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  2. FEDERATION CONFERENCE.

    Mr. Reid last night received the following telegram from Sir George Turner, Premier of Victoria, in reply to his letter suggesting a conference on the Federation question;-- ...

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  3. NEW CASTLE.

    Members of the Newcastle Early Closing aud Shop Employees' Associations were the promoters of a well-attended demonstration held last night at the corner of Newcomen and Hunter ...

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  4. AMERICAN EXPANSION.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Mr. G. F. Hoar, Republican Senator of Massachusetts, has spoken in support of the motion of Mr. G. V. Vest, Democratic Senator for ...

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  5. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--M. Blo-witz, the Pass correspondent of "The Times." commenting on the resignation of M. de Beaurepaire, the President of the ...

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  6. THE BOOT-TRUNK TRAGEDY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The mystery surrounding what is known as the boot-trunk tragedy was partly elucidated to-night, when a domestic servant named Beatrice Jamieson ...

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  7. THE GATTON TRAGEDY.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Steady rain set in in the Brisbane district to-day. which will Interfere with the police Investigations at Gatton and Goodna. ...

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  8. VICTORIA.

    The will of the late John Richardson, of Newlyn, farmer, has been field for probate. The estate is valued at £10,550, and is bequeathed to the widow and children. ...

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  9. NEW ZEALAND.

    Professor Brown, of Glasgow, has been appointed professor of classics for the Victoria University College at Wellington. Mr. Justice Williams, who is now in England. ...

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  10. THE PHILIPPINES.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The town of Ilo Ilo, which the American forces threaten, has been barricaded by the insurgent Filipinos, in preparation for street fighting. ...

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  11. COMPLAINTS OF M. BEAUREPAIRE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--M. de Beaurepaire complains that the gravest partially towards the Dreyfusards was shown by his colleagues of the Court of Cassation M. Loew. ...

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  12. M'NEILL IN COVENTRY.

    Mr. M'Neill returned on Sunday afternoon from Toowoomba (says the Brisbane "Courier" special at Gatton). He says the police are making Inquiries about him. The people there would not ...

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  13. CALLIOPE DOCK FOR ADMIRALTY PURPOSES.

    Mr. Brigham, secretary of the Auckland Harbor Board, has Informed the board that the Admiralty would not accept the original estimates for fitting up the Calliope Dock for Admiralty purposes, and ...

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  14. THE BEREAVED PARENTS.

    To-day (writes the special correspondent of the Brisbane "Courier" on Sunday) I had an opportunity of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Murphy and family ...

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  15. LETTER FROM MR. KINGSTON.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The following telegram has been sent by Mr. Kingston in reply to the letter received from Mr. Reid:--"Replying to your letter of December 31, this Government ...

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  16. NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY.

    At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company at Auckland, the chairman expressed regret that the company had again met with severe and quite unprecedented losses on ...

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  17. AGUINALDO THREATENS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--After eluding the surveillance of the Americans at Cavite, where he sought refuge ostensibly to avoid assassination by malcontents of his own ...

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  18. AN ALLEGED OUTRAGE.

    Robert Douglas, aged 19, has been arrested at Opaki, near Masterton, on a charge of committing a shocking outrage on a girl aged 17 years. It is alleged that Douglas pulled the girl off her horse ...

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  19. A SHAM MESSIAH.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The death is anounced of H. J. Prince, the founder of the religious settlement of Agapemone. Agapemone, a Greek word, signifies "the abode ...

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  20. THE NEW ZEALAND CRICKET TEAM.

    The Cricket Council considers that the team has not been materially weakened by the alterations, and has decided to carry out the tour. The council says the conditions for sending the team ...

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  21. PENSIONS FOR THE AGED POOR.

    About 1500 applications for pensions under the Old Age Pensions Act have already been received at the four chief centres. ...

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  22. GERMAN REGRETS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Throughout the war between the United States and Spain the contingency of German intervention in the Philippines occasioned anxiety in ...

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  23. A STRONG MAN CONTEST.

    Sampson has accepted a challenge Issued by some stevedores to pull under tug-of-war rules against a team of seven men. Should he fall in this he is to forfeit £50. In addition, he ...

