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  2. OFF TO KIMBERLEY.

    The s.s. Victoria was to have sailed for Cambridge Gulf and Derby yesterday en route for the new rush but, at the request of a number of shippers and passengers, the charterers ...

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  3. PARLIAMENT.

    The PRESIDENT took the Chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Dr. MACKELLAR, in reply to Mr. Creed, furnished still further information concerning ...

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  4. MR. GLADSTONE'S IRISH SCHEME.

    London, Tuesday.--A meeting of the Cabinet took place to-day, at the close of which Mr. Gladstone proceeded to Windsor. Nothing definite is known ...

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  5. THE EASTERN CRISIS.

    Athens, Tuesday.--The Greek and Turkish commanders, who previously arranged a meeting for the purpose of coming to an amicable settlement with ...

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  6. THE PROPOSED CABLE REDUCTIONS.

    Several proposals have been made by the Cable Company with the object of reducing the rates for telegrams between Europe and the Australasian colonies. One proposal was that if ...

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  7. A CALL OF THE HOUSE.

    The very unusual procedure of a "call of the House" took place in the Assembly for the purpose of considering the question of payment of members. The result was the largest ...

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  8. THE SEE OF MELBOURNE.

    London, Wednesday.--The committee appointed to choose a successor to Bishop Moorhouse in the See of Melbourne have not yet been able to arrive ...

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  9. REUTER'S MESSAGES.

    London, Wednesday.--The Duke of Bedford has issued invitations to many prominent Australian colonists now in England to visit him at Woburn ...

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  10. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

    The discussion of Mr. Heydon's motion for payment of members of the Legislative Assembly took a somewhat sudden turn yesterday afternoon by a declaration from the Premier ...

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  11. PETITION FROM PASTORALISTS.

    BOURKE, Wednesday.--The following petition to the Minister for Lands, Sydney, is being largely signed:--"We, the undersigned residents in the town and district of ...

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  12. AUSTRALIANS V. MARYLEBONE.

    London, Tuesday.--In consequence of the rain continuing to-day, the cricket match between the Australian Eleven and the Marylebone Cricket Club will ...

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  13. SHIPPING.

    Port Said, Tuesday.--The British-India Company's R.M.S. Duke of Westminster departed to-day, outwards. London, Tuesday.--Shaw, Saville ...

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  14. THE PARCEL POST.

    The Postmaster-General, Mr. F. B. Suttor, having been favorably disposed to the establishment of a parcel post between England and New South Wales, recently directed the ...

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  15. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH

    BATHURST, Wednesday.--Kibble, who alleges he was shot by Yeomans, at Ben Bullen, is dangerously ill, crysipelas having set in. His depositions were taken to-day and it is feared ...

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  16. MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A deputation from the University waited on the Premier to-day, applying for a grant of £10,000 for building purposes. The deputation stated ...

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  17. ALBURY STOCK BOARD.

    ALBURY, Wednesday.--At a meeting of the Pastures and Stock Protection Board to-day it was announced that since the beginning of the year the following numbers of noxious animals ...

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  18. GENERAL NEWS.

    The Speaker yesterday issued a writ for election of a representative of the Gwydir electorate in the place of Mr. W. R. Campbell, who has resigned. The particulars of the writ ...

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  19. MR. STUART CUMBERLAND'S SEANCE.

    At the New Masonic-hall last night, Mr. Stuart Cumberland, whose name and fame as a thought-reader are now pretty well known all over the world, gave his first seance in Sydney. ...

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  20. CAMPBELLTOWN WATER SUPPLY.

    CAMPBELLTOWN, Wednesday.--A large and representative public meeting was held in the Town-hall last evening to decide whether the proposed water supply for Campbelltown from ...

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  21. A BETTING TRANSACTION.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The action brought by Joseph Lionel Lee, commercial traveller, to recover £2000 damages from Austin Saqui, the well-known bookmaker, for slander, ...

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  22. MUDGEE SHOW.

    MUDGEE, Wednesday.--Owing to the heavy and continuous rain, the committee of the Mudgee Agricultural Society held a meeting on Tuesday afternoon and postponed the show till ...

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  23. THE PROSCRIBED ASSOCIATION.

    The railway and tramway employes met again last evening at the Protestant-hall, the object being to elect officers and committee. The proceedings, for the first time since the ...

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  24. MORE FAILURES IN ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A meeting of the creditors of G. A. Walmann, trading as Terry, Moore and Walmann, land agents, was held today. The balance-sheet showed liabilities, ...

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  25. VICTORIA AT "THE COLONIES."

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Chief Secretary received a letter from Mr. Bosisto, the Executive Victorian Commissioner at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition stating that ...

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  26. A KIMBERLEY SYNDICATE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A meeting of gentlemen favorable to forming a land syndicate at Kimberley was held this afternoon, when it was decided that an association should be ...

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  27. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

    The SPEAKER took the Chair at half-past 4 o'clock. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Sir PATRICK JENNINGS, in answer to ...

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  28. AN ALLEGED DEFAULTING GOVERNMENT SERVANT.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Attorney-General has directed a summons to be issued against A. Higginson, lately paymaster of the Marine Defence Force, under the 24th section ...

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  29. LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A conference of the municipal councils, the representatives of which were convened at the suggestion of the municipality of Maryborough, opened ...

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  30. MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Governor has received the following cable from the Queen in reply to one sent Her Majesty by His Excellency on the Queen's birthday:--"The Queen ...

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  31. MR. D. O'CONNOR, M.P.

    At the District Court yesterday, Judge Wilkinson's attention was drawn by counsel to a paragraph that appeared in yesterday's Daily Telegraph, in which were embodied the remarks ...

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  32. BRIGADIER-GENERAL M'IVOR.

    COOKTOWN, Wednesday.--Mr. John Douglas has arrived from Thursday Island. He denies informing Brigadier-General M'Ivor that he could go to New Guinea, but states that he ...

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  33. NEW GUINEA EXPLORATION.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Contributions are coming in daily in aid of the funds being raised by the Victorian branch of the Geographical Society for the continuation of the exploration ...

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  34. LITHGOW WIDOWS' FUND.

    We have to acknowledge the receipt of the following subscriptions towards the relief of the widows and orphans of the five men who recently perished in the Lithgow Valley ...

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  35. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The Church of England Synod commenced its annual sittings today, when Bishop Kenyon delivered a long, comprehensive, pastoral address. He referred to ...

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  36. THE TASMANIAN LOAN.

    HOBART, Wednesday.--The debenture forms for the £1,000,000 loan, authorised by Parliament last session, have been shipped for London by the mail steamer. ...

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  37. NEW SYSTEM OF LOADING SHEEP.

    The Minister for Public Works (Mr. W. J. Lyne) when previously in charge of that department gave instructions to have a number of sheep trucks so altered that they could be ...

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  38. MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE.

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  39. ARRIVAL OF THE DORUNDA.

    COOKTOWN, Wednesday.--The Dorunda arrived this forenoon from London, bringing the Government German New Guinea Company, including Baron von Schlemitz, ...

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  40. THE QUEENSLAND SEPARATION MOVEMENT.

    TOWNSVILLE, Wednesday.--The separation petition, which now bears nearly 10,000 signatures, is to be forwarded by the Governor, for transmission home, on Saturday, ...

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