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  2. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--General Sir Redvers H. Buller, Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces in South Africa, has warmly complimented the colonial forces in ...

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  3. THE NEW LORD MAYOR.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Owing to remarks made by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Charles Russell of Killowen, on the occasion of the swearing in of Alderman ...

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  4. THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    The Rev. Alexander Gillies, missionary on tho Island o£ Tanna, New Hebrides group, arrived in Sydney yesterday by the s.s. Victoria, and was interviewed last night by a representative of "The ...

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  5. PERSONAL.

    Mr. William Price, for many years identified with the firm of Henry Bull and Co. (originally Bull, Price, and Co.), died at his residence, "Cotswold," Strathfield, on Saturday morning at ...

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  6. A STEAMER DELAYED BY A DUST STORM.

    The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Aramac, which arrived yesterday from Queensland ports, had a pocullar experience on the passage down the coast. After leaving Brisbane, and when ...

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  7. SHIPMENT OF BULLION.

    The R.M.S. Britannia, which left Sydney on Saturday for London, took 13 bars dore bullion, value £26,951, shipped by the Smelting Company of Australia, and tour bars of New Zealand ...

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  8. STEAMER ADELAIDE APPARENTLY IN TROUBLE.

    A telegram received from tho Clarence Heads signal station last evening stated:--"Steamer Adelaide stopped off the bar at 4 p.m., with head off the land, drifting south." The Adelaide is ...

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  9. SUPPOSED DISABLED STEAMER.

    A steamer, supposed to be the Darius, was reported to be in a disabled condition oft Gabo Island at 8.40 a.m. on Saturday. A message transmitted from that station at 2.27 p.m. read ...

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  10. DEATH OF MR. W. B. MITCHELL.

    On Saturday afternoon Mr. William B. Mitchell, one of the best-known commercial men in Sydney, died suddenly at his residence, "Carthona," Darling Point. Although for some ...

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  11. THE HOLLAND TORPEDO.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The American Naval Board eulogises the submarine torpedo-boat Holland, and its inventor, who gave his name to the boat. ...

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  12. GENERAL JOUBERT'S FATE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--There is indirect evidence that Commandant-General Joubert is alive, but possibly wounded. LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--It is ...

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  13. LAWS OF CRICKET.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club has recommended several alterations in the rules of cricket. It has decided in favor of increasing the number ...

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  14. THE POSITION IN NATAL.

    LONDON, Sunday. -- The Boers explain that the explosion heard from the direction of Ladysmith on Thursday, the 16th inst., was the noise of the destruction by them of ...

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  15. COLONEL KEITH-FALCONER.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Later accounts in connection with the death of Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Keith-Falconer, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, during a skirmish ...

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  16. INSULTING PRESIDENT LOUBET.

    LONDON,. Sunday.--A scene occurred in the French Senate, sitting as a High Court of Justice for the trial of Messrs. Paul Deroulede, Marcel Habet, and Max Regis, charged with ...

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  17. THE WAR RELIEF FUNDS.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- The movement to augment tho War Relief Funds, one of which has been established, for the assistance of the families of British soldiers ...

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  18. MAIL NEWS.

    MARITZBURG, October 24.--The following official communication has been forwarded by the D.A.A.G., Ladysmith, to the Military Secretary at Government House:--"The following ...

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  19. THE VENEZUELAN ARBITRATION.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--In recognition of their services in connection with the into Venezuelan arbitration, Sir Edward Richard Webster, K.B., Q.C., has been made a baronet, while the ...

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  20. OUR SKELETON ARMY.

    Enormous significance attaches to the mobilisation of reserves. It is in the first place an actual test of our military machinery, for which we have long waited, on a sufficient scale, and ...

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  21. QUEENSLAND.

    In the action for alleged libel, ex-Detective Grimshaw v. the "Wide Bay News," claim of £1000, a verdict was given tor defendant, with costs. ...

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  22. TO-DAY.

    Sydney Cricket Ground: Intercolonial cricket, 12. Manly Industrial and Loan Exhibition:- Afternoon and evening. Brighton Races: First event 2.40. ...

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  23. THE BRITISH PRISONERS.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- It has been officially reported from Pretoria that there are now 1338 British prisoners of all ranks in the hands of the Boers. ...

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  24. ANOTHER BOER ATTACK.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The colonial cavalry repulsed an attack made by 300 Boers at a place eight miles from Estcourt, and about midway between that town and ...

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  25. NOTES ON THE SITUATION.

    Until within the past couple of clays the South African war has apparently dragged its slow length along over a week of interminable dulness, lighted at varying intervals with ...

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  26. THE STEAMER PATRIA.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Later information in regard to the steamer Patria, which was thought to have been safe after her recent sensational experience, reports that whilst she ...

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  27. AN AUSTRALIAN RIFLE TEAM.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A meeting of the Federal Rifle Council was held on Saturday morning, when the question of sending a Federal team to England to compete against England and ...

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  28. TRAITORS IN NATAL.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- Natal Dutchmen living in the neighborhood of Pomeroy, about 20 miles east, of Ladysmith, assisted the invading Boers to loot the town ...

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  29. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The annual report of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company shows a profit of £95,437. The directors have declared a 5 per cent. dividend and carried forward £27,937. ...

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  30. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Maria Ferrond, a widow over 80 years of ago, was burned to death in a shocking manner at her residence in Chapel-street, Norwood, on Saturday. Apparently deceased was carrying a lighted ...

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  31. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

    WELLINGTON, Sunday.--Speaking at Palmerston North, the Premier (Mr. R. Seddon) urged that the bonds be drawn tighter between the colonies and England. Although Samoa had ...

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  32. RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--On the 10th inst. Colonel the Hon. G. H. Gough, Chief of Staff in the Cape command, was within 50 miles of Kimberley, with a strong British ...

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  33. THE RACEHORSE TORNADO.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Australian- bred horse Tornado won twice at this week's mooting at Hawthorne-hill, but was disqualified in each Instance for insufficient description. ...

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  34. COMPANIES' DIVIDENDS.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The British Broken-hill Silver Mining Company, Limited, has declared a dividend of is per share. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation ...

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  35. THE POSITION IN FRANCE.

    The general idea in Franco seems now to be that the country will remain uneasily quiet until next autumn, when the great Exhibition will be over. It is however, doubtful whether the ...

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  36. KALGOORLIE ALLUVIAL TROUBLE.

    KALGOORLIE, Sunday.--Alluvial diggers resumed work at the removal of ore this morning, from the Adeline lead. The men mustered in strong force and nearly a dozen drays began ...

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  37. NEW ZEALAND.

    The next dividend of the Wa[?]hl Gold-mining Company will be at the increased rate of 2s per, share, making the total distributed .£468,500. Captain Russell, leader of the Opposition, is ...

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  38. OTTOSKOPJE DIAMOND MINE

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The enemy attacked the Ottoskopje diamond mine, near Kimberley, in strong force, but were repulsed with great loss by the Britishers. ...

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  39. SUICIDE AT PARKES.

    PARKES, Saturday.--Last night a minor named John Heydon, a foreigner, went to the Royal Hotel, and engaged a bed. He slept the early part of the evening, and at 11 o'clock ...

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  40. OTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLE.

    The special correspondent of the "South African News" telegraphed to Ladysmith on October 22: --"Early on Saturday the Natal Field Artillery, and the Imperial Light Horse, with the ...

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  41. ALIWAL NORTH "ANNEXED."

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Six hundred, of the enemy, are in occupation of the town of Aliwal North, on the Cape Colony side of the Orange River frontier, and near ...

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