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  2. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

    BURRAWANG, Friday. -- Last night a band of roughs on horseback rode through Burrawang, smashing the windows of the bank, new post and telegraph-office, ...

    Article : 147 words
  3. THE VICTORIAN ELECTIONS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 775 words
  4. MEETING OF THE UNEMPLOYED.

    The unemployed held a meeting at the Queen's Statue last night. Several hundred persons were present, though not all unemployed. Mr. O'SULLIVAN, M.P., was asked to ...

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  5. THE IRISH QUESTION.

    London, Friday. -- It is definitely stated to-day that Mr. Gladstone has drafted a scheme for the establishment of Home Rule in Ireland. ...

    Article : 34 words
  6. TOPICS OF THE DAY.

    A correspondent writes: -- "The habit of rapid and cursory reading has its uses and also its disadvantages. As I was glancing through your journal yesterday, I saw an ...

    Article : 1,932 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    London, Thursday. -- The Queensland Quicksilver Company, with a capital of £400,000, formed to work certain land in Queensland, has been ...

    Article : 34 words
  8. (REUTER'S MESSAGE.)

    London, Friday. -- The House of Commons last night negatived a motion of the Right Hon. Hugh Holmes that Parliament is not willing to grant ...

    Article : 57 words
  9. THE POST-CARD SYSTEM.

    London, Friday. -- The question of the establishment of the penny postcard system between England and Australia has been considered by the ...

    Article : 37 words
  10. AN APPEAL CASE.

    London, Friday. -- In the appeal case Adelaide Municipal Council v. White the decision of the Supreme Court of South Australia has been affirmed by ...

    Article : 32 words
  11. REUTER'S MESSAGES.

    Paris, Friday. -- In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, the hill authorising the expulsion of die Buonapartist princes from France was rejected by a large ...

    Article : 35 words
  12. TUMUT A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

    TUMUT, Friday. -- At a meeting of the Agricultural aud Pastoral Association last Wednesday evening for paying the awards won at the late show, it was announced that ...

    Article : 109 words
  13. A LIBEL ACTION.

    London, Friday. -- The action for libel brought by Mr. Bryce, formerly Native Minister in New Zealand, against Mr. G. W. Rusden, at one time Clerk ...

    Article : 82 words
  14. SALE OF AUSTRALIAN WINES.

    London, Friday. -- It has been arranged by the Executive Committee of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition that two bars shall be opened specially for ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. MINING IN QUEENSLAND

    TOWNSVILLE, Friday. -- The Mount Albion claim, on the silver field near Herberton, owned by John Moffatt and Co., was jumped yesterday by James Dodd. The case will be ...

    Article : 67 words
  16. BANK OF ENGLAND.

    London, Thursday. -- The weekly returns of the Bank of England show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 47 per cent. The total reserve in ...

    Article : 35 words
  17. THE DEFAULTER EGREMONT.

    London, Friday. -- Egremont, the building society defaulter, has been brought up and remanded to Adelaide. ...

    Article : 20 words
  18. LIGHTING OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES.

    The Minister for Public Works has written the following minute concerning the lighting of railway carriages: -- "I have heard numerous complaints similar to this one, respecting the ...

    Article : 105 words
  19. THE QUEENSLAND SEPARATION MOVEMENT.

    TOWNSVILLE, Friday. -- A convention of separation delegates will be held at Townsville early in April, when eight northern members of Parliament will take part in the ...

    Article : 33 words
  20. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA.

    London, Thursday. - -The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend at the rale of 15 per cent. per annum, and carries forward and places to the reserve ...

    Article : 33 words
  21. THE WHEAT MARKET.

    London, Friday. -- Wheat is scarce. Australian wheat (February), to arrive, is quoted at 35s. ; off coast, 35s. 6d. to 36s. ...

    Article : 26 words
  22. MINING AT GYMPIE.

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- The Glanmire Company crushed for the fortnight 251 tons of quartz, which yielded 344oz., and since cleaning have obtained 50oz. in specimens. ...

    Article : 96 words
  23. ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. CUZCO.

    ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The Orient Company's R.M.S. Cuzco arrived thin morning at Adelaide. The following is a list of the passengers: -- For Adelaide: Messrs. R. Cooley, W. ...

    Article : 203 words
  24. THE TASMANIAN POLITICAL SITUATION.

