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  2. THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.

    The United States Congress was opened yesterday. President M'Kinley's Message to the House occupies 18 columns in the newspapers, and is ...

    Article : 149 words
  3. THE WAR. MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.

    At the battle of Modder River last week the British troops were almost maddened during the fight by thirst. They could get no water, because the ...

    Article : 185 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 69 words
  5. SPORTING. The Pony Races.

    THE Pony Syndicate's monthly race meeting yesterday was not so well patronised as usual, no doubt on account of the excessive heat. The "books" managed to raise enough ...

    Article : 653 words
  6. Cricket.

    The New South Wales cricketers played a match at Armidale, returning from Brisbane, against a local 15. The New Englan[?]ers won the toss, and, batting first, compiled 126. ...

    Article : 66 words
  7. POLITICAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.] The S. A. Crisis.

    Mr. Solomon knew that he was defeated before the House met yesterday afternoon. His friends say that he yielded to the suggestion to give all existing Legislative Council ...

    Article : 181 words
  8. [BY TELEGRAPH.] THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

    The Adelaide Stock Exchange has voted 100 guineas to the Mayor's Patriotic Fund. ...

    Article : 20 words
  9. CHRISTMAS SHOWS AT THE SHOPS.

    MESSRS. Thomas Forsyth and Co. intend to make the approachiug Christmas memorable. Mr. Forsyth is quite sues this can be done, and his modus operandi is plain. He has ...

    Article : 1,061 words
  10. METEOROLOGICAL.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 words
  11. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 410 words
  12. Victoria.

    Mr. M'Lean, the new Premier, says the Government will pursue a progressive and liberal policy, and that careful and vigorous administration of all departments of the State ...

    Article : 62 words
  13. A JUDGE DEAD.

    The death is announced of the Right Hon. William O'Brien, P.C., Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, Ireland. Deceased ...

    Article : 38 words
  14. Advertising

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    Advertising : 138 words
  15. The Queensland Crisis.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 words
  16. THE PARLIAMENT. Mr. Lyne's Budget Speech.

    Both Houses of Parliament sat last night. ...

    Article : 17 words
  17. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 87 words
  18. POSITION OF THE ENEMY.

    After the fight at Modder River the Boers retreated in the direction of Langsberg and Jacobsdal, in the Orange Free State. Lancers sent out from the ...

    Article : 57 words
  19. THE COUNCIL.

    In the Council the Early Closing Bill was passed through committee and the third reading fixed for to-night. ...

    Article : 21 words
  20. AN AUSTRALIAN HERO.

    The Chief Secretary of Queensland is in receipt of a cable message from the Agent-General stating that Captain Sel[?]heim, of the Queensland Defence Force, had been specially ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. Senior Cricket.

    A meeting of delegates to the Senior Cricket Association was held at the Grand Hotel the other evening, Mr J. C. Dobbyn in the chair. It was decided that the matches which should ...

    Article : 263 words
  22. THE ASSEMBLY.

    Sir Joseph Abbott was again absent from the Assembly. As soon as the formal business had been completed, Mr. Lyne rose to deliver his ...

    Article : 765 words
  23. Barrier Miner.

    Do the recent Ministerial changes indicate a Conservative reaction? The late Governments were Liberal or were called Liberal; that is undoubted. They ...

    Article : 1,026 words
  24. THE ADVANCE ON LADYSMITH.

    A trestle bridge has been completed by the British Engineers at Frere Station, in Natal, in place of that destroyed by the Boers. The Brisish troops ...

    Article : 82 words
  25. New Zealand.

    According to the election returns so far to hand, the Government has gained seats in Kulapoi, Invercargill, Waipawa, Napier, Ellesmere, and Dunedin. Among others ...

    Article : 67 words
  26. THE MUNICIPAL [?]UDDLE.

    SIR,—The almost pandemonium exhibition at the meeting of the municipal council at various times during last night, ending with the disgraceful fiasco at half past 5 this ...

