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  2. ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Mr. Evelyn B. Baldwin, the leader of the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition, which lately returned to Norway on the conclusion of fifteen months' work in the North Polar seas, speaking ...

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  3. CHRISTMAS DAY.

    Christmas Day passed quietly and decorously, as Christmas Day has long been wont to do with us. Except during church hours, there was little movement out of doors. ...

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  4. REFORMS IN THE NAVY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Lord Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, has issued a memorandum setting forth proposals for far-reaching reforms in the training and personnel of ...

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  5. VENEZUELAN AFFAIRS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Italian Government has informed the United States authorities at Washington that Italy will feel happy if President Roosevelt agrees to ...

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  6. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The "Daily Express" states that the gift of 100,000 dollars (£20,000) made by the American citizen, Mr. Henry Phipps, of the Carnegie Company, for ...

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  7. SYDNEY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

    The Town-hall was last evening crowded with an unusually large audience, on the occasion of the usual annual performance on Christmas night of the "Messiah" by the Sydney Philharmonic ...

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  8. THE CHURCHES.

    Special Christmas services were held at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday, and were largely attended. The pulpit was choicely decorated with white flowers and greenery, the work being ...

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  9. THE FRAM'S DISCOVERIES.

    Regarding the experiences of his expedition to the Arctic regions, Mr. Sverdrup has made the following statement in Christiania:-- "I spent the winter of 1898-9 in winter quarters ...

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  10. A RECALCITRANT DUTCHMAN.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Dutch steamer Prinz Willem arrived at La Guoyra on Tuesday, and, the captain, having refused to pay the port charges to the ...

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  11. THE STORY OF THE WAR.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A joint history of the Boer war has been written by 700 Boer prisoners, who were in camp at Ahmednagar, in India. ...

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  12. THE SOMALI TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--British reinforcements, numbering in all about 700 men, have arrived from Berbera at Obbia, in Italian territory, and will land on Saturday for the ...

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  13. FIGHTING THE LABOR DIFFICULTY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The directors of the Kaffyfontein Diamond Mining Company, in the Orange River Colony, have decided to try Indian, instead of native ...

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  14. ST. JAMES' CHURCH.

    The services at St. James' Church, which were also of an appropriate character, were attended by large congregations, and during the day over 350 persons partook of the Holy Communion, ...

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  15. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Upon receiving members of the College of Cardinals on Christmas Eve Pope Leo XIII took occasion to warmly eulogise the Christian democratic ...

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  16. THE JUBILEE SINGERS.

    What the old proverb says of good wine can be enthusiastically applied to the unique and gifted Fisk Jubilee Singers, who made their reappearance in Sydney last night at the ...

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  17. ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL.

    Masses were celebrated every half-hour at St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. At the latter hour there was High Mass, with Cardinal Moran presiding. The intoning was by ...

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  18. COMMENTS BY "THE TIMES."

    LONDON, Thursday.--"The Times," commenting on the memorandum setting forth the proposed reforms in the training of officers for the navy, states that it is one of the ...

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  19. VICTORIA.

    Mrs. Bergin, a visitor staying with her brother, Mr. J. Johnstone, at Millard, near Wycheproof, was stooping over the kitchen fire yesterday when her apron caught fire, and in an instant her ...

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  20. THE EASTERN EXTENSION COMPANY.

    Sir John Wolfe Barry in presiding over the recent meeting of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company in London had (writes our London correspondent) much to explain to the ...

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  21. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Advices from Fez state that the Sultan's troops have victoriously entered the city of Teza, where the Pretender recently established his Court. ...

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  22. HOW CHRISTMAS DAY WAS SPENT.

    There was no special feature to distinguish this Christmas Day from its predecessors. There were the usual church services, and for old and needy special treats were prepared. The ...

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  23. BURTON-STREET TABERNACLE.

    A sacred concert was given last night at the Burton-street Baptist Church, and was largely attended. The Rev. C. S. Rose, pastor, presided, and sacred items were contributed by Misses E. ...

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  24. THE SAXON ROYAL SCANDAL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Archduke Joseph-Ferdinand has accepted his elder brother's renunciation of all rights to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany conditional upon the Archduke ...

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  25. CHRISTMAS TREATS.

    Everything possible was done to make the day a joyous one amongst the inmates of the Benevolent Society homes. A special dinner was provided at the ...

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  26. QUEENSLAND.

    Early this morning two men, Joseph chambers and an American negro named Edward Bonnett, had an altercation about a woman at Smeed-street, Bowen-hills, and it is alleged that ...

