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  2. Advertising

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  3. NEWS BY CABLE.

    LONDON, May 16, 4.7 p.m.—Further discussions have taken place between Mr. Chamberlain and the Australian federal delegates, and the prospects of a compromise are more hopeful ...

    Article : 47 words
  4. MAFEKING.

    LONDON, May 16.—Heavy fighting occurred at Mafeking on Saturday. The Boers claim that they seized the native quarter, and brought guns to bear at close range ...

    Article : 126 words
  5. MR. CHAMBERLAIN FEELING THE AUSTRALIAN PULSE.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Mr. J. H. Symon, Q.C., who was one of the South Australian Convention delegates, delivered an address on federation at the Stirling Institute on Tuesday evening, in the ...

    Article : 697 words
  6. TROOPS AT BEIRA.

    LONDON, May 16.—Three thousand five hundred troops have been landed at Beira. The steamer Gymeric, which has arrived at Beira, with horses from Queensland, New Zealand, ...

    Article : 44 words
  7. PORTUGAL AND THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, May 16.—It is affirmed at Lisbon that President Kruger has ordered the Portuguese Consul (Senhor D. Cinatti) to quit Pretoria. ...

    Article : 27 words
  8. OPERATIONS IN NATAL.

    LONDON, May 16.—General Sir Redvers Bul-lets report discloses the fact that he was injected to occupy the enemy in Natal. He describes the hurried retreat of the Boers, and the ...

    Article : 205 words
  9. BOER DELEGATES IN AMERICA.

    LONDON, May 16.—An Irish-Dutch reception committee in New York, consisting of noisy nobodies, including Patrick Egan, one of the Irish Invincibles, and afterwards United States ...

    Article : 195 words
  10. HOW IT IS TO BE ADMINISTERED.

    A meeting of the executive of the Patriotic Fund Committee is to be held to-day, when it is probable that the method of the administration of the fund will be discussed, and that subsequently a ...

    Article : 587 words
  11. LIEUTENANT STEPHENS.

    Lieutenant Stephens, of the Naval Artillery Volunteers, who is proceeding to South Africa as a special service officer, will leave with the Queensland Bushmen in the Manchester Port. ...

    Article : 30 words
  12. IN THE FREE STATE.

    LONDON, May 16.—A Boer war council held at Lindley, the new capital of the Orange Free State, has decided to hold Harrismith. The correspondent of the "Standard" at ...

    Article : 197 words
  13. OFFICERS PROMOTED.

    The following promotions of officers of the New South Wales military forces, while on active service in South Africa, have been made: Mounted Infantry: Captain J. M. Antill to be ...

    Article : 59 words
  14. THE TROUBLE IN ASHANTI.

    LONDON, May 16, 4.7 p.m.—Thirty thousand rebel natives are besieging Kumasi. There is a difficulty in obtaining carriers for the relief column. ...

    Article : 30 words
  15. THE N.S.W. PATRIOIIC FUND.

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  16. PIGEON SHOOTING.

    LONDON, May 16, 4.7 p.m.—Mr. L. Walford, the Australian shot, won several prizes at the meeting of the London Gun Club. ...

    Article : 29 words
  17. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

    LONDON, May 16.—The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has partly allowed, with costs, the appeal in the case of Edgar v. Plomley. The appeal Wasteneys v. Wasteneys has been ...

    Article : 215 words
  18. IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    LONDON, May 16.—Commandant De Wet is organising a Boer force at Klerksdorp, in the Transvaal a few miles over the Free State border. ...

    Article : 33 words
  19. BUSHMEN CONTINGENT FUND.

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  20. THIRTY-FIVE CHILDREN DROWNED.

    LONDON, May 16.—Owing to two boats coming into collision during a fete on the lake at Ronciglione, Italy, 35 children were drowned. ...

    Article : 28 words
  21. THE WHITE FLAG TREACHERY.

    LONDON, May 16, 4.7 p.m.—Further particulars of the white flag outrage state that it occurred on a farm near Kroonstad. Sixteen Boers concealed in a farmhouse killed two privates, ...

    Article : 63 words
  22. BAR SILVER.

    LONDON, May 16.—Bar silver is quoted to—day at 2s 3½d per ounce standard. ...

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  23. MISS NANCE O'NEIL'S SEASON.

    In course of conversation with Mr. M'Kee Rankin on Wednesday night, a "News" reporter learned that Miss Nance O'Nell's visit to Australia has been considerably extended, and that the ...

    Article : 91 words
  24. THE TALLOW MARKET.

    LONDON, May 16.—At the sales of Australian fallow to-day 2225 casks were offered, of which 875 were sold. Mutton, fine, realised 29s 6d; mutton, medium, 27s 6d; beef, fine, 28s; and beef, ...

    Article : 44 words
  25. THE THIRD CONTINGENT.

    A deputation of three members of the third contingent waited on the Colonial Secretary on Wednesday, and complained that they and others, after expressing their willingness to accept the ...

    Article : 104 words
  26. N.S.W. CASUALTIES.

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  27. LONDON WOOL SALES.

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  28. A QUESTION OF JURISDICTION.

    The Judge in Chambers on Wednesday had before him an application on behalf of Joseph F[?]dill, of Tamworth, to make absolute a rule nisi by which W. Bielfeld and John Dight and ...

    Article : 157 words
  29. FRIDAY'S MAILS.

    Mails close at the G.P.O. to-morrow for Hobart, per Messrs. Huddart, Parker Company's steamer Tambo, at 10 a.m.; for Singapore and BAtavia, per the G. and A. steamer B[?]feld, at 10 ...

    Article : 106 words
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