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  2. CRISIS IN CHINA.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Boxers are drilling openly in the streets and neighborhood of Tientsin. LONDON, Saturday.--The foreign ...

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  3. FEDERATION.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Mr. J. R. Dickson, the Queensland delegate, has cabled to his Premier, Mr. Philp, that Mr. Haklane, M.P. the great, constitutional ...

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  4. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--After the heavy fighting which took place at Hatherley on Monday the Boer forces under Commandant-General Botha retreated rapidly ...

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  5. THE NATAL RETREAT.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Boers who recreated before General Sir Redvers Buffer's forces from Laing's Nek and the northern angle of Natal first took up a position at ...

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  6. BRITISH MILITARY OFFICERS ATTACKED.

    A message from Wei-nal-Wei states that at Kiaoton on Saturday, May 5, 300 Chinese attacked Major C. Penrose, R.E., and six soldiers. Major Penrose was severely injured, by the mob. ...

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  7. IN THE COMMONS.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.-- Mr. Joseph Chamberlain announces that the Commonwealth Bill, embodying clause 74 as amended, will be taken in Committee in the ...

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  8. POSITION OF WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Sunday.--The Premier, accompanied by Lady Forrest, Bishop Riley, and Mr. Hare, Commissioner of Police, arrived at Bunbury on Friday afternoon. The Mayor and citizens gave the ...

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  9. CONGO FREE STATE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The "Daily Telegraph" announces that 23,000 natives have risen in the Congo Free State against the Belgians. ...

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  10. SOLATING STEYN.

    LONDON, Sunday.--With a view to isolating the Free Staters under ex-President Steyn in the eastern part of Orange River Colony, Lord Roberts has ordered General ...

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  11. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Mr. A. M. Paton, of South Australia, has passed first class in the intercollegiate examination in the mechanical sciences at Cambridge University. ...

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  12. THE SHAH'S VISIT.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Shah of Persia, who is now on a visit to Europe, has arrived at Paris. ...

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  13. BATTLE OF DIAMOND-HILL.

    LONDON, Saturday.--An official statement has been published dealing with the engagement which took place between the British forces under Lord Roberts and the Boers ...

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  14. AT RHENOSTER RIVER.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Boer followers of ex-President Steyn have again attacked the Royal Engineers who are reconstructing the railway north of the ...

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  15. THE LATE MRS. GLADSTONE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The body of the late Mrs. Gladstone, relict of the great Liberal statesman, will be interred in Westminster Abbey. ...

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  16. KAURI GUM SALES.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--At the sales of kauri gum to-day 3248 cases were offered and 650 sold at full rates. Holders are firm. ...

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  17. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Philp has telegraphed that he will arrive at Rockhampton on the 23rd, and spend Monday at Mount Morgan. BRISBANE, Sunday. ...

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  18. THE NEW ARRANGEMENT.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The settlement which has been arrived at between Mr. Chamberlain and the Federal delegates, amending clause 74 of the Commonwealth Bill, ...

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  19. THE FICKSBURG BOERS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Lieut.-General Rundle, commanding the British forces operating in the eastern part of the Orange River Colony, has intimated to the Boers in ...

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  20. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The R.M.S. Oruba arrived at the anchorage about 8 o'clock to-night in wintry weather. She will not be boarded till the morning. The Adelaide committee of the Associated ...

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  21. NATAL REBELS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Several of the local (Natal) rebels who fought at the battle of Spion Kop have been fined £250, in addition to being sentenced to ...

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  22. SOUTH AUSTRALIANS SATISFIED.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Mr. C. C. Kingston cabled the terms of the amended clause to the Premier on Sunday. When Mr. Holder was asked his opinion of the new compromise, he said:--"If ...

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  23. CAPE COLONY POLITICS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Sir Gordon Sprigg, who has been called upon by the Governor of Cape Colony (Sir Alfred Milner) to form a Ministry, and is in communication with ...

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  24. STEAMER CORAKI FLOATED.

    A telegram was received from the manning River yesterday stating that the North Coast S.N. Company's steamer Coraki was successfully floated at 10 o'clock on Saturday night. She ...

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  25. THE BRITISH PRISONERS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The British prisoners at Nooitgedacht are unsheltered from the inclemency of the weather, and are consequently suffering terribly from the ...

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  26. PREPARING FOR THE ELECTIONS.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Cabinet have already completed the task of dividing the colony into 23 Federal electorates. An alternative scheme with 20 is also to be prepared, though ...

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  27. THE ALLIED FORCES.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternon.--The,Powers have resolved to seize the Tuku forts, at the mouth of the Pei-ho. Four Krupp guns have been landed from ...

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  28. A BASELESS COMPLAINT.

    In reference to a statement attributed to the Premier of Victoria in a report by a Melbourne paper of a deputation that waited upon him. it is pointed out that Mr. M'Lean was quite under a ...

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  29. AUSTRALIAN LOSSES.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Captain R. R. Thompson, adjutant of the Australian forces, has arrived at Capetown from the front suffering from the effects of an attack of ...

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  30. THE PRICE OF MILK.

    KIAMA, Saturday.--An important and largely attended mass meeting of milk suppliers was hold this afternoon, under the auspices of the United Milk Suppliers' Association, to discuss the prices ...

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  31. AN OFFICIAL MESSAGE.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The Governor, Lord Tennyson, has received the following cablegram from Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies:-- ...

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  32. KRUGER AND HIS CAR.

    LONDON, Saturday.--President Kruger lives--cats and sleeps--in the specially fitted saloon car which has been stationed on the railway line near Machadodorp, on the ...

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  33. NOTES ON THE SITUATION.

    Although, to a certain extent, it is true that public interest, in the South African war is waning, the situation is, withal, none the less interesting. We are now in the ninth month of the ...

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  34. DR. EDNA TERRY SAFE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The report that Dr. Edna Terry, of the American Methodist Women's Missionary Station at Tsung-hua, had been murdered proves to be incorrect. ...

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  35. NEW ZEALAND

    The steamer Tomoana, which left for London yesterday, took 10,000 tons of produce, the largest cargo which ever left New Zealand in one bottom. ...

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  36. CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE.

    Some particulars of the trade of the great empire which is the subject of so much turmoil should be of great interest at the present time, especially as they reveal so much prosperity. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  37. THE WESTERN TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The important town of Klerksdorp, 110 miles from Johannesburg, and the terminus of the western railway section, surrendered to ...

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  38. SPEARED BY BLACKS.

    PORT DARWIN, Sunday.--On the 20th May Frederick Morck, drover in charge of Hogson Downs fat bullocks, en route for Wyndham (W.A.), was attacked by blacks on old Willeroo ...

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  39. INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

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  40. SIR WILLIAM LYNE'S OPINION.

    Sir William Lyne received a copy of the cable containing the new compromise. He points out that the delegates have no power to express official approval of the arrangement that has been ...

    Article : 311 words
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