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  2. TORNADOES IN AMERICA.

    The American mails which arrived today contain some particulars of the terrible destruction caused by the tornado in Georgin. A telegram from Gainesville on ...

    Article : 327 words
  3. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 222 words
  4. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The strike of carpenters at Pretoria, which has lasted two months, is ended. The masters have agreed to pay the men a standard wage of £6/10/ per week, of 48 ...

    Article : 116 words
  5. SWINE FEVER.

    Mr. A.A. Brown, M.B., B.Sc., one of the experts attached to the Agricultural department, still maintains that the pig disease which has been discovered among ...

    Article : 380 words
  6. THE COASTING TRADE.

    In the House of Lords last evening Lord Muskerry strongly advocated legislation on the lines of the resolution passed by the Colonial Conference last year relating to the ...

    Article : 257 words
  7. SMALL-POX.

    Two additional cases of small-pox are reported to-day, the patients being Annie Patman, a domestic servant residing with her parents at Inveresk, and Thomas ...

    Article : 552 words
  8. THE RAILWAYS.

    The conversion of Traralgon into the central depot of the Gippsland district means that the engines which were formerly stabled at Sale will hereafter be stabled at ...

    Article : 1,833 words
  9. THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

    The Railway Commissioners returned last night from their tour of the coal lines. Mr. Tait, the Chief Commissioner, on being interviewed, refused to deny or confirm the ...

    Article : 831 words
  10. SOMALILAND.

    The British first-class torpedo gun-boat Hussar, 1,070 tons, 2 guns, has captured off the coast of Somaliland, a dhow, on which were found 200 rifles and 27 cases of ...

    Article : 47 words
  11. THE GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER'S FORECAST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 743 words
  12. AN ARMENIAN MASSACRE.

    A serious outrage by Kurds in Armenia is reported. The Kurds pillaged a monastery near Erzeroum, killing six priests. They also ...

    Article : 55 words
  13. THE COAL TAX.

    Mr. Ritchie, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is devising means to prevent evasions of the export duty on coal, by which it is estimated that the revenue loses ...

    Article : 94 words
  14. A PREVARICATING WITNESS.

    At the conclusion of a case in the Supreme Court to-day the Acting Chief Justice made an example of a witness who had given contradictory evidence. The action ...

    Article : 258 words
  15. THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS.

    At the Princess's Theatre last night Shakespeare's comedy, "As You Like It," was presented for the last time before a large audience. This evening Mr. George ...

    Article : 1,026 words
  16. VISIT TO LHASSA.

    The Geographical Society of St. Petersburg has conferred a special honour on M. Zybikoff, a Russian explorer, who recently spent a year in Lhassa, the capital of Tibet, ...

    Article : 45 words
  17. THE LONDON WOOL SALES.

    The list of arrivals for the fourth series of London wool sales this year has closed. It comprises 228,000 bales, of which 87,000 have been forwarded direct to the ...

    Article : 173 words
  18. THE ABDUCTION CASE.

    Captain Charles Alfred Percy Gardener, who was a member of the Fifth Victorian Contingent, and describes himself as a cattle dealer at Cape Town, was brought ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. ASSETS COMPANY.

    A meeting in connection with the Melbourne, the Federal, the Mercantile Bank, and the English and Australian Assets Companies Limited was held at the ...

    Article : 162 words
  20. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    During the present wool season, which is now closed, 164,400 fewer bales were carried over the railways than last season. The ship Verajean, in regard to the safely ...

    Article : 369 words
  21. THE ANTWERP WOOL SALES.

    The Antwerp wool sales will open on the 30th inst., and close on July 3. The quantity to be offered is 11,920 bales, including 460 bales of Australian wool. ...

    Article : 38 words
  22. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been created a Vice-Admiral. A syndicate has been formed to construct a ship canal between the Firth of Clyde ...

    Article : 140 words
  23. FINANCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The reserve of notes and coin is £20,852,000. against £26,823,000 for the previous week, the proportion to liabilities being 51.62 per cent., against 53.14 per cent. ...

    Article : 375 words
  24. PUBLIC HOUSE TRUSTS.

    Sir,—I notice that Mr. John Vale states in your columns that "the British public house trusts have chiefly distinguished themselves so far by endeavouring to plant ...

