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  2. NEW ZEALAND.

    Particulars received by the San Francisco mail show that the Waihi Company purposes raising the capital of the company to half a million by a new issue of shares. ...

    Article : 74 words
  3. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    There is practically nothing doing in Federal politics this morning. Mr. Barton states that nothing of importance been done in Cabinet to-day. He ...

    Article : 191 words
  4. VICTORIA.

    At the Princess Theatre on Saturday night Mr. Le[?]priere Pringle made his first appearance as Mephistopheles, with Mr. George Musgrove's Grand Opera Company. ...

    Article : 249 words
  5. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received April 22, 2 a.m.] THE CHINESE CRISIS.

    Later information shows that the death of Major-General Schwartzkoff, chief of staff to Count Von Waldersee, was due to the falling of a beam in the burning palace ...

    Article : 133 words
  6. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received April 22, 2 a.m.] THE BRITISH BUDGET.

    Enormous and fruitless clearances of tea, tobacco, wines, and spirits have been made through the Custom-house of late by traders, who were under the mistaken ...

    Article : 66 words
  7. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received April 22, 2 a.m.] WAR HONORS.

    His Majesty King Edward VII. has been pleased to confer the following honors upon the officers of the colonial contingents who have distinguished themselves during the ...

    Article : 650 words
  8. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH] [Received April 22, 2 a.m.] SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.

    Lord Kitchener reports that a party of the 9th Lancers have been ambushed by the Boers. A lieutenant and three men were killed and five wounded. ...

    Article : 61 words
  9. A MELBOURNE GAMBLING RAID.

    At 1 o'clock this morning a body of plain clothes police raided a gambling den in Market-lane, off Bourke-street, and secured no fewer than 110 persons. Seven will be ...

    Article : 220 words
  10. THE WAR LOAN.

    The Committee of the House of Commons yesterday, by 186 to 117 votes, authorised the raising by the Government of the sum of £60,000,000, either by means of 2¾ per ...

    Article : 185 words
  11. A TRAIN CAPTURED.

    Intelligence has been received that a train containing cattle, coal, and forage was captured by the Boers at night mear Molteno, a village in the Albert division of Cape ...

    Article : 93 words
  12. TRANSIT OF TROOPS.

    The negotiations which have been proceeding between the State Governments regarding the transit of troops over the railways to take part in the opening of the ...

    Article : 73 words
  13. RUSSLA'S POSITION.

    The Chinese report that Prince Tuan and General Tung Fuh-siang have offered to acknowledge Russia's suzerainty if they are helped to reconquer the northern provinces ...

    Article : 44 words
  14. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

    Mr. Orowe, tne Government [?] expert, has recommended the Minister of Agriculture to establish a class of instructions for managers of butter factories during the ...

    Article : 49 words
  15. SIR ALFRED MILNER.

    The Radicals interpret the three months' leave of absence which has been granted to Sir Alfred Milner as evidence of an intention on the part of the British Government ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. ADDRESS TO MR. FEGA[?]N.

    The Newcastle Chamber of Commerce has presented the following address to the Hon. J. L. Fegan:—"On behalf of the members of the Newcastla ...

    Article : 206 words
  17. ATTITUDE OF JAPAN.

    The British battleship Centurion, 10,500 tons, has been slightly damaged by running foul of the battleship Glory, 12,950 tons, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

    A carpenter, Albert Edward Archer, attempted to commit suicide on Saturday afternoon by swallowing spirits of salts. He was weary of life. His condition is ...

    Article : 30 words
  19. WAR OFFICE CONTRACTS.

    Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary to the War Office, in reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, stated that the supply of foreign meat would be ...

    Article : 44 words
  20. A STABBING AFFRAY.

    A youth, Edwin Charles Hocking, employed as an apprentice on the ship Cambuskenneth, lying at Flood's Wharf, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital to-night ...

    Article : 84 words
  21. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    Archbishop Carr has not escaped the attention of the unemployed. On Saturday evening a deputation waited on him and repeated much that has been published ...

