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  2. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received October 20, 11.25 p.m.] ENGLISH JUDGES.

    It is announced that the Master of the Rolls, Sir Archibald Levin Smith, who was appointed to that position last year, has resigned. He has been succeeded by Sir ...

    Article : 81 words
  3. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received October 20, 11.25 p.m.] AFGHANISTAN.

    Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent has telegraphed that notwithstanding the newspaper agitation in Russia in favor of striking a blow at Afghanistan while ...

    Article : 272 words
  4. LATEST CABLES.

    Great excitement was caused by the appearance of a small Boer commando at Saldanha Bay, on the west coast ot Cape Colony. It is believed that the raiders are ...

    Article : 174 words
  5. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received October 20, 11.25 p.m.] BOER RAIDERS.

    During the past few days Commandants Theron and Maritz, who are in the extreme west of Cape Colony, have occupied themselves with burning the farms of loyalist ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    In debating Mr. Reid's no-confidence motion at such unconscionable length the free trade pirty is merely "sparring for wind," or, in other words is attempting to gain ...

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  7. A CORNISH GATHERING.

    The Cornisbmen's annual dinner was held in Martin's Cafe, Pirie-street, on Saturday evening. About 140 guests sat down to a excellent repast, and the chair was occupied ...

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  8. FLOODS IN MELBOURNE.

    A thunderstorm, which passed over Melbourne this afternoon established the local record for rainfalls. Between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. 2.9 inches fell, the heaviest for being ...

    Article : 483 words
  9. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A man entered the residence of Mr. George Frewin, at Ourimbah, shortly after midnight, evidently intent on robbery. Mrs. Frewin was awakened by someone moving ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. THE PHILIPPINES.

    Another fight has occurred on Samar Island, in the Philippines, between American soldiers and the Filipinos. It is reported from Manila that 500 Filipinos attacked ...

    Article : 178 words
  11. SYDNEY CRICKET.

    Good form was again displayed by prominet players in first-grade cricket yesterday. Burwood scored 113 against Paddington, M. A. Noble taking seven wickets for 40, ...

    Article : 136 words
  12. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

    It is officially reported that there were at the end of September 109,418 white men, women, and children in the refugee camps in various parts of South Africa. Of this ...

    Article : 57 words
  13. FRANCE.

    A Paris telegram states that the French Miners' Federation has threatened to call out all the colliers on November 1 for a general strike if the demands of the ...

    Article : 104 words
  14. BOTHA'S ARMY.

    General Botha is apparently finding it extremely difficult to escape northward, and the small parties which succeed in eluding the British are returning to Inhlaratze and ...

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  15. MILITARY AFFAIRS.

    On Saturday afternoon at the Victoria Barracks the Lieutenaut-Governor (Sir Frederick Darley) presented a number of long service medals and good conduct ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. BALLARAT MUSICAL COMPETITION.

    Mr. E. Harold Davies, Mus. Bac., and the members of the Kent Town Church choir returned to Adelaide on Saturday morning, after taking part in the church choir and ...

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  17. ENGLISH RACING.

    The Middle Park Plate, six furlongs, of 500 sovs. added, to a sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, for two-year-olds (colts 8 st. 10 lb., fillies 8 st. 7 lb.), was run at Newmarket ...

    Article : 75 words
  18. FRANCE IN AFRICA.

    The Paris "Drapeau" states that a native revolt has taken place in the French colony of the Ivory Coast, West Africa. The paper says that General Combes, who ...

    Article : 89 words
  19. COMMANDANT SCHEEPERS:

    Commandant Scheepers, who was captured about a fortnight ago, and was so ill that he had at once to be taken to a hospital, is said to be recovering. It is stated that ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. HORSEBREEDING FOR THE ARMY.

    A deputation appointed by a conference held a tew days ago on the subject of horsebreeding in New South Wales waited on the Premier yesterday, and laid before him the ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. RUSSIA.

    The recent announcement that Russia proposed to attempt to raise a loan of £25,000,000 in Germany and France, is officially denied, both at Paris and St. ...

    Article : 59 words
  22. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

    Mr. S. H. Gollan's Australian Star (8 st. 9 lb.), has been scratched for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, to be run on October 30. ...

    Article : 29 words
  23. THE MILITARY FORCES.

    The public were enabled, through the exertions of the Pioneer Corps, to cross over the River Torrens at the rear of the Zoological Gardens on Saturday afternoon. The ...

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  24. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

    A sensation has been caused in America by the announcement that President Roosevelt has invited Mr. Booker T. Washington, the negro President of the University at ...

    Article : 190 words
  25. THE AUSTRALASIANS.

    The War Office reports:— Sergeant S. J. Smith, of the Third New South Wales Contingent, has died of wounds at Leeuwkop. ...

    Article : 90 words
  26. SYDNEY THEATRES.

