The President took the chair at 4.40. A SLIGHT TO THE HOUSE. Numbers of petitions were presented in support of Abolition of Coupons Bill and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 709 wordsThe latest reports from South Africa furnish additional particulars of the disaster which befell the British arms near Ladysmith on Sunday last, when in ...
Article : 344 wordsThe first battalions of the Essex. Suffolk, and Derbyshire regiments are mobilising, and will leave shortly for South Africa. The War Office has also arranged to hasten the departure of the 10th and 13th Hussars ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Speaker took the chair at half-past 4. QUESTIONS. Mr Watt asked the Minister of Railways-1. If any compensation has been paid to the ...
Article : 1,068 wordsThe Bed Cross Society is making strenuous efforts to supplement the work of the Army Medical Department in South Africa, and a party of trained nurses proceed at once to ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Canadian contingent for service in South Africa sailed from Quebec to-day. their departure being made the occasion of a remarkable outburst of enthusiasm. The force ...
Article : 84 wordsThe embarkation of the Queensland contingent on board the steamer Cornwall at Culimba wharf near the mouth of the Brisbane river to-day was witnessed by 25.000 ...
Article : 47 wordsThe West Australian contingent for South Africa paraded the city to-day. with the local troops for the first time, amid tremendous enthusiasm. The crowd was the largest ...
Article : 57 wordsA deputation from the French African Society waited upon M. Delcasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs on the subject of the ownership of Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 128 wordsLatest intelligence regarding the British disaster near Ladysmith states that the Ist Battalion of the Gloucester and Irish regiments were guarding the left flank, and ...
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Advertising : 2,135 words"Crush" writes “I visited the South Golden Birthday mine oil Tuesday afternoon. Since the date of my last visit Mr Renkin. the mining manager, has opened a level at ...
Article : 829 wordsThe Admiralty has decided to make an important change in the construction of the training squadron. The old ships, which have hitherto been ...
Article : 44 wordsThe military authorities commenting on the British disaster at Ladysmith, suggest that the surrendering battalions in the darkness missed the position that had been ...
Article : 131 wordsAs the exact amount, of the defalcations of William Hirst Buckley, late accountant of the Crown Law Department, is not known. Messrs Whitton, of the Water Supply ...
Article : 64 wordsA man named George Irons, laborer, entered tho Treasury Gardens this afternoon with a woman, and was almost immediately garrotted by three men and robbed of £30 ...
Article : 33 wordsThe condition of the National Bank of Australasia was shown to he of a very gratifying character at the annual meeting to-day. The report and balance-sheet as submitted indicated that the net ...
Article : 129 wordsDuring the fighting near Elands Laagte the attack on Colonel Grimwood was pressed by the Boers with extreme stubbornness, and had it been successful the ...
Article : 91 wordsUnaccompanied part singing was once the most popular form of music. No dinner table of pretention, public or private, was complete without tile presence of four or ...
Article : 330 wordsLater nows from Ladysmith states that the Colenso Bridge over the Tugela River is strongly guarded, as an early Boer attack is expected. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsThe telegraph wires between Ladysmith and Cape Town are now interrupted. ...
Article : 20 wordsColonel Baden-Powell, who is in command at Mafeking, has laid a railway track all round the town, and he is thus enabled to move his armored trains quickly to any point ...
Article : 44 wordsThe attention of the officer in charge of the quick firing guns at Ladysmith was attracted by the suspicious movements of a stranger, and the man was arrested. It was then ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsThe Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Gloucestershire Battalion are reported to have suffered very heavily when surrounded by the Boers on Sunday. ...
Article : 112 wordsIn this world ungratefulness is very common. There is a class of people living who. when they get their wants supplied, forgot to say “Thank you.” Selfishness bulks very ...
Article : 270 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller, who will assume supreme command of the Imperial forces in South Africa, arrived at Capt Town to-day. His landing was made the occasion ...
Article : 38 wordsLatest information from Kimberley states that the Bores are erecting forts. in the neighborhood, and it is believed that they propose to shell the town. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe British, forces in South Africa will be doubled within the next fortnight. It will not be necessary for the transports conveying the troops to take in any coal during the ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Thu 2 Nov 1899, Page 4
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