A young woman named May Fitzpatrick, daughter of Mr. Thos. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A. for Murrumbidgee, was bunted to death yesterday. She was standing before the ...
Article : 399 wordsMiss Johnston, of Wellington, has notified to Mr. W. P. Reeves, the Agent General for the colony, that she is prepared to sent 15 field glasses to the New Zealand ...
Article : 34 wordsIn my last letter I ventured to assert that South Africa was on tenter books in regard to what was passing in Natal. It is not publicly blazoned abroad, but it is well ...
Article : 398 wordsOwing to the disarrangements which have occurred through the South African war, the Marylebone Cricket Club has abandoned its proposed cricket tour through ...
Article : 32 wordsThe exactitude and fitness of the topographical knowledge of Northern Natal displayed by the Transvaal military authorities is now further explained by the fact ...
Article : 77 wordsThe following heliographed message has been received from the mayor of Kimberley, in reply to one from the "Daily Mail": —"People of Kimberley greatly ...
Article : 97 wordsNews received from Buluwayo via Beira reports that Colonel Plumer, who with 600 men of the Rhodesian regiment started to relieve Mafeking some weeks ago, and was ...
Article : 78 wordsEnselin, Saturday, 20th January.—Some time ago the camp was supplied with firewood by train, but now we have to provide ourselves with fuel, and little expeditions ...
Article : 3,895 wordsThe Premier yesterday despatched a message of sympathy to the Victorian Premier in connection with the Victorian losses. Mr. Lyne added that Australia could well be ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the House of Lords last night, the Earl of Rosebery, in an impassioned speech, condemned the army reorganisation scheme of the Salisbury Government, announced by the ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Cabinet, while on board the Lucinda at Moreton Bay on Saturday, discussed the question of increasing the strength of the defences and the volunteer forces. The ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Governor has received a cablegram from Sir Alfred Milner, stating that James Cunningham, of the West Australian contingent, and a native of South Australia, ...
Article : 36 wordsGeneral Warren continued his attack on Spion Kop vigorously, and the Boer position was shelled all day on the 24th (says our correspondent at the front). ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 168 wordsA large and enthustatic meeting was held in Queen's Hall to-day concerning federation, and the following resolution was passed:—"That this meeting repudiates ...
Article : 312 wordsThe dissensions which were rife on the Brunswick bench of honorary magistrates during the greater part of last year, and which culminated in Mr. Panton, P.M., ...
Article : 687 wordsThe fourth contingent of Landers, numbering over 40, under Captain Nicholson, sailed yesterday afternoon in the Australasian, en route to South Africa. The men, to ...
Article : 129 wordsThe bushman at Langwarrin to-day can hardly be recognised as the bucolic looking person that recently slouched about the vicinity of Victoria Barracks waiting to be ...
Article : 822 wordsThe Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, in reply to the Earl of Rosebery, ridieuled his "lugubrious vaticinations." It was useless to insist upon dangers that were unlikely ...
Article : 57 wordsDuring a gambling brawl at the Grey mouth Hotel at an early hour on Saturday morning, two men named Carew and Martin came to blows. Carew was found ...
Article : 90 wordsAn event of such tragic importance as the death on the battle field of Victorian soldiers, who have fought for the first time for the Empire, is not likely to be lightly passed ...
Article : 282 wordsLord Lansdowne, Secretary for war, in reply to Lord Rosebery, said that Lord Roberts had not asked for more troops than were already under orders for South ...
Article : 43 wordsThe New South Wales Patriotic Fund now totals £22,078. The result of the Bushmen's Race Meeting was rather disappointing, the muster ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Wyndham, Under-Secretary for War, said that the cost of training the volunteers, as proposed in the new military scheme, ...
Article : 67 wordsWEST AUSTRALIA (Saturday).—By Mr. W. E. Cooke: More or less cloudy throughout, and hot or sultry, with scattered thunderstorms inland and over the tropics; cooler in coastal districts ...
Article : 250 wordsThe powerful steel twin screw steamer Atlantian, of 9350 tons, which has been sent here by the Imperial Government to take the Bush Contingent to the Cape, arrived ...
Article : 337 wordsIn furtherance of the scheme of strong-thening the home defences by further encouragement and training to all quasimilitary organisations, the members of the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Government will shortly have to consider what monetary provision should be made for the widows and children of officers killed in the war. When the ...
Article : 201 wordsIn the engagement on Monday last, the 12th instant, the Boers suffered heavy losses. The Australian Mounted Infantry Regiment, under command of Colonel ...
Article : 80 wordsJunction despatches for the week aggregated 207 tons. This consisted of 60 tons of bagged and 62 tons of loose concentracts to the Australian Metal Company, Port Pirie, and 65 tons of slimes to ...
Article : 195 wordsA most violent cyclone passed across Moree on Friday afternoon, doing considerable damage to property. During the rain storm some men in a sulky near the ...
Article : 288 wordsA military parade service was -held at Balmain to-day in aid of the Patriotic Fund. The Premier, in a brief address, observed that it find been said that we were ...
Article : 150 wordsThe news of the deaths on the battle field of South Africa of Major Eddy, Sergeant Neil Grant and Lance-corporal J. Ross has caused great regret. ...
Article : 634 wordsThe January clean up at the Associated Mines gave the following returns:—Oxidised ore treated, 2680 tons, yielding 1777 oz. gold; sulpiride ore treated, 3496 tons, yielding 3441 oz. gold. Total ...
Article : 128 wordsThe War Office has issued a list of the casualties in the engagement at Maider's Farm, Rensburg, south of Colesberg, in which the Victorian Mounted Rides, under ...
Article : 735 wordsThomas Daniels, 35, a Frenchman, engaged as a seaman on board the ship The Highfields, berthed at the railway pier, Williamstown, was drowned while attempting to go on board at midnight on ...
Article : 126 wordsAs there are already a number of New South Wales prisoners in Pretoria and others there who are possibly wounded, the Premier has taken an important step to ...
Article : 77 wordsThe whole of the officers chosen by the subcommittee of the Cabinet to go into camp are now at Langwarrin. It was originally stated that three of them would not be ...
Article : 815 wordsOur Capetown correspondent writes, under date 31st January:— On Sunday last General Buffer addressed the men of Wargen's and Cleal's division ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 19 Feb 1900, Page 6
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