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  2. SECOND EDITION.

    PERTH, Monday.--The steamer Australasian arrived at Albany unexpectedly this morning from the Cape. The original intention was to proceed direct to Melbourne, but a shortage of ...

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  3. THE HOLIDAY.

    For the celebration of the Prince or Wales' Birthday yesterday, there was the most charming picnic weather. Usually the first taste of the summer makes the early November days hot and ...

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  4. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Monday.--The guerilla campaign is being vigorously conducted, and numerous fights, in all of which the Boers were worsted, have recently taken place in both ...

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  5. CHINA.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Chinese Emperor now declares that General Tung-fuhsiang controls the Imperial Court, and that it would be impossible to punish him. ...

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  6. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    LONDON, Monday.--Gorman criticism of Lord Salisbury's Guildhall speech is reserved in tone, while that of the French press is characterised as moderate. ...

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  7. NEWCASTLE.

    One of yesterday's principal holiday features at Newcastle was the seventh annual Highland gathering of the Northern Caledonian Society, which took place on the Rugby Union Ground. The ...

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  8. VICTORIA.

    Next year will be well advanced before the real work towards the erection of the new central railway station begins. Detailed plans will not be ready before next May. The Existing ...

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  9. PERTH SHOOTING CASE.

    PERTH, Monday.--Mrs. Joyce, one of the sufferers in Sunday's shooting case, died in the Perth Hospital at 1 o'clock to-day. Her dying depositions were taken. An inquest will be held ...

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  10. NEWCASTLE EISTEDDFOD.

    Yesterday's session of the Newcastle annual Eisteddfod were splendidly successful. Right throughout the interest maintained was intense, but it was the concluding programme and ...

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  11. OCEAN AND HARBOR EXCURSIONS.

    The state of the weather yesterday was highly conducive to large attendances at the different holiday resorts reached by water. Excursions were made to the Hawkesbury River ...

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  12. SIEGE OF THE LEGATIONS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--A Yellow Book, dealing with affairs in China, has been issued by the French Government. The book contains a picturesque account ...

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  13. WHEN PARLIAMENT MEETS.

    Parliamentary proceedings this week are of more than ordinary interest. To-morrow the House will elect its Speaker (so far Mr. F. C. Mason's is the only name mentioned), and swear ...

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  14. THE COUNTRY.

    MURWILLUMBAH, Monday.--To-day at Cudgen William Oswald was killed during a quarrel at a hotel. A man named Taff has been arrested on suspicion of causing Oswald's death. ...

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  15. CUSTOMS UNION FOR THE EMPIRE.

    Speaking at Whittlesea Agricultural Show today, Mr. Graham, Minister for Agriculture, made it plain that the Government would fight to the last. There were two political ...

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  16. SOLICITUDE FOR PRISONERS.

    MOLONG, Monday.--At a meeting of the Progress Association Mr. Geo. Packham drew attention to the filthy state of the water in the underground tank at the local courthouse. ...

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  17. SALUTARY WARNINGS.

    LONDON, Monday.--The execution of the guilty Pao-ting-fu officials and the exposure of their severed heads on the city walls, profoundly impressed the Chinese. ...

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  18. GENERAL BULLER.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--General Sir Redvers Buller has resumed command of the forces at Aldershot. LONDON, Monday.--The freedom of the ...

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  19. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Mr. A. S. Cowley and Mr. W. H. Groom, ex-Speakers of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, have been granted permission to retain the title of ...

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  20. THE GERMAN WAR VOTE.

    LONDON, Monday.--The German Reichstag, or Diet of the Realm, has been asked to vote £7,634,500 for the conduct of the China war. ...

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  21. DEATH ON THE OPERATING TABLE.

    At an inquest to-day on Caroline Tucker, 24 years of age who died on the operating table at the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday, the jury found that she died from suffocation through the ...

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  22. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Royal Commission is favorably inclined to the adoption of wireless telegraphy by the British Post Office. ...

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  23. GRASS FIRES ON THE PLAINS.

    LOCKHART, Monday.--As already reported, grass fires occurred at South Lockhart on Thursday. last, but further particulars now come to hand that a conflagration broke out the same day ...

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  24. POISONING CASE.

