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  2. DYNAMITE ACCIDENT NEAR BROKEN HILL.

    A terrible accident occurred to-day at the north quarry of the Tarrawingee Flux Company's property. Just before dinner time a man on the surface of the ...

    Article : 180 words
  3. THE LION TIMBER WORKS.

    On Wednesday afternoon about eighty gentlemen assembled at the Lion Timber Seasoning Works at Port Adelaide, at the invitation of Mr. R. Honey. the proprietor, in ...

    Article : 1,397 words
  4. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS.

    When the Assembly met this afternoon Mr. Dibbs made a statement of the intentions of the Government with respect to the Electoral Reform Bill ...

    Article : 557 words
  5. AUSTRALIAN FINANCES.

    The London and Westminster Bank is offering Tasmanian bills to tho value of £360,000, yielding 4 3/8 per cent, interest, and it is expected that the bills will be ...

    Article : 42 words
  6. DUTIES ON FOOD IN FRANCE.

    A proposal has been submitted in the French Chamber of Deputies for tho repeal of Customs duties on food, the ground for the proposal being the alleged ...

    Article : 63 words
  7. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.

    It is rumoured that Admiral Fairfax, one of the Lords of tho Admiralty, who was at one time in charge of tho Australian Station, will shortly be promoted ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. RUSSIA AND SERFDOM.

    The crisis in the social condition of Russia appears to be close at hand. Famine and disease have reduced the peasantry to the verge of desperation ...

    Article : 5,816 words
  9. BREADSTUFFS.

    The quantity of wheat and flour afloat to the United Kingdom is now estimated at 2,900,000 qrs. The quantity afloat to the Continent ...

    Article : 36 words
  10. GENERAL BOOTH AT EXETER HALL.

    General Booth, chief of the Salvation Army, delivered an address at Exeter Hall yesterday. Speaking of Australia, he said that to become equal to America ...

    Article : 80 words
  11. DEATH OF ANOTHER COMMONER.

    The death is announced of Mr. Henry Wardle, Gladstonian member for Derbyshire South, at the age of 60. Mr. Wardell was a brewer, being senior ...

    Article : 50 words
  12. THE COPPER MARKET.

    The present stocks of copper in England and France amount to 54,850 tons. The quantity advised from Chili and Australia is 2,556 tons. ...

    Article : 60 words
  13. A BONAPARTE IN TROUBLE

    Prince Louis Bonaparte, son of the late Prince Lucien Bonaparte, charged with having defrauded his reputed wife Rosalie, of diamonds, valued at £20,000 ...

    Article : 65 words
  14. ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

    A terrible accident occurred at Tarrawingee to-day. A man named John McMahon was engaged putting in a charge when by some unexplained means ...

    Article : 254 words
  15. THE SALVATION ARMY.

    With regard to the repeated conflicts between the municipal authorities and the Salvation Army at Eastbourne, a plebiscite has been taken of the ratepayers as ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. METALS, IRONMONGERY, &c.

    The following quotations are to hand:— Fencing-wire, best English No. 8, oiled or varnished, £8 per ton. ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. THE ITALIAN PREMIER.

    It is rumoured that the Italian Premier (Signor Crispi) will retire shortly from active politics. ...

    Article : 28 words
  18. INFLUENZA.

    The number of deaths from influenza recorded for London during the past week is 216. During the previous week there were 376 deaths, as compared with ...

    Article : 45 words
  19. COMMERCIAL.

    Fourteen thousand quarters of Australian January and February wheat have been sold at 39s. per quarter. ...

    Article : 27 words
  20. SUEZ CANAL.

    The North of England Steamship owners are appealing to the shipowners of England to make a second Suez Canal. ...

    Article : 32 words
  21. SHIPPING STOCKS.

    The quotations for shipping stocks are unchanged. ...

    Article : 9 words
  22. [RECEIVED February 17, 9.30 p.m.]

    A receiving order has been granted against W. Benzon, who some time ago gained notoriety as a gambler and a spendthrift, and who was known as the ...

    Article : 40 words
  23. THE BANK OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

    Arguments were heard in Chambers to-day before the Chief Justice on an application by John Pearce, the defendant in an action arising from the failure of ...

    Article : 250 words
  24. THE MELBA DIVORCE CASE.

    Mr. Justice Jeune, in dismissing Mr. Armstrong's application for a Commission to take evidence in Vienna in the suit for divorce against his wife (Madame Melba) ...

    Article : 65 words
  25. ANTIMONY.

    The price for antimony is 43½. per ounce. ...

    Article : 9 words
  26. SILVER.

    Silver is now quoted at 41½d. per ounce. ...

    Article : 9 words
  27. MR. PHIL ROBINSON.

    The Court has ordered Mr. Phil Robinson, the journalist, to pay the arrears of his wife's alimony immediately. ...

    Article : 22 words
  28. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The Directors of the Stockport Hat Company, on whose premises the Customs authorities recently seized hats, interview the Commissioner of Customs to-day ...

    Article : 172 words
  29. [RECEIVED February 17, 9.5 p.m.!

