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  2. THE CAPE CABLE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--In reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, denied having received from Canada, Australia, ...

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  3. FEDERAL NOTES.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Government has been considering the question of the representation of the Federal territory when it shall be proclaimed and settled. The two precedents are ...

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  4. THE DUKE IN ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--On Saturday, at noon, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, accompanied by the Royal suite and the Governor, Lord Tennyson, proceeded to Rose Park, where ...

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  5. A BIG FIRE AT NEWTOWN.

    The serious fires of last, week in the city, have been followed by one of great magnitude in the suburbs. Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morning a fire was observed to have ...

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  6. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The resolutions which were adopted at the Guild-hall meeting on Wednesday in enthusiastic support of the Government policy in South Africa, ...

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  7. CHINA.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Prince Chun, younger brother of the Emperor, Kwnng-Hsu, has started on his mission to Germany, to apologise to the Kaiser for ...

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  8. THE BOER WAR.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Boers recently attempted to raid a big herd of cattle near Pretoria. They were repulsed with loss after a sharp fight at close ...

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  9. WELCOME HOME. SHOT BY HIS COMRADES. WELCOMING NEW ZEALANDERS HOME. A FALSE ALARM. HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE.

    CENTRAL TILBA, Saturday.--Trooper Quinlivan, of the Citizens' Bushmen's Contingent, who has just returned from South Africa, received a magnificent reception at Central Tilba last night. ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A letter from South Africa shows that Trooper Benneir, of the Sixth South Australian Contingent, whose death was recently recorded by cable, was, owing to a A WOMAN KILLED, AND TWO INJURED. WELLINGTON, Sunday.--The fourth and fifth contingents, on returning to the colony, received a cordial welcome at Invercargill and WELLINGTON, Saturday.--It was reported that Corporal Harold Cureton, of the Imperial Bushmen, formerly a resident of Wellington, had succumbed to injuries received at LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The heat in London and Paris is intense, and has caused several deaths in each city. ...

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  10. STRENGTHENING THE NAVY.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Lord Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced last night in the House of Lords that 1800 men had been enrolled in the fleet reserve in the course of the ...

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  11. THE WARMBAD AFFAIR.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--After the discussions in Parliament respecting the accuracy of the report sent by Reuter's correspondent of the fight at Warmbad, Lord ...

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  12. AUSTRALIAN BOWLERS ON TOUR.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Australian bowlers, who are now on tour in Ireland, yesterday played the first drawn match of their series. They encountered the Ulster Club (Belfast), and ...

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  13. ARMY REFORM.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Commander-in-Chief, Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, has abolished the sword, lance, and bayonet exorcises in the British Army, and has ordered that ...

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  14. VICTORIA.

    A farmer named Alexander, who recently purchased a farm near Pakenham, was found in the kitchen of the homestead with his throat cut on Friday morning. A razor was lying ...

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  15. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Mr. Gardner, Unionist, has been returned, unopposed, for the representation of the Wokingham Division of Berkshire in the House of Commons. ...

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  16. A SHANGHAI RUMOR.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--It is persistently rumored at Shanghai that Prince Tuan and his son, Pu Tsing, the heir-apparent, with a large army, are marching on Shansi. ...

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  17. THE LIBERAL SCHISM.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Mr. H. H. Asquith has declined a suggestion made by the Liberal leader. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, to postpone the banquet which Liberal- ...

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  18. THE AMERICA CUP.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--In a 10-knot breeze over a triangular course at Newport the Columbia (winner of tho America Cup in 1899) beat the probable new defender, the ...

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  19. BRITISH CATHOLIC UNION.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The annual report of the Roman Catholic Union of Great Britain has been issued. While emphasising the recrudescence of anti-Catholic feeling, the report ...

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  20. DECREASE OF GOLD PRODUCTION.

    The production of gold in Victoria for the last half-year showed a decrease of 12,755oz. as against the corresponding period of last year. Of this 4158oz. is attributable to the ...

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  21. THE PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Representatives from all the States in the Western Hemisphere will attend the Pan-American Congress in Mexico. ...

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  22. IMPERIAL APPELLATE CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The impression is gaining ground that the Conference now sitting to consider the establishment of an Imperial Appellate Court will prove resultless, owing to ...

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  23. THE KING'S NEW TITLE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--In connection with the popular suggestion that the phrase "Greater Britain" should be included in King Edward's titles at his coronation next June, the ...

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  24. MEMBERS OF THE NEW STATE PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Edmund Lonsdale was born at Maitland (N.S.W.) 59 years ago, and has spent the latter thirty years of his life in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. ADULTERATED COLONIAL BUTTER.

    LONDON, Saturday.--At the instance of the Butter Association, the firm of Pearks, Gunston, and Tee, Limited, provision merchants, City, has been fined£20, and costs, at the ...

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  26. THE DEATH OF COLONEL JOHNSON.

    As the result of an analysis of the contents of the stomach of the late Colonel Kent Johnson, formerly secretary of the Australian Club, who died suddenly at the club last week, the ...

