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  2. WRECK OF THE STEAMER KAMERUKA.

    MORUYA, Sunday.--The Illawarra S.N. Company's steamer Kameruka, bound from Eden to Sydney, went ashore at midnight yesterday on a rock on the southern portion of Pedro Point, ...

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  3. THE CONGO FREE STATE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--News has been received from the Congo Free State that the Congo troops, numbering 600, under the command of Lieutenant Henri, have fought ...

    Article : 64 words
  4. VICTORIAN SPORTING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,439 words
  5. THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Marquis of Londonderry, the President of the Northern Union Conservative Association, which is meeting at Newcastle, has written to that ...

    Article : 145 words
  6. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.--Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, states in a letter that he deeply sympathises with those who are being ...

    Article : 95 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. WEST AFRICA.

    LONDON, Saturday.--From Lagos, a British colony on the Slave Coast, West Africa, it is reported that Major Lugard and the British force under his command have ...

    Article : 58 words
  9. COTTON OPERATIVES.

    LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.--Cotton operatives to the number of 2,800,000 have agreed to stop work if the Federated Master Cotton Spinners insist on the proposed reduction ...

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  10. [?] LONDON BOILERMAKERS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--One thousand Boilermakers in London yesterday struck work, adhering to their demand for eight hours as a day's labor. ...

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  11. THE WEST INDIAN SUGAR TRADE.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Since the publication of the report of the Royal Commission on the condition of the sugar industry in the West Indies, American capitalists ...

    Article : 64 words
  12. THE SITUATION IN CRETE.

    LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.--The Admirals in command of the Foreign Squadrons stationed in Cretan waters insist that Albanians shall replace the present Mussulman ...

    Article : 55 words
  13. SILVER CURRENCY.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Canadian banks have formally protested that silver is an unsuitable basis of banking commerce. ...

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  14. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    Some time ago the Carrington Council wrote to the Mines Department, asking if, in the event of the aldermen giving their consent to the granting of a lease to the Wickham and Bullock Island ...

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  15. THE PLAGUE IN INDIA.

    LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.--News received from India states that the plague has spread to Madras, where several cases have been reported. ...

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  16. BULGARIA AND TURKEY.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--It is reported that Bulgaria proposes an offensive and defensive alliance with Turkey. A condition of great unrest prevails in the ...

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  17. NEW MINING COMPANIES.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Mount Lyell West Copper Mining Company, Tasmania, formed with a capital of £400,000, has allotted shares to the value of £35,000. ...

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  18. SWIMMING IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.--R. Derbyshire, of Manchester, has agreed to swim against J. Hellings, the Australian short distance champion, in a race over 100 yards at ...

    Article : 53 words
  19. NAVAL COURT MARTIALS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The court-martial appointed for the trial of the officers of the twin-screw torpedo boat destroyer Thrasher, which went ashore at Bodmin ...

    Article : 97 words
  20. DISASTER IN AN OPERA HOUSE.

    LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.--Reports have been received from New York that part of the ceiling of the Cincinnati Opera House fell during the progress of a performance. ...

    Article : 57 words
  21. THE BLACK SEA-BALTIC CANAL.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The Russian Government are considering the advisability of constructing a canal to unite the Black Sea and the Baltic. ...

    Article : 28 words
  22. FRUSTRATION OF AN ALLEGED PLOT

    Early on Saturday morning a man named John O'Brien (35), described as a laborer, was arrested by Constable Harrison, under what are alleged to be rather compromising ...

    Article : 270 words
  23. A NEW CATHOLIC ORDER.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Pope has instituted, at St. Sulpice, Paris, an arch confraternity for the conversion of England to Roman Catholicism. ...

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  24. THE CANADIAN LOAN.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Canadian 2 12per cent. loan of £2,000,000, which was placed on the market at a minimum of 91, has been subscribed at an average of £91 ...

