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  2. THE BUSH FIRES CALAMITY.

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  3. THE SCRAMBLE FOR CHINA. ENGLISH ASSISTANCE.

    "The Times" to-day publishes a telegram from its Pekin correspondent, announcing that Sir Claude M. MacDonald, the British Minister at Pekin, has informed the ...

    Article : 377 words
  4. THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN.

    In consequence of representations made to Lord Salisbury by the representatives of the London newspapers, Sir H. H. Kitchener, commander-in-chief of the Anglo ...

    Article : 75 words
  5. NEW CALEDONIA.

    An important private bill has been introduced in the French Chamber of Deputies. The bill proposes to transfer the penetentiary from New Caledonia to Kerguelen ...

    Article : 122 words
  6. THE COMING CONVENTION. ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES.

    Among the federal delegates who reached Melbourne yesterday was Mr. G. H. Reid, the Premier of New South Wales, who was a passenger by the Sydney express. Mr. ...

    Article : 309 words
  7. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1898.

    The great engineering strike in Great Britain is evidently entering upon its last stage. The men have withdrawn their demand for the eight hours ...

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  8. INDIAN FRONTIER WAR.

    Sergeant Walker, of the Indian frontier force, who has been detained as a prisoner by the Afridis, for three weeks, has been released. ...

    Article : 86 words
  9. THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE. CONCESSIONS BY THE WORKMEN.

    The executive committee of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in London have announced their intention of conceding the demand of the employers that their ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. STRANGE ADVENTURE OF A BABY.

    Quite a sensation was caused last night in the township when it became known that a little girl, two and a half years old, daughter of Mr. Albert Garside, of the Tarago ...

    Article : 171 words
  11. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Lord Brassey's yacht, the Sunbeam, left Jervis Bay to-day under steam and sail for Melbourne. The reported disappearance of a yacht off ...

    Article : 239 words
  12. SUBJECTION OF THE BONERWALS.

    The Bonerwals, one of the tribes who were in revolt, have now virtually submitted to British authority. ...

    Article : 34 words
  13. BELOOCHISTAN.

    Further details are to hand of the rising of tribesmen in the Mekran district of Beloochistan, bordering on the Persian Gulf, which show that the outbreak was ...

    Article : 110 words
  14. NON-UNIONISTS BEING ENGAGED.

    The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited of Glasgow are reengaging large numbers of their old workmen on the condition that the men resume ...

    Article : 46 words
  15. FEDERAL FINANCE.

    The committee appointed by the Federation Convention during its Sydney meeting to report upon the question of federal finance met yesterday afternoon at the ...

    Article : 899 words
  16. ACTION BY THE EMPLOYERS.

    The employers have intimated that they require a unanimous and simultaneous settlement of the strike. It is also reported that they will insist ...

    Article : 44 words
  17. COUNTRY NEWS. BALLARAT.

    At the half-yearly meeting of the local branch of the A.M.A., held on Saturday night, it was resolved that in future miners suffering from what is known as poisoned ...

    Article : 160 words
  18. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A public meeting, convened by the Alluvial Rights Protection Association was held outside Wald's Hotel, Kalgoorlie on Saturday night. The mayor (Councillor M'Kensie) ...

    Article : 132 words
  19. GERMAN LABOUR UNIONS

    Prince Hohenlohe, the German Chancellor, contemplates proposing stringent legislation to prevent any abuses by labour combinations. ...

    Article : 28 words
  20. CHARGE OF MURDER.

    On the arrival of the barque M'Near from Adelaide this morning, John Anderson, seaman, was arrested on board on a warrant charging him with the murder of John Lee ...

    Article : 63 words
  21. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The disturbances in Basutoland, South Africa, caused by the chief Lethorodi capturing a stronghold commanding the village of Masupha, a rival chief, have been ...

    Article : 61 words
  22. REMARKABLE METEOR.

    A brilliant meteor was observed at Quirindi last night, and early this morning another was seen, followed some time afterwards by a report like that from a 100-ton ...

    Article : 78 words
  23. THE LADIES' SEALSKINS.

    The United States Government have decided in connection with the bill recently passed by Congress, prohibiting the importation of sealskins obtained by pelagic or ...

    Article : 71 words
  24. A GERMAN RAILWAY.

    A telegram received from Pekin reports that a German syndicate has obtained the right to constrct a railway from Kiao-Chou to Tsinanfu, in the province of ...

    Article : 34 words
  25. WARRNAMBOOL.

    The Western Meat-preserving Company's factory in Warrnambool is being fitted up with refrigerating machinery. Hitherto the company has confined its operations to ...

    Article : 176 words
  26. RAINFALL IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

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  27. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' FUNDS.

    The trustees of the Savings Bank of New South Wales have issued a circular limiting the amounts bearing interest which the friendly societies and charitable ...

