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  2. CABLE MESSAGES

    Reports from Paris state that the appointment of General Andre, the new Minister for War in France, as successor to General Galllffet, who has resigned, has been coldly ...

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  3. AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

    News has been received from Peking that the party of twenty-five Belgian engineers who were yesterday reported as having been surrounded by the "Boxer" insurgents at ...

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  4. WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

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  5. A BIG KLONDYKE NUGGET.

    Reports have been received that an enormous nugget of gold, weighing 77lb., has been unearthed at the Klondyke. ...

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  6. COLONIAL APPLES.

    The shipments of apples by the steamer's Omrah Persic, and Aberdeen have been landed in good condition but the heavy arrivals have had a depressing effect on the ...

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  7. THE CHILDERS OUTRAGE.

    The second man arrested in connection with the crime for which the aboriginal, Broome, has been sentenced to death, will be liberated at the end of eight days should ...

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  8. THE EPSOM DERBY.

    The race for the Derby, the blue ribbon of the English turf, was run on the second day of the Epsom Summer Meeting to-day, and resulted as follows:— ...

    Article : 219 words
  9. OVERLAND PASSENGERS.

    The following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ackland, Miss ...

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  10. AMUSEMENTS.

    Miss Kate Howarde's Vaudeville Company gave another of their popular entertainments at the Theatre Royal last evening, all the principal items being received with loud ...

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  11. RELIEF OF MAFEKING.

    At a banquet held at Mafeking in celebration of the Queen's Birthday, Major-General Baden-Powell, in his speech, declared that the march to Mafeking by Colonel B. Mahon ...

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  12. THE KIPLING FUND.

    It is announced that 1000 kits have been provided for the British-prisoners of war at Pretoria from the Kipling ("Absentminded Beggar") Fund initiated by the ...

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  13. The Transvaal Campaign.

    News has now been received that Commandant Kruise has formally surrendered Johannesburg to Lord Roberts. ...

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  14. LOOTING AT JOHANNESBURG.

    Refugees from Johannesburg report that there has been general looting of private houses by the Boers, and the sanitation of the town has been completely neglected. ...

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  15. THE BROUGH COMEDY COMPANY.

    Mr. and Mrs. Brough and the members of their company will leave Sydney by Sunday's mail train, and as already announced, commence their season at the Opera House ...

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  16. PERFORMANCES OF THE WINNER.

    Diamond Jubilee started six times as a two-year-old, his first appearance being in the Forty-Second Ascot Brennial Stakes, in which the placed horses were Goblet, Epsom ...

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  17. PORTUGUESE ACTION.

    News is to hand that a Boer commando is now at Kopmatipoort, the frontier station on the railway line between Pretoria and Delagoa Bay. ...

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  18. NOTES ON THE CABLES.

    The Boer war is practically at an end. If there is any more fighting it will be only a few isolated skirmishes along the frontier of Natal. The burghers are sick of the ...

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  19. OUTLANDERS RETURNING.

    Thousands, of Outlanders, who had been compelled to leave the Transvaal on the outbreak of the war, are now registering their names as desirous of returning to ...

    Article : 45 words
  20. Advertising

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  21. THE QUEENSLANDERS' MARCH.

    Some further information is now to hand of the march of the Queensland Bushmen who took part in the relief of Mafeking. Major C. W. Kellie and Lieutenants Harris ...

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  22. THE DEFENCES OF PRETORIA.

    In an issue of the "Cape Argus," a writer ably described some of the circumstances attendant upon the building of the defences which were to guard the town ...

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  23. PRETORIA ABANDONED.

    News has just been received that Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, has been practically abandoned by the Boers. President Kruger has fled from Pretoria, ...

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  24. PORTUGUESE TROOPS ORDERED OUT.

    It is reported that the Portuguese authorities in East Africa have now closed the railway line from the Transvaal to all goods traffic, and all the available troops have ...

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  25. ORANGE FREE STATE.

    Further details of the annexation of the Orange Free State have now been received. General Pretyman, who was appointed Military Governor of the Free State after the ...

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  26. LATER INFORMATION.

    On the occupation of Johannesburg all the Boer garrisons around Pretoria were dismissed. Lord Roberts has despatched a force to ...

    Article : 114 words
  27. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    Information has been received of the treatment accorded by the Boers to two Australians who were captured at Colenso and Rensburg respectively. It appears that ...

    Article : 176 words
  28. Advertising

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  29. DICTATING TERMS OF SURRENDER.

    Latest news from the front in the Transvaal states that Lord Roberts is now hastening to Pretoria, and meanwhile he has sent officers from Johannesburg to the ...

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  30. OPERATIONS IN NATAL.

    News from Natal states that the naval guns attached, to the Second Army Division, under Major-General C. F. Clery, are bombarding the Boer positions at Laing's Nek ...

    Article : 60 words
  31. THE BRITISH PRISONERS.

    The Earl of Rosslyn, who was recently captured by the Boers while acting as special correspondent of the London "Daily Mall," has cabled to that Journal from ...

    Article : 88 words
  32. COLONIAL CASUALTIES.

    Private G. Wyllie, of New Zealand, who was taken prisoner by the Boers, has died from tumour at Pretoria. Corporal Teathan and Privates A Green, ...

    Article : 64 words
  33. BOER SURPRISE PARTY CAPTURED.

    It is reported that a small party of twelve Boers, who made an attempt to surprise a British patrol force in Muller's Pass, in the Drakensberg Range, on the north-west ...

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  34. THE WAR PRACTICALLY OVER.

    The rapidity of Lord Roberta's recent successes in South Africa has created both surprise and exultation in Great Britain, and there also appears to be a dawning ...

    Article : 111 words
  35. SUCCESSES IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    News has been received from Natal that Utrecht, in the south-east of the Transvaal, near the Natal frontier has surrendered to General Hildyard. ...

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  36. THE MARCH FROM THE VAAL.

    Since crossing the Vaal River on Thursday last the troops under Lord Roberts have been proceeding in light marching order, in order that they might advance. more ...

    Article : 55 words
  37. GENERAL SNYMAN WOUNDED.

    News is to hand that General Snymon, who conducted the siege of Mafeking, has been wounded in the foot, and he has, in consequence, retired from active service. ...

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