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  2. TOPICS OF THE DAY.

    An impression has been getting abroad lately to the effect that the fire insurance business of this colony is not upon a satisfactory basis. Undue competition amongst ...

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  3. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

    BRISBANE. Wednesday.--There is much dispute over the manner in which the proceeds of the totalisator at the races have been awarded to ticket-holders in the Flying ...

    Article : 138 words
  4. THE EASTERN QUESTION.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, Thursday.--The representatives of the Great Powers at the conference being held in this city have agreed to the principle of restoring ...

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  5. SPECIAL CABLES.

    LONDON. Thursday.--Sir Charles Gavan Duffy is indisposed. ...

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  6. WRECK OF THE R.M.S. INDUS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Indus foundered at Trincomalee. The passengers and mails are being re-shipped on to the ...

    Article : 330 words
  7. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The South Australian Land and Pastoral Association haying been voluntarily liquidated, the liquidator has advertised for all claims to ...

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  8. THE TEMPORARY WATER SUPPLY.

    We are informed by the Minister for Works (the Hon. W. J. Lyne) that on Wednesday the water brought from the Nepean by the temporary supply pipes passed the Menangle-road ...

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  9. THE BURMAH WAR.

    CALCUTTA, Thursday.--The latest advices from Burmah report that King Theebaw has issued a proclamation for the extermination of all Englishmen in ...

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  10. COPPER COMPANY.

    LONDON, Thursday,--A committee of shareholders has been appointed to inquire into the affairs of the English and Australian Copper Company. ...

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  11. PROPERTY DISPUTE.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Application was made in Chambers to-day, on behalf of Mrs. Matilda Grace Barrett for letters of administration to the unadministered portion ...

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  12. THE PARLIAMENTARY DISPUTE IN QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--When the Assembly met this afternoon the Premier at once moved that the Council's amendments in the Appropriation Bill be disagreed to and ...

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  13. CHEAP RAILWAY TRAVELLING.

    As an experiment in the management of the railways, the Minister for Works purposes running at intervals of three or four weeks special trains at cheap rates to and from the metropolis ...

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  14. MR. GLADSTONE AT EDINBURGH

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Speaking at Edinburgh Mr. Gladstone made a lengthy reference to the Established Church agitation. He declared that it could not be ...

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  15. SUPREME COURT BUSINESS.

    In the Equity Appeal Court yesterday the Chief Justice said the judges contemplated setting apart certain days in vacation, on which to hear equity appeals left over from this term. ...

    Article : 314 words
  16. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A deputation of the members of the central board of the Federated Agricultural Societies of the colony waited on the Premier to-day, and ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. REUTER'S MESSAGES.

    PORT SAID, Wednesday.--The Messageries' steamer Salazie, from Melbourne October 10, passed here to-day homewards, four days ahead. ...

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  18. CITY MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

    Mr. A. J. Riley, one of the candidates for Cook Ward, held a public meeting at Freeman's Hotel, corner of Bourke and Foveaux streets, last evening, when there was a numerous attendance of ...

    Article : 953 words
  19. NORTHERN TERRITORY NEWS.

    SOUTHPORT, Thursday.--The s.s. Tannadice arrived on Tuesday afternoon from south with 200 tons general cargo and: six saloon and 15 second-class ...

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  20. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

    A crushing at Goldsborough, on the Mulgrave goldfield, of 70 tons of stone from the Chance Lease ridded 200oz. of gold. At the adjourned inquest on the child Mary ...

    Article : 366 words
  21. SYDNEY SCOTTISH RIFLES.

    The formation of the Sydney Scottish Rifle Corps is progressing under very favorable auspices. They already number 100, and recruiting is still being carried on. The corps ...

    Article : 174 words
  22. INSPECTORS OF STOCK.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--A number of representative pastoralists to-day interviewed the Commissioner for Lands, protesting against the proposed reduction in the stock ...

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  23. VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In the Assembly to-day, Mr. Gillies obtained leave to brig in a bill to amend the Electoral Act. The bill was read a first time; the ...

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  24. THE KIMBERLEY EXPEDITIONS.

    Some of the members of the three expeditions which recently returned from the Kimberley district by the steamer Hampshire have supplied us with accounts of their trips, from which ...

    Article : 243 words
  25. THE MINISTER FOR LANDS AT TAMWORTH.

