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  2. NOTES OF THE DAY.

    "I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please." -- AS YOU LIKE IT. ...

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  3. INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- News has been received from India that Colonel P. D. Jeffreys punished the Yagaderai, by which tribe his column was attacked on September 16. ...

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  4. THE LUCKNOW MINERS' STRIKE.

    ORANGE, Thursday. -- A few minutes before 10 o'clock last night Lucknow was startled by an explosion of dynamite within the Wentworth company's enclosure. News of the occurrence did not ...

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  5. FEDERATION.

    The President took the chair at half-past 10 o'clock. THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. Dr. QUICK (Vic.) gave notice of his intention ...

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  6. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    Last night the Stockton miners came to an agreement that they should resume work to-day, but the question of whether or not the difficulty which led to their strike has been ...

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  7. AMERICA AND SPAIN.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- It is considered in Madrid that war between Spain and the United States in connection with the Cuban question is inevitable. ...

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  8. LICENSING COURT.

    The weekly meeting of the Newcastle Licensing Bench was held yesterday. Mr. J. Mair (chairman), and Messrs. G. N. Payton, and G. C. Martin, L.Ms., were on the bench. A transfer of the ...

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  9. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    Messrs. Dalgety and Co. yesterday dispatched the B.I. steamer Fultala, for Calcutta, via Melbourne, with a cargo of 3000 tons of various coals. The Fultala will pick up a consignment of horses ...

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  10. GREECE AND TURKEY.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The Greeks are greatly excited at the terms of peace with Turkey. Indignant protests are coming in from all quarters. ...

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  11. TERRIFIC CYCLONE IN ITALY.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- Reuter's Agency reports that a terrific cyclone has devastated Sata, Oria, and Mesagne, in Italy. A great many houses were wrecked, 50 ...

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  12. MASONIC GREETING TO DELEGATES.

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  13. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday. -- The New Zealand Parliament was opened this afternoon. The Governor in his speech referred to the Record Reign celebrations in England and said they ...

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  14. WEST AFRICA.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The Anglo-French Commissioners have resumed the work of delimiting the boundary between French and English territory in the regions west ...

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  15. THE TROUBLES OF THE WORKLESS.

    About 70 of the 250 men who who thrown out of work 13 weeks ago by the stoppage of work on the New Lambton branch of the pasturage reserve drainage scheme held a meeting yesterday ...

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  16. THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The Transvaal Volksraad has rejected a petition presented by 10,000 persons on the Rand goldfield in support of the recommendations made by ...

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  17. BRITISH CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The British authorities have imprisoned the captain of a Zanzibar slaver, despite the fact his papers showed him to be of French nationality. ...

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  18. THE WORK OF THE SYDNEY SESSION.

    Mr. Isaacs, Mr. Symon, Mr. Brown, Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Henry left by last night's train for Melbourne. The Drafting Committee met during the day, ...

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  19. ENGLAND AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- Speaking in the Italian Chamber yesterday, the Marquis di Rudini, the Premier, said that England's relation to the Triple Alliance was of a most ...

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  20. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- The Full Court was specially constituted to-day for the purpose of hearing a motion for an injunction to restrain the directors of the Ivanhoe Gold-mining Company ...

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  21. SHOP EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION.

    At the last meeting of the Shop Employees' Association a letter was received from Mr. W. T. Dick, covering a communication from the Minister for Education regarding the introduction of ...

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  22. A TORPEDO BOAT SUNK.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- A German torpedo boat capsized and sank yesterday at Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the River Elbe. Seven of those on board were drowned ...

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  23. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Both Houses sat to finish business prior to the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly. The new Railway Loan Application Bill was introduced without the ...

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  24. SWIMMING.

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  25. COLLISION BETWEEN STEAMERS.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- A collision occurred at Fiume, a seaport town of Hungary, yesterday between the steamer Aglaia, owned by the Austrian Lloyd Company, and the ...

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  26. THE DISPATCH OF PRESS MESSAGES.

