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  2. THE AMERICAN TARIFF BILL.

    It would be a long and arduous task to enumerate the enormities perpetrated by the McKinley Tariff Bill. Their name is legion. How any nation could become ...

    Article : 6,636 words
  3. A CAPE BANK IN DIFFI­CULTIES.

    The drafts of the Union Bank of Cape Town have been refused in London. The liabilities of the institution are £500,000. It is expected that the shareholders will ...

    Article : 50 words
  4. ADELAIDE AND LONDON

    President Celman, of the Argentine Republic, has issued a manifesto, in which he attributes the revolution which has just been suppressed to ...

    Article : 178 words
  5. THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

    The Australians continued their innings against the Lyric Club to-day at St. Ann's, Barnes, and when the last wicket fell the total had reached 154 runs. ...

    Article : 80 words
  6. THE BREADSTUFFS MARKET.

    The English wheat market is dull. The Continental marketa are inactive. The American market is declining. The spot quotations in New York of ...

    Article : 76 words
  7. THE VICTORIAN RAILWAY BILL.

    The Economist in an article on the Railway Construction Bill now before the Legislative' Assembly of' Victoria states that it is a matter of great regret that the ...

    Article : 98 words
  8. PRISONERS IN MACEDONIA.

    The Daily News publishes horrible details as to the alleged treatment of ordinary prisoners by the Turkish authorities in Macedonia. It is alleged, among ...

    Article : 49 words
  9. [RECEIVED August 3, 1.20 p.m.]

    The prospects of the grain crops in Europe are generally improving. ...

    Article : 19 words
  10. GUATEMALA AND SALVADOR.

    General Rivas, of the Salvador Army, who was engaged in the military operations against the neighbouring State of turned traitor. He succeeded ...

    Article : 95 words
  11. THE MONEY MARKET.

    The money market is firm. The open market quotation for three months' bills is 4½ per cent. ...

    Article : 28 words
  12. [RECEIVED August 2. 11.5 a.m.]

    Burn and Charlton were the last men in in the Australians' first innings, and when Burn was out for 21 the innings closed for 154 runs, leaving Charlton ...

    Article : 157 words
  13. AUSTRALIAN CITIES INVESTMENT COMPANY.

    The shares in the Australian Cities Investment Company, promoted primarily to purchase a large estate near Sydney, have been allotted. ...

    Article : 32 words
  14. THE METAL MARKETS.

    Silver is quoted at 51½d. per oz. ...

    Article : 19 words
  15. AMERICAN PURCHASES OF SILVER.

    Mr. William Windom, the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, has decided that his department will purchase silver in lots of a minimum weight ...

    Article : 42 words
  16. TIN.

    The total stock of tin, including stocks in America. and quantity afloat at the close of last month, amounted to 13,150 tons. The quantity of Straits and ...

    Article : 62 words
  17. [RECEIVED August 2. 12.45 p.m.]

    The premium on gold at Buenos Ayres is 230. ...

    Article : 17 words
  18. CHOLERA AT MECCA.

    Cholera, which, recently broke out at Mecca, Arabia, is continuing in a severe form. A hundred deaths are reported daily. ...

    Article : 24 words
  19. COPPER.

    The present stocks of copper in England and Franco amount to 68,400 tons. The quantity advised from Chili and Australia amounts to 4,250 tons. The total ...

    Article : 52 words
  20. [RECEIVED August 3, 1.30 p.m.]

    The Australians concluded their second innings for 134, and thus lost the match by 76 runs. The wicket was very fiery. Trott played fine cricket for 26, but Dr. ...

    Article : 57 words
  21. [RECEIVED August 3,1.20 p.m.]

    It is expected that the friends of President Celman of the Argentine Republic will bring pressure upon, him which will compel him to resign, thus clearing the ...

    Article : 48 words
  22. [RECEIVED August 3, 1.20 p.m.]

    After the defeat of the insurgent forces by President Ezeta General Rivas, who had been taken prisoner, escaped. He was, however, recaptured and shot. The ...