    TAMWORTH, Thursday.--The banquet to-night to the late member, Mr. Gill, was attended by about 160 persons, the Mayor being in the chair Messrs. J. P. Abbott, ...

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  26. THE MULHOLLAND CASE.

    It is rumored that the charges against Lieutenant Mulholland are likely to be renewed in Parliament soon after its reassembling. The question of the New Zealand medal is in that ...

    Article : 148 words
  27. THE NEW MINISTER FOR MINES.

    The Government bus at length succeeded in filling the vacant position of Minister for Mines, rendered vacant by the defeat at Redfern and subsequent retirement of Mr. F. A. Wright, At ...

    Article : 173 words
  28. THE SALVATION ARMY.

    The demonstration of welcome to Major Bollard and his wife, who have come to Sydney from New Zealand to take the local leadership of the Salvation Army, was continued ...

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  29. STEWARDS' AND COOKS' UNION.

    There is nothing fresh to report in connection with the dispute between the A.S.N. Company and the Stewards' and Cooks' Union beyond the fact that the inquiry into the ...

    Article : 185 words
  30. THE AGENT-GENERAL AND THE LOAN.

    The money article of your London namesake of yesterday (wrote our London correspondent on October 2) contains the following brief letter from your Agent-General:--"To the ...

    Article : 325 words
  31. THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY'S EXPEDITION.

    The Premier, yesterday afternoon, communicated by wire to Admiral Tryon, who is at present with his flagship, the Nelson at Melbourne in reference to the rumored massacre of the ...

    Article : 99 words
  32. VICTORIAN PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Presbyterian General Assembly to-night concluded the debate on the Scots Church question, and adopted the Rev. G. Tait's motion by ...

    Article : 249 words
  33. AN EASTERN PRINCE'S GIFT.

    Four magnificent volumes of photo-lithographs, presented to the Government of this colony by the Maharajah of Jeypore, have just arrived in Sydney. As perfect copies of heathen ...

    Article : 433 words
  34. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    Members of the Church of England and others interested in the work of special religious instruction in public schools met last evening in the new hall of the Y.M.C.A., Pitt-street, to ...

    Article : 124 words
  35. SYDNEY OWLS.

    The monthly hoot of the Sydney Owls was held at the Masonic Hall, Castlereagh-street, on Wednesday evening. There was a fair muste of members. Dr. Burns, the president,occupied ...

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  36. THE LAMBTON COLLIERY STRIKE.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The trouble over the jerry question at Lambton Colliery still continues. There is no information yet as to a settlement. There was more bustle and ...

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  37. SUDDEN DEATH IN THE LANDS-OFFICE.

    Consternation and sympathy were spread through the Lands-office yesterday morning by the death, apparently of heart-disease of one of the draughtsmen--Mr. Broche, L.S.-- ...

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  38. MR. SALA AND THE YORICK CLUB.

    Our London correspondent writes:--Your ebullient visitor, Mr. Sala, has thought fit to be very laudatory of "Sumptuous Sydney" and "Magnificent Melbourne," as his letters to the ...

    Article : 433 words
  39. OVERLAND PASSENGER TRAFFIC

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  40. TRADE MEETING.

    A meeting of the Quarrymen's Eight-hours Protection Society was held at the Quarryman's Arms Hotel, John-street, Pyrmont, last evening. Mr. W. Dougherty, president of the association ...

    Article : 266 words
  41. PROBATES AND ADMINISTRATIONS.

    In the ecelesiastical jurisdiction of the Supreme Court yesterday, a large number of probates and administrations were granted, several of them entering into five figures. ...

    Article : 85 words
  42. STRIKE ON BOARD THE S.S. LY-EE-MOON.

    Sir,--In your report of the cooks' and stewards' meeting in your issue of this morning, I observe Mr. Kershaw, the secretary of that union, states that I made use of the following ...

    Article : 206 words
  43. SMOKE-TIME.

    Sir,--In your report of the proceedings of the Wharf-laborers' union it is stated:--"The trouble about smoke-time in connection with the Corinna had been amicably settled and the ...

    Article : 173 words
  44. Advertising

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    Advertising : 140 words
  45. CARDINAL NEWMAN AND MR. DALLEY.

    Our London correspondent writing, on October 2, says:--"I append the Dalley letter in the Cardinal Newman number--which has just appeared--of the Catholic magazine Merry ...

    Article : 309 words
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