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  2. CHINA.

    LONDON, Friday.--Reuter's Shanghai correspondent states that the negotiations between the foreign Ministers and the Chinese Court are reported to have been suspended ...

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  3. WHOM TO VOTE FOR.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 words
  4. DUTIES OF THE HARBOR-MASTER.

    The appointment of Captain Bird as harbormaster under the Harbor Trust Act has been confirmed by the Executive Council. His position as notified in the "Gazette," is Harbor-master and ...

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  5. SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Another atrocious Boer murder has, it appears, been committed at Wolmaranstad, in the south-western Transvaal, on the Vaal River, between ...

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  6. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    The chief returning officer for the Senate elections, Mr. Critchett Walker, went to the front of the Colonial Secretary's Department yesterday, and in the presence of two clerks, a messenger, ...

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  7. THE EFFECTS OF PROTECTION.

    Mr. Reid made one mistake at Redfern. He showed how protection had driven the men out of Victoria, and that the argument was advanced that there was all the more ...

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  8. BELGIAN ADVICE TO BOERS.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--"L'Independence Belge," a strongly pro-Boer Brussels newspaper, states that the emancipation of the late Republics is impossible, and that ...

    Article : 59 words
  9. THE STATE REVENUE.

    The revenue of the State continues to improve. The daily returns received by Mr. See, who is acting as State Treasurer in the absence of Sir William Lyne, indicate that, so far as the receipts ...

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  10. THE POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.

    As has been explained, the quinquennial regrading by the Public Service Board of the Postal and Telegraph Department was completed prior to its transference to the Commonwealth. The ...

    Article : 266 words
  11. RETURN OF THE CONTINGENT.

    The Lieutenant-Governor has received the following telegram from the officer commanding in China:-- "New South Wales Contingent leaves Taku about March 28, and should be in Sydney ...

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  12. OUR IMPERIAL CONTINGENT.

    It is somewhat of a coincidence that the departure of the first and what is presumably the last, contingent from the State of New South Wales should be marked by an incessant ...

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  13. VICTORIAN NAVAL CONTINGENT.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The British Commander-in-Chief in China has cabled to the Premier, through the Lieutenant-Governor, stating that the Victorian naval contingent leaves ...

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  14. TRAIN DERAILED AND SACKED.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The Boers derailed a train at Wilge River, 40 miles east of Pretoria, on Monday. Eight British soldiers, who occupied a block-house ...

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  15. ARMY REFORM.

    LONDON, Friday.--In the House of Commons last night, the Liberal lenders Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Sir William Vernon Harcourt condemned the new ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 175 words
  17. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

    The proceedings of the Wesleyan Conferences were brought to a close last night, after a series of pastoral and ministerial sessions extending over 15 days. This is almost a record time, and ...

    Article : 149 words
  18. THE PLAGUE.

    It should be clearly understood that there is no plague in Sydney. Since the outbreak which was exterminated last year, Sydney has happily been free from the disease. Two cases have ...

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  19. DE WET'S STRAGGLERS.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Repeated attempts are being made by several small commandoes, evidently stragglers from De Wet's main force, to break northwards through ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. CANADIAN FINANCES.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Canadian Budget as prepared by Mr. W. S. Fielding, Minister for Finance shows a surplus of 8,000,000 dol. (about £1,600,000) for last year over ordinary ...

    Article : 64 words
  21. HEAVY GOLD CONSIGNMENT.

    A consignment of 26 boxes and one parcel of gold, weighing 24,870oz., arrived yesterday from Queensland by Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons, steamer Tyrian. ...

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  22. THE DUKE'S VISIT.

    LONDON, Friday.--Their Majesties, the King and Queen Alexandra, together with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, proceed to Portsmouth this afternoon, ...

    Article : 248 words
  23. DESULTORY FIGHTING.

    LONDON, Friday.--Desultory fighting still continues in the southern part of the Kala hari Desert. A stiff engagement has taken place near ...

    Article : 91 words
  24. THE VICTORIAN LOAN.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Victorian conversion loan for £3,000,000 in 3 per cent. inscribed stock, issued yesterday at 93½, closes on Friday, the 22nd inst. ...

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  25. PURSUIT OF KRUITZINGER.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Brigadier-General De Lisle and Colonel Gorringe forestalled Commandant Kruitzinger at Adelaide in Cape Colony, about 20 miles ...

