROUGH THE DESERT.

    Henry Hill, who recently returned from an extended trip across the desert as far as the South Australian border stated in an interview: "I have been right through the centre of West ...

    Article : 97 words
  37. LATE SHIPPING.

    The steamer Rockton, of the A.U.S.N. line, arrived early this morning from Brisbane via Newcastle. ...

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