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  2. OUR POLITICAL MEDLEY.

    Generous Mayor Cohen may give balls for the entertainment of his fellows, and public-spirited Mr. Grainger may turn himself into a mitrailleuse of interjections ...

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  3. CHINA.

    The Powers regard the answer made to their demands by Li-hung-chang, the Chinese Minister, as evasive. They will therefore persist in ...

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  4. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Mr. Arthur Wellesley Harrison has been appointed Superintendent of the Victorian Court at the Tasmanian Exhibition. The Bancoora was taken into the Alfred ...

    Article : 167 words
  5. CHILI.

    Fifteen thousand of President Balmaceda's troops have marched out of Valparaiso to meet the insurgents, who have for some days past been closing in upon ...

    Article : 57 words
  6. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.

    Following upon the representations made by Italy to the Sublime Porte in behalf of the Italian railway inspector whom Turkish brigands kidnapped near ...

    Article : 144 words
  7. THE IMMIGRATION LIMITATION BILL.

    The Immigration Limitation Bill, to which we recently made incidental reference, is likely to challenge criticism both as to its purpose and its method. ...

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  8. RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

    Russia has again formulated a demand upon Turkey for the payment of the war indemnity, Turkey has stopped Russian vessels from going through the ...

    Article : 42 words
  9. [RECEIVED August 25, 1.10 a.m.]

    It transpires that the insurgents forced the passage across the Aconcagua on Friday. Heavy fighting between them and the Government troops took place all ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Commercial Hotel, one of the largest business places in Glen Innes, was totally destroyed by fire to-day. The cause of the fire is unknown. The premises and stock were ...

    Article : 37 words
  11. MR. H. M. STANLEY.

    Mr. H. M. Stanley, the African explorer, who recently met with an accident to his ankle in Switzerland, will, together with Mrs. Stanley, sail for Australia in ...

    Article : 57 words
  12. NEW ZEALAND.

    News has been received of the death in England of the Rev. W. Tibbs, Incumbent of St. Matthew's Church, Auckland. He went home a few months ago for the benefit of his ...

    Article : 39 words
  13. VICTORIAN DEFENCE FORCE.

    The annual report of the Council of Defence was presented to the Governor to-day. It states that an attempt to form a Militia Reserve had met with no success. A scheme ...

    Article : 61 words
  14. THE NEW YORK DISASTER

    The loss of life consequent upon the explosion which wrecked a five-story building in New York is greater than was at first supposed. The number of deaths ...

    Article : 49 words
  15. ANOTHER CARD SCANDAL.

    An enquiry is pending in Rangoon, the capital of British Burmah, into a charge made against a lieutenant of a Madras Regiment of cheating at cards. ...

    Article : 68 words
  16. THE RUSSIAN JEWS.

    The American authorities have sent back to Europe one hundred and thirty Russian Jews for whose passage Baron Hirsch had paid, and who were detained ...

    Article : 65 words
  17. THE MELBOURNE UNEMPLOYED.

    A deputation from the Charity Organization Society waited on the Premier to-day to confer on the advisableness of ceasing to provide work for the unemployed. The deputation ...

    Article : 182 words
  18. THE RIGHT HON. C. RAIKES.

    The Right Hon. H. C. Raikes, M.P., the British Postmaster-General, is seriously ill. His medical attendants describe his condition as critical. ...

    Article : 38 words
  19. PROTECTION IN AMERICA.

    The United States Treasury authorities have demanded £7,000 as duty from Mr. Vanderbilt, the railway magnate, upon a yacht which he has had built in England. ...

    Article : 39 words
  20. MANIPUR

    Viscount Cross, the Secretary of State for India, in a despatch to Lord Lansdowne, compliments the Viceroy of India upon his policy with regard to Manipur. ...

    Article : 75 words
  21. THE BANK OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

    Mr. Horne, Manager of the National Bank, went to Hobart to-day. He will to-morrow go through the accounts of the Van Diemen's Land Bank prior to making a definite offer for ...

    Article : 119 words
  22. THE CONGRESS OF SOCIALISTS.

    The Congress of Socialists at Brussels has adopted resolutions advocating the extension of the franchise to women, the holding of May Day meetings in favour ...

    Article : 50 words
  23. ROUMANIA.

    A Bishop of the Greek Church interfered with a Roumanian service at Pirvoli. A mob resenting this conduct on the part of the Bishop fell upon him. Some of its ...

    Article : 72 words
  24. RUSSIA.

    The Czar and Czarina have sailed for Copenhagen. ...