    Article : 243 words
  28. RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

    "The Times" correspondent at Constantinople states that the Sultan has approved of Tewtik Pasha's (his Minister for Foreign Affairs) refusal to accede to the Czar's ...

    Article : 90 words
  29. DEATH OF MR. VILLIERS.

    The Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M. P. for South Wolverhampton, and father of the House of Commons, died yesterday, aged 96 years. ...

    Article : 259 words
  30. AN ALL-BRITISH CABLE.

    Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner of South Africa, is forwarding to Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, an ...

    Article : 78 words
  31. RAILWAY STANDING COMMITTEE.

    Yesterday the Railway Standing Committee spent a quiet day at Warburton. The rest was badly needed, as the members were completely tired out with the journeys ...

    Article : 133 words
  32. WRECK OF A JAPANESE TRANSPORT.

    A telegram from Antwerp announces the wreck of the Japanese transport Vara on the Peseadores, or Fishers' Islands, in the Formosa Channel. ...

    Article : 50 words
  33. THE SUGAR BOUNTIES.

    In accordance with the arrangement recently arrived at Belgium has summoned an international conference to consider the advisability of abolishing the bounties on ...

    Article : 166 words
  34. TELEPHONE RATES.

    The appre[?]sion as to the financial results always expressed by the Postal authorities of Victoria when informed of the great growth in the telephone business of ...

    Article : 164 words
  35. MR. MATHIESON ON TOUR.

    Mr. Mathieson, Commissioner of Railways, arrived by the steamer J.C.D. in Bairnsdale to-day from Lakes Entrance. He was met at the wharf by Mr. A. ...

    Article : 570 words
  36. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The business of Thomas Brown, of Glasgow, and D. L. Brown, of Brishane, are being formed into a company with a capital of £270,000. The company is issuing 4½ per ...

    Article : 83 words
  37. THE LIBERATOR FRAUDS.

    James W. Hobbs, the builder, who was convicted in 1893 of being implicated with Jabez Balfour and Horance Granville Wright in what were known as the Liberator ...

    Article : 63 words
  38. PLAYING WITH FIREARMS.

    A somewhat singular accident, again illustrating the culpable foolishness of carelessly handling firearms, occurred at Messrs. Balfour and Sons' Round Hill Station, near ...

    Article : 259 words
  39. INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET.

    Excuses were given to-night at a meeting of the committee of the New South Wales Cricket Association with regard to the defeat of the New South Wales team by ...

    Article : 127 words
  40. THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

    Up to date about 13,000 bags of new wheat have been delivered in Swan Hill, but a considerable quantity of that will be stored. All the farmers who are in a ...

    Article : 262 words
  41. QUEENSLAND.

    The latest advices from New Guinea are to the effect that business is very dull. Little rubber is coming in, owing to the fact that the settled district are worked ...

    Article : 96 words
  42. TASMANIA.

    An open verdict was returned at the inquest to-day on the fire at Watchorn Bros.' store. The only theory advanced was that of rats igniting matches. ...

    Article : 160 words
  43. THE SCHOONER KING CYRUS.

    The four-masted schooner King Cyrus, which left Newcastle yesterday, with a cargo of coal for San Francisco, put into Sydney harbour at midnight to-night. The master ...

    Article : 512 words
  44. THE RECENT FLOODS.

    One of the results of the late flood in the Brisbane River has been to silt up a number of the cuttings and channels of the waterway. In some places the deposits of ...

    Article : 236 words
  45. THE SEWER DISASTER. CANON TUCKER'S APPEAL.

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  46. NEW ZEALAND.

    Bush fires have broken out in the Hawera district, and the settlers are suffering great losses. In the Pahjatna district the loss of stock has been enormous, thousands of ...

    Article : 89 words
  47. THE LONDON WOOL SALES.

    The cable news from London regarding the arrivals for the January sales is rather important. The sales were to open on Tuesday, January 18, but the list of arrivals ...

    Article : 217 words
  48. MAIL STEAMERS.

    The F.M.S. Polynesien, homewards, left Colombo at 1 p.m. on Sunday, the 16th January. The s.s. Duke of Sutherland left Suez on ...

    Article : 57 words
  49. OLD AGE PENSIONS.

    Speaking at Reefton to-day the Premier said that the real secret of the opposition to the Old Age Pensions Bill in the Council was that the Conservatives feared the ...

    Article : 93 words
  50. THE SOUTH YARRA SEWER DISASTER.

    Sir,—I enclose my cheque for £10 in response to the appeal made by Canon Tucker. If, as soon as the financial depression ...

    Article : 140 words
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  53. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Three nominations were received to-day to fill the vacancy in the House of Assembly for the East Adelaide district, caused by the death of Mr. J. A. M'Pherson. ...

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