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  3. ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Council, the Hon. A. A. Kirkpatrick moved and the Hon. K. W. Duncan seconded the adoption of the Address-in-reply to the Governor's Opening Speech. Council ...

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  4. THE TRAMWAY QUESTION.

    I promised to deal with some of the objections raised by anti-municipalists—such a term seems strange to apply to those who were once such ardent municipalists—but ...

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  5. TROUBLED CHINA.

    Owing to the increasing gravity of the outlook in China the 7th Regiment of Bengal Infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Mansel, has been ordered to proceed ...

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  6. DEATH OF A FRENCH PRINCE.

    The death is announced in his eighty-second year of the Prince de Joinville (Francois Ferdinand Philippe Louis Marie D'Orleans), son of the late Louis Philippe ...

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  7. THE COMMONWEALTH BILL.

    The Commonwealth of Australia Bill was considered in Committee in the House of Commons yesterday. As the Opposition objected to finish the ...

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  8. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    The Boers report that Sir Redvers BUller is moving directly norhtwards from Laing's Nck, and that his column is now beyond the township of Ermelo. ...

    Article : 89 words
  9. VICTORIA.

    The Melbourne Hospital Debt-extinction Fund now amounts to £12,028. Tests made of bottled and draught beer offered for sale at city and suburban ...

    Article : 245 words
  10. BADEN-POWELL AT PRETORIA.

    News has been received of the arrival at Pretoria of Major-General Baden-Powell, who with 800 mounted troops has been engaged in pacifying the districts of ...

    Article : 42 words
  11. THE EARL OF AIRLIE'S DEATH.

    It transpires that the Earl of Airlie, who was killed in the attack on General Louis Botha's army on the 11th inst., received his death ...

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  12. CLAUSE 74.

    The Premier sent a cable message to-day to Mr. Deakin saying that there was little doubt that the settlement come to between the Secretary of State and the delegates ...

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  13. THE NEW CAPE PROGRESSIVE CABINET.

    Sir. J. Gordon Sprigg has completed his task of forming a new Ministry for Cape Colony. The Cabinet will include the Hon. J. Rose-Innes, Q.C., late Leader of the ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Mr. Justice Backhouse, in the District Court to-day, heard an action for £200 brought by Agnes Caldwell, a public school teacher against Messrs. Grace Brothers ...

    Article : 541 words
  15. IN THE ASSEMBLY.

    The atmosphere of the Assembly Chamber on Tuesday was frigid. The proceedings during the first few minutes were warm. Mr. von Doussa, with fire in his eyes, and ...

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  16. THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENTS.

    Surgeon-Captain Fenwick, a New Zealander, has been invalided home. Lieutenant W. R. Harriott, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, has ...

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  17. THE PLAGUE.

    Aubrey Harcort, aged seventeen, residing at George-street, Burwood, was taken to the Quarantine Station this afternoon, having been stricken down with plague. ...

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  18. SOLDIERS AS COLONISTS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Chamberlain said that the question of the settlement in South Africa, after the ivar, of qualified soldiers and Reservists was ...

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  19. NEW ZEALANDERS AT THE FRONT.

    The Acting Premier sent a cable message to Lord Roberts after the occupation of Pretoria asking for information as to the condition of the New Zealanders who had ...

    Article : 104 words
  20. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier informed Dr. Ross that the total payment out of the Treasury in connection with the plague up to date was £70,427 ...

    Article : 521 words
  21. SPORT.

    Mr. H. Oxenham, the "leviathan" Australian bookmaker and owner, has, after enquiring into the matter of the running and the backing of Syerla in the City and ...

    Article : 93 words
  22. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    It has been reported at Narandera that Alfred Dufrayer, of Airlie Station, one of the New South Wales Lancers at the front, has been recommended for the Victoria ...

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  23. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Beetroot Sugar.—Mr. F. O. Licht, in his monthly circular, states that the production of beetroot sugar this season has increased to 306,000 tons. His estimate for ...

    Article : 81 words
  24. WAR NOTES.

    We have sung of the sons by the sounding guns, Away on the burning veldt; We have mourned for the dead who have fought and bled ...

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  25. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London—Andes, ship, from Fremantle January 26; Whatakane, steamer, from Wellington April 28; Damascus, steamer, from Sydney April 20; Beecroft ...

    Article : 71 words
  26. THE ATTITUDE OF QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. J. R. Dickson, the Queensland delegate, consented to the fresh compromise on clause 74 after receiving the distinct assurance that all existing rights of State ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. WESTERN AUSTRALIA

    The steamer Gulf of Taranto arrived at Albany to-day Melbourne, Terrific weather was encountered crossing the Bight, and the captain describes the ...

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  28. PRESS OPINIONS.

    The "Times" and the "Standard" assert that the impression generally prevails that the new clause is a great improvement on the first compact, though it is regrettable ...

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  29. AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS.

    Seventeen years ago on the 24th of last month, upon the occasion of an entertainment at Inglewood a jewellery robbery to the value of close upon £600 took place ...

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  30. NEW ZEALAND.

    Jt is rumoured that Mr. Mackenzie has resigned his portioho as Minister of Lands owing to continued ill-health, and that Mr. Charles Miller, the senior Government ...

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  31. A DOCK STRIKE.

    A strike of labourers engaged on some of the London docks has caused a stoppage in the work of discharging meat from steamers arriving from New Zealand and Australia. ...

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  32. A GRACIOUS PRISONER.

    A scene, just humorous enough to provoke a smile, occurred in the Criminal Court to-day during the trial of two men named Kruce and Dike, on a charge of ...

    Article : 190 words
  33. CANADA.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier of Canada, proposes to increase the poll tax on Chinese entering the Dominion to one hundred dollars. ...

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  34. EVADING THE CUSTOMS.

    The Commissioner of Customs dealt to-day with the Vauxhall Distillery ease, and, acting on the recommendation of Dr. Wollaston, Secretary for Customs, he directed ...

    Article : 157 words
  35. "TOMMY" ON "LITTLE BOBS."

    If you would know now far Lord Roberts has done his best for our army, you have only to get into a third-class carriage or on the top of a bus with some old ...

    Article : 315 words
  36. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Miss Ada Crossley is being warmly commended for her exquisite singing at the Handel Festival. ...

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  38. RETURN OF MR. SEDDON.

    The Premier Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, when interviewed on his return from his island trip, said that everywhere wishes were expressed for closer political and ...

    Article : 209 words
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  40. A REFUSAL TO CELEBRATE.

    The Metropolitan Board of Works dealt today with the recommendation of the Officers and Servants Committee with reference to the three officials who refrained ...

    Article : 119 words
  41. ASHANTEE.

    Mr. Chamberlain told the House of Commons yesterday that three months' food supplies, with rifle ammunition for 300 men, were stored in the beleaguered town of ...

    Article : 35 words
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