    The Liberal colleagues of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., who has lately been staying in the Riviera, are urging him not to return to London to ...

    Article : 59 words
  30. "ONE MAN ONE VOTE" IN MELBOURNE.

    A public meeting was held at the Town Hall to-night, attended by about 800 persons, in advocacy of the one-man-one-vote principle. The meeting consisted ...

    Article : 78 words
  31. TRADE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

    The Pacific Islands Syndicate has been registered with a capital of £500,000. The Earl of Albemarle, the Marquis Saintyyes and Mr. J. S. Balfour ...

    Article : 103 words
  32. A CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEAL.

    The Right Hon. Sir Henry James, Q.C., M.P., has introduced into tho House of Commons a Bill providing for the appointment of a Criminal Court of Appeal. ...

    Article : 32 words
  33. SIR S. W. GRIFFITH.

    Sir S. Griffith returned to Barcaldine from Longreach this morning. There was a slight demonstration at Longreach as the train was leaving, but none at ...

    Article : 191 words
  34. THE LATE RIGHT HON. W. H. SMITH.

    The will of the late First Lord of tho Treasury (Right Hon. W. H. Smith, M.P.) has been proved. The personalty is sworn at £1,700,000. ...

    Article : 32 words
  35. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Chief Justice Way, accompanied by Sir Alfred Stephen, occupied a seat on the Bench of the Full Court for some time this morning. ...

    Article : 29 words
  36. DEATH OF A NATURALIST.

    Tho death is announced, at the age of sixty-seven years, of Mr. Henry Walter Bates, F.R.S., naturalist, and Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, Mr. ...

    Article : 46 words
  37. ALLEGED FRAUD BY A SOLICITOR.

    Herbert Salwey, a solicitor, twenty-nine years of age, was arrested last night on a charge of obtaining by fraud £2,500 from the English. Scottish, and ...

    Article : 165 words
  38. QUEENSLAND.

    The Tramway Company have refused to grant tho request of the Employes Union for the submission of the question of the reduction of wages to arbitration. ...

    Article : 63 words
  39. THE BROKEN HILL WATER SUPPLY BILL.

    The report of the Select Committee on the Broken Hill Water Supply Act Amendment Bill was laid before the Assembly to-night. The Committee ...

    Article : 404 words
  40. THE COAL PORTERS' STRIKE.

    All the coal porters who recently went on strike, and a portion of whom went back to their duties, have now resumed work. ...

    Article : 27 words
  41. DARLING RIVER NEWS.

    The sunken steamer Cumberoona is blocking the channel of the River Darling at Christmas Rocks, fifty miles from here by land, thus preventing steamers passing ...

    Article : 209 words
  42. NEW ZEALAND.

    The German cruiser Bussard from Samoa arrived at Auckland to-day. Some home-made biscuits forwarded to the Government Analyst in connection ...

    Article : 44 words
  43. THE VICTORIAN UNEMPLOYED.

    An open-air meeting of unemployed and other workers, held at Brunswick to-night, was attended by about 150 persons. Mr. Sitch. President of the ...

    Article : 155 words
  44. TASMANIA.

    A meeting of shareholders of Messrs. J. H. Geddes & Co., a pastoral finance association, was held; to-day. Captain Tulloch and Mr. Robert Gardiner were ...

    Article : 42 words
  45. PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Illuminated addresses were presented to ex-Councillors Sampson and O'Leary in the Council Chamber to-night, in recognition of their past services as Councillors. The Mayor ...

    Article : 84 words
  46. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The Rev. Joseph Johnston, one of the pioneers of the Congregation Church of this colony, died yesterday at Fremantle, aged 78. ...

    Article : 58 words
  47. DEPUTATIONS.

    WANTS OR FOWLER'S BAY.—On Wednesday afternoon a deputation, consisting of residents of Fowler's Bay, Messrs. Belch, McBeth, Riddell, Aldridge, and Bilney, was introduced ...

    Article : 246 words
  48. NARRACOORTE, February 17.

    The Land Board began its sittings here to-day, taking evidence from applicants for land, reductions of rent, and transfers. No decision has yet been given. The sittings will ...

    Article : 61 words
  49. LORD SHEFFIELD'S CRICKETERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 words
  50. THE REAL ESTATE BANK.

    At a meeting of shareholders and depositors in the Real Estate Bank to-day a resolution was carried declaring that it was advisable to voluntarily wind up the ...

    Article : 41 words
  51. THE PERTH WIFE MURDER.

    An inquest has been opened in the case of Caroline Wynne at the Perth Police Court. The evidence showed that the woman when drunk threatened to beat ...

    Article : 81 words
  52. GLADSTONE, February 17.

    The weather during the past few days has been terribly hot, and no water has been available from Beetaloo except between midnight and daylight, and not always then. The ...

    Article : 52 words
  53. OCEAN MAIL SERVICE.

    The Ormuz left Plymouth Saturday. The Orient left Suez Friday. ...

    Article : 13 words
  54. Advertising

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    Advertising : 362 words
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