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  2. BIRTHDAY HONORS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.-- The following Queen's Birthday Honors are announced:-- PEERAGES. Lord Morris, late Lord of Appeal in ...

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  3. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Reuter's correspondent with the Mafeking relief column reports that the Boor leader, Gen. Eloff, was captured by Lieutenant-Colonel ...

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  4. THANKSGIVING SERVICES AND MILITARY DISPLAY.

    There were two thanksgiving services in St. Paul's Cathedral this morning, one at 8 o'clock and another at 10 o'clock. These were the more sober gatherings of tho day. Even here ...

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  5. NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS.

    The following cable message has been received by the Governor from Sir Alfred Milner:--"May 21.--Regret to report that (No. 380) Private G. Prawe, died of enteric fever on May 11; also ...

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  6. MAFEKING DAY.

    Yesterday was, owing to the incessant rain which fell,quite an impossible one for a holiday, and the demonstrations which were to have been hold to celebrate the heroic achievements of the ...

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  7. WAR NOTES.

    The Government at Pretoria is evidently becoming demoralised. Kruger is still in control of the Executive, assisted by the indefatigable and unscrupulous Reitz and some Hollanders. ...

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  8. PRIVY COUNCILLOR.

    Right Hon. Gerald Fitzgibbon, Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland, to be a Privy Councillor. ...

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  9. THE PICTON EXPRESS DECORATED.

    Yesterday, as the 9.45 a.m. express engine from Picton came into the Redfern station shortly after noon, a cheer went up from the railway men and others assembled on No. 8 platform. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. G.C.B.

    Lord Jersey, ex-Governor of New South Wales, G.C.M.G., to be a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Bath. ...

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  11. LORD MORRIS.

    Lord Morris, who recently resigned his position as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, after occupying it for 11 years, was born at Galway, Ireland, on 14th November, 1827, and was educated at ...

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  12. K.C.B.

    Mr. Conyingham Greene, C.B., late H.M. Agent, and Charge d'Affaires in the South African Republic, to be a Knight Commander of the Bath. ...

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  13. K.B.

    Mr. Francis Pratt Winter, C.M.G., Chief Judicial Officer, British New Guinen, to be Knight Bachelor. Dr. W.B. Berry, Speaker of the Cape ...

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  14. SIR PETER O'BRIEN.

    Sir Peter O'Brien, who is in his 59th year, has been Lord Chief Justice of Ireland since 1889. He was born in 1841, and after practising for some years at the Irish Bar became a Queen's ...

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  15. G.C.M.G.

    Lord Lamington, K.C.M.G., Governor of Queensland, to be a Knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. ...

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  16. K.C.M.G.

    Mr. William John Lyne, Premier, of New South Wales, to be a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. E.H. Wittenoom, Agent-General of ...

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  17. LOUD STRATHCONA.

    Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner of Canada since 1896, received his title in 1897, having previously been made a G.C.M.G. He was born in Scotland in 1820, and entered the Hudson Bay ...

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  18. ANOTHER BOER AMBUSH.

    LONDON,Wednesday.--It is officially announced that General Sir Redvers Buller, when recently at Dundee, ordered Colonel Bethune, of Bethune's Irregular Horse, to ...

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  19. C.M.G.

    Mr. Waller Horatio Wilson, ex-Postmoster General of Queensland, to be a Commander of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. Hamilton Hunter, Registrar of Titles, ...

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  20. LORD JUSTICE FITZGIBBON.

    Right Hon, Gerald Fitzgibbon, who has been made a Privy Councillor, is 63 years of age, having been born in Dublin in 1837. He distinguished himself while at Trinity College, Dublin, and was ...

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  21. SIR WILLIAM JOHN LYNE, K.C.M.G.

    The announcement that the Premier of this colony has been honored with the title of Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George will no doubt be received with approval by political ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  22. LORD JERSEY.

    Lord Jersey, G.C.M.G., is the 7th earl of that name, and was born on 20th March, 1845. He has been Lord Lieutenant of Oxford since 1887, and is the principal of Childs' Bank. In 1875 he ...

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  23. MR. CONYINGHAM GREENE.

    Mr. Conyingham Greene, who recently acted as H.M. Agent and Charge d'Affaires in the South African Republic, was born in Ireland in 1854. On entering the Diplomatic Service in 1880 he ...

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  24. MR. HAMILTON HUNTER.

    Mr. Hamilton Hunter is an old Winchester College boy, who in 1874 was appointed magistrate for Taviuni, in the Fiji Islands, winning promotion to the position of Chief Police ...

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  25. OPERATIONS IN NATAL.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--A report received from Maritzburg, the capital of Natal, is to the effect that the Boers have left the colony, having abandoned Laing's Nek ...

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  26. MR. E. H. WITTENOOM.

    Mr. E. H. Wittenoom has been prominent in West Australian politics for several years past, having held the position of Minister of Mines, in the present Forrest Minstry and acted as ...

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  27. NEWS FROM PRETORIA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A high official at Pretoria is reported to have informed the Rev. Adrain Hofmeyr that President Kruger. dreads the invasion of the Transvaal from ...

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  28. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The annual report of the inspector-general of the State Bank shows that during the past year £65,729 has been lent in 358 advances, 170 of which represent amounts of £100 or under. ...

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  29. AT NEWCASTLE.

    NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--To-day has differed little from, other Wednesday's in the matter of holiday making. Only-the banks and the Government offices other than those under the control ...

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  30. IN THE COUNTRY.

    ALECTOWN, Wednesday.--Owing to the heavy rain the celebration has been postponed. ARMTDALE, Wednesday.-- A monster demonstration took place at Armidale to-day in ...

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  31. NEARING THE END.

    LONDON Wednesday--The Transvaal Executive members intend to protect the British prisoners, but fear the rabble, especially the Irish and other foreign legions. ...

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  32. THE OTHER COLONIES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- To-day Melbourne is another mass of Mafeking madness. Great as was the display on Saturday, it was but a detail compared with that which to-day has sent the city ...

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  33. SHALL A MAJORITY RULE?

    The Premier was asked to-day if he had anything to say on the result of the elections for the Legislative Council, which have just been held, and at which the most important question before ...

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  34. KRUGER'S HUMILITY.

    LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The statement is contradicted that President Kruger has sent a peace proposal couched in very humble terms to the Premier, Lord Salisbury. ...

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  35. LORD LAMINGTON.

    Lord Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillio Lamington, K.C.M.G., D.L., Governor of Queensland, was born on July 29, 1860, and is the son of the first Baron and of ...

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  36. QUEENSLAND.

    The Cabinet has practically decided upon the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the licensing laws. No decision has yet been arrived at as to the actual constitution of the ...

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  37. BOER PEACE DELEGATES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--President M'Kinley has unofficially received the Boer Peace Delegates to the United States (Messrs. A. Fischer, J.M.A. Wolmarans, and C.D. ...

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  38. MR. F. P. WINTER.

    Mr. Francis Pratt Winter. C.M.G., has acted as judicial officer of British New Guinea since 1888. He was born in Victoria on February 23, 1848, and was educated at a private school in ...

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  39. MR. W.H. WILSON.

    Mr. Walter Horatio Wilson, M.L.C., Queensland, who is now in his sixty-first year, was born at Rhos-y-Medre, Ruabon, Denbighshire, North Wales, on July 15, 1839, and was educated at ...

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  40. TASMANIA.

    Mount Bischoff London cable quotes tin at £137 per ton. The local quotation Is 22s 6d per unit. ...

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