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  2. MILITARY RETRENCHMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The following are the essential parts of the statement read by Sir William Lyne this afternoon in the House of Representatives to show the retrenchment ...

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  3. SECOND EDITION.

    The discussion on the motion of censure was continued in the Legislative Assembly this morning. Mr. LEVIEN supported the Government. ...

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  4. THE MOTION OF CENSURE

    The debate on the motion of censure tabled, by Mr. Garruthers was resumed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The terms of the motion were:--"(1) That, in the opinion of this House, ...

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  5. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--It is understood in diplomatic circles in Berlin that Great Britain does not object to the Kaiser giving an audience to the Boer Generals, but Great ...

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  6. THE AMERICAN COAL STRIKE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Coal in New York is now, owing to the strike of the anthracite coalminers, worth a halfpenny, per pound. Most of the works where large ...

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  7. THE POLITICAL CRISIS.

    There was very considerable excitement in the lobbies of Parliament House last night during the discussion on Mr. Carruthers' motion of censure. The uncertainty as to the way in which the ...

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  8. THE TRANS-ATLANTIC TRADE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The announcement of the agreement entered into between the Imperial Government and the Cunard Company has caused a phenomenal ...

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  9. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT INTERVENES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--President Roosevelt has addressed a communication to the presidents of the anthracite companies, and to Mr. Mitchell, president of the Miners' Union, ...

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  10. THE LABOR PARTY'S ATTITUDE.

    There has seldom been so much perturbation in the ranks of the labor party as during the past 48 hours. The censure motion was based on a subject concerning which the working-man and ...

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  11. FRENCH AND AUSTRIAN COMMENT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Commenting on the probable reception of the Boer generals by the German, Emperor, the Paris "Figaro" states that the cordiality existing between ...

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  12. STATE OWNERSHIP ADVOCATED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The platform of the State Dcmocr: [?] Convention now sitting at Saratoga includes the national ownership and working of the anthracite mines in ...

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  13. SPEAKER AND MEMBER.

    During the censure debate in the Assembly this morning, Mr. Jessep, who rose to speak at about 2 o'clock, was referring to the speech of the leader of the labor party as "carefully prepared." ...

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  14. A CANADIAN-PACIFIC LINE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The shareholders of the Canadian-Pacific Railroad have authorised the establishment of a steamship line for the Atlantic trade by purchase or lease. ...

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  15. THE LATE M. ZOLA.

    LONDON. Wednesday Afternoon.--M. Dreyfus has paid a visit to Zola's house, for the purpose of viewing the coffin. Some of the Catholic newspapers suggest that ...

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  16. JAPAN AND THE POWERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Japan's claim to impose a house tax on foreigners residing in that country has been referred to two members of the Hague Arbitration Court. ...

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  17. THE BRITISH SENTIMENT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--This chief feeling of soreness with the Boer generals in Great Britain is because they did not take the nation frankly into their confidence. ...

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  18. VICTORIAN STATE ELECTIONS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--No less than 21 members of the last Parliament lost their seats at the general election yesterday, which shows how they misjudged the sentiment of the people ...

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  19. A JAPANESE LOAN.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Baring Bros. are issuing, at par, a Japanese 5 per cent. loan for £5,000,000. ...

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  20. FINANCIAL PANIC IN NEW YORK.

    LONDON,Wednesday Afternoon.--The tightness in money in New York, which has been increasing for some weeks past, has reached an acute stage. Heavy sales of railroad shares have been ...

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  21. AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Albert Hastings, editor of the "Western News," has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment by a Special Crimes Court, sitting in Ballinasloe, for ...

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  22. BAD EFFECT OF THE MANIFESTO.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The subscriptions to the Boer funds in Switzerland have decreased suddenly since the issue of the manifesto. ...

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  23. THE WOMBEYAN SHOOTING CASE.

    GOULBURN, Thursday--At the police court today Alexander Thomas, arrested in connection with the shooting affray at the Wombeyan Caves, where Edward Moran sustained severe injuries, ...

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  24. A MEMBER'S TROUBLES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Mr. W. O'Doherty, M.P. for North Donegal, one of the Irish Nationalists, has refused to comply with the request of the United Irish League that he ...

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  25. A RECONCILED RAIDER.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Kritzinger--the successful Free State raider commandant of the latter part of the war--has sailled for England for a pleasure tour extending over ...

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  26. BANK OF ENGLAND RATE.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Bank of England published rate of discount, which was lowered to 3½ per cent, on January 23, and to 3 per cent. on February 6, has been raised to 4 ...

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  27. VICTORIA.

    The man Donald M'Lean, who was arrested last night by Constable Appleby on a charge of having defrauded the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales of £1760, received on account ...

