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  2. LATEST NEWS

    THE case against Ivory or Bell, the New York hotelkeeper, who was arrested in Glasgow in connection with the Tynan conspiracy, has been withdrawn and the accused ...

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  3. Barcaldine Police Court.

    GEORGE M'CANN, an old Barcoo identity, appeared before the Beach daring the week in the character of a patient suffering from supposed lunacy. Dr. Lyons gave evident that ...

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  4. DROWNED IN THE HABBOR.

    A DANE named C. Madsen was drowned in the harbor yesterday while experimenting with a new diving apparatus. ...

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  5. DESTROYED BY FIRE.

    DAVID TODD'S residence was completely demolished by fire last night. The house and furniture were insured for £140. ...

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  6. N.S.W. RAILWAY RETURNS.

    THE railway returns for the past year was issued to-day, and show an increase of £3900 as compared with the previous year. The traffic shows an increase in all classes of ...

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  7. A TRAGEDY AT TOWNSVILLE.

    A LAD named Tyrell, living in the suburbs, accidentally shot a boy named Tobin with a revolver yesterday. The bullet penetrated the lung cavity. Tobin is now in the ...

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  8. THE STOCKTON COLLIERY DISASTER.

    THE Minister for Mines has appointed Judge Murray, with Mr. Robertson of the Metropolitan mine, Heleneborough, and Mr. Thwaites, miner, of Adamstown, to investigate the ...

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  9. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LEURA.

    ON Sunday evening, while the Leura was being unloaded, W. Nicholson, a lumper, was knocked down the forehold by the sling of some cargo. He fell twenty feet, fracturing ...

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  10. THE PROHIBITION OF INDIAN GOODS.

    THE transit of Indian goods is prohibited in France and Algeria. ...

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  11. DROWNED AT SEA.

    THE barque St. Mary Bly, from Sharpness, has arrived, and reports that off Tasmania a heavy gale struck the vessel and two of the crew, named Frederiok Smith and Frank ...

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  12. A NATIVE OUTBREAK.

    A NATIVE outbreak in Basutoland is reported from South Africa. ...

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  13. WATERSPOUT AT THURSDAY ISLAND.

    THE Treasurer received a telegram from Thursday Island yesterday morning, stating that a pearling lugger had been sunk by a waterspout five miles off Nagheer Island. ...

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  14. The Melbourne Tragedy.

    WILLIAM MYLES PHILLIPS has confessed to the murder of William Brady. He states he has been prompted to make the confession as he is suffering the agonies of remorse, and is ...

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  15. MORE PROHIBITION.

    THE Government at Malta has prohibited vessels from India calling there. The prohibition also applies to Australian steamers which touch at Aden. ...

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  16. VERY LIKE A WHALE.

    THERE was great excitement at Port Kemble yesterday morning, when Billy Sadler, a half-caste, captured a large whale after an exciting chase. A great crowd of local ...

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  17. SUICIDE AT BUNDABERG.

    An inquest into the suicide of Henry Wessell, sugar planter, was held to-day. The evidence wowed that the deceased had quarrelled with his kanakas. Half an hour before his ...

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  18. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    PROFESSOR HAFFKINE has discovered a vaccine which affords protection from the bubonic plague. 470 deaths have occurred at Bombay during ...

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  19. Barcaldlne Small Debts Court.

    ON Friday, before Messrs. M'Kay, Pent and Lloyd-Jones, JJ. P., an interpleader case was heard, in which S. Lockhardt, blacksmith, sought to recover from execution creditor, ...

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  20. MR. TOZER AND TICKS.

    THE Hon. H. Tozer, Home Secretary, in the course of an interview in Sydney, said that the Queensland Government had spent £20,000 in battling with ticks for the benefit ...

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  21. ANOTHER FIRE AT MOUNT MORGAN.

    LOCAL superstition here invariably prophesies three successive fires. The third fire within a period of a few weeks took place at eight o'clock this morning, when the kitchen ...

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  22. TURKISH AFFAIRS.

    THE Sultan has accepted the demands of the Armenian Patriarchate in a modified form, only excepting in digest the military form of taxation. ...

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  23. Victoria.

    A PITIABLE story comes from Creawick. A laboring man, owing to ill-health, had fallen into indigent circumstances, which obliged the wife to go out to service, he staying at ...

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  24. FAMINE FUND.

    The Operative Cotton Spinners have subscribed £2000 towards the famine fund. ...

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  25. WHARF LABORERS' UNION.

    A LARGE meeting of wharf laborers' was held last night, when it was resolved to form a Wharf Laborers' Union. ...

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  26. CAPE COLONY NEWS.

    SIR JAMES SIEVWRIGHT, Commissioner of Railways at Cape Colony, states that the Transvaal and Orange Free State must cease sending emissaries, who are teaching the ...

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  27. A BORE AT THE ALICE RIVER.

    THE Government have agreed to put down a bore for the Alice River Co-operative Association, the settlers paying 5 per cent, on the cost for the privilege. Great things are ...

