The steamer Barratta returned from the [?] of the wrecked ateamer Queen Cristina during the night, bringing all bauds ashore, together with a considerable quantity ...
Article : 518 wordsA lottor recently written to the "Times" by Mr. Collins, defending the scheme for the naval defence of Australia formulated at the meeting of colonial naval commandants ...
Article : 85 wordsNews is to hand that the New Zealand troops serving with Major-General French's force in the north of Cape Colony have been doing good service. ...
Article : 166 wordsIn an article published yesterday, commenting on the present war in South Africa, the "Spectator" urges upon the (British Government to strengthen the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Earl of Donoughmore (who is a brother of Sir Walter F. Hely-Hutchinson, the present Governor of Natal) has raised a force of 250 mounted gentlemen ...
Article : 63 wordsOfficial reports state that no fewer than 3,250,000 persons are now being fed by the Indian Government, owing to the preyailing famine. ...
Article : 29 wordsNews from St. [?] states that the Czar has issued a rescript in which he refers in eulogistic terms to the services rendered by Count Mouravieff, the Russian Minister ...
Article : 352 wordsNews to hand from Athens states that at a sitting of the 'Greek Chamber of Deputies a most enthusiastic demonstration in favour of Great Britain in ...
Article : 45 wordsThe offer of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, the Canadian High Commissioner in England, to equip and maintain a body of 400 rough riders ...
Article : 101 wordsThe subscription list opened by the proprietors of the "Courier" received an addition of over £50 during yesterday. The fud is for the benefit of those of the ...
Article : 758 wordsThe Government of the island of Ceylon have made an offer to the Imperial Government to organise and equip at the expense of the colony a body of ...
Article : 50 wordsCaptain Finlay, of the Barratta, reports that he left Townsville at half-past 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, and arrived at the wreck of the Queen Cristina, via Magnetic ...
Article : 379 wordsField-Martial Lord Roberts, who has now assumed the command in chief of the British forces in South Africa, telegraphed to the War Office on Sunday ...
Article : 61 wordsM. Zola, the French novelist, who initiated the agitation in supporter the innocence of Captain Dreyfus, has been presented by a number of Dreyfus's friends with a solid ...
Article : 54 wordsIt will have been observed from the extracts appearing in these columns from time to time that some of the most interesting and graphic accoumts of the fighting in ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. L. R. Nevan, a colonial student, has gained a studentship in Laws at the University, of Cambridge. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt is reported that Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren, who is in command of the Fifth Army Division in South Africa, and who recently arrived in ...
Article : 82 wordsThe following scratcnings in connection with the Sydney Turf Club Meeting are announced:- Challenge Stakes.—Willie. ...
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Advertising : 271 wordsAfter a very protracted passage we are at Capetown at last, and are under orders to go on to De Aar to-morrow. We shall spell our horses at De Aar for some days. ...
Article : 370 wordsThe "Times" to-day states that private letters which have been received from the front in South Africa supply ample evidence of the urgent [?] ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is announced that Major Archibald M. Carthew-Yorstoun, second in command of the 1st Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) has been ...
Article : 50 wordsOne of the members of the first contingent, writing to his wife in Queensland, gives the following interesting account of the voyage: ...
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Advertising : 329 wordsThe first battalion of the West Kent Regiment, now stationed at Alexandria, and the first battalion of the Prince of Wales's 'Leinster Regiment (Royal ...
Article : 46 wordsThe War Office authorities intimate that they have gladly accepted the offer of the New Zealand colonists to assist in the present war by sending a ...
Article : 42 wordsThere has been a splendid response in connection with the patriotic fund started in the Railway Department, though the movement has been only organised for a few days. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe disaster to the Suffolk Regiment in the reverse recently sustained by Major General French, near Colesberg, has convinced the colonial officers now ...
Article : 62 wordsNews is to han'd that Colonel Babington and Colonel Tucher, with the 9th and 12th Lancers, the Victorian Company of Mounted Rifles under Captain D. ...
Article : 269 wordsIn addition to the Patriotic Fund, which has reached £1500, Mrs. Benjamin, the Mayoress, has collected £148 towards the Brisbane Ambulance Waggon Fund, and it ...
Article : 94 wordsEarl De-La-Warr, who sent out to South Africa as special correspondent of the "Globe," has been appointed a captain of the Mounted Infantry force ...
Article : 41 wordsA meeting was held in the Town Hall yesterday to consider the question of Queensland sending to South Africa a branch of the proposed Australian ...
Article : 829 wordsIt is considered probable that Mr. Hoffman, who is member for Dc Aar in the Cape House of Assembly, will be tried by court-martial for having acted ...
Article : 44 wordsOur, Adelaide correspondent telegraphs as follows:—The Premier, Mr. F. W. Holder, consldors that the sending of representatives to London in connection with the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe colonial troops with Lord Methuen and General French have been kept pretty busy of late, and (heir operations, carried out with celerity and success, have won ...
Article : 828 wordsIn connection with the recent decision by the British Government concerning the question of international law with regard to contraband of war, it is now ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 16 Jan 1900, Page 5
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