    The Postmaster-General has received a letter from several of the representatives of the intercolonial press who attended the Convention, on behalf of their papers, in which hearty thanks are ...

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  27. MR. REID'S VIEWS.

    Now that the work of the Convention is over, the Premier is able to devote his attention more fully to the duties of his department. Mr. Reid was at his office yesterday, looking after a ...

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  28. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Thursday. -- In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Kidston moved, "That in the opinion of this House provision should be made to enable the electors of the northern and central divisions ...

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  29. HAMILTON BOROUGH CRICKET CLUB.

    The second borough to form a cricket club, in conformity with the resolution of the District Association, has been that of Hamilton, where a very strong organisation was inaugurated on ...

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  30. TROUBLE IN THE BOOT TRADE.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- A deputation of operatives in the boot trade to-day protested to the Chief Secretary against the attempt of the manufacturers to set aside the new wages log. ...

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  31. A HARBOR TRIP.

    About 50 delegates and their friends enjoyed a trip on the harbor yesterday in the Government steamer Premier. A visit was also paid to the Walker Convalescent Hospital. ...

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  32. NEW ZEALAND.

    DUNEDIN, Thursday. -- At a meeting on Mr. J. G. Ward's creditors, the accountant who examined the Ward Association books said that so far as they affected Mr. Ward's personal business, the ...

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  33. THE ANARCHISTS.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- A dynamite bomb was thrown yesterday in the palace of the Marquis Leis at Orense, a town near Vigo, Spain. ...

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  34. THE NECESSITY FOR ABATTOIRS.

    A very decided stand on the question of the establishment of abattoirs for the Newcastle and Maitland districts has been taken by the Merewether Council. At the last meeting of that body ...

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  35. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Thursday. -- The statist attached to the Mines Department has prepared a comparative statement, showing the average yield per ton of ore treated in the various colonies during 1896. ...

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  36. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Thursday. -- It is stated that a Queensland pastoralist recently purchased a number of bulls from the northern district of New South Wales, hut would not take delivery until ...

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  37. THE PLAGUE IN INDIA.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- Several Europeans at Poona (India) have been smitten with the plague. ...

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  38. THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER TASMANIA.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday. -- Diver May has succeeded in clearing the way into the 'tween docks of the Tasmania, and expects to get into the mailroom to-morrow. He found no slit in any ...

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  39. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday night. -- London bankers unanimously deprecate any weakening of the reserve held by the Bank of England. ...

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  40. ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS PICNIC.

    The annual picnic of the children of the Roman Catholic Schools of Newcastle, Stockton, and Carrington was held yesterday. The children assembled in the morning at St. Mary's Church, ...

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  41. TASMANIA.

    The steamer Airlie, from China via Sydney, arrived at Low Head this afternoon, with 19 Chinese. The steamer was met by the Health Officer and the Customs officials. Fourteen ...

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  42. THE NEWS IN SYDNEY.

    An intimation of what had happened was at once sent by wire to Mr. Tarleton, the Sydney secretary to the Wentworth Proprietary Company. Mr. Look, the superintendent, in this message, ...

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  43. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night. -- The New Zealand Shipping Company has declared a 4 per cent. dividend and carried forward the sum of £5778. ...

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  44. MR. YOUNG ON TOUR.

    WELLINGTON, Thursday. -- The Ministerial party arrived at Dubbo from Coonamble this evening, just in time to catch the mail train for Sydney, and no member of the party is likely to ...

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  45. HAMILTON SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITION.

    A scientific and electrical exhibition, organised by the committee of the Hamilton School of Arts in aid of the funds of that institution, was opened in the building yesterday afternoon by Mr. H. ...

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  46. LONDON WHEAT MARKET.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- At Mark-lane yesterday the market the wheat was dull, prices generally being 6d lower. ...

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  47. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The total number of births registered in the colony this year, to the end on July, wan 5565. amd the number of deaths for the same period 2284. ...

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  48. THE CESAREWITCH.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- Mr. J. Gubbins' famous racehorse Galtee More, winner of the last Derby, has been scratched for the Cesarewitch. ...

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