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  2. THE POLITICAL SITUATION

    The Federal Association denies that it is intriguing with "some other party" to carry its form of Federation, and afterwards to subvert the fiscal policy of the country. A bulletin was ...

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  3. THE THAMES CATASTROPHE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Further particulars of the disaster at the launching of the new battleship Albion, at Blackwall, yesterday, show that the majority of the ...

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  4. THE WEATHER.

    Yesterday witnessed the clearing off of the stormy conditions on the coast, and shipping delayed by the bad weather resumed running. The wind had subsided to light variable airs, ...

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  5. SECOND EDITION.

    At half-past three this morning the Legislative Assembly was still sitting--a bare quorum of members listening to the tedious speeches. Mr. TRAVERS JONES said he would support ...

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  6. NOTES OE 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. AMERICA AND SPAIN.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--General Garcia, the leader of the insurgents massed near Santiago-de-Cuba, has informed Brigadier-General Shafter, the Commander of ...

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  8. TEMPERANCE LESSONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    Of late years the question of having lessons on the subject of temperance, as the word is understood to apply to the use of alcohol, taught in public schools has been more or less discussed ...

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  9. TROOPS FOR MANILA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Six troopships now at San Francisco are under orders to sail for Manila on Monday, with reinforcements for the first, portion of the army sent ...

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  10. THE POWERS AND CHINA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Russian newspapers continue to chorus their indignation at the recent speech in which the Marquis of Salisbury pointed out that the fate ...

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  11. SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

    The barquentine Adelaide, a vessel of 217 tons, bound from Newcastle to Gisborne (N.Z.), coalladen, is overdue, and some anxiety is expressed for her safety. She left Newcastle on May 14. ...

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  12. THE CRISIS IN FRANCE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--President Faure has asked M. Peytrel, one of the Vice-presidents of the French Senate, to undertake the formation of a Cabinet. ...

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  13. PERSONAL.

    Mr. Justice Owen is returning to Sydney by the P. and O. R.M.S. Victoria, which arrived at Albany on Wednesday last from London. Mr. Thomas Rose, who represents Argyle in ...

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  14. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A statement has been circulated that negotiations were in progress for a settlement in connection with the Crotty estate. Mrs. Crotty, when seen this ...

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  15. A TRIBUTE TO NATIVE CHILDREN.

    It is refreshing in these days, when tho cars of the public are made to tingle with the oftrepeated information that the youth of this colony are developing habits of intemperance, ...

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  16. FROZEN MEAT STEAMERS.

    Following the departure of the steamer Culgoa a report was current yesterday that four other frozen meat carrying steamers had been either chartered or purchased to load coal and frozen ...

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  17. A PRIMED LOG.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Mr. J. C. Williams, city municipal inspector at Ballarat, while engaged in chopping wood at his residence, discovered in one of the logs a quantity of gunpowder ...

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  18. THE ANGLO-ITALIAN SYNDICATE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--"The Times" publishes full particulars of the contract recently entered into between the Chinese Government and an Anglo-Italian syndicate, ...

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  19. PRISONERS OF WAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The United States Government has decided to hand over the crews of captured Spanish merchantmen to the French and Austrian Ambassadors at ...

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  20. THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY.

    At the invitation of Cardinal Moran, an important meeting of representative Catholic clergymen and laity was held at St. Mary's Presbytery yesterday afternoon to arrange for an ...

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  21. PROSPECT RESERVOIR OVERFLOWING.

    There is no likelihood of there being a water famine in Sydney, at any rate for some time to come. The members of the Water and Sewerage Board were informed on Wednesday by the ...

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  22. JAPANESE TRAINING SHIP.

    After a stay of a little over a fortnight in port the Japanese training ship Kongo sailed yesterday clearing tho Heads at 8 a.m. The Kongo will pay a short visit to Melbourne, and afterwards ...

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  23. DISEASED FRUIT.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Minister for Agriculture was interviewed to-day on behalf of the shipowners, and urged to dispense with the delay for the examination of fruit imported from ...

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  24. PROPOSED NEW RAILWAYS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Railway Committee has, for the second time, recommended Parliament to construct a line from Collingwood to Melbourne, which will cost £101,685, and is ...

