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  2. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    His Excellency the Governor, Lord Tennyson, is still suffering from a severe cold. He is not yet able to leave Government House, and in Consequence the keeling of ...

    Article : 862 words
  3. ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

    In legislative Council, Hon. G. Brookman moved that Council disapproved of regulation No. 12 under the Factories Act; debate adjourned. Afterwards, by suspension of standing orders, he ...

    Article : 222 words
  4. AN EVENING WITH THE SPIRITS.

    Grape, barley, potato, methylated and kindred spirits I knew something about, but to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Millar's spirits was a new experience. For ...

    Article : 1,537 words
  5. THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL FUND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 591 words
  6. CHINA.

    The Shanghai correspondent of the "Times" understands that the French are demanding concessions in the province of Nganhwei, which is situated between the ...

    Article : 57 words
  7. COMMONWEALTH LEGISLATION.

    Directors of companies interested in Australian steamers continue to be disturbed at the prospect of the Interstate Commission having the power to regulate rales of ...

    Article : 187 words
  8. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    The High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the annexed Boer States was accorded a most enthusiastic reception on landing at Cape Town after his visit ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. PRINCE CHUN'S MISSION TO GERMANY.

    Prince Chun, brother of the Emperor of China, who is on a mission to Germany to apologize for the murder of Baron Ketteler, is detained at Basle on the alleged ...

    Article : 96 words
  10. IN THE COUNCIL.

    The industry of the Council has exhausted its opportunity for the present, and the members have suspended their labours for a fornight. The Attorney-General, in ...

    Article : 509 words
  11. NEW CHINESE CAPITAL.

    The "Standard" correspondent at Shanghai states that Mr. G. E. Pereira, of the Grenadier Guards, who is on special service in China, and the Revs. T. H. Smith and ...

    Article : 109 words
  12. EFFECT OF LORD KITCHENER'S PROCLAMATION.

    Mr. Bennet Burleigh informs the "Daily Telegraph" that Lord Kitchener's proclamation has provoked angry disputes among the leading Boers, some of whom declare ...

    Article : 116 words
  13. THE WORLD'S WHEAT HARVESTS.

    In an article calling attention to the increased cultivation of wheat, Mr. Carthew, estimates that for the year ending July, 1902, the world's harvest will exceed ...

    Article : 60 words
  14. FRANCE AND TURKEY.

    In connection with the diplomatic rupture between France and Turkey, which has resulted in the withdrawal of M. Constans, the French Minister, from ...

    Article : 75 words
  15. PACIFIC CABLE BOARD.

    At a meeting of the Pacific Cable Board yesterday Mr. Charles Henry Reynolds, C.I.E., who was Director-General of Telegraphs in India from 1895 to 1899, when he ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. ARREST OF MR. MERRIMAN.

    Mr. John Xavier Merriman, Bond member of the Cape Assembly and an ex-Minister, was yesterday arrested by the military authorities at his farm in the ...

    Article : 112 words
  17. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier, in answer to a member, said the question as to the liability to serious catastrophe throphe through fires in high buildings in ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. THE GERMAN NAVY.

    The Emperor William is causing thousands of German schoolboys to be brought to Kiel, and shown over the dockyards and war vessels there. In this way His ...

    Article : 52 words
  19. THE SUBSIDENCES IN FIFESHIRE.

    Brave efforts are being made to rescue the 14 men who were entombed in some of the drives of the Donbristle Colliery, Fife-shire, owing to the subsidence of an area ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF LADIES.

    A largely attended meeting of ladies was hold in the arbitration room, Brookman's building, on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of taking steps to assist in the ...

    Article : 642 words
  21. LATEST BOER REVERSES.

    Colonel Sir H. S. Rawlinson, with a small force, after a forty minutes' hard gallop over the veldt eastwards of Edenburg, Orange River Colony, captured 18 ...

    Article : 84 words
  22. MALTA.

    Mr. Chamberlain recently stated that the Government did not intend to appoint a royal commission to enquire into the administration of Malta, with the view of ...

    Article : 131 words
  23. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Works (Mr. O'Sullivan), in reply to a question, said that the umemployed were being given work where possible. ...

