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  2. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.-- The principal functions in connection with the Royal visit to-day were the University Commemoration, at which the degree of LL.D. was conferred on tho Duke ...

    Article : 506 words
  3. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Thursday.-- The Laurence Marques (Delagoa Bay) correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that another big fight has taken place between Boers and ...

    Article : 80 words
  4. FIRE AT ANTHONY HORDERN'S.

    In one sense the rehabilitation of the "Universal Providers" in the Exhibition- building has been as sensational as the calamitous demolition of their Haymarket establishment. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 502 words
  5. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.-- The Russian Imperial Bank, or, according to other accounts, the Russian Government, advances Bulgaria the sum of 8,000,000 franes ...

    Article : 111 words
  6. BOER GUNS CAPTURED.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Lord Kitchener's despatches show that between March and May 6 the British captured 35 Boer gnus, including two Long-Toms, one ...

    Article : 52 words
  7. AUSTRALASIAN SOLDIERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.-- The following officers serving in Australasian regiments have been mentioned in recent despatches for conspicuous service under fire South Africa:-- ...

    Article : 756 words
  8. BOER DELEGATES RETURN.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Mr. J. X. Merriman and J. W. Saner, who went to England as delegates for the Boers, have landed at Capetown unnoticed. ...

    Article : 29 words
  9. THE CHARTERS TOWERS TRAGEDY.

    CHARTERS TOWERS, Thursday.-- In connection with yesternight's shooting tragedy, it has transpired that Brown was in town during the afternoon, and went home at 7 o'clock for his ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. BACK FROM THE WAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.-- Major J. Rose, with 70 West Australians, and the Fourth Queens- land, Victorian, Tasmanian, South Australian, and New Zealand contingents, have ...

    Article : 34 words
  11. SYDNEY LARRIKINS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Mr. Henry Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, has contradicted a sensational article by Mr. Ambrose Pratt, formerly of Sydney, in ...

    Article : 58 words
  12. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A great city meeting was held in the Guild-hall yesterday in support of. the Government policy in South Africa. ...

    Article : 169 words
  13. THE INSURANCES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 268 words
  14. NEW ZEALAND BAPTISTS' JUBILEE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Rev. J. Greenhough, the president of the Council of the Evangelical Free Churches, has sailed to participate In the Baptist Jubilee In New Zealand. ...

    Article : 38 words
  15. TELEGRAPHIC INTERRUPTION.

    A couple of hours before the firing of the charges of dynamite men from the Telegraphic Department cleared all the lines from the insulators and made them up into one solid cable, ...

    Article : 91 words
  16. NEWCASTLE.

    A special meeting of shareholders in the City of Newcastle Gas and Coke Company, Ltd., was held yesterday at the Chamber of Commerce, to elect a director in succession to the late Mr. ...

    Article : 282 words
  17. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Americans have utilised wireless telegraphy for the transmission of pictures. ...

    Article : 24 words
  18. CLEGG'S LEAP FOR LIFE.

    The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) and a jury yesterday initiated an inquest at the Lloyd Hotel into the circumstances attending the death of Harry Clegg, who made the sensational leap ...

    Article : 140 words
  19. FEDERAL DEFENCE BILL.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- "The Times," in criticising the. Commonwealth Defence Bill, introduced in the Federal Parliament' by Sir John Forrest, anticipates that though it does not ...

    Article : 61 words
  20. FOUR MORE FATALITIES.

    It was believed on Wednesday that there had been only one fatality--the tragic death of young Clegg--but yesterday morning there were anxious inquiries by the friends of several employees who ...

    Article : 590 words
  21. ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.

    LONDON. Thursday.-- In addition to the names already announced (Jessop, Lilley, and Hayward), Mr. Maclaren has engaged Messrs. C. B. Fry. R. E. Foster, and J. T. Tyldesley for the English ...

    Article : 485 words
  22. ANOTHER AMERICAN DISASTER.

    LONDON, Thursday.-- Another American disaster is reported. Two railway trains collided at Norton, in the State of Missouri, with the result that 14 persons ...

    Article : 43 words
  23. AN EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY.

    The half-yearly meeting of the Ashfield Band, in which Harry Clegg was one of the solo cornet players, was to have been held on Wednesday evening, but at time time fixed for opening, Mr. T. ...

    Article : 110 words
  24. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday.-- The "Berlin Post" states that Germany has acquired a pre-emptive right to the Spanish island of Fernando Po, in the Gulf of Guinea. ...

    Article : 32 words
  25. LICENSING BUSINESS.

