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  2. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    His Excellency the Governor and Lady Tennyson will give the first viceregal garden party of the season on Wednesday, October 23. The function will last from ...

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    Wires were marketable in Lancashire a hundred years ago, according to the "Sporting Magazine" for January, 1807:—"A wretch in the sharpe of a man, by trade a ...

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  4. NOTES FROM THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    The twenty-fourth week of the Federal Parliamentary session opened with the first no-confidence debate, on the motion of the Right Hon. G. H. Reid. The ...

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  5. THE DUKE OF CORNWALL.

    The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall reached Halifax Bay yesterday. Before resuming his journey His Royal Highness addressed a farewell message to the Canadian people. ...

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  6. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    It is reported that 50 out of 200 discharged soldiers who re-enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry for service in South Africa, have since deserted from the training camp at ...

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  7. THE BRITISH ARMY.

    Yesterday's "Gazette" contained an important notification to the effect that a new War Office board, analogous to the Board of Admiralty, had been created by ...

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  8. FRANCE.

    in reply to a petition presented to the French Government by the Miners' Federation asking that certain measures advocated by the socialist leaders of the ...

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  9. THE ENGLISH JUDICIARY.

    The Right Hon. Sir Archibald Levin Smith, Kt., P.C., who succeeded the present Chief Justice of England as Master of the Rolls last year, has resigned his ...

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  10. THE PHILIPPINES.

    Advices from Manila state that a body of Filipinos, numbering 500, atacked a United States force of 46 on the Gandara River, Samar Island, with the result that ...

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  12. AN OFFICIAL DENIAL.

    The military authorities have officially denial the rumour that a large number of Yeomanry recruits have deserted from the training camp at Shorncliffe. The ...

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  13. BULGARIA.

    The Turks have captured and Beheaded Halin, the brigand, one of the three men charged with the assassination of M. Stambuloff, ex-Prime Minister of Bulgaria. ...

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  14. SPEECH BY LORD ROBERTS.

    In replying to the toast of "The Imperial Forces" at a banquet given in the Mansion House last night, Earl Roberts remarked that it was doubtful if ever an army had ...

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  15. BOTHA'S COMMANDO.

    The latest reports from South Africa indicate that several small parties of Boers which have become detached from Gen. Hotha's commando have returned to the ...

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  16. A GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED.

    For some time past a sinister movement has been in progress among the coalminers at Monteccau-les-et-Loire, where advanced socialistic teachings have made greater ...

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  17. DONNHAUSER'S COMMANDO.

    A force of 70 Boers, under Commander Donnhauser, is reported to be operating in the Babanango district. ...

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  18. GERMANY.

    Herr Maurer, the editor of an anarchist paper in Berlin, has been tried on a charge of having attempted to justify the action of the condemned prisoner ...

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  19. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Capt. C. L. Campbell, of the 16th (Queen's) Lancers, has been appointed staff officer to Col. J. M. Babington, who has accepted the command of the military ...

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  20. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

    Lord Kitchener reports that during the month of September 109,418 white prisoners and fugitives, including 54,326 children, were provided for in the ...

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  21. TO-DAY'S DIARY

    Sun rises 5.27 a.m.; sets 6.36 p.m. Moon rises 11.51 a.m.; sets 0.55 a.m. Semaphore.—High water, 7.30 a.m.; low, 2 p.m. 9-5.—Frome road—Zoological Gardens. ...

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  22. SPORT.

    The Middle Park Plate, of 500 sovs., aded to a sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., for two-year-olds, was run on the Bretby Stakes course to-day with the ...

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  23. BOER VENGEANCE.

    Lord Kitchener has informed the War Office that Commandants Maritz and Theron. while operating in the south-western district of Cape Colony, deliberately burned ...

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  24. MACEDONIA.

    The United States Consul is satisfied that the brigands who captured Miss Stone, the American Protestant missionary, are tools of the late Macedonian committee ...

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  25. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    A new battleship of large dimensions has been ordered by the British Government. The new vessel, which, will be built at the Devonport Dockyards, will be 425 ft. long. ...

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  26. GUINESS'S MISSION.

    That Dr. Guinness deserves his reputation—a man for men—is amply borne out by the large representation of the male sex at his meetings. On Sunday afternoon ...

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  27. A TERRIFIC STORM.

