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  2. FEDERATION. CONJOINT BANQUET TO THE FEDERAL DELEGATES.

    The Australian federal delegates, Mr. Edmund Barton (New South Wales), Mr. Alfred Deakin (Victoria), Mr. C. C. Kingston (South Australia), Mr. J. R. ...

    Article : 331 words
  3. THE WAR DEFEAT OF THE BOERS AT HOUTNEK.

    The divisions under the command of Lieutenant-Goueral Tucker, LieutonantGeneral Pole-Carew, and LieutenantGeneral Hutton have surprised and ...

    Article : 73 words
  4. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    Generals Tuocker, Pola-Carew, and Hutton have surprised and captured Brandfort. The Boers hastily retreated. General Hamilton, who dispered the Boers at ...

    Article : 6,527 words
  5. LATE EDITION. HERALD OFFICE, 6.45 a.m. THE WAR.

    Colonel Broadwood has reached Habelfontein, 10 miles north of Houtnek. The Boers have evacuated Thaba'nchu Hills, and are trekking northwards. ...

    Article : 110 words
  6. MISS OLGA NETHERSOLE.

    Miss Olga Nethersole, the well-known actress, is suing a Presbyterian minister for an alleged libel in his pulpit in connection with the " anti-Sapho crusade." ...

    Article : 32 words
  7. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 words
  8. PRIVATE R. GRACE.

    Writing from Poplar Grove, under date of March 9. Private R. Grace says:—"I have passed through my baptism of fire. I was out scouting in advance of the force and riding leisurely along, but still ...

    Article : 362 words
  9. BUBONIC PLAGUE AT PORT SAID.

    The bubonic plague has made its appearance at Port Said. British troops stationed there are stringently guarding the steamers carrying pilgrims. ...

    Article : 29 words
  10. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR NATAL.

    Great Britain has responded to the request made by the Natal Government for financial support. ...

    Article : 23 words
  11. DEALING WITH THE REBELS.

    It has beon found that the commandeering of rebels' horses has proved an effective deterrent to rebellion. ...

    Article : 25 words
  12. HOSPITAL SATURDAY. FHUTHER DETAIL ARRANGEMENTS.

    The collections by personal requisition to be made to-day in Sydney and suburbs for the Hospital Saturday fund will commence at all points at 8. a.m. The head office of the Bank of New South Wales ...

    Article : 1,413 words
  13. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 6 5-8d per ounce standard. ...

    Article : 16 words
  14. COLD ON THE BIGGARSBERG.

    Tho extreme cold on the Biggarsberg Mountains is foreing the Boers to take to the foot passes. ...

    Article : 24 words
  15. EFFORTS TO RELIEVE MAFEKING.

    Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for Cape Colony, has written to the Mayor of Kimberley that everything has been done to secure the raising of the siege of ...

    Article : 47 words
  16. GENERAL HAMILTON'S DIVISION.

    Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton, with the colonial, division, has dispersed the Boers from Houtnek;10 miles north of Thaba'nchu. ...

    Article : 77 words
  17. LATE MINING.

    The action of the Lake View Consols authorities in restricting the mine output to 8000z. for the present, us advised to shaneholders by circular issued in Loudon yesterday, has ...

    Article : 555 words
  18. 4.15 a.m. LORD ROBERTS' DESPATCHES.

    Preparatory to to-night's debate in the House of Commons upon tho Tugela campaign under General Sir Redvers Buller, the Government has published the ...

    Article : 280 words
  19. THE SITUATION.

    The news from the front to-day does not throw much additional light upon the military situation.Yesterday it was reported that an important movement was being made by ...

    Article : 1,320 words
  20. TROOPER JAMES CLARK (BERRY).

    Trooper James Clark, of the Berry Lancers, writes from Bloemfontein under date March 24, and says:— "We arrived hore on the 13th. We had not much opposition on the march, only on the 10th, when we ...

    Article : 194 words
  21. BOER ROUT AT HOUTNEK.

