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  2. FIGHTING AT ZAND RIVER.

    LONDON, Jose 18.—Six hundred Boers near the Zand River Station, attacked 250 men of the loyal North Lancashires, where the Railway Pioneers, commanded by Major J. E. Capper, R.E., were ...

    Article : 114 words
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    Advertising : 444 words
  4. NEWS BY CABLE.

    LONDON, June 18.—The position of the international force of 2300 men, under Vice-Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, advancing from Tientsin on Pekin, is precarious. Water is scarce, and the ...

    Article : 271 words
  5. MEMORIAL TO THE LATE PRIVATE A. E. SMITH.

    The committee appointed to arrange for the holding of a public meeting to Consider the question of erecting a fitting memorial to the late Private A. E. Smith, as well as other volunteers, ...

    Article : 168 words
  6. PRESS RUNNERS.

    One of the many sources of expenditure caused by the war to newspaper proprietors is the cost of the native "boys" employed as "runners." The batch of "boys" kept on hand at ...

    Article : 120 words
  7. LORD BEAUCHAMP'S FAMILY TREASURES.

    Though for the past three weeks the public have had an opportunity of inspecting a further selection of the Beauchamp heirlooms at the Art Gallery, in the Domain, they still prove as attractive ...

    Article : 253 words
  8. KRUGER GOES EASTWARD.

    LONDON, June 18.—President Kruger has left Macbadodorp, and his headquarters are now at Alkmaar, 54 miles further eastward. ...

    Article : 23 words
  9. A BULLET THROUGH THE HEAD.

    Writing from London by the last mail to his sister at Hawthorn (Melbourne), the Rev. H. B. Macartney, formerly of St. Mary's, Caulfield, recounted the home-coming, of his son, the young ...

    Article : 209 words
  10. COMMANDEERING GOLD.

    LONDON, June 18.—The Ermelo branch of the Transvaal National Bank having refused to accept President Kruger's paper money to the amount of £6000, the Landdrost of the town ...

    Article : 59 words
  11. ON THE WEST RIVER.

    LONDON, June 18.—Troubles have arisen on the West River (Si-kiang), on which Canton is built. Five thousand rebels have assembled at Kweihsien. ...

    Article : 28 words
  12. NATIVES' ASSOCIATION.

    A meeting of the Australian Natives' Association of N.S.W. was held at the Sydney Town Hall on Monday afternoon, with the object of making arrangements for a large public meeting ...

    Article : 215 words
  13. COMMUNICATIONS WITH TIENTSIN

    The Postmaster-General has received the following notification: "Shanghai announces that telegraphic communication with Tientsin is totally interrupted. ...

    Article : 72 words
  14. THE FREE STATE.

    LONDON, June 18.—President Steyn issued a proclamation on the llth instant declaring that the Free State was still fighting and unconquered. ...

    Article : 29 words
  15. A BRAVE LANCER.

    NARRANDERA, Monday.—It Is reported that Mr. Alfred Dufrayer, of Airlie Station, near Narrandera, who Is at present at the front in South Africa with the N.S.W. Lancers, has been ...

    Article : 62 words
  16. BATHURST ELECTION.

    BATHURST, Tuesday.—Last night the Hon. F. B. Suttor and Mr. A. G. Thompson appeared at the School of Arts Hall, the former to explain his position with regard to the acceptance of his ...

    Article : 281 words
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    Advertising : 521 words
  18. THE N.S.W. PATRIOTIC FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 words
  19. THE NATAL VOLUNTEERS.

    LONDON, June 18.—General Sir Redvers Buller has issued an order warmly eulogising the Natal volunteers and releasing many from service. ...

    Article : 24 words
  20. The Slough Disaster.

    LONDON, June 13.—The scene at Slough Railway Station after the collision between the Plymouth express and a special train returning from Windsor races was terrible. ...

    Article : 86 words
  21. DEALING WITH REBELS.

    LONDON, June 18.—The proposals of Mr.W. P. Scareiner, the late Premier, and Mr. R. Solomon, the ex-Attorney-General of Cape Colony, for the appointment of an Imperial Commission to try the ...

    Article : 55 words
  22. PROHIBITION ORDER.

    At the Newtown Police Court, on Monday, Minnie Hutton applied to the presiding magistrate (Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M.), for an order, prohibiting all publicans from supplying her husband ...

    Article : 106 words
  23. MORE LETTERS FROM THE FRONT

    Mr. Wm. Hanson, newsagent, of Narrandera, has received a letter from his brother, Mr. Chas. Hanson, who is on active service in South Africa, and who writes from Karee, on April 15, as ...

    Article : 1,174 words
  24. GRATUITY TO COLONIAL SOLDIERS.

    LONDON, June 18.—An Army Order has been issued announcing that a special gratuity of £5 will be given to all Australasian and Canadian noncommissioned officers and men on their discharge, ...

    Article : 52 words
  25. THE COMMONWEALTH BILL.

    LONDON, June 18, 9.27 p.m.—In the House of Commons this evening the House went into Committee upon the Commonwealth Bill. Some progress having been made, on the ...

    Article : 69 words
  26. THE BENCH AND THE PUB­LICANS.

    Mr. T. E. M'Nevin, P.M., made some very strong comments in the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, on the way in which licensees of hotels bring on their applications for transfers, etc., without ...

    Article : 203 words
  27. THE GEORGE-STREET TRAM FATALITY.

    The city coroner held an inquest on Monday, touching the death of David Lang, wharf laborer, who received fatal injuries through being knocked down by an electric tram at the corner of ...

    Article : 171 words
  28. OUR INVALIDED SOLDIERS.

    BEGA, Monday.—Trooper Simmonds, one of the returned invalided soldiers from South Africa, received a splendid welcome at the hands of Bega residents on Friday. Major Bland and a ...

    Article : 423 words
  29. CLAIM AGAINST AN EXECU­TOR.

    In the Metropolitan District Court on Monday, Charles Haselgrove, of Enfield, clerk, and his wife, Maria Haselgrove, brought an action against Charles Hill Fordham, contractor, of ...

    Article : 178 words
  30. THE GOVERNOR'S NORTHERN TOUR.

    BRUSHGROVE, Tuesday.—His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by the Mayor of Grafton and party, arrived yesterday by the steamer Woolwich, at 10.3O a.m. His Excellency was met, on arrival, ...

    Article : 499 words
  31. THE REV. CHARLES CLARK.

    At the Centenary Hall, York-street, last night, the Rev. Charles Clark repeated his lecture on "British Valor, Old and New, or Agincourt to Mafeking." . The fine oration, which is certainly ...

    Article : 192 words
  32. TENDERS OPENED.

    Tenders for the following works were opened by the Tender Board of the Public Works Department on Monday:—Additions, etc., post and telegraph office, St. Marys, eight tenders, C. A. ...

    Article : 328 words
  33. CENTRAL LICENSING COURT

    The usual weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held at the, Central Police Court on Monday, before Messrs. G. H. Smithers, ,S.M. (chairman), E. H. Wilshire, S.M., and ...

    Article : 205 words
  34. COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    Miss A Greenway, secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association, has received from generous donors the following useful articles, which were packed and forwarded per s.s. Moravian on ...

    Article : 223 words
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