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  2. GERMAN POLITICS.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurt, Chancellor of the German Empire, has introduced a measure into the Reichstag, having for its object the repeal of the Prohibition Act ...

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  3. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- Seven thousand Boers retired through Weencn on Sunday, the 3rd inst., moving westward towards Colenso and Ladysmith. ...

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  4. GENERAL NEWS.

    To-day will be a great day at the Town-hall. [At noon the Mayor for the ensuing year will be elected. The retiring Mayor, who has been chief magistrate in the city for two successive ...

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  5. THE CITY RAILWAY.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Minister for Works gave notice of the following motion for consideration on Tuesday next: -- "That it is expedient that the extension of the railway ...

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  6. THE WARSHIPS.

    Owing to the approach of the hurricane season at the Islands, H.M.S. Torch has been ordered to return to Sydney from Samoa. She is expected to arrive about the end of the year. The ...

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  7. OUR CAPE LETTER.

    ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The following letter from "The Daffy Telegraph" Cape correspondent reached Adelaide by the steamer Warrigal this morning: -- ...

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  8. A COASTAL CATASTROPHE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- A terrible fatality has occurred off the town of Alderburgh, on the coast of Suffolk. A lifeboat, manned by a crew of 18, capsized ...

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  9. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The R.M.S. Austral, of the Orient line, is expected to arrive here about noon to-day from London. She passed outward at Wilson's Promontory at 8.35.a.m. yesterday. The Austral will ...

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  10. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The trade and navigation returns compiled by the British Board of Trade Indicate a highly satisfactory expansion in the oversea shipping of the United Kingdom for the ...

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  11. IN NORTH GAPE COLONY.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The Boers are present in great force at Aliwal North, on the Orange River frontier, where it is anticipated that they will vigorously ...

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  12. REFORMING THE CITY COUNCIL.

    Alderman Jessep, M.P., is going to reform the they Council all by himself. He intends to sweep and cleanse the house as an insider from within, and not allow outside busybodies and meddlers ...

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  13. PARLIAMENTARY BYE-ELECTION.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Mr. Duckenson, a Conservative, has been elected unopposed for Wells Division, Somersetshire, at the Parliamentary bye- election to fill the vacancy caused by the ...

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  14. THE COMING BATTLE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Lieutenant-General Sir O. F. Clery's advance guard has come into collision with the enemy a few miles south of Colenso. ...

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  15. ANOTHER "ANNEXATION."

    LONDON, Friday. -- The Boers have wrecked the Indwe Coalfields railway line, and "annexed" the Dordrecht district of Cape Colony to the Orange Free State. ...

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  16. FRENCH ATTACKS ON THE QUEEN.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- A number of caricatures of her Majesty the Queen have been seized at Paris. ...

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  17. THE SOUDAN.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The Government of Egypt has granted the Governor-General of the Soudan (Lord Kitchener) £10,000 for the purpose of cutting a passage through the Sudd ...

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  18. PRETORIA MINT.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- Latest news from Pretoria is to the effect that the Boers are coining £100,000 worth of gold monthly. This quantity is won from the ...

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  19. LADYSMITH GARRISON.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The Gordon Highlanders at Ladysmith celebrated St. Andrew's Day (November 30). The garrison is in such good humor that ...

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  20. FROZEN MEAT FOR THE ENGLISH MARKET.

    The steamer Star of Australia left Sydney yesterday with a shipment of frozen meat for the English market, including 8605 carcases mutton, 2517 carcases lamb, and 1149 pairs of legs of ...

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  21. PROPOSED NEW LAW COURTS.

    Strong representations have been made to the Government about the insanitary condition of the court buildings in Chancery-square. It has already been found necessary to remove the offices ...

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  22. THE CAPE VOLUNTEERS.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Ten thousand Gape Volunteers are now in the held under the command of General Sir F. Forestier-Walker, who has charge of the British line of ...

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  23. COMMENTS BY THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER.

    In view of the comments which have been made as to the attitude of the Railway Commissioners on the proposed new station at Devonshire-street, the Chief Commissioner was yesterday asked if ...

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  24. LATEST FROM LADYSMITH.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Lieutenant-General Sir George S. White reported Ladysmith garrison "all safe" on Tuesday, the 5th Inst. General White further reports that the ...

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  25. PREPARING FOR WAR

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- It now transpires that Commandant-General Joubert had Natal surveyed from the Boer frontier to Maritzburg last spring. ...

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  26. THE NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS.

    Messrs. Dalgety and Co. yesterday received a cable announcing that the White Star steamer Aberdeen, with the New South Wales troops on board, arrived safely at Port Elizabeth on the 3rd ...

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  27. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES MITCHELL.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The death is announced of Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell, G.C.M.G., British High Commissioner in tho Federated States of the Malay Peninsula, at the age of ...

    Article : 167 words
  28. THE FULL COURT.

    At yesterday's sitting of the Full Court three gentlemen -- Messrs. James Scott, M.A., Hugh Baron Bignold, and Thomas Arkins -- were admitted to the Bar of this colony. The remaining ...

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  29. WAR NOTES.

    Lord Wolseley has had something to say as to the proportion of officers killed in this Boer war. The General said the fact that officers were so often wounded and killed gave him no cause for ...

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  30. HIGH TREASON IN NATAL.

    LONDON, Friday. -- A well-known member of the Natal House of Assembly, named Pretorius, has been arrested on a charge of high treason. It is known that ...

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  31. OPENING OF THE GEORGE-STREET TRAMWAY.

    Without demonstration of any kind, the much-delayed George-street electric tramway was yesterday opened for traffic. The cars ran every minute or two, and were most liberally ...

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  32. DR. ELLIOTT SMITH.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Dr. Grafton Elliott Smith, formerly of Sydney, has been appointed demonstrator of anatomy at Cambridge University for a period of five years. ...

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  33. ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The Boers have annexed Griquatown, a small township west of Kimberley, formerly the most important centre in the territory of ...

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  34. TO-DAY.

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  35. THE MONKEYS OF AMBER.

    Mrs. Clam Erskine Clement describes in the November "St. Nicholas" a visit to the ancient city of Amber, in India, which is inhabited only by a fow priests and thousands of monkeys. ...

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  36. GENERAL BULLER'S LITERATURE.

    Sir Redvers Buffer is a great lover of conversation, especially with intimates and men of his own cloth. There was a characteristic Instance of this the other day, which was mentioned in ...

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  37. RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The Boors are massing in force upon the heights of Spytfoutein, 10 miles south of Kimberley, and 13 miles from Lieutenant-General ...

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  38. SUNDAY SERVICES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 words
  39. THE WEATHER.

    A moist, steamy heat pervaded the city yesterday, and everyone was wiping a streaming brow and trying to find out when a southerly change fell due. The temperature at the Observatory ...

    Article : 319 words
  40. THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    YASS, Friday. -- The various sectional committees in connection with the Yass Federal City League have finished their work, and submit an area of 12 miles by 12, from Bowning-hill on one ...

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  41. BOERS AT SPYTFONTEIN.

    LONDON, Friday. -- President M, T. Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has arrived at Spytfontein, where he was received with enthusiasm by the large body of Boer troops ...

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