    The official British report of the fighting at Houtnek shows that the killed and wounded included a German officer named Gunther, belonging to the 55th Regiment, ...

    Article : 65 words
  22. ENTHUSIASM IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The enthusiasm manifested m connection with the war and with the desire to eater the ranks of the local military forces ia so inteuse andsustained that the authorities are faced with a difttcutt problem to meet ...

    Article : 120 words
  23. THE POSITION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. Leake, feador of the Federal League, and Mr, Illingworth, leader of the Opposition, [?]terviowed regarding Sir. John Forrest'r federation policy, expressed themselvas highly ...

    Article : 71 words
  24. A PRISONER AT PRETORIA.

    Constable Barnes, of Wentworth, has received a letter from his brother, a member of the South African police, who is a prisoner at Pretoria, having surrendered with others at Kuruman after ...

    Article : 162 words
  25. STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND.

    At a banquet given to-night in honour of Mr. G. 0 Willcocks, the premier remarked that whilst beheaving federattion will be a splendid thing for Queensland, he hoped that the right of appeal to ...

    Article : 65 words
  26. THE BOER PEACE DELEGATES.

    Mr. A. Fischer, the spokesman of the peace delegation, has issued a manifesto in whick he declares that the delegates are about to visit America to urge the ...

    Article : 82 words
  27. THE QUEENSLAND CONTINTENT.

    His Excellency Lord Lamington has announced his intention of reviewing the troops in camp at Lytton. ...

    Article : 23 words
  28. A SOLDIER'S WIDOW.

    The Mayor of Tasmania us treasurer of the Tasmauian Contingent Fund has agreed to sign a cheque for£ as temporary assistance to Mrs. Gilbam, of Stawell, Victoria,widow of Private Gilham, of the ...

    Article : 52 words
  29. FEDERAL ELECTOROL DISTRICTS COMMISSION.

    A deputation, consisting of Messrs C.A.Lee, M.L.A., tenterlied; W. Reid, Mayor of Tenterfield; T. P. Ewing, M.L.A., Lismore; and R. D. Meaghsr, M.L.A., the Tweed, waited upon the ...

    Article : 215 words
  30. PRIVATE W. M. MAXWELL.

    The following are extracts from a letter received by Mr. B. M. Maxwell from his son, Private W. M. Maxwell, who left with the Second Contingent:— "Bloemfontein, March 23. I have been under fire. ...

    Article : 591 words
  31. A NEW ZEALAND TROOPER KILLED.

    A private cable received by his parents announces that James Herbert Parker, of Oamaru, who left with the second contingent, has been killed in action. He had obtained a transfer to Kitchener's Horse, in ...

    Article : 62 words
  32. ESCAPE OE BOER PRISONERS.

    Twelve Boor prisoners escaped from Simonstown in a boat. They were rescued by a French steamer and landed at Delagoa Bay. ...

    Article : 56 words
  33. UNITED STATES.

    It is feared that the deaths caused by the blasting accident at Schofield, in the State of Utah, number 400. The blasting of the rock ignitod a ...

    Article : 41 words
  34. ADVANCE INTO THE THABA'NOHU, DISTRICT.

    Colonel Broadwood has advanced 28 miles north into tho Thaba'nchu district, with the result that the Boers have fled east and north. ...

    Article : 31 words
  35. PATRIOTIC FUND.

    The fete to be given by the combined Public schools at the Sydney Cricket Ground on May 23 promises to be a unique and stirring demonstration of youthful patriotism. During the week six ...

    Article : 85 words
  36. THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    It is reported that a party of Queensland legislators will, prior to the federal elections, visit Orange, Bathurst, and Blayney districts to investigate their claims to selection as the site of the federal city. ...

    Article : 39 words
  37. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION.

    Mr. Bramsdon, a Liberal, has been elected to represent Portsmouth in the House of Commons in succession to Mr. W. 0. Clough, who was also a Liberal. ...

    Article : 32 words
  38. GALLANT CHARGE BY THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS.

