The Marine Board has held an inquiry in connection with the stranding of the steamer Airlie on Chapman Island on the 11th January. Captain Koch, master of the ...
Article : 141 wordsIn consequence of the war in South Africa, the Marylebone Cricket Club has decided to abandon the proposed tour of an English cricket team in Australia during the coming ...
Article : 49 wordsFurther details are now to hand of the general movement organised by Lord Roberts, which has resulted in the relief of Kimberley, the occupation of Jacobsdal, and ...
Article : 440 wordsAt the ordinary meeting of the Brisbane Municipal Council, held yesterday afternoon, the report of the Special Inquiry, Committee was placed before the members, ...
Article : 3,735 wordsThe "Spectator" publishes an article in which it urges upon the Government the permanent inclusion in the Imperial army of 20,000 Canadian troops, 10,000 Australians, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the prominent Wesleyau preacher, and editor of the "Methodist Times," is about to visit Australia on a mission in connection with the ...
Article : 39 wordsAt an age when most men are laid aside from really active work, Lord Roberts has exhibited a mental vigour and capacity for arduous exertion that has won the gratitude ...
Article : 900 wordsThe Highland Brigade, under Major-General Hector Macdonald, have reinforced the troops under Major-General Kelly-Kenny, the commander of the Sixth Army ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Cabinet have had under consideration the application made by the Board of Health for a license to import into the colony and to culture the bacillus of bubonic plague, ...
Article : 96 wordsThe arrangements which had been made by the Admiralty authorities for the cruise of the British Channel Squadron have now been altered. According to the orders now ...
Article : 52 wordsGeneral French, who has 10,000 troops under his command, has now returned from the vicinity of Kimberley, and joined General Kelly-Kenny's division, which is following ...
Article : 235 wordsA very handsome trophy has been generously presented by the Goldsmiths' Hall Company to the Brisbane Gun Club, to be shot for next Friday, 23rd instant. At a ...
Article : 132 wordsThe personalty of the late Duke of Westminster has been sworn at £594,229. ...
Article : 24 wordsThere is some doubt as to whether the Bushmen will sail on Saturday as originally intended. It is probable that the departure will not take place till the ...
Article : 194 wordsMajor Wardell has received a telegram from the secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club in London, stating that a team of English cricketers will not visit Australia next ...
Article : 38 wordsRoland B. Molineux, who was a prominent man in New York society, and was recently convicted of having poisoned several persons through anonymously sending poison ...
Article : 48 wordsA meeting of Roman Catholic clergy and laity was held to-day to make preliminary arrangements for the proposed Catholic Congress which is to sit in Sydney next October. ...
Article : 140 wordsA well-attended meeting of the council of the Queensland Amateur Swimming Association was held last evening for the purpose of completing arrangements for the ...
Article : 132 wordsIt is announced from Washington that President M'Kinley, believing that the war in the Philippines is now ended, intends to withdraw shortly from the islands half of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Joseph Cowen, formerly M.P. for Newcastle, and at one time a very prominent public man, in his 69th year. Mr. Cowen, who retired ...
Article : 56 wordsSequence was steadily backed to-day for the Newmarket Handicap, his price shortening to 12 to 1. ...
Article : 31 wordsA concert in aid of the Patriotic Fund was held at Pimpama on Friday night. The School of Arts was beautifully decorated with flags, ferns, and greenery, while over the platform an inscription ...
Article : 393 wordsA telegram written by General Cronje, the Boer commander, in which he confessed that he had been completely surprised, was found in a laager which had been abandoned by ...
Article : 37 wordsThe War Office has s[?]nt an order to New South Wales to forward 126,000lb. of corned beef and 144,000lb. of corned mutton in the transport Atlant[?]an for the use of the army ...
Article : 61 wordsThe following scratchings are announced:— For the Australian Cup.—Strathjoy. For All Engagements.—Merry Pilgrim. ...
Article : 23 wordsDr. Ramsay Smith has submitted the following to the Press for publication:—Dr. G. Hayward, who attended the alleged bubonic plague patient, M'Cann, at the ...