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  24. THE COLONIAL NAVAL

    The reports of the Customs officers, directed to ascertain the number of seamen willing to Join the colonial naval reserve are considered unsatisfactory from the Admiralty point of view. The men ...

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  25. THE MINISTERS OF AGRICULTURE.

    The Ministers of Agriculture from Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney arrived In Melbourne to-day to attend the intercolonial conference. They were received by Mr. Taverner, the ...

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  26. AN ARREST NEAR GLADSTONE.

    GLADSTONE, Wednesday.--The man Lee was arrested at Bororeen after biding his revolver, which is of American make, under a tank near the railway station. The cartridges found in the ...

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  27. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    The steamer Titania arrived from Brisbane yesterday, and the steamer Indianapolis from Sydney, both to load co-operative coal for Java to the agency, of Messrs. W. Scott, Fell, and Co. ...

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  28. TASMANIA.

    The Mount Bischolf London cable gives the price of tin at £97 per ton. The first sod of the Ulverstone-Burnie railway extension was turned to-day by Lady Braddon in ...

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  29. EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

    The produce experted through the Department of Agriculture for the past fortnight was as follows:--December 27, per Ophir, 446 tons butter, for London; December 27, per Yarrawonga, 2000 ...

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  30. SPEECH BY SIR EDWARD BRADDON.

    LAUNCESTON, Wednesday.--This evening Sir Edward Braddon addressed his constituents at Ulverstone. He is seeking re-election, having accepted the office of Treasurer in room, of Sir ...

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  31. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Supreme Court to-day, Mr. Justice Chubb granted a rule nisi, returnable in February, to the Full Court, for a writ of mandamus against Richard Dawes (objector) and the bench of ...

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  32. WRECK OF THE CENTENNIAL

    Norman Bain, mate or the steamer Centenmal, the loss of which, on Broughton Island, on the 30th December, was attributed by the local Marine Board to his failure to steer the course ...

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  33. A GIRL ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

    This afternoon, at a children's party at Mrs. William Brown's residence, Daylesford, a lad, 13 years old, playfully pointed a pea rifle at a girl of the same age, named Lawson. Belleving it to ...

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  34. THE NEW GUINEA LAND GRAB.

    LONDON, "Wednesday.--It is reported in official circles that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. Secretary of State for the Colonies, disallows the concession in New Guinea sought by ...

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  35. THE SOUDAN.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Cognisance has been taken by the British Government of the recent expression by the Pope of a preference that priests of the Coptic rite, and ...

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  36. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The Government has communicated with the Agent-General, asking him to reserve the necessary space at the Paris Exhibition for West ...

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  37. ENGLISH COMMERCIAL.

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  38. QUEENSLAND OPAL.

    WINTON. Wednesday.--The Opalton mailman reports a sensational find of opal on that field. Two Germans, who had done well, left their claim to two men named Shillington and ...

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  39. NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday Night.--There are no Important developments In connection with the Gatton tragedy. The police are still working hard at Gatton. ...

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  40. GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Playing with the English team touring South Africa against a 22 of Graafreinet and district, A. E. Trott took 12 wickets for 40 runs in the first innings, and ...

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  41. INCREASED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.

    Owing to the growth of settlement and the scattered nature of agricultural areas, some difficulty is being experienced in getting a fair Idea as to the average wheat yield of the colony, but ...

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  42. LOCAL MARINE BOARD.

    The Local Marino Board held Its weekly meeting yesterday afternoon, there being present Captain Cross (chairman). Captain Bain, and Messrs. Frank Gardner and John Reid. No member has ...

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  43. THE IPSWICH CASE.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The police authorities have dispatched two constables to West Australia to bring Wilson to Brisbane. Three constables are being sent south to escort ...

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  44. THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In a splenetic outburst consequent upon the British demands from the Transvaal Executive, the Rand "Post" advised that in the event of war ...

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  45. THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. George Collins Levey, secretary of the Australasian, Canadian, and African Exhibition to be held at Earl's Court, is arranging with London importers to ...

