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  2. CHINA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The story of it serious affray between German and British Indian troops is to hand from North China. It appears Unit an Indian sentry at ...

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  3. PERSONAL.

    Our London correspondent says that Rear-Admiral Sir Lewis A. Beaumont, Commander-in-Chief of the Squadron on the Australian station, will become a Vice-Adinlral early in 1902. ...

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  4. INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The New South Wales Industrial Arbitration Bill has attracted considerable attention in England. All the British newspapers agree that the ...

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  5. A SOUTH AFRICAN BLOCK-HOUSE.

    Block-houses are now playing an important part in the South African war. They are of various styles, according to the building material available in different districts. The one shown in the sketch is a much different design to those we Illustrated some time ago. It Is known as the "Eastern Defence Block-house," situate near the Tandermerwe ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--No less than 310 petitions, containing a total of 166,793 signatures, have been presented to the German Reichstag concerning the ...

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  7. SECOND EDITION.

    After our first edition was published the Legislative Assembly transacted the following business:-- MANLY WATER SUPPLY AND ...

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  8. VICTORIA'S NEW GOVERNOR.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The ceremony attending the landing to-day Of Victoria's new Governor, Sir George Sydenham Clarke, can be best compared with the reception in this city ...

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  9. HOLLAND'S CONCENTRATION SCHEME.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--A movement was recently started in Holland in favor of settling Boer women aud children in specially-selected concentration camps in ...

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  10. MURDERED MISSIONARIES.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The Chinese Government have agreed to pay an indemnity of £680,000 [?] on account of the Italian missionaries murdered and ...

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  11. EDUCATION IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--It is reported that the Scottish-American multi-millionaire, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, has arranged to supply 10,000,000 dollars (£2,000,000) to establish a University ...

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  12. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--In the Legislative Assembly to-night the Minister for Railways, in response to a question, said that contracts had been entered into by the Railway Department ...

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  13. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    At a special meeting of the City Council this afternoon a motion was carried, setting out that the council was extremely pleased at the action of the House of Assembly in passing the ...

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  14. THE CROSS RIVER TRIBES.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--It transpires that the Cross River tribes in West Africa, against whom the British are operating, are commanded by Europeans. ...

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  15. PYRMONT BRIDGE.

    The report of the Public Works Committee on "the expediency of carrying out works in extension of the Pyrmont Bridge" was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday. ...

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  16. FRENCH FINANCES.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--M. Caillaux, the French Minister of Finance, yesterday delivered his Budget speech in the Chamber of Deputies. The deficit, amounting to £6,000,000, was ...

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  17. A BOER FLOUR-MILL.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The methods of the Boers to keep the commandos in the field supplied with food are many and devious. ...

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  18. PERSIAN GULF TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The British warships Fox and Plassy have been ordered to Koweit, the port In the Persian Gulf where trouble with Turkey is probable. ...

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  19. BOYCOTT OF BRITISH SHIPPING.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Amsterdam dockers have abandoned the organisation of a European boycott, of British shipping, owing to the slight support which the ...

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  20. THE PLAGUE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--A million rats have recently been killed in Odessa, with a view to preventing the bubonic plague obtaining a hold in the city. ...

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  21. PROPOSED CHANGE OF RAILWAY GUAGE.

    A large deputation, representing the southeastern trading community, wailed upon the Premier to-day, and requested that the railway guage from Wolseley to Mount Gambler should ...

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  22. FEDERAL NOTES.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Mr. Deakin, on behalf of the Postmaster-General, stated in the House of Representatives to-day that the Commonwealth was not running any special free ...

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  23. THE CRIMES ACT AGAIN.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The Government is prosecuting Mr. Conor O'Kelly, M.P. for the Northern Division of Mayo and two others, under the Crimes Act, for making ...

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  24. ANOTHER LAAGER SURPRISED.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Colonel Holland has surprised Commandant. Brand's laager at Smithfield, capturing six of the enemy. ...

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  25. A PROGRESS REPORT.

    The following particulars regarding the recent case of plague, and precautions against its spread, have been furnished to the Chief Secretary by Dr. Tidswell, Acting Chief Medical ...

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  26. AFTER THE WAR.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Many burghers no longer actively engaged on the Boer side are asking the British Government for employment after the war. ...

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  27. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The House of Assembly was the whole afternoon and during the early part of the evening on the Crown Lands Bill. The particular point under discussion was ...

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  28. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--An Egyptian native has been sentenced to 15 years penal servitude for de-railing a train in which the Sirdar was travelling during the summer. ...

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  29. DR. LEYDS IN PARIS.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Dr. Leyds, the Boer agent on the Continent, is in Paris again, and is renewing the pro-Boer agitation in France. ...

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  30. NEW ZEALAND.

    The finding of the court of inquiry is that the fire on the steamer Waimate originated in the flax which had been taken in as cargo. The court also found that every possible effort was ...

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  31. KANAKAS IN THE CANE-BRAKE.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Mr. Barton yesterday perused the letter sent by the Premier of Queensland, Mr. Philp, dated 3rd December, in reply to the Prime Minister's letter of 12th ...

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  32. BIG CONSIGNMENT OF HORSES.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Eighty thousand horses and mules are leaving New Orleans for the use of the British forces in South Africa. ...

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  33. ACTION BY ASHFIELD.

    At last night's meeting of the Ashfield Council a circular was read from the secretary of the Board of Health with reference to the necessity for taking steps to destroy rats. A sample of ...

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  34. NEWCASTLE.

    The sittings of the Newcastle District Court were continued yesterday before Acting-Judge Harris. Three cases of interest to the ratepayers of the ...

