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  2. DISTURBANCE IN THE TRANSVAAL. MURDER OF AS ENGLISHMAN.

    The shooting of a British subject in Johannesburg by the Boer police has outraged the fellings of Englishmen throughout the Transvaul. ...

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  3. A.J.C. SUMMER MEETING.

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  4. DISORDER IN AFGHANISTAN.

    A menacing situation has arisen on the frontier between Russian territory in Asia and Afghanistan. The population, which is Mohammedan, is showing marked ...

    Article : 129 words
  5. THE SOUDAN.

    The belief is now entertained in Paris that M.Deleasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has relinquished the idea of putting forth a claim of France to ...

    Article : 97 words
  6. AMERICA AND ENGLAND

    Numerous meetings have been held throughout the United States, at which kindly Christmas greetings were expressed towards Great Britain. ...

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  7. FRANCE AND CHINA.

    The Viceroy of Szechwen has forwarded a reply to the French ultimatum, in which it was announced that the French would commence hostilities unless a missionary ...

    Article : 82 words
  8. THE HURRICANE IN NEW GUINEA.

    Some additional particulars of the late hurricane in New Guinea have been received from Dr. Fletcher, who writes from Samarai on December 17. The doctor was ...

    Article : 296 words
  9. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    This evening the whole of the theatres had packed houses. Messrs. Williamson and Musgrove staged the pantomime, "Ali Baba," with an exceptionally strong easte ...

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  10. HOLIDAY RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

    The railway traffic to the country and on the suburban lines was exceptionally heavy during the Christmas holidays, and, despite the crowding that took place on the ...

    Article : 489 words
  11. UNITED STATES AND FRANCE.

    The Government of the United States has caused a protest to be presented to the Chinese Government at Pekin against the extension of the French concessions at ...

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  12. FRANCE AND SIAM.

    The beginnings of what may prove a difficulty for France has occurred in Siam. The Siamese have refused to evacuate certain positions which the French claim ...

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  13. AFFAIRS IN ABYSSINIA.

    Ras Maugaseia, the Governor of Tigre, and son of the late ing John of Abyssinia, who had lately shown a disposition to rebel against the supreme authority of the ...

    Article : 53 words
  14. AFFRAY IN TURKEY.

    A quarrel has taken place in a pastrycook's shop at Constantinople between Hafuz Bey, one of the chamberlains of the Sultan, and Ghani Bey, one of the ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. THE NEW CRETAN RULE.

    Upon the arrival of Prince George of Grce[?], the newly appointed Governor of Crete, at Canea, the Turks were insulted by the Christians. ...

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  16. GERMANS AND ENGLAND.

    The German Government insists that the new commercial treaty with Great Britian must allow German goods to enter British colonies on terms of equality with ...

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  17. AMERICA AND THE PACIFIC. RESISTANCE OF GERMAN PROJECTS.

    The American Government is not prepared to allow any change in the sovereignty of the Caroline Islands without its specific consent being given. ...

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  18. THE GRETA COLLIERY DISASTER.

    After five weeks of unintertupted work in the tunnel at the East Greta Colliery, the first body was recovered on Friday night at about 11 o'clock. It was found ...

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  19. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.

    A cable message has been received from Auckland by the police, stating that Frank Butler, a prominent official of the Carrington Co-operative Coal and Shipping ...

    Article : 136 words
  20. HUNGARY.

    In the Hungarian Reichstag[?] M. the President of the National party in the Diet, grossly insulted the Premier, Baron Desiderins Banffy, accusing him of ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. FRANCE AND THE JEWS.

    In the French Chanber of Deputies to-day, M. Doumont attacked the Government for its dismissal from office of Mr. Reigs, the mayor of Algiers. ...

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  22. A BLEAK WINTER.

    The weather in Eastern Europe is intensely severe. Hundreds of Montenegrin soldiers, whilst travelling through the Lara Pass, were ...

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  23. AFFAIRS IN SAMOA.

