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  2. CHINA.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- A letter has been received from Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister at Pekin, bearing date July 6. ...

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  3. COST OF THE WARS.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The House of Commons lust night voted the supplementary estimates of £11,500,000 for the prosecution of the South African and Chinese campaigns. ...

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  4. THIRD EDITION.

    LONDON, Sunday, Noon. -- The Viceroys of the provinces in the Valley of the Yang-tse-Kiang (the British sphere of influence), while professing the most peaceful intentions, are ...

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  5. FEDERATION.

    Preparations on what is called a vast scale are to be made to celebrate the inauguration of the Commonwealth. None of the details have been worked out. ...

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  6. WHAT CHINA IS.

    "THERE IS NO CHINESE LANGUAGE." It is common for people who have spent years in China to be asked the question, "Do you speak Chinese ?" ...

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  7. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- In the House of Lords last night, the Earl of Wemyss asserted that a British military attache had declared that it was all-important ...

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  8. TROOPER WHITTINGTON.

    Trooper George Whittington ("Dick"),of the New South Wales Lancers (Sydney Corps), is amongst the invalids. He looks rather poorly, and complains of being terribly shaken by the ...

    Article : 336 words
  9. ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The British Government, replying to the Emperor of China's request for mediation, declined to hold any communication with China until the safety ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. THE MASSACRE.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon. -- The Chinese representing the Russian Bank at Pekin confirms the news of the Pekin massacre. ...

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  11. SHENG'S LATEST REPORT.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- Sheng, the Chinese Director of Telegraphs, has announced Unit the Ministers at Pekin were safe on Tuesday, the 24th inst., and that ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. DEPUTATION TO MR M'MILLAN.

    A large deputation waited upon Mr. William M'Millan cm Saturday morning with a requisition signed by 1500 electors of the Eastern Suburbs asking him to allow himself to be nominated as ...

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  13. THE MOHAWK AT HONGKONG.

    LONDON, Sunday, Noon. -- The third-class twin-screw cruiser Mohawk (Commander F.H. Freeman) has arrived at Hongkong, from New Zealand via Townsville. ...

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  14. A SENSATIONAL ESCAPE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- An Italian priest from the Hunan district in the southern interior of China has had a sensational escape from the hands of the murderous ...

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  15. A REFUGEE'S STORY.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- A groom who was in the employ of the late Baron de Ketteler, the German Minister at Pekin, has arrived at the coast. He declares that the ...

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  16. ONE OF KITCHENER'S HORSE.

    Amongst the passengers by the Oonah is Trooper Cecil J. Stuart, of Kitchener's Horse. He is an American by adoption, and fought under General Leo in Cuba. As soon as he heard of ...

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  17. MILITARY MATTERS.

    LONDON, Sunday, Noon. -- Out of a total available force of 240,000 British volunteers, 150,000 will undergo a fortnight's training in camp. ...

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  18. ENGLISH RACING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 words
  19. VOLUNTEERS FOR CHINA

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- The numbers of French officers and men volunteering for active service in China are far beyond the momentary requirements of the ...

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  20. THE PEKIN ADVANCE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- The Allies have decided to advance from Tien-tsin to Pekin by way of the railway line. The Chinese forces are concentrating at ...

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  21. SOLDIERS' WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

    LONDON, Sunday. -- The Imperial Government proposes to ask Parliament to vote small pensions to all widows and orphans of soldiers who are killed in action, or die from ...

    Article : 48 words
  22. DANGER OF A GREAT WAR.

    There is now in Sydney a gentleman who held an official position in China for a great number of years, and who has bad an intimate acquaintance with tho Chinese people and the conditions ...

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  23. THE NAVAL CONTINGENT.

    The first step towards the actual formation, of the naval contingent to be sent to China next week was taken on Saturday at Fort Macquarie, the men who had volunteered being medically ...

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  24. COMMISSIONS FOR COLONIALS.

    LONDON, Sunday. -- Corporal H.J. Kirk-Patrick, of the 1st Australian Horse, and Trooper B. Armytage, of the Victorian Mounted Infantry, have received ...

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  25. ANOTHER MASSACRE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- Details to hand in connection with the native Manchurian and Chinese outrages upon Christians at Mukden, the capital city of ...

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  26. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- In the ease E.G. Jellicoe v. the Wellington (N.Z.) Law Society, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed the appeal. ...

