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PARIS, Thursday.—The Chinese Government having failed to come to an understanding with France in regard to the Tonquin question, France is preparing to block the port of Canton from foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CAIRNS, Wednesday.—Thirty Chinamen employed at a plantation near Cairns refused work. The police were sent for, and a riot ensued. One Chinese was killed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Wednesday.—The probabilities of a Franco-Chinese war are daily increasing. The French have resolved to push forward the expedition to Tonquin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE is self-constituted body in Sydney, who meet in a room about 6 feet by 6 feet and who call themselves the Trades and Labour Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"BROTHERS get uniforms complete, £2 2s and upwards." "Sisters we are making arrangements for your uniforms, keep believing."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An additional reward has been payable by the Naval authorities for the apprehension of deserters from her Majesty's ships,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The gentleman that wrote your leader under the above heading would make it appeared to your reader that the Council was a self constituted body I have honour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR old friend Mr. "Zulu" Thompson began a season at the Victoria Theatre last evening to an excellent audience. The curtain rose a little after 8 o'clock and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAIRO, Monday.—The news telegraphed on the 14th inst., announcing a further disaster to the Egyptian troops near Suakim on the Red Sea is fully confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MESSRS. GEORGE GORDON and G. R. Ashton have just completed a moving panorama of the more remarkable incidents of the Egyptian War, consisting of 16 tableaux of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT last the dogs of war have been let slip in China, and the Gaul and the Celestial are at each other's throats. As our telegrams will show, China has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Sunday.—Hostilities between France and China have commenced. A body of 3000 Chinese attacked the French position at Hardnong, and after an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Monday.—The Emperor of China has proclaimed Anam a vassal State to his Empire, and has declared the French to be usurpers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THOMPSON'S realistic Panorama of the late war in Egypt, the interesting lecture on the subject, and the distribution of gifts, drew an excellent audience to the Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thursday.—Hopes are still entertained of averting the war between France and China…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Saturday.—The French Deputies are indignant at the action of the Government in concealing the true state of affairs in regard to the critical relations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HONGKONG, Thursday.—Instructions have been issued by the Admiralty that the British fleet at Canton will be placed on a war footing immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—A further sum of 20,000,000 francs has been voted by the French Chamber of Deputies in connection with the war at Tonquin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, December 21.—The Victorian torpedo boat Childers, and the gunboats Victoria and Albert, which leave England for Australia on the 14th January, will go…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Friday.—The rumours that it is the intention of the French Government to hold China responsible for the expenses of the Tonquin expedition are…
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