    Article : 57 words
  23. FATAL ACCIDENT AT NIAGARA.

    News has been received from America that two ladies while bathing above the Falls of Niagara were swept over and killed. ...

    Article : 25 words
  24. VICTORIAN BUTTER IN LONDON.

    The three packages of butter dispatched by the Victorian Minister of Agriculture by the s.s. Oroya, with a view of testing the suitableness of ...

    Article : 63 words
  25. [RECEIVED August 3, 7.10 p.m.]

    Affairs in Buenos Ayres are still in an excited state, bub order is being maintained. Signor Carcaneau, the Post-master-General, has resigned his office. ...

    Article : 33 words
  26. COMMERCIAL.

    Six hundred and forty cases of Kauri gum from New Zealand have been sold at firm prices. ...

    Article : 28 words
  27. RACING IN ENGLAND.

    The following is the result of the Chesterfield Cup, run at Goodwood on Frida:— THE CHESTERFIELD CUP. ...

    Article : 85 words
  28. THE AMERICAN TARIFF BILL.

    The Democratic members of the Senate of the United States are moving amendments to the McKinley Tariff Bill now before that House with the object of ...

    Article : 43 words
  29. NEW AUSTRALIAN STEAM SERVICE.

    The committee of the Bristol Docks have arranged with the Anglo-Australasian Steamship Company to run a regular line of steamers from the Avonmouth Docks ...

    Article : 65 words
  30. THE TASMANIAN RAILWAY.

    The Privy Council has refused to accept a petition from the Tasmanian Railway Company on the ground that it was irregular. The Directors expect that the ...

    Article : 42 words
  31. TALLOW.

    At yesterday's public auction of Australasian tallow the number of casks offered was 1,625. The number of casks sold was 925. The prices realized were:—For ...

    Article : 79 words
  32. LABOUR TROUBLES IN ENGLAND.

    A strike has taken place on the Tyne by 1,500 joiners as a protest against the award of Mr. Burt, M.P., who as an arbitrator apportioned the shipwrights ...

    Article : 69 words
  33. A FASTING FEAT.

    M. Jacques has completed his fast of forty-two days at the Aquarium, West-minister, thus beating Succi's record by two days. ...

    Article : 24 words
  34. BOOTS IN ENGLAND.

    Toff Wall, the English middle-weight, ind Professor McCarthy, late of Sydney, are matched to box at the Pelican Club in October. ...

    Article : 68 words
  35. [RECEIVED August 3, 1.20 p.m.]

    The Anglo-Australasian Shipping Company's experiment will be for the present limited to the despatch of the steamer Port Pirie. This vessels will ...

    Article : 58 words
  36. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Recently a young man named Walter Woodmason, of Malvern, was terribly injured by a bull belonging to his father, and as the attendant of the bull, used to ...

    Article : 279 words
  37. RECONCILIATION OF THE DUNLOS.

    It is reported that Lord and Lady Dunlo, who were concerned in the recent action for divorce, have become reconciled, but it is not known whether the statement ...

    Article : 35 words
  38. AFFAIRS IN ARMENIA.

    The Sultan of Turkey has quite ignored the memorials of the residents of Armenia praying for a redress of the under which they suffer. ...

    Article : 28 words
  39. THE FOESTER STATUE.

    The statue erected to the memory of the late Right Honourable W. E. Forster, the Liberal statesman, was unveiled to-day. The ceremony was performed by ...

    Article : 136 words
  40. THE BULGARIAN QUESTION.

    There are indications that pressure will bo brought to bear upon Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, to induce him to resien. It is understood that the Czar of ...

    Article : 82 words
  41. SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT REBUKED.

    In the House of Commons last night the Speaker severely rebuked Sir William Vernon Harcourt for accusing the Government of insolent conduct towards the ...

    Article : 44 words
  42. [RECEIVED August 3, 1.20 p.m.]

    Fourteen hundred colliersat Pontypridd, in Wales, have struck owing to the Directors of the local railways refusing to discuss a proposal that they should employ ...

