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INCUMBENTS

Premier Of New South Wales - George Reid (until September 13) then William Lyne

Premier Of South Australia - Charles Kingston (until December 1), Vaiben Solomon (until December 8) then Frederick Holder

Premier Of Queensland - James Dickson (until December 1), Anderson Dawson (until December 7) then Robert Philp

Premier Of Tasmania - Edward Braddon (until October 12) then Elliott Lewis

Premier Of Western Australia - John Forrest

Premier Of Victoria - George Turner (until December 5) then Allan McLean

EVENTS

March - Cyclone Mahina strikes Bathurst Bay in Queensland. Approximately 400 persons are killed, and the pearling fleet is sunk. A Storm Surge of up to 14 metres sweeps 5 kilometres inland

April 24 - The 1,280 ton Barque ''Loch Sloy'' hits rocks off Kangaroo Island and sinks, killing 31 persons

Colonial soldiers leave to fight in the Second Boer War

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ARTS AND LITERATURE

George Washington Lambert wins the Wynne Prize for landscape painting or figure sculpture for his landscape ''Across the Blacksoil Plains''

Dot And The Kangaroo , a childrens book by Ethel Pedley , is published

''On Our Selection'' by Steele Rudd is published

SPORT

''Merriwee'' wins the Melbourne Cup

Victoria wins the Sheffield Shield

BIRTHS

January 7 - John Collins (d. 1989), Chief of Naval Staff and High Commissioner to New Zealand

January 17 - Nevil Shute (d. 1960), writer

January 21 - Ernestine Hill (d. 1972), travel writer

February 22 - Ian Clunies Ross (d. 1959), scientist

September 3 - Frank MacFarlane Burnet (d. 1985), biologist and Nobel Prize winner

DEATHS

February 21 - George Ferguson Bowen (b. 1821), Governor of Queensland

SEE ALSO

1899

1800s