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  2. INTERNATIONAL CABLES.

    A Reuter's telegram states that the Italian Government is negotiating with Great Britain with a view to obtaining a strip of territory in British East Africa, ...

    Article : 190 words
  3. RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

    Vice-Admiral Makaroff, who is in command of the Russian squadron at Port Arthur, has telegraphed to St. Petersburg details of an engagement which took place on ...

    Article : 199 words
  4. M'IVOR SHIRE COUNCIL.

    The monthly greeting was held on Thursday. preseat—The President, and Crs. Robinson, Debney, Hyslop, Ferguson, R[?] Regg, Long, O'Brion, Hagan, barry, West[?] ...

    Article : 400 words
  5. MELBOURNE.

    In connection with the recent raid on the Collingwood "tote" by the police, a man named Cheswass, who keeps a wood-yard in what is considered by the police to be part ...

    Article : 127 words
  6. THE STATE ELECTIONS.

    Mr, W. Wallace, M.L.A., is (states our Maldon correspondent) undecided as to whether he will contest the Castlemaine, and Maldon election at the forthcoming election. ...

    Article : 78 words
  7. EAGLEHAWK FIRE BRIGADE.

    The Eaglehawk Fire Brigade, the winners of the championship honors at the Geelong demonstration, received an enthusiastic welcome on returning to the Bendigo by the ...

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  8. THE RELEASE OF MRS MAYBRICK

    Mrs. Maybrick, who wan sentenced to death in August, 1889, for the murder of her husband—a sentence commuted, to penal servitude for life—has now been released after ...

    Article : 1,316 words
  9. CHASED BY A CRUISER.

    The s.s. Mongolia arrived this morning, and, naturally, there were inquiries from those on board as to the chasing incident in tho Red Sea, which has been referred to ...

    Article : 155 words
  10. SUSPECTED SUICIDE

    The body of a woman named Mrs. Long, the wife of a chemist carrying on business in Bridge road, Richmond, was found Try a little girl lying in a paddock at Burnley, ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. THE TRANSVAAL.

    The Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce has resolved, by a maojrity of 61 votes to 11, to urge on the Imperial Government the necessity for the immediate ratification of ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. POISONED HOUSES.

    The suspicious death of three draught horses at Benalla has been reported to the police. The horses wove the property of Mr. John Stafford, of Winton, seven miles ...

    Article : 269 words
  13. INTER-STATE TELEGRAMS

    A gardener named John Mortis had a nasty experience with a bulldog to-night. He was almost speechless when admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital. His face was covered ...

    Article : 87 words
  14. ADMIRAL VIRENIUS.

    The Russian Admiral Virenius, whose squadron was recently ordered to watch for vessels carrying contraband goods for Japan through the Red Sea, has put into Suda Bay, ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. N.S.W. RETRENCHMENT.

    The State Cabinet yesterday further considered the retrenchment scheme, but, in the absence of Sir John See and Messrs. Crick and Kidd, it was not finally dealt with. The ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    The following figures, showing the number of widows in Bengal from one year old and upwards, was recently published in the, "prabasi" of Allahabad:—Between ages 0—1, ...

    Article : 157 words
  17. COLONIAL SECRETARY.

    Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in replying to a memorial from the Society of Friends (Quakers) regarding the Chinese labor ordinance, slated ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. RUSSIAN GUNBOAT MANDJUR.

    The persistent objections raised by the lapanese to the Russian gunboat Mandjur permitted to remain in the neutral port of Shanghai have resulted in the guns ...

    Article : 57 words
  19. FATAL TERMINATIONS.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler, aged 34 years, who on Thursday night swallowed 2oz. of hydro-chlorie acid and was admitted to the Alfred Hospital in a dangerous condition, ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. DOWIE'S ZION CITY.

    The trusting citizens of Zion, concerning the finances of which Dowie has recently been be boastful, have the other side of the picture presented to them by the overseer ...

    Article : 71 words
  21. IMPORTANT TELEGRAM FROM LORD MILNER.

    Viscount Milner, in forwarding the resolution in favor of the importation of Asiatic labor, which was presented to him on Thursday, telegraphed to Mr. Alfred ...

    Article : 85 words
  22. JAPAN AND KOREA.

    Under the recently-executed treaty between Japan and Korea, general provision was made for the construction by Japan of railway between Seoul, the capital of ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. HOMICIDE IN THE UNITED STATES.

    In an article on "Murder" in the NewYork "Cutlook," some figures are given on the subject of homicide in the States, which are sufficiently startling. We quote: ...

    Article : 286 words
  24. INFANT'S BODY FOUND.

    At 11 o'clock Hi is morning the dead body of a new-born female child was found in a cupboard in a lavatory at the ladies' waiting room. Spencer-street station. The ...

    Article : 74 words
  25. VENTILATION.

    Sir,—Too much thought cannot be devoted to this most important subject. It is well known it is of vital importance to the thousands of human beings who, by force of ...

    Article : 772 words
  26. ORDER BY POLICE COMMISSIONER.

    The Chief Commissioner of Police at Johannesburg, yielding to the pressure of [?]blic opinion, has prohibited colored inhabitants, including coolies, from using the ...

    Article : 54 words
  27. EFFECTS OF THE TREATY.

    The treaty recently concluded between Japan and Korea, annuls all the concessions that have been obtained by Russia from Korea, including the much-discussed Yalu ...

    Article : 37 words
  28. INQUESTS.

    At the Warden's Court on Saturday morning the coroner (Mr. E. N. Moore, P.M.), held an inquest on the body of Fanny Johnstone, married woman, 30 years of age, ...

    Article : 200 words
  29. CRICKET IN ENGLAND.

    Mr. C. B. Fry, the famous batsman, has accepted an invitation from the committee of the Sussex County Cricket Club to captain the club's team during the coming ...

    Article : 100 words
  30. RUSSIAN JEWS.

    The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris newspaper, 'L'Aurore." states that in connection with the war anti-Semitism has exhibited itself in a remarkable way. ...

    Article : 86 words
  31. BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS.

    According to professor Ray Lankester, the gradnal development of the brain and the increase in cranial capacity, which has reached its present culmination in man is not a ...

    Article : 73 words
  32. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    The wool Sales were continued at the Wool Exchange to-day. Prices for merinos were unchanged. Crossbreds showed a hardening tendency. ...

    Article : 27 words
  33. RUSSIA MOBILISING.

    The masses of Russian troops, by which the southern frontiers of Russia in Asia are defended, are apparently to be placed on a war footing. ...

    Article : 45 words
  34. DEATH IN THE LUNACY WARD.

    On Saturday afternoon Mr. Moore held an inquest at the hospital on the body of Frederick Gratz, 36 years of age, a married man, who was employed as a laborer at ...

    Article : 398 words
  35. FAMOUS LIBRARY DURNED.

    By a fire which occurred lately at the National Library attached to the Universityof Turin (Italy), the collection of valuable books, to the numoer of 250,000, and many ...

    Article : 104 words
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  38. "THEY WANT MORE."

    There is trouble between Bovril Limited and the management of "The Cherry Girl" at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Mr. Courtice Pounds, explaining the ...

    Article : 294 words
  39. SHIPPING MISHAP.

    The A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Aramae, which left Brisbane yesterday for Cairns, with 160 passengers and crew on board, struck the Breaksea Spit, off Sandy Cape, at 8 o'clock ...

    Article : 193 words
  40. MECHANICS INSTITUTE.

    Sir,—A good authority has laid down the dictum, "Of making books there is no end." That being 30, where is the wisdom involved in hoarding up so many effete volumes of ...

    Article : 140 words
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