    Article : 270 words
  22. COAL EXPORT DUTY.

    Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has promised to consider the question ot the exemption from the new duty of existing coal export contracts. ...

    Article : 124 words
  23. THE ANGLO-ABYSSINIAN FRONTIER.

    The "Mad Mullah," who has been raiding the Anglo-Abyssinian frontier from Somaliland, and against whom a large Abyssinian force, with British military advisers, was ...

    Article : 79 words
  24. AFRIKANDER EDITORS.

    Mr. Malan, the editor of the Afrikander paper "Ons Land," has baen sentenced to one year's imprisonment for libelling the British, troops. Two other Dutch ...

    Article : 48 words
  25. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The steamer Thomas Andrea sailed on Sunday for Wyndham via Victoria River. The passengers were Messrs. McLeod and Martin. ...

    Article : 77 words
  26. AN ANARCHIST PLOT.

    The New York "Herald" is responsible for the statement that the police at Rosario, a town in the Argentine Republic, have discovered a plot having for its object the ...

    Article : 88 words
  27. FINANCIAL NEWS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 words
  28. FEDERAL DEFENCES.

    Sir John Forrest, Federal Minister of Defence, has actively entered upon his Ministerial duties, making the Victoria Barracks, St. Kilda-road, his headquarters. ...

    Article : 1,011 words
  29. A NEW ZEALAND ROUGHRIDER.

    Lieutenant J. Montgomerie, one of the Hew Zealand Roughriders, has sailed from [?]he Cape for England. ...

    Article : 24 words
  30. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    It is reported that an accident has occured On one of the lines of the Jarrahdale Jarrah Forests and Railway Company, and that Samuel Dawes has died from the ...

    Article : 43 words
  31. OPERATIONS IS THE TRANSVAAL.

    (Latest advices from the front state that Major-General F. W. Kitchener's brigade is now at Rietfontem, a settlement in Cape Colony east of Graaff-Reinet. ...

    Article : 139 words
  32. A SCHOONER WRECKED.

    The ketch Elsinore, which returned to Queenscliff on Friday night, had some narrow escapes during the gale of March 21. Under almost bare poles she managed to ...

    Article : 121 words
  33. FEELING IN GERMANY.

    The British Budget has aroused much astonishment and admiration in Germany, where it is cons[?]red that the action of the House of Commons in unflinchingly ...

    Article : 108 words
  34. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

    The Customs figures for Victoria for March give imports at £1,315,343, or £178,945 less than for March of last year. On the other hand the exports totalled ...

    Article : 138 words
  35. BRITISH BROKEN HILL S.M. CO.

    The directors' report and balance-sheet of the British Broken Hill S.M. Company show a profit for the half-year of £23,012. A further dividend of 1/ has been declared. ...

    Article : 36 words
  36. THE AMERICA CUP.

    The yacht Shamrock II., which has been built from designs by Mr. G. L. Watson to the order of Sir Thomas Lipton, to compete in the race for the America Cup in ...

    Article : 56 words
  37. THE PLAGUE.

    The cook at the Beatrice Coffee Palace and a young man, Herbert Hill, who contracted the plague at Woodman's Point, were reported to be in a serious condition ...

    Article : 49 words
  38. NORTH BRITISH AND NEW ZEALAND INVESTMENT CO.

    The directors' report and balance-sheet of the North British and New Zealand Investment Company show a profit of £1,118. A dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, has been ...

    Article : 56 words
  39. AN EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

    A few days ago it was reported that Koningas' Hotel, Nunara Gully, on the Murchison goldfield, had been burnt, and that the proprietor was missing. At the ...

    Article : 95 words
  40. DEATH TRAPS OF ADELAIDE.

    Sir—The recent big fire in Rundle-street, which caused such great loss of property, was happily unattended with loss of life. It is certain, however, that were an ...

    Article : 446 words
  41. THE LATE QUEEN.

    The Mansion House fund in connection with the National Memorial to the late Queen has now reached £71,000. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall ...

