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  2. BUSH FIRES IN CANADA.

    LONDON, Friday.—The bush fires in the southern portion of the province of Ottawa, Canada, affected an area of 300 square miles. ...

    Article : 64 words
  3. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Friday—A deputation of pastoralists in the south–western portion of the colony, introduced by Mr. Leahy, M.P. Waited on Mr, Foxton this afternoon to bring the condition of ...

    Article : 456 words
  4. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Friday.—The Earl of Lichfield, speaking at the meeting of investors in the Bank of Australasia, said he recognised that, with prudent statesmanship, the ...

    Article : 128 words
  5. PRESBYTERIAN "HOMESTEAD SELECTIONS."

    A novel scheme was submitted to the commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday for tiding country ministers over droughts. The Rev. W. F. Craigie presented an overture asking ...

    Article : 448 words
  6. CANADIAN COMMERCE.

    LONDON, Friday.—Speaking at Toronto, in reply to charges that in demanding preferential trade relations with Great Britain he had betrayed the interests of Canada, ...

    Article : 199 words
  7. 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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  8. TO–DAY.

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  9. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    Mails by the Orient, French, and German steamers are due here on Wednesday next. The Oruba, having on board the English mails, reached Albany on Thursday night, from London, and ...

    Article : 147 words
  10. THE KLONDIKE GOLDFIELDS.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.—The expert sent by Messrs. N. M. Rothschild and Sons to the Klondyke goldfields, British Columbia, reports that the statements regarding ...

    Article : 48 words
  11. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    LONDON, Friday, 2.55 p.m.—Bar silver is quoted to–day at 2s 3d, a rise of 1d since yesterday. ...

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  12. TRIAL OF A DIVING MACHINE.

    The steamer Marion Fenwick returned to Port Jackson yesterday from Thursday Island, in Torres Straits. The object of her trip was to test a new diving plant, known as the Pacific Machine, ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. THE MOUNTAIN TRAIN.

    Representations have frequently been made to the Railway Commissioners to arrange that the train from the Mountains now reaching Sydney at 9 a.m. shall arrive at 8.45. This would, it is ...

    Article : 124 words
  14. THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

    LONDON. Thursday Night.—The strike in the engineering and allied trades is stated to have delayed the Government naval programme for quite a year. If the difficulty ...

    Article : 98 words
  15. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Friday.—The output at the Lake View Consols mine for September is as follows:— Stone treated, 1726 tons for a yield of 1753oz. 14dwt smelted gold, in addition to which 185 ...

    Article : 223 words
  16. THE INDIAN FAMINE.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.—Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, states that the Indian famine has cost the country £10,000,000, whilst the subscriptions ...

    Article : 43 words
  17. SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

    The North Coast S.N. Company's Macleay, which went aground at the entrance to the Richmond River on Wednesday, was floated yesterday, apparently uninjured. The barque Kassa, from ...

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  18. DEATH OF A CHILD IN THE BUSH.

    CROYDON, Friday.—A child named George Jennings, aged three, was lost in the bush yesterday. He wandered from the house early in the morning, and was not missed for some time. ...

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  19. Advertising

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  20. THE REDUCED TRAM FARES.

    Some of the suburban municipal councils have communicated with the Railway Commissioners expressing approval of their action in extending the two–penny sections on the trams. The ...

    Article : 117 words
  21. THE BEHRING SEA DIFFICULT.

    LONDON, Friday.—Renter's Agency states that Great Britain has finally declined to take a share in any conference with respect to the Behring Sea sealing difficulty at ...

    Article : 74 words
  22. A RECENT RAILWAY STRIKE.

    LONDON, Friday.—Mr. Harford, the secretary of the Amalgamated Railway Servants' Society, has been dismissed from that position for indiscretions in connection with ...

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  23. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    The miners employed at the Wickham and Bullock Island colliery held a meeting yesterday morning to discuss the matter of the resumption of work. Mr. W. T. Dick, M.P., wrote enclosing ...

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  24. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    At the commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday the Rev. J. Alwyn Ewen (convener of the committee on religion and morals) asked leave to move the following ...

    Article : 362 words
  25. QUEEN VICTORIA HOMES FOR CONSUMPTIVES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 words
  26. THE TYPHOID EPIDEMIC.

    LONDON, Friday.—Three cases of typhoid which have been discovered in London are directly traceable to the epidemic at Maidstone. ...

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  27. THE PAMIRS.

    LONDON, Friday.—Russia is showing great activity in the Pamirs, and a road for vehicular use has been completed across the Abkaital Pass. ...

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  28. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—A deputation from a meeting at St. Kilda waited on the Premier to–day, and asked him to take the duties off grain and live stock. He replied that he was not in ...

    Article : 129 words
  29. SHIPPING MASTER'S RETURN.

    Mr. C. H. Hannell, the Newcastle shipping–master, has prepared a return showing the number of seamen engaged and discharged, and the amount paid in wages, through his office during ...

    Article : 82 words
  30. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.—The Board of Trade returns for the month of September show that the imports increased by £2,188,557, as compared with the same mouth of ...

    Article : 50 words
  31. INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Friday.—The Indian Government are issuing a general order stating their reasons for sending the military expedition against the Afridis, and also excusing ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. COAL EXPORT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 words
  33. PERSONAL.

