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  2. FUTURE OF TELEGRAPHY.

    A Departmental Commission of the Post Office, which for some months has been considering the question of wireless telegraphy, will very shortly report favorably upon the general principle and ...

    Article : 996 words
  3. WAR NOTES FROM ENGLAND.

    LONDON, November 9.--The Hospital Commission appointed to inquire into the allegations made against the treatment of the sick and wounded of the South African campaign has ...

    Article : 1,714 words
  4. NEWCASTLE.

    Mr. Arthur Fong was examined on Saturday morning by the Public Works Committee as to the expediency of constructing sewerage works for Newcastle, Hamilton, Wickham, Merewether, ...

    Article : 135 words
  5. THE COUNTRY.

    WYALONG, Saturday.--Among those who suffered heavily through the recent bush fire was Mrs. Sutliffe, whose property was wire-netted, and who lost grass and fences--in fact, ...

    Article : 796 words
  6. EARLY COLONIAL VOLUNTEERING.

    "The Times" has published the following letter from Sir James Fairfax at present in England:-- "Following the lead of Vice-Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, may be allowed to say that ...

    Article : 734 words
  7. TEN-FOOTERS' CHAMPIONSHIP.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 words
  8. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

    The Adelaide Company's steamer Willyama took her departure for Adelaide on Saturday, none the worse for the outbreak of fire on her 'tween decks on Friday night. ...

    Article : 204 words
  9. RE-ORGANISATION.

    A "Regimental Officer," in an interesting letter from the Transvaal to the "St. James' Gazette," specifies five points demanding immediate attention. ...

    Article : 778 words
  10. EXPORT OF COAL.

    During last week 70,529 tons of coal were exported from Newcastle to foreign and intercolonial ports, the distribution being as follows:--To Chili 17,698 tons, Victoria 14,430 tons, South ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. TWO WAR YARNS.

    Presiding over the gathering which thronged St James'-hall to hear Mr. Winston Churchill's second lecture on Monday evening, Dr. Conan Doyle made an excellent little speech packed full ...

    Article : 715 words
  12. ARMY OF AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--In an Interview, General Gordon, commandant of the South Australian forces, stated that in regard to the formation of the Federal Army he was convinced every young ...

    Article : 368 words
  13. THE CONTINENTAL PRESS AND COLONIAL TROOPS.

    Any stick is good enough to throw at your enemy (writes our London correspondent), but it is really excruciatingly funny to find certain German journals assisting their French ...

    Article : 383 words
  14. PRESENTATION TO A POLITICIAN.

    TUMUT, Saturday.--This afternoon Mr. R. Donaldson, M.P., was presented, on the balcony of the Commercial Hotel, in the presence of 300 people, with a purse containing 155 sovereigns ...

    Article : 1,628 words
  15. CASUALTIES.

    Shortly before midnight on Saturday, a man was admitted to the Sydney Hospital suffering from a fractured skull, having been knocked down by a tram in George-street, He succumbed to his ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. A FATAL FALL.

    A young married woman named Emma Abbott (24), residing at Albion-lane, Surry-hills, died at the Sydney Hospital on Saturday evening. She fell in the street on Monday last, receiving a ...

    Article : 52 words
  17. BOYS AND REVOLVERS.

    On Saturday a little boy named C[?] Parkinson was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital, suffering from a bullet wound caused by the accidental discharge of a revolver. Parkinson, with ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. CAUSED BY A RUNAWAY.

    A runaway horse, harnessed to a dogcart, caused a little sensation in Macquarie-street on Saturday morning, and before it was brought to a standstill by a fall, was the means of injuring ...

    Article : 100 words
  19. DUKE HENRY'S SUPERSTITION.

    Extensive alterations were being carried out, at the Palace Lange Voorhout, at The Hague, last month, to render it suitable as a residence for the mother of Queen Willhelmina, and are ...

    Article : 207 words
  20. THE "CONFIDENCE" TRICK.

    Visitors to Sydney need beware, for the "confidence man" is at work. The latest victim is a Queenslander in Sydney for the benefit of his health. He was reading the ...

    Article : 319 words
  21. MILITARY.

    His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has given authority, under the 5th section of the Volunteer Force Regulation Act of 1867, for the ...

    Article : 125 words
  22. WESTERN SUBURBS COTTAGE HOSPITAL.

    At the monthly meeting of the Western Suburbs Cottage Hospital held at Enfield on Thursday evening, the matron reported that during the month 12 patients had been admitted, 12 ...

    Article : 100 words
  23. NO QUARTER.

    The Kaiser is evidently of the American politician's opinion that "Peace (and Christianity) to make it stick at all, must be druy in with bagnits." The private letters of German soldiers in ...

    Article : 466 words
  24. VEVEY'S STRANGE FIND.

    While carrying out the restoration of the old church of St. Martin's, at Vevey, Switzerland, the workmen have found, at the depth of two yards, a primitive structure supposed to be a ...

    Article : 135 words
  25. MARRICKVILLE COTTAGE HOSPITAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 words
  26. BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES' FETE. AND ART UNION.

    The committee in connection with the approaching Benevolent Societies' Fete and Art Union met in the Queen's-hall on Friday last, under the presidency of Alderman R. B. Cropley ...

    Article : 213 words
  27. BREACHES OF THE FISHERIES ACT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 words
  28. HARBOR RESUMPTION BOARD.

    Sir,--"Mercator's" letter in your issue of the 11th inst, correctly sums up the opinion of the mercantile community on this question. Surely those who are suffering impositions and trade ...

    Article : 241 words
  29. CHRISTMAS TREE AND SALE AT LEICHHARDT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 294 words
  30. LOST BABES OF SECOND CHILDHOOD.

    We are all familiar with lost children, but rarely do we come across three persons, all of them over sixty years of age, who cannot give an account of themselves. Three such persons ...

    Article : 140 words
  31. BREACH OF THE NAVIGATION ACT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 words
  32. COLLISION IN FARM COVE.

    A collision occurred in Farm Cove on Saturday night between a steam pinnace belonging to one of the warships and a cutter, also from one of the fleet. The pinnace had just left Man-o'-war ...

    Article : 113 words
  33. THE COMMONWEALTH AND FREETRADE.

    Sir,--I would like to invite all freetraders who desire to assist in organising the freetrade forces in the approaching campaign to attend a meeting to be held on Monday evening next., 17th inst., ...

    Article : 171 words
  34. FOUND DEAD IN BED.

    A woman named Bridget Fluncane, 64 years of age, residing at Duke-street, Woolloomooloo, was found dead in bed by her son at 8.15 a.m. on Saturday. She was removed to the South ...

    Article : 100 words
  35. VINOUS VOLUNTEERS.

    It is a pity Lord Roberts' appeal to the public against treating home returning soldiers should not have preceded the arrival of the C.I.V. Though a merciful agreement amongst the ...

    Article : 691 words
  36. LESE-MAJESTE CONVICTIONS.

    Statictics of the convictions for lese-majeste, published in the "North German Gazette," show that during the years from 1882 to 1889, 2959 persons were convicted for this offence. The ...

    Article : 68 words
  37. Advertising

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  38. THE FUTURE OF CAVALRY.

    One of the most interesting questions arising out of the South African war is that of the advisability of the conversion of cavalry into mounted infantry. Conan Doyle, in his "History of the ...

    Article : 644 words
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