The four-masted barque Emile Renouf, which left Thio, New Caledonia, on the 2nd instant, struck a reef on the evening of the 7th, and foundered almost immediately. All ...
Article : 99 wordsSupplementary War Estimates to the amount of £13,000,000 have been submitted by the Government to the House of Commons. These estimates provide for 120,000 ...
Article : 97 wordsOne of the Boers who has been taken prisoner by the British states that so many of their horses have been killed in the operations so far that the Boers are now ...
Article : 45 wordsIt appeals, in connection with General Buller's operations in Natal, that the Boers expected the British force to attempt the crossing of the Tugela River at Skietsdrift, ...
Article : 166 wordsLieutenant-General Sir C. F. Clery, who went to South Africa in command of the second division of the First Army Corps, and has been with General Buller in Natal ...
Article : 49 wordsFurther news is to hand regarding the retirement to the Modder River of Major-General Macdonald from the advanced position he had taken up at Koodoosberg, ...
Article : 344 wordsThe hon. secretary Bushmen's Contingent received a cheque, for £10 10s. from the Hon. R. Philp, Premier, on Saturday. This amount appeared in the first list of donations and promised ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. P. L. Russell, of Carngham, has accepted a comnfission in the South Staffordshire Militia, and will proceed at once to the front in South Africa. ...
Article : 36 wordsA good deal of doubt exists among the public as to the so-called Queensland Bushmen's Contingent, many people believing that the colony is now preparing two ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the services of intercession for the sold[?]ers in South Africa, which the Rev. A. J. Maclean conducted at All Saints Church yesterday, there was an apparent endeavour to ...
Article : 529 wordsMajor-General Macdonald, although only a recent arrival at the front, has already put in some good work, and it is reported he would have done better had the ...
Article : 939 wordsAdvices from Noumea state that there have been very few cases of plague since the last report. It is considered that the epidemic has now been stamped out. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Address in reply to the Queen's Speech has been agreed to in the House of Commons without further division. ...
Article : 29 wordsA lad named Cyrus Macfarlane, aged 15 years, who lived with his mother at Grafton, was murdered last night. He, was seen with some other persons before ...
Article : 104 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated that the Australian Commonwealth Bill ...
Article : 52 wordsA most successful patriotic social was held last night in aid of the Stanthorpe Patriotic Fund. There was a very large attendance, all parts of the district being represented. Several patriotic ...
Article : 307 wordsAs John Thomas Bevan, a postman at Broken Hill, was going his rounds, he was suddenly confronted by a young woman, who fired a revolver point blank at him. ...
Article : 78 wordsA mysterious case of poisoning occurred near Jondaryan last Wednesday in a family named Wakne, numbering eight, besides the father and mother. All but one developed strange ...
Article : 692 wordsA mass meeting of coal trimmers was held at Newcastle yesterday morning, when a resolution was unanimously passed declaring that the time had arrived when demand ...
Article : 90 wordsTwo persons were drowned in the harbour this afternoon owing to the capsize of a sailing boat. A party of five, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Leigh, Fred. Riley and his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsThe organisation and equipment of the third contingent will advance another and satisfactory stage to-day, when the mounted drill of the two companies will be started ...
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Advertising : 186 wordsLord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, is now at Modder River, the headquarters of Lord Methuen. Major-General French, who has for some ...
Article : 67 wordsThe following intercessory prayer was recited at the Synagogue on Saturday morning:—O Lord of Hosts! Thou art our refuge and strength, a very present help in ...
Article : 304 wordsMr. J. Grant Pattison, who is at present in Brisbane, writes to the secretary of the Bushmen's Contingent Fund:—"Dear Sir,— I wash to offer you for the use of our ...
Article : 173 wordsA report received from Boer sources states that General Buller's force, after being subjected to a heavy shell fire from the enemy's guns, withdrew across the Tugela River. ...
Article : 216 wordsWhile the New South Wales troops were operating near Colesberg, in the north of Cape Colony, with the force under Major-General French, they encountered a shell fire ...
Article : 52 wordsSpecial intercession services were held at St. John's Cathedral yesterday. The morning service was conducted by Canon Hay, with the assistance of the Rev. S. C. Harris. ...
Article : 773 wordsInformation has been received that on Friday last a small body of colonial troops, consisting of fifty men of the Australian and Tasmanian contingents, under the ...
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Advertising : 235 wordsThe body of a man was found floating in the river on the North Quay about noon yesterday. Constable Annison, on being informed, went to the Commercial Rowing ...
Article : 94 wordsIt seems that the accommodation allowed by the military authorities in England if largely in excess of tha[?] provided for the colonial horses. Mr. See is of opinion that ...
Article : 162 wordsOur Hobart, correspondent wires that the Governor of Tasmania is gradually recovering from the attack of paralysis, but is unable to take any exercise. ...
Article : 32 wordsInformation has now been received confirming the report that General Buller has retired across the Tugela River. LONDON, February 11. ...
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Advertising : 327 wordsReuter's correspondent at Capetown states that a number of foreign military attaches who were at that place have now left for the front. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsThe Protestant elergvmen in this colony cordially responded to the call made to se[?] aside to-day as a day for special intercession on behalf of the British army in ...
Article : 74 wordsInformation has been received that the Boers, who recently captured the resident magistrate of the Nqutu district, have continued their raid into Zulu[?]and, and taken ...
Article : 89 wordsThe arrangements for Church parade yesterday showed a decided improvement on t[?]ose previously made for the comfort of the audience and the nature of a religious ...
Article : 895 wordsThe transport Euryalus is expected to leave early next month with the Bushmen's Contingent. The whole of the intervening time will be taken up with drill. The ...
Article : 94 wordsWith reference to a paragraph in our London correspondent's letter appearing in Saturday's issue, concerning proposals to established iron and steel works in ...
Article : 61 wordsA secret memorandum which was laid before the Transvaal Volksraad some time ago, and which has now come to light, shows that previous to the outbreak of the present ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsThe Boers report that there was heavy firing in the direction of Ladysmith on the night that General Buller retired across the Tugela River, and that the firing was ...
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Advertising : 98 wordsThe Assembly of the Primitive Methodist Church has passed a resolution expressing the conviction that the war was forced upon the British by the Boers, and praying that ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is reported that President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has promised to release Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Eager, of the second battalion Royal Irish Rifles, who is ...
Article : 91 wordsThe following is a list of Italian subscriptions to the Queensland Patriotic Fund, collected by Signor Truda and Russo:—G. Truda, £1 1s.; Mrs. G. Truda, £1 1s.; G. Russo, £1 1s.; Mrs. G. Russo, ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Boers assert that on Tuesday last they compelled a British armoured train which was proceeding towards Colenso from Chieveley, accompanying a force of 2000 ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 12 Feb 1900, Page 5
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