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  2. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Friday.--For the first time since his recent return from South Africa, Mr. J. Chamberlain (Secretary of State for the Colonies) spoke last night in the House ...

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  3. NOTES OF THE DAY.

    The days of ecclesiastical boss-ship in the politics of this country are happily at an end, but although the great "odium theologicum" gun has been spiked there is another weapon in the ...

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  4. PERSONAL.

    The Federal Prime Minister and Sir Joseph Ward (Postmaster-General of New Zealand) will leave Sydney to-day by the steamer Kasuga Maru for Melbourne. Sir Edmund will return ...

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  5. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MILLER'S POINT.

    Early last evening a fire broke out in the substantial block of buildings in Argyle-street known as Hentsch's Bond. Four hours later a ragged outline of charred and blackened bricks enclosing ...

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  6. SECOND EDITION.

    At 2 o'clock this morning Superintendent Webb was decidedly of opinion that although there was still an immense internal body of fire in Hentsch's bonded stores, there was no further ...

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  7. PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT.

    LONDON, Friday.--The intercolonial conference now sitting at Bloemfontein has practically decided in favor of a preferential Customs reduction of 25 per cent. upon ...

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  8. INDIGNANT BOER LEADERS.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Boer leaders, indignantly repel recent insinuations that they will not keep faith with the Government. ...

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  9. THE WAR COMMISSION.

    LONDON, Friday.--Major-General R. S. S. Baden-Powell has given evidence before the War Commission, presided over by Lord Elgin, with regard to the siege of ...

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  10. SOUTHWARK MURDER CASE.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Southwark publican, Klosowski, alias Chapman, has been found guilty of murder, and sentenced to be hanged for the murder by poison of the three women Marsh, ...

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  11. PRICE OF SILVER.

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  12. NEW SOUTH WALES TREASURY BILLS.

    LONDON, Friday.--The "Standard" states this morning that the New South Wales Treasury bills for £600,000 in 4 per cents., at par, have been placed, the price yielding ...

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  13. THE OUTBREAK MASTERED.

    Towards 11 o'clock the flames at the northwestern end of the building, where the fire burned fiercest, began to die away, and the immense volume of water poured in by the firemen. ...

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  14. THE CUBAN TREATY.

    LONDON, Friday.--The United States Senate has, by 50 votes to 16, ratified the Cuban treaty, with a proviso precluding any further reduction of the sugar duty for a period of five years. ...

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  15. VENEZUELA.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--It is reported at New York that a Caracas syndicate is arranging to pay the claims against the Venezuelan Government, with reference ...

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  16. GERMANY AND THE BALKANS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Speaking yesterday in the Reichstag, the German Chancellor (Count von Bulow) stated that Germany was co-operating with the other Powers for the maintenance of ...

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  17. THE IMPERIAL BUDGET.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. C. T. Ritchie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced that he will deliver his budget speech after the approaching Easter recess. ...

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  18. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Swiss tariff, which is avowedly a weapon with which to fight the German tariff, has been sanctioned by the people on a referendum by 326,600 votes to ...

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  19. INSULTING A QUEEN.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--King Alexander of Servia has ordered four officers, including the ex-Minister for War, to challenge Professor Bovis Laogevics to a duel to the death, for ...

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  20. THE LAST TO LEAVE THE PREMISES.

    Messrs. L. Oswell and William Fowler were the proprietors of the bond. Mr. Oswell first heard of the fire when he arrived at Circular Quay on his way to the city. Jumping into a ...

    Article : 402 words
  21. STILL THE LABOR DIFFICULTY.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, said that in some cases the natives of the Crown colonies in ...

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  22. THE OROTAVA.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Orient-Pacific liner Orotava, which collided with the ship Netherby near Gibraltar, has proceeded to Marseilles. ...

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  23. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

    LONDON, Friday.--Samuel Herbert Dougal, 45 years of ago, and an army pensioner, has been charged at Saffron Walden with forging a cheque and embezzling moneys, the property of a Miss ...

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  24. A TASMANIAN WIDOW IN COURT.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Mrs. Marian Catherine, Perrett, a Tasmanian, and widow of Mr. Richard Perrett, was charged at the Guild-hall yesterday with threatening to shoot a ...