    To-day the remains or Jane Fraser, who died in the Servants' Training Home, East Melbourne, yesterday, after foretelling her own death, were the subject of a post-mortem examination. Dr. ...

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  25. AUSTRALIAN HORSES.

    LONDON, Monday.--The German military authorities in China pronounce the Australian horses serviceable animals. ...

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  26. NEWFOUNDLAND ELECTIONS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Newfoundland general elections have resulted in the supporters of the Bond Government being returned by large majorities. ...

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  27. BELGIANS WANT A CONCESSION.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Belgian Government is endeavoring to obtain a strip of land at Tien-tsin, for the purpose of a settlement. ...

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  28. MORE DEFECTIVE AMMUNITION.

    At Queenscliff to-day, 12 rounds were fired from the 14-pounder quick-firers, two of which only were effective. It was subsequently found that the ammunition was defective. It had been ...

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  29. TRAIN AND TRAM TRAFFIC.

    So far as the railway and tramway services are concerned, the officers in connection therewith have every reason to be satisfied with the result of yesterday's business. In comparison ...

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  30. SAD DROWNING ACCIDENT.

    A boy named William Collins, aged 11, of Sydney, who with his mother was on a visit to Mr. Comerford, of Islington, was drowned in Tighe's Creek yesterday afternoon. He was out ...

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  31. THE ORMEROD PLATE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 words
  32. CONFLICT OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

    The annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria was inaugurated tonight by a service conducted by the retiring Moderator, the Rev. W. C. Wallace. He preached ...

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  33. THE FREDERICKSTAD FIGHT.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Further details of the fighting at Frederickstad, in the Transvaal Colony, show that 2000 Boers were engaged. ...

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  34. THE RUSSIAN ABSORPTION.

    The cable published in Saturday's "Daily Telegraph" that the Russians had annexed all the north shore of the Pei-ho facing the British and German concessions at Tien-tsin, including ...

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  35. FOUNDERED IN A GALE.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Canadian passenger steamer City of Monticello has foundered during a gale in the Bay of Fundy. Thirty-three persons were drowned. ...

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  36. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

    The barque Osb[?]rga arrived at Newcastle from Monte Video yesterday, after a passage of 82 days. On October 12 a seaman, named Martin Dargo fell from aloft, and received injuries from ...

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  37. A BARQUE IN A GALE.

    The French barque Marguerite Dollfur, 1342 tons, threshed up the bay this morning, bearing traces of rough weather. She lately left Cardiff for Madagascar where 625 head of cattle were ...

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  38. SHEARING SEASON.

    GLEN INNES, Monday.--The Furracabad strike continues. There are now 60 men in camp. The roll is to be called again to-morrow, and if there is no response the manager will proceed with ...

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  39. ANTI-BRITISH WOMEN.

    LONDON, Monday.--At a meeting, which was held at the Paarl (near Capetown), and which was attended by 800 South African women, resolutions were adopted protesting ...

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  40. DISMISSED WITH COSTS.

    LONDON, Monday.--The reserved judgment in the appeal case the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company v. the City of Fitzroy, was delivered by Lord Hobhouse, of the Judicial ...

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  41. THEATRES, ETC.

    Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" was revived by Miss Nance O'Neil at Her Majesty's Theatre yesterday afternoon. The theatre was well filled, but the morbid and pessimistic character of the play ...

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  42. QUEENSLAND.

    A divorce case was commenced to-day, in which Frank Leysley seeks to obtain a divorce from his wife, Annie Leysley, on tho ground of her adultery with John Dunsford, member of the ...

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  43. COLONIAL TROOPS AT HOME.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Great preparations are being made for the entertainment of the Colonial troops, who will shortly arrive in England from South Africa. The ...

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  44. CANADIAN POLITICS.

    LONDON, Monday.--Mr. G. E. Foster, who held the portfolio of Minister of Finance in the last Conservative Government, has been elected leader of the Conservative (Opposition) party in the ...

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  45. INTERCOLONIAL BOWLING MATCH.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 words
  46. THEATRE ROYAL.

    Fitting well in its rollicking humor with the desires of a holiday audience, the musical comedy "A Trip to Chicago," repeated by Mr. Sheridan. Miss Gracie Whiteford, and their ...

