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  2. THE NORTH SYDNEY GAS QUESTION.

    The re-opening of the North Sydney gas question was advanced another stage at the meeting of the local council on Tuesday night, by the following motion, submitted by Alderman E. M. ...

    Article : 188 words
  3. GOLD ROBBERY ON A STEAMER.

    A robbery of 5000 sovereigns has been committed on board the China Steam Navigation Company's boat Tuiyuan. The steamer arrived at Hongkong on Sunday last, and on the ...

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  4. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday to enable Mr. J. C. Firth, of Auckland, to explain the principle of his patent distributor for use in connection with the ...

    Article : 502 words
  5. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The Working Men's Association at Port Adelaide has voted £108 in aid of the bootmakers' strike fund. On Tuesday evening the Barrier branch of the ...

    Article : 160 words
  6. FREEDOM IN GERMANY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The German Reichstag has adopted, a bill providing that associations shall have liberty to unite. This is regarded as a censure on the ...

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  7. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Further details which have boon received with regard to the Turkish attack on Domoko show that the fighting lasted for nine hours. ...

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  8. THE FINALITY OF APPEAL COURTS.

    At yesterday's sitting of the committee of the Municipal Association, a request was read from the Botany Council for information as to whether the council had any remedy against the ...

    Article : 154 words
  9. THE WESTRALIAN STORE COMPANY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The managers of the Westralian Store Company are issuing 66,500 6 per cent, preference shares, and 66,750 ordinary shares. ...

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  10. THE NORTH SYDNEY TRAMLINE.

    Considerable discussion took place at the last meeting at the North Sydney Council in reference to the Railway Commissioners' refusal to contribute half the cost towards watering the tramline ...

    Article : 308 words
  11. THE TREASURY BILLS.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The exact amount of sinking fund realised by the sale of special lands which the Treasurer has available towards the redemption of the Treasury bills which fall due ...

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  12. THE NEW GUINEA GOLD-FIELDS.

    SAMARAI, Sunday (by wire from Cooktown).-- Much indignation if felt here at an account in some papers of a reported rich find of gold at the back of Port Moresby. The report is untrue. ...

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  13. CHIEF JUSTICE WAY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Chief Justice Way, of South Australia, yesterday visited Windsor Castle, and was sworn in as a member of the Judicial Committee of the ...

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  14. SERIOUS CYCLING ACCIDENT.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A serious bicycle accident occurred this morning to Robert Eraser, a well-known draper, of Port Adelaide. Fraser was riding along St. Vincent-street when he ...

    Article : 74 words
  15. THE REVOLT IN CUBA.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The latest news from Cuba is to the effect that the rebellion in the island is abating. ...

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  16. FURTHER EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--At an early hour this morning five more shocks of earthquake were experienced at Kingston. Though the buildings of the town were shaken, no damage ...

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  17. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday, 1.35 p.m.--At the weekly auction sales of Australian tallow held to-day 1700 casks were offered, of which 850 casks were sold. Mutton, fine, ...

    Article : 47 words
  18. A STEAMER DISABLED.

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The following telegram was received from Cape Borda at 5.50 this afternoon:--"A large steamer, topsail schooner rig, all sails set, and seemingly disabled, is ...

    Article : 177 words
  19. FREE SERVICES OF WATER.

    At the weekly meeting of the Water and Sewerage Beard held yesterday, the matter of the free services of water which are supplied by the board to different institutions and to the ...

    Article : 138 words
  20. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--An accident happened last night at St. Vincent's-place, Albert Park, the well-known journalist, Mr. Hamilton M'Kinnon, being shot through tho body. Last ...

    Article : 347 words
  21. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 19 words
  22. THE QUEEN'S RECORD REIGN.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The Corporation of the City of Dublin has refused to join in the rejoicings in connection with the Queen's record reign. ...

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  23. THE WARSHIPS.

    The flagship Orlando, with Admiral Bridge, is to sail from Adelaide to-day for Melbourne, en route to Sydney. H.M.S. Torch left the harbor yesterday for Jervis Bay for shot practice. She ...

    Article : 73 words
  24. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Wednesday.--The party of men sent out under Mr. Bernard to survey the great western railway route has been recalled. This, coupled with the death of Sir William Clarke, one ...

    Article : 275 words
  25. MEETING AT ASHFIELD.

    A public meeting, convened by the Mayor of the borough, in answer to a requisition, was held last evening in the Ashfield Town-hall, the object being to give consideration to the best means of ...

    Article : 503 words
  26. THE TURKISH TERMS OF PEACE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Turks have intimated to the Greek Government the terms upon which the Turkish army will be withdrawn from Greek territory. ...

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  27. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The French mail steamer Polynesian sailed yesterday for Marseilles via ports, leaving the Quay at 1 p.m. There was a large crowd on the wharf to wish the passengers bon voyage. ...

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  28. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--The specimens of opals found near Ashburton are of magnificent color, and are reported to be more valuable than those found in Queensland. Shares in the ...

    Article : 54 words
  29. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 words
  30. SUICIDE OF A CAPTAIN.

