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  2. PERSONAL NOTES FROM ENGLAND.

    Mr. E. Christmas at the beginning of the week inspected at the office of Mr. Herbert Bishop, Ludgate Hill, a number of the paintings sent over from the Continent by ...

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  3. IN QUARANTINE.

    The farcical quarantine comedy was advanced another stage this morning when the Defiance, with Dr. Ramsay Smith on board, arrived with the Promise, ...

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  4. THE SOUTH MINE DISASTER.

    The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the South Mine victims was resumed this morning at the Courthouse. Considerable public interest was taken in the proceedings, ...

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  5. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    This Morning opened gloomily, but by 8 o'clock, when the warships in Port Jackson, which were to take part in the welcome to royalty outside the Heads, weighed anchor ...

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  6. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The draft of the standing orders of the Senate has been revised by Senator Sir Richard Baker (President) and Senator O'Connor and it has been shorn of some ...

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  7. LORD MILNER.

    Sir Alfred Milner, British High Commissioner for South Africa, who was raised to the peerage during an audi-ence of His Majesty King Edward at ...

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  8. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    six hundred Boers under Commandant Kruitzinger left the Zuurberg, in the Steynsberg district of Cape Colony, on Friday, riding southwards. A ...

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  9. the WELSH COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    king Edward has expressed his deep sympathy with the families who have been bereaved, many of them of their breadwinners, through the explosion ...

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  10. THE FAR EAST.

    The Emperor William has issued an order to the German authorities in China to prepare for the disbandment of the ...

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  11. ENTERTAINED BY MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

    Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, gave a private luncheon on Saturday in honour of the visit of Lord Milner who arrived in ...

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  12. HOPELESS RESCUE EFFORTS.

    The news from the colliery at Caer philly, Glamorganshire, in which three distinct explosions occurred on Thurs joy night resulting in the entombment ...

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  13. THE DISCOVERY OF KRUPP. GUNS.

    In connection with the discovery of 18 new 15-pounder Krupp guns at Kaiping 74 miles north-west of Tientsin, in the province of Pechili, it is ...

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  14. RUSSIA

    A tremendous expanse of country in Russia has been devastated by fire. Innumerable towns and villages have been ablaze, and immense damage to ...

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  15. FIGHTING IN THE NORTHERN TRANSVAAL.

    Telegrams from the Northern Transvall report an encounter between the British and Boer forces in the Water berg district. ...

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  16. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The Newfoundland naval reservists have just concluded a six months' cruise in the West Indies, and they are delighted with their work and the ...

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  17. METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE.

    At to-day's sitting of the Wesleyan Methodist General Conference a report was presented by the committee appointed to revise the resolutions respecting the order ...

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  18. THE WAR OFFICE.

    The committee appointed by the House of Commons to enquire into the administration of the War Office recommends that drastic reforms should ...

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  19. THE RECENT DISTURBANCES.

    The St Petersburg authorities have suspended for a week the publication of the "Novoe Vremya," a leading daily newspaper issued in the Russian ...

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  20. BORDER SCOUTS ENGAGED.

    A gallant and desperate fight by a small party of Britons is reported from the north-west of Cape Colony. The encounter took place In country west ...

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  21. PRODUCE IN TIME OF WAR.

    The American Cold Storage Company propose to run a line of steamers to Manchester and Southampton, and to establish enormous depots at those ...

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  22. THE RUSSIAN LOAN.

    Applications for the Russian loan of £16,960,000 issued to the French public were received last week. It is to bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent, and ...

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  23. THE PLAGUE.

    Up to date 649 eases of bubonic plague have been reported at Cape Town. The deaths number 292, including 52 Europeans. There were 17 ...

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  24. SUGAR INDUSTRY IN QUEENSLAND.

    A Bill was passed last session for the purpose of amending the Sugar Works Guarantee Act by giving permission to make further advances to the extent of ...

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  25. A FULL COURT EVENLY DIVIDED.

    The Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice a'Beckett, and Mr. Justice Hood, delivered to-dny reserved decisions in the test ...

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  26. SOMALILAND.