Article : 85 wordsFurther reports of the fighting at Rensburg, in the north of Cape Colony, on Monday last, state that the engagement was of a fierce and determined character. A force ...
Article : 81 wordsCertain proposals have been made to the Government regarding the establishment of a local ammunition factory, but no decision has yet been come to in the matter. ...
Article : 35 wordsFine weather prevailed for the last of the February race meetings carried out by the League of Wheelmen on the Sydney Cricket Ground, and there was a good attendance. The following were ...
Article : 185 wordsA cablegram has bean received from Capetown announcing the arrival there on the 17th instant of the Southern Cross. She had on board from this colony 454 officers ...
Article : 47 wordsWith regard to the cablegram stating that the Imperial naval authorities are considering an offer of Australian coal, the Minister for Mines states that he has no doubt that ...
Article : 146 wordsDuring the retirement of the British troops from Rensburg to Arundel two companies of the Wiltshire Regiment were left behind and forgotten by the main body, and were ...
Article : 87 wordsA case in which the Australian Mutual Provident Society sought a mandamus directing the coroner to hold another inquest on the body of the late M. W. Judell, on the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe prices of every line in Charles Gilbert's ready-made clothing department are "cut to the bone" during stocktaking sale. Inspect and judge for yourselves.* ...
Article : 30 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mr. and Mrs. Hegerty, Mrs. Arden, Mrs. Bennett. Miss Morrow, Miss Lucy Morrow, ...
Article : 139 wordsSir,—"It would," said Mr. Chataway, "make the Government hesitate before they bought lands subject to such continuous droughts." It is a bitter pill to swallow ...
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Advertising : 353 wordsThe recent patriotic race meeting yielded £1700, a cheque for which has been handed to the Mayor in aid of the Patriotic and Bushmen's Funds. ...
Article : 36 wordsA British force, consisting of Inniskilling Fusiliers, with four guns, and parties of Dragoons and Lancers, together with two companies of Australian troops under ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Mayor purchased at the City Market a bullock, on the understanding that the animal should be sold by each of the stock agents in turn, on the same terms as the ...
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Advertising : 298 wordsAn official correction of the previous report of the casualties among the Victorian troops in the fighting near Rensburg on the 10th and 12th instant has now been issued. ...
Article : 57 wordsSix South Australian nurses and four telegraph operators left for Melbourne to-day in order to catch a steamer for South Africa. They departed amid great enthusiasm. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe ordinary work and drill of the contingent was practically suspended yesterday, pending the separation of the volunteers who are being prepared for embarkation ...
Article : 681 wordsFifty of the Bushmen were taken to the rifle range to-day and tested for their skill with the rifle. The results at the 200 and 300 yards range were satisfactory, only ...
Article : 44 wordsDuring an engagement on Friday night at Dordrecht, in Cape Colony, some of the colonial troops serving with General Gatacre executed a brilliant bayonet charge, ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Governor yesterday cabled to Lord Roberts, conveying the hearty congratulations of the people of New Zealand on the relief of Kimberley. To-day Lord ...
Article : 100 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has sent a message to Lord Roberts, congratulating him upon the success of his operations, and at the some time acknowledging the heroism that ...
Article : 45 wordsNews from the front in Natal states that General Buller is now threatening Inhlawe Mountain, to the eastward of Colenso, where the Boers hold a strong position. ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the meeting of the Patriotic Fund Committee held yesterday a letter was read from Mr. P. MacMahon, curator of the Botanic Gardens, stating that the Hon. J. ...
Article : 446 wordsGeneral Cronje, the Boer commander, has evacuated the strongly-entrenched position which he had held for some time past at Magersfontein, a short distance north of ...
Article : 58 wordsLater information states that the bulk of General Cronje's force at Magersfontein, being practically surrounded by British troops, and in consequence threatened with ...
Article : 175 wordsIt is reported that there has been a considerable movement by the Boers to the northward of Ladysmith, this activity being attributed to the invasion of the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 20 Feb 1900, Page 5
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