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  3. IN THE COUNTRY.

    BERRIMA, Monday. -- A picnic and sports in commemoration of the relief of Mafeking were held to-day, and to-night a torchlight procession and bonfires took place. Almost the whole ...

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  4. THE PLAGUE.

    Three fresh cases of plague were reported yesterday, the patients being: -- Frank O'Shea (45), living and employed in the city. One contact. ...

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  5. VICTORIA.

    The will of the late Mr. Francis Grey Smith, late general manager of the Bank of Australasia, was lodged for probate to-day. The testator leaves real estate valued at £4080, and personalty valued ...

    Article : 79 words
  6. THE COUNTRY.

    WILCANNIA, Monday. -- Wilcannia has brought a grievance under the notice of the Department of Justice. Men and women are tried at Broken-hill sessions, and sentenced by the presiding ...

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  7. GROUNDING OF THE GULF OF TARANTO.

    The Marine Court of inquiry into the grounding of the steamer Gull of Toranto off Williamstown on 2nd April, was continued to-day. A colored quartermaster said he took the wheel at 4 o'clock, ...

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  8. WAR NOTES FROM ENGLAND.

    LONDON, April 20. -- writing to his w[?], Lieutenant Reginald Rankin, of Rimington's Scouts, Conservative candidate for the Torquay division, says: -- "One interesting event took ...

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  9. LETTERS FROM THE FRONT

    Private Robert Halliwell, writing from Bloemfontein on 10th April to his parents in Kiama, says: -- "There is a terrible lot of sickness over here through some kind of fever. It is a bad kind to take, and, to make things ...

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  10. MAJOR-GENERAL FRENCH AT MOLONG.

    MOLONG, Monday. -- A very imposing-looking spectacle was presented yesterday morning, when the mounted troops in camp attended a church parade. Under the command of Captain Claude ...

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  11. BULLET MUSIC.

    Says a correspondent at the front: -- There is a bird out here, a little brown bird, like a brambling, with a note that exactly mimics the Mauser, and an uncomfortable habit of fluting it in ...

    Article : 408 words
  12. NAVAL DEFENCE.

    Twelve enthusiastic officers, in uniform, of the Naval Brigade, headed by Captain Hixson, commander of the Naval Forces, marched into the Colonial Secretary's office yesterday afternoon and ...

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  13. THE BUSHMEN'S MISSION.

    Several letters from the seat of war, or from those on the way to South Africa, have been received at Lithgow during the past week. Private E. D. Thomas, of the First Contingent, writing ...

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  14. BROKEN-HILL JUNCTION MINE.

    At a meeting of the Broken-hill Junction Silver-mining Company this evening, the chairman, Mr. J. H. Howe, M.L.C., of South Australia, intimated that a loan of £10,000 would fall due in July, and ...

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  15. THE KINDLY APPRECIATED.

    Sir William Lyne and the Premiers of West Australia and Tasmania have telegraphed to the Victorian Government thanking them most heartily for their attention' to the invalided soldiers ...

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  16. A TRAIN DELAYED.

    COOMA, Monday. -- The Sydney mail train was delayed at Umeralla River all day owing, it is reported, to the central span having subsided about five inches. This is the spot on the line ...

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  17. NEW ZEALAND.

    Edwin Holloway, who was arrested in Sydney for embezzlement of £700 from the Public Trust Office at Auckland, was to-day sentenced to three years' imprisonment. ...

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  18. WITH THE HIGHLANDERS.

    H. W. Golledge, of the New South Wales A.M.C., 2nd Contingent, writing from Jagersfontein-road to his parents at Stanmore, says: -- "Since writing last, we have had quite an exciting time; from Springfontein ...

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  19. THE WAY TO WIN.

    A gentleman who poses as "Ellon," the astrologer of the North," has published a printed slip in which he tells us how to win the war. Says this modern soothsayer: -- "April end should ...

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  20. SCULLERS ENTERTAINED AT A PICNIC.

    CORAKI, Monday. -- The Sydney scullers were entertained at a picnic to-day by the townspeople. Captain Storey, ex-Mayor, placing a steamer at the disposal of the scullers and the citizens. ...