    Article : 617 words
  27. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. [BY TELEGRAPH.] A Child Burnt to Death.

    The Guildford railway stationmaster's (Mr. Binns') house was destroyed by fire yesterday. An infant six weeks old was burnt to death, the nurse having dozed and ...

    Article : 41 words
  28. CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON.

    Mr. C. J. Labuschagne, a member of the Legislative Council of Natal for the county of Weenen, has been arrested on a charge of high treason. The specific ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] Victoria.

    Mr. Isaacs, ex-Attorney-General, left Melbourne yesterday afternoon for London in connection with the Tramway Company's appeals. ...

    Article : 25 words
  30. An Extraordinary Accident; Fall from an Upper Storey.

    Winifred White, a housemaid at the Australian Club Hotel, was the victim of an extraordinary accident at an early hour this morning. By some means she fell a distance ...

    Article : 374 words
  31. Polo.

    The Broken Hill Polo Club held a polo match on the racecourse yesterday afternoon. Despite the sweltering heat, the players put an unusual amount of energy into the game, ...

    Article : 211 words
  32. South Australia.

    At the Criminal Court yesterday afternoon Peter Nelson Giles was charged with criminally assaulting a girl. The same case was heard at the last sessions, when two ...

    Article : 133 words
  33. IN CAPE COLONY.

    General Sir W. F. Gatacre and his troops arrived have at Patters Krael, on the East London railway, in the northern portion of Cape Colony. The General's ...

    Article : 48 words
  34. THE NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS.

    The troopship Kent, with the first batch of New South Wales troops, arrived at Cape Town from Port Elizabeth on Friday. ...

    Article : 29 words
  35. NURSES AND THE QUEEN.

    The Qneen has presented, at Windsor Castle, a Union Jack to a number of nurses who have offered their services in connection with the war. Welcoming ...

    Article : 47 words
  36. The Turf.

    Silvermoor, who won the Trial Handicap at Epsom on Saturday, is from Silvermere by the Melbourne Cup winner The Assyrian, from Silver Thread, by St. Albans from ...

    Article : 344 words
  37. Tasmania.

    Mr. William Fowler Watchorn, an old colonist, is dead. ...

    Article : 12 words
  38. THE RUTHERGLEN ROBBERY.

    O'Grady and his mate, arrested at Berrigan N. S. W., on suspicion of the Rutherglen rubbery, have established an alibi and been released. The police now think that the ...

    Article : 68 words
  39. New Zealand.

    Burglars broke into a house at Masterton, chloroformed the inmates of the house, who were asleep, and then ransacked the premises William Richardson, the temperance ...

    Article : 219 words
  40. PATRIOTISM OF THE COLONIES.

    Mr. Septimas A. Stephen, M.L.C., of Sydney, read a paper at the Colonial Institute last night on "New South Wales, Past and Present." The Earl ...

    Article : 83 words
  41. THE WEATHER.

    THE fiery heat of yesterday was very trying for those who had no cool cellar to retire to, and to-day is filled with more unpleasantness. This morning the jaded sufferers by last ...

    Article : 231 words
  42. BRIDGE-BUILDING AT SYDNEY.

    Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, Minister for Works, has received an offer from a syndicate to build a bridge connecting North and South at a cost of £2,000,000. ...

    Article : 37 words
  43. POLICE COURT.

    MR. MAITLAND, P.M., adjudicated in the Police Court to-day. Three first-offending drunks were fined 2s. 6d.; and Felix Owens, an old-offender, was fined 20s. or seven days. ...

    Article : 104 words
  44. THE SILVERTON TRAMWAY.

    MR ELEY, traffic manager of the Silverton Tramway, has received an intimation from the directors that he has been appointed general manager. Mr. F. Sponse, hitherto ...

    Article : 75 words
  45. THE LATEST. BOER PREPARATIONS.

    The Boers are reported to have made extensive preparations for opposing General Buller's column in Natal. The hills around Colenso and Ladysmith are ...

    Article : 78 words
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