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  2. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The capture of Albert's commando of 131 men was due to a night march, and the pom-pom and rifle firing causing the horses of the Boers to ...

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  3. RETURN OF MR. REID.

    Mr. G. H. Reld returned to Sydney on Saturday morning. Discussing Federal politics with a representative of this paper, he said that as time went on ...

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  4. CHINA.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Great Britain and Japan are strenuously combating the contention of M. Lessar, the Russian Minister at Pekin, that the Manchnrinn ...

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  5. A VETERAN ARTIST.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Ex-President Kruger is reported as being calm and hopeful. He states that the Boer leaders and generals will not solicit peace, and ...

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  7. AMERICA WITH BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The United States Government is firmly supporting Great Britain and Japan in favor of an open-door policy for Manchuria. ...

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  8. THE KING'S FIRST LEVEE.

    LONDON, Friday Evening.--The Agents-General have been granted the right of private entree to the King's first levee. ...

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  9. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Private J. Dure, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, has been accidentally severely wounded in the thigh. It is believed that Corporal T. Flint ...

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  10. THE HERMIT OF LATHRISK.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--An insurance agent has been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment at Linburgh for forging a will purporting to be that of Johnston, the hermit and ...

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  11. PRO-BRITISH DEMONSTRATION.

    The arrangements made by the Australian Natives' Association for to-night's pro-British demonstration are of a most complete character, and the meeting gives promise of being one of ...

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  12. NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT.

    WELLINGTON, Sunday.--The Southern Division of the Eighth Contingent sailed yesterday in the transport Cornwall. At the send-off Lord Ranfurly said that though ...

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  13. CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS IN GERMANY.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Kaiser has ordered the police to suppress the meetings of the Christian Scientists. ...

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  14. DEATH OF MR. T. SIDNEY COOPER.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The death is announced of Mr. T. Sidney Cooper, R.A. T. Sidney Cooper, artist, was horn at Canterbury in 1803. He is the oldest of the Royal ...

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  15. BOERS HAVE CONFIDENCE IN KRUGER.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Two Boer officers named Servage and Locks, who, it is reported, have been sent as envoys to ex-President Kruger, have been interviewed at ...

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  16. THE ARMY MEAT CONTRACT.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Captain Piric, the member for Aberdeen, in the House of Commons, asked whether Mr. Bergl's contract for the supply of meat to the army had been ...

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  17. GERMANY AND POLAND.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--German health resorts are suffering from a Polish boycott. Visitors from Galicia (Austrian Poland) are going elsewhere. ...

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  18. PEACE PROPOSALS.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Mr. Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that Lord Milner, the High Commissioner for South Africa, would be associated ...

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  19. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The Board of Trade returns for January show that the imports increased by £4,143,832, while the exports decreased by £498,057. The decrease is ...

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  20. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN UNITS.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The country members chosen for the Second Commonwealth Contingent will reach Adelaide to-morrow, and will go into camp. ...

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  21. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. P. B. Burgoyne, the head of the firm of P. B. Burgoyne and Co., London, wine merchants, arrived by the Bremen to-day, accompanied by his son, Mr. A. H. Burgoyne, and family. Mr. ...

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  22. THE PLAGUE.

    On Saturday morning the State Premier received the following communication from Dr. Tidswell:-- "I have the honor to report that a further ...

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  23. MORE BRITISH CAPTURES.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The protest of. Mr. Andres Cronje against the prolongation of the war, and announcing the formation of burgher corps, has annoyed ...

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  24. THE LABOR LEAGUE AND THE WAR.

    At the adjourned annual meeting of the N.S.W. Typographical Association on Saturday night, the pro-Boer resolutions carried at the recent Political Labor League Conference were ...

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  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The sinking of the Colombian steamer Libertador by a Venezuelan gunboat is denied. ...

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  26. EAST DOWN ELECTION.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Mr. Wood, the successful candidate in the East Down by-election, owes his success to the Nationalist vote. ...

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  27. ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A poll of ratepayers in the city and suburban municipalities yesterday decided by an overwhelming majority in favor of the adoption of the Electric Tramways Act, which ...

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  28. VICTORIA.

    The position of affairs in connection with the strike of bricklayers underwent no change on Saturday. The number of names recorded on the strikers' roll remains at 29. The Minister ...

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  29. ATTEMPT TO FIRE A COLLIERY.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The force under Colonel Wing has, in an engagement at Brugspruit, killed three Boers and captured thirteen. ...

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  30. CONDEMNED BY THE TRAMWAY SERVICE ASSOCIATION.

    The No. 1 Sydney branch of the N.S.W. Railway and Tramway Service Association, at the monthly meeting, received reports from the delegates to the Political Labor League ...

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  31. MISUSE OF THE FRENCH FLAG.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Arab dhows in the Persian Gulf are flying the French flag to cover the slave trade. ...

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  32. THE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The steamer Kansas, a cattle-boat, running between Boston and Liverpool, landed 18 cattlemen and sailors suffering from smallpox. ...

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  33. THE RICHMOND TRAGEDY.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The death of Edwin Latham at Richmond on the 1st inst. is still a mystery. The difficulty met with at every stage of the investigation is that many of the ...

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  34. INVALIDED HOME.

