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    A correspondent writes:—"When Darwin, who, "by-the-way, was once in our waters, was in search of the missing link, he might in his later years have found the ...

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  3. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    On Saturday afternoon Lady Tennyson opened a fair in aid of the Girls' Club in Bowen-street. The Prince Alfred College Sports having been postponed on saturday ...

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  4. FEDERATION.

    At the Beenleigh Agricultural Show on Friday Mr. Keogh, member for Rosewood, made an anti-federal speech. He contended that federation would be to the inquiry of ...

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    That champion fictionist, De .Rougemont, has evidently limitless faith, not only in the credulity but also in the long-suffering of the British public. Heedless of the ...

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  6. THE TRANSVAAL CRISIS.

    THE TRANSVAAL AND SURROUNDING TERRITORY. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. THE TRANSVAAL.

    me full test of the latest despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to President Kruger's Government, has been published. Among other things which Mr. ...

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  8. TROUBLED FRANCE.

    M. de. Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the "Times," telegraphs that Captain Dreyfus will withdraw his appeal against his conviction by the Rennes Court-martial ...

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  9. AN OUTSPOKEN PREACHER.

    News has been received from Nathalia that the Rev. G. Gladstone preached a sermon at the Barmah State School last night on the degradation of dancing, with special ...

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  10. THE UNITED STATES.

    A widespread outburst of anti-Imperialism, which has taken place throughout the United States, is causing President McKinley much alarm. Mr. Schurman, a ...

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  11. THE STEAMER EXCELSIOR RAISED.

    The contractors who undertook to raise. The sunken steamer Excelsior have nearly completed their task. The vessel has been lifted off the bottom and towed into ...

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  12. INDIA.

    The British medical men in the affected districts of India are taking energetic measures to cope with the plague. Their action has so incensed the natives that an attempt ...

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  13. BOERS ARMING.

    The mobilization of armed Boers on the western frontier of the Transvaal has caused a ferment in British Bechuanaland. Preparations for offensive and defensive ...

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  15. EXPLORATION.

    At the annual meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science now being held at Dover an animated discussion took place regarding Antarctic ...

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  16. NATIVE MURDER TRIALS.

    A special session of the Criminal Court was held here during the past week, when three natives were tried on distinct charges of having, murdered their fellow ...

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  17. BRITISH FORGE FOR NATAL

    Sir George Stewart White, V.C., who has been appointed Commander of the British forces, in Natal, which are about to be augmented by reinforcements of 10,000 ...

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  18. Mr. PAKEMAN USING DISCRETION.

    It is announced from Pretoria that Mr. R. J. Pakeman, Editor of the "Transvaal Leader"—a Uitlander organ which heartily supports Sir Alfred Milner's ...

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  19. KRUGER'S FAMILY PREPARING FOR BATTLE.

    A telegram from Pretoria states that President Kruger's seven sons and fifty grandchildren, together with three sons of Commandant. J. P. Joubert, the leading ...

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  20. A PECULIAR FATAL ACCIDENT.

    On Saturday inward Barry, three years of age, was killed in peculiar circumstances at the Melbourne-road level crossing. The child had strayed from his parents' home ...

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  21. SPEECHES BY PROMINENT LIBERALS.

    Speaking at Manchester yesterday Mr. John Morley and Mr. Leonard Courtney, prominent members of the Liberal Party, referred in suggestive terms to the serious ...

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  22. THE TRANSVAAL'S REPLY.

    The reply of the Transvaal Executive to Mr. Chamberlain's despatch has been handed by Mr. F. W. Reitz, the State Secretary of the Republic, to Mr. convahan ...

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  23. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of the Dowager Viscountess Canterbury, mother of Lord Canterbury, and widow of the Third Viscount—John Henry Thomas ...

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  24. AMMUNITION FOR THE TRANSVAAL.

    The steamer Herzog has arrived at Lorenzo Marquez with a thousand cases of ammunition intended for the Transvaal. ...

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  25. THE POPULATION OF JOHANNESBURG.

