Advices are to hand of an engagement in the vicinity of Colesberg between the Boers and a force made up of the New Zealand Mounted Contingent, ...
Article : 155 wordsAdvices from British North Borneo state that the expedition- which was despatched under Captain Harrington against the rebel chief, Mat Salleh, has ...
Article : 53 wordsThe amount voted by the Indian Treasury for the famine relief works up to April next is two and a half millions sterling. ...
Article : 31 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr St. John Brodrick, UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that Britain had surrendered no right to ...
Article : 41 wordsSenator Gebel, Governor of the State of Kentucky, who was recently shot by a man named Sutton, has died from the effect of his wounds. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Patriotic Fund raised by the London "Daily Telegraph" now amounts to the large sum of £115,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsDumbell's Bank, a private institution doing business in the Isle of Man, has been compelled to suspend payment. The business, however, has been taken ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Premier has arranged through the local agents to procure 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition from London. The War Office is supplying 4000 rifles. ...
Article : 131 wordsA great bush fire is raging to-day in the Framlingham, Ballengeich, and Ellerslie districts. The fire traversed the properties of Messrs A. Campbell, W. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe latest message heliographed by Sir George White from Ladysmith states that the garrison were elated on Saturday last on hearing Sir Redvers Buller's ...
Article : 143 wordsThe patriotic feeling that pervades all sections of the community in regard to the present war has prompted the ladies of Ballarat to set a movement on foot for ...
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Article : 64 wordsDefinite statements which have been made at Durban declare that General Buller has crossed the Tugela River. Some allege that he has crossed in the ...
Article : 68 wordsLieutenant Churchhill, correspondent to the "Morning Post," states that all will be staked on the coming battle. The troops, he says, were never in higher ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Hotchkins battery of four Runs, which has been presented by Armstrongs Limited, for the use of the New Zealand contingent has been shipped from ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Ballarat City Council to-day voted £500 to the Patriotic Fund, and the Ballarat shire council decided to contribute £100 to the same fund. The Riponshire council voted a sum of ...
Article : 52 wordsA fourth Cavalry Brigade comprising 2528 officers and men with six field guns and five machine guns has been mobilised, and will leave for Capetown ...
Article : 32 wordsA collection taken up at the military sports held here on Saturday m aid of tho Empire Patriotic fund resulted in a sum of £S 15s 8½d being obtained. Coins of every denomination ...
Article : 90 wordsNative deserters from the Boer commandos report that five Boer field cornets have been killed during the recent fighting on the Tugela, and that the number ...
Article : 67 wordsSIR,—I was disappointed and pained when I read Tuesday's "Advertiser" to find the action the Geelong Town Council took with regard to tho fund, and am still astounded ...
Article : 220 wordsSir Edward Clarke, Q.C., who was Solicitor-General in Lord Salisbury's Ministry of 1886-92, recommends that Mr Chamberlain should resign the ...
Article : 46 wordsMessrs Pharazyn and Tiuline, two New Zealand colonists at present in London have subscribed £100 each to the New Zealand Bushmen's Fund. ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Tue 6 Feb 1900, Page 3
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