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  2. Advertising

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  3. SHREWD ADVICE BY CHARLES KINGSLEY.

    Lieut Colonel Oastine, M.P., possesses a valuable collection of literary curiosities, and one of the latest which he has examined is an interesting letter written by the ...

    Article : 978 words
  4. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    —Supply Bill—A Lesson for the Government The Supply Bill was read a first time. The Postmaster-General moved the ...

    Article : 500 words
  5. concerning people.

    Lord and Lady Tennyson, lord Richard Nevill, and the Hon. J. L. Stirling, M.L.C., paid a visit to Buckland Park on Thursday. Senator Dobson of Tasmania, was on ...

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  6. THE FAR EAST.

    The "Novoe Vremya," an influential St. Petersburg newspaper, declares that Great Britain, in the hope that by and by she will be able again to play a ...

    Article : 253 words
  7. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    In a recent action at Nylstroom, a railway town about 80 miles north of Pretoria, a force under Capt. J. W. Colenbrander killed five Boers and ...

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  8. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    The London newspapers are publishing interesting messages descriptive of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand. ...

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  9. KING EDWARD.

    The King yesterday, amid the plaudits of a vast assemblage of spectators, presented war medals to 3,000 soldiers who have served in the South ...

    Article : 479 words
  10. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 605 words
  11. VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

    Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall left at 10 o'clock this morning in a special train for Rotorua, accompanied by their suite, visiting ...

    Article : 248 words
  12. VICTORIA.

    George Houston, clerk in the Mines Department, who was sentenced last week to 18 months' imprisonment for embezzlement, appeared at the City Court to-day on a ...

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  13. A SEVERE LESSON.

    Six armed Boers, who had taken the oath of neutrality, attempted to escape from Pretoria. The sentry challenged them, and in answer they fired and ...

    Article : 97 words
  14. BRITISH POLITICS.

    The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, in the House of Commons yesterday, notified it was the intention of the Government to press forward the Finance, Loan, ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. APPEAL TO BOER LEADERS.

    A thousand Boer prisoners, who are under detention at Bellevue Camp, have petitioned ex-President Steyn, Mr. Schalk Burger, Commandant-Gen. ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.

    King Edward has written to the Chancellor and Court of the University of Glasgow congratulating them and the city upon the celebration of the ...

    Article : 214 words
  17. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Central Board appointed to administer the Old Age Pension Act, in a report detailing its operations, state that about 18,000 applications have been received. The ...

    Article : 277 words
  18. THE AUSTRALASIANS.

    Pte. L. Matthews, of the New Zealand roughriders, died from enteric fever at Cape Town, and Pte. James Young, of the same corps, succumbed ...

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  19. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    Representative Piesse (T.) presented a petition from Tasmania, against the post office assisting sweeps. —A Disputed Return.— ...

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  20. WITH THE FIFTH CONTINGENT.

    —Death of Quartermaster Schumann.— Tpr. A. M. Wood, of the fifth contingent, in a letter to his father, Mr. R. Wood, M.P., dated "Tafel Kop. May 8" says.— ...

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  21. THE SUGAR DUTIES.

    Since the imposition of the sugar duties. the British customs authorities have been levying an impost of 7s. per cwt. on imports of fruit pulp. ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. VICTORIAN FACTORIES AND SHOPS.

    An important question in connection with the Factories and Shops Act was decided to-day by the Full Court. Proceedings had been taken by John McGlinchy, an ...

    Article : 336 words
  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The State of Victoria is displaying a number of excellent samples of produce at the Military Exhibition in the Crystal Palace and at the Cookery and ...

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  24. BRITISH TRADE WITH GERMANY.

    The German Federal Council has sanctioned the prolongation until further notice of the agreement which stipulates that "most-favoured-nation" ...

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  25. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A girl named Kelly, aged eight years, met a frightful death at Bindoon yesterday. The child was leading a horse to water, when the animal taking fright ...

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  26. LARGE FIRE IN SYDNEY.

