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  2. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    Sir George Shenton, President of the Western Australian Legislative Council, was entertained at luncheon on Tuesday by the directors of the Bank of Adelaide. The ...

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  3. BRITISH-OWNED CABLES.

    The report of the interdepartmental committee which has for time been considering the question of British owned cables and their extension, contains ...

    Article : 365 words
  4. RUSSIA.

    A number of youths at Helsingfors, the seaport and capital of Finland, began jeering at the police yesterday. A body of Cossacks came on the scene and rode ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. THE BOER CAMPAIGN.

    Lord Kitchener, in a despatch to the War Office, states that the mobile columns' reports show that the Boer losses for the past week were as follows:—Killed, 18 ...

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  6. NATIONAL NEEDS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday the proposal to increase the income tax by a penny in the pound was carried by 290 votes to 61. ...

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  7. ROYAL LEVEE.

    King Edward held a levee at St. James's Palace yesterday. There was a numerous attendance, and among those present were the Prince of Wales, Prince Christian, and ...

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  8. GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.

    A tremendous conflagration—which forcibly recalls that which occurred in Jewin street and crescent in November, 1807 causing an estimated loss of about ...

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  9. GREAT FIRE AT INVERELL.

    The most disastrous fire yet recorded in the history of Inverell occurred at an early hour this morning. The saddest feature is that ex-Alderman Charles Wilson and his ...

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  10. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    The ship Gauss, which was built for the German Antarctic Expedition, and launched at Kiel on April 2, 1901, arrived on January, 2 at Kerguelen, an island in the ...

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  11. DISAFFECTION IN THE ARMY.

    A corporal in the garrison at Sebastopol, in the Crimea, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for printing, a socialist manifesto. He had secretly used for ...

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  12. A MINING TOWN BESIEGED.

    The bulk of the Boers in the western districts of die Cape Colony recently concentrated and besieged the little mining town of Ookiep, situate six miles from ...

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  13. UNITED STATES.

    Advices from New York affirm, that the Ship Subsidy Bill introduced with the object of encouraging the shipbuilding industry in the United States, is in danger of ...

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  14. CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

    The health of the Boer refugees in the South African concentration camps has further, improved, and the mortality, for March was at the rate of 45 per 1,000 per ...

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  15. LORD CHAS. BERESFORD.

    Col. E. Hughes, Conservative member for Woolwich since 1900, has resigned his seat on the ground of ill-health, and Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford is the ...

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  16. CAVALRY IN WARFARE.

    The Kaiser on Saturday unveiled at Berlin a monument to the late Gen. Rosenberg, a famous German cavalry leader. In the course of a speech Field-Marshal Count ...

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  17. THE RETURNING SOLDIERS.

    The transport Manchester Merchant arrived from Durban at 9 this morning after a passage of 17 days. She has on board one officer and five men of the Queensland ...

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  18. FORFEITURE OF FARMS.

    The farms belonging to Commandants A. Prinsloo, T. A. Venter, W. S. Smit, Hertzog, letter, and other Boer leaders in the Orange River Colony, have been ...

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  19. THE BURNT STEAMER.

    Cable advices from Olmsted, State of Minnesota, affirm that the fatalaties in connect ion with the burning at sea of the pa[?]ket steamer City of Pittsburg total 75. ...

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  20. ROYAL ENGINEERS FOR THE FRONT.

    The War Office is about to dispatch to South Africa 1,000 Royal Engineers to relieve troops who have been a long time at the front. ...

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  21. ATLANTIC SHIPPING.

    The Atlantic steamship companies' combination, which has ben formed under the management of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan; includes the following:—White Star line ...

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  22. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The outbreak of bubonic plague at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, has caused five more deaths, and 10 fresh cases have been discovered. ...

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  23. MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

    It is significant of the effectiveness of the British military operations that Lord Milner has established Resident Magistrates' Courts in various ...

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  24. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Agents-General of Australasia, in a joint memorandum forwarded last week to Mr. Hanburg, President of the Board of Agriculture, suggested that a regulation ...

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  25. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    Pte. David Whitehead, of the 8th New Zealanders, has succumbed to the injuries he received in the railway collision at Machanie, near Klerksdorp. ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH HORSE, EIGHTH BATTALION.

    Lieut.-Col. H. Le Messurier the officer commanding the 8th Battalion, arrived by the express from Melbourne on Tuesday morning. He is a native of Western Australia. ...

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  27. THE FIFTH AND SIXTH CONTINGENTS RETURNING HOME.

    The bulk of the 5th and 6th Contingents are now at Albany on their way home from South Africa, on board the troopship Manchester Merchant. These contingents ...

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  28. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Beetroot Sugar.—Mr. F. C. Licht, of Magdeburg, reports that the yield of beetroot sugar in Europe for the past month has increased the total for the present season ...

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  29. RIOTS IN JAMAICA.

    Riots have occurred among the coolies at Annotta Bay, in the north of the island of Jamaica. Several encounters have taken place between the mob and the police and ...

    Article : 165 words
  30. AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

    Messrs. Darling, Hill, Noble, Jones, Duff; Trumper, Armstrong, Carter, and. Hopkins arrived in London by the overland Continental route yesterday, and have ...

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  31. SPION KOP.

    Mr. Brodrick (Secretary for War) told the House of Commons yesterday that the Ministry were not prepared to publish the explanatory and recriminatory statements ...

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  32. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    At London or Channel.—Myrtle Holme, barque, from Port Adelaide November 28, Friday of Bryde, barque, from Albany December 24: Port Jackson, barque, from ...

    Article : 165 words
  33. FEARFUL EARTHQUAKES.

    Reuter's correspondent at Guatemala, in Central America, describes an awful visitation which has afflicted that republic. Three shocks of earthquake occured in the ...

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  34. RAILWAY COLLISION.

    A serious collision occurred this morning on the railway, line half mile on the Niagara side of the Kookynie station. A ballast train, backing slowly towards ...

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  35. THE FAROO'S ACCIDENT.

    The Court of Marine Enquiry sat to-day to examine into a charge of careless navigation preferred by the Marine Board against Capt. J. B. S. F. Medley, master of the ...

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  36. MR. SEDDON AND THE MAORIS.

    In reference to Mr. Seddon.'s denial of his speech concerning Maoris and the South African war, The Wellington Post, in an article to-day asks:—"If the speech was ...

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  37. THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.

    The Premier (Mr. Lewis) has suggested to the Premiers of the other states that the conference proposed to be held on May 13 should be deferred till a later date. ...

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  38. AN HOTEL BURNED.

    The Prince of Wales Hotel at Townsville was completely destroyed by fire early tins morning. The inmates of the hotel, to the number of 16, had to make their escape ...

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  39. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    Mr. Maynard, licencee of an hotel, in George street, died of plague to-day. ...

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  40. DE ROUGEMONT IN COURT.

    Henry Louis Grien, who obtained fame some time ago as "De Rougemont" by his sensational stories of Australian experiences in The Wide World Magazine, was ...

    Article : 117 words
  41. PIOUS PAUL KRUGER'S LATEST UTTERANCES.

    In the Paris Matin of March 20 appears the account of an interview which M. Henri des Houx has had with Mr. Paul Kruger, in the presence of Mr. Fischer and ...

    Article : 408 words
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