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  2. THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Chamberlain's dispatch to the Transvaal Government absolutely repudiates that country's claim to be recognised as a sovereign State. ...

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  3. THE DREYFUS CASE

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Mayors of 50 American cities have signed a memorial, demanding that America should boycott the Paris Exhibition of 1900. ...

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  4. HUDDART, PARKER, AND CO.'S LINE

    Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co. have in view a proposed improved steam service with Hobart. In all probability the company's fine steamer Zealandia will call at Hobart on her way to and from ...

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  5. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    LONDON, Thursday.--The report and balance-sheet of the Northern Investment Company, New Zealand, shows a profit on the year's operations of £8197. A dividend of 6 per cent. has been ...

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  6. THE NEW CABINET.

    Mr. KENNETH MACKAY. Vice-President Executive Council. Mr. B. R. WISE. Attorney-General. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. A NEW SCHOONER.

    A topsail schooner of 100 tons register has just been built by Mr. G. Frost, shipbuilder, at Kintcumber. The new vessel is fitted with a centre-beard, and has been designed to carry a good ...

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  8. COVING GLEE SINGERS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Harry Lynch, of the well-known family of bellringers, has-engaged the London Glee Singers to give a series of entertainments in Australia, on the termination of ...

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  9. MR. W. P. CRICK.

    The new Postmaster-General, Mr. William Patrick Crick, is one of the most formidable debaters in the House.; He is a native of South Australia, having been born in 1864. He ...

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  10. HURRICANE IN THE BERMUDAS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A terrible hurricane has swept over the Bermudas, doing damage to the estimated value of half a million sterling. The naval dock-yard suffered severely. ...

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  11. ANTARCTIC RESEARCH.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The British Association for the Promotion of Science has voted £1000 towards the formation of an expedition for Antarctic research. The president of the association ...

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  12. MR. J. A. K. MACKAY.

    Mr. James Alexander Kenneth Mackay, who will represent the interests of the Government in the Upper House as vice-president of the Executive Council, is one of the most popular ...

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  13. VICTORIA.

    At the District Court to-day, Herman Strom, master of the steamer Cloncurry, was fined two guineas, with a similar amount as costs, for having allowed cargo to be loaded at Geelong on ...

    Article : 153 words
  14. THE FRENCH DISMAYED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The French people are dismayed at the prospect of the Paris Exhibition of 1900 being boycotted. There is a growing expectation that an early ...

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  15. RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS.

    On the motion of Mr. Lyne, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the seats of the new Ministers, with the exception of his own, Mr. Mackay's, and Mr. Fegan's, were declared vacant, in ...

    Article : 235 words
  16. SOME FREE STATE VIEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Some of the Free State burghers are said to be opposed to their President's policy of a defensive alliance with the Transvaal, and numbers of them are trekking ...

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  17. ESTATE OF THE LATE SIR ARCHIBALD MICHIE.

    Letters of administration have been granted in the estate of the late Sir Archibald Michie. The property is valued at £19,739. The property goes to the following:--Mary Michie, widow, and five ...

    Article : 64 words
  18. THE PRISONER'S PITIABLE STATE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Dreyfus is a physical wreck. The prisoner's physician has confined him to a milk diet. ...

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  19. AFRIKANDER OPINIONS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Cape Afrikander leaders are understood to hold the view that the Transvaal should accept Mr. Chamberlain's conditions, leaving the suzerainty question on the ...

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  20. THE BAIRNSDALE DOUBLE DROWNING CASE.

    The body of the lad Charles Livingstone was found in the river at Bairnsdale to-day. It was recovered within a few feet of where the steps were traced on the bank when a search was made ...

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  21. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 words
  22. MEETING OF SYDNEY CITIZENS.

    A preliminary meeting was held at the Australia Hotel, Castlereagh-street, yesterday afternoon "to enable the citizens of Sydney to mark in the most public manner their detestation of the ...

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  23. AN INDISCREET GERMAN CONSUL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The German Consul at Pretoria has declared that if the German fleet were larger than it is at present the political aspect of South African affairs would be very ...

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  24. STRIKE OF BOOKBINDERS AND PAPER RULERS.

    A strike of bookbinders and paper-rulers occurred at Messrs. Sands and M'Dougall's factory, West Melbourne. This is due to tho firm's refusal to advance the minimum wage from £2 12s ...

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  25. IMPORTUNATE MEMBERS.

    On the motion for adjournment, Mr. SUTTOR said he had heard that it was proposed to stop the steam trams between Redfern and Bent-street when the George-street electric ...

    Article : 263 words
  26. THE ATTACK BY BLACKS ON BRAESIDE.

    PERTH, Thursday.--News is just to hand giving further particulars of the Braeside tragedy. The wire states that 10 Oakover natives attacked the homestead just before daybreak. Mr. ...

    Article : 222 words
  27. THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.

    At a special meeting of the executive committee of the Victorian Employers' Union a lengthy report was submitted on the "Workmen's Compensation Bill, and the opinion was expressed that the ...

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  28. BRITISH TROOPS GOING FORWARD.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The British-India Steamship Company's steamer Dunera, carrying 800 troops to Bombay, has been intercepted at Malta, and the troops ordered to Cape ...

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  29. THE ARRANGEMENT OF PORTFOLIOS.

    The task of forming his new Administration was not completed by Mr. Lyne until nearly 4 o'clock p.m. yesterday, when the list of Ministers was finally decided on. Mr. Lyne was in ...

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  30. QUEENSLAND.

    It has been decided to extend the time for the payment of rents of cattle and stock holdings in the tick infested districts until 31st December without penalty. ...