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  46. THE TICK PLAGUE.

    SINGLETON, Wednesday.--To-day a meeting of the sheep board was hold to take some action relative to the tick plague. Mr. C. H. Dight, M.P., was present by invitation. He explained ...

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  47. THE WRECK OF THE SEPIA.

    The Court of Marine Inquiry at Fremantle has delivered its finding relative to the wreck of the Sepia. They found Captain Hugh Thomas guilty ...

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  48. THE WHEAT MARKET.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The quantity of wheat and nour auoat for the muted kingdom is estimated at 2,410,000 quarters, or 130,000 quarters more than last week. The quantity afloat for the Continent ...

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  49. TAMWORTH WATER SUPPLY.

    TAMWORTH, Wednesday.--The condition of the gravitation pipes in connection with the water supply laid between Tamworth and Moor Greek Is still a disgrace to the Works ...

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  50. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    Yesterday afternoon a deputation representing the unemployed of the district was introduced to Mr. James Hogue, Minister for Education and Labor, at the Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, ...

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  51. SHARKEY AND M'COY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A glove contest for a purse of 20,000 dollars (about £4000) took place yesterday between the American pugilists "Kid" M'Coy and Tom Sharkey. ...

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  52. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    During a quarrel between some choir boys last night one, named Percy Heynen, stabbed another boy, William Murray. This morning Heynen was before the court, aud was remanded for a ...

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  53. VICTORIAN WHEAT.

    LONDON, Wednesday,--Nine thousand quarters of Victorian wheat (per January sailer) were sold yesterday at 2Ss 6d per quarter. ...

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  54. THE EDITOR AND THE PRINCE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The editor of a socialist newspaper published in Madgeburg has been sentenced to Imprisonment for a term of four years for the publication of a skit officially ...

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  55. THE TONGAN TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Gorman newspapers refer to the threat made to the King of Tonga that Germany would seize the island of Vavau unless certain debts ...

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  56. ANTWERP WOOL SALES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday. There was a large attendance and animated bidding. Out of the 3240 bales (mostly River Plate wools) offered, 1700 sold, ...

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  57. CANADA AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Ottawa correspondent of Renter's Agency reports that It is untrue that the Canadian Government has ottered to contribute towards the cost of the Pacific ...

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  58. THE GOODNA TRAGEDY.

    A post mortem examination of the body of the boy Hill, made by Dr. Wray, disclosed the fact that the lad had been killed by a shot from cither a revolver or a pistol, which must have ...

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  59. A MINER BURNED TO DEATH.

    BALLINA, Wednesday.--A beach miner, Patrick M'Nicholl, who was severely burned through his tent catching fire during last Friday night, succumbed to the effects of his Injuries In the ...

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  60. THE MOUNT LYELL CORNSTOCK COMPANY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Mount Lyell Com-steek Mining Company, Tasmania, which was formed with a capital of £600,000, has allotted shares to the value of £20,000. ...

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  61. NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL.

    The quarterly meeting of the committee of the Newcastle Hospital was held last night, under the presidency of Mr. Joseph Wood. In their report the house committee noted that Nurse E. ...

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  62. SUBMARINE NAVIGATION.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The French submarine torpedo boat Gustavo Zede has made a successful journey under the sea from Toulon to Marseilles. ...

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  63. BEN TILLETT AND THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--M. Desjardins, who was appointed as arbitrator with reference to the claim made against the Belgian Government by Mr. Bon Tillett. in connection with his ...

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  64. THE SALARY OF A STAR ACTRESS.

    At the Police Court this morning William Cosgrove, theatrical manager, was sued by Elsie Landers for £10 10s, being the balance of wages due in connection with an engagement to play a ...

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  65. A CHARGE OF MURDER.

    John Cadman was again brought before the police court to-day on a charge of murdering his wife at Conargo on November 9 last. The accused was committed for trial to the circuit ...

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  66. SALES OF TALLOW.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--At the sales of tallow to-day 2175 casks were offered, of which 1625 casks were sold. Mutton, fine, realised 23s' 6d; mutton, medium, 22s; beef, fine, 22s 6d; beef, ...

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