    A new American comic opera company headed by Miss Josephine Stanton, made its first appearance in Australia at the Criterion on Saturday night in "Said ...

    Article : 127 words
  27. RACING YACHTS.

    Sir Thomas Lipton is at present visiting Chicago. He has been interviewed on the subject of the recent races for the America Cup, and is stated to have expressed ...

    Article : 94 words
  28. AN ANARCHIST SENT TO GAOL.

    A man named Maurer, the editor of an Anarchist paper, published in Berlin, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for having published an article ...

    Article : 44 words
  29. GENAREL CABLE NEWS.

    Captain C. L. Campbell, of the Sixteenth Lancers, has been appointed as staff officer, under Major-General J. M. Babington, the new commandant of New Zealand. ...

    Article : 33 words
  30. VICTORIA.

    Thomas Chapman had been to the theatre and returning home late, without a latchkey, endeavored to get into his house by climbing on the roof. He stepped on a ...

    Article : 45 words
  31. THE ARMY.

    It is alleged that 50, out of 200 members of the British Yeomanry, who re-enlisted for another term of service in South Africa, have deserted from the Shorncliffe Military ...

    Article : 123 words
  32. NEW ZEALAND.

    Captain Munford, the master of the yacht Ariadne, was on Saturday remanded for another week on a charge of casting the vessel away. ...

    Article : 29 words
  33. MINING SHARES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 words
  34. RATING OF MINES.

    The secretary of the South Broken Hill Silver Mining Company has written to the mayor that the proposal to hold a conference regarding the litigation on the mine ...

    Article : 418 words
  35. PACIFIC MAIL SERVICE.

    The mail service debate has been concluded by the House of Representatives. An amendment to the Government resoluition in the direction of abolishing the San ...

    Article : 88 words
  36. TIRED OF LIFE.

    At Kotupna, on a farm some 10 miles from Nathalia, Thomas Gingell, said to be over 70 years of age, attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself. There is a ...

    Article : 129 words
  37. A DIVIDEND.

    The directors of the British & Australasian Trust & Loan Company, Limited, have declared a dividend at tlhe rate of 5 per cent. ...

    Article : 30 words
  38. THE CUZCO AT FREMANTLE.

    The Cuzco, from London, arrived here at 5 a.m. to-day. ...

    Article : 17 words
  39. AN OFFICIAL DENTAL.

    The War Office authorities have caused to be published, an official denial that 50 desertions have occurred at the Shorncliffe Camp. They explain that many of the ...

    Article : 65 words
  40. MELBOURNE CRICKET.

    The opening or the cricket season took place yesterday under very favorable conditions. The following were the results of the day's play:—Melbourne, two wickets for ...

    Article : 108 words
  41. SILVER.

    To-day's price of bar silver is 2/2? per oz. ...

    Article : 14 words
  42. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Kauri Gum.—At to-day's sale of kauri gum, 2,450 cases were offered, and 1,200 cases sold, at full prices. Fine three-quarter scraped realised 120/ to 130/. ...

    Article : 253 words
  43. REFORMING THE WAR OFFICE.

    The new War Office Board, to be constituted in furtherance of Mr. Brodrick's reform proposals, is to he analagous to the board presiding over the navy, otherwise ...

    Article : 94 words
  44. SELLING BOGUS GOLD.

    George Serinesne, aged 20, (has been arrested on several charges of selling bogus gold to a number of Chinese and European dealers in Ballarat. The police state that ...

    Article : 60 words
  45. BALLARAT COMPETITIONS.

    The South-street competitions were continued yesterday. Amongst the awards made were:—Mezzo soprano solo, first, Miss F. Gloster, Melbourne; second, Miss ...

    Article : 51 words
  46. THE BRITISH NAYY.

    The Lords of the Admiralty have issued instructions te the Devonport Dockyard for the building of a new battleship of 16,500 tons displacement and 425 ft. in length. ...

    Article : 42 words
  47. A RAILWAY FATALITY.

    Thomas Smith, a line repairer, was riding a railway tricycle between Macorna and Tragwel yesterday when a train from Bendigo ran him down and fearfully ...

    Article : 42 words
  48. STAMBOLOFFS MURDERER

    A number of Turks have captured and beheaded Halin, the brigand who caused the death of M. Stamboloff, the Bulgarian statesman. ...

    Article : 82 words
  49. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.

    The prize distribution in conection with the annual Scripture examination of the South Australian Sunday-school Union took place at Pirie-street Wesleyan lecture-hall ...

    Article : 308 words
  50. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,167 words
  51. FREEMASONRY

    A large number of Freemasons attended at the hall in Flinders-street on Saturday night to witness the installation of Brother James Scott as W.M. of the Commercial Lodge, No. 39. The ...

    Article : 251 words
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