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  28. The Federation Convention.

    YESTERDAY'S Barcaldine telegram (says Saturday's Record) fell like a bolt from the blue upon separationists and their opponents alike, for no ore expected that the western ...

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  29. AN OCEAN TRAMP.

    THE brig Phillis is literally begging her way from Rockhampton to Melbourne. She is in sight of Wilson's Promontory to-day with sails all split and blowing about in ...

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  30. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE.

    AN earthquake has occurred on the island of Kishm (a barren island in the Persian Gulf, with a length of 55 miles, an area of 515 square miles and some 5000 inhabitants). ...

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  31. CENTRAL QUEENSLAND ADVANCES.

    THE Government have accepted the tender of a Glasgow firm, for £7350, for the construction of a steamer drawing only two feet of water to ply through The Narrows, between ...

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  32. A GREAT CYCLING PERFORMANCE.

    MR. J. E. SNELL, who left Adelaide on a bicycle on Tuesday, has arrived at Melbourne, beating the previous record, which was held by Kux, by eight and a-half hours. ...

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  33. New South Wales.

    A FIRE occurred in the Eagle Tobacco Company's premises, York-street, to-day. It was discovered at 8 o'clock this morning. It must have been burning for a considerable ...

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  34. THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    IN the House of Commons last night Mr. Chamberlain, in replying to a question, stated that the Anglo-French agreements with regard to the New Hebrides was still in ...

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  35. BICYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP.

    THE twenty-five mile championship of Victoria was run on Saturday, and won by Porta. ...

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  36. Southern Sporting.

    AT the Sydney Turf Club's races on Saturday the Challenge Stakes was won by Talavera, Admonition being second, and Adoration third. ...

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  37. Western Australia.

    The barque stranded in Jurian Bay proves to be the Europa. She struck at 9 p.m. Sunday week. All hands, fifteen in number, were saved. The captain attributes the ...

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  38. Sad Fatality at Stonehenge.

    A SAD accident occurred at Stonchenge on Monday, the 11th inst., writes a correspondent (whom we thank), which resulted in the death of a young man named Herman ...

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  39. IRISH RENT REDUCTIONS.

    MR. DILLON'S amendment in the House of Commons in favor of a reduction of Irish rents, in consequence of a decline in produce, was rejected by a majority of 64. ...

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  40. OBITUARY.

    SIR ISAAC PITMAN, the inventor of Pitman's (Shorthand, died to-day. ...

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  41. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.

    WITH a view to guarding against the introduction of the bubonic plague into Western. Australia, all vessels coming to Freemantle from Kurachie, Bombay, or Hong Kong are ...

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  42. ANOTHER REPORTED TRAGEDY.

    IN consequence of fresh information as to the movements of Butler, who, it is believed, is the principal in the Glenhrook mystery, the police at Trundle have organised a second ...

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  43. GALES AND SNOWSTORMS.

    THERE have been heavy gales and snowstorms throughout Great Britain. A number of trains were buried in the snow, and several deaths have resulted from the intense cold. ...

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  44. Tasmania.

    THE cricket match Tasmania versus Victoria resulted in a win for the Victorians by eight wickets. AUCKLAND, Friday. ...

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  45. RESPECTING FEDERATION.

    MR. CHAMBERLAIN, replying to a question by Mr. Hogan, leader of the Colonial party in the House of Commons, said that if Central Queensland had no prospect of early relief by ...

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  46. A Word from Dunwich.

    MR. JAS. MURRAY VICARY, writes to the Editor, under date Dunwich, Jan. 11th, 1897, as follows:—Dear Sir,—I beg on behalf of myself and others, old men here, to thank ...

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  47. New Zealand.

    THE Seaman's Union has asked shipowners for an increase of wages to the extent of £1 per month and 1s. 6d. per hour overtime. ...

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  48. NATIVES STARVING.

    THE natives in Rhodesia are starving and are eating the corn supplied them for seed, and the carcases of cattle billed suffering from rinderpest. ...

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  49. Advertisers' Notices.

    TENDERS are invited for putting down a bore on Albion Downs.—The Union Mortgage and Agency Co., of Rookhampton, have accepted an important agency, and notify western ...

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  50. ASSAULT AND MURDER.

    AN old man named J. H. Parkes, residing at Opawa, surrendered himself to the police, stating that a man named Michael Ryan, while drank, assaulted him. Parkes in ...

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  51. NIGER STATE AFFAIRS.

    THE natives of Bonny have deposed their chieftain, who has been reinstated by the British consul. The natives resent this interference, and threaten to kill the consul. The ...

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  52. Rockhampton News.

    A GIRL named Ada Weedon, while bathing at Kabra yesterday, was drowned. The heat on Saturday and yesterday was intense, being 101dege. and 100degs. ...

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  53. COLONIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

    MR. CHARLES CARKEEK was re-elected Mayor to-day for the sixth year in succession. ...

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