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  25. ROYAL VISIT TO INDIA.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--It is expected that the Prince and Princess of Wales will visit India in October. ...

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  26. PROGRESS OF THE FIRE.

    The fire raged most fiercely at the north-east corner of the building-that fronting Kent and Windmill streets--so Superintendent Webb stationed half a dozen hoses at that spot. A ...

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  27. ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER.

    LONDON, Friday.--The steamer Niwaru, of the Tyser line, homeward bound from New Zealand ports, grounded at Las Palmas, the largest town on the Canary group. ...

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  28. THE PANAMA CANAL.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Mr. G. W. Smalley, "The Times" correspondent at New York, states that Great Britain's abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty has largely helped ...

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  29. ASSISTED IMMIGRATION.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Cape Government has arranged for free passages for 100 Italian families, guaranteeing them employment at a certain wage upon arrival ...

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  30. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    At the Kalgoorlie Circuit Court yesterday a blackfellow named Wingella, otherwise known as "Butcher's Paddy," was charged with having murdered another native, named Geling, at the ...

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  31. THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Sultan of Morocco states that he purchased an estate at Bangor because that place is near Sandringham. ...

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  32. ESCAPE OF THE TENANTS.

    The tenants of the two dwellings damaged by the falling wall had ample warning. In the cottage adjoining the burning building lived Mrs. Hurley, with her son and daughter. They ...

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  33. GERMANY'S EXPENSES IN CHINA.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Reichstag has reduced the vote for the German military expenses in China by 3,000,000 marks. ...

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  34. SOUTHERN COAL TRADE.

    WOLLONGONG, Friday.--The coal trade of the district line been brisk during the week, all of the collieries having worked well. Loading operations at this port were confined to supplying ...

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  35. WHAT THE BOND WANTS.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Dr. L. Jameson, speaking at Capetown yesterday, declared that the ideal of the Afrikander Bond was that the British should be allowed ...

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  36. A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY.

    William Bannerman Kennedy was arraigned at the Circuit Court this morning on a charge of having wilfully murdered Alfred Sly in the Australia Hotel bar, Kalgoorlie, on January 24. ...

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  37. MR. WHITAKER WRIGHT.

    LONDON, Friday.--Mr. Whitaker Wright, who is under arrest in New York in connection with the alleged London and Globe Finance frauds, and who is suffering from an attack of ...

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  38. THE BOMBAH RUMORS.

    LONDON, Friday.--Great Britain has contradicted the rumors that she had occupied, or was about to occupy, the island of Bombah, off the coast of Tripoli. ...

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  39. WESTERN AND IRON WORKS.

    LITHGOW, Friday.--The coal trade still remains dull, and troubles brought about by the drought are affecting this industry in some degree. The new coal hopper at Hermitage ...

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  40. THE LITHGOW IRON INDUSTRY.

    LITHGOW, Friday.--Mr. W. Sand ford, of the Eskbank Ironworks, has left for England, and will thence proceed to Canada. He expects to return to New South Wales in about four months, ...

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  41. THE PAUMOTU DISASTER.

    AUCKLAND, Friday.--News from Tahiti, brought by the steamer Ovalau, shows that it has been ascertained that 509 lives were lost in the late tidal wave at Paumoiu. ...

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  42. THE NORTH WALL FALLS.

    At half-past 9 the higher portion of the front facade, which had canted dangerously to the from, began to sway and totter backwards and forwards, and then, with a mighty crash, gave a ...

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  43. RACING IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Friday.--At the Gatwick meeting yesterday the race for the Brook Hurdles was won by Seahorse II., with Kentish Glory second and Kenny Thorpe third. ...

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  44. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 words
  45. THE TRANSVAAL'S PORT.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--At the railway conference held between representatives of the South African colonics, Natal protested against preference being shown to ...

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  46. THE ALARM GIVEN.

    An employee named Blair Browne, living at 12 Kent-street, discovered the fire about 7 o'clock, reflection of flames on one of the upper windows attracting his attention. He immediately ...

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  47. A STATUE OF BURNS.

    LONDON, Friday.--The statue of the poet, Robert Burns, which has been executed to the order of the Melbourne Caledonian Society by Mr. Lawson, the sculptor, being a duplicate of the ...

    Article : 46 words
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