    Advices from Somaliland state that it is rumoured the Mad Mullah has formed a strong alliance with the Myertain tribe of natives, securing no ...

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  27. BRITISH CAPTURE A STRONG POSITION.

    Lieut-Gen. Sir H. M. L. Rundle has captured Theron's Hill, a strong posi-tion held by the Boers near Fouriesberg. ...

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  28. A CONVOY ATTACKED.

    Lord Kitchener reports to the War Office that a large body of Boers made a determined attack on Thursday upon a British convoy proceeding between ...

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  29. PLAGUE IN BRISBANE.

    Two further cases of plague were reported to-day, one of which, that of J. West, bootmaker, aged 18 years, proved fatal. His brother George has developed the disease, ...

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  30. THE DECADENCE OF SPAIN.

    Admiral Cervera. who was in com-mand of the Spanish fleet which was destroyed at Santiago during the Cuban war with the United States, addressed ...

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  31. INTERSTATE LEGAL RECIPROCITY.

    interesting remarks regarding interstate reciprocity in admitting legal practitioners From one State to practise in the courts of another State were made by the Chief ...

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  32. ASSISTING PRODUCERS.

    There is a growing movement among farmers to obtain Government intervention or the better regulation of the export produce trade in the interests of producers. ...

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  33. THE REASON FOR THE SURRENDERS.

    Reuter's agency telegraphs from South Africa that the consensus of opinion among those who have been taken prisoners or have surrendered to ...

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  34. VICTORIA.

    The railway earnings for the expired portion of the current financial year show an increase of £240,781 compared with the corresponding portion of the previous ...

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  35. IRONWORKERS' ASSISTANTS' STRIKE.

    Matters in connection with the ironworkers' assistants' strike were quiet to-day on account of the holiday, but a general meeting, of members of the union was held, at ...

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  36. STEAM VERSUS ELECTRICITY FOR RAILWAYS.

    In comparing the relative advantages of steam and electricity for the working of main lines of railway, it must be admitted that for long journeys the electrical ...

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  37. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

    The retiring Ministers took leave of their respective departments to-day, and their successors were sworn in by the Governor. Although Mr. Holmes, who is absent in the ...

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  38. FALL INTO AN OPEN CUT.

    A man named waiter Stevens was going home at an early hour yesterday morning to South Broken Hill. He took a short cut across the Proprietary Mine, missed his ...

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  39. THE AUSTRALASIANS.

    Pte. J. Wells, or the New South Wales mounted force, has been dangerously wounded at Mandesfontein. Pte. Thomas Wentworth, of the New ...

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  40. THE COLERAINE TRAGEDY.

    The funeral of the victims of last Friday's tragedy took place to-day at Coleraine. A large number of persons assembled to take part as a mark of respect for Mr. Day, ...

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  41. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Nominations in connection with the P.L.L. preliminary ballot for the selection of a labour candidate to oppose Mr. W. J. Ferguson for the Sturt electorate closed ...

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  42. THE BERRINGA POISONING CASES.

    It has transpired that the boarders at the Berringa loding-house who were taken seriously ill with symptoms of poisoning last week suffered from acute gastritis due to , ...

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  43. DEATH FROM BURNS.

    The other evening Ruby Maude Williams, five years of age, left her parents' house on the Bonanza lease at South Broken Hill, to play with some other children in a ...

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  44. HEAVY RAIN IN QUEENSLAND.

    Good soaking rains have been experienced in many portions of the central and south-western districts. Longreach has had six inches since Friday, making 13 inches since ...

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  45. A CURIOUS CASE.

    A case possessing peculiar features came before the City Court to-day. Archibald Bishop, a woodcarter, was charged with having deserted his wife, by whom a war ...

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  46. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The Palmerston and Pine Greek Railway earnings for the week ended May 25 amounted to £370. The Thomaz Andrea returned yesterday ...

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  47. A KANAKA EXECUTED.

    The kanaka Wantee, who murdered a Frenchman at Ayr, was executed in the Brisbane Gaol at 8 o'clock this morning. He passed a good night, und did not ...

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