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  2. SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

    The disabled steamer Saint Louis, in tow of the tug Hero, signalled at Newcastle yesterday, en route from Byron Bay to Sydney. The Saint Louis, it will he remembered, broke down off ...

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  3. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon--The match between the Australian cricketers and Somerset was advanced another stage to-day at Taunton. There was again only a fair attendance of spectators. ...

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  4. THE DREYFUS TRIAL.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Among the witnesses examined before the Rennes court-martial on Friday were M. Cohort, the handwriting expert, and M. Bertillon, whose evidence at the secret ...

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  5. THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Yesterday, at Birmingham, Mr. Chamberlain made an important speech concerning the Transvaal crisis. Referring to the negotiations which had been ...

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  6. 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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  7. THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

    The Premier is still, he says, very anxious to have the relative strength of parties in the Assembly ascertained. Mr. Reid had something to say about it to a "Daily Telegraph" representative ...

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  8. THE AUSTRALIANS' AVERAGES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 words
  9. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 words
  10. INSANE THREATS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Mme. Laborl, wife of the eminent counsel, has received a letter threatening to assassinate her and her husband, as well as their children. ...

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  11. SWIMMING IN ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Sunday.--F. C. V. Lane, the New South Wales swimmer, has won the quarter-mile saltwater swimming championship at Blackpool. He covered the distance in 6min. 30.6sec., and ...

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  12. PERSONAL.

    Mr. William Mainer, an old resident of the western suburbs, died suddenly at Leichhardt on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Mainer had been to Five Dock, and in running to reach the tram ...

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  13. THE SOUDAN MURDERERS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The French authorities in Africa have received orders from the Government to regard as rebels Captains Voulet and Chanoine, who caused the murder of Colonel ...

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  14. COMPARATIVE RESULTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 411 words
  15. THE NILE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The present overflow of the Nile is the worst for years. The Nile begins to rise at Khartoum in May, and reaches its maximum in September, while the ...

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  16. MR. C. G. HATTE AND THE NEWTOWN SOCIALS.

    Under the presidency of Mr. C. G. Hatte, the Newtown socials have attained a high degree of popularity, until they have become the premier organisation of the kind in the district. ...

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  17. THIRD DAY'S PLAY.

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  18. WRECK OF THE TEKOA.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The information has been received that the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tekoa, Captain Ford, struck on Staten Island, oft the mainland of Tierra del ...

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  19. BRITISH SUZERAINTY.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Although the report that Mr. Chamberlain had actually replied to President Kruger, refusing to relinquish British suzerainty over the Transvaal, has not yet been ...

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  20. VICTORIA.

    Mr. Le Hunte, Administrator of New Guinea, leaves by to-morrow's express for Moss Vale, on a visit to Lord Beauchamp. Mr. David Wilson, Government Dairy Expert, ...

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  21. NEW ZEALAND.

    The overdue steamer Tolosa arrived at Auckland to-day from New York. Owing to the allegations made as to the unseaworthiness of the ketch Envy, an inquiry was ...

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  22. THE PHILIPPINE WAR.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Four American Consuls stationed in China have been suspended from office, and ordered to report themselves at Washington. ...

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  23. RAID BY THE POLICE.

    The detectives to-day made a raid on the office of Charles Westbrook, situated in the Exchange. It is understood that the police took action owing to complaints that Westbrook, who is a ...

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  24. MR. SCHREINER'S ATTITUDE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the Premier of Cape Colony, was questioned in the Assembly yesterday with reference to the permit granted by him for the transmission of large ...

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  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The German Emperor has conferred the order of the Red Eagle on Herr Rose, who was acting as German Consul at Samoa during the recent trouble there. ...

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  26. FRUIT PEST.

    Although it is intended to accept scale-infested fruit from Australia as mentioned, if fumigated, the Agricultural Department desires it to be known that this cannot be done till a new ...

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  27. A RAILWAY FATALITY.

