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  2. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Federal Treasurer, Representative Sir George Turner, has had prepared a return showing the balances paid back to the states at the end of each month for the ...

    Article : 419 words
  3. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    His Excellency the Governor Lord Tennyson has invited the second Commonwealth contingent to visit Marble Hill on Friday afternoon. ...

    Article : 1,271 words
  4. RAILWAY REVOLUTION.

    "We are on the eve of a mechanical resolution in railway engines such as had sever been seen since the introduction of steam," said Mr. H. S. Cautley, M.P. ...

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  5. ELECTRIC ENGINEERING AT THE SCHOOL OF MINES.

    The students of the electric engineering classes at the School of Mines and Industries met the newly appointed instructor, Mr. H. J. Bullock, A.I.E.E.. on ...

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  6. MR. CECIL RHODES.

    Col. F. W. Rhodes, C.B., D.S.O., and Mr. Arthur Rhodes have sailed for Cape Town to see thier brother, Mr. Cecil Rhodes, who is in a critical condition. ...

    Article : 86 words
  7. ITALY AND ENGLAND.

    In the Chamber of Deputies at Rome on Saturday Signor Prinetti Minister for foreign Affairs, in reply, to an interpellation said that Italy had maintained strict ...

    Article : 109 words
  8. THE TRANSVALL CAMPAIGN.

    Lord Methuen, despite his dangerous wound, has dictated a graphic narrative of the serious misfortune which befel his column near Tweebosch on Friday, March 7. ...

    Article : 690 words
  9. THE CAPE RAIDS.

    Advices from Cape Town show that Commandant Malan's force of Boers and rebels passed Willekaip, in the Midlands, on the 12th inst. Col. Doran and a mounted ...

    Article : 76 words
  10. THE TRANSVAAL "EXECUTIVE."

    Mr. Schalk Burger, Acting-President of the Transvaal, and the members of his Government are now in country north of Balmoral, a station on the Delagoa Bay. ...

    Article : 42 words
  11. SUEZ CANAL BLOCKED.

    Despatches from Suez state that a Russian petroleum ship is ashore and another is on fire in the canal. Mail steamers of the P. &. O. and Oriental Companies are ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. A DIVORCE SUIT.

    A divorce case, which is likely to occupy the court some time, was begun to-day. The petitioner is Walter Percy Lance, of Newcastle and the respondent Florence ...

    Article : 395 words
  13. THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

    The Marquis Ito; who recently had audiences of the King and leading Ministers in England, has been generally supposed to have been the medium through which Japan ...

    Article : 65 words
  14. NATAL TREASON COURTS.

    The Treason Court established in Natal for the trial of traitors has completed, its sittings. The tribunal tried 500 out of the estimated 800 rebels who were British subjects ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. IRISH AFFAIRS.

    Mr. John E. Redmond, leader of the Nationalist, declares that the United Irish League has already, by means of persuasion or coercion, prevailed upon a large number ...

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  16. COMMONWEALTH CONTINGENTS AT DURBAN.

    The transport Manchester Merchant, with Australian troops on board, has arrived at Durban, Natal. The contingents are all well. ...

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  17. REJOICING IN TOKIO.

    Japanese this received by the Kasuga Maru state that the Anglo-Japanese treaty was read in the Diet by the Premier, Viscount Katsura, who stated that in the ...

    Article : 245 words
  18. COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE.

    An advice from Lima, the capital city of Peru, intimates that a frightful catastrophe has occurred at the River Maranon, or Upper Amazon. A few days ago ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. GALLANT NEW ZEALANDERS.

    Cabling from Pretoria to Mr. Seddon, Lord Kitchener says:—"I cannot express sufficient thanks for the great help you have given and offered. There are none I ...

    Article : 44 words
  20. "JOURNALISTIC IHGH-FLOWN LIES."

    Under this heading the "Cologne Gazette," certainly one of the best conducted and most influential newspapers in Germany, gives much information concerning the ...

    Article : 594 words
  21. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    Dr. O'Neil McKelvie has been appointed medical officer to the New Zealand Government asylums. A large sugar factory at Roman, a town ...

    Article : 76 words
  22. THE JUDICIARY BILL.

    On Monday morning Representative Glynn received from Melbourne a copy of the Federal Judiciary Bill, which was circulated among members of the ...

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  23. CHINA.

    The "Standard" correspondent at Pekin asserts that the Provisional Government established by the Powers at Tientsin recently discovered a series of extensive ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The steamer Chingtu sailed for Hongkong on Friday evening. The passengers were Messrs. Fox, Belt, and Ran. The cargo was 24 cases of pearlshell and 110 bags of ...

    Article : 151 words
  25. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    London, March 17, 2.20 p.m. Silver.—The price of bar silver to-day is 2s. 15-16d. per oz., an advance of 1/8d. ...

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  26. VICTORIA.