    Article : 25 words
  25. THE VICTORIAN ALLIANCE.

    The tenth annual public meeting of the Victorian Alliance was held to-night. The Premier (Mr. James Munro, President of the Alliance) was in the chair. Resolutions ...

    Article : 55 words
  26. EMIN PASH

    Emin Pasha, after some heavy fighting with the Dervishes, has arrived at Wadelai. Emin has with him 6,000 tusks of ...

    Article : 35 words
  27. FRANCE.

    Owing to the decision of the French Government to take steps to suppress betting all the English bookmakers at Boulogne and Calais have been ordered to ...

    Article : 83 words
  28. THE AUXILIARY SQUADRON.

    The Orlando, Mildura, Wallaroo, Tauranga, and Boomerang, which arrived at Townsville on Saturday, were visited on Sunday by about 3,000 people. The greatest enthusiasm is ...

    Article : 184 words
  29. A SECRETARY'S EMBEZZLEMENT.

    A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr. Andrew Kirwan, Secretary of the Cigarmakers' Society, for alleged embezzlement of about £60, the funds of the Society. It is ...

    Article : 98 words
  30. THE MERCANTILE LOAN AND GUARANTEE COMPANY.

    The annual general meeting of the Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee Company, Limited, which was recently obliged to suspend payment, was held to-day. Mr. H. Moffatt ...

    Article : 665 words
  31. ADELAIDE CHAMPAGNE APPRECIATED.

    In connection with the Annual Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria, to be opened to-morrow, the wine awards were made to-day. They include the following: ...

    Article : 59 words
  32. PAYMENT OF LEGISLATORS IN NEW ZEALAND.

    A Payment of Members Bill providing for an increase of the honorarium to £240 a year to members of the Lower House and to £150 to members of the Council, to be paid monthly ...

    Article : 79 words
  33. EXECUTION IN MELBOURNE.

    William Colston, the self-confessed murderer of old Davis and his wife at Narbethong, was executed this morning at 10 o'clock. On the gallows he exhibited the same ...

    Article : 450 words
  34. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN NEW ZEALAND.

    In the House of Representatives to-night Sir John Hall moved the second reading of the Female Suffrage Bill for granting the franchise to women. The debate is proceeding. During ...

    Article : 77 words
  35. DISCOVERY OF MICA IN QUEENSLAND.

    The Under-Secretary of Mines received a telegram this morning from Commissioner Zillman, of Herberton, stating that a discovery had been made of mica in large ...

    Article : 67 words
  36. PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Pilot Chandler, an old and respected resident, who had been ailing for some time, died somewhat suddenly on Saturday. The funeral took place yesterday, and was largely ...

    Article : 73 words
  37. SHOCKING GUN ACCIDENT.

    A youth named Patrick Gleason to-day accidentally shot his brother's child, an infant named Winifred Gleeson. He was taking a loaded gun out of his room when it went off ...

    Article : 80 words
  38. PORT LINCOLN, August 24.

    Constable Featherston brought in Tommy Nungiltie last night after a laborious chase. He reports tracing him westward and hunting him from camp to camp. Other natives ...

    Article : 95 words
  39. A DEFAULTER MAD.

    Senior-constable Moritz, who acted as Clerk of Petty Sessions at Jerilderie. absconded some time age, having committed embezzlement to the extent of several hundred ...

    Article : 99 words
  40. THE THEOPHANE.

    The Yatala is just leaving the bay with the Theophane for Port Adelaide. The ship is now quite dry, the leak having been made good inside with cement and braced down ...

    Article : 57 words
  41. THE PLATINUM STEALING CASE.

    At the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Hood, the Crown Prosecutor informed His Honor that the Crown would not file a presentment in the ...

    Article : 69 words
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  43. RAILWAY EMPLOYES AND THE PARLIAMENT.

    At a largely attended meeting of the local branch of the Railway Service Mutual Association it was unanimously resolved—"That the branch pledges itself not to support any ...

    Article : 67 words
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  45. ROBBERIES IN THE MELBOURNE STREETS.

    George Exley, a wool-classer, was set upon by two men in the Carlton Gardens about half-past 6 o'clock to-night, and robbed of several pounds and the valuables he had on him. This ...

    Article : 51 words
  46. OCEAN MAIL SERVICE.

    The Orizaba arrived at Plymouth on the evening of August 21. ...

    Article : 14 words
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  50. THE IDEAL BILL.

    A novel exercise of ingenuity was the task of applying a Bill upon the Notice-paper, whose title begins with A, to some directly landable and useful ...

    Article : 206 words
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