    Article : 344 words
  25. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The suspected case of plague at Auckland has been declared one of true plague. The patient is a newspaper boy, and the source of infection is unknown. ...

    Article : 41 words
  26. THE RAINFALL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 words
  27. BRISBANE BOARD OF HEALTH.

    It was decided by the Brisbane Board of Health to-day that owing to the case of plague in Sydney, all vessels from that port will require to produce a fumigation ...

    Article : 36 words
  28. SHIPPING NEWS.

    The following airivals and departures are reported:— Arrrvals.—Moana, from Sydney May l8; Australasian, from Melbourne May 6. ...

    Article : 39 words
  29. MALLEE LEASES.

    Interviewed on his way to Sea Lake last night as to the intentions of the Ministry with reference to the perpetual leases that lapse through nonpayment of rents and the ...

    Article : 420 words
  30. APPALLING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    News received by the American mail states that on May 30 the south-bound Coast Limited train plunged from the cliff into the surf at Punta Garda, and was ...

    Article : 246 words
  31. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Marine Board held an lnquiry to-day into the grounding of the barque Western Australian at Troubridge Island on Wednesday, and found that Captain Sone had ...

    Article : 98 words
  32. LATE SPORTING NEWS.

    A mistake in paying over the totalisator winnings occurred at the meeting of the Charters Towers Jockey Club yesterday in connection with the Flying Handicap, ...

    Article : 40 words
  33. NO-LIABILITY COMPANY ACCOUNTS.

    Sir,—The important question of auditing the accounts of no-liability minig companies by licensed auditors has frequently been referred to in your columns, and the ...

    Article : 368 words
  34. FIRES IN THE COUNTRY.

    DANDENONG.— A four-roomed weatherboard house on the Stud-road, about a mile from the town, was burnt to the ground on Friday morning. The premises were occupied by Mr.R. Tratt, ...

    Article : 75 words
  35. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    About four years ago the North German Lioyd and other main steamer companies made a trial of Collie coal with unsatisfactory results. The development of the ...

    Article : 72 words
  36. MALLEE RELIEF FUND.

    Mr.J.H. Stewart, hon. secretary of the Mallee Settlers Relief Committee, Swan Hill, desires to acknowledge the following contributions in answer to his appeal for assistance to the distressed ...

    Article : 279 words
  37. TASMANIA.

    Thfe steamer Wanaka leaves for Sydney to-morrow with 65 cages and 664 loose stud sheep; and the Wakatipu on Tuesday will take 15 cages and 708 loose sheep, or a total ...

    Article : 119 words
  38. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotation:— Wool.—In the Bradford market crossbreds are strong, but merinoes are weak. ...

    Article : 242 words
  39. ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.

    Charles Glanfield and Henry Harvey, both 21 years of age, who were arrested under sensational circumstances on Thrusday night for the murder of the infant ...

    Article : 349 words
  40. SEARCHING FOR A HUSBAND.

    Mrs. Mary Goldstein, a young married woman, residing with her husband at "Waitura," St. Kilda road, was surprised on Thursday when a woman presented herself ...

    Article : 312 words
  41. POPULATION—OUR GREATEST NEED.

    Sir,—Until we get a steady and continuous, influx of a desirable class of immigrants the progress of our Commonwealth must go on at a snail's pace. ...

    Article : 199 words
  42. NEW ZEALAND.

    Sir A. Cadman, who has returned to the colony, states that a scheme to establish the iron-sand industry on the West Coast of the North Island, and at Parapara, Nelson, ...

    Article : 156 words
  43. NEWS IN BRIEF.

    Three boys, William Miller, Joseph Hodges, and William Drysdale, were before Messrs. Edwards and Close, J.P.'s, at the Port Melbourne Court on Thursday on a charge of playing football in a ...

    Article : 201 words
  44. MUNICIPAL INTELLIGENCE.

    The recommendation of the finance committee that £50 be voted for making a valuation of the town, and that Mr. Robert J.Storie, the rate-collector, be appointed to undertake the duties, came ...

    Article : 116 words
  45. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

    William French Bond, late of 97 Eastwood-street, Kensington. retried hotelKeeper, who died on May 29, under a will dated January 7, 1874, left real estate ...

    Article : 48 words
  46. Advertising

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    Advertising : 392 words
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