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  2. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

    Sept. 21.—John Lewis, ht, 54 tons, T. D. Lowis, master, for Melbourne via Beaconsfield; cargo—oxide of iron. Sept. 21—Pateena, s, 1250 tons, H. Same ...

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  3. TELEGRAPHIC.

    The Valparaiso correspondent of the New York Herald states that ex-President Balmaceda committed suicide at the Argentine Legation by shooting himself ...

    Article : 156 words
  4. Launceston Examiner

    THE construction of the railway between Macquarie Harbour and Zeehan has been unsatisfactory from the outset, and the date of its ...

    Article : 1,112 words
  5. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    A young man answering to the description of Sergeant Griffiths, of the Permanent Force, who has been missing for some time, has been seen by the Kyneton police, ...

    Article : 54 words
  6. TASMANIAN SHIPPING.

    Sailed—The Union S.S Company's s.s Flinders, for Launceston. Passengers—Saloon : Mr and Mrs Lawrence; Mesdames Urquhart. Wettenhall and two children, Campton: Misses ...

    Article : 46 words
  7. IRISH AFFAIRS.

    Mr C. S. Parnell, in the course of a speech delivered yesterday, stated that he was opposed to the abolition of plural voting is connection with elections to the ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. GENERAL BOOTH'S VISIT.

    General Booth has arranged to address a public meeting in the Exhibition Building to-morrow, and to explain his proposed colonisation scheme. ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. CURRENT TOPICS

    ON Friday last Captain Begent and others on board the steam tug Wybia had a somewhat unpleasant experience near Swan Island; The vessel had left Cable ...

    Article : 3,906 words
  10. THE DOCKERS' STRIKE.

    Riverside unions threaten a general strike unless the demands made by the men employed on the Hermitage wharves, Wapping, are conceded. ...

    Article : 24 words
  11. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The following stock sales were effected at the slaughter-yards today :— By Messrs Roberts and Company Limited—2 carcases pork, White, 3¾d to 4½d per lb; 4 ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA.

    The Foreign Office at St. Petersburg has issued an official denial of the report that fighting had taken place between Russian and Afghan troops in the Hindoo ...

    Article : 37 words
  13. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

    The Premier (Mr Munro) is still suffering from a severe attack of influenza. The Court of Marine Inquiry, which has been investigating the circumstances ...

    Article : 71 words
  14. MANNING ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

    Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, has issued a pastoral address urging the bishops to impress upon Catholic parents the duty of inculcating ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. (BY SUBMARINE CABLE.)

    The wheat market to-day is firm, and 1000 bags have changed hands at 5s 9d per bushel. Flour is quoted at £12 to £13 for stone brands, and £13 10s to £14 10s for roller made. There ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. TASMANIAN DRAMATIC SEASON.

    Mr Cunaro has left for Launceston to arrange a dramatic season at Hobart and Launceston for Miss Janet Achurch. The company will open in " Forget-Me-Not," ...

    Article : 38 words
  17. FLOODS IN SPAIN.

    The total number of bodies recovered in the flooded district of Consuegra is 1780. The Guilds of the City of London are ...

    Article : 36 words
  18. SHIP MAILS

    Close at Launceston as under :— SOUTH AUSTRALIA, via Melbourne. — S.s. Coogee, to-morrow, 12.30 p.m. NEW SOUTH WALES. via Melbourne.—S.s. ...

    Article : 48 words
  19. OPIUM BILL.

    The bill introduced into the Legislative Assembly dealing with the importation and sale of opium restricts the quantity of the drug to be brought into the colony by ...

    Article : 125 words
  20. MASONIC.

    Chief Justice Way, of South Australia, has been inducted as a Knight of the Temple and of Malta. The ceremony was an impressive and ...

    Article : 28 words
  21. Advertising

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    Advertising : 397 words
  22. GERMAN WHEAT PURCHASES.

    A large quantity of gold is being shipped to America from Germany in payment for the extensive purchases of wheat which the last-named country has ...

    Article : 30 words
  23. FRENCH FACILITIES FOR TRANSPORT.

    The recent French military manœvres on the German frontiers, in which 130,000 troops were mobilised, show that the eastern railway system will enable the ...

    Article : 44 words
  24. THE AUXILIARY NAVAL SQUADRON.

    The auxiliary squadron, comprising the cruisers and gunboats which recently arrived from England via Torres Straits, will reach Hobson's Bay to-morrow. They ...

    Article : 375 words
  25. FRENCH WAR PRECAUTIONS.

    President Carnot alluding to the reorganisation which has recently been effected in the army declared that France was now quite equal to the emergencies ...

    Article : 30 words
  26. BANK RATE OF DISCOUNT.

    The Financial News states that a rise in the bank rate of discount is probable. ...

    Article : 19 words
  27. AN ENGINEERING TRIUMPH.

    The St. Clair tunnel has been opened for traffic, and is generally regarded as a signal triumph in railway engineering. ...

    Article : 23 words
  28. ADDITIONAL TO PREVIOUS TELEGRAMS.

    Messrs Alexander and Co., of 19 Old Broad-street, E.C., in the Insolvency Court yesterday made an offer to their creditors of a composition of 63 6d in the ...

    Article : 468 words
  29. CLOSING THE HOTELS.

    The Licensing Bench at Ballarat East to-day ordered the closure of 40 out of the 67 hotels previously licensed. This was done in accordance with the decision ...

    Article : 88 words
  30. COMMERCIAL.

    Westgarth and Co.'s monthly report dated August 14 notices with regret a rumour then prevailing that the financial advisers of New South Wales had privately sold £1,500,000 of ...

    Article : 777 words
  31. ADELINA PATTI.

    MDME. ADELINA PATTI writes :— "I have found it matchless for the hands and complexion," (Signed) ADELINA PATTI. Pears's Soap, for the toilet and nursery, specially ...

    Article : 66 words
  32. A FEDERAL TARIFF.

    At the meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures to-night, it was decide to write to the intercolonial chambers asking if they are willing o meet in conference. ...

    Article : 126 words
  33. FALSE COCOAS.

    FALSE COCOAS.—It " is necessary that the public should know that the so-called pure Dutch Cocoas and their English imitations are adulterated with about 4 per cent. of added ...

    Article : 64 words
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