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  27. WEST AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUM.

    PERTH, Sunday. -- The Federation campaign is drawing, to a close, and the discussions are becoming very warm. In Perth on Monday night the discussion will terminate with a debate ...

    Article : 137 words
  28. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE TRADE.

    LONDON, Sunday. -- Mr. E. Burney Young, manager of the South Australian Produce Depot in London, is urging the Australian Governments to compile and circulate in the United ...

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  29. THE OFFICIAL LANDING.

    The "official" landing will be to-day at 10 o'clock, when the men will be conveyed, in drags provided by the Government, to the Victoria Barracks, whore they will be welcomed by the ...

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  30. HOW THE ECLIPSE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED.

    "Photography," in reproducing some photographs of the recent total eclipse, says that no complicated apparatus was employed in taking them. An old Andrew Ross landscape lens was ...

    Article : 192 words
  31. A NEW ZEALAND STUDENT.

    LONDON, Sunday. -- Mr. Kenneth Inglis, a New Zealand student at the Edinburgh University, has won the China Scholarship of £100 per annum for eight years, and also a natural science scholarship ...

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  32. THE KAISER'S CHARGE.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The Kaiser, in bidding farewell yesterday to the German troops, who were embarking at Bremerhaven for China, concluded his address by ...

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  33. THE FEDERAL CAPITAL -- ITS NAME.

    Sir, -- If honor is to be paid where honor is due, the name of the late Sir Henry Parkes, G.C.M.G., should be permanently associated with the Golden Commonwealth. ...

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  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The steamer Auchenarden, of the American and Australian line, which sailed from New York on July 21 for the colonies has returned to port with her boilers leaking. ...

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  35. BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

    The following interviews wore obtained from invalided soldiers, who arrived from South Africa by the steamer Oonah last night: -- SERGEANT WALPOLE. ...

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  36. SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

    An official inquiry was held at Greymouth on the 21st inst. into the cause of the stranding of the Union Company's steamer Taupo, on the 16th inst., before Mr. Hawkins, S.M., and Captains Bignell and Mollinson, ...

    Article : 162 words
  37. COL. WILLCOCKS CONGRATULATED BY THE QUEEN.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- Her Majesty the Queen has congratulated Lieutenant-colonel Willcocks upon his achievement upon achievement in relieving Kumassi. ...

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  38. HAND VERSUS MACHINE.

    Studies of the effect of machinery upon hand-production, made by the United States Labor Bureau, show that 52 men are now employed in making a plough, against 2 in 1850, the ...

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  39. MARRIAGE OF LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.

    LONDON, Sunday. -- The marriage is announced of Lady Randolph Churchill, widow of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, to a son of Mr. William Cornwallis West, Lord Lieutenant of ...

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  40. DANGER AT CANTON.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- The Canton ringleader of the Triad, a celebrated Chinese secret society, has been arrested. He was preparing to attack the foreign ...

    Article : 39 words
  41. CABLE INTERRUPTION.

    The Postmaster-General has received the following: -- "Cable Company advises line between Kurracheo and Bombay interrupted, cutting off Hindo, European and Turkish route. This will ...

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  42. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ARATAPU.

    The brigantine Aratapu, a well-known Sydney trader, which arrived at Wellington from Mercury Day recently with a cargo of timber, had a narrow escape of sharing the fate of the three-masted schooner Elizabeth Price, ...

    Article : 102 words
  43. BOER CORRUPTION.

    The evidence as to the corruption of the Boer Government given in the Belgium Court in the salt concerned with the famous Selati concession is remarkable. Huron Eugene Oppenheim, the ...

    Article : 151 words
  44. THE BOXERS FALL OUT.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The "Daily Express" publishes a Chinese report to the effect that a large section of the Boxers at Pekin, who favor the overthrow of the Manchu and ...

    Article : 73 words
  45. THE WRECK AT FORSTER.

    FORSTER, Sunday. -- At an inquest held here yesterday by the Coroner from Taree on the body of Bernard Norling, who was drowned on Monday last from the schooner Empress of India ...

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  46. FIRE AT REDFERN.

    Yesterday afternoon, shortly before 3 o'clock, a fire broke out at 139 Regent-street, Redfern, occupied by Joseph Andrews, newsagent. The family had just left the house for the afternoon when the fire occurred. As a ...

    Article : 94 words
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