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  35. NATAL TROOPS NOTIFIED.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The Natal Border Mounted Rifles have been notified to be ready for active service at any moment. ...

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  36. VICTORIA.

    The R.M.S. Ortona, which sailed homewards to-day, took away £6000 in gold from Melbourne. Her butter shipments totalled 443 tons to London. ...

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  37. VOLUNTEER MILITIA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Several British militia regiments have volunteered for active service in South Africa, and will embark shortly. ...

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  38. DUELLING IN GERMANY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Kaiser has threatened to expel the sons of Generals Von Gossler and Kessel from the German army if they disregard his orders against duelling. ...

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  39. EXPORT OF BUTTER.

    Orders for butter for South Africa are coming in very rapidly, and shipments during the next fortnight to that centre will cover about 200 tons. The Ortona took 850 carcases lamb and 199 ...

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  40. AN ENTERIC FEVER VICTIM.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Private R. A. Watson, of the 5th Victorian Mounteds, has died of enteric fever at Middleburg. ...

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  41. SUPPLIES FROM VICTORIA.

    Mr. See, replying in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon to a question asked by Mr. Quinn, said lie had noticed the statement of the Victorian Minister for Agriculture that the War ...

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  42. THE BENDIGO MURDER.

    The inquest concerning the death of Andrew Jones, tho victim of the Bendigo tragedy, was opened to-day. Dr. Gaffney, who was the first medical man to attend to deceased when he was ...

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  43. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--An error in transmission occurred in the previous Kalgurli return. The figures are 1505 tons for 1896oz., and the yield is the best ever recorded by the mine. ...

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  44. CASUALTIES.

    A groom, named Charles Charman (36), residing at 74 Vine-street, Redfern, was kicked in the abdomen by a horse last night, and seriously injured. He was taken to the Prince Alfred ...

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  45. THE HORSHAM STABBING CASE.

    A young man, John Sloane, who recently at Horsham seriously wounded with a knife Miss Emma Mansfield, music teacher, was to-day charged with attempting murder. Counsel for ...

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  46. THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.

    Several members of each team for next Friday's match at the Sydney Cricket Ground put in good serviceable practice yesterday afternoon. MacLuren himself was an absentee, having gone to ...

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  47. WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD.

    At yesterday's mooting of the Newcastle water Supply and Sewerage Board the tenders of W. C. Hawkins and Mrs. Eliza Porter for cartage during 1902 were accepted. J. Ralston offered ...

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  48. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN POLITICS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Austrian Premier, Dr. Von Koerber, has threatened to suspend the Constitution and dissolve the Reichsrath unless the Budget proposals are passed. ...

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  49. AN UNKNOWN WOMAN'S DEATH.

    The City Coroner was informed yesterday of the death of an unknown woman, which took place in the Sydney Hospital shortly after midnight on Monday. She was taken to the hospital from ...

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  50. THE FOLLOW-ON RULE.

    At a meeting of the Victorian Cricket Association to-night it was decided, on the motion of Mr. Worrall, to write to the New South Wales and the South Australian cricket associations, ...

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  51. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The ticket-of-leave system has still a firm hold in West Australia. During tho past two days one man has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for being out after 10 o'clock at ...

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  52. THE ANTI-GERMAN AGITATION.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Thousands of Poles of all classes recently participated in an anti-German demonstration outside the German Consulate in Lemberg, Galicia. ...

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  53. FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD.

    Henry Weekes (32), laborer, of Wyndhamstreet, Alexandria, fell a distance of about 30ft. from a scaffold, at the Wholesale Co-operative Society's new buildings, Alexandria, yesterday. ...

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  54. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

    The ship Norwood sailed for Port Elizabeth yesterday with 2404 tons of Burwood coal, after being detained in port for nearly a fortnight waiting for a clew. Seamen are now so scarce ...

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  55. A BOLT IN PITT-STREET.

    A horse attached to a cab driven by Arthur Bradford, of Pitt-street, Redfern, relieved itself of its winkers yesterday, and bolted down Pittstreet. The cab collided with the verandah of ...

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  56. SERIOUS BUGGY ACCIDENT.

    MOUNT VICTORIA, Tuesday.--The Mount Victoria pass was the scene of what might have been a very serious accident last evening. Mrs. and Master Otter, Miss Loech, and ...

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  57. FIRE IN A MUSIC STUDIO.

    At about half-past 5 last evening a fire broke out in a music studio occupied by Mr. Josef Kretchmann, in Ash-street, city, at the rear of Paling's-buildings. Several fire brigades turned ...

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  58. A VICTORY FOR THE CARPENTERS.

    After protracted deliberation the Board of Conciliation has at length given its decision in connection with the carpenters' strike. The dispute affected the unions both at Perth and ...

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  59. GREATER SYDNEY.

    The draft scheme put forward by the Metropolitan Municipal Reform Conference for a Greater Sydney was discussed at length by the St. Peters Council at its meeting on Monday night. It was ...

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  60. QUEENSLAND.

    The Government has arranged, subject to the approval of Parliament, for the purchase of the Mount Russell estate, in the Jondaryan district, for settlement purposes. It comprises 45,000 ...

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  61. ASHFIELD WATER SUPPLY.

    The Ashfield council clerk, under instructions from the aldermen, recently drew the attention of the Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage to the fact thai the water supply to ...

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  62. BANK OF LIVERPOOL FRAUDS.

    LONDON. Tuesday.--In connection with the proceedings against the Bank of Liverpool, robbers, the prosecution allege that his confederates systematically plundered the bookkeeper, ...

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  63. CABLE RESTORED.

    The Postmaster-General has received the following communication:-- "Foochow-Shanghai cable restored." ...

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