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  2. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The Orient liner Ormuz, from London; the M. M. liner Ville de in Clotat, from Marseilles; and the North German Lloyd mail steamer [?], from Bremen, are all due at Melbourne ...

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  3. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    The adjourned conference of representatives from the various committees appointed in the district to raise funds tor the relief of the sufferers by the Dudley colliery disaster was held last ...

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  4. THE POWERS AND CHINA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--In the House of Lords on Friday night, the Marquis of Salisbury said that the fate of China could only have one issue, unless the army and navy ...

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  5. AMERICA AND SPAIN.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--The coast for a distance of fifteen miles around Santiago-de-Cuba is lined with Spanish troops, in order to prevent the landing of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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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. PARLIAMENT.

    The last session of the 17th Parliament of New South Wales was opened yesterday by the Governor, Lord Hampden. There were the same firing of guns, parading of artillery, and beating ...

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  8. IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

    In the Legislative Assembly at noon the members assembled, and the Clerk read the proclamation calling Parliament together for the dispatch of business. ...

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  9. THE DUDLEY COLLIERY.

    The fan of the Dudley colliery has been kept constantly in motion since the pit was unsealed on Friday last, with the result that yesterday the workings were considered sufficiently clear to ...

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  10. BILLS ASSENTED TO.

    Upon resuming, The SPEAKER announced the receipt of a message from the Lieutenant-Governor, stating that a number of bills bad been assented to. ...

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  11. TRADE WITH PORT ARTHUR.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--From St. Petersburg it is reported that the merchants at Odessa have been officially informed that Russian goods are to he freely admitted into Port ...

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  12. A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.

    Mr. NORTON said he desired, on a question of privilege, to call the attention of the House to what he considered the grossly unconstitutional action on the part of the Minister for Lands ...

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  13. CHURCH DISPUTE AT CARRINGTON.

    Dr. Stanton, Bishop of Newcastle, paid a visit to Carrington last night with a view to effecting a settlement of the dispute which has recently arisen among the Anglican community there, ...

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  14. THE GERMANS AT KIAO-CHOU.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The German merchants at Kiao-chou report that no trade will be developed at that place for two years to come. ...

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  15. ORDNANCE LAND TRANSFER BILL.

    On the motion of Mr. REID, the Ordnance Land Transfer Bill was read a first time. The House then proceeded to consider the Address-in-Reply to the Governor's speech. ...

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  16. AN UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE.

    The four-masted barque Glencairn, from Brisbane, had on unusual experience off Nobbys yesterday. She came off the port about 9.30 a.m., and was taken in tow by the tug Gamecock, but ...

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  17. THE NICARAGUA SHIP CANAL.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Nicaragua Ship Cannal Company recently offered to transfer 700,000 shares to the United States, on condition that the Government guaranteed a ...

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  18. SUMMARY OF BUSINESS.

    In the Legislative Council, The President took the chair shortly before noon, when the proclamation calling Parliament together was read. ...

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  19. THE ITALIAN CRISIS.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--In the Italian Chamber of Deputies yesterday, Signor Vendemini, a member of the Radical party, accused the Marquis di Rudini of allowing ...

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  20. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 words
  21. A SPANISH NOTIFICATION.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--General Balance, the Spanish Commander-in-Chief in Cuba, has notified that he will not recognise the flag of truce, and will fire upon all vessels ...

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  22. TROUBLE IN UGANDA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--News has been received from British East Africa that trouble has again been originated by the notorious King Mwanga, who secretly organised a ...

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  23. RUGBY FOOTBALL.

    At the last meeting of the executive committee of the Newcastle Rugby Football Branch, a reply was received from the Metropolitan Branch with respect to the proposal that matches between the ...

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  24. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--From Washington it is reported that indignation is generally felt throughout the United States at a refusal by the Spaniards to exchange prisoners now ...

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  25. PERSONAL.

    The many friends in Sydney of Mr. R. S. Smythe, the well-known and popular manager for "star" artists, who is at present in the city with Mr. and Mrs. Durward Lely, the delightful ...

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  26. THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Transvaal Volksraad has adopted a bill for the expulsion of aliens, permitting a right of appeal to the Executive of tho Republic. ...

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  27. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    The steamer Jeanara, which anchored in Watson's Bay yesterday, while on a voyage from Capetown, is destined to load a cargo of coal at Newcastle for an Eastern port, to the agency ...

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  28. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Almost an exact rejetition of what took place in Melbourne the other week, when a large batch of destitute Hindoos landed there, has occurred in this colony. The ...

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  29. THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Emperor William of Germany addressed a gathering of the National Guard at Potsdam yesterday. He expressed a hope that the bulwarks ...

