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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. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The Orient Company's R. M. S. Cuzco, front London, passed Cape Borda (S. A.) at 6 p. m. yesterday, and would probably reach the Semaphore anchorage early this morning. The Sydney ...

    Article : 131 words
  4. THE VICTORIAN ELECTIONS.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Sir George Turner spoke to-night at the St. Kilda Town-hall to a crowded meeting. The Mayor president. Sir George Turner was received with loud and ...

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  5. TURKEY AND GREECE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Powers have formally communicated the treaty of peace with Turkey to Greece, thus rendering it operative. ...

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  6. NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS FOR INDIA.

    The intimation that a number of New South Wales Lancers had been volunteering for active service in India, published exclusively in "The Daily Telegraph" yesterday, has stirred up a good ...

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  7. SCULLING IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Monday Night .--The match for £100 a side between W. A. Barry, the English sculler, and George Towns, of New South Wales, was rowed over the ...

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  8. THE FAST PASSAGE OF THE R.M.S CHINA.

    As was mentioned in our issue of yesterday, the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. China made a remarkably fast run out from London to Albany. The passage, however, was not a record one, as ...

    Article : 159 words
  9. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 words
  10. INTERVIEW WITH THE DUKE OF SPARTA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Duke of Sparta, the Crown Prince of Greece, who was in command of the Greek army during the late war with Turkey, has been interviewed by ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. EXPORT OF QUEENSLAND COAT.

    Two cargoes of Queensland coal live already been exported from Brisbane to Pacific Coast ports by the barques Moel Ellian and Alliance, and now it is reported that the barque Powys ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. THE NEW DREDGE FOR THE GOVERNMENT.

    The new dredge which the Government is having built at the yard of Messrs. Symonds and Co., at Renfrew, will be of about 250 tons capacity. She will be similar in design to the dredge ...

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  13. PERSONAL.

    Mr. A. J. Gould, Minister for Justice, left Sydney last night for a week's trip in the country districts. He will proceed first to Cobar, thence to Nymagee, and from there to Lithgow. There ...

    Article : 428 words
  14. THE TUG AND THE WHALE.

    As the outcome of the collision with a whale off the Heads, the steam Lug Stormcock has been found to be damaged below the water- line. Yesterday the tug was placed in Jubilee Dock, and ...

    Article : 89 words
  15. LOSS OF A BARQUE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Italian barque Margherita, which sailed from New York on July 6 for Brisbane, met with tempestuous weather and became dismasted on July 18. ...

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  16. HORSES FOR THE EAST.

    A shipment of ten horses for the Eastern market was made yesterday by the B.I.S.N. Company's steamer Bhundara, and during the afternoon the vessel left for Melbourne to take in ...

    Article : 53 words
  17. STREET MENDICANCY.

    Sydney is as well supplied with professional street beggars as any part of Australia, and the public are beginning to grow restive at the opportunities afforded them of bestowing ...

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  18. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A deputation of persons interested in the pastoral industry waited on Mr. Philp to-day, and asked that certain concessions be made to pastoral lessees in the tick-infested ...

    Article : 132 words
  19. INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--News received from the Indian frontier states that Lieuteuant- Colonel Westmacott's brigade has destroyed the defence towers of the Kudakhels. The ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. THE MANUFACTURE OF STEEL RAILS.

    It is now some years since the proposal to utilise the coal and iron deposits of the colony for the manufacture of railway requisites was first mooted, but from one cause and another nothing ...

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  21. EIGHT RAILWAYS.

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The report of Mr. H. C. Stanley, Chief Engineer of Railways, on his recent tour in America and Europe, was tabled in the Legislative Assembly to- day. The principal ...

    Article : 385 words
  22. CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., has sailed for Australia in the North German Lloyd's steamer Friedrich der Grosse, which left Southampton to-day, ...

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  23. CANADA ANNEXES BAFFIN LAND.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Canadian Government have annexed Baflin Land, a large island west of Davis Strait, and crossed by the Arctic Circle. ...

    Article : 59 words
  24. TASMANIA.

    HOBART, Tuesday.--A deputation from the Hobart and West Coast Railway League waited on the Minister for Lands to- day with a view to obtaining information regarding the concessions ...

    Article : 212 words
  25. THE BRITISH WHEAT HARVEST.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Sir John Bennet Lawes, the eminent, practical agriculturist, estimates that the wheat harvest in Great Britain this year will yield on the ...

    Article : 53 words
  26. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Rear- Admiral Huge Lewis Pearson will, succeed Rear- Admiral Cyprian A. G. Bridge as Commander- in Chief on the Australian Station. ...

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  27. RAFFLES AT BAZAARS.

    BATHURST, Tuesday.--The sale of world for the purpose of raising funds for the purchase of an organ for St. Barnabas' Church at South Bathurst was opened yesterday by Dr. Hurst. ...

    Article : 192 words
  28. THE TASMANIAN PREMIER.

    LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.--By the steamer Coogee to- day the Premier and the several delegates to the Federal Convention returned to Tasmania. The Mayor and a large party assembled at the ...

    Article : 152 words
  29. FREEHOLD TRUST COMPANY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The directors' half- yearly report of the Freehold Trust Company, of Australia shows a profit of £6110. It recommends a dividend for the half-year ...

    Article : 46 words
  30. Advertising

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    Advertising : 34 words
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