    Article : 65 words
  43. THE HYGENIA.

    Messrs. Huddart, Parker, & Co.'s new steamer., the Hygcnia, developed twenty-three miles an hour upon her trial trip. ...

    Article : 29 words
  44. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL IN AFRICA.

    In response to a sharp protest addressed to them by the British Premier, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Government of Portugal have sent a cable ...

    Article : 57 words
  45. THE LOCAL TAXATION BILL.

    The Local Taxation Bill has been read a third time in the House of Commons. ...

    Article : 19 words
  46. SLAVERY IN ZANZIBAR

    The Sultan of Zanzibar, under the influence of the British Government, has forbidden the sale or exchange of slaves in frig dominion. He has also closed the ...

    Article : 90 words
  47. THE SEARLE MEMORIAL CUPS.

    Nine boats contested the Searle Memorial Caps at the Putney Regatta, and the Barnes East Club von, defeating the Concoran and Peakins boats in the ...

    Article : 31 words
  48. A NIHILTST PLOT.

    Another Nihilist plot, which had for its object the murder of the Czar of Russia, has been discovered. Before the conspiracy became known two officers ...

    Article : 62 words
  49. CHOLERA IN SPAIN.

    The cholera is now appealing at Badajoz, in Spain. ...

    Article : 13 words
  50. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Two ponies galloping in opposite directions training on the track in Moore Park on Saturday collided. One horse, Nettle II., had his neck broken, and the jockey ...

    Article : 57 words
  51. THE HOLYHEAD WRECE.

    Daring the stormy weather of the last few days a great change has taken place in the appearance of the Holyhead; only the forepart with the foremest is above ...

    Article : 150 words
  52. PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    A meeting of ratepayers was held here last night to consider the question of the incorporation of the town. A motion adverse to the idea was carried. The meeting was very tarns ...

    Article : 84 words
  53. LABOUR QUESTION IN THE COLONIES.

    The miners employed at the Lathgow and Hermitage Mines, more generally known as the Western Collieries, have decided by 144 to 66 votes that twenty-four ...

    Article : 121 words
  54. QUEENSLAND.

    The revenue for July amounted to £306,473—an increase of £47,325 compared with that of the previous July. The principal increase is in Customs. ...

    Article : 75 words
  55. UNEMPLOYED IN MELBOURNE.

    The unemployed held meetings on Saturday and at night, at which they denounced the Government and the Trades Hall Council for their apathy. ...

    Article : 238 words
  56. PORT PIRIE, August 3.

    A Church parade of Friendly Societies was held in the Institute Hall to-day. Druids, Oddfellows (Ancient Order and Manchester Unity), Foresters, Sons and Daughters of Temperance, and the Working Men's Association ...

    Article : 68 words
  57. NEW ZEALAND.

    After a protracted debate Mr. Mac-Arthur's amendment re the Hutchinson Charges Committee was carried by a majority of eleven. The members of the ...

    Article : 37 words
  58. GLADSTONE, August 2.

    The Executive Committee of the Farmers' Association met to-day. The President read a paper on payment for pastoral improvements. Some glaring cases of over-estimates were ...

    Article : 68 words
  59. A FATAL OUTRAGE.

    Mrs. Wharton, aged sixty, a poultry buyer, while returning in a buggy to Port Fairy on Saturday night, July 26, met a vehicle carrying poles, one of which ...

    Article : 102 words
  60. TASMANIA.

    Owing to the departure of the Curacoa for Sydney the evidence of her two divers has been taken relating to the wreck of the Nelson. They found all the moorings of the ...

    Article : 117 words
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    Arbor Day yesterday was successful, and tree-planting was carried oat by the schools under the Yongala Board in Yongala. After the planting was completed the children were ...

    Article : 92 words
  62. THE ABORIGINES ENQUIRY.

    Messrs. Swan ana Tapun, the Finke Enquiry Commissioners, arrived here yesterday evening, accompanied by Inspector Besley. They propose going eighty miles farther on before ...

    Article : 40 words
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