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  2. COLONIAL FORCES TO THE FORE.

    The following items are taken from a letter written by Mr. Bennet Burleigh respecting two spirited engagements at the Vet Drifts:— ...

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  3. THE LUST FOR BLOOD.

    The inquest on the massacred members' of the Mawbey family was continue this afternoon, when Mr. Governor went on with her evidence. She said—I do not ...

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  4. WAR NOTES.

    Battles have been fought near Rustenburg in the Transvaal and Bethlehem in the Orange River Colony. Lord Methuen completely broke up a ...

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  5. AN INDIAN PRINCE'S LOYAL GIFT.

    The Maharajah of Sindhia, the largest of the native States of Central India, has offered the British Government a splendidly ...

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  6. TROUBLED CHINA.

    All the Chinese Governors of provinces and the Ambassadors of Europe and America announced yesterday the receipt of news from Pekin to the ...

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  7. A TERRIFIC HAILSTORM.

    The town of Northampton was yesterday subjected to an extraordinary visitation. In the midst of a hot day a terrific hailstorm occurred, and stones ...

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  8. ASHANTEE REBELLION.

    Particulars are coming to hand of the operations which attended the relief of the little British garrison at Kumasi. Colonel J. Willcocks, who was in ...

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  9. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    Serious news has been received from Kroonstad, in the Orange River Colony. The Boers have again, cut the telegraph wires and torn up portion of the ...

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  10. THE FAMINE IN INDIA.

    Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, in a cable despatch to the India Office yesterday, referred hopefully to the crop prospects in the famine-stricken ...

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  11. THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY.

    In view of recent events at Pekin the Chinese of Sydney did not indulge in the usual rejoicings on the EDruperor's birthday, the festivities being limited to a tea ...

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  12. THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

    All the Chinese Governors and Ambassadors are declaring that there has been no massacre in Pekin, but the British Government intimate that they ...

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  13. A CHINAMAN'S VIEWS.

    In the course of an interview at Brisbane on Friday, Mr. Dong Chong, one of the leading Chinese merchants in that city, gave expression to the anxiety which prevails ...

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  14. THE KING OF SERVIA.

    King Alexander of Servia has become betrothed to the Countess Maschin, a young widow, who is a lady-in-waiting in the Court of ...

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  15. MOTHER AND CHILD MURDERED.

    A telegram from Merriwa to-night states that he blacks concerned in the tragedy at Breelong have murdered Mrs. O'Brien and her child at a place ten miles from that ...

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  16. ENGAGEMENT WITH STEYN'S FORCES.

    Colonel R. G. Braodwood's mounted troops and artillery, who recently went in pursuit of the Boers northward from Bethlehem, had a sharp ...

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  17. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Silver.—The price of bar silver to-day is 2s. 4 3-16d. per oz., a rise of 1-16d. since the 21st inst. Beetroot, Sugar.—Mr. F. C. Lient, of ...

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  18. FEDERATION.

    Sir Julian Salomons, who returned to Australia by the K.M.S. Indian, resumed the voyage to Sydney by the vessel this afternoon. When his attention was drawn ...

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  19. VICTORIA.

    The two men, Chapman and Dowling, arrested in connection with the disturbance at ex-Pries Slattery's meeting on Sunday afternoon, were dealt with to-day at the ...

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  20. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London.—Holyrood, ship, from Melbourne March 29; Auckland, ship, from Wellington April 12: Tokomaru, steamer, from Port Chalmers May 10. ...

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  21. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Duke of Devonshire, speaking yesterday as Chairman of a meeting of the British Empire League, remarked that although the Dominion of Canada ...

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  22. A SCHOONER WRECKED.

    A drowning fatality, involving the lives of three persons, was reported from Forster, Caper Hawke. The schooner Empress of India, timber alden for Sydney, took shelter ...

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  23. SEVERE FIGHT NEAR BETHLEHEM.

    On Saturday, in country about ten miles west of Bethlehem, a British force, consisting of Berkshire Militia, Imperial Yeomanry, and Field ...

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  24. THE BOER PRISONERS.

    The following amusing letter from the pen of Captain H. K. Toll, formerly Adelaide agent for the P. & O. Company, appears in a recent issue of the "Western ...

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  25. LADY MACDONALD.

    Lady Macdonald, the wife of our Minister at Pekin (writes one who knows her in "M.A.P."), has once more evidenced her pluck in not flying from Pekin during the ...

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  26. DECISIVE ENCOUNTER NEAR RUSTENBURG.

