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  2. ELECTION POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

    Jack—Well, Jill, have you made up your mind about whom you'll vote for? Jill—No; am I allowed to vote for candidates for the Federal Parliament? ...

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  3. THE FUTURE OF QUEENSLAND

    A writer in the 'St. James's Gazette" has been indulging in warm eulogiums upon the future of Queensland, which, in his opinion, probably excels all the other distant ...

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  4. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    The Premier (Hon. F. W. Holder) is absent from Adelaide on his federal campaign. The Chief Secretary (Hon. J. G. Jenkins) is Acting Premier for the time being. ...

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  5. ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

    From Lord Hopetoun, on behalf of the Commonwealth, and from the Governors of most of the Australian States have been received cable messages congratulating the ...

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  6. AN ONLY SON.

    Grawlia Station, about 12 miles from Forbes, was the scene of a terrible tragedy last night. Elwin Richards, aged about 25, shot his father dead, so seriously ...

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  7. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK.

    Before the departure of the Duke and Duchess of York from Portsmouth His Majesty the King presented war medals to many of the seamen and ...

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  8. THE BRITISH ARMY.

    Concerning the old-fashioned breech loading guns with which the volunteer artillery have been armed, Viscount Wolseley, late Commander-in-Chief of ...

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  9. THE POWERS AND CHINA.

    The Reichstag at Berlin has voted 123,000,000 marks (about £6,000,000) to meet the cost of Germany's campaign in China. General von Gossler, the ...

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  10. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    Correspondents in South Africa record the fact that the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony are now freely and openly, ...

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  11. THE TIENTSIN RAILWAY TROUBLE.

    Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, states that in connection with the dispute between Russian and British officials arising out of the ...

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  12. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    It has been ascertained that 65 British warships are fitted with the Belleville boiler. Recently the Select Committee which was appointed at the ...

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  13. BOER LOSSES IN FEBRUARY.

    Official statistics supplied by the war Department show that during the month of February the Boer casualties were as follow:— ...

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  14. EARL ROBERTS.

    Earl Roberts, in acknowledging the gift of a beautiful illuminated album with an address expressive of esteem and affection, presented to him by the ...

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  15. OFFENSIVE FRENCH TROOPS.

    Advices from Tientsin state that owing to the continuous rowdyism which is characteristic of the French soldiers quartered near that city they have ...

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  16. THE VICTORIAN LOAN.

    On the 14th inst. the prospectus was issued for the new Victorian 3 percent. loan of £3,000,000, the price of which was fixed at £93 10s., for the ...

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  17. DE WET'S FORCES.

    The latest information from Bloemfontein is to the effect that Christian De Wet's roving commandos, which were being concentrated near Senekal, ...

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  18. RUSSIA'S FOOTHOLD IN THE NORTH.

    In a cable message to the "Times" on Saturday Dr. Morrison affirmed that the Manchurian Convention practically installed Russia in Chinese ...

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  19. BOER SAVAGERY.

    Mr. Boyd, one of the two British prisoners of war who were shot by order of General De La Rey at Wolmaranstad, ...

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  20. THE ROYAL FUNERAL.

    The total expenditure by the British Government upon the obsequies of the late Queen Victoria amounted to £35,500. A considerable portion of the ...

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  21. VICTORIA.

    Wing Lee, a Chinese market gardener, was mulcted in £41 8s. damages, with costs, in the county court to-day through his horse having bitten on the arm Miss ...

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  22. ARTISANS' DWELLINGS.

    Mr. George Cadbury, cocoa and chocolate manufacturer, has by deed of conveyance handed over to trustees for the use of the public an estate near ...

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  23. THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT.

    The Hon. W. Mulock, Q.C., Postmaster-General of Canada, who will represent the Government of the Dominion at the opening of the Federal ...

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  24. MANUFACTURE OF AMMUNITION.

    The Boers are manufacturing ammunition at Pietersburg, a town in the northern Transvaal. Recently the scouts of the Australian Bushmen at ...

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  25. NEW SOUTH WALES,

    First-class cricket matches were continued to-day. Central Cumberland defeated North Sydney, which club was top for the premiership, and the honour has ...