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  28. THE COUNTRY PARTY.

    While it was considered probable that the labor party--which has apparently slipped into a habit of considering their own political comfort quite before the public interest--would vote for ...

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  29. CAPE COLONY POLITICS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In the Cape House of Assembly on Tuesday night, the motion proposed by Dr. T. W. Smartt, leader of the Progressives, providing for an increase of ...

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  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday..Afternoon.--The Queen Victoria Memorial Fund now amounts to £21,000, including a sum of £800 from the Orange River Colony. ...

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  31. A MATTER OF AN ANNUITY.

    Judge Gaunt decided to-day in a will case in which the deceased, Edward Neilson, left all his property to his wife, but directed that an annuity of 10s a week should be paid to his mother, ...

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  32. JAPANESE BATTLESHIP DRIVEN ASHORE.

    LONDON. Wednesday Afternoon.--The typhoon and tidal wave which recently swept over the Japanese seas, drove the Japanese battleship Shikishima ashore at the entrance to Yokohama ...

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  33. CAPE TO BEIRA RAILWAY COMPLETED.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The railway line from Capetown to Beira has been completed. ...

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  34. WATERS FOR IRRIGATION.

    Protests wore received some days ago by the Victorian Government from the New South Wales and South Australian authorities against the diversion of the Goulburn River water for ...

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  35. COLONIAL MUTTON FOR THE ARMY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A new clause in Army contracts insists that frozen mutton supplied to troops must be exclusively the product of the British colonies. ...

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  36. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    A meeting of returned soldiers was held on Wednesday night for the purpose of receiving a report from a deputation which recently waited on Sir John See with reference to the payment ...

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  37. A TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--A bill for the construction of the transcontinental railway between Oodnadatta, the northern terminus of the South Australian system, and Pine Creek, in the ...

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  38. THE MOUNT KEMBLA DISASTER.

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  39. MR. CARNEGIE'S GIFT REFUSED.

    LONDON. Wednesday Afternoon. -- The borough council of Marylebone has declined Mr. Carnegie's proffered gift of £30,000 for the establishment of a free library on the ground of ...

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  40. GRAZING COMMON FOR STARVING STOCK.

    The Government has decided to make an area of Crown lands to the north of Neerim station, on the Gippsland line, 75 miles from Melbourne, available for farmers to feed starving stock. ...

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  41. THE RECENT SEISMIC DISTURBANCES.

    WELLINGTON. Thursday.--The earthquakes which occurred in Guatemala on 23rd September were distinctly recorded in New Zealand by seismographs, which showed that the tremors ...

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  42. SERIOUS EPIDEMIC.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--There is an epidemic of diarrhoea at Fratton. Portsmouth, the infection being conveyed by flies, which frequent the city dust heaps. ...

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  43. THE TOWN-HALL FUND.

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  44. THE CORONA SHEARING DISTURBANCES.

    BROKEN-HILL, Thursday.--Cornelius Kerin and Robert Brennan, two witnesses for the defence in the shearing case at the Circuit Court yesterday, who stated that they were members ...

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  45. A CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER.

    At the inquest to-day on the body of Johanna Gorman, who died at Snake Valley from injuries inflicted with an axe by her brother-in-law, Francis Joseph Sheehan, the latter was committed ...

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  46. THE CHINESE THRONE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon. -- Prince Chun has married a daughter of Young-lu, the Chinese Commander-in-Chief, the object of the alliance being to secure an heir to the Chinese ...

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  47. CONDITION OF MOLONG HOSPITAL.

    MOLONG, Thursday.--Dr. Ross, M.L.A., has tendered his resignation as president of the Molong Hospital owing to a report furnished by the medical officer regarding the institution, and ...

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  48. DAMAGE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--It has been found that the side-wall of the Unley Town-hall was so severely shaken by the recent earthquake that it will have to be pulled down and rebuilt. ...

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  49. LORD SALISBURY.

    LONDON, "Wednesday Afternoon.--Lord Salisbury has gone to La Bastide, his place at Beaulieu, near Nice, in the French Riviera, from Switzerland. ...

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  50. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Vice-Admiral Beaumont has notified the Lleutonant-Governor that he proposes to visit South Australia with the flagship Royal Arthur and the Mildura and Karrakatta on October 16th, ...

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  51. TASMANIA.

    The Launceston agricultural show was continued to-day. There was a large attendance, the estimate for the two days being 18,000, and the result is a big financial success. ...

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  52. THE CARUPANO INCIDENT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The French Consular Agent who was arrested by the Venezuelan National Deputy, General Velutini, for intervening after the arrest of the manager and employees ...

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