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  27. CHAMPIONS AT BILLIARDS.

    An exhibition billiard match. Roberts v. Memmott, the former conceding his opponent 2500 in a game of 7000, was commenced yesterday afternoon. The scores at the end of tho day were-- ...

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  28. ENGLISH CRICKET.

    LONDON. Friday Afternoon.--Many of the newspapers applaud Phillips for his courage in no-balling Mold. Others, however, insist that the Marylebone Cricket Club should sanction a ...

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  29. THE FRENCH NAVY.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The French naval authorities are forming a reserve squadron, comprising four battleships, one cruiser, and one torpedo boat destroyer, at Toulon. They ...

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  30. SHOOTING WOUNDED BRITISHERS.

    LONDON, Friday Evening.--Instead of indignation, the revelations concerning the shooting by Boers of wounded British soldiers at Vlakfontein has aroused an ...

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  31. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    The cable steamer Britannia, which is engaged in surveying the route for the proposed Pacific cable, arrived at Auckland on July 7, having on board Mr. R. Peake, the representative of the ...

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  32. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Saturday.--A serious railway accident occurred this afternoon near Werribee station. A train from Perth, with loaded coal trucks, was ascending an incline between ...

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  33. AERIAL NAVIGATION.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Santos Dumont's navigable balloon starting from St. Cloud, outside Paris, made a tour of the Bois de Boulogne, went six times round the ...

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  34. AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--A Boer force recently surprised a British post at Hout Kop, in the Gatsraud, north-west of Vereeniging, and captured an old seven-pounder ...

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  35. BIG SCORE BY ABEL.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--In the cricket match Gentlemen versus Players, played on the Kennington Oval, the well-known Surrey professional, Abel, made 247 runs. ...

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  36. A BERMUDA ESCAPEE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Duploy, the Boer escapee from Bermuda, who was arrested at New York as a pauper, was fined as a stowaway. An American sympathiser ...

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  37. "A HALF-HOLIDAY WITH JESSOP."

    No doubt one of the great, attractions of the English cricket team that M'Laren will bring to Australia in a few months' time will be Jessop, the bitter, who has scored 150 runs off his own bat ...

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  38. MR. W. M. DALEY (SYDNEY-GIPPS DIVISION).

    As the selected Labor candidate for Gipps, Mr. William M. Daley was returned to the State Parliament, and although an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  39. THE INSURANCES.

    The total insurances on the Federal Flour Mills are with the Atlas Assurance Company for £37,525, which is distributed amongst nineteen other offices by re-insurance. On the mill ...

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  40. RETURNED SOLDIERS' DEDUCTED PAY.

    On Saturday the deputation which was appointed by the meeting of returned soldiers, held at Paddington on Monday night, waited upon the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Lee), and fully ...

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  41. A PLUCKY BLAYNEY SOLDIER.

    About the middle of last month Mr. H. Wells, of Blayney, received a notification that his brother, Trooper T. Wells, had been dangerously wounded in South Africa. Sergeant Sidney ...

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  42. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. G. L. Darcy, a civil servant, while alighting from a tram yesterday morning, fell down and died in a few minutes. He was aged 71, and joined the service in 1863. ...

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  43. INTERVIEW WITH MR. CRAGO.

    In the early part of the afternoon, Mr. Francis Crago was seen by a representative of "The Daily Telegraph," at his residence in Cambridge-street, Stanmore. He had then but ...

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  44. CENTENNIAL PARK SHED.

    A deputation representing tho Woollahra Municipal Council waited upon the Railway Commissioners on Saturday morning to urge that a certain building on the northern side ...

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  45. CHILLAGOE RAILWAY AND MINES.

    Messrs. J. S. Roid, Harvey Patterson, and Chapman, directors of the Chillagoe Railway and Mines, accompanied by Mr. F. Back, managing director, returned to Cairns from Chillagoe by ...

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  46. MORE AUSTRALIANS RETURNING.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Defence Department has been advised that the steamer Britannic left East London on the 7th last, for Australia with 28 officers and 456 returning troops ...

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  47. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Saturday's football results were:--West Adelaide, 9 goals 14 behinds, beat West Torrens, 6 goals 9 behinds; Norwood, 6 goals 7 behinds, beat Port Adelaide, 5 goals 3 behinds; South Adelaide, ...

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  48. TURKEY AND EGYPT.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Abbas Hilml, Khediv of Egypt, is at present in Constantinople on a visit to his over-lord the Sultan (Abdul Hamid II.) ...

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  49. THE TRANSPORT ORIENT.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The transport Orient sailed soon after noon yesterday, with a proportion of the New South Wales soldiers, who have just returned from South Africa, but a good many ...

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  50. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Government Shops and Offices Bill, which seeks to compel employers of clerks to pay overtime, is being opposed by the bank and warehouse clerks, who are getting up a petition against the ...

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  51. THE ELCHO SHIELD.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Shooting for the Elcho Shield has concluded, England winning, with 1609 points. Tho Scottish team scored 1595 points, and the Irish 1585. ...

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