    Mr. J. W. Sibree, a gentleman connected with the London Missionary Society, stationed at Samoa, but at present on a visit to Sydney, during an interview to-night on ...

    Article : 115 words
  24. DEATH OF DR. NULTY.

    The death is announced of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Nulty, Catholic Archbishop of Munster. He was consecrated in 1864. ...

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  25. THE EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE.

    It is understood that the ex-Empress Eugenie of France has by her will bequeathed to Prince Victor Napoleon, the head of the Bonaparte family, the sum of ...

    Article : 66 words
  26. SEIZURE OF WAKE ISLAND.

    The United States Government has ordered the war-ship Bennington to seize Wake Island, in the Pacific, to the northward of the Marshall Islands. ...

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  27. THE NICARAGUA CANAL. REPORTED NEW TREATY.

    It is reported that the United States Government and Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador to the United States, are negotiating for the abrogation of the ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The bubonic plague, which was the cause of so many deaths among the native population of India, has now broken out in Mongolia, the northern division of China. ...

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  29. PACIFIC CABLES. THE ENGLISH ROUTE.

    The Canaidan Government has agreed to share five-ninths of the cost of the Pacific cable equally with Great Britain. ...

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  30. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A daring robbery was committed at the Shamrock Hotel late on Friday night. The proprietor (Mr. Gerloff) collected the day's takings, about £60, and, while ...

    Article : 116 words
  31. BRITISH INTERESTS TO BE PROTECTED.

    Mr. Chamberlain has been asked by a correspondent as to whether British interests were being protected in the Transv[?]al, and his reply, which has been ...

    Article : 61 words
  32. THE ANTI-ANARCHIST CONFERENCE.

    One of the recommendations made by the recent anti-Anarchist conference held in Rome was that a special bureau should be formed linking together the police of ...

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  33. FIRE AT COBURG.

    About a quarter-past 9 o'clock yesterday morning the large slaughtering premises of Connelly and Co., situated on the cast side of the Merri Creek (opposite the Pentridge ...

    Article : 216 words
  34. UNITED STATES CABLES.

    Two powerful American corporations are seeking concessions in return for laying cables to the Hawaiian, Ladrones, and Philippine Islands, and also to Japan and ...

    Article : 37 words
  35. WRECK OF A STEAMER.

    A small steamer, the Yolla, recently purchased by the Union Steamship Comapny from Risby Brothers, while bound from King's Island to Strahan with cattle, being ...

    Article : 113 words
  36. RUSSIA IN CHINA.

    In pursuance of the policy of firmly establishing its supremacy in Manchuria, the Russian Government has opened schools in POrt Arthur and Talienwan. ...

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  37. AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN.

    The negotiations between Great Britain and the United States in reference to the proposed Nicaragua Canal promise to have a satisfactory issue. ...

    Article : 64 words
  38. THE IVANHOE VENTURE LEASE.

    The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the question of the loss sustained by the Ivanhoe Venture Company as a result of the recent alluvial troubles ...

    Article : 350 words
  39. COEY AND CO. LIMITED.

    Coey and Co. Limited, provision merchants and commission agents, 43 and 45 Tooley-street, London, who had houses at Liverpool and Belfast, and at Kcokuk, ...

    Article : 216 words
  40. CONFERENCE OF BOER COMMANDANTS.

    A conference has been held of the Boer commandants in the Transvaal, nominally with the object of discussing the resumption of the campaign against M'Pefu. ...

    Article : 62 words
  41. PAPAL ALLOCUTION.

    Popo Leo Thirteenth, in an allocution to the College of Cardinals, has protested against the persecution of the [?]lergy by the Government authorities. ...

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  42. TROUBLE IN THE TANGTSE VALLEY.

    Disturbances along the valley of the Yangtse Kinng River are increasing. The Chinese authorities are powerless to repress them. ...

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  43. CHRISTMAS APPEALS.

    We have received a donation of £3 for the Church of England Army Fund from "A Thanks Offering." For the Latrobe-street Ragged School also "A Thank Offering " sends £2. ...