    Article : 118 words
  26. ALL-BRITISH CABLES.

    LONDON, Friday.--At the instance of the members of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, Sir Edward Sassoon, the Conservative member for Hythe, has urged, upon the Imperial ...

    Article : 63 words
  27. WHAT MELBOURNE IS DOING.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--Mr. Barton has wired to the chairman of the government Celebrations Committee, intimating that Mr. George Jenkins, State Clerk of Parliament had been ...

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  28. CLEVER BOER SCHEME.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The combinations devises by Lord Kitchener and General French frustrated an attempted dash by General De Wet and Commandant ...

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  29. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The mortality caused by influenza in London has now reached 40 weekly. The death-rate is still increasing. ...

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  30. LIVERPOOL'S EXAMPLE.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--It is stated that the slim of £1,500,000 is now being spent in Liverpool on a gigantic re-housing scheme. ...

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  31. LET JUSTICE BE DONE.

    LONDON, Friday.-- Commandant De Jager, a noted Natal rebel, having been proved guilty, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined £5000, for ...

    Article : 43 words
  32. PERSONAL.

    The Wesleyan Board of Missions has made a number of appointments to the foreign field. Mr. and Mrs. George Pearson. of the ""Joyful News" (England) Mission, who arrived by the ...

    Article : 441 words
  33. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday.--The Canadian House of Commons has approved of the proposal that the late Queen Victoria's birthday (May 24) be made a permanent holiday, throughout the Dominion. ...

    Article : 82 words
  34. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 words
  35. ARMED NATIVES.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Some of the Australian Bushmen, acting as scouts at Pienaars River, north of Pretoria, captured 25 natives, going towards Petiersburg and ...

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  36. GALE ON THE COAST.

    Stormy weather developed on the coast yesterday, and down south a heavy south-east gale was raging. The gale was accompanied by rainy and squally weather and a rough sea. Owing to ...

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  37. THE OUTBREAK AT PERTH.

    PERTH, Thursday.--Cooraber, the plague patient, is improving. Gardiner is convalescent, but it will be some time before he is sufficiently recovered to be released. No infected ...

    Article : 332 words
  38. SOMETHING LIKE A MILLIONAIRE.

    LONDON, Friday.--The famous steel and iron king, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, has given a million sterling to the superannuation fund for Pittsburg workmen, and has further pledged himself to ...

    Article : 46 words
  39. A TARDY APOLOGY.

    LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The New York "Sun" has apologised for the garbled accounts published by it some time ago of letters written by Lieutenant Morrison, an ...

    Article : 63 words
  40. THE STEAMER GUTHRIE DELAYED.

    Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. notify that owing to the bad weather delaying the coaling and loading of the E. and A. steamer Guthrie, her departure for the East has been postponed until 9 a.m. ...

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  41. LADY LAWLEY.

    LONDON, Friday.--Lady Lawley, wife of the newly-appointed Governor of Went Australia, will be a passenger to Fremantle per the R.M.S. Himalaya. Her husband precedes her on board the ...

    Article : 48 words
  42. Advertising

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  43. COASTERS IN TROUBLE.

    The ketch Candidate put into Broken Bay, with her mainsail split, and the ketch Mary Davis also put into the bay for shelter from the elements. ...

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  44. STORM AT THE HEADS.

    Our South Head correspondent telegraphed, last evening:--"A heavy gale set in at dusk, and it is still blowing hard, with a rough sea. Several steamers put back for shelter, including the ...

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  45. THE DAMAGED SYRIA.

    LONDON, Friday.--The damage done by the fire which occurred recently on board the P. and O. liner Syria, which was being built at Lint-house, on the Clyde, has been estimated at £30,000, ...

    Article : 43 words
  46. AFTER THE WAR.

    LONDON, Friday.--Speaking yesterday at a meeting of the British Women's Emigration Association, Mr. J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonics, said that he ...

    Article : 93 words
  47. VISITING INDIAN TROOPS.

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The captain of the steamer Dalhousie, which turn the Indian troops aboard, telegraphed to the Stale Secretary for Defence to-day:--"Arrive Williamstown 19th, to ...

    Article : 105 words
  48. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4 1-16d per ounce standard. At the last meeting of the Charity Organisation Society the secretary reported that during ...

    Article : 71 words
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