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  27. A CHRISTMAS GIFT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The British-American millionaire, Mr. W. W. Astor, has given £50,000 to the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond-street, to build an Out-Patient's Department in ...

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  28. ANOTHER CRUISER ORDERED.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered a first-class cruiser from the yards of the Thames Shipbuilding Company. ...

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  29. THE HUMBERT FRAUDS.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--M. Romain d'Aurignac's reputed mistress, Madame Duleza, who was arrested at Buenos Ayres in connection with the Crawford-Humbert frauds, has been ...

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  30. THE ARMOR PROTECTION OF CRUISERS.

    The new British cruisers, as described in "Engineering," to be known as the Duke of Edinburgh class," are to have citadels, as distinct from the scattered casemate system, and when one ...

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  31. A RAILWAY COLLISION.

    A collision occurred at Park-road railway station, on the Cleveland line, about 4 o'clock this afternoon. A mixed train from Manley was shunting some carriages at the station, when ...

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  32. MORE THREATENED TROUBLE.

    LONDON Thursday Afternoon.--The Central American Republic of Nicaragua is concentrating troops upon the Isthmus of Panama from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans. ...

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  33. FOUND DEAD IN A LANE.

    An important development has taken place in connection with the death of James Gleeson, 34, laborer, whose dead body was found yesterday morning in a lane off the New South Head-road. ...

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  34. CRICKET GROUND CONTINENTAL.

    A sacred continental was given at the Sydney Cricket Ground last evening, when there was a good attendance. Tho ground, illuminated by thousands of electric and acetylene gas ...

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  35. Y.M.C.A. BREAKFAST.

    The Christmas breakfast which has been given annually for many years by the Young Men's Christian Association to destitute men was attended by a larger number than usual. Fully ...

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  36. NEW ZEALAND.

    Mr. F. H. Wilson, eldest son of the late Sir John Cracroft Wilson, died at Christchurch yesterday from paralysis, aged 71. At the Maori elections, the sitting members ...

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  37. SYDNEY NIGHT REFUGE.

    Yesterday morning the Sydney Night Refuge and Reformatory gave a breakfast to over 70 men, who were quite destitute. The meal was spread in the court-yard of the Refuge premises, ...

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  38. THE COUNTRY.

    ALBURY, Thursday--A peculiar accident happened on the express train from Sydney this morning. When the train arrived here Mr. W. Howard, member of tho firm of Chicken and ...

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  39. RANDWICK ASYLUM.

    The children and officials at the Randwick Asylum spent a very happy day. Through the kindness of the house committee and a number of friends, an abundance of eatables, ...

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  40. NEWCASTLE.

    Christmas caused but little stir at Newcastle this year, the celebration of the festival being quieter than usual. The day was comparatively cool; an easterly wind sprang up after breakfast, ...

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  41. THE RAMSAY'S BUSH OUTRAGE.

    The funeral of the Ramsay's Bush victim, Jennie Irene Smith, took place yesterday at the Necropolis. The parents were the recipients of messages from persons all over the State, ...

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  42. "BEN HUR."

    The romantic story of "Ben Hur" formed the subject of an interesting lecture at the Queen's-hall, Pitt-street, last night, Mr. Albert Lucas, elocutionist, being assisted by the Lew-Wallace ...

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  43. MARINE EXCURSIONS.

    Manly was the only waterside resort to attract excursionists in anything like large numbers. The other pleasure grounds round about Port Jackson were visited but by few. Steamers plied ...

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  44. ST. ANNE'S CHURCH, STRATHFIELD.

    The additions which have recently been completed to St. Anne's Church, Strathfield and Hombush, were dedicated by the Archbishop on Tuesday evening. They comprise the extension of ...

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  45. TRAM AND TRAIN TRAFFIC.

    Very few people availed themselves of the holiday for picnicking purposes, either in the city or suburbs, and the principal pleasure resorts were comparatively deserted. Consequently ...

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  46. A FIRE AT FORBES.

    FORBES, Thursday.--A big fire occurred at 2 o'clock this morning. A high wind fanned some sparks into flame at the back corner of Findale's office, where there was a fire last week. This ...

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  47. VICE-REGAL MILITARY BAND CONCERT.

    A matinee performance was given at the Town-hall yesterday afternoon, by the Vice-Regal Military Band, under the direction of Mr. L. de Groen, before a large and appreciative ...

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  48. SAMARITAN AMBULANCE LITTER.

    As a Christmas gift to the Civil Ambulance Brigade, the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, Limited, has fitted to the "Samaritan" litter, which was given to the brigade seven years ago, ...

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