    Article : 129 words
  44. CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

    The joint commission appointed by the Governments of the United States and Canada (of which Lord Ripon is one of the members), to discuss the question of ...

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  45. ACTION OF THE AUTHORITIES.

    In view of the excitement occasioned by the alteration of the charge against the policeman who shot the man Edgar, the Boer authorities have deemed it proper to ...

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  46. ALLEGED LARCENY OF A REGISTERED LETTER.

    A young woman named Eva Mitchell was arrested yesterday by Detective Sexton on a charge of stealing a registered letter addressed to an acquaintance named ...

    Article : 189 words
  47. ILLNESS OF SENOR SAGASTA.

    Considerable alarm is felt in Spain owing to the illness of the Premier, Senor Sagasta. He recently suffered severely from an attack of influenza, and double pneumonia ...

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  48. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Teasury, speaking at Edinburgh, [?]gised Sir William Vernon Harcourt's dignified leadership of the Liberal party in ...

    Article : 139 words
  49. ESCAPE FROM THE CITY WATCHHOUSE.

    James Murray, 23 years of age, who was charged with larceny from the person, escaped from the City Watchhouse about 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Murray was ...

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  50. THE PETITION PRESENTED.

    British residents to the number of 5,000 marched to the residence of the vice-consul at Johannesburg, and presented the petition to the Queen. ...

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  51. UNITED STATES ARMY.

    The Democratic party in the United States proposes to limit the American standing army to 30,000 men, about its strength prior to the war. ...

    Article : 54 words
  52. FINANCIAL TELEGRAMS.

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  53. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

    Another phase of the diffiently recently reported as having arisen through the explusion of Danish children from the Germand schools within the Duchy of ...

    Article : 156 words
  54. LARGE FIRE AT NORSEMAN.

    A fire occurred this afternoon on the premises of Mr. Charles Grifliths, draper and clothier, in Roberts-street, by which his whole building and stock were destroyed, ...

    Article : 191 words
  55. STREET ACCIDENT IN CARLTON.

    A horse attached to a spring-cart bolted on Christmas Day along Faraday-street Carlton, and the occupants of the vchincle, a young man named Robert M'Gregor, and ...

    Article : 378 words
  56. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS

    Quotations for frozen meat are as follows:— New Zealand Sheep.—Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes (55ib. to 651b.)— ...

    Article : 152 words
  57. OTHER CHARGES AT. JOHANNESBURG.

    The dismissal of the Field Cornet at Johannesburg has been demanded by the British vice-consul, on the ground of his continuous unwarranted arrests of ...

    Article : 51 words
  58. SHEFFIELD FACTORIES.

    The contracts recently entered into by the Admiralty for armour plates for the war-ships now in course of construction will assure two years' work at the Sheffield ...

    Article : 129 words
  59. MILITARY TOURNAMENT AT BALLARAT.

    The annual military tournament, held today, under the auspices of the 3rd Battalion Infantry Brigade, passed off very successfully. A large sum was disbursed in ...

    Article : 231 words
  60. THE KONINGEN LUISE AT FREMANTLE.

    The German mail steamer Koningen Luise arrived at noon to-day. Passengers: For Adelaide— Rev. P. Kastner and family, Mesdames [?], Carroll and three children, Messrs. H. E. ...

    Article : 337 words
  61. NEW ZEALAND.

    The "new Zealand Times" states authoritatively that the Minister of Lands, Mr. John M'Kenzie, while retaining his position in the Cabinel, will for a time ...

    Article : 48 words
  62. ARRIVAL OF THE MOANA.

    The R.M.S Moama, which arrived on Saturday, made the voyage from Auckland to Sydney, 1,281 [?] miles, in 70½ hours, lowering the record by five hours. ...

    Article : 67 words
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  64. UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

    As foreigners are not allowed to dig for Kauri gum until they have been three months in the colony, some three or four hundred Austrains, who recently arrived, ...

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