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  2. OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Bell, the dynamitard who was arrested in Glasgow, was brought before the City Court to-day, and remanded to London. ...

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  3. NOTES OF THE DAY.

    The capture of Tynan, badly-wanted Number One of a bygone time, may have a bad as well as a good effect upon the peace of nations. The police seem to have secured, together with this ...

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  4. THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

    New South Wales last year grew 5,000,000 bushels of wheat, and as she required 8,000,000 bushels to cover the consumption of the year for food and seed, it was essential she should ...

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  5. ARRIVAL OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

    Captain Pearson and the crew of the steamer Chindera, which was recently wrecked at the Tweed River entrance, arrived in Sydney last night by the steamer Wollumbin. The captain ...

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  6. MASSACRE AT THE SOLOMON ISLANDS.

    Something of a sensation was caused in Sydney yesterday by the receipt of news that a scientific party from the Austrian warship Albatros had been massacred by the natives of the Solomon ...

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  7. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Thursday, 2.15 p.m.--Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 38d per oz. ...

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  8. OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The Russian, French, and Turkish Ambassadors in London have had Interviews with the Marquis of Salisbury on the Turkish question. ...

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  9. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

    When our first edition was published the Legislative Assembly was in Committee of Supply on the Estimates, those relating to the Public Instruction and Labor being under discussion. ...

    Article : 83 words
  10. SIR C. DILKE AND ENGLAND'S INTERVENTION.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Sir Charles Dilke, M.P., speaking on the agitation against. Turkey, declared that both the British army and navy were weak, and that it would, ...

    Article : 60 words
  11. QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--In the Legislative Assembly to-night, Mr. Kidston moved a resolution affirming the desirableness of obtaining, by means of a referendum, an expression of opinion from the ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. DEATH OF ANOTHER VICTIM.

    COOKTOWN, Thursday.--Potty-officer Moras, of the German warship Albatross, who was admitted to the Cooktown Hospital with a fractured skull, received in the massacre at Solomon ...

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  13. THE SULTAN AND THE ENGLISH PRESS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Sultan of Turkey, in his interview with Sir Philip Currie, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, expressed himself surprised at the "blind ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. THE STORY DENIED BY THE CAPTAIN OF THE ALBATROS.

    COOKTOWN, Thursday.--When the German warship Albatros was at the Solomon Islands on August 12, a party was landed to go to the interior, and it was arranged that some natives ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. THE EXTRADITION OF TYNAN.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The British Government have requested the French authorities to detain Tynan at Boulogne pending the necessary application for his extradition to ...

    Article : 56 words
  16. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Copious rains have fallen throughout the colony, and much good will result. The Minister for Agriculture made special Inquiries concerning the rainfall in the mallee ...

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  17. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--The Government have decided to completely re-organise the telephone system of Brisbane, and have ordered all necessary material for a new installation of the city. ...

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  18. THE REBELLIOUS SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--When the Emperor William of Germany and the Czar of Russia were at Breslan, the capital of Prussian Silesia, the Emperor William is reported to ...

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  19. FLOODS IN GIPPSLAND.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Heavy floods are threatened in Gippsland. At Dargo nearly 4in. of rain were registered during the past 24 hours, and it is still raining. At Bairnsdale there is ...

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  20. PANIC IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The accidental breaking of glass yesterday caused a terrible panic in Pera and Galata, the former being the aristocratic and the latter the merchants' ...

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  21. A DONATION FROM THE GERMAN EMPEROR. DEATH OF JAPANESE DIVERS.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--The Emperor William of Germany has donated 400 marks, or about £20, to the new Lutheran Church at South Brisbane. THURSDAY ISLAND, Thursday.--The bodies of two more Japanese divers, who met their deaths while diving at Yard Island and Long Island, were brought in yesterday. ...

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  22. THE SULTAN ALARMED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Sultan, fearing that an attempt would be made to place his younger brother. Mehemmed Reshad Effendi, heir apparent, on the throne, has, as a ...

    Article : 46 words
  23. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Thursday.--Sir Philip Fysh is introducing a Drawback Bill, intended to make more liberal provision for the increase in trade and the convenience of visitors. He is also ...

    Article : 120 words
  24. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 words
  25. THE CZAR AND CZARINA.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night. -- Elaborate precautions are being taken by the police and military for the protection of the Czar of Russia during his visit to the Queen in ...

    Article : 65 words
  26. THE VOTE ON METHODIST UNION.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--The vote on the subject of Methodist Union in Queensland now being taken amongst the members, communicants, and trustees, stood this morning as follows:-- ...

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  27. A CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR PROTEST.

    At the meeting held in the Town-hall last night, under the auspices of the Australasian Christian Endeavor Convention, at which some 6000 persons were present, the wrongs of the Armenian ...

