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  2. ON THE MURRAY FLATS.

    The first Parliamentary party that has visited the Barossa portion of the Murray Flats arrived in that locality on Friday and Saturday. The company consisted of the ...

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  3. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The "Commonwealth Gazette" issued to day contains regulations issued under the Customs Act. Many of them are on the lines of those previously existing in the ...

    Article : 571 words
  4. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    Gen. Louis Botha has detached a party of his men to act as escort to a number of [?] wagons, which are being taken in an easterly direction from the country near ...

    Article : 280 words
  5. THE DUKE OF CORNWALL.

    The royal party, consisting of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, with their suite, have arrived at Niagara. ...

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  6. CHINA.

    The Chinese authorities at Canton are watching for the arrival at that port from London of a vessel which is said to contain heavy consignments of dynamite, arms ...

    Article : 132 words
  7. GOSSIP AND NOTES.

    Among the papers furnished to Parliament by the Treasurer when delivering his budget speech is a statement showing the estimated receipts and expenditure of the ...

    Article : 132 words
  8. TURKEY.

    The "Times" correspondent at Constantinople states that the Sultan is not likely to provoke any further trouble with Great Britain in respect to Koweyt Harbour in ...

    Article : 541 words
  9. VICTORIA.

    The three railway employes, Signalman Bentick, Driver Heffernan, and Fireman Graham, who were punished in connection with the Jolimont collision, have availed ...

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  10. THE INDEMNITY.

    Prince Ching has forwarded to the Powers the necessary imperial bond for the payment by China during the next 42 years of the £65,000,000 indemnity. ...

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  11. THE DEATH OF TROOPER MAY.

    Mrs. W. H. Evans has shown us the following letter, which relates to the sad death of her brother, Trooper B. H. May:—"Haartebeestfontein, near Winburg ...

    Article : 376 words
  12. THE TARIFF.

    It has been arranged that the new Chinese tariff, which provides for effective ad valorem duties of 5 per cent. on all imports except certain articles which will be subject ...

    Article : 46 words
  13. WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE?

    The following is a forecast of future developments by a British officer now in China:—"The court will return to Pekin, and the various proposals of the Powers ...

    Article : 392 words
  14. THE "INVASION" OF NATAL.

    Lord Kitchener has relieved from duty the Natal Volunteer Corps, who were called out for active service about a fortnight ago, when General Louis Botha and ...

    Article : 67 words
  15. HARBOUR ACCOMMODATION.

    Sir—I regret exceedingly to road by your shipping reported in "The Register" on Monday that my friend Sir Jenkin Coles, the popular Speaker of the Assembly, was ...

    Article : 149 words
  16. STRINGENT MEASURES WITH REBELS.

    Numerous additional trials Lave taken place of men chained with treason and other offences. Two Dutch farmers of Cape Colony ...

    Article : 159 words
  17. WHAT THE TARIFF WILL YIELD.

    The Premier is of opinion that the state Treasurer is quite justified in preferring his own estimate of the revenue to be derived from the Commonwealth to that of ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. A BRITISH CAPTIVE AMONG THE BOERS.

    A Reuter's cable message sent from Cape Town on September 10 says:—"Mr. Cloete, the magistrate of Steytlerville, who was a prisoner with Scheeper's commando for 15 ...

    Article : 254 words
  19. To the Editor.

    Sir—The visit of the Parliamentary party to Marino has not been fruitless. The depth of water at Marino and its proximity to the shore caused considerable surprise; and ...

    Article : 383 words
  20. SYDNEY MERCHANTS AND THE TARIFF.

    At a meeting of the council of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce to-day considerable discussion took place in relation to the federal tariff, and arrangements ...

    Article : 150 words
  21. AFGHANISTAN.

    The tribal chiefs of Afghanistan are journeying to Cabul, the capital, to pay homage to Habibullah, the new ruler. SYDNEY, October 14. ...

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  22. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Mr. R. D. Meagher, M.L.A., was elected to-day to fill the vacancy in the Phillip Ward of the city council. Vary little interest was taken in the election. ...

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  23. SOLDIERS' LETTERS.

    Cpl. P. M. Wells, who was severely wounded with four explosive and one maurer bullet at Graspan on June 6, writing to his father on September 17, says:—"I have now ...

    Article : 378 words
  24. SCHEEPERS A MURDERER.

    Advices from Cape Town indicate that Commandant Scheepers, who was captured on Thursday by a troop of the 10th Hussars, is liable to the death penalty for the ...

    Article : 101 words
  25. VOYAGE IN A BALLOON.

    Ballooning is still occupying the enthusiastic attention of many Frenchmen. Twenty-seven balloons ascended from Vincennes in the course of a single day during ...

    Article : 139 words
  26. A PROTEST FROM COACHBUILDERS.

    At a meeting of master coachbuilders and wheelwrights to-night a resolution adopted entering a protest against the excessively heavy and injudicious tariff as ...

    Article : 161 words
  27. A SMART ARREST.

    The police on Saturday made a rather smart capture and recovery of £80. A builder, who resides in one of the suburbs, reported to the police that while in a shop ...

