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  2. THE AMERICAN ARMY.

    LONDON, Monday.--Mr. Russell Alger, the United States Secretary for War, has recommended Congress to increase the strength of the standing army of the Republic from ...

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  3. THE DREYFUS DRAMA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The intended trial of Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart by court-martial and the other developments in the Dreyfus case formed the topic of discussion in the ...

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  4. NOTES OF THE DAY.

    Melbourne is again in a social ferment, because a front row clergyman has"spoken out." When anyone in that position finds the professional pace slackening down a bit, and feels the necessity of ...

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  5. VISIT OF JAPANESE COMMISSIONERS.

    Two trade commissioners, representing the Government of Japan, are on a brief visit to this colony. They were instructed to visit several countries, including Australia, France, and ...

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  6. NEWCASTLE.

    Good progress is now being made with the various harbor works which are under way at Newcastle, and the returns for the year will show that during 1898 a great deal has Been done ...

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  7. THE CITY ELECTIONS.

    Below will be found the candidates who are fighting the citizens' battle. A vote cast in favor of any other candidate is in favor of municipal bungling and stagnation. It is ...

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  8. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Tuesday, 3.40 p.m.--The new series of London-colonial wool sales opened with hesitating competition. Prices for cross breds were 5 per cent. lower, and for ...

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  9. THE PEACE OF NATIONS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--In the course of conversation with an English diplomatist, the Czar of Russia made some important statements as to his desires in regard to the ...

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  10. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    LONDON, Tuesday, 2.15 p.m.--Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3[?]d per ounce. ...

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  11. VICTORIA.

    The Government has decided that the dates of Christmas and New Year public aud bank holidays (as Christmas Day falls on Sunday) will be Saturday, 24th, Monday, 26th, and Tuesday, 27th ...

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  12. THE INDIAN FRONTIER.

    LONDON, Monday.--The "Mad Mullah," who instigated the rising of last year, which was subdued after a costly campaign under the direction of General Sir William Lock ...

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  13. AMERICA AND SPAIN.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Although a request was made for a modification of the American terms, it is announced by Router's correspondent in Paris that the Spanish ...

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  14. THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--The Channel Squadron, which has been at Gibraltar since the Fashoda incident commenced to make a stir in French and British diplomatic ...

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  15. RETURNING PROSPERITY.

    A good indication of the returning prosperity and the confidence in our banking institutions is the prepayment of deferred deposit receipts. Two Victorian banks have notified their intention ...

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  16. THE SOUDAN.

    LONDON, Monday Night. -- The British authorities in the Soudan have withdrawn the troops from any further pursuit of the Khalifa and his bodyguard. ...

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  17. THE CITIZENS' PLATFORM.

    1. Retirement of the whole body of aldermen every three years. 2. Management of the affairs of the corporation to be in the hands of one competent, well-paid, ...

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  18. THE HOOLEY CASE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--In the course of his examination in the Bankruptcy Court, Mr. Ernest Tenth Hooley stated that he had paid £11,000 in all for the purpose of securing the ...

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  19. TOO MUCH MANAGEMENT.

    The meeting of the shareholders of T. K. Bennet and Woolcock, Ltd., a butchering business, was held to-day. The loss for the year was £5857, making a total loss for the past three years of ...

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  20. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 words
  21. SNOWSTORMS AND GALES.

    LONDON, Monday Night--Heavy snowstorms and severe gales have swept over the eastern seaboard of the United States. In New York the traffic has been paralysed ...

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  22. QUEENSLAND.

    To-morrow 380 boxes of butter, being the first shipment for export to England, will he made by Howard Smith's steamer Peregrine, for Sydney. Preparations for the despatch of the mining ...

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  23. H.M.S. MAJESTIC.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--A serious accident has occurred to Captain Prince Louis of Battenberg on board his vessel, H.M.S. Majestic, flagship of the Channel Squadron. ...

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  24. THE CHINESE VOTE.

    The Chinese vote is an important factor i[?] municipal elections, especially in regard to Cook Ward; and this vote, it is authoritatively stated, will be given almost without exception to the ...

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  25. AFFAIRS IN CRETE.

    LONDON, Monday.--— Prince George of Greece, the new Governor of Crete, has given an undertaking to the Powers that he will maintain the Turkish flag at one of the ports ...

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  26. VOTING FACILITIES.

    The Progressives are sparing no effort to carry the approaching municipal elections, but to do this it is necessary that every possible vote should be polled. Mr. Henry Chapman asked the ...

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  27. PERSONAL.

    The following gentlemen have been appointed magistrates of the colony:--Dr. George Thomas Cooke Adams, Collins-street, Melbourne; Dr. Walter Atterbury, Catherine-hill Bay; Thomas Bell, ...

