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  2. PARLIAMENT.

    DESPITE the lateness of the previous sitting, there was a numerous attendance of members in the House. STANDING ORDER AMENDMENTS. ...

    Article : 1,828 words
  3. GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.

    A PUBLIC meeting, which had been convened by advertisement, for the purpose of offering a strong protest against the action of the Government in relation to grammar school ...

    Article : 3,973 words
  4. COLONIAL CASUALTIES.

    Lieutenant Howse, of the New South Wales Medical Corps, has been invalided and has sailed from Capetown to England. H. Yorke, of the New Zealand rough riders, ...

    Article : 53 words
  5. A DESIRE FOR PEACE.

    De Villiers, who was formerly Chief Judge of the Orange Free State, has implored the Dutch Church to act as peace-makers between the Boers and Great Britain with a view to ...

    Article : 83 words
  6. THE PLAGUE.

    DR. HUTCHENS reported from Colmslie Hospital on Tuesday night (says the "Courier") that the two boys, Just and Gault, were both slightly better, while the patient Smith ...

    Article : 52 words
  7. WAR IN CHINA.

    IT reported that a German force has met with a reverse at a place 35 miles West of Pao-fing-fu, in the province of Chi-li. In an engagement with the Chinese the ...

    Article : 74 words
  8. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

    The action of the authorities in landing the plague stricken men from the Cormorant on Thursday Island is severely condemned. It was never considered likely ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. TUNG-FUH-SIANG DEGRADED.

    An Imperial edict, which was issued on the 3rd instant, deprived "Fung-fuh-Siang, one of the most prominent of the anti-foreign officials of his military rank and cities on the ground ...

    Article : 65 words
  10. THE BOER WAR.

    LORD ROBERTS, who is about to leave South Africa for England, where he will assume the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the British army, has issued a farewell ...

    Article : 176 words
  11. THE KALGAN EXPEDITION.

    The expedition of the allied troops to Kalgan, a town about 100 miles north-west of Pekin, has been ineffective, as it has only resulted in the execution of three minor officials, who were ...

    Article : 47 words
  12. CONINGHAM DIVORCE CASE.

    [THE first portion of the evidence taken yesterday appears on page 6] WHEN his Eminence Cardinal Moran entered the Court, His Honour said he would take the ...

    Article : 915 words
  13. ATTACKING THE REGULARS.

    The German section of the allied troops have been sent against a large force of Chinese regulars who have assembled at Tsang. ...

    Article : 26 words
  14. THE RUSSIANS AT NEWCHANG.

    The Russian authorities at Newchang have imposed a land tax of 3 per cent. upon Chinese land-holders there. ...

    Article : 22 words
  15. THE VERY LATEST.

    EDWARD CROSBY, a banker of Scarborough, in Yorkshire, has been convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for falsifying his books. He had made a ...

    Article : 51 words
  16. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    The Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, will preside at the Colonial Club's Commonwealth dinner in London in January next. ...

    Article : 60 words
  17. AN EXPERIMENT IN JOURNALISM.

    Dr. Joseph Parker, the noted London Congregational preacher, in imitation of the Rev. Charles Sheldon, has arranged to edit and control the "London Sun" (a ...

    Article : 42 words
  18. A BOER RAID.

    A report has been received that a party of Boers, impelled by hunger, made a raid near Standerton, in the South of the Transvaal, on the Natal-Pretoria Railway line, ...

    Article : 60 words
  19. LONDON, December 5. RETIREMENT OF MR. CHAPLIN.

    Mr. Henry Chaplin, who was President of the Local Government Board in Lord Salisbury's Cabinet prior to the recent general election, has addressed an open letter to his constituents, in ...

    Article : 75 words
  20. THE JOHANNESBURG PLOT.

    Reuter's correspondent at Johannesburg states that all the persons who have been arrested in connection, with the late plot against Lord Roberts will be deported, as ...

    Article : 37 words
  21. HEALTH OF THE CZAR.

    The health of the Czar is now improving and he is able, at intervals, to si[?]in an armchair. ...

    Article : 23 words
  22. LONDON, December 5. UNREST IN CAPE COLONY.

    The Cabinet of the Parliament of Cape Colony, for the first time for 25 years, met on a Sunday, the meeting taking place on Sunday last. The meeting was adjourned, and the ...

    Article : 73 words
  23. REBELLION IN SOMALI.

    A force of infantry and cavalry, with a number of guns, is being despatched from Bombay to quell a rebellion which has occurred in Somall-land, a State in the north-east of ...

    Article : 49 words
  24. DEBATE IN THE FRENCH SENATE.

    During the debate in the French Senate on the subject of the navy, M. Mercier made a wild attack on the British army and navy, amidst vigorous protests from the other ...

    Article : 125 words
  25. THE NEWCASTLE EISTEDDFOD.

    WE ("Gympie Times") are indebted to one of our subscribers for copies of the "Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate" (N.S.W.) containing reports of the Thirteenth ...

    Article : 267 words
  26. MR. KRUGER'S VISIT TO BERLIN.

    It transpires that the envoy of the German Emperor to the Grand Duchy of Luxemberg, who went specially to Cologne to meet ex-President Kruger, explicitly informed him that ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. THE BEER POISONING EPIDEMIC.

    Beer to the value of £50,000, which is suspected of being of a poisonous nature, has been destroyed. ...

    Article : 23 words
  28. EX-PRESIDENT KRUGER'S MOVEMENTS.

    Great nervousness exists at The Hague, the official capital of Holland, on account of Mr. Kruger's expected arrival there to morrow. It has been decided that the ex-President will be ...

    Article : 61 words
  29. THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

    A Commission, which has been taking evidence on the subject, reports that the Emperor William of Germany favours the ownership and control, by Germany, of a Nicaragua canal ...

    Article : 58 words
  30. LATEST OPERATIONS.

    News has been received that Major-General Knox, on Sunday last, engaged the enemy to the north of the Bethulic and Smithfield-road. [?] from the Orange River ...

    Article : 90 words
  31. THE QUEEN'S WATERING PLACE.

    The authorities at [?] watering place on the coast of [?] by Her Majesty [?] which she did [?] ...

    Article : 30 words
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