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  28. THE DOCK LABORERS. THE AGITATION ON THE CONTINENT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A general strike is threatened among the London dock laborers, as the shipowners have refused to revise the agreement entered into after the great strike LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Tom Mann and Mr. J. H. Wilson, M.P., secretary of the National Amalgamated Sailors and Firemen's Union, have been expelled from ...

    Article : 91 words
  29. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The September show of the Royal Agricultural Society was opened to-day in wintry weather. The attendance was very good, and the Governor was present. Exhibits, both in quality ...

    Article : 61 words
  30. PERSONAL.

    Cardinal Moran celebrated his 66th birthday on Wednesday. During the day he received a large number or congratulatory letters and telegrams from clergymen and prominent residents in this ...

    Article : 159 words
  31. THE WICKHAM AND BULLOCK ISLAND MINE.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The miners of the Wickham and Bullock Island colliery met in Fleming's Paddock, Linwood, this afternoon, to receive a report from the representatives ...

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  32. THE BULLI COLLIERY TROUBLE

    BULLI, Thursday.--This morning the miners and wheelers held a meeting to consider the situation, but adjourned till to-night, in order to admit of the attendance of Mr. Henderson, the ...

    Article : 362 words
  33. COALTRIMMERS AND STEVEDORES.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--In regard to the dispute between the stevedores and coal-trimmers a meeting of the later body took place to-day at Carrington Dyke. A resolution was carried ...

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  34. COLONIAL TRADE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The Associated Chambers of Commerce have recommended the Government to appoint officials in the colonies to report upon trade matters. ...

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  35. DEATH AND FUNERAL OF MR. JOHN J AGO.

    Mr. John Jago, a resident for 42 years at North Sydney, died suddenly on Wednesday at his residence, Miller-street, North Sydney. Shortly after 8 a.m., his son went into his bedroom and found ...

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  36. THE VICTORIAN WILL CASE.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The hearing of this Harrison will case was continued to-day. II. Grave, law clerk, who had given evidence that Cameron had asked him to prepare a will, was ...

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  37. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    PERTH, Thursday.--The Zealandia crushing at the Cue public battery yielded 2oz. to the ton. Cartage from Yalgoo to Cue has dropped from £16 to £8 a ton. ...

    Article : 90 words
  38. MR. BALLINGTON BOOTH.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Mr. Ballington Booth, who was lately deposed from the command of the Salvation Army in the United Stares, has accepted a position as ...

    Article : 42 words
  39. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Joseph Mitchell and Mr. Price Williams sail for Sydney in the R.M.S. Ophir, and intend tendering for the 150,000 tons of steel rails required by ...

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  40. WEST AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    PERTH, Thursday.--In the Assembly this evening, Mr. Simpson submitted a motion in favor of payment of members on the New Zealand system. The motion was defeated by 18 votes to 5, ...

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  41. THE UPPER NILE EXPEDITION.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The detachment of the Upper Nile expedition at Fereig reports having dispersed a hotly of dervishes and captured two of their boats. ...

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  42. VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Assembly sat all day on the estimates, finishing consideration of those for defence and health, and discussing the railways. ...

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  43. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINING.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Golden Leases Gold-mining Company, Coolgardie, West Australia, has been formed with a capital of £1110,000, and is issuing shares to the value ...

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  44. THE WRECK AT ESPERANCE.

    ESPERANCE, Wednesday.--Charles Harrison, one of the survivors of the ill-fated Ettle, states that when the vessel was struck by a heavy squall, on approaching Black Island, orders were ...

    Article : 218 words
  45. TASMANIAN PARLIAMENT.

    HOBART, Thursday.--The Assessment Bill, providing for assessments on unimproved values, was rejected in the Council by a large majority. The second reading of the Gaming Bill was carried ...

    Article : 49 words
  46. NEW ZEALAND.

    AUCKLAND, Thursday.--At the Banking Committee of the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. W. G. Foster, the colonial manager of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, was ...

    Article : 120 words
  47. RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Russia has decided to subject a number of German products to a special tariff. This is intended as a reprisal for recent German taxation affecting ...

    Article : 36 words
  48. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

    AUCKLAND, Thursday.--Last night, when the Old Age Pensions Bill was in committee, an amendment was carried against the Government making the benefit of the scheme more universal, ...

    Article : 131 words
  49. THE CIVIC CLUB.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 words
  50. HOW THE NEWS OF THE MASSACRE ARRIVED.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--The small trading schooner Siskin, Captain Meldrum, arrived at Brisbane on Monday last from the Solomon Islands, bringing sealed dispatches from the com- ...

    Article : 371 words
  51. THE CHINESE LOAN.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Owing to the rise in the Bank of England rate of discount only 70 per cent, of the Chinese loan of £6,000,000 has been subscribed in London. ...

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  52. PECULIAR SUICIDE AT REEFTON.

    AUCKLAND, Thursday.--A man named George Harman arrived at Reefton by train last night, and committed suicide this morning by chopping off his right hand wlith an axe. ...

    Article : 34 words
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