    Lord Methuen's column on Saturday came into collision with Boer commandos who occupied Oliphant's Nek, a defile in the mountains a few ...

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  27. PARLIAMENTS IN SESSION.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-night the Treasurer go through all their stages a Bill to authorize the raising of money for railways and other purposed and a ...

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  28. WILD WEATHER.

    A report from Hamelin states that a violent hurricane visited the district on Sunday. The barques Norwester, Lovespring, and Kintinka parted their cables and were ...

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  29. COLONIAL STOCK BILL.

    The Colonial Stock Bill, which will permit the investment of trust funds in colonial Government securities, was read a second time in the House of ...

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  30. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    William Robertson, who carried on an extensive business as a pastoralist and agriculturist in the Inverell district, was drowned yesterday while fording the river ...

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  31. INTERESTING LAW CASE.

    The hearing of an action in which Horace Selwyn Layton, commission and mining agent, of Melbourne, is the plaintiff, and Francis Sidney Stephen, solicitor, of ...

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  32. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    In addition to the death in action of Major Moor, of Western Australia, the following casualties to Australasians are reported:— ...

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  33. HUNTING THE FUGITIVES.

    Instructions have been issued to the police in the Singleton and Maitland districts to join in the search for the murderers, and to-day numbers of mounted and heavily ...

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  34. LI HUNG CHANG AND THE ALLIES.

    Li Hung Chang had a very coo, reception from the foreign residents at Shanghai. The Consuls in the city did not visit him in their official capacity. ...

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  35. SUBMARINE CABLES.

    Her Majesty's Government have appointed Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary of State for Scotland; the Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, Financial ...

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  36. A FISHING PARTY LOST.

    On Sunday afternoon last Mr. and Mrs. Galloway and Mr. and Mrs. Knight, of Outtrim, left home, the two gentlemen riding and their wives driving, to enjoy an ...

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  37. BRITISH VICTORY NEAR WEI-HAI-WEI.

    The Russians report that a smart engagement has taken place on the mainland near Wei-hai-weii between a British force and an attacking column of ...

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  38. BOER PRISONERS GOING TO CEYLON.

    Mr. G. Wyndham, Under Secretary for War, informed the House of Commons yesterday that arrangements had been made in the hill country of ...

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  39. A MARINE COLLISION.

    The collision in the Irish Channel, which resulted in the loss of the barque Embleton, 1,233 tons, along with her captain and ten of her crew ...

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  40. THE SELLING PRICE OF COAL.

    A conference took place to-day between the Premier and the colliery proprietors of the northern districts with reference to a request by the men that the selling price ...

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  41. THE PROPOSED YELLOW ALLIANCE.

    The Japanese newspapers are discussing the proposal from the Imperial Court at Pekin that China and Japan should unite and make common cause ...

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  42. QUEENSLAND.

    Peter Buckland, a yardman at the Imperial Hotel, Townsville, has been declared to be plague-stricken. The hotel and fifty-five contacts have been isolated. ...

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  43. PUNISHMENT OF REBELS.

    A Bluebook on South African affairs was published yesterday. It contain the text of an interesting despatch from Mr. Chamberlain to ...

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  44. CYCLING IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The North Australian Cycling Club had its first road race on Saturday, from Palmerston to Shoal Bay, a distance, there an back, of 30 1-10th miles, principally over ...

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  45. AN ACETYLENE GAS EXPLOSION.

    A man who was employed installing acetylene gas at a house in Camphelltown was the victim of an explosion to-day. He dropped a lighted match into the gas its ...

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  46. THE SECOND TRAGEDY.

    Mrs. A. McKay, who was severely injured by aboriginals at Sportman's Hollow, near Ulan, when her husband was murdered yesterday, died this morning ...

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  47. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    At an early hour this morning a man was found injured and unconscious on the railway line near Subiaco. He was taken to the hospital, where he died before noon ...

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  48. AFFAIRS AT TIENTSIN.

    The commanders of the allies at Tientsin continue to maintain cordial relations with each other. They have established a provisional government ...

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  49. THREE SOUTH AUSTRALIANS SEVERELY WOUNDED.

    His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has received a cable message from Sir Alfred Milne, dated Cape Town July 22, as follows:—"I regret to inform you that ...

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  50. APPEAL TO THE UNITED STATES.

    Taking advantage of the fact that the United States Cabinet are inclined to believe that Mr. Conger is alive and under protection at Pekin, China, in a ...

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  51. NEW ZEALAND.

    A rat suffering from a violent form of plague has been found at Wellington. The Government has decided to take no special action unless the plague exhibits itself in ...

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