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  2. MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY.

    As might have been expected, the announcement to-day that sums aggregating nearly £10,000 have been embezzled from the Melbourne University funds, created a ...

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  3. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received August 30, 12.10 a.m.] CHINA.

    Prince Chun, who is the leader of the Chinese official mission to Germany to apologise for the murder of Baron von Ketteler, the German ambassador at Pekin, last year, ...

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  4. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received August 30, 12.10 a.m.] BOER TREACHERY.

    Lord Kitchener, having received several affidavits confirming the report that some Australian soldiers had been treacherously shot by the Boers, is about to issue another ...

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  5. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    There was more fiscal fighting in the Senate to-day over the Customs Bill. The freetraders opposed a clause compelling the defendant in a case brought by the Customs ...

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  6. STATE PARLIAMENTS.

    In dhe Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. See moved the second reading of the Industrial Arbitration Bill, and explained that it was an old measure modified. He ...

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  7. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received August 30, 12.10 a.m.] AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION.

    The members of the council of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, who have been considering the advisability of petitioning Mr. Chamberlain against the ...

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  8. LATEST CABLES [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received August 30, 2 a.m.]

    It is stated that one reason why so many of the Imperial Yeomanry proved incompetent on arriving in South Africa wai that a number of recruits who were unable to go ...

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  9. WORK IN PARLIAMENT.

    When the Speaker took the chair in the Assembly on Thursday there were but 24 members present, with but 13 listeners in the seats above the clock, and only ...

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  10. POMPOM, COLT, AND RIFLE BULLETS.

    Mr. W. L. Coward, the well-known Adelaide musician, has received the following interesting letter from his son Charles, who went to South Africa with the Sixth West ...

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  11. DONIBRISTLE COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

    Three more of the men entombed by the subsidence in the Donibristle colliery, in Fifeshire, have been rescued. One of the poor fellows had been buried for 66 hours. ...

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  12. GERMANY.

    The popular indignation in Germany respecting the sentence or death passed on Sergeant Marten for the alleged murder of Captain Krosigk, of the Dragoons, at ...

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  13. EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER:

    A terrible boiler explosion is reported from the United States. The steamer City of Trenton in the Delaware River was wrecked yesterday by the explosion of her ...

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  14. THE LATE EMPRESS FREDERICK.

    It is announced that the late DowagerEmpress Frederick of Germany left an estate valued at 11,000,000 marks. She bequeathed to each of her six children ...

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  15. THE CZAR AND FRANCE.

    A curious incident occurred yesterday at a meeting of the Marseilles Municipal Council. A member of that body moved a resolution congratulating the Government of ...

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  16. VICTORIA.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Sterry drew the attention of the House to an injustice to vignerons which was being caused through the denaturation of ...

    Article : 133 words
  17. FEEDING BRITISH SAILORS

    The Committee appointed by,the Lords of the Admiralty to enquire into the victualling of the British navy has recommended various reforms. One of the chief is to ...

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  18. BRITISH NAVY.

    The submarine boats now being built to the order of the British Admiralty at Barrow in Furness will be fitted with horizontal and vertical rudders and a water ...

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  19. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    His Majesty the King has approved of the retention of the title of "Honorable" by the Hon. Alfred Je[?]ome Cadman, Minister without portfolio in the New Zealand ...

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  20. TASMANIA.

    A scene occurred in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon. Mr. Guesdon, one of the members for Hobart, entered the Chamber, and ...

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  21. THE AUSTRALIAN BOWLERS.

    The Australian bowling team will return by the steamer India. Mr. Young, the captain, entertained the leading English bowlers in London yesterday. It is ...

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  22. AUSTRALIAN COAL.

    It is reported that the United States Government have decided to discontinue the purchase of Australian coal for use on board the transport steamers crossing the ...

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  23. FRANCE AND TURKEY.

    It has transpired that the complaint of the French Government respecting the treatment of the Constantinople Quays Company by the Sultan was only a pretext. ...

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  24. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    The American visible supply of wheat is 37,428,000 bushels, as against 38,097,000 bushels last week, or a decrease of 669,000 bushels. ...

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  25. EX-PRESIDENT STEYN'S ESCAPE.

    Writing of Steyn's narrow escape from the town of Reitz on the unexpected entry of the British, the London correspondent of the Melbourne "Age" says:— There have ...

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  26. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    In the Assembly to-day, Mr. HopKins gave notice that he would ask the Government [?]o enquire into the case of the alluvial miners who were imprisoned for ...

    Article : 110 words
  27. STATE ECONOMY.

    Recently a meeting of 32 members of the Assembly, representing country districts, appointed a committee from their number to consider the proposed Bill to reduce ...

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  28. JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

    The Japanese Government purpose sending a commission of merchants to Russia with the object of opening up markets for, Japanese products. ...

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  29. BROKEN HILL.

    The acting Mayor, Alderman Jackson, yesterday suggested that if the officers of the department wanted a little more time to consider what outside roads should be ...

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  30. THE MALTA GRIEV ANCES

    The organs of the Vatican support the anti-English newspapers in Malta in their denunciation of the policy of Mr. Chamberlain, who recently announced in the House ...

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  31. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Assembly to-day, in reply to Mr. Lesina, the Premier stated that Colonel Ricardo drew pay and allowances as the officer commanding the First Contingent ...

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  32. KISSING HIS WIFE.

    A native of Finland, one Karl Sunell, 26 years of age, and described as a "specialist," appeared at the Water Police Court to-day to answer to a charge of riotous ...

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  33. THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ADJOURNMENT.

    Sir—The sole and only reason why I and other members of the Legislative Council agreed yesterday to adjourn for a fortnight was, as the Hon. J. J.Duncan, the leader ...

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  34. CORRUPTION IN AMERICA.

    The "Times," iri referring to eases of corruption in the United States, declares that one man has made £10,000 yearly by a system of blackmail in connection with the ...

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  35. ARTESIAN BORING.

    Sir—In the "Government Gazette" there is a notification offering "a reward of £500 to anyone discovering phosphates on Crown lands;" also offering to let, rent free for ...

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  36. ENGLISH CRICKET.

    C. B. Fry, who has for the greater part of the season headed the first-class batting averages, is finishing up his English engagements in the most brilliant manner. In ...

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  41. THE FRENCH PACIFIC ISLANDS.

    When Mr. Higginson passed through Sydney some time ago from the French Pacific Islands, a letter signed by an influential body of merchants, and others, who feel ...

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