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  25. A SHIP'S BOAT PICKED UP.

    On her passage from Wollongong to Sydney on Monday the steam collier Palmerston lost one of her boats. It was washed out of the davits during the gale when the steamer was off Little ...

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  26. RUSSIAN INTERVENTION.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Count Cassini,, who was recently transferred from Pekin to the position of Russian Ambassador at Washington, says it is not expected that the ...

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  27. STREET NOISES.

    Some effort is apparently to be made to remove from Sydney the reproach of being one of the noisiest civilised cities in the world. The Metropolitan Transit Commissioners have made the ...

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  28. FLOODS AT THE MANNING RIVER.

    The secretary of the Marine Board received the following telegram yesterday from the pilot at the Manning River:--"The river is flooded; all the buoys have been washed away near the ...

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  29. INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES.

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  30. NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL.

    A court-martial was held yesterday on board the flagship Royal Arthur to investigate charges of insubordination against two sailors named Roberts and Williamson respectively, of H.M.S. ...

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  31. A HUNTING FATALITY.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Mr. F.E. Staughtoa, of Eumerella Eeast station, near Macarthur, was killed to-day at the Hamilton Hunt Club meet. His horse fell at the last fence, 4ft. 6in. ...

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  32. THE SORROWS OF SPAIN.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, who claims to be the legitimate successor to the Spanish throne, under the title of Charles VII., threatens to ...

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  33. THE FRENCH NATAL MANOEUVRES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The French naval manoeuvres will be carried out in the Mediterranean upon a most magnificent scale. ...

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  34. ARRIVAL OF H.M.S. ROYALIST.

    H.M.S. Royalist arrived in port last evening from Hobart, after an absence from headquarters of six weeks. During this time she has been stationed in the Tasmanian port. Upon the receipt ...

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  35. THE QUEEN REGENT.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The gravest fears are entertained in Vienna for the safety of Queen Maria Christina, the Spanish Regent, whose situation is becoming ...

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  36. WOMEN AND THE FRANCHISE.

    The Premier has consented to give audience this afternoon to a deputation which will urge the necessity for an extension of the franchise to women. This deputation is to comprise ...

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  37. ITALY AND THE ARGENTINE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A permanent treaty has been concluded between Italy and the Argentine Republic, for the purpose of submitting questions in dispute to arbitration. ...

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  38. QUEENSLAND.

    CUNNAMULLA, Thursday.--The rouseabouts at Widgeegoora shearing shed, which is in the Pastoralists' Union, have struck for 30s a week, being an increase of 6s on the Pastoralists' Union ...

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  39. WEST AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    PERTH, Thursday.--In the Assembly yesterday afternoon, Mr. Leake continued the debate on the Address-in- Reply. He said he had decided to alter the form of the amendment of which he had ...

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  40. THE CITY COUNCIL.

    A meeting of the finance committee of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon, but the business paper comprised subjects of very little importance. On two occasions tho meeting ...

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  41. A NEW ZEALAND CASE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Ten pages of the current issue of "Truth" are devoted to exposing the wrongs of Mr. Joshua Jones in connection with the Mokau Estate, ...

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  42. INFLUX OF CHINESE.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--There is a difficulty in dealing with the 50 Chinese who recently crossed the border from South Australia at Camooweal, and were to be deported on mules. The ...

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  43. LAND SETTLEMENT.

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  44. A SUPREME COURT ACTION.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--In the Supreme Court to-day, an action was heard, Charles Arthur Macdonald, of Pitt- street, Sydney, versus Broadsound Boiling-down and Meat Export Company, ...

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  45. TO-DAY.

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  46. ADMIRAL CAMARA'S FLEET.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Surprise has been occasioned by the return to Cadiz of tho Spanish fleet of twenty vessels which recently left that port under the command ...

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  47. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Sir John Gorell Barnes, Judge in Divorce, yesterday granted Mrs. Harry Armytage, of Melbourne, a judicial separation from her husband, on the ground of ...

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  48. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council yesterday delivered its decision in the New Zealand ease, Union Bank Australia, Limited, v. Murray-Aynsley. ...

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