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  31. THE PREMIER INTERVIEWED.

    Mr. Lyne, on being seen after the adjournment of the House last night, said he had only met with the ordinary difficulties in arranging his Cabinet, and he was quite satisfied that the ...

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  32. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS FOR THE TRANSVAAL.

    Last evening, in the Legislative Assembly, the question of sending a contingent of troops from New South Wales was referred to. Mr. Sawers, member for Tamworth, said that ...

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  33. MR. J. L. FEGAN.

    The successor to Mr. Cook in the Department of Mines and Agriculture is Mr. John Lionel Fcgan, member for Wickham. He was born in Essex, England, in 1862, and at an early age went ...

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  34. A MEMBER WITHOUT A PARTY

    ALBURY, Thursday.--Responding to the toast of "Parliament" at the Show banquet to-day, Mr. T. H. Griffith, M.P., said that now he was a man without a party. He was returned to support ...

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  35. THE SCHOONER LUCRETIA ASHORE.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The vessel which was reported ashore on Buffalo Reef, in the vicinity of Spilsby Island, is the schooner Lucretia. The tug Euro, with Captain Creswell aboard, ...

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  36. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. L. A. Wells, who was sent by the Government to inspect the gold finds in the Wilgena district, has reported favorably on them. Heavy stone taken from the claim of the enterprise ...

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  37. AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Colonel John Hay, the well-known American statesman, asserts that the feeling of America towards Great Britain is now more friendly than it has over been before. At ...

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  38. THE NEW MINISTERS.

    The Attorney-General, Mr. Bernard Ringrose Wise, the member for Ashfield, is the son of the late Mr. Justice Wise, and was born at Enmore, Sydney. His father dying, young Wise went to ...

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  39. A SYDNEY RESIDENT

    Mr. Gustave Adolf Blumenthal a resident of Sydney, and an Alsatian by birth, is a second cousin of Alfred Dreyfus. He was seen by a representative of this paper yesterday, and had ...

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  40. GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

    LONDON, Thursday.--It now transpires that the many courtesies and hospitality extended to the officers and men of H.M.S. Melita, on the occasion of her present visit to the Black Sea, were ...

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  41. OPINIONS IN THE COUNTRY.

    DUBBO, Thursday.--Much interest is shown in the personnel of the new Cabinet. The composition of the Ministry is different in some respects from what was anticipated. ...

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  42. MR. JOHN TERRY.

    Appropriately enough, Mr. John Perry, to whom the portfolio of Minister for Public Instruction has been allotted, received his education at a Sydney State scholastic establishment, and was head ...

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  43. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS.

    MELBOURNE. Thursday.--In the Legislative Assembly to-day the debate was resumed on the question of referring to the Railway Standing Committee a proposal to increase the limit of ...

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  44. THE SIEGE OF GUERIN.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--M. Guerin and his garrison, who are besieged by the police, have been able to secure a fresh supply of provisions. ...

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  45. MR. JOHN SEE.

    Mr. John See, the member for Grafton, and the new Chief Secretary, was born at Yelling, Huntingdonshire, in 1845, arriving in New South Wales with his parents in 1853. He has had a ...

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  46. THE LITHGOW MINERS' STRIKE

    LITHGOW, Thursday.--The settlements effected at four of the coal pits have considerably reduced the number of minors idle, but it is reckoned there are still about 65 unemployed. Nearly ...

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  47. MR. W. H. WOOD.

    The new Minister for Justice, Mr. William Herbert Wood, is the youngest member of the Ministry, being 29 years of age. Educated primarily at a public school, Mr. Wood spent five years at ...

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  48. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--The Legislative Assembly to-day only sat half an hour. Ministers gave formal notice of intention to move on Tuesday for leave to introduce a number of ...

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  49. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    A lad, Thos. Henderson, is missing from Busselton. Last evening he was minding cattle six miles out, and has not returned. The horse he was riding was found without a bridle. Natives ...

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  50. A NEW ZEALAND MESSAGE.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--The cablegram to Madame Dreyfus was signed by every member of the House except Messrs. Seddon, Russell Rolleston, Cadman, and Hall-jones. ...

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  51. SYMPATHY FROM TASMANIA.

    LAUNCESTON, Thursday.--All influential meeting of ladies of the city to-day decided to cable Mine. Dreyfus, through M. Laborl, the sympathy of Tasmanian women in her trouble. ...

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  52. MR. T. H. HASSALL.

    The new Minister for Lands, Mr. Thomas Henry Hassall, is 55 years of age, and is a native of Leicestershire, a noted hunting county. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School. ...

    Article : 236 words
  53. R.M.S. ROME AT ALBANY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 words
  54. MR. E. W. O'SULLIVAN.

    Mr. Edward William O'Sullivan, member for Queanbeyan, who takes the portfolio of Works, was born in Tasmania, and is in his 47th year. After serving at the printing trade, he became ...

    Article : 196 words
  55. TASMANIA.

    The Chamber of Commerce has resolved to take steps to establish a better steamer service between Launceston and Sydney, also to apply to the Government for £5000 for further testing the ...

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  56. THE SOUTHERN COAL TRADE.

    WOLLONGONG, Thursday. -- Mount Kembla miners' lodge has decided to give notice of the following motion for consideration by the district: --"That the time has arrived for the miners of ...

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  57. THE WRECK OF THE TEKOA.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--The New Zealand Shipping Company has been advised that the steamer Tokoa is to be repaired temporarily at the Falkland Inlands, and then taken to Monte ...

    Article : 36 words
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