    Article : 56 words
  42. THE NEW LOAN.

    The Bank of England has invited applications for a loan of £30,000,000 in 2¾ per cent. consols, the minimum being fixed at £94 10/. The consols will rank pari passu with ...

    Article : 107 words
  43. DR. O'HARAN'S BALLARAT SYMPATHISERS

    At St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat, today a monster meeting decided to congratulate Dr. O'Haran on his recent victory after a trying ordeal, and before separating ...

    Article : 201 words
  44. W. A. MACARTHUR & CO., LIMITED.

    The directors of W. A. MacArthur and Co., Limited, Australian warehousemen, are issuing 10,000 ordinary and 10,000 preference shares. ...

    Article : 27 words
  45. BROKEN HILL.

    Splendid rain fell last night and to-day. ...

    Article : 14 words
  46. LIBELLING LORD KITCHENER.

    Mr. Cartwright, the editor of the "South African News," has been convicted on a charge of publishing a libellous article reflecting on Lord Kitchener, ...

    Article : 117 words
  47. SILVER.

    Silver is quoted at 2/3? per oz. ...

    Article : 11 words
  48. ENGLISH CRICKET.

    Dr. W. G. Grace and the captains of the various county clubs, who were consulted with reference to the alleged throwing of some of the leading English bowlers have ...

    Article : 71 words
  49. THE YANCO BROWNING FATALITY.

    The circumstances of the fatality by which Alexander McIntosh Robertson, sen., and his son, aged 10 years, lost their lives were enquired into at the Yanco Glen ...

    Article : 246 words
  50. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

    The committee of the Marylebone Club have accepted the responsibility in connection with the next English cricketing team which is to visit Australia. ...

    Article : 32 words
  51. THE TAX ON SUGAR.

    In relation to the prevailing impression that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would propose a tax on sugar a representative of the "Westminster Gazette" last month ...

    Article : 485 words
  52. ASSAULT IN PARIS.

    A masked burglar, named Edward Smith, alias Henry Seymour or Gilmour, and supposed to be identical with a noted Victorian criminal, has been arrested for a murderous ...

    Article : 60 words
  53. PORTUGAL.

    The Portuguese Government have issued a decree that all religious associations in the kingdom must be directed by Portuguese citizens, unless they are of an exclusively ...

    Article : 52 words
  54. EIGHT HOURS SPORTS.

    The Eight Hours' demonstration is covering two days this year. It began on Saturday by an afternoon's sports at the Friendly Society's Ground. To-morrow, a ...

    Article : 475 words
  55. THE BOER AMBUSH.

    Later advices with reference to the Boer ambush into which the 9th Lancers recently fell, with the result that a lieutenant and three men were killed and five ...

    Article : 96 words
  56. ENGLISH RACING.

    Australian Star is favorite for the City and Suburban Handicap, of 2,000 sovs., to be run at the Epsom Spring meeting on April 24, 5 to 1 being offered against him. ...

    Article : 36 words
  57. THE JUNCTION MINE.

    Mr. J. C. Fraser, the managing director of the Junction mine, declares that the directors had no alternative, in face of the depreciation in the price of lead, but to ...

    Article : 154 words
  58. A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

    A Parisian jury has acquitted Vera Gelo, a young Russian girl, who, in a convent in Paris some little time since, fired a revolver at Father Deschanels, and fatally wounded ...

    Article : 51 words
  59. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Frozen Meat.—The following are the official prices furnished (by the Frozen Meat Trade Association:—New Zealand sheep— Crossbred wethers and merino ewes, ...

    Article : 196 words
  60. IMPERIAL OFFICERS.

    It is announced that the honors bestowed upon colonial officers cover the time from the beginning of the campaign in South Africa until Earl Roberts surrendered his ...

    Article : 483 words
  61. THE LINDLEY DISASTER.

    Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for the War Department, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that Lieutenant Robbins and Corporal Jeggs, of ...

    Article : 158 words
  62. Advertising

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    Advertising : 655 words
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