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  2. THE SHEARING AGREEMENT.

    On Saturday morning Mr. W. G. Spence, the President of the Shearers' Union of Australia, arrived in Adelaide for the purpose of presiding at the annual conference of ...

    Article : 2,268 words
  3. TRINITY COLLEGE, MELBOURNE.

    "Let's purge this choler without letting blood," said the peace-loving Richard when distracted by the quarrels of his powerful nobles; and the same attitude ...

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  4. VESSELS STRANDED ON THURSDAY ISLAND.

    The cable-ship Recorder and the hulk Baron Short were both stranded yesterday morning on Madgee Reefs. The Recorder, which was under full steam ...

    Article : 226 words
  5. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    Mr. R. S. Smythe leaves by the Lusitania for London in search of a new form of entertainment for the colonies. Lieutenant Heath who has been ...

    Article : 191 words
  6. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.

    Over fifty Gladstonian members of Parliament have now expressed their dissatisfaction with the terms of the reported compromise over the Question of the ...

    Article : 98 words
  7. LABOUR TROUBLES.

    It is probable that the decision of Mr. Justice North, which was to the effect that Dock Companies may compel shipowners to discharge the cargo of their vessels, will ...

    Article : 98 words
  8. COLONIAL LOANS.

    The Economist declares that the South Australian Loan failed because the underwriters had not sufficiently great temptations offered to them. It wil be ...

    Article : 146 words
  9. [RECEIVED February 8, 7.20 a.m.]

    The Pall Mail Gazette commends Mr. H. H. Champion's criticism of the recent Australian strike in the Nineteenth Century, wherein the writer compares the ...

    Article : 150 words
  10. UNITED STATES.

    The Silver party in the United States Legislature has experienced a defeat. The resolution to tack a provision for the free coinage of silver on to the Supply ...

    Article : 80 words
  11. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    An elderly man named Anderson, father of the schoolmaster at Walcharoad, wandered into the bush on Thursday last and is supposed to have perished. ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. THE ITALIAN CRISIS.

    Signor Rudini has formed a Government to succeed Signor Crispi's Administration in Italy. The newly formed Cabinet is regarded ...

    Article : 54 words
  13. FOUNDATION-STONE OF TOWN HALL AT QUORN.

    The memorial-stone of the new Town Hall was laid at 4 o'clock this afternoon by Mrs. R. W. Foster, the Mayoress. In spite of the oppressive heat there was a large assemblage to ...

    Article : 245 words
  14. CHINA.

    News is received of a series of terrible floods having inundated ten districts of China. The result is not only great damage to property, but the loss of no ...

    Article : 56 words
  15. AMERICAN WHEAT MARKET.

    The American wheat market shows a further rise. American shipments of wheat arc light. The spot quotation in New York of ...

    Article : 54 words
  16. QUEENSLAND.

    At the Mayoral elections yesterday Alderman Clark was unanimously elected Mayor of Brisbane. There was a deadlock over the South Brisbane election ...

    Article : 43 words
  17. [RECEIVED February 8, 9.50 p.m.]

    The employment of non-Unionists in connection with the shipping industry at Hull has given rise to serious difficulty. The members of the Seamen's and ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. NEW ZEALAND.

    Efforts are being made to establish steam communication between Wellington and Tahiti. The death is announced, after a brief ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. SEIZURE OF LIQUOR AT EUDUNDA.

    Mounted-constables Treloar and Carter, acting on warrants signed by Justices of the Peace, to-day seized a quantity of liquor, to the value of about £30, at Sutherlands ...

    Article : 57 words
  20. THE CABLE RATES.

    The heads of the agreement for the reduction of the cable rates, arrangements for which were made at the Adelaide Conference last year, have been cabled to ...

    Article : 60 words
  21. WOOL SALES.

    The total number of bales catalogued to date amounts to 145,600. The number sold amounts to 138,800. The wool market is firm, and ...

    Article : 45 words
  22. [RECEIVED February 8, 7.20 a.m.]

    China is about to issue a 4½ per cent. loan of £7,000,000, at a minimum of £95. ...

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  23. PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The ship Formosa, 1,555 tons register, which arrived at this port a fortnight ago, completed loading her wheat cargo, consisting of 21,780 bags yesterday, and was towed out to the ...

    Article : 54 words
  24. THE CHILIAN REVOLT.

    The latest intelligence from Chili is far from reassuring. There has been no suspension of hostilities. The rebel fleet has blockaded Iquique ...

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  25. THE FEDERAL CONVENTION.

    Sir S. Griffith returned to Brisbane on Saturday, much better for his southern trip. He was interviewed on arrival, and among other matters he said that in ...

    Article : 166 words
  26. SILVER.

    Silver has fallen ¾d., being now quoted it 46d. per oz. ...

    Article : 21 words
  27. NEW ZEALAND FREIGHTS.

    Freights for goods by steam cargo boats to New Zealand are on an average 7b. 6d. a ton above those by sailing vessels. Shippers by steamships are ...

    Article : 48 words
  28. PETERSBURG, February 8.

    Dr. O'Reily, Bishop of Port Augusta, who is here on a visit with the object of raising funds on behalf of the Cathedral liabilities, preached to-day in the new School Church. ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. COMMERCIAL.

    At yesterday's public auction of Australasian tallow 400 casks were offered, all of which were sold. ...

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  30. BURRA, February 8.

    A man named James Martin was brought to the Burra Hospital yesterday, living been found about eighteen miles east of the Burra insensible. Mr. Stewart, who found him ...