    At Berwick last night, Laurence Landers was cut to pieces by a train. About 8 o'clock he left the township to catch a train, but must have mistaken the light at the entrance to the goods yard ...

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  28. THE PLAGUE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The plague is reported to have broken out at Astrachan, in Russia. The dreadful disease is spreading at Oporto. ...

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  29. THE MAHANGA EXPLOSION.

    Alter the report of the Mahanga Bay explosion has been considered by the Imperial authorities, the Admiral in charge of the Australian Squadron is to be asked to allow some of his captains to ...

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  30. BURGLARS IN CHURCHES.

    During Saturday night burglars broke into the Sacristy of the Roman Catholic Church, at Koorong-road, Elsternwick, and carried off two sets of vestments and an altar cloth, valued at £17. Then, ...

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  31. RAILWAY SPEED RECORD.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--An American train, running between Syracuse and Rochester, has covered 80 miles in 68 minutes. ...

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  32. AT DELAGOA BAY.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Portuguese officials at Lorenzo Marques, Delagoa Bay, fear that the Boers may make a raid upon their territory, in order to obtain possession of the arms and ...

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  33. RAKAIA RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    The Railway Department has paid £11,000 in respect to claims for compensation on account of the Rakaia railway accident, apart from the Supreme Court cases. ...

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  34. EMIGRATING FINNS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Altogether 8000 Finns have emigrated from, the Russian Empire since February. ...

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  35. TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Premier has received an important communication from Australia with reference to trade between New Zealand and South Africa, and is expecting proposals from the Shaw Savill ...

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  36. FROM INFORMATION RECEIVED.

    Joseph Kitchen, a well-known individual, has confessed to a robbery at Kerang some months ago. He is now serving 11 months on a similar charge, but says that prior to that, whilst ...

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  37. TRAIN ACCIDENT IN CHILI.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--A train fell into the Mapocha River, in Chill, and sixty of the passengers were drowned. ...

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  38. THE MELBOURNE SHEEP-BREEDERS' SHOW.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The annual sheepbreeders' show opened on Saturday at Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co.'s. The total entry was 427 exhibits, which came from the principal flocks in ...

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  39. THREATENED MARITIME STRIKE.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Further particulars, regarding the threatened maritime strike in England, in consequence of the masters' refusal to confer with the men, show that the union chiefly ...

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  40. JOUBERT ATTACKS CHAMBERLAIN.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--General Joubert, Commander-in-Chief of the Transvaal forces, in a letter states that it is impossible to rid the Boers of the idea that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain ...

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  41. SUPPOSED CASE OF MURDER.

    A case of supposed murder is reported from Newton, a suburb of Wellington. Early this morning a young man, Alexander Farquhar, who is a wharf laborer, was found in a house in which ...

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  42. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    At the inquest on the victims of the Carlisle Castle, a verdict was returned that the two bodies were found drowned abreast of the Carlisle Castle, and from the circumstances the jury ...

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  43. THE LITHGOW STRIKE.

    LITHGOW, Saturday.--Four of the non-unionists engaged at Oatey Park pit left there last night for a time. There had been reports that some men were leaving, and last night four came ...

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  44. FUMIGATION OF SYDNEY FRUIT.

    The announcement in Sydney that New Zealand would accept scale-infested fruit if fumigated with hydrocyaine acid gas, is leading to misapprehension. Although such a course is ...

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  45. ATTACKED BY A NATIVE DOG

    EDEN, Saturday.--An unusual incident happened on the Eden Pambula-road last week. A teamster named Edward Burke was sitting by his ramp fire eating his supper, when suddenly ...

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  46. TASMANIA.

    By the steamer Coogee on Friday 40 cages and 82 loose stud sheep from all the principal breeders in the colony were shipped to Melbourne for the sales and shows. The longwools will be shipped ...

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  47. AN ANTI-FEDERAL SPEECH.

    The Commissioner for Railways addressed his constituents at Katanning last night. About 150 farmers were present. The speaker dilated on the small representation the colony would have ...

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