    Commandent De Wet on Tuesday surrounded Captain E. B. Towso and 15 Gordon Highlanders and demanded their surrender. ...

    Article : 66 words
  39. THE GLENELG TO CAPETOWN CABLE.

    The alterations in the proposals of the Eastern Extension Company in regard to the laying of a cable from Cape Colony to Glenelg, as suggested by Messrs. Crick and Watt, have been submitted ...

    Article : 205 words
  40. THE EXPLOSION AT THE JOHANNESBURG ARSENAL.

    Mr. W. Begbie, who was arrested on suspicion of causing the explosion at Bogbie and Son's foundry, Johannesburg, by which a number of employees engaged ...

    Article : 61 words
  41. LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.

    Trooper Artlett has written his first letter to his relations since the capture of the Lancer patrol. It will be remembered that Trooper Artlett had the good fortune to escape on that occasion. He says:— ...

    Article : 579 words
  42. THE NICARAGUA SHIP CANAL.

    The United States, Congress, by a large majority, has passed the Nicaragua Canal Bill. It provides for the protection of the canal by the United States, but not ...

    Article : 38 words
  43. FEDERATION.

    Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, will receive the Australian Federation Delegates on Tuesday, and will then annnounce the decision ...

    Article : 44 words
  44. THE PENALTY OF OATHBREAKING.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts's decision tu burn the farms of those persons who have broken their oath ot allegiance has impressed the burghers with the necessity ...

    Article : 43 words
  45. TRUST AGENCY OF AUSTRALASIA.

    The Trust Agency of Australasia, after taking £2000 from the dividend resseve fund, shows a profit of £71,491. A dividend of 10 per cent has been declared ...

    Article : 288 words
  46. PRIVATE CONEYBEER.

    Private Coneybeer, of Orange, a member of the Second Contingent, writing home, says that sleep daring the march to Bloemfontein could only be obtained when they waited for the waggons to come ...

    Article : 185 words
  47. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 words
  48. FRICTION BETWEEN EX-PRESIDENT STEYN AND GEN. BOTHA.

    Correspondence captured by the British forces shows that friction existed between ex-President Steyn, of the Orauge Free State, and General Botha. The former ...

    Article : 62 words
  49. THE FIRE IN CANADA.

    The fund opened by the Lord Mayor of London (Sir A. J. Newton) in aid of the sufferers by the great fire at Ottawa has reached £30,000. ...

    Article : 34 words
  50. LANCE-CORPORAL COLLINS.

    Lance-Corporal M. F. Collins, of C Company of New South Wales Mounted Infantry, which is under the command of Colonel Knight, has written to his friends from Bloemfontein, describing the ...

    Article : 132 words
  51. OBITUARY.

    The death is anuounced of the Rev. W. Peter Pearco, late of Melbourne. ...

    Article : 22 words
  52. EASTERN SUBURBS DISTRICT.

    The results of the Hospital Saturday fund Collection in the Eastern suburbs district should prove satisfactory. Notwithstanding that many other matters have of late taken the attention of the ...

    Article : 131 words
  53. THE BOER ARMY.

    German recruits, who have been enlisting in the army of the Transvaal on the strength of promises of £1 per day ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 61 words
  54. DRIVER GAZZARD.

    Driver Gazzard, of A Battery, N.S.W. Artillery, writing to his father in Paramatta, under date Karne Kloof, March 9, says:—"We are here on an expedition after rebels. They are the Boers who ...

    Article : 94 words
  55. GERMAN NAVAL ESTIMATES.

    A compromise arranged between the Agrarian and Clerical partios in the German Reichstag resulted in the naval programme submitted by the Emperor ...

    Article : 41 words
  56. CORPORAL S. E. MARTIN.

    Corporel S. E. Martin, writing from Norval's Pout under date of March 13, states:—"We have gone through hard and trying times, sad on account of losing so many of our brave comrades, and trying ...

    Article : 509 words
  57. Advertising

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    Advertising : 19 words
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