    At the Newcastle Licensing Court yesterday the matter of Thomas Williams a conditional publican's license for a 22 roomed house, to be erected created at Cockle Creek ...

    Article : 199 words
  26. INTERVIEW WITH THE MANAGER.

    Two of the busiest men in Sydney yesterday were Mr. Sam Hordern and his manager, Mr. Harris. it was quite impossible to get a "sitting stot" at either of them during the day; they were ...

    Article : 662 words
  27. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The population of the State on April 1 was estimated at 357,578. exclusive of residents of the Northern Territory. The births during the month numbered 724, or a total of 2952 for ...

    Article : 59 words
  28. THE TRAM SERVICES.

    If an example was required to prove that the tramway arrangements of this city are susceptible of vast improvement, it was provided by the spectacle presented along Elizabeth-street ...

    Article : 341 words
  29. A HIGH COURT CASE.

    LONDON, Thursday;-- In the action for £750 damages brought against the China Traders' Insurance Company by the Pastoral Finance Association, for damage to a shipment of sheep ex ...

    Article : 66 words
  30. FOUNDERED AT THE WHARF.

    W. C. Harrison and Co's. barge Spec sank in Port Adelaide. Canal during the early morning. The vessol was loaded with about 50 tons flour, and was moored to the Canal wharf when left ...

    Article : 92 words
  31. NEW ZEALAND.

    Brevet-Colonel St. George Honry, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, has been recommended by the War Office to succeed Colonel Pole-Penton, Commandant of the New Zealand ...

    Article : 73 words
  32. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

    The following clearances were made at Newcastle yesterday:-- Boveric, str, for Wallaroo. via Port Pirie, with 5500 tons coal, 160 tons coke: Challenger, bqe, for Manila, with 2235 ...

    Article : 37 words
  33. FRUIT FOR THE WEST.

    The State Minister of Agriculture has received the following telegrams from Mr. L. L. Cowen. Secretary to the West Australian Department of Agriculture; "By an ...

    Article : 161 words
  34. MANCHESTER UNITY ODDFELLOWS.

    The half-yearly meeting of the Newcastle district of the Manchester Unity Oddfellow was held on Wednesday at Carrington. Brother A. J. Smith Pro. Grand Master, stated in his ...

    Article : 362 words
  35. RATING OF MINES.

    BROKEN-HILL, Thursday.-- The Mayor (Alderman Retallick), on behalf of tho municipal council, was yesterday evening served with notices of appeal against the Proprietary. ...

    Article : 162 words
  36. PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL

    At a meeting of the oxecutive committee of the Queen Victoria Memorial Fund, held at the Town-hall on Tuesday afternoon last, the following were present: Mr. H. S. Levy ...

    Article : 243 words
  37. GENERAL BLOOD'S OPERATIONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Lieutenant-General Sir Bindon Blood's three columns have marched from Middleburg to the Springs. Botha's Boers succeeded in ...

    Article : 60 words
  38. COMMUNICATION WITH TARCOOLA.

    A deputation of northern residents asked the Commissioner of Public Works this morning to promise to build a railway, also to lay a telegraph line to Tarcoola. The ...

    Article : 319 words
  39. REMOVING DANGEROUS WALLS.

    Right through the day efforts were made to demolish the wall of the lefty building on the George-streot front. Lines were made fast to the wall, but failed to shift it, and it was decided ...

    Article : 319 words
  40. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Thursday.-- Brown-hill sulphide mill treated 2090 tons for 4446oz: sands retreated, 3155 tons for 7I7oz.; total, 5163oz. The Great Boulder battery crushed 2479 tons for ...

    Article : 204 words
  41. RESUMING BUSINESS.

    When 'Will, and enterprise, and energy take off their coats, the effects of disaster, and the chaotic condition it creates, must rapidly disappear. ...

    Article : 546 words
  42. IN EASTERN TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Mr. Bennet Burleigh. the "Daily Telegraph" war correspondent, states that the Eastern Transvaal is so bare that the Boers in that ...

    Article : 54 words
  43. RETURN OF H.M.S. SPARROW.

    H.M.S. Sparrow returned to Sydney last evening, after a cruise in New Zealand waters, during which time she visited Auckland, Lytteltion, and Wellington The Sparrow was at ...

    Article : 112 words
  44. RAIDERS AND REBELS.

    LONDON, Thursday.-- Commandant Seheepers, who recently entered the ungarrisoned town of Murraysburg, in Cape Colony, burned the public buildings and extorted a sum ...

    Article : 77 words
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