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  2. THE OPERA.

    This favourite work was performed last night in the Theatre Royal for the first time this season. There was a fairly numerous and highly appreciative attendance. The ...

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  3. THE NEW SPEAKER.

    Mr. Matthew Henry Davies, the new Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, who is the grandson of the Rev. John Davies, of South Wales, Congregational minister, and the son ...

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  4. THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. VISIT OF THE ITALIAN PREMIER TO VIENNA.

    Signor Crispi, the Italian Premier, who has been on a visit to Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe, left to-day for Vienna, where, it is believed, he will ...

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  5. THE NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    In the Assembly to-day it was announced by the Premier that the Government were considering the desirability of introducing a medical bill, but were doubtful whether it ...

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  6. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Charles Max Schrader, charged with extensive forgeries of bills of exchange in London, was to-day further remanded pending the arrival of the defective who is on his ...

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  7. THE CHAMBERS OF MANUFACTURES.

    This morning the New South Wales delegates to the Intercolonial Conference of Chambers of Manufactures, which is to be opened to-morrow, arrived at Adelaide by the ...

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  8. THE SUGAR BOUNTIES QUESTION.

    The sugar refiners who are out of work held a mass meeting in Hyde-park to-day to protest against the free importation of bounty-protected sugar from the ...

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  9. THE SMALL-POX OUTBREAK IN TASMANIA.

    The latest bulletin from the quarantine station is dated 10 o'clock this morning. It states that Thos. Hawkins, Geo. and Adye Blanchflowers, Mary J. White, Annie ...

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  10. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (BY CABLE FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) THE CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY.

    The Crown Prince of Germany, who recently went to Italy for the benefit of his health, is suffering from a severe cold. He will spend the winter in Italy. ...

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  11. THE FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER INCIDENT.

    The Cologne Gazette states that the indemnity which Germany offers to pay to the widow of the French gamekeeper who was killed on the frontier by a party ...

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  12. DEATH OF A PHILANTHROPIST.

    Mr. Robert Hudson Drew, a lineal descendant of the last member of the Hudson's Bay Company, died in Sydney yesterday, aged 74. As a young man, he inherited a small ...

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  13. THE BANK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The half-yearly report of the Bank of South Australia shows that the profit for the half-year was £25,300. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum is ...

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  14. QUEENSLAND.

    The British-India Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Jumna left this morning for London. The C[?]yebassa follows next week, taking a large quantity of wool from ...

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  15. SERVIA AND AUSTRIA.

    Servia is urging upon Austria the advisability of fortifying the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

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  16. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    At the meeting of the St. Kilda Council, on Monday evening, the following recommendations from the Public Works Committee were agreed to:— ...

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  17. SPAIN, FRANCE, AND MOROCCO.

    An impression prevails that the Sultan of Morocco, at the desire of Spain, is about to send a military force to the frontier of Morocco and Algeria. It is ...

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  18. NEW SOUTH WALES STOCK.

    New South Wales three and a half per cent. stock is in active demand at £98 2s. 6d., the demand being by buyers in the Australian colonies. ...

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  19. THE CHAMPION SCULLING MATCH.

    Beach, who has brought himself nearly down to his racing weight, continues to take gentle exercise on the Parramatta, and Hanlan, who has recovered from the effects ...

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  20. THE HEALTH OF THE AMEER.

    Reports from Cabul are again current to the effect that the Ameer Abdur Rahmann is in a critical state of health, but authentic information is difficult to ...

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  21. A NEW FINANCIAL COMPANY.

    A new Land and Mortgage Agency Company, with a capital of £1,000,000, is projected. ...

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  22. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The General Sessions were opened this morning before Judge Casey. There was only one case, a civil action, The Wannon Shire Council v. The Kowree Shire Council, ...

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  23. A PACIFIC MAIL SERVICE.

    The Times this morning urges that a joint British and colonial subsidy of £60,000 be granted for the purpose of establishing monthly Pacific mail services ...

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  24. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    It is understood that the land at the North-terrace, opposite the Parliament-houses, belonging to the North-terrace Land Company, has been sold to a Melbourne ...

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  25. THE TROUBLES IN SAMOA.

    Regarding the recent action of Germany in Samoa, Mr. T. F. Bayard, the Secretary of State, has expressed an opinion that the interference of the ...

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  26. THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The general elections are at length completed, and the country has endorsed the motion which Major Atkinson succeeded in carrying in the House of Representatives ...

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  27. BALLARAT.

    The group of statuary, "The flight from Pompeii," was brought to Ballarat safe today and it has been greatly admired by those who have had an opportunity of viewing it[?] ...

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  28. THE AMERICA CUP.

    Mr. Sweet, the owner of the cutter Clara, has announced his intention of competing next year in the International Yacht Race for the America Cup. ...

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  29. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM ON THE EXPANSION OF ANGLICANISM.

    The Right Rev. J. B. Lightfoot, D.D., Bishop of Durham, in a sermon preached before the Church Congress, which is now sitting at Wolverhampton, urged that ...

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  30. THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

    M. Gustave Beckx, the consul-general for Belgium at Melbourne, has been gazetted Executive Commissioner for Belgium at the Melbourne Centennial ...