    Although there do not seem to be in existence any trustworthy statistics as to the number of Beers in the Transvaal, and the number of Uitlanders, a census of ...

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  26. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The British Association for the Advancement of Science at Dover bas welcomed 300 French savants to its meetings. Thomas Lipton & Co. have been fined ...

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  27. DISGRACEFUL SCENES AT A FOOTBALL MATCH.

    During a Rugby football match at Brisbane yesterday between Past Grammar School and Mildura disgraceful scenes occurred several players including in ...

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  28. BOERS MENACING BRITISH RESIDENTS.

    The Boers are showing a most menacing attitude towards the residents in the British settlements of Kimberley, the great diamond-mining centre of South. Africa; ...

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  29. HELPING THE BOERS TO FIGHT.

    No fewer than 800 Hollanders resident in Pretoria hive offered to take up arms in aid of the Boers against the British. ...

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  30. SPORT.

    The Australian racehorse Merman is first favourite for the Cesarevitch Stakes. The best price on offer against him is 9 to 1. ...

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  31. DEPARTURE OF WAR CORRESPONDENTS.

    In view of the ominous prospects in the Transvaal, a number of war correspondents representing leading English newspapers have started for South Africa. ...

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  32. NEW SOUTH WALES STOCK.

    According to official statistics the estimated number of sheep in the colony on September I was 35,209,000, a decrease of 6,031.000 compared with January 1 last. ...

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  33. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Lead.—The imports of lead for me month of August amounted to 14,660 tons, of which Australia contributed 3,491 tons. The exports for the month totalled 4.478 tons. ...

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  34. INSULTING THE QUEEN.

    A despatch to the Cape times states that in the course of a debate in the First Raad Mr. Lombard "insulted the Queen" by saving that in the Malaboch campaign ...

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  35. GLOOMIEST FOREBODINGS AT PRETORIA.

    The latest advices from Pretoria are of a very crave character. The gloomiest view is taken of the situation in the Transvaal capital, where it is felt that, war will ...

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  36. VICTORIAN FOOTBALL.

    The football season was brought to a close on Saturday in rainy weather. Fitzroy met South Melbourne to decide the Victorian League premiership, and after an ...

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  37. AUSTRALIAN MINING STOCKS.

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  38. RIFLES ISSUED TO THE BURGHERS.

    Orders were last month issued at Pretoria to the field cornets to supply the burghers with Mauser rifles in exchange for Martinis, and subsequently a large crowd ...

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  39. A KRUGER BROCHURE.

    President Kruger issued last month a brochure supporting his proposals for the removal of religious disabilities. The discourse is freely interlarded with. Scriptural ...

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  40. AFRICANDERS DISAPPOINTED WITH THE BOERS. I

    Members of the Africander Bond in Cape Colony and other parts of South Africa express keen disappointment on account of their failure to influence the ...

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  41. CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNING.

    The annual Ten Mile Cross-country Championship of the Victorian Amateur Athletic Association was held on Saturday, at Caulfield. The fixture usually attracts ...

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  42. AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

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  43. TO-DAY'S DIARY.

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  44. BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS.

    The 1st Battalion of the Manchester Regiment has arrived at Natal from Gibraltar, whence it was dispatched a few days ago. ...

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  45. KRUGER'S MENTAL PARALYSIS.

    The Johannesburg correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" recently sent via Natal a gloomy picture of the situation:—"Shops are closed. The Government themselves ...

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  47. FEELING IN CAPE COLONY.

    The feeling prevalent at the Cape is that it would be impossible as well as undignified for Great Britain to reopen arguments with President Kruger in order to secure the ...

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  49. BOERS ON THE ROAD TO RUIN.

    The opinion of the Radical side in British politics concerning the Transvaal crisis is expressed in a leading article to-day in the London "Daily Chronicle." The view ...

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  52. THE TRANSVAAL PREPARATIONS

    [By Uitlander in the "Argus" of Saturday.] In spite of all the. protestations made from Pretoria, it is evident, that the Transvaal has in no way relaxed her war ...

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