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  2. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Bush fires have been raging during the last week more extensive and destructive than those of any previous years since Black Thursday. Ships along the coast ...

    Article : 83 words
  3. FOREST CONSERVATION.

    There is no more useful department under Government than that presided over by Mr. J. E. Brown. Leaving out of consideration the effect of forests ...

    Article : 7,836 words
  4. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.

    Her Majesty the Queen has consented to become Patron of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, of the Council for which the Prince of Wales is President. ...

    Article : 60 words
  5. UPSETTING OF A RIVER STEAMER FIVE PERSONS DROWNED.

    An accident on the Derwent was reported yesterday, and has created great sensation here. The boat which upset was a small river ...

    Article : 161 words
  6. WAS IT A CABINET MEETING ?

    Premier—So this is the first Cabinet meeting since the holidays, eh ? Welcome, gentlemen ; welcome ! Where's Furner ? Wish you all a happy New Year, and ...

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  7. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The bodies of Kate Williams and John King, who were drowned in a boat accident off Garden Island on New Year's Day, were recovered by the water police ...

    Article : 288 words
  8. THE APPROACHING SESSION.

    Parliament will meet for the swearing in of members on January 12, and the Queen's Speech formally opening the session will be delivered, on the 21st. ...

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  9. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

    H.M.S. Lotus, gunboat, operating on the Nile, has captured nine nuggars laden with munitions of war. Calcutta, January 3. ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    A valedictory banquet was given as the Imperial Hotel this evening to Mr. McMichael, Manager of the National Bank at Terowie, who is transferred to Port ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. THE FRENCH MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

    M. Freycinet has accepted the task of forming a new Ministry. ...

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  12. THE SERVIO-BULGARIAN DIFFICULTY.

    Servia and Bulgaria have appointed delegates to conclude terms of peace. The place of meeting has not yet, however, been fixed. ...

    Article : 38 words
  13. MOUNT GAMBIER, January 6.

    The lad Arthur Alien, through whose negligence in lighting a fire to boil his billy without taking precautions to prevent its spreading, the fire near Five-mile Railway ...

    Article : 55 words
  14. [RECEIVED January 7. 2.40 a.m.]

    Advices from General Stephenson report that the Soudanese rebels have retired bey pad Daibar, and that the British forces are now returning to ...

    Article : 38 words
  15. GAWLER, January 6.

    Mr. Hannibal Orchard, who for eighteen years held the position of Overseer on the South Australian Railways, and who kept the Aberdeen Hotel, Burra, but who latterly ...

    Article : 74 words
  16. AFFAIRS IS BURMAH.

    News has been received from Burmah that a body of Dacoits attacked and murdered three Europeans who were, returning from work in the timber districts. ...

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  17. ARTESIAN WELL IN THE HUNDRED OF PORT PIRIE.

    Mr. W. Watt, farmer in the Hundred of Port Pirie, some time ago sank a well 45 feet deep, and struck good stock water, which, however, after a time turned salt, and stock would not ...

    Article : 151 words
  18. QUEENSLAND.

    Dr. O'Doherty arrived at Cooktown yesterday by the Duke of Westminster from London. Arrangements are being made to give him a fitting reception on ...

    Article : 145 words
  19. MR. W. E. FORSTER'S HEALTH.

    The Right Hon. W. E. Forster, who for some time has been seriously ill, is now improving in health. ...

    Article : 26 words
  20. COMMERCIAL.

    Adelaide wheat off-coast cargoes is quoted at 36s. per quarter. The wool market is quiet. The arrivals to date for next sales consist of 130,000 ...

    Article : 30 words
  21. ROBBERY AT PORT PIRIE.

    Last night Stuart's Royal Exchange and the Central Hotels were broken into, the breaking of a window in each case being the means of entering. All the small chance and ...

    Article : 189 words
  22. SHIPPING.

    Messrs. Money "Wigram's steamer Kent, from Melbourne November 6, arrived at London this morning. ...

    Article : 15 words
  23. NEW ZEALAND.

    A carpet snake has been found on the Auckland Racecourse, supposed to have been imported in a case of Australian wine. ...

    Article : 172 words
  24. [RECEIVED January 6, 4.50 p.m.]

    The Three and a Half per Cent. New South Wales Loan is quoted at £94. The Four per Cent. Queensland Loan is worth £102. ...

    Article : 33 words
  25. SHIPPING.

    The mails per the Orient steamer Liguria, from Adelaide November 29, were delivered here yesterday via Naples Colombo, January 4. ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. SUICIDE AT PALMER.

    An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. H. Oppatt on the body of Carl Janick, aged 73, who committed suicide by hanging himself in a chaffshed on the farm of his son-in-law. ...

    Article : 88 words
  27. MINISTERIAL ELECTIONS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Ministers returned, unopposed to-day were Sir John Robertson for Mudgee, Mr. Gerald Spring for Young, Mr. J. E. Burns for Hunter. Mr. R. M. ...

    Article : 210 words
  28. THE "WHARF LABOURERS' STRIKE IN MELBOURNE.

    There is no change to record regarding the wharf labourers' strike. Mr. McIlwraith's conduct in acceding to the terms of the men is regarded ...

    Article : 394 words
  29. THE WEATHER IN THE COUNTRY.

    After about a weeKs intense heat with the thermometer ranging from 90o to 116o in the shade, a splendid change came last evening followed by eight hours of steady rain. The ...

    Article : 568 words
  30. A MURDEROUS STEPSON.

    An extraordinary snooting case occurred last night at Beaufort. A boy aged 13, named Robert Ballantyne, went to a neighbour's and borrowed a gun ...

    Article : 143 words
  31. AN INHUMAN SON.

    A farmer named Thomas Minogue, living near Geelong, was to-day committed for trial for ill-using his mother, a widow, who was possessed of property which he ...

    Article : 129 words
  32. THE PLASTERERS' STRIKE.

    At a meeting of plasterers to-day it was stated that several employers had agreed to the men's terms of £3 per week of forty-four hours. Fully half the men are ...

    Article : 55 words
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