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  2. PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Council, A petition from William Brown and others, asking that the Council should not pass the Stanford Coal-mine Railway Bill into law until the ...

    Article : 276 words
  3. IN SZECHUAN AND HU-PEI.

    Advices reached Shanghai on May 23rd from Szechuan and Hu-Pel that the Boxers had made similar attacks upon French converts to those reported on May 18 from the Christian ...

    Article : 187 words
  4. THE BOER WAR.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen has arrived at Paardekraal, in the Orange River Colony, 10 miles south of Heilbron, and reports having ...

    Article : 73 words
  5. SZECHUAN REVISITED.

    Mr. Archibald Little, who recently re-visited Szechuan, writes that "the province has been gradually changing from the state in which previous travellers found it, and in the near future ...

    Article : 290 words
  6. DOWN WITH THE PRESENT DYNASTY.

    "There is all the fuel for a great rebellion in China at the present moment, and the people only need a few good leaders to rise in their thousands in every part of the country." ...

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  7. TO TIGHTEN THE CORDON.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter, commanding the 11th division, and Major-General Hector Macdonald, of the Highland Brigade, have ...

    Article : 67 words
  8. REFORM MOVEMENT OUTSIDE CHINA.

    Contemporaneously with the proposal to partition China amongst the Powers, there is a well-defined movement on the part of the thousands and thousands of Chinese outside the ...

    Article : 795 words
  9. OBJECTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS.

    In the Legislative Council, Mr. F. B. SUTTOR, in moving the second reading of the Indecent Publications Bill, said that he had not been long in the House before he had ...

    Article : 578 words
  10. OFFERS TO AUSTRALIAN TROOPS.

    Sir William Lyne, replying to Mr. Carruthers in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, said his attention had not been directed to the cabled information that certain special ...

    Article : 84 words
  11. LI HUNG CHANG'S SCHEME.

    There is a precedent in Chinese history for the proposal which has no doubt emanated from the astute Li Hung Chang (Viceroy of Kwang Tung), that he and Liu Kun Yi, and Chung Chi Tung, ...

    Article : 180 words
  12. DARLING HARBOR WHARVES

    Mr. HUGHES, while commending the Government's action in making the resumptions, thought that members before passing the bill were entitled to considerably more information. ...

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  13. DEATH FROM FEVER.

    The following cable message has been received by the Governor from the High Commissioner for South Africa, dated July 3: -- "Regret to report that No. 44, Private J. Fraser, New South Wales ...

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  14. A RETURNED SOLDIER.

    Mr. Quong Tart last night entertained Mr. W. H. Black, volunteer of the First Australian Horse, who last week returned invalided from the Transvaal. A number of apologies were read, ...

    Article : 171 words
  15. AN IMPERIAL EDICT.

    The Chinese Government issued an edict on May 29 (says a cable message to the "Daily Chronicle") forbidding the "Boxers'" organisation, under a penalty of death. The edict is ...

    Article : 139 words
  16. KOSI BAY EXPEDITION.

    A cablegram published in our issue of yesterday stated that the Lorenzo Martinez (Delagoa Bay) newspaper "O Futuro" had asserted that the Kosi Bay expedition, consisting of a force of Lord ...

    Article : 257 words
  17. LI HONG CHANG'S PREDECESSOR.

    Tan-Chun-Lin, the ex-Viceroy of Canton, who was succeeded by Hung Chang, and Who was recently in Pekin awaiting employment, is an official of the ...

    Article : 97 words
  18. STANFORD COAL-MINE RAILWAY BILL.

    Mr. MILLEN, in the Legislative Council, moved the second reading of the Stanford Coal-mine Railway Bill. The object of the bill, was to enable certain gentlemen, proprietors of coal-bearing ...

    Article : 297 words
  19. ACHINESE MINISTER'S VIEW.

    At the outbreak of the disturbances, the Chinese Minister at Washington insisted that they were purely local, and he said they could not involve broad international questions or affect the "open ...

    Article : 49 words
  20. FEVER-STRICKEN NEW ZEALANDERS.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday. -- A notification was received from South Africa yesterday that Trooper Moeller, of the New Zealand Hotchkiss Battery, had died of enteric fever. ...

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  21. PARRAMATTA AND DISTRICT

    The continual rain of the last day or two has had the effect of flooding the Parramatta River in a way that seems likely to test the retaining walls recently built by Government above Lennox Bridge, and may ...

    Article : 541 words
  22. SUPPORT OF THE MANCHU ARMY.

    The "Boxers" are confident (stated a cable to the "Daily Mail" from its Shanghai correspondent) of receiving the support of the Empress, Prince Kang-Yi, Prince Ching Tuan, and the ...

    Article : 73 words
  23. ON THE TARTAR TRACK.

    Even those who possess but a passing acquaintance with the people of China are familiar with the names of the "Triad" and the "Water Lily" Societies, but few who have not actually come ...

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  24. CARE OF THE WOUNDED.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday. -- Sir Alfred Milner has cabled the Government that the authorities have arranged to advance a month's pay to military invalids, and to supply warm clothing. ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. ANTI-FOREIGN GOVERNOR.

    Yu-Hsien, the notoriously anti-foreign Governor of Shantung, who was transferred to Shansi a few months back by the Empress Dowager, with the half-avowed object of stirring up ...

    Article : 99 words
  26. QUEENSLAND.

    A largely-attended meeting of Mr. Glassey's supporters was held on Wednesday evening, at which Mr. Glassey referred to the tyranny and coercion of the Trades-hall. Nearly all the ...

    Article : 83 words
  27. RIFLE SHOOTING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 186 words
  28. THE TAIPING PARALLEL.

    The outbreak ominously recalls the Taiping rebellion, which began in 1850, and lasted over a period of 14 years, being the result of a popular outcry against the existing dynasty and a ...

    Article : 223 words
  29. LEGISLATION ASKED FOR.

    A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on the Premier and Attorney-General today, for the purpose of discussing several matters. Mr. Leahy, in introducing the deputation, ...

    Article : 251 words
  30. INDEX TO NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 words
  31. THE ROADS AROUND PROSPECT.

    Residents in the fruitgrowing and fanning districts to the south and south-west of Parramatta, complain, and with some show of justice, that while a great deal has been said, written, and promised about the roads to ...

    Article : 365 words
  32. NEW ZEALAND

    The Arbitration Court gave its award at Dunedin yesterday in the Green Island coalminers' dispute, upholding the demand that a wage of 10s a day be the recognised standard. ...

    Article : 34 words
  33. RUSSIA DEFENDING MANCHURIA.

    A plan for the defence of Manchuria against invasion was recently drawn up. Six fortified posts will be created, with standing garrisons, drawn from the East Siberian regiments. ...

    Article : 179 words
  34. SCHOOL OF ARTS DEBATING CLUB.

    This club held its usual weekly meeting last night. The president (Mr. H. M. Hamilton) was in the chair. A motion, "That no scheme of social reform other than the improvement of the ...

    Article : 43 words
  35. Advertising

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