    Article : 66 words
  25. GERMANY AND THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.--It is rumored that Germany has intimated to the Government of the Transvaal Republic that any alteration in the dynamite concession will ...

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  26. WRECK OF A STEAMER.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The steamer Triton, bound from Havana to Bahia Honda, another seaport of Cuba, has been wrecked on the northern coast of the island. ...

    Article : 65 words
  27. ENGLISH SPORTING.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--At the Newmarket Second October meeting to-day the principal event resulted as under:-- THE MIDDLE PARK PLATE, of 500 sovs., added ...

    Article : 141 words
  28. PERSONAL.

    The Governor attends a meeting this evening of the Sydney Rescue Work Society. To-morrow afternoon, at 2.45, his Excellency presides over the annual meeting in connection with the Deaf ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    The steamer Scottish Hero arrived in port on Saturday, eleven days out from Fremantle, to load coal for West Australia to the agency of Messrs. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. ...

    Article : 620 words
  30. NEWS AND NOTES.

    The Victorian Club was not well attended last night, and, in consequence, not much betting was indulged in. Coil, however, was backed for the Melbourne Cup at 100 to ...

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  31. RETURN OF SIR HUGH NELSON.

    Sir Hugh Nelson (Premier of Queensland), accompanied by Lady Nelson, the Misses Nelson, and others, reached Sydney late last night by the U.S.S. Company's Oonah. Sir Hugh and his ...

    Article : 180 words
  32. THE SHOOTING OF STRIKERS.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The Austro-Hungarian Government have demanded a heavy indemnity from the United States for the families of the Hungarian miners on strike, ...

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  33. A NEW BRITISH JUDGE.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Mr. John Charles Bigham, Q.C., Unionist M.P. for the Exchange Division of Liverpool, has been appointed a Judge of Queen's Bench Division ...

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  34. OBITUARY.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The death is announced of the Very Rev. C. J. Vaughan, D.D., Dean of Llandaff, and late Muster of the Temple, at the age of SI. ...

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  35. PICTURES FOR LONDON.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Mr. D. P. Sellar, of the firm of Sellar Brothers, merchants, has presented the City Corporation with a valuable collection of pictures by ...

    Article : 41 words
  36. NEW ZEALAND.

    WELLINGTON, Saturday.--Mr. Martin, the public trustee, has been examined by the Supreme Court as to the means he possessed to satisfy costs in the recent action known as the ...

    Article : 176 words
  37. MR. EDWARD LANGTRY.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The death is announced of Mr. Edward Langtry, husband of Mrs. Lily Langtry, the well-known society actress, who was recently placed in the ...

    Article : 38 words
  38. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--From St. Petersburg it is reported that the Czar is Russianising the Germanic communities in the western and southern provinces of Russia. ...

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  39. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Sunday.--The latest returns from are shipped to Adelaide from the Associated mines are as follow:--Ore smelted, 364 tons, yielding 1480 ounces of gold, or an average of ...

    Article : 254 words
  40. A ROYAL MINT FOR WEST AUSTRALIA

    LONDON, Saturday.--Yesterday's "London Gazette" contained an intimation authorising the establishment of a Royal Mint at Perth, West Australia. ...

    Article : 27 words
  41. NEW ZEALAND RIFLEMEN.

    WELLINGTON, Sunday.--Major Sommerville, who had command of the Bisley team, speaks enthusiastically of the splendid marching of all the colonial troops at the Aldershot review. He ...

    Article : 170 words
  42. A SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STUDENT.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--Sergeant-Major Algie, of the Headquarters' Staff of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, has obtained a first-class certificate at the School of Musketry, ...

    Article : 31 words
  43. THE PROSPECTS OF SALVAGE.

    Captain J. M. Banks, the marine surveyor, was in town yesterday, in the interests of the Underwriters. Seen last evening. Captain Banks stated that there appeared to he little prospects of ...

    Article : 623 words
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