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  21. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    To-day was observed as a public holiday in commemoration of the Queen's Birthday. The principal attraction was the Adelaide Racing Club's meeting. At Victoria Park, ...

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  22. THE CONDITION OF NORTH BOTANY.

    At the last meeting of the North Botany Council, the sanitary inspector presented a special report in which he stated that all the houses recently inspected in the borough had been found ...

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  23. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Murray, Minister for Railways, left yesterday for Sydney, to confer with the New South Wales Minister on the subject of the possible junction of the railway systems of the two ...

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  24. THE MAFEKING RELIEF FORCE.

    Trooper A. H. M'Ewan, of the Imperial Light Horse (a Lambton boy), wrote to his brother at Newcastle from Dronfield, near Kimberley, on the 30th April. He said in his letter that all the troops collecting there were ...

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  25. CHURCH OF ENGLAND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

    The 25th anniversary of the Church of England Temperance Society was celebrated by a musical evening in the Y.M.C.A.-hall last night. The Archbishop of Sydney presided, and the hall was filled to overflowing. ...

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  26. "FORWARD AUSTRALIA."

    A Boer has described to one of our correspondents the magnificent courage displayed by the Australians when they attempted to rescue the Worcesters who had fallen into a Boer trap. The ...

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  27. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    There was beautiful weather for the holiday, and all business was suspended. The administrator of the Government held the usual levee, which was largely attended. A review of tho troops was ...

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  28. CITY SANITARY INSPECTION.

    The overlapping which is going on in connection with the sanitary inspection of the city has of late been the subject of strong complaints by citizens to the civic authorities. Many people ...

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  29. THE LYELL THARSIS ACCIDENT.

    QUEENSTOWN (TAS.). Monday. -- The body of the unfortunate man Cronin, who was buried under a fail of earth in the Lyell Tharsis mine, was recovered at 11 o'clock last night. Efforts ...

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  30. IN THE OTHER COLONIES.

    MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Two cases suspiciously like plague have occurred in one of the suburbs of Melbourne, and have been reported to Dr. Gresswell, who has deputed Dr. M'Lean to ...

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  31. CRUELTY TO A CHILD.

    MELBOURNE, Monday. -- A shocking case of cruelty to a child named Vera Reid, aged 8, was investigated at Neerim South on Saturday. A woman named Christina Graesen was said to have ...

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  32. INDEX TO NEWS.

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  33. THE SOLDIERS' QUEEN.

    During the stay of Mr. Charles Arnold, the popular actor, in Capetown he received this poem from an aged Irish lady -- Mrs. Woolley -- With the request that he would use it to the ...

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  34. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Monday. -- The patient Hamburg died of plague at Rockhampton last night. TOWNSVILLE, Monday. -- The site of the plague hospital on the town common has been ...

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  35. AMUSEMENTS.

    The Brough Comedy Company will revive Mr. Sydney Grundy's comedy "The Village Priest" at the Theatre Royal to-night, and play it again tomorrow night. Mr. J. Carne will make his ...

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  36. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Monday. -- Last week's strike of rich stuff at the Ironsides North, although overshadowed by the sensational announcement from the Great Boulder, nevertheless proved of considerable interest, especially to ...

    Article : 268 words
  37. BILLIARDS.

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  38. "VICTOR" AT THE PALACE.

    The patronage bestowed upon the entertainments given at the Palace Theatre last week by "Victor" was such that he has decided to repeat his clever and entertaining performances each ...

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  39. S. JAMES' CHURCH.

    Sir, -- Until this day I was not aware this city contained a Mr. A. R. Docker, who is also churchwarden of S. James'. My object in obtaining the services of Mr. Buckridge to prepare drawings setting forth a fair ...

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  40. MR. BLAND HOLT'S SEASON

    Mr. Bland Holt arrived in Sydney from Brisbane yesterday, and will begin a return visit to this city at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night with "Woman and Wine." This piece, which offers Mr. ...

    Article : 87 words
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