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  2. THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--An analysis of the votes recorded at tho recent general elections shows that the total votes polled in Great Britain and Ireland by the Ministerial ...

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  3. CHINA.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Tien-isin correspondent of the "Standard" state that it is believed there that a threat to destroy the tombs of the Ming ...

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  4. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Constant skirmishes are taking place between small marauding bodies of Boers in the mountain districts of the two new colonies. Fighting is most ...

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  5. SECOND EDITION.

    The Assembly in Committee of Supply continued the discussion on the Estimates of the Public Instruction Department, the vote being, "Public Instruction under the Act. £717.691." ...

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  6. THE ITALIAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    The Arctic record has again been broken, the new holders being the Italian expedition under the Duke of Abruzzi. The dark band on the view above shows the track of the expedition. The vessel sailed from Christiania on Juno 12, 1899, tor Archangel, the Russian port, where final provisions and dogs were taken aboard. " The Stella Polare then sailed direct for Cape Flora on Franz Joseph Land, under the shelter of which the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition had its ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. VICTORIAN POLITICS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Premier, Mr. M'Lean, "went down to Bairnsdale to disclose the Government policy to-night. In the Theatre Royal in that town, surrounded by all his ...

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  8. THE BREELONG BLACKS.

    WAUCHOPE, Thursday.--Since Jimmy Governor, was shot on Saturday, very little news has been received from the pursuit parties, and what did come was not authentic. This ...

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  9. THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The German Imperial Chancellor and Prussian Premier, Prince Clovis zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, has retired front active politics on the ...

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  10. THE HOMEWARD FLIGHT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The War Office notifies that the order in which the troops will return homo depends upon military exigencies, based upon the Proportion of the ...

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  11. ANTI-MANCHU REVOLT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The anti-Manchu rebels, under the reformer Sun-yat-sen, have captured the city of Mu-chau, on the East River (a branch of the Canton River), and ...

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  12. BUSHMEN IN ACTION.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Details of the recent skirmish at Molopole, which was followed by another at Ottoshoop, show that the Boers again were guilty of white ...

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  13. THE RUSSIAN MINISTER.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Russian Minister (M. Do Giers) and staff have been ordered to return to Pekin, whence they recently withdrew to the sea-coast. ...

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  14. THE BLACK FLAGS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Li Hung Chang has ordered the Black Flag troops and the Kwang-su battalions now at Hunan to return to Canton. ...

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  15. ORDERS FOR VICTORIAN FIREWOOD.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Owing to the high price of coal all over the world, the imperial authorities have placed orders for 2000 tons of Victorian firewood to be delivered at Chinese [?] ...

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  16. MISSIONARY AND TRAITOR.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Prozesty, a German missionary, has been found guilty of treason at Durban. He was sentenced to a year's ...

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  17. BOERS CAUGHT IN AMBUSH.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Col. Bethune, of Bethune Horse, caught a Boer commando in ambush near Vryheid, killing 60 and wounding 35, and taking 65 ...

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  18. CANADIAN ELECTIONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, speaking at Toronto, agreed with Mr. Chamberlain that freetrade was the only basis for an Imperial Zollverein. The time ...

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  19. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS.

    BRIBANE, Thursday.--There was a scone in the Assembly about 11 o'clock this morning. The House had been sitting continuously since yesterday afternoon on the Caillde Railway Bill. In ...

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  20. COLONIAL CASUALTIES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The following disunities are reported to have occurred among the Australian troops engaged on active service in South Africa:-- ...

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  21. AMERICA CHALLENGE CUP.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The challenge which Sir Thomas Lipton recently issued to the holders of the America Cup- has been accepted. The races will take plane in August, 1901. ...

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  22. THE PLAGUE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The case of illness reported from Limehouse, a suburb of London, is not one of plague. ...

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  23. NEWCASTLE.

    The quarterly meeting of the delegate hoard of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held yesterday at the Trades-hall. Mr. W. Bower presided. There wore 20 delegates in attendance, ...

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  24. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Encouraging news has been received from the Phillips River goldfield. Joseph Nelson and a mate from Broome-hill are reported to have struck a rich reef on the field. ...