    A storm of exception violence broke over Melbourne this afternoon. A close atmosphere and an occasional rumble of thunder gave warning of what was coming ...

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  28. AFGHANISTAN.

    Reuter's Agency is responsible for a statement published in the press to-day to the effect that the Governments of Great Britain and Russia have entered into an ...

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  29. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 words
  30. THE TOBACCO TRADE.

    There are indications that American tobacco manufacturers are afraid that the recently formed British Tobacco Trust will deprive them of the lucrative market ...

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  31. THE CAPTURE OF SCHEEPERS.

    Later advices from South Africa indicate that the capture of Commandant Scheepers a few days ago was in a large measure due to the cleverness displayed by an ...

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  32. THE FIRE ON THE PAPANUI.

    The work of discharging the damaged cargo from the holds of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Papanui, which reached Plymouth on October 1, has ...

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  33. A DISLOYAL COUNCILLOR.

    Mr. Haasboroek, a member of the Vryburg Divisional Council, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for having invited the Boers to invade the Vryburg ...

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  34. VICTORIA.

    A telegram received on Saturday from Capt. Livingstone, of the Government steamer Lady Loch stated that he had made a call at Curtis Island, but had failed ...

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  35. AUSTRALIAN MINING STOCKS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 words
  36. A BOER COMMANDO SURPRISED.

    A small commando of Boers were recently observed approaching Saldanha Bay, on the west coast of Cape Colony. Happily a British gunboat was lying at anchor in ...

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  37. WEST AFRICA.

    Official telegrams from South Africa indicate that the native tribes on the Ivory Coast are in a state of revolt. A French force of 1,100 men, commanded by ...

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  38. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The general belief is that debate on the federal tariff will not reach its close until the end of the week. Ministers are confident that they will win on a division ...

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  39. A BRAVE CHILD'S DEATH.

    A sad drowning accident occrred at Wangaratta on Saturday afternoon. Two girls, each seven years of age, and a boy four years old, children of Mr. John M. ...

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  40. BARRIER MINES ASSESSMENT.

    The municipal council has received a communication from secretaries of the Black 10 and Block 14 Mines stating that the mayor's circular regarding the ...

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  41. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT.

    An exciting scene occurred in the House of Representatives when the San Francisco mail service proposals came to a vote. The motion to fix the term of contract of one ...

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  42. QUEENSLAND.

    Owing to want of time the Government, has decided not to bring in the Local Government Bill this session, although a comprehensive measure has been drafted. A ...

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  43. THE AUSTRALASIANS.

    Sgt. S. J. Smith, of the third New South Wales Mounted Infantry, died a few days ago from wounds received during a recent engagement. ...

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  44. RUSSIA.

    It has been officially denied in Paris and St. Petersburg that the Russian Government contemplates issuing a new loan. ...

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  45. HORSEBREEDING IN AUSTRALIA.

    A deputation waited on the Premier yesterday and presented resolutions adopted on the previous day by the conference in the question of horse breeding. Mr. See ...

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  46. A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

    Yesterday Dr. Haynes, a well-known city practitioner, met with a sensational accident. He was riding a restive horse some distance ahead of a [?] As the ...

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  47. THE RACE PROBLEM IN AMERICA.

    Col. Theodore Roosevelt has invited the negro President of the University of Tuskeegee, in the state of Alabama, to dine with him at the White House at an early ...

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  48. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    Allied Adrian Piker, a fireman by occupation, severely wounded himself in a cell at the Central Police Station yesterday. He was married last month in New Zealand ...

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  50. THE CUZCO AT FREMANTLE.

    The R.M.S. Cuzco, of the Orient Pacific Line, from London, arrived at Fremantle at 5 a.m. to-day. ...

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  51. A LIGHTHOUSE NEEDED.

    An earnestly expressed desire is manifest in shipping circles that the Commonwealth Government may see its way to accede to the prayer of the recently ...

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  52. THE CRAZE FOR FAST YACHTS.

    In the course of an interview with a Chicago journalist last week Sir Thomas Lipton stated that he favoured the building of safe seaworthy yachts. He did not ...

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  53. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The annual meeting of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales will be opened to-morrow at the Randwick rifle range, and will be continued throughout ...

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  54. FEELING IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The general feeling of the Chambers of Commence throughout the colony is that the Government should not adopt retaliatory measures against the federal tariff as ...

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