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    THE MELBOURNE CUP.—Fortune favoured the V.R.C. on the second day of the spring Meeting, for the clerk of the weather was in an amiable mood, the ...

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  3. THE MELBOURNE CUP.

    A double victory on the turf is generally ! popular, and this fact of itself may be taken as affording sufficient reason for much of the enthusiasm occasioned by ...

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  4. THE RACING CARNIVAL.

    " An ideal Cup Day, with a magnificent victory for the favourite". Thus may be summed up the great Australian sporting event of the year. More beautiful weather has not ...

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  5. IRISH POLITICS.

    The Propaganda—the Sacred Congregation of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, which is specially charged with the ecclesiastical affairs of non-Catholic countries—has ...

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  6. THE COMITY OP NATIONS.

    Persistent reports arc current that the Russian Government is pressing upon Great Britain the importance of settling the question of her prolonged occupation of Egypt. ...

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  7. THE EASTERN QUESTION.

    The Armenian Revolutionary Society known as the Votchintchak {Destruction), who have sworn an oath to ruin the Ottoman Empire and force the intervention of Europe. ...

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  8. UNITED STATES ELECTIONS.

    The public in the United States on the eve of the Presidential election are described as " boiling over with excitement." Riots are frequent in the streets, caused ...

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  9. BRITISH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

    As a result of the annual elections for the various Municipal Corporations in England I the Liberal Party have gained fifty-six seats against thirty-two gained by the ...

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  10. WOOL.

    A good enquiry exists for Australasian wools is the London market, and prices realized on sales effected show an advance of 5 per cent, on the closing rates of the ...

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  11. CANADA.

    The foreign trade of the Dominion of Canada for the last year shows an increase of $14,000,000 on the returns for the previous twelve months. ...

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  12. THE WHEAT MARKET.

    The foreign ?wheat market is firm. English quotations are a shilling lower. The week's average of the country markets is 30s. 9d. ...

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  13. THE INDIAN FAMINE.

    In consequence of the failure of the wheat crops in the Central and Northern Provinces of India, and the certainty that unless assistance is quickly rendered to the inhabitants a ...

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  14. THE BISHOP OF LONDON.

    The vacancy created in the See of London by the promotion of Dr. Temple to the Primate's Chair has been filled by the translation of the Right Rev. Maudell Creighton. D.D. ...

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  15. LONDON COMMERCIAL.

    TALLOW.—The imports of tallow for the month total 5,222 casks, and the deliveries for the month 10,760 casks. The total stocks now on hand amount to 32,944 casks. ...

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  16. THE METAL MARKET.

    COOPER.—The total supplies of copper for the monthe amount to 17,380 tons. The month's deliveries, including Chilian and North American, for all Europe amount to 16,020 ...

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  17. THE TRANSVAAL.

    Colonel Ferriera, the well-known mining man of the Rand, .has captured the Pandois Kraal, killing there chiefs and thirty-one of their followers. ...

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  18. SIR THOMAS McILWRAITH

    Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, ex-Premier of Queensland, is returning to Brisbane in February next. ...

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  19. SILVER.

    The price of silver to-day is 2s. 63/8d., per oz., being a rise of 3/8d. since October 31. AT LONDON.—Culgoa, steamer, 2,172 tons, from Sydney September 8. DEPARTURES. FOR MELBOURNE.—Hesperides, ship, 1,338 ...

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  20. THE WESTERN GOLDFIELDS.

    The Lady Shenton has crashed 300 tons for a yield of 1,264 oz. of gold. Eraser's South has crushed 210 tons for 97 oz. ...

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  21. MISS SAVILLE.

    Miss Saville, the Australian soprano, will mako her debut at the Covent Garden Opera House in "Julietta" in May next. ...

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  22. KALGOORLIE.

    The Ivanhoe crushing for the past month comprised 230 tons of stone treated for a yield of 801 oz. of smelted-gold. Pipes have arrived for briaging in the water from Golden Pike. ...

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  23. VICTORIA.

    The Premier, acting as the Chariman: of the Standing Orders Committee of the Federal Council, has written to the Governor of Tasmania asking him to issue a proclamation ...

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  24. THE RIVER DISTRICT.

    The rain which has fallen in the watershed of the River Darling during the past two days will enable navigation from Bourke to be resumed in about three weeks' time. ...

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  25. THE PREMIER AND DR. LENDON.

    Sir—Having been intimately connected with the negotiations that have recently taken place in connection with the Hospital trouble, it was with considerable surprise that ...

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  26. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Public Service Board has appointed Mr. W. A. Gullick, who for some years was Manager of Messrs. John bands & Co.'s business, to the position of Government Printer at a salary of £800 per annum, vice Mr. Charles Potter, resigned. ...

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  27. THE RACING.

    It will be a long time before the Melbourne Cup of 1896 is forgotten, as Newhaven's victory will be noted as the most celebrated aver secured in the big two-mile event of ...

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  28. NEW ZEALAND.

    Dr. John Fraser Innes has committed suicide at Gisborne by taking strychnine. He had been drinking heavily, and had also been suffering from ill-health. ...

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  29. THE NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Copeland moved the adjournment of the House in order to call attention to the necessity for tabling regulations for the election of ...

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  30. TASMANIA.

    Too steamer Coogee has broken nor shaft, and a cable message has been sent to Melbourne for the tug Eagle to tow her across the straits. The Pateena will take up the Coogee's running. ...

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  31. A CURIOUS MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.

    A bottle has been picked up near Cape Kidnapper containing an undated message, stating that the ship Mohawk had sprung a leak in latitude 48° 21' S., longitude 160° 24' ...

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  32. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The barque Braemar, which recently settled down on a sandbank in the Gaze Roads, has been pumped dry by means of powerful centrifugal pump. A diver went below and ...

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  33. TO-DAYS ENGAGEMENTS.

    Zoological Garden.—All day. [?]-street, all day.—Cyclorma of Waterloo. Beehive Buildings, afternoon and evening—Cine matograph. ...

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  34. THE WEATHER AT BROKEN HILL.

    The weather is gradually warming, tho maximum reading of the thermometer in the shade to-day locally being 82. Duststorms, with numerous whirlwinds, are common. ...

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  35. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir-I have read the letter of Dr. Hayvrard. I agree that Dr. Lendon "believed in the validity of the charges." Again and again he told me so. But at the same time it was the ...

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