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  30. FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Emilio Aquinaido, the leader of the insurgents in the Philippines, proposes that the islands shall be formed into a Republic, under the ...

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  31. WANT OF CONFIDENCE.

    The Governor's speech having been read in the Legislative Assembly, Mr. RIGG. moved--"That a Select Committee be appointed to prepare an Address-in-Reply to ...

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  32. A LAND BOARD APPLICATION.

    Mr. James Vernon, chairman of the Maitland Land Beard, and Mr. Edward Parnell, member of the local board, were engaged for a considerable part of yesterday in hearing, at the ...

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  33. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLD-FIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--The return from the Associated Mines of are shipped to the eastern colonies some time since was never disclosed locally, but the London papers of May 14th publish the ...

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  34. RUSSIAN INTERVENTION.

    LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Several of the vessels of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, which were recently utilised for the purpose of conveying troops to Viadivostock and ...

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  35. MR. PARIS NESBIT.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--At the Supreme Court in Chambers to-day, Mr. Ingleby applied that Mr. Paris Nesbit, Q.C., now in Parkside Lunaic Asylum, should be brought before Mr. Justice ...

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  36. THE WELSH COLLIERS' STRIKE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Mr. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, has confirmed the report that the abandonment of the autumn naval manoeuvres was occasioned ...

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  37. A SHIPMASTER'S COMPLAINTS.

    The captain of the steamer Nyanza, which has loaded about 6300 tons of cargo and bunker coal at Newcastle for Manila, complains that delay took place in the loading of the vesel on account ...

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  38. THE PROPOSED COAL CONFERENCE.

    The proposed comerence between colliery proprietors and representatives of the Colliery Employees' Federation with reference to an increase in the selling price of coal and in the minors' ...

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  39. A LUCRATIVE SOURCE OF REVENUE.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--At the police court today, Louisa Ward was sentenced to 12 months' gaol on a charge of being an habitual drunkad. Since 1878 there were 194 convictions against he ...

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  40. POSITION AT MANILA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The latest news from the Philippines show that the insurgent leader Aquinaldo holds fully 500 Spaniards as prisoners. ...

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  41. THE SIERRA LEONE REVOLT.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Sir David Patrick Chalmers, formerly Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, has been appointed a Commissioner to inquire with regard to the ...

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  42. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The police to-dayar-rosted "Professor" Hautmont, carrying on business as a "medical specialist," on a charge of supplying a poisonous drug to a certain woman, ...

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  43. VICTORIAN COAL.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--At a meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works to-day, a discussion took place upon the proposal to give Victorian coal preference over that of outsiders. ...

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  44. INTERESTS OF ENGLAND.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Two more warships of the British squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, have sailed from Hongkong for Manila, at which place ...

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  45. GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--The death is announced of George Ulyett, the famous Yorkshire professional cricketer. ...

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  46. KILLED BY A LIFT.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A youth, whose name is unknown, was killed at the promise of Edwards and Co., tea and coffee merchants in Flinders-street, to-day, by being jammed between ...

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  47. PEACE OR REVOLUTION.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--The manifesto drawn up by the Catalonian Union, demanding that peace should be concluded with the United States, to avoid a revolution ...

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  48. BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Herr F. O. Licht, of Madgeburg, in his report in reference to the production of sugar-beet in Europe, states that the production during the past month shows a ...

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  49. A HORRIBLE SUICIDE.

    MELBOURNE. Tuesday.--News of a horible suicide comes from Berwick. The remains of a man whose name is unknown, were found of the Gippsland line, near that place. Deceased ha ...

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  50. ANOTHER YACHT FOR LORD BRASSEY.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--Lord Brassey has purchased the yacht Emerald from Mr. J. Gretton, jun., M.P. for South Derbyshire. ...

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  51. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    PERTH, Tuesday.--A curious accident occurred on Monday to a man named Geo. Northcote. He was taking the timber out of an old dry well, in Murray-street. The well was 40ft. deep, and ...

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  52. THE SPANISH RESERVE SQUADRON.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--The Spanish fleet, commanded by Admiral Camara, which left Cadiz a few days since, under sealed orders, has arrived at the port of ...

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  53. AUSTRALIAN APPLES.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Australian apples shipped by the steamer Narrung arrived in irregular condition, many being over-ripe. As these were the only apples placed on the ...

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  54. THE VICTORIAN FEDERAL POLL.

    MELBOURNE. Tuesday.--At least 12 village settlers at Drouin allege they crossed out "Yes" on their ballot papers in connection with the Federation referendum on the 3rd inst., yet only four ...

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  55. THE CRUISER MARBLEHEAD.

    LONDON, Monday Night.--The United States cruiser Marblehead, which is engaged in protecting the force landed at Guantanamo, Cuba, for the purpose of ...

    Article : 52 words
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