    HOBART, Friday. -- Dr. Agnew having made several fruitless efforts to form an administration relinquished his task to-day. He asked Mr. J. S. Dodds and Mr. W. H. ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. YOUTHFUL INSOLVENTS.

    At the Insolvency Court yesterday morning, the Chief Commissioner was led to deplore the number of youthful insolvents now so frequently appearing before him. Yesterday ...

    Article : 148 words
  26. DEATH OF DR. POWER.

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- Dr. Power, well-known in Brisbane and the southern capitals, died at Gympie early this morning. He was a brother of Messrs. Virgil Power, ...

    Article : 79 words
  27. THE SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT PADDINGTON.

    An inquest was initiated by the City Coroner yesterday afternoon at the Tradesmen's Arms Hotel, Oxford-street, Paddington, relative to the death of a man named Charles Stuart Miller, ...

    Article : 1,182 words
  28. WATER FAMINE AT CARCOAR.

    CARCOAR, Friday. -- The effects of the drought are becoming serious in the Carcoar district. The town of Carcoar is almost entirely dependent on two small springs ...

    Article : 101 words
  29. GENERAL SUMMARY.

    LONDON, January 27 (via Suez). -- The debate on the address in the House of Commons was brought to an cad by the adoption, on the 26th inst., of an amendment by Mr. ...

    Article : 851 words
  30. NEW SOUTH WALES EXHIBITS.

    On Thursday the New South Wales Indian and Colonial Exhibition Commission shipped by the P. and O. steamship Bengal for Loudon 25½ tons of exhibits for the approaching ...

    Article : 145 words
  31. COACHMAKERS' STRIKES.

    The members of the Coachmakers' Society held a special meeting last night at the Barley Mow Hotel to consider the latest aspect of the strikes of their fellow-workmen in Wagga and ...

    Article : 580 words
  32. FIRE IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday. -- An extensive tire broke out to-night at Lang and Co.'s ironmongery warehouse, a five-story building in Elizabeth-street. The fire, the origin of ...

    Article : 52 words
  33. A NAVY ON THE SITUATION.

    Sir, -- Will you allow a working-man to express through the medium of your paper his views on the present state of affairs in this country? You are all aware that at present ...

    Article : 997 words
  34. BRUTAL OUTRAGES ON CATTLE.

    GUNDAGAI, Friday. -- Three most fiendish acts have been perpetrated in this town during the past two weeks. A widow woman. named Carigg, last week missed a calf from ...

    Article : 230 words
  35. WATER SUPPLY.

    All connections on the site of the pumping station, Marrickville, are now completed. Yesterday morning Mr. Westcott was on the ground early, and steam was raised for the first time. ...

    Article : 127 words
  36. MR. WILLIAM NOBLE.

    At the Temperance-hall yesterday afternoon, 14 gentlemen, principally representatives of the local option organisation, assembled to consider the advisability of inviting Mr. ...

    Article : 216 words
  37. EXTENSIVE FAILURES IN ADELAIDE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 171 words
  38. OVERLAND PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 221 words
  39. POLITICAL NOTES.

    A committee meeting of Sir Henry Parkes' supporters at St. Leonards was held at Mr. William Waterhouse's Hotel, Blue's Point, last night, to make arrangements for an address to ...

    Article : 185 words
  40. TRIAL BAY PRISON.

    The piece of land at Arakoon, parish of Arakoon aud county of Macquarie, Trial Bay, being part of the reserve tor public purposes aud also a part of reserve No. 54 has been appointed ...

    Article : 291 words
  41. THE TITLE OF THE MOUNT MORGAN MINE.

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- The case of the Mount Morgan Mine dispute was resumed to-day before the Full Court. Arguments were beard on either side, and were ...

    Article : 89 words
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    Thomas Bruce, a young man, attempted suicide at Brisbane by cutting his throat with a pockotknife. He inflicted three wound, but the blade was too blunt to effect his purpose. ...

    Article : 86 words
  43. MINING INTELLIGENCE.

    Silver Queen Silver Mining Company, Limited (Sunny Corner). -- The mining manager of the Silver Queen Mining Company reports as follows: -- "Mitchell, March 4, 1886. -- Since my ...

    Article : 116 words
  44. Advertising

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    Advertising : 26 words
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