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  2. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

    The American Government are complaining against the action of the French authorities at the island of Martinique for having afforded the ...

    Article : 1,628 words
  3. NEWS AND NOTES.

    DORCAS BALL.—A dorcas ball, under the patronage of his Excellency the Governor and Lady Smith, will take place in Perth towards the close of next week. ...

    Article : 4,962 words
  4. INTERCOLONIAL.

    There were 23 breweries in New South Wales last year. Those employed 340 hands, and made 4,733,000 gallons of draught and 309,000 gallons of bottled ...

    Article : 551 words
  5. INTERCOLONIAL.

    Mr. John Lindsay, who died at Glenolg last night, aged 77, was for many years manager of the Adelaide Life Assurance Guarantee Co. In the early years of the ...

    Article : 1,272 words
  6. COUNTRY.

    The editor of the Murchison Times is in the hospital with fever. The Quarter Sessions commence at Cue to-morrow. The list is a heavy one. The ...

    Article : 695 words
  7. A STREET ROBBERY IN PARIS.

    A sensational robbery occurred yesterday in Paris, where gold and bonds to the value of half a million francs were stolen from a van between the ...

    Article : 59 words
  8. MR. GLADSTONE.

    The Queen has addressed a touching letter to Mr. Gladstone, four times her Prime Minister, in which she thanks the dying statesman for the great ...

    Article : 76 words
  9. MR. CHAM[?]RLAIN'S SP[?]H.

    The Paris Temps, commenting on Mr. Chamberlain's speech at Birmingham on Friday last, remarks that Great Britain's efforts to secure, at the ...

    Article : 308 words
  10. LABOUR QUESTIONS.

    The miners on strike from the South Wales collieries, yielding to pressure from official sources, have agreed to invest their delegates with ...

    Article : 46 words
  11. THE FAR EAST.

    The Emperor of China, Kuang H[?], yesterday receive Prince Henry of Prussia at his summer palace on terms of equality and with much ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. THE RECENT GALE ON THE EAST COAST.

    The ship Waterloo, which left Brisbane on the 1st inst. for Newcastle, arrived at the latter port to-day, after a tempestuous voyage. Captain Fellows, the master, ...

    Article : 431 words
  13. NEW SOUTH WALES COAL TRADE.

    An application that the Government should stipulate that contractors for the supply of coal to State departments should pay a standard rate of wages to miners ...

    Article : 168 words
  14. THE ORIGIN OF CORAL REEFS.

    The Royal Society is organising a third expedition for the purpose of further investigating, among the islands of the Pacific, the manner of ...

    Article : 40 words
  15. EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN.

    A party of Arabs friendly to the Anglo-Egyptians have, it is reported, wounded Osman Digna, the chief of the Khalifa's Generals during a battle ...

    Article : 62 words
  16. THE EASTERN QUESTION

    The Frankfurter Zeitung, a usually well informed German newspaper, is responsible for the statement that a treaty defining the respective spheres ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. THE R.M.S. BRITANNIA.

    This morning, owing to the Britannia being overdue, the agents were about to despatch a tug boat, when she was sighted from Cape Borda at 10 o'clock. She was ...

    Article : 187 words
  18. CHOLERA IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

    The news of an outbreak of choler[?] among the natives of the Loyalty Islands, coupled with the report of the president of the Board of Health (Dr. Ashburton ...

    Article : 89 words
  19. THROSSELL AREA.

    The [?]and Selection Board have been holding a meeting at the courthouse to-day to decide on the applications for the Throssel area, Grass Valley. Much interest ...

    Article : 149 words
  20. THE ITALIAN RIOTS.

    The Pope, it is stated, realises that the Clerical party in Italy have, to some extent, connived at the existing socialist revolt. His Holiness, ...

    Article : 73 words
  21. A PROPOSED COALING STATION AT DURBAN.

    The Earl of Hopetoun, Paymaster-General, speaking in reply to a question in the House of Lords last evening stated that owing to a shifting bar at ...

    Article : 61 words
  22. SHOCKING AFFAIR AT COLAC.

    A lad named John O'Grady, aged 12 years, whose father is gate-keeper on the Colac railway line, met with a dreadful death on Saturday afternoon near Geelong. ...

    Article : 127 words
  23. A BICYCLE ACCIDENT.

    A cyclist named Victor Zelman, aged 21, was thrown from his bicycle to-day through the wheels of his machine skidding. Zelman fell in front of a tram car, and was ...

    Article : 73 words
  24. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Mr. Joseph McGaw, one of the London Board of Directors of Dalgety and Co., Limited. ...

    Article : 29 words
  25. COMMERCIAL.

    At to-day's Colonial wool sales in London, the selection offered was comprised for the most part of wasty crossbreds. Prices were unchanged. ...

    Article : 200 words
  26. NEW GUINEA AFFAIRS.

    The New South Wales Cabinet to-day considered the matter of the proposed grant of a large area of land in New Guinea to an English syndicate. The ...

    Article : 63 words
  27. MURCHISON MINERS' STRIKE.

    The miners' strike continues, and no overtures have been made from either side. The mine managers are confident of victory, and some are not anxious to work ...

    Article : 169 words
  28. THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

    Mr. Reid states that the space of 4,000ft allotted to those colonies which may desire to exhibit at the Paris Exhibition is so small that it is probable that the ...

    Article : 74 words
  29. THE YARRAVILLE TRAGEDY.

    The funeral of the victims of the Yarraville tragedy took place on Sunday afternoon. The cemetery at St. Kilda was throng[?]d with people, who pushed, ...

    Article : 171 words
  30. MISCELLANEOUS.

    In the case of the Alliance Contracting Company, Limited, v. Russell, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have granted the plaintiff ...

    Article : 365 words
  31. SPLENDID RAIN IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The rain which started on Saturday has been general throughout the agricultural areas and taking it all round has been about the heaviest which the colony has ...

    Article : 239 words
  32. ACCIDENT TO THE CLONCURRY.

    The s.s. Cloncurry, bound inward to Melbourne, was signalled to-day off Wilson's Promontory. She has been in a collison. The damage done was trifling. ...

    Article : 164 words
  33. ALLEGED CUSTOMS FRAUDS IN MELBOURNE.

    The trial of Henry Weenen, a cap and clothing manufacturer, five employees, and three draw-back officers of the Customs Department, for frauds alleged to have ...

    Article : 152 words
  34. TELEGRAPHY WITHOUT WIRES.

    Experiments have been made, at the instance of the Commandant, at the forts at the mouth of the Brisbane River, to test the system of telegraphy without wires by ...

    Article : 213 words
  35. Classified Advertising

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  36. MELBOURNE MINT RETURNS.

    The gold received at the Melbourne Mint for tha week ending the 14th inst. was 30,642-70oz., and the value of the gold and bullion issued was £167,576. ...

    Article : 33 words
  37. THE LIGHTS OF LABOUR.

    Try a packet of Dixson's No. 1 Cigarettes; the purest and the best. The Pipe or Cigars, be they many or few. Will yield you much comfort and happiness, too, ...

    Article : 69 words
  38. WEATHER IN THE COUNTRY.

    Heavy rain fell this afternoon, thoroughly saturating the parched earth. ...

    Article : 23 words
  39. VIKING UNSWEETENED MILK.

    The Milk of the future; best value in the market; without equal for quality. New shipments landing. Preston and Co., Indent Agents. ...

    Article : 28 words
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