    DUNEDIN, Wednesday.--The barque Hudson, from Glasgow, arrived on Monday night, and it was reported that Captain Glasson committed suicide by jumping overboard on March 5. A ...

    Article : 58 words
  31. THE FIGHTING AT GRIBOVO.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--During the fighting at Gribovo, near Arta, in Epirus, the Turks bad 240 men killed and 700 wounded. ...

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  32. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Mackay "Sugar Journal" for May. in an article an the weather and the cane crop, says:--"The past month has been most disastrous to the sugar cane crops ...

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  33. PRIVATE BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

    DUNEDIN, Wednesday.--The Royal Commission to inquire into the working of private benefit societies began its sittings to-day. The request to allow a deputy from the Union Steamship ...

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  34. THE NEW LIGHTHOUSE AT CAPE LEEUWIN.

    The new lighthouse at Cape Leeuwin (W.A.) is looked upon as a great boon to shipmasters trading that way. The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Victoria picked up the light on her ...

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  35. SPEECH BY LORD SALISBURY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Speaking last night at the Constitutional Club, the Marquis of Salisbury said that the Sultan of Turkey, in issuing the order to General ...

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  36. PERSONAL.

    Lord Kilmorey arrived from Brisbane yesterday, and is a guest at Government House. He leaves, for Melbourne on Saturday. Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Freeman Thomas, who have been ...

    Article : 106 words
  37. OLD AGE PENSIONS.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Royal Commission on Old Age Pensions took further evidence to-day. The Rev. A. R. Edgar gave evidence. He ...

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  38. THE QUEENSLAND NATIONAL BANK.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The general manager of the Queensland National Bank has received advice by cable from the London office of the bank intimating that a petition for the formal ...

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  39. A NEW STEAMER FOR. THE ADELAIDE STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

    The Adelaide Steamship Company's new passenger and cargo steamer Allinga is reported by telegram from West Australia to have reached Fremantle on Tuesday from London, via ...

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  40. THE LATE MRS. HUNTER-BAILLIE.

    Mrs. Hunter-Baillie, whose death was reported in yesterday's "Daily Telegraph," was the widow of the late Mr. John Hunter-Baillie, and a daughter of the late Mr. William Mackie, a ...

    Article : 357 words
  41. THE ADDRESS FROM THE MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION.

    At yesterday's meeting of the committee of the Municipal Association of New South Wales, Alderman John Wheeler announced that on Monday morning he had handed the congratulatory ...

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  42. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLD- FIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--The White Feather Main Reef crushed 137 tons, yielding 133oz. smelted gold, average 1oz. 4dwt. 14gr. per ton. The Robinsons' mine, Kanowna, last month ...

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  43. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Wednesday.--The Cabinet have considered the subject of tick in cattle, and have decided that the regulation prohibiting the importation of cattle into the colony from the ...

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  44. IN THE SUBURBS.

    At the Rookwood Council on Tuesday evening the Mayor (Mr. Lidbury) reported that he had already received £20 towards tho local celebration of the record reign. Mr. J. Parry was appointed ...

    Article : 212 words
  45. THE LONDON BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The bill to give effect to the new re-arrangement proposals of the London Bank of Australia was read a third time and passed in the House of ...

    Article : 75 words
  46. A SHIPPING CASE.

    PERTH. Wednesday.--The Full Court to-day upheld the appeal of the Adelaide Steamship Company against the decision of the Chief Justice and a jury, awarding £150 damages to a ...

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  47. KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.

    William Auburn, who was horribly mutilated in a blasting mishap at Wilkie Brothers' quarries, at Ten-mile Siding, on Saturday, died in the Government Hospital to-day. ...

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  48. FATALITIES.

    The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) held un inquest yesterday touching the death or a child named Josephine Collins aged two months, which occurred at the Victoria Home for Infants on Tuesday night. During ...

    Article : 195 words
  49. MR. AND MRS. BROUGH.

    It is proposed by a number of the admirers of Mr and Mrs. Brough to arrange a presentation to those talented and popular players before their departure from Australia. A meeting to ...

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  50. THE TICK PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Messrs. Viner, Cowley, aud Whitty, three inspectors, sent by the New South Wales Stock Department to investigate the tick plague in Queensland, arrived ...

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  51. QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOM.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--At a Queen's Drawing Room, held yesterday, the Countess of Glasgow presented her three daughters, Lady Alice Boyle, Lady Augusta Boyle, and ...

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  52. FIRES.

    A fire brake out yesterday at the residence of Mr. Arthur Giles, Burwood-street, Burwood. The local volunteer fire station was communicated with, and a detachment of fireman was dispatched to the scene and ...

    Article : 125 words
  53. IN THE COUNTRY.

    JUNEE, Wednesday.--The diamond jubilee will be celebrated by a race meeting on June 22, under the auspices of the Junee Racing Club. Next day a pigeon match will be held. ...

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  54. IN NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--The Government intend to close the public offices for three days in honor of the record reign, and will probably extend clemency to a number of short-sentenced ...

    Article : 41 words
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