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  2. TELEGRAMS.

    The Customs receipts for the month were £2,643; excise duty, £8 19s.; harbour dues, £687; internal revenue, £187 19s. Total, £3,527. ...

    Article : 260 words
  3. THE WAR.

    It is stated that President Steyn has persuaded the Free State burghers to continue their resistance. The argument he is credited with ...

    Article : 436 words
  4. TELEGRAMS.

    At a meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday afternoon, Mr. R. Lewis moved that Mr. Tucker be requested to resign his position as chairman of the board. He ...

    Article : 281 words
  5. CABLEGRAMS.

    Sir Fowell Buxton, formerly Governor of South Australia, in a letter to the "Times," warmly defends Sir Samuel Way, Chief Justice of South Australia, ...

    Article : 89 words
  6. CABLEGRAMS.

    The Parliamentary bye-election for South Manchester, rendered necessary by the Marquis of Lorne's succession to the Argyll Dukedom, took place ...

    Article : 114 words
  7. THE AMERICAN DYNAMITE CASE.

    The three men, Walsh, Nolan, and Dultman, who were lately arrested on a charge of having attempted to dynamite the Thorold Lock of the Welland ...

    Article : 62 words
  8. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    An officer of the French army recently communicated to a politician, the contents of certain documents at the War Office, relating to the Dreyfus case. ...

    Article : 93 words
  9. THE PLAGUE.

    An outbreak of the bubonic plague is reported from Cairo, in Egypt. ...

    Article : 21 words
  10. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The rainfall in New South Wales, especially on the coast, during the past 72 hours has been remarkably heavy, Sydney registered 10 inches up to 9 o'clock this ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. BROOME.

    Mr. M. S. Warton, Resident Magistrate, has gone to England on a six months' leave of absence Mr. Gibbons has arrived from Perth to carry on the ...

    Article : 259 words
  12. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Lieut. Scott, of H.M.S. Majestic, has been selected to command the National Antarctic Expedition, now in process of organisation. ...

    Article : 28 words
  13. MINING.

    The following are the latest quotations for the under mentioned Australian stocks:— Associated (W.A.), £2 17s. 6d.; ...

    Article : 55 words
  14. JUDICIAL.

    The Privy Council appeal case, Gray v. Australian Gold Discovery Company, has been abandoned. ...

    Article : 21 words
  15. AUSTRALIAN BUSHMEN.

    Major Tunbridge, of Queensland, has been selected to command the Second Regiment of Australian Bushmen. The regiment is now being organised ...

    Article : 44 words
  16. VICTORIA.

    The Queen has been pleased to present her portrait to the Hospital for Sick Children. In forwarding the photograph Lord Hopetoun said he had been ...

    Article : 43 words
  17. THE FAR EAST.

    The Powers have represented to the Tsungli-Yamen, or Supreme Council of China, the necessity of suppressing the secret society known as the "Boxers." ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. COMMERCIAL.

    At to-day's colonial wool sales in London, there was strong competition. Prices were unchanged. The sales have now closed. ...

    Article : 193 words
  19. GOLDFIELDS QUARTER SESSIONS.

    The resident magistrate (Mr. Finnerty) has received a communication from the Crown Law Department, stating that it has been decided to establish a Court of ...

    Article : 75 words
  20. LORD ROBERTS'S NEPHEW.

    Lieut. Roberts, a, nephew of Lord Roberts, was accidentally shot a day or two ago at the Modder River by his servant. ...

    Article : 37 words
  21. A NEGLECTED RESERVE.

    Sir,—In your issue of the 23rd inst., a letter appears under the above heading, signed by "Ozone." It is perfectly true that this commonage is shamefully ...

    Article : 144 words
  22. PERSONAL.

    Sir William Henry White, Director of Naval Construction to the British Admiralty, has resigned. Sir William has taken this step ...

    Article : 45 words
  23. BUNBURY.

    A pleasant function took place in Gordon's Hotel yesterday afternoon, when about 40 ladies and gentlemen assembled to bid good-bye to Mrs. D ...