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  47. SUBSIDY TO THE ADELAIDE STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

    The Chamber of Commerce to-day discussed the payment of a subsidy by the Government to the Adelaide Steamship Company for carriage of meat and butter. Members expressed the ...

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  48. A FAMOUS FIELD GUN.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Government of the United States of America has secured plans of the new French field gun, which is supposed to be the best in the world. ...

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  49. BOTHAVILLE PRISONERS.

    LONDON, Monday.--The Boer prisoners taken by the British under Major-General Knox, near Bothaville, included 28 artillerymen and 40 rebels. ...

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  50. TIVOLI.

    Largo audiences enjoyed the Tivoli performances yesterday afternoon and evening. The programme presented last week, in which Misses Louie Collins. Rochester, Carr-Glynn, Williams, ...

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  51. GENERAL BADEN-POWELL.

    LONDON, Monday.--Lieutenant-General R. S. S. Baden-Powell, "the hero of Mafeking," is suffering from an attack of enteric fever. ...

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  52. MELBOURNE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

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  53. THE WRECK OF THE DREHNA.

    The steamer Wakefield returned to Townsville from the wreck of the ship Drehna, and brought the captain and the balance of the crew. Captain Taylor, who represents the ...

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  54. WEST AUSTRALIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 words
  55. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    By the Yarrawonga which arrived in Sydney yesterday another detachment of invalided soldiers returned. Sergeant J. E. Mullampy, of the Citizens' ...

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  56. CRITERION.

    At the Criterion Theatre "Robbery Under Arms" was repeated by Mr. Dampier and his dramatic company, a numerous audience enjoying the performance. ...

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  57. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The military forces, in the presence of Colonel Gordon, the Commandant, who recently returned from the seat of war in South Africa, were engaged in a sham fight in kopje country, about a ...

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  58. TYPHOON AT HONGKONG.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Great destruction has been caused at Hongkong by a typhoon. The British gunboat Sandpiper, 85 tons, Lieutenant H. C. Carr, was sunk, but the officers and ...

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  59. TOWN-HALL CONCERT.

    One of the largest audiences for some time past was attracted to last night's' civic concert. In keeping with the holiday, a programme of a particularly popular character was submitted. ...

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  60. THE MELANESIAN MISSION.

    LONDON, Monday,--Lord Brassey (late Governor of Victoria). Sir Fowell Buxton (late Governor of South Australia) and others, have written a letter to "The Times," in which they ...

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  61. NEW ZEALAND.

    Tho Department of Public Health created by Parliament last session, has been now established, with Mr. Ward as Minister in charge and Dr. Mason as executive officer. ...

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  62. THE WORK OF SOUTHERN GALES.

    The captain of the steamer Corio, which arrived to-day from Newcastle, reports that on Saturday the French barque Dollfur was sighted dismasted, 22 miles west-south-west of Cape Otway. and the ...

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  63. ENCOUNTER WITH BLACKS.

    PORT DARWIN, Monday.--A mail named Osborne, while travelling between Katherine and Victoria River, was attacked by blacks, and narrowly escaped with his life. The blacks ...

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  64. RAILWAY COLLISION IN GERMANY.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Two trains collided near Frankfort, Germany. The gas reservoir in one of the carriages exploded, setting fire to the compartment. The charred remains of ...

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  65. NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS.

    The Premier is in receipt of the following telegram from South Africa:--"No. 804, Wilson, is with his regiment in good health. November 9: Ryrie has been discharged to duty from October ...

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  66. AT THE CENTENARY-HALL.

    A capital concert was given last night in the Centenary-hall, York-street, the attendance not being at all in keeping with the quality of the entertainment. The programme opened with ...

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  67. TASMANIA.

    To-day the Premier forwarded to the Lord Mayor of London a cheque for £5278 towards one or more divisions of the Mansion House Relief Fund. The total sent is £10,278. ...

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  68. CHARGE OF CRIMINAL LIBEL.

    KALGOORLIE, Sunday.--Hugh Mahon, who was charged before the Kalgoorlie Police Court with having, as editor of the "Sun" newpaper. criminally libelled Mr. Thos. Patterson, Chief ...

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  69. KRUPP GUN FOR SYDNEY.

    The following telegram, dated November 9, has been received from Lord Roberts at Johannesburg:--"The New South Wales Mounted Infantry captured a Krupp gun on the 27th ...

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