    Article : 97 words
  31. [RECEIVED February 8, 9.50 p.m.]

    The Chilian harvest has been sacrificed owing to the scarcity of labourers, the insurrection having directed labour from its usual channels. ...

    Article : 33 words
  32. CRICKET.

    Lord Sheffield baa organized a scheme for taking an English Eleven to Australia during the autumn. Arrangements for carrying it out are proceeding ...

    Article : 44 words
  33. HIDES, BASILS, LEATHER.

    The latest quotations for hides, basils, and leather are:—Australian hides, salted, heavy ox, 3[?]d. per lb.; cow, 3 1/8d. per lb. Basils, Australian strained, from 9d. ...

    Article : 41 words
  34. SERVIA.

    A serious rising among the Arnaut race has taken place in Old Servia. Government troops have been dispatched to the province to quell the ...

    Article : 39 words
  35. PORT PIRIE, February 8.

    The steamer Industry, 1,188 tons, Marshall, master, arrived yesterday, from Middleton after an uneventful, passage of sixty-five days, and brings railway, material. ...

    Article : 566 words
  36. THE SHEARING DIFFICULTY.

    A telegram from Tambo states that strike matters arc quiet there. The Charleville carriers refuse to carry Langes Downs wool, but there is a probability of ...

    Article : 108 words
  37. [RECEIVED February 8, 7.20 a.m.]

    The French Budget Committee have reduced the import duty on colonial sugars to 3 francs. ...

    Article : 27 words
  38. THE PERSECUTED JEWS.

    Baron Hirsch has given 12,000,000 francs (about £480,000) to promote the emigration to America of the Jews whom the Russian authorities have expelled. ...

    Article : 38 words
  39. HUDDERSFIELD WOOLLEN TRADE

    Messrs. Baroyd & Sons, woollen manufacturers, of Huddersfield, have suspended payment. Their liabilities amount to £70,000. Two other firms are reported ...

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  40. SWITZERLAND.

    The Canton of Glaurus, in Switzerland, has been the scene of a terrible avalanche of ice and snow, which, upon being released from the mountain side, buried ...

    Article : 55 words
  41. TARRAWINGIE CONTRACT AND DIRECTORS OF THE PROPRIETARY COMPANY.

    Sir—However much the shareholders my have deemed Messrs. W. R. Wilson, Kelly, and Drew worthy of support as Directors, with which view we have forwarded them our ...

    Article : 187 words
  42. FATAL ACCIDENTS TO CHILDREN.

    William Gordon Nash, a boy two years of age, residing with his parents at Lane Cover-road, was scalded to death yesterday by falling into a bucket of boiling ...

    Article : 85 words
  43. FIRE AT THE SPENCER STREET STATION.

    Shortly after 9 to-night the passengers' cloakroom at the Spencer-street Station was destroyed by fire. The building was a wooden one, about 60 feet by 30 feet. ...

    Article : 147 words
  44. DEATH OF SIR W. FTTZHERBERT.

    Sir William Fitzherbert, the late Speaker of the Legislative Council, died to-day. ...

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  45. THE FEDERAL CONVENTION.

    Sir H. Atkinson has consented to act as a delegate to the Federal Convention to be held in Sydney. Sir George Grey has telegraphed to the Premier that he ...

    Article : 63 words
  46. SHOCKING FATALITY ON THE YARRA.

    A terrible accident occurred on Saturday on the Yarra, near Queen's Bridge. The s.s. Elingamite, for Sydney, was about to swing from the wharf for the ...

    Article : 171 words
  47. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

    During an auction sale at Newcastle on Saturday a man named Thomas Shaw, who was assisting the auctioneer, took up a revolver and pulled the trigger ...

    Article : 184 words
  48. SOWING SEEDS.

    Sir—The question of the depth to sow wheat brings to my remembrance a very interesting natural history fact which may perhaps help to determine the question apart from ...

    Article : 178 words
  49. SERIOUS FIRE AT BROKEN HILL.

    A large fire occurred in Argent-street on Saturday night. Six galvanized-iron and weatherboard buildings were burnt to the ground. The damage is estimated at ...

    Article : 96 words
  50. TOTAL WRECK OF A BARQUE.

    News from Suva reports the total wreck of the barque Loch Naw, 277 tons, of Sydney, on the northern coast of New Caledonia, she having drifted on to the ...

    Article : 49 words
  51. HEAVY SENTENCES FOR ROBBERY.

    Exemplary sentences were passed at the Criminal Court yesterday on prisoners guilty of robbery in company. Judge Casey said the offence must be put down ...

    Article : 82 words
  52. MOUNTED RIFLE TEAM FOR ENGLAND.

    The team of mounted rifles to represent Victoria in the next English tournament is now being chosen by Colonel Price, who will have personel command. The ...

    Article : 104 words
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  54. DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A KATIPO SPIDER.

    At an inquest at Wellington on the body of an expressman who died there the doctor said that death was due to the bite of a Katipo spider, but that had ...

    Article : 106 words
  55. MAN KILLED AT PORT PIRIE.

    A sad accident occurred at the Broken Hill Wharf yesterday. John O'Brien, a lumper, was engaged receiving timber from the ship's slings when some timber slipped ...

    Article : 120 words
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  57. THE BATTERY MINE FATALITY.

    The body of Henry Schey, the second of the men who were buried by the fall of earth at the Battery Mine, near Mount McDonald, has not yet been recovered. ...

    Article : 70 words
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