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  2. NEWCASTLE.

    At yesterday's meeting of the Hunter Distric Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Mr. H. D. Walsh presiding, the engineer submitted a report, together with a plan and estimate of cost, for the ...

    Article : 157 words
  3. VICTORIA.

    Gold shipments by the R.M.S. Cuzco to-day totalled £55,500, of which £50,000 was on account of the Bank of Victorian and the balance on private account, all for London. ...

    Article : 32 words
  4. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Parliament will be prorogued to-morrow afternoon by the Lieutenant-Governor. The speech he will deliver will be congratulatory. He will refer to the brilliant ...

    Article : 199 words
  5. THE COUNTRY.

    WHITE CLIFFS, Tuesday.--An important case, affecting the right of the White Cliffs Opal-mining Company to discharge a tributer working on the blocks, was heard here to-day before ...

    Article : 224 words
  6. WAR NOTES FROM ENGLAND.

    LONDON, September 14.--Mr. Powell Williams' defence of the British artillery against Captain Lambton'e trenchant criticisms was a lamentable example of the hide-bound, imperturbable, official ...

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  7. AN INTERESTING COMPARISON.

    Are we gradually reverting to the picturesque cavalier costume of 260 years ago? The right-hand figure shows a Queensland Mounted Infantryman, and is from a snapshot taken at Eland's River.--"Daily Mail." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. A PATHETIC SUICIDE.

    Several days ago Alfred Maurice Stevens, an accountant, left his home at Moonee Ponds, and his non-return was a mystery. This evening his body was taken out of Saltwater River, and in ...

    Article : 66 words
  9. A MAMMOTH LUMBER CARGO.

    The largest cargo of kauri timber ever brought to this colony is coming by the steamer Cerda, 2503 tons, from Kennedy Bay, N.Z., and will be considerably over two million feet. The greatest ...

    Article : 57 words
  10. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

    Two vessels arrived yesterday to load coal for foreign ports--the Favell, bqe., from Adelaide, and the County of Merioneth, bqe., from Table Bay. Both will take Wallsend coal, the Fav[?]ll ...

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  11. GLENFINE NO. 1 SALTING CASE.

    The Glenfine No. 1 salting case was before the public again to-day. The brothers Ratcliffe pleaded guilty to conspiracy at Ballarat assizes. Mr. Purves, Q.C., addressed the Court in ...

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  12. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Grimes referred to an article in Saturday's evening paper, which, he said, insinuated that he had acted unfairly in ruling as out of ...

    Article : 288 words
  13. A YOUNG GIRL DROWNED.

    WINDSOR, Tuesday.--News is just to hand that a young girl named Jane Woodbury, daughter of Mr. Arthur Woodbury, was accidentally drowned at Mangrove Creek at the end ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. FAIR WAGES AND FAIR WORK.

    Under, the original Factories Act seven trades were brought under the Wages Board, but under the new Act, passed this session, 22 new boards have been created. Thus 2[?] trades have the ...

    Article : 56 words
  15. THE MUSICIANS' UNION.

    The recently formed Musicians' Union has decided to affiliate with the Trades-hall. Professor Marshall Hall opined that affiliation would be in the interests of the musicians and music ...

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  16. LORD HOPETOUN.

    LONDON, September 14.--Lord Hopetoun entertained his tenantry at a farewell luncheon at Hopetoun House, his Linlithgow seat. Replying to the toast of his health, the Earl ...

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  17. A MINER DIES AT HIS WORK.

    WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--A miner, Patrick Hayes, was found dead in Mt. Keira colliery this morning. Hayes, who is an elderly man, went to work at the colliery as usual last night. As he ...

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  18. THE TRIP OF THE WARANEEN.

    Captain Warne, who brought the steamer Waraneen, a recent purchase of the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company, Limited, round from Fremantle to Newcastle, has been ...

    Article : 312 words
  19. CONGREGATIONALISTS AND FREETRADE.

    Unless the Congregationalists bestir themselves said Dr. Bevan, at the annual session of the Congregational Union to-day, they will be snuffed out altogether by more aggressive organisations. ...

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  20. ALLEGED FRAUD AT SMELTING WORKS.

    WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--At the Police Court to-day, before Lieutenant-Colonel Chisholm, P.M., George Axam and Thos. Mooney, charged with having conspired with Alfred Faulder and Jas. ...

    Article : 68 words
  21. SHEARING SEASON.

    DELEGATE, Tuesday.--Shearing commences at Tombong to-day, and at Junction station to-morrow. ...

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  22. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The Premier stated in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday that the Government desired to act in concert with the other colonies regarding the Peace celebrations. ...

    Article : 176 words
  23. CIRCUIT COURTS.

    GRAFTON, Tuesday.--The Circuit Court opened this morning before Acting-Justice Barton. Only one case, a charge of alleged pig stealing, aginst Alexander Henderson was heard, accused ...

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  24. BALLARAT MUSICAL COMPETITIONS.