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  28. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The weather is still cold and showery. The Minister for Education states that owing to the late rains as high as 25 bushels of wheat per acre will be reaped in the neighborhood of ...

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  29. LORD MOUNT-STEPHEN.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Instead of making a will for the disposition of ills property after his death, Lord Mount-Stephen, of Montreal, has distributed money and property to ...

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  30. THE VALUE OF WEI-HA-WEI.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Colonel Lewis has reported the result of an inspection of Wei-ha-wel, China, on behalf of the British War Office. ...

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  31. POINTS FOR THE RATEPAYERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 367 words
  32. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINING LAWS.

    A large deputation representative of the mining companies, whose properties are in West Australia, waited on the Premier to-day, and presented resolutions passed at a meeting ...

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  33. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    In connection with the amendment of the Companies Act making the keeping of local registers compulsory on all companies operating in the colony, representatives ...

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  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--The proposal to establish a scheme of ocean penny postage between the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany does not receive the sanction of Mr. C. ...

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  35. A MESSAGE FROM CAYENNE.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Captain Dreyfus has received the cable message which his wife was permitted by the French Government to dispatch to the island of ...

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  36. AMERICAN STEEL RAILS.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Large exports of steel rails are being made from the United States to Bombay, and also to Barbadoes, in the West Indies, and to Ireland, ...

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  37. A NEW BUSINESS DEPARTURE.

    The latest metropolitan firm to recognise in a practical way the importance of Newcastle as a base for the exercise of business enterprise is that of Messrs. Washington H. Soul and Co., the ...

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  38. TASMANIA.

    The Supreme Court gives its decision on Friday in the matter of the demurrer of Captain Parker v. the Queen. To-morrow an application will be made on behalf of the Premier to take ...

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  39. THE SUGGESTED HOBART GRAYING DOCK.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Admiralty authorities have given consideration to the proposal for the construction of a Government graving dock at Hobart. ...

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  40. THE PROFESSOR AND THE PRESBYTERS.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The following extraordinary letter has been sent by Professor Marshall Hall to the Presbyterian Assembly, the members of which on Thursday last were very ...

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  41. THE PICQUART COURT-MARTIAL.

    LONDON, Monday.--Many thousands of the most distinguished leaders of science, literature, and the learned professions in France are signing the protest against the ...

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  42. CAPE POLITICS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony has considered the proposals for the redistribution of seats, brought forward as the result of the insistence of Mr. Cecil Rhodes and ...

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  43. CANDIDATES' ADDRESSES.

    Alderman Burdekin, who is being opposed in Macquarie Ward by Mr. Dymock, addressed a large meeting of ratepayers in the Protestant-hall, Castlereagh-street, last night, Mr. John ...

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  44. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. O'Malley gave notice of the introduction of a bill to allow women to serve as municipal councillors or Mayors. ...

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  45. ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, AND AUSTRALIAN BANK.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The annual meeting of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank was held yesterday. Mr. C. J. Hogan, the chairman, deprecated the ...

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  46. A MAN OF MANY SENTENCES

    COOTAMUNDRA, Tuesday.--At the Quarter, cessions to-day, Arthur Barton and Alfred Bligh were charged with forging and uttering a cheque or £10 on 11th October, at Junee. Both were ...

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  47. COLONEL SCHWARTZEOPPEN.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The German Emperor has given an audience to Colonel Schwartzkoppen, who is alleged to have purchased the information from Major Esterbazy and ...

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  48. VICTORIAN MINES.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Mr. Lidgey, representative of the Victorian Mining Department in Loudon, lectured at the Imperial Institute last night on "Gold Mining ln Victoria," Mr. Lidgey ...

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  49. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    The harbor is beginning to again wear a rather deserted appearance, movements of over-sea vessels during the past week or so having been nearly all in the direction of departures. Yesterday the ...

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  50. THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND'S JEWELS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Two arrests have been made at Fulham in connection with the recent theft of the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland's jewels from a railway train near Paris. ...

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  51. IMPRISONED IN MOROCCO.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Lord Salisbury has declined to ask Morocco to compensate the Englishmen who were recently imprisoned by the Government of that country for ...

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  52. COLLISION AT NELSON'S BAY.

    NELSON'S DAY Tuesday.--The schooners Eliza Allan and Harriet, which have been weatherbound here since Sunday, came into collision to-day. When a southerly burster sprang up, the ...

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  53. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE,Tuesday--The Legislative Council, after a long but generally friendly debate, read the Land Bill a second time on the voices. The committee stage was adjourned. ...

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  54. BILLIARDS IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Messrs. John Roberts and C. Dawson have made arrangements for a billiard match on level terms. The game is one of 18,000 up. . ...

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  55. ARRESTED FOR LESE MAJESTE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--A naturalised American named Knaak has been arrested in a Berlin cafe on a charge of lese majeste. ...

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