    The Governor is expected in Sydney on Thursday from his visit to Coouong station. Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Freeman Thomas and the Hon. Dorothy Brand will return from Brisbane ...

    Article : 157 words
  34. THE BANK AVERAGES.

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  35. DEATH OF GENERAL M'CLEYERTY.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.—The death is announced of General William Anson M'Cleverty, Colonel commanding the Northamptonshire Regiment, who had command of ...

    Article : 93 words
  36. A STORMY PASSAGE.

    The barque Glengarry, which arrived at Newcastle yesterday morning from East London, experienced very heavy weather on the voyage, and for some days her condition in consequence was ...

    Article : 264 words
  37. THE CENTRAL SOUDAN.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.—The Paris "Temps" states that by the dispatch of British gunboats up the Niger River, it is intended to support a claim by Great ...

    Article : 46 words
  38. ILLAWARRA SUBURBS TRAIN SERVICE.

    At Thursday evening's meeting of the Hurstville Council a letter was read from the Secretary for Railways, notifying that the commissioners have approved of the following alterations in ...

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  39. FAREWELL TO MR. J. H. RADFORD.

    A complimentary farewell dinner was given at the Cafe Francais last evening to Mr. J. H. Radford (of Messrs. Radford and Co.) by the wool buyers and brokers of Circular Quay. ...

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  40. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Friday.—The Privileges Committee reported this afternoon, and recommended: —(1) That the question as to whether or not the Awarua seat is vacant be referred to the Court of ...

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  41. THE SEOUEL TO A QUARREL.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Two young men, Phillip Berrigan and Thomas Coe. were commuted for trial to–day at Collingwood on the charge of indicting grievous bodily harm on Richard ...

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  42. A CANADIAN LOAN.

    LONDON, Friday.—The Canadian Government are borrowing £2,000,000 for the purpose of extending the railways to mining districts and also for the deepening of the ...

    Article : 41 words
  43. DR. STRONG ON CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM.

    The Rev. Dr. Strong, of Melbourne delivered a lecture last night in the Masonic–hall, Newcastle, on the subject of "Christianity and Socialism." There could be no doubt, he said that Socialism ...

    Article : 499 words
  44. THE WILL OF A MILLIONAIRE.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Application is being made for probate of the will of the late Mr. T. B. Payne, of South Yarra. The nett value of the estate in the various colonies is £1,063,650 ...

    Article : 134 words
  45. FRANCE AND TUNIS.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.—The French are completing the harbor at Bizerta, Tunis, the construction of which was commenced in 1894, with feverish haste. ...

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  46. THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    WELLINGTON, Friday.—To a deputation which asked that legislation be introduced offering a subsidy for the manufacture of beet sugar in the colony, the Premier intimated that there were ...

    Article : 58 words
  47. THE MILSON'S POINT RAILWAY.

    In certain city quarters yesterday it was stated that a movement was on foot to combine steamer and train season tickets for the travellers on the Milson's point–Hornsby railway. The deputation ...

    Article : 170 words
  48. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday. — The steamer Tokomaru, of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion line, bound from New Zealand ports to London, has put into Rio Janeiro with her shaft ...

    Article : 37 words
  49. VICTORIAN SPORTING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 325 words
  50. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS AT TAUPO.

    WELLINGTON, Friday.—Earthquake shocks continue at Taupo, and sometimes six or seven are felt in five minutes. The volcanoes Ngautuhoe and Temare are both very active, emitting large ...

    Article : 53 words
  51. COAL FOR THE WARSHIPS.

    WELLINGTON, Friday.—The Westport Coal Company has received an order to supply 1500 tons of coal to the warships at Sydney. ...

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  52. AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE, LAND, AND FINANCE COMPANY.

    LONDON, Friday.— The directors of the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company have declared an interim dividend of 2½ per cent. ...

    Article : 28 words
  53. THE AUSTRALIEN AT ALBANY.

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  54. THE EUABALONG RAILWAY PROPOSAL.

    BOOTHERAGANDRA (VIA HILLSTON), Friday.—The members of the sectional committee on the Euabalong railway proposal arrived here at noon to–day en route for Wyalong. They ...

    Article : 117 words
  55. THE WEATHER.

    Fine clear weather prevailed throughout the colony yesterday, but Mr. Russell had advice of the approach of another disturbance from the west, which is likely to cause strong north–west ...

    Article : 103 words
  56. GRAY'S STARTING MACHINE.

    LONDON, Thursday Nigh.—Four races will be started at Newmarket on October 25 by means of Gray's starting machine. ...

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  57. MR. DAVID FOWLER.

    LONDON, Thursday Night.—Mr. David Fowler, manager of D. and J. Fowler, Limited, of Adelaide and Loudon, intends sailing by the R.M.S. Gothic for Australia. ...

    Article : 29 words
  58. Advertising

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  59. THE WARSHIPS.

    The stay of H.M.S. Orlando at Adelaido will extend over a fortnight, during which time the annual rifle course will be held at the Port Adelaide ranges. The Port ranges were chosen on ...

    Article : 166 words
  60. SCRATCHINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 15 words
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