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  2. DEPARTURE OF CONTINGENT.

    To-day South Australia will bid farewell and God-speed to the Mounted Contingent, which will within 24 hours be on the way to South Africa to take part in the ...

    Article : 1,150 words
  3. THE HOSPITAL BOARD AND THE PLAGUE.

    When the Hospital Board met in the Executive Council Chamber on Thursday, the chairman (Mr. C. Tacker) announced that as the minute-book and the senior ...

    Article : 385 words
  4. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received January 25, 9.45 a.m.] GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    An the outcome of a protracted agitation on the subject, Messrs. Bryant and May, the well-known manufacturers of lucifer matches, have resolved to dispense ...

    Article : 59 words
  5. AT THE FRONT.

    This is Boxing Day, and everything is quiet. One wonders whether this period of forced inactivity is as tiresome to the Boers in their kopjes at Magersiontein as ...

    Article : 1,399 words
  6. THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

    The check which Sir Charles Warren has received has proved of great advantage to the Boers. The enemy, who hold a strong position just west of Spion Kop, are ...

    Article : 564 words
  7. AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENTS.

    Major-General Downes has decided that 120 men should be selected to pass the camp rest for the bushmen's corps. This, he thinks, is the best way to secure the ...

    Article : 498 words
  8. THE TERRIBLE SAND.

    The sand is paralysing. It makes the beer muddy and the food gritty; gets into every imaginable nook and corner, and gives you blight in the eyes, a feverish ...

    Article : 505 words
  9. A QUARANTINE COMEDY.

    Out shipping reporter writes:—"The arrival and departure of the Orient liner Ortona on "Thursday morning possessed some of the elements of a first-class comedy with ...

    Article : 305 words
  10. WAR NOTES.

    How should the patronymic of the general commanding the Kimberley relief column be pronounced Meth-u-en, Mechuen, Meth-yoon, and so on are all in vogue. ...

    Article : 649 words
  11. PROPOSED SYDNEY CRICKET MATCH.

    At a special meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association to-night, it was stated that Major Wardill had interviewed the executive committee of the association ...

    Article : 157 words
  12. MORE AUSTRALIANS SENT FORWARD.

    With the exception of the Lancers and the Australian House, all the Australian troops are now with the Kimberley column, under General Methuen. The ...

    Article : 692 words
  13. THE DISCOVERY OF PHOSPHATES.

    The Government have decided, to offer rewards for the discovery and working of marketable mineral manure. The conditions attached to the rewards are as ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. ATTACK ON SPION KOP."

    The publication of Sir Redvers Buller's intention to attack Spion Kop on Tuesday night is regarded as most inadvisable, and the newspapers strongly blame the censors ...

    Article : 334 words
  15. NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEERS.

    The Governor has received the following cable message from Mr. Chamberlain:— "The War Office gladly accepts a contingent. Her Majesty's Government ...

    Article : 51 words
  16. PERSONAL

    The Hon, Dr. Mackellar, member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, and formerly Minister of Mines in the Dibbs Administration, is at present in ...

    Article : 581 words
  17. QUEENSLAND.

    Heavy rains are reported throughout the Cairns district. The Mulgrave River is 16 ft. over the Mulgrave tramway level The bridge over Freshwater Creek, ...

    Article : 125 words
  18. A RAID ON GAMBLERS.

    At the Charters Towers Police Court today George Smith, the landlord, of the Gladstone Hotel, Was fined. £10 for allowing gambling on his premises. An ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

    During the last few days several additions have been made to the Zoological Gardens Both, the female Hamas have given birth to young, as well as one of the ...

    Article : 107 words
  20. THE POOR MAN'S DOCTOR.

    William Herring, Esq., a prominent attorney of Tucson^ Arizona, 11.5.A., in speaking of Chamberlain's medicines, says: "I am very sincere in saying that I have ...

    Article : 124 words
  21. WRECK OF THE AIRLIE.

    The steamer Duke of Argyle passed the Airlie yesterday, but did not speak to the vessel, which remains on an even keel. The bows are high up out of the water. The ...

    Article : 80 words
  22. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The Orient liner R.M.S. Ortona, which is making her maiden homeward journey, arrived on Thursday morning at the anchorage from Melbourne shortly after Il ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  23. THE WESTERN FRONTIER.

    It is reported that three Englishmen who possessed passes which allowed them to remain in the Orange Free State, have been shot at Harrismith, for refusing to fight ...

    Article : 411 words
  24. NEW ZEALAND:

    The Harbor Board accounts for the year, show a credit margin of £6,097. The Dunedin Harbor Board has a credit balance of £7,157. ...

    Article : 70 words
  25. Advertising

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    Advertising : 478 words
  26. A BRITISH VICTORY.

    Sir Redvers Buller, in a cable message to the War Office, reports that Sir Charles ...

    Article : 261 words
  27. THE BUSHMEN'S CORPS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 words
  28. TO-DAYS ENGAGEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 words
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