    At the Ballarat intercolonial vocal competitions to-night the bass solo. "The Song of Hybrius the Cretan," by R. Garrard, of New South Wales, was placed first. In the male chorus for 16 voices, ...

    Article : 57 words
  25. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Chataway, who has been ill in a private hospital, left the institution to-day, and has gone to Southport for a few days. The proposal to pension Sir Samuel Griffith, to ...

    Article : 73 words
  26. ADVENTURE WITH YANKEE TRAIN ROBBERS.

    LONDON, August 31.--Mr. Arthur Pittar, of Auckland, N.Z., who is now in London on private business connected with his late father's estate, and the winding up of the Great Barrier ...

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  27. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Tuesday.--In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Lefroy introduced a bill to amend the Goldfields Act. Mr. Wood introduced a bill to authorise the construction of an electric tramway at ...

    Article : 132 words
  28. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Two well-known characters, Charles Williams and John Hunter, suspected of having been connected with recent burglaries in the suburbs, were discovered on the Melbourne express yesterday ...

    Article : 82 words
  29. THE MURDER OF MR. EDGAR.

    The deportation of undesirable people from the Transvaal by Lord Roberts led to a peculiar scene at Southampton the other day on the arrival of the Union-Castle liner Scot, with forty deported ...

    Article : 234 words
  30. THE NETHERLANDS SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY.

    If there is one thing that exasperates the thoughtful student of the war more than another it is the outbursts of certain sections of our press against the officials of the Netherlands South ...

    Article : 392 words
  31. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday.--There was a prolonged and acrimo[?]ious debate in the House of Representatives yesterday and last night over the committee stages of the Rebate to Crown ...

    Article : 174 words
  32. PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST.

    The Commissioner of Public Works returned from a visit to the north to-day. He says that the crops in the far north beyond Quorn are a failure. As to the general prospects of the ...

    Article : 86 words
  33. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The body of Lewis Gallagher was found this morning suspended by a rope from the rafter of a house in Murray-street. Several pounds in cash were found on his body, and also a letter, ...

    Article : 52 words
  34. MANUFACTURERS' CONFERENCE.

    Our Katoomba correspondent wires that at the manufacturers' smoke concert on Monday night, the delegates, though there were many speeches, were as dumb as crabs about the tariff that the ...

    Article : 239 words
  35. LIGHTING THE CITY.

    The Town-hall was packed last night when a public meeting of citizens was held to consider several proposals for lighting the city. The speeches generally were against the City Council ...

    Article : 93 words
  36. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--At the Oreya's south block driving north and south at the 500ft. level on the lode recently cut in the western crosscut, about 55ft. from the shaft, is being carried on. ...

    Article : 304 words
  37. A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

    Some time ago attention was directed to the magnificent outburst of benevolence manifested by the large sums of money contributed to the Patriotic Fund, the Indian Famine Fund, and ...

    Article : 456 words
  38. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Shaw-Savill and New Zealand Shipping Campanies are raising their fares 10 per cent., operating both homeward and outward. ...

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  39. BOER BLOOD ANALYSED.

    The "distinguished criminologist," Professor Lombroso, has in the current issue of a magazine called the "Nuova Antologla" an article in which he attempts to prove his recently advanced ...

    Article : 368 words
  40. THE LORD OF THE ISLES WRECK.

    The Court of Inquiry into the wreek of me brigantine Lord of the Isles at Kalpara Heads finds that the vessel was well found. The timbers were, however, worm-eaten, and the vessel ...

    Article : 84 words
  41. COMMONWEALTH CELEBRATIONS.

    Sir,--Though, unfortunately, it is now too late to make the celebrations in any way significant of the larger life we shall enter upon in the beginning of the new year, the thanks of all who ...

    Article : 374 words
  42. RESCUE AT THE HAWKESBURY.

    On Friday night, while the southerly buster was at its height, the crew of the General Gordon, which was moored at Brooklyn Wharf, heard voices calling for help from the direction of ...

    Article : 300 words
  43. CITY RAILWAY EXTENSION.

    At a public meeting in the Rockdale Townhall on Monday evening, Alderman J. F. Hegerty presiding, a City Railway League was formed, having for its object the extension of the railway ...

    Article : 152 words
  44. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 words
  45. HOW A V.C. WAS WON.

    Driver Horace Glasscock, of the "Q" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, who was awarded the Victoria Cross in recognition of his great bravery at Sanna's Post, landed at Southampton from South ...

    Article : 691 words
  46. SUDDEN DEATHS.

    Andrew Pearson, died suddenly yesterday afternoon on board the Balmain ferry steamer Lady Hampden no the boat was about to make her trip from the wharf at the foot of Erskine-street. He ...

    Article : 90 words
  47. MILITARY.

    The Governor has approved of the following appointments in the New South Wales military forces:-- Seventh (Volunteer) Infantry Regiment, St. ...

    Article : 48 words
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