    The railway traffic receipts for the ended Friday showed a decrease of £5,943 compared with the corresponding week of test year. The total earnings since July 1 ...

    Article : 154 words
  27. MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY.

    At a meeting of the university Council to-day Dr. Macfarland referred to the action of the senate in opening subscription lists with a view to raising a sum of ...

    Article : 482 words
  28. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN AMBASSADOR.

    About the middle of January President Roosevelt directed Mr. John D. Long, Secretary of State for the United States Navy, to deliver to the State Department ...

    Article : 126 words
  29. THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.

    Mr. See, Premier of New South Wales, and a Parliamentary party of 19 members arrived in Melbourne by the Sydney express to-day. As the State Premier. Mr. ...

    Article : 333 words
  30. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Two Indian seamen have deserted from the steamer Paknan, and the captain was served with a summons to-day under the Immigration Restriction Act. ...

    Article : 64 words
  31. BRAZIL.

    A diplomatic dispute is expected to occur between Germany, and Brazil, owing to the strong measures which the Government at Rio de Janeiro have taken in ...

    Article : 151 words
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  33. QUEENSLAND.

    A hayshed at the Gatton Agricultural College was destroyed by fire last night. The damage is estimated at £2,000. ...

    Article : 24 words
  34. HOW METHUEN WAS WOUNDED.

    A correspondent of the "Daily Mail" telegraphs the statement that Lord Methuen was about to ride a considerable distance through a hail of bullets in order to rally a ...

    Article : 202 words
  35. WESTERN AUSTRALIA

    Walsh's Hotel, the finest on the Worth Coolgardie goldfield, was the scene of a fire last night. The damage is estimated at £1,000 ...

    Article : 117 words
  36. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The autopsy on the body of the boy Francis who died at Yarraville showed that death was due to septicaemia, or blood poisoning. It is understood that Mr. ...

    Article : 128 words
  37. PAK A PU.

    A large number of Chinese were presented at the Central Police Court today as the remit of the raid on gambling places in Goulbourn street. The defendants were ...

    Article : 173 words
  38. THE McEVOY MINE STRIKE.

    The labour trouble at McEvoy's Mine seems likely to be solved in a manner that was never expected by the men. At a special meeting of shareholders in the ...

    Article : 155 words
  39. NEW ZEALAND.

    Insurances on Messrs. Nelson & Moate's premises, which were partly destroyed by fire at Wellington, total £7,350. Steps are being taken at Wellington to ...

    Article : 82 words
  40. LATE MINING.

    The February output of toe Sons of Gwalla was follows:—Crushed, 7,755 tons for 3,819 oz. cyanide, and 2,100 tons of tailings for 1,407 oz., giving total yield of 5,226 oz. ...

    Article : 184 words
  41. METHODIST UNION.

    The Primitive Methodist Conference vote on the question of union is now complete in the whole colony. Twenty-four stations rated as follows:—For the 1884 basis, 158 ...

    Article : 141 words
  42. TO-DAY'S DIARY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 words
  43. BRITISH SUCCESSES.

    A mounted column, under Col. C. W. Park, of the Devonshire Regiment, after several long night marches, has captured tarn laagers and 25 Boers to the north of ...

    Article : 106 words
  44. OIL DISCOVERY IN THE WEST.

    Mr. Simpson, mineralogist and assayer in the Geological Department, has furnished the Under Secretary of Alines with an exhaustive analysis report on the samples of ...

    Article : 117 words
  45. ALLEGED LIBEL AND SLANDER.

    The action brought by Maud Pettingall against J. G. Julian to recover £1,000 as compensation for alleged libel and slander, contained in a letter of which the ...

    Article : 69 words
  46. BURIED FOR HALF AN HOUR.

    Thomas Holland, a guard on the railway, and owner of a farm three miles from Junee, leased to Donald McDonald, with whom he resides was assisting McDonald ...

    Article : 130 words
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  48. A FREETRADE CAMPAIGN.

    At a meeting of the council of the Freetrade and Liberal Association tonight it was decided to have a series of addresses delivered at country centres at an early ...

    Article : 82 words
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  50. DE WET'S WHEREABOUTS.

    Lord Kitchener reports that Mr. Steyn, Gen. Christian De Wet, and a Boer force are in the vicinity of Parys, a village on the south bank of the Vaal River, 17 miles ...

    Article : 46 words
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  52. VISITING BROKEN HILL CRICKETERS.

    The following cricket team has been selected to proceed to Adelaide from Broken Hill:—Leak, Webber, Benny, Arthur, Doran, Searcy, Trott, Forsyth, Mackel, Johns ...

    Article : 79 words
  53. Advertising

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  55. A NEW AUSTRALIAN RECORD.

    At the Hibernian sports to-day, in the Discus Handicap, G. Hawkes made a new Australasian record, throwing 102 ft. 11½ in. ...

    Article : 27 words
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