    Article : 220 words
  24. BRITISH STEEL TRADE.

    Crawshay Brothers Cyfarthfa, Limited, owners of extensive steelworks and collieries at Merthyr Tydvil, are amalgamating with the Dowlais Iron Company (Guest and ...

    Article : 51 words
  25. IN THE ASSEMBLY.

    The galleries were practically deserted when business began in the Assembly on Wednesday. The Treasurer informed Mr. Duncan that he had never said that 6d. per ...

    Article : 1,251 words
  26. THE CAPE INVASION.

    Advices from Cape Colony indicate that the general tendency of the invading commandos in the midlands districts is to move to the westward. They are being hard ...

    Article : 38 words
  27. STEELWORKERS' STRIKE.

    Telegrams from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, state that, several additional mills, closed in consequence of the steelworkers' strike, have been reopened in that city. ...

    Article : 30 words
  28. STAMPING OUT REBELLION.

    Ignatius Nel and O. Lategan, Dutch rebels, were yesterday sentenced to be shot for treason, and for having, with murderous intent, fired upon British troops in the ...

    Article : 52 words
  29. A MONSTER AIR SHIP.

    The War Office authorities have given an order for a navigable airship, which is to be built on the Barton system. It will be 200 ft. long, with engines of a capacity of ...

    Article : 240 words
  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Barl Russell, who is serving a sentence in Holloway Gaol for bigamy, has been removed from the magistracy of Berkshire. The Lords of the Admiralty have given ...

    Article : 83 words
  31. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The House of Assembly did nothing last night except discuss the railway trouble. The general feeling was that, matters having proceeded so far, the best course was to ...

    Article : 131 words
  32. THE AUSTRALASIANS.

    The following casualties occurred on Saturday to members of the seventh New Zealand contingent in a fight near Vereeniging, on the Vaal River:—Killed—Lieut. S. ...

    Article : 67 words
  33. A NEW ZEALAND LOAN.

    The relations between the Auditor-General and the Colonial Treasurer have been straiged. The former refused to sign 4 per sent, debentures for half a million raised in ...

    Article : 106 words
  34. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Breadstuffs.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,655,000 qrs., compared with 2,785,000 qrs. a week ago and 2,340,000 qrs. a year ago. The quantity ...

    Article : 94 words
  35. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST PLAGUE.

    Nearly 100 rats, obtained in the city and suburbs, were last week examined at the laboratory of the board of health, and none of them showed any signs of being affected ...

    Article : 43 words
  36. BREACH OF PROMISE.

    In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Hood, Cecily Caulfield sued sued John Edge, an elderly widower, employed in the railway service, to recover £500 damages ...

    Article : 229 words
  37. IN SEARCH OF PETROLEUM.

    A syndicate, which for years past has been endeavouring to find a payable petroleum field near New Plymouth has abandoned the project. The last bore went down 1,000 ...

    Article : 41 words
  38. THE DUKE OF YORK CORNER.

    Operating in Duke of York scrip to-day was at a standstill. A little bidding went on at the morning call, but quotations closed wide, with the buyer at 56/, and ...

    Article : 177 words
  39. TIED HOUSES IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to report upon tied houses held its first sitting to-day. Peter Joseph Brennon, licencee of the Occidental ...

    Article : 120 words
  40. STOCKS AND SHARES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 words
  41. NEW MUSIC.

    We have received from Mr. E. T. Collins, musicseller to Mr. J. Woodman, Rundle street, a copy of a capital new basso song by G. S. de Chaneet, entitled "The rover." ...

    Article : 419 words
  42. STOCK IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The annual report of the Stock Branch Department of Agriculture for the year 1900 was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly to-day. There has been a ...

    Article : 269 words
  43. Advertising

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    Advertising : 247 words
  44. THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.

    Major Wardill, secretary of the M.C.C., sent a cable message on Monday to Mr. MacLaren, asking to be supplied as soon as possible with the names of the members ...

    Article : 78 words
  45. A CENSORISED CABLE MESSAGE.

    A few days ago a lady resident of Warrnambool cabled to her husband in Natal, South Africa, "Shall Warrigal, Narrung?" The message was stopped by the military ...

    Article : 90 words
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