    Article : 268 words
  24. A SHIP WRECKED CREW.

    The captain and crew of the barquentine Niels Ribe, which was wrecked on a reef 35 miles from Levuka, arrived yesterday from Noumea and Fiji by the steamer ...

    Article : 93 words
  25. PORTUGAL AND THE TRANSVAAL.

    Portugal has, it is announced, removed the embargo recently imposed at Delagoa Bay on foodstuffs intended for the Transvaal. ...

    Article : 31 words
  26. THE PLAGUE.

    The plague scare at Fremantle is in a quiescent state, no fresh cases of disease having come to light since the death of Malet. On Saturday the last of the ...

    Article : 172 words
  27. THE ZULULAND DISASTER.

    Colonel Bethune has furnished a report on the reverse which lately over-took Captain Goff's squadron of Horse while marching between Vryheid and ...

    Article : 52 words
  28. A CORRECTION.

    Sir,—Will you please give me a short space to say the statement published in the "W.A. Church News" on the 15th inst., regarding the Rector of Northam's ...

    Article : 312 words
  29. A QUEENSLAND MURDER.

    The aboriginal Billy Broome, who was found guilty of the murder of Mary Le Blowitz, at Stantion Harcourt, has confessed to the crime. The Cabinet decided this ...

    Article : 84 words
  30. A BARQUE IN DISTRESS.

    The barque Vidylia, 664 tons, ran into anchorage to-day showing signals of distress. A heavy sea was on at the time, and a launch which went off immediately ...

    Article : 215 words
  31. MORE TROOPS FOR THE FRONT.

    Eleven thousand additional troops will, it is announced, embark for South Africa next month. ...

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  32. THE CAPE CABLE.

    Mr. Warren, manager in Australia for the Eastern Extension Company, has replied to the amendments suggested by Mr. Crick and Mr. Watt to the agreement ...

    Article : 78 words
  33. CUE.

    The annual meeting of the parishioners in connection with the Church of England was held here last night. The reports showed progress in every branch of church ...

    Article : 77 words
  34. FALLEN HEROES.

    The Prince of Wales has, in guarded terms, expressed approval of a scheme recently propounded by the London "Daily Express' for commemorating the ...

    Article : 129 words
  35. FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    The New South Wales Commissioners who are dividing the colony into districts for the federal elections, have nearly completed their work, and their ...

    Article : 193 words
  36. UNDER WHICH FLAG?

    Sir,—Will your correspondent "An Englishman and Ex-Naval Officer" kindly inform me where the flag he complains about was displayed. There was ...

    Article : 151 words
  37. MENZIES.

    Yesterday morning Harry Ralph had a narrow escape from a violent death at Mulbne. He had descended a well 140ft. deep, and was returning to the surface by ...

    Article : 59 words
  38. SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A STATION MASTER.

    The body of John Hayman, stationmaster at Walkaway, was found in the bush near the station to-day by Constable Lucas, of Greenough. A revolver ...

    Article : 123 words
  39. WYNDHAM.

    The weather is cool and cloudy. During the past week half an inch of rain fell locally, and at Ore Station and Bootys about an inch and a half fell. There are ...

    Article : 61 words
  40. WEST AUSTRALIAN NURSES' CONTINGENT.

    Sir,—In your issue of yesterday appeared some interesting extracts from letters sent by two members of the Western Australian nurses' contingent ...

    Article : 141 words
  41. YORK.

    Farming operations are in full swing, but more rain is necessary. There is every prospect, however, of a change. ...

    Article : 23 words
  42. THE BRITISH ARMY.

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  43. A PROFESSOR KILLED.

    Professor Ulrich, head of the Otago School of Mines, while gathering geological specimens at Flagstaff Hill, Port Chalmers, in company with his son, fell nearly 100ft., ...

    Article : 41 words
  44. ON THE WEST.

    General Snyman, who for so long commanded the besiegers at Mafeking, is now entrenching at Bulfontein, ten miles east of the lately beleaguered ...

    Article : 74 words
  45. Advertising

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