    Shortly before 5 this morning a fire was discovered on the premises of Mason Brothers, Limited, general merchants, Pitt street near the junction of Bridge street. ...

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  27. INTERNATIONAL BOWLS.

    The New zealand members of the Australasian bowling team, who withdrew from the combination when they reached England, are playing matches independently. At ...

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  28. FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

    Two Paris newspapers, the "Debats" and the "Figaro," state that the matters in dispute between France and Morocco have been closed, and nothing ...

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  29. THE DEATH ON THE TALUNE

    The trial of Mrs. Jane Smith on a charge of having murdered Patrick Conway by administering poison to him on the steamer Talune while ...

    Article : 141 words
  30. WANTED—A DENTAL ACT.

    Sir—Four or five public reports during the last year or two of serious injury, including two deaths, from dental operations induce me to write again on the status of ...

    Article : 737 words
  31. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    The directors the Bank of England to-day lowered the bank rate for the discount of three months' bills from 3½ per cent., at which it had been during the past week, to ...

    Article : 135 words
  32. SMALLPOX.

    William Harris, one of the smallpox patients at the quarantine station; died last evening. The body was at once cremated. Harris joined the Ormuz at Fremantle, ...

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  33. SHIP ST. DAVID IN QUARANTINE.

    The ship St. David, which arrived at Newcastle from Delagoa Bay, has been placed in quarantine. One of the crew died during the voyage from malarial fever, and ...

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  34. BROKEN HILL DISASTER FUND.

    A meeting of the general committee of the disaster fund was held last evening. The following were among the resolutions adopted:— "1. That a trust be formed, consisting ...

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  35. THE LOSS OF THE FEDERAL,

    A report was received from Bairnsdale to-night stating that a piece of wood, which appears to have come from the wrecked steamer ...

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  36. VESSELS IN DISTRESS.

    News was received in Sydney to-day that the barquentine Chiltoor, from Westport New Zealand, to Sydney, with a cargo of coal for the navy, encountered gales two ...

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  37. GENERAL NOTES.

    —The Senate and Money Bills.— When asked what the Government proposed to do with regard to the position taken by the Senate in respect to the ...

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  38. UNITED LABOUR PARTY.

    The monthly meeting of the council of the United Labour Party was held at the Trades Hall on Thursday evening, the president Mr. G. Dankel, occupying the chair. ...

    Article : 125 words
  39. THE IRONWORKERS' STRIKE.

    The ironworkers' assistants' strike committee received a communication from the Department of Labour and Industry to-day inviting attention to the provisions of the ...

    Article : 168 words
  40. THE KANAKA LABOUR QUESTION.

    At a conference at Bundaberg to-day, attended by 160 delegates, representing every pastoral and agricultural society in the state, a resolution was adopted viewing ...

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  41. SEED-WHEAT FUND.

    Sir—The farmers of Wilson wish to publicly thank the members of the central committee of the seed-wheat fund for the satisfactory manner in which it was ...

    Article : 140 words
  42. THE TRAMWAY QUESTION.

    Sir—One hesitates about entering into a discussion with such an extreme nationalist as "C. Proud." Tis true that in 1905 the Government will have power to purchase ...

    Article : 231 words
  43. THE SOUTH MINE ACCIDENT.

    Mr. W. J. Ferguson has been informed with reference to the South Mine disaster that the Minister of Mines has submitted the depositions of the coroner'e enquiry to ...

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  44. A WAR NEWSPAPER.

    Sergt. G. E. Catchlove, of the South Australian Imperial Bushmen, has posted to his father a copy of a newspaper which was printed at Pietersburg, in the northern ...

    Article : 199 words
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  46. THE SWEETS OF SUCCESS.

    The Rev. Thomas Parker, minister of the Wesleyan Church at Blayney who was sued for damages for libel by William Gladstone Mellor. a reporter on the "Blayney ...

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  47. MINING.

    A local company to work the copper property at Olary, South Australia, called the "New Centralia," has been successfully floated, and the reports show that the prospects are very ...

    Article : 176 words
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