    A detachment of colonial troops invalided home, reached this port on Saturday by the s.s. Oonah from Hobart. They left Capetown by tho s.s. Karamea on January 14. and transhipped ...

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  35. ITALIANS EXCLUDED.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Among the passengers by the Bremen are 31 Italians, booked for Sydney. Six of them wished to land here. They had been refused permission to land at Fremantle. the ...

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  36. DANISH WEST INDIES.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The inhabitants of the Danish West Indies have been allowed two years to declare their allegiance to America. ...

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  37. COMMANDANT MARAIS A PRISONER.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--A scout has captured Commandant Marais near Laingsburg. ...

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  38. THE KOWEYT TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--A descendant of the Wahabi rulers has been captured in a raid upon the capital of the Nejd tribes, whose Ameer, Ibn Rashid, has withdrawn to a locality ...

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  39. NORTH SYDNEY "CLEAN."

    In view of the appearance of the plague in the neighborhood of Rushcutter's Bay, Alderman Purves suggested, at the last meeting of the North Sydney Council, that the municipal ...

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  40. WEST AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    PERTH, Friday.--In the Legislative Assembly to-night the Premier informed Mr. Hastie that in all probability a Royal Commission would be appointed to arrange a scheme of re-distribution ...

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  41. AUSTRALASIAN SOLDIERS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Lieutenant George Augustus Morris, of the Sixth West Australian Mounted Rifles, was killed at Rolspruit. Private A. Daley, Third New South ...

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  42. TRAINS ON FIRE.

    Trouble is perennial on the Victorian railways. Last week an engine caught fire and disorganised the suburban service for nearly an hour. Two more engines have caught lire, one at Seymour ...

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  43. A NEW FRENCH CRUISER.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--France has ordered a first-class armored cruiser, which is larger than any now in her navy. It will cost £1,000,000. ...

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  44. ACCIDENT TO AN ENGINE.

    A strange railway accident occurred at Bealiba yesterday. The engine attached to a goods train parted from the tender, owing to the kingbolt, which had worn away, breaking. The fireman ...

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  45. NEW CLERK FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Sir Courtenay Peregrine Hbert, K.C.S.I., Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury, has been appointed Clerk of the House of Commons. ...

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  46. THE CITY COUNCIL ACTIVE.

    The city health officer (Dr. W. G. Armstrong) on Saturday reported to the Mayor (Alderman T. Hughes) that he bad visited and inspected both places where Friday's outbreak of plague had ...

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  47. COMMONWEALTH CONTINGENTS.

    The 1st Battalion, Australian Contingent, is now practically ready to start for South Africa-- that is, so far as equipment and mounts are concerned.' As a matter of fact, however, the ...

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  48. A YARRA MYSTERY.

    There was no fresh developments in the mystery surrounding the finding of the body of a child in the Yarra, which is alleged to have belonged to a young couple named Stowers. The ...

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  49. SIR HARRY RAWSON.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, the new Governor of New South Wales, will be the principal guest at the Colonial Club dinner on the 20th inst. ...

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  50. CUT TO PIECES BY A TRAIN.

    Late on Friday night James M'Grath, a horse trainer, fell in front of an engine at Flinders-street station, and was cut to pieces. He was 36 years of age, married, and in comfortable ...

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  51. A WARSHIP ASHORE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The British twin-screw cruiser Amphitrite, 11,000 tons, is ashore in Suez Bay. ...

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  52. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEDURE.

    LONDON. Saturday Afternoon.--Sir H. Campbell-Banuorman's amendment to submit the new procedure proposals of the Government to a select committee for report was negatived in ...

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  53. LATE SPORTING.

    {No abstract available}

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  54. A STEAMER IN DISTRESS.

    TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.--The steamer which was reported in distress has proved to be the Albany. Her machinery, broke down between Capes Bowling Green and Cleveland. The ...

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  55. THE SUGAR DUTIES.

    BRISBANE, Saturday.--Mr. Philp, the Premier, referring to the discussion in the Federal Parliament, said he had hoped that the bonus of 6s per ton on cane would have been made from the first. ...

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  56. NORTH MOUNT LYELL COMPANY.

    LONDON. Sunday.--The North Mount Lyell Copper Company is issuing 100,000 reserved shares at par. These will first be offered to present shareholders in the proportion of one ...

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  57. BRITON AND BOER.

    Sergeant-Major George Heffernan, who returned with the troops by the Oonah on Saturday evening, and who served with Carrington's Bushmen in south Africa, has been a keen ...

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  58. QUEENSLAND.

    The Brisbane Municipal Council met on Saturday for the election of Mayor, After nearly every alderman had been proposed and rejected. Alderman Corrie .was finally elected Mayor. ...

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  59. NIGHTINGALE INSTITUTE.

    The monthly meeting of the committee of the Nightingale Institute was held on Wednesday. Mrs. Waters (vice-president) occupied the chair. Tl". appointment of Miss Scoon to the ...

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    The King, according to the "World." is to be proclaimed Emperor of India at Delhi on January 1, 1903, in the presence of the Viceroy and the Indian princes, and there is a possibility that ...

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  61. THE ARCHDUKE FRANZ IN RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Archduke Franz, the heir-presumptive to the Crown of Austria, who is on a visit to Russia, has been heartily welcomed at St. Petersburg. ...

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