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  31. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Governor, Sir F. Napier Broome, arrived at Geraldton yesterday en route to the Murchison, which he is visiting. He was received with great cordiality by the principal ...

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  32. CHOLERA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

    The [?]pedemic of cholera which has been raging in Sicily and other parts of the Mediterranean is now subsiding. ...

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  33. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE. (BY TELEGRAPH FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) VICTORIA.

    ECHUCA, OCT. 4.—Stock Crossings—225 bullocks from [?]ullo Downs, Queensland, consigned to Powers, Rutherford, and Co.; 1,008 sheep from Maynard, Moira s[?]ding, to G. Howat; 87[?] head of cattle from ...

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  34. NEW ZEALAND.

    Nothing is yet known regarding Major Atkinson's attempts to form a Ministry. A meeting of the Opposition members will be held at Wellington to-morrow to consider the ...

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  35. EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS.

    At the wool sales to-day 12,200 bales were offered, making a total of 258,100 bales since the commencement of the series. ...

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  36. THE CHINESE QUESTION.

    A large impromptu meeting, principally composed of working men, was held in the Temperance-hall this evening, which passed resolutions declaring that the presence of the ...

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  37. CRUELTY TO A HORSE.

    At the Hawthorn Court on Tuesday, Constable Leary proceeded against a baker named Thomas Edwards on a charge of cruelly ill-treating a horse. In consequence ...

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  38. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.

    The Legislative Council had a short sitting to-day and adjourned until Wednesday. The Railway Commissioners Bill passed the third reading. The Payment of Members Bill was ...

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  39. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    BOURKE, OCT. 4.—20,000 maiden [?]wes in two lots are approaching Charl[?]ville from Kallara to Kilcummin, near Cl[?]rmont, Wallace and Casey, owners; 1,100 store bullocks are approaching here from ...

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  40. COLONIAL SECURITIES.

    Four per cent. South Australian inscribed stock, £101 10s., ex dividend. Four per cent. New Zealand inscribed stock, £98 10s., ex dividend. ...

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  41. THE VISIT OF THE ENGLISH CRICKETING TEAMS.

    At the annual meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association to-night the old disputes between the association and the trustees of the cricket ground were again revived in ...

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  42. THE MAILS.

    The British-India Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Dacca, from Brisbane August 9, arrived at Plymouth yesterday. ...

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  43. BURGLARS AND FIREARMS—A DELICATE QUESTION.

    Sir,—Considering the number of burglaries recently perpetrated, and the desperate character of some of the offenders, I should like to ask you would a person waking and ...

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  44. SHIPPING DISPUTE AT ADELAIDE.

    Since the decision of the Masters' and Officers' Association last evening, the interest in the labour difficulty at Port Adelaide has been heightened. The first vessel ...

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  45. OVERLAND PASSENGERS TO AND FROM SYDNEY.

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  46. ARREST FOR A HOTEL ROBBERY.

    Yesterday a man named John Charles Vernon, who was acquitted at the General Sessions on a charge of stealing a cash-box from the Niagara Hotel, Lonsdale-street, was ...

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  47. QUEENSLAND.

    BLACKALL, OCT. 4.—Stock passings—2[?]th ult., 11,000 ewes and lambs from Northampton Station to Oondoo[?]oo Station, W[?]nton, Ramsay Brothers and Hodgson owners, Scholefield in charge; 30th ult., 1,200 ...

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  48. LAW NOTICES (This Day).

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 words
  49. CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES.

    A man named Joseph Smith, working in an excavation at the corner of Little Collins and Elizabeth streets, yesterday, for Mr. Deague, contractor, was overcome by an ...

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  50. THE QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.

    In the Assembly to-day all the afternoon was spent in considering the Council's amendments in the Divisional Boards Bill, some of which were accepted, and several disagreed ...

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  51. THE QUEEN'S FUND.

    The hon. treasurer acknowledges, with thanks, the following additional donations to the Queen's Fund:— Collected by Mrs. A. Cromb[?]e Todd, as follows:— ...

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  52. FATAL FIRE NEAR ALBURY.

    A report has just reached here that a but was burned down last night at Walla Walla, about 30 miles from Albury. The hut was occupied by a man named George Woods, his ...

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  53. OVERLAND PASSENGERS TO AND FROM MELBOURNE.

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  54. LADIES.

    Messrs. George and George are giving the best value in Melbourne in dresses, zephyrs, and silks. They should be seen by all buyers. —[ADVT.] ...

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  55. POPULAR.

    Gecntlemen are invited to call and inspect a magnificent selection of tweeds Messrs. George and George have just received, Just the thing for spring suit and trouserings. ...

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  56. AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

    HORSHAM, OCT. 4.—Abundant rain has fallen all over the district. Grass is plentiful, and the prospects of the harvest are now assured. The rainfall for September was 183 points, and for this month ...

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  57. AN ENORMOUS EXHIBITION.

    An important shipment of Dress Material, consisting of upwards of 2,000 pieces of Dress Tweeds and Jersey Veil[?]ngs, together with 1,000 boxes richly-embroidered Robes, in ...

    Article : 71 words
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