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  26. THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

    The Cricket Council will ask the Marylebone Club to include New Zealand in the itinerary of the English cricketers who are to visit Australia next season. ...

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  27. UNITED STATES AND CUBA

    At the end of February a committee of the Washington Senate agreed to an amendment of the Army Bill, authorising President McKinley ...

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  28. ST. PATRICK'S DAY.

    Yesterday being St. Patrict's Day, in accordance with the order given by the late Queen Victoria last year the Irish soldiers in the British army wore ...

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  29. THE SYDNEY LUMPERS' TROUBLE.

    No developments took place to-day in connection with the trouble between the Steam Colliers' Association and the Coal Lumpers' Union. There was some ...

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  30. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The cost of the Commonwealth celebrations was disclosed by Sir William Lyne in a speech at Lockhart on Saturday night. The total amount was, he stated, £92,000; ...

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  31. THE CAPE INVASION.

    Colonel FredericK Schermbrucker, member of the Cape Assembly for King William's Town, has enlisted 1,000 of his fellow-Germans, mostly ...

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  32. SMALLPOX.

    A special meeting of the board of health was held this morning. The assistant medical officer submitted a report regarding the steamer Euryalus, which arrived in ...

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  33. MELBOURNE'S TELEPHONE SYSTEM.

    The local postal authorities have decided to ask the Federal Postmaster-General to sanction the expenditure of £150,000, of which £100,000 is to be spent ...

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  34. BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS.

    On Saturday 3,400 mounted troops sailed from Southampton for South Africa. ...

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  35. VICTORIAN UNEMPLOYED.

    About 300 unemployed waited on the Minister of Public Works to-day and asked that relief works should be started. The Minister Promised ...

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  36. NEW ZEALAND.

    A young woman named Dyer has died from the effects of brawn-poisoning. Her mother also partook of the stuff, and became very ill, but recovered. ...

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  37. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Silver.—The price of bar silver to-day is 2s. 41/8 d. per oz., a decline of 1-l6d. since Saturday. A high authority, writing in ...

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  38. WESTERN AUSTRALIANS DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES.

    A telegram from Port Elizabeth, dated February 11, is as follows:—"A smart en­gagement took place on the 6th inst. be­tween a force of 27 men. consisting of ...

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  39. RUSSIA.

    The intelligence of the assassination of the Minister of Public Instruction at St. Petersburg is closely followed by the report that the City of Moscow ...

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  40. A MINING DISPUTE.

    The Thames Miners Union has filed a case to the Conciliation Board asking that the men recently discharged from the Waihi Mine may be reinstated, and that ...

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  41. MR. REID IN QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Reid was accorded a civic welcome to-day. In the course of his speech he referred to the kanaka question, which he said was a small one compared with that ...

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  42. THE DEATH ON THE TALUNE.

    At the request of the Inspector-General of Police of New South Wales, the police have subpoenaed the following to give evidence in the Conway case:—C. M. Brook, ...

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  43. FRACAS WITH MILITARY MEN.

    A fracas occurred on Saturday night between several members of the permanent artillery and civilians. One of the military, who used a revolver, has with his ...

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  44. DOMESTIC INFELICITY.

    At the Supreme Court to-day Catherine Florence Ottey, a young woman, was charged with the manslaughter of her father at Parkeville in December last. The evidence ...

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  45. "SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS."

    The town hall was crowded to the doors on Monday evening when Commandant Booth delivered his historical lecture, entitled "Soldiers of the Cross." The ...

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  46. THE PLAGUE.

    Evelyn Gilbert Woods, a boy who resided at Newstead, died to-day in circumstances which suggested that death was due to plague. A post-mortem ...

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  47. THE PHILIPPINES.

    Despatches from Manila show that General Trias, a prominent insurgent, and 190 Filipinos have just surrendered to General Arthur McArthur, the ...

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  48. OATS FOR AFRICA.

    The Minister for Defence has completed arrangements for the shipment of 1,000 tons of oats to South Africa by the transport Chicago, and is endeavouring to get ...

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  49. CYCLISTS DISQUALIFIED.

    The officials of the St. Patrick's Day cycling sports at Fremantle disqualified Holm, Caesar, and Lewis for six months and Porta for the remainder of the day ...

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