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  25. THE LATE CAPTAIN HUBBE.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Lieutenant-General Sir F. Carrington, commanding officer of the Rhodesian Field Force, has written to Lord Tennyson concerning the death of Captain Hubbe. who ...

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  26. FINANCES OF PENRITH.

    PENRITH, Thursday.--An important public mooting of leading ratepayers was hold in the local School of Arts last night, Cor the purpose of dealing with the finances of the Penrith. ...

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  27. PASSENGER LOST AT SEA.

    Captain symons, of the R.M.S. Ophir, which reached Fmantle this morning from London, reports that shortly after the vessel cleared Co-lombo breakwater a third-class passenger, ...

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  28. RETURN OF COLONEL GORDON.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Colonel Gordon, and others who arrived in Melbourne, yesterday by the Moravian reached Adelaide by the express this morning. Colonel Gordon was welcomed ...

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  29. BAILED UP BY ARMED MEN.

    A daring sticking-up case occurred at Kalgoorlie last night. Porcy H. Myhill, mining agent, on going to his office in Maedonaid-street, discovered two men ransacking the place. One ...

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  30. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

    Among the sailers from port yesterday was the ship Laomene, for Carrizal, with 2728 tons of Wallsend coal. She was in port 101 days. For the 24 hours ended at 6 a.m. on Wednesday. ...

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  31. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The Land Values Assessment Bin passed its second reading in the Legislative Council to-day. An amendment by Mr. Warren that the bill be read this day three ...

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  32. "PRINCPLES OF NATURAL JUSTICE."

    Mr. Justice Heusman and Mr. Justice Stone have written to the administrator on the question of the constitution of the proposed Arbitration Court provided for in the Arbitration and ...

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  33. THE PLAGUE IN GLASGOW.

    A special commissioner of the "British Medical Journal" has investigated the outbreak of plague in Glasgow. He gives a history of the earliest cases of the affection, which was at first taken ...

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  34. NEW SOUTH WALES SOLDIERS.

    MOLONG, Thursday.--A report received from Lieutenant-colonel De Lisle, South Africa, speaking of Sergeant-major J. Wasson, of the Molong Mounted Rifles, says he was distinguished for ...

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  35. SYDNEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

    SINGLETON. Thursday.--Recently a local resident made application for admission to the mineral branch of the Sydney Technical college, and he has received a reply stating that he can. ...

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  36. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Thursday.--The debate was resumed on Mr. Gregory's motion "That in the opinion of this House it is desirable legislation be in-troduced immediately to provide for the payment. ...

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  37. ABOLITION OF CONSULTATIONS.

    A monster meeting was" held in the Town-hall last night for the purpose of urging the Government to abolish sweep consultations. Upwards of a thousand people were present, and the Bishop ...

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  38. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir,--You issue of the 27th July is just to hand, and in it appears an extract from a letter written by one of tho men of thin battery, which has been given the following heading:--"The 'A' Battery" ...

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  39. FATALITIES AT PARKES.

    PARKES, Thursday.--News was brought into town this morning that Mr. Frank Nicholas, an old and respected resident, was found hanging. It appears that he went out yesterday from his ...

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  40. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday.--The Public Revenue Bill, which limits the power of the Auditor- General in certain directions, passed through committee in the House of Representatives, though ...

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  41. QUEENSLAND.

    The libel action, S. W. Davids versus Calms Co-oporative Newspaper Company, was concluded in the Cairns Circuit Court to-day. A verdict was given for plaintiff for £225 and costs. The ...

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  42. ST. PHILIP'S FLOWER SHOW.

    The second annual flower show and industrial exhibition in connection with St. Philip's Church was opened in the Parish-ball, Church-hill, yesterday afternoon, by the Archbishop and Miss ...

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  43. GALES IN NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday.--Severe gales have been experienced in several parts of the colony. Telegraphic communication is interrupted in several parts of the south Island, and railway ...

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  44. VICTORIAN RAILWAYS AND RIVERINA.

    TOCUMWAL, Wednesday.--At a large and enthusiastic meeting, held at Finley to-day, representatives from Jerilderie and Tocumwal being present, it was resolved to strongly support the ...

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  45. ADAMSTOWN SHOW.

    The spring show of the Adamstown and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society was opened yesterday afternoon. Dr. Herwood (the president) performing the formal ceremony. Mr. ...

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