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  2. A LAND TAX.

    The New South Wales Ministry have succeeded in inducing the Assembly to accept their land tax resolution, and the Bill has been brought in and read the ...

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  3. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.

    The question of whether the Irish Judges were acting within the law in increasing the original sentences of imprisonment of appeal in the cases of ...

    Article : 74 words
  4. THE CHINESE QUESTION.

    The Government met in Cabinet on Friday morning, when they considered various telegrams received from the other colonies, and decided on the replies to be ...

    Article : 706 words
  5. BRITISH DEFENCES.

    The promoters of the mass meeting which is to be held in London on June to protest against the unpreparedness of the London defences have applied to ...

    Article : 268 words
  6. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    A supplement to the Gazette this evening summons Parliament on June 17 for the dispatch of business. A meeting of the Melborne Branch of ...

    Article : 135 words
  7. DEPUTATION.

    On Friday afternoon a deputation, consisting of the leading jammakers and fruit-growers of the colony, waited upon the Treasurer with reference to the Barrier trade as ...

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  8. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A boy named William Spragg was arrested by the police to-day on suspicion of being concerned in the death of the lad George Crompton, who died last night ...

    Article : 106 words
  9. [RECEIVED May 18.5 p.m.]

    The Nationalist members of Parliament held a meeting yesterday in Dublin, at which the recent Papal Decree against boycotting and the plan of Campaign was ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. QUEENSLAND.

    Five French escapees were brought up to-day and remanded. Hanlan's admirers have decided to tender him a banquet. ...

    Article : 58 words
  11. NEW ZEALAND.

    A private telegram states that Messes. Shaw, Saville, & Co. have declared a dividend of 5 per cent. ...

    Article : 25 words
  12. THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ENGLAND.

    Heavy rain fell to-day and made the Oxford wicket so sloppy that the Australian Eleven were unable to begin their match against the Oxford University. ...

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  13. THE CHINESE QUESTION.

    In reply to a question asked yesterday in the House of Commons, Sir John E. Gorst, for Baron Henry de Worms, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, stated that the ...

    Article : 79 words
  14. A STRANGE POISONING CASE.

    The adjourned inquest into the circumstances of the death of Mr. Edward Gillett, who expired at Spann's Restaurant, No. 4, Bourke-street east, on the ...

    Article : 502 words
  15. [RECEIVED May 18, 2 p.m.]

    A petition made to the Court that the Wingello Coal Company of New South Wales, which was floated in January last, should be placed in liquidation, has been ...

    Article : 40 words
  16. THE EMPEROR FREDERICK.

    Satisfactory news as to the condition of the Emperor of Germany is still being received. According to the latest information His Majesty is steadily improving ...

    Article : 61 words
  17. FROZEN MEAT.

    The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka, which left Lyttelton on April 1 with a cargo of New Zealand frozen meat, has arrive at Plymouth. ...

    Article : 27 words
  18. BANK OF ENGLAND.

    The Issue Department stock of gold coin and bullion is £18, 214,000. The Banking Department reserve in notes and coin is £11,358,000. ...

    Article : 39 words
  19. THE BREADSTUFFS MARKET.

    The quantity of wheat and flour afloat to the United Kingdom is now estimated at about 2,252,000 qrs. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. THE FORGER BENSON.

    Benson, who was recently convicted of forging signatures to certain documents, has committed suicide in New York. ...

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  21. [RECEIVED May 18, 6.25 p.m.]

    One of the great attractions at the Exhibition in Barcelona this year will be the assemblage In the port of that city of fifty men-of-war belong to various nations ...

    Article : 45 words
  22. TEEMER CHALLENGES KEMP.

    Teemer, the American sculler, has challenged Kemp, the present holder of the championship of the would, to row him on the Nepean for the championship and ...

    Article : 34 words
  23. THE S.A. CENTRAL BROKEN HILL.

    A meeting of the Directors and share holders of the South Australian Central Broken Hill was held to-night at Elliott's City of Denver. Hotel to consider the ...

    Article : 263 words
  24. Sydney, May 18.

    The position of affairs in connection with the Chinese difficulty is somewhat difficult to clearly indicate, owing to the peculiar attitude taken by the ...

    Article : 1,429 words
  25. THE AGENT-GENERAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Sir Saul and Lady Samuel were entertained at a complimentary picnic by a large number of influential friends at the National Park to-day. The gathering was ...

    Article : 146 words
  26. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS.

    The Loan Bill rendered necessary by an error in the Bill passed last session has been passed through, both Houses. Clauses in the former Bill prohibiting ...

    Article : 97 words
  27. STRANDING OF THE WAINUI.

    During a dense fog on Wednesday the Union steamer Wainul, from Auckland to Wellington, ran on a rock off Cape Pulliser. Fortunately the engines ware ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. GENERAL STRIKE OF BRICKLAYERS.

    The difficulties recently cropped up between the contractors and stonemasons have been temporarily adjusted, but a general strike of bricklayers is now ...

    Article : 60 words
  29. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN VICTORIA.

    The first report of the Council of Agricultural Education dealing with the work of the Council since Us inception in 1884 to the end of 1887 Is just Issued. The ...

    Article : 73 words
  30. THE BRUTAL MURDER AT PINE

    Bridget Baller, mother of the young girl who was so brutally murdered at South Pine by the supposed blackfellow, was brought up at the Police Court to-day ...

    Article : 63 words
  31. BROKEN HILL.

    Messrs, Thread gold & Abbott, of Broken Hill, have received instructions from Mr. Armstrong, of Melbourne, to accept the lowest tender sent in for the ...

    Article : 107 words
  32. POPULATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Registrar-General's report for the January-March quarter gives the population a 42,116, or 372 less than at the end of the year. During the quarter ...

    Article : 47 words
  33. AUSTRALASIAN WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

    The Wesleyan Conference have appointed the Revs. W. Morley, of New Zealand, and H Bath, of Victoria, representatives to the British Conference. ...

    Article : 70 words
  34. REVISING THE TARIFF IN VICTORIA.

    A meeting of the Melbourne soft goods warehousemen was held to-day to consider the tariff question. It was decided to send a resolution to the Commissioner of ...

    Article : 101 words
  35. INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

    Per express to Adelaide:—Messrs. Moulden, Handyside, Melrose (2), Nasmyth, Hodge, Vallier, Wooldridge, Cuppold, Ross, Shaw, Bryant, Tighe ...

    Article : 93 words
  36. VICTORIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ROWING MATCH.

    This afternoon the first heat of the public schools annual four-oared gig race was rowed on the Upper Yarra in the presence of a large number of a large number of spectators. ...

    Article : 100 words
  37. A MELBOURNE LIBEL ACTION.

    In the action Joseph Winter, one of the treasurers of the Victorian Branch of the Irish National League, versus D. and J. C. Syme for libel contained in a letter ...

    Article : 81 words
  38. PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Our Local Court of Insolvency has after a long Interval got an Insolvency case to deal with. William John Brown, labourer, of Port Augusta, has been, adjudicated ...

    Article : 54 words
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