    Article : 112 words
  28. AN EMINENT SCIENTIST.

    Yesterday being the 80th anniversary of the birthday of Herr Rudolf Virchow, the celebrated German pathologist, anthropologist, and politician, the Emperor William ...

    Article : 72 words
  29. THE CAPE RAIDS.

    Commandants Kruitzinger and Ackerman and others are again trying to cross the River Orange southward into Cape Colony. The river is in flood. ...

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  30. A QUEENSLAND ELECTION PETITION.

    The hearing of the petition by John Linnett against the return of Henry Turner as member of the Legislative Assembly for North Rockhampton was concluded ...

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  31. CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.

    Sir—Our friends at the North terrace hall of entertainment have been amusing themselves at the country's expense for some months now, giving performances in ...

    Article : 218 words
  32. THE AUSTRALASIANS.

    Capt. F. Reid and Lieut. J. Hawkins, of the 6th Western Australian Mounteds; Lieuts. N. Smith and J. Patterson, of the 5th Victorian Mounteds; Lieuts. D. Rich ...

    Article : 75 words
  33. THE AMERICA CUP.

    Sir Thomas Lipton has offered to match the Shamrock II, against the American yachts Constitution and Columbia in 1902. He intends to issue a challenge for the ...

    Article : 56 words
  34. NEW ZEALAND AND THE TARIFF.

    South Island farmers are crying out against the federal tariff, and declare that if farmers had been as well represented on the Federation Commission as city men ...

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  35. A LIBEL ACTION.

    Before Mr. Justice Parker and a jury the hearing was commenced to-day of a libel action in which Thomas O'Beirne was the plaintiff and the "West ...

    Article : 277 words
  36. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The Palmerston and Pine Creek railway earnings for the week ended October 12 amounted to £219. The steamer Airlie, from Hongkong ...

    Article : 144 words
  37. A DAMAGED STEAMER.

    The steamer Oaklands, which went ashore on the rocks at the south breakwater, Coraki, lias been found to be seriously injured on the port side, from the ...

    Article : 81 words
  38. DIGNIFIED TASMANIANS.

    A meeting of business men to discuss the tariff was held in the town hall to-night. The Treasurer said that in view of the published tariff he withdrew all he had said as ...

    Article : 95 words
  39. MACEDONIA.

    Constantinople advises that Miss Stone, the American Protestant missionary, is being detained by Macedonian brigands on the Turko-Bulgarian frontier in the vicinity ...

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  40. THE BOERS AT BOMBAY.

    In the course of an interview to-Jay Gen. Sir Robert Cunliffe Low, who has just arrived from India, said that the Boer Prisoners at Bombay were the mst orderly and ...

    Article : 71 words
  41. CHARGING THE ENEMY.

    The following is an extract from a letter from Sergt. Edward Coombe, of Black Forest, with the third Tasmanian contingent, dated Napdar, August 31.—"Up to ...

    Article : 560 words
  42. A PATENT BILL.

    The Attorney-General has completed the Draft Federal Patent Kill, which will embody the recommendations of the recent conference of interstate patents experts. A ...

    Article : 57 words
  43. WITH THE SIXTH CONTINGENT.

    The drama described as "war" is still a very long way from termination. Theoretically the Anglo-Boer war, 1899-1901, is at in end, and to all intents and purposes ...

    Article : 961 words
  44. THE CENSURE MOTION.

    Representative Reid's motion of censure in connection with the tariff will be the first business taken in the House of Representatives to-morrow. The leader of the ...

    Article : 329 words
  45. MACLAREN'S ENGLISH ELEVEN

    The following is the programme which has been arranged for Maclaren's team of English cricketers:— November 9-13, v. South Australia, at Adelaide. ...

    Article : 185 words
  46. THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE.

    Messrs. Spreckles & Co. have cabled they will not accept the proposals of the Government as regards the San Francisco mail service. There is intense feeling in ...

    Article : 91 words
  47. ANTHRAX IN TASMANIA.

    In connection with the outbreak of anthrax at Lehrina, 17 bullocks belonging to Mr. Keogh have died, a couple of them worth £50, and the others £15 each. The ...

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  48. A CAMERA.

    The leading firm for these lines are Baker and Rouse, 65, Bundle street, who offer Cameras at 5s., Phonographs from 50s., Lanterns for 40s. Large stock New Records. ...

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  49. WOMEN'S FRANCHISE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A deputation of nearly 100 ladies interviewed the Premier to-day on the question of the extension of the franchise to women. Those present included representative ...

    Article : 98 words
  50. CRICKET.

    Fitzroy v. Middlesex.—Fitzroy—J. H. Evans, not out, 125; A. Wincey, b. McKay, 6; J. Rilstone, c. Robertson, b. Smith, 31; A. Kneebone, b. Gearing, 42; C. Chamberlain, c. Gearing, b. Smith, 7 ...

    Article : 138 words
  51. EXTRADITION TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES.

    The Prime Minister has received a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies stating that a supplementary convention has been signed with the ...

    Article : 78 words
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