The question. of the boundary be-tween Erythrea and the Soudan, has been practically settled by the Italian and British Governments. ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the battle of Belmont on Thursday last an Austrian exmilitary officer, named Albrecht, 'was in command of the' Boers' artillery. ...
Article : 99 wordsNews has reached the Cape that there has been six days' continuous fighting at Kuruman, a town in British Bechuanaland, 70 miles to ihe south-west of ...
Article : 101 wordsA fatality occurred near Broomfield to-day. A goods train, which was going down an incline at a great speed, struck a miner named James Richardson, 46, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe members of the Victorian, Tasmanian, South Australian, and Western Australian contingents, who arrived at Cape Town in the White Star steamer ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-day Frederick M'Intosh was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for the manslaughter of his wife. Mr. Justice Hood, in sentencing the accused, ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is announced that the famous Lakes of Eillarney, in County Cork, Ire-land, have been bought by Lord Ardi-Laun for £60,000. ...
Article : 105 wordsMajor-French John D. P. French is engaged in restoring the railway from Naauwpoort to Colesberg, in Cape Colony. ...
Article : 29 wordsMartin Simonsen, the well-known violinist, and one of the oldest theatrical speculators in Australia, committed suicide at bis residence Elizabeth-street ...
Article : 67 wordsThe last report received from Ladysmith is to the effect that the defenders of the town are quite cheerful. ...
Article : 28 wordsLord Beauchamp arrived in the express train to-day, He will be the guest of Lord Tennyson, and will remain in Adelaide till Monday. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe declaration of Britain to the powers that a state of war existed with the Transvaal and the Orange Free State was made in order to facilitate ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Supreme Court to-day awarded a married couple £1,500 damages against the Railway Department, for injuries received in the Rakaia railway accident. ...
Article : 30 wordsHe anti-British attitude of many of the Berlin newspapers in connection with the war is attributed to the desire to promote a big German navy. ...
Article : 33 wordsNews has been received of the death of Wallace Ross, the well-known Canadian sculler, who was stricken with paralysis about a week ago. ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer, who is Secretary for Agriculture in Mr. Sohreiner's Cape Ministry, is at present on a vist to the disaffected districts south of ...
Article : 108 wordsAt Port Pirie during an altercation, this evening Fred Davis, who is employed at the smelters, struck a man, supposed to be a sailor, who drew a, ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Dawson waited on the acting Governor to-day, and undertook to form a Ministry. He will ask Parliament for an adjournment to Friday. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the battle of Grass Pan on Saturday last, the 9th Lancers (Queen's Boyal) pursued the Boers after the letter had been driven out of their positions. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Premier received a cable message from the Agent-General this morning, stating that Major-General Lord Me-thuen. had gained a second victory at ...
Article : 42 wordsPaul Singh, an Indian hawker, fell out of his cart at Tea-tree yesterday, and died in the Adelaide Hospital to-day from the injuries which he had . ...
Article : 32 words"Dante," the magician, who is at Dubbo, is hardly expected to survive. To-night his case was pronounced to be practically hopeless. ...
Article : 32 wordsLieutenant Walch, of the Southern Tasmania Artillery, has been appointed to acoompany Captain Lyall as extra officer for service in Africa. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe remains of William Henry Meeton, a station, oook, were discovered to-day on Mulga Station, 26 miles from Port Augusts. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. Henry william Massingham has resigned his position has editor of the London "Daily Chronicle," owing to his having had differences with the ...
Article : 81 wordsSome important arrests have been made at Constantinople in connection with a plot to assassinate the Sultan, Abdul Hamid the Second. ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Sir Bedvers Henry Buller, the British Commander-in-chief in South Africa, has arrived at Pietermaritzburg, the capital of Natal. ...
Article : 167 wordsMajor-General Sir Francis Clery, K.C.B., who is in command of the Second Division of the Army Corps, is aged 62, and vrae gazetted to a ensigncy in ...
Article : 254 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, Mr. Affleck asked the Premier whether, in the face of the situation in Western Australia in regard to the ...
Article : 118 wordsAn aged Transvaaler was leading a prayer at a service of the wives and children of burghers on commando. After praying for the defeat and daughter of the ...
Article : 722 wordsThe report of the Police Inquiry Board has just been presented to the Legislative Council. It shows a remarkable state of affairs in connection ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Tugela River in Natal is flooded, as the result of the recent heavy rains. [The Tugela rises in Natal, near, Basutoland, and after crossing the colony ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Emperor William of Germany, who is now on a visit to England, has tendered his condolences to Mrs. Ismay on the death of her husband ...
Article : 168 wordsBetween 2 and 3 o'clock Monday afternoon two fishermen named Roper and Whitford reported to the police the discovery of a small boat on the Pelican ...
Article : 271 wordsThe cable on the east coast of Africa has become interrupted between Aden and Zanzibar. News from South Africa will have ...
Article : 39 wordsAnother case of small-pox developed among the passengers on the steamer Nineveh this afternoon. The patient is a third-class passenger named Arthur ...
Article : 67 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has forwarded her congratulations to the members of the Naval Brigade for the gallantry they displayed in storming the Boer ...
Article : 93 wordsAs a result of Major-General Lord Methuen's victories at Belmont and Grass Pan, on his way to the relief of Kimberley the Boers are rapidly ...
Article : 51 wordsWho's that calling? It comes from far away, The voice of a brother o'er the sea. It says: "Am I a stranger, ...
Article : 300 wordsIn view of the fact that many of the disloyal Dutch are joining the enemy at the Cape, the loyal farmers are organising for their own protection. ...
Article : 87 wordsAlice Praed, whose spiritualistic name is "Madame Archer," was brought up in court to-day on a charge of the larceny, by a trick, of goods and money ...
Article : 46 wordsArrivals.-Uakhurst, barque, 1,232 tons, from Adelaide (July 22); Allon-by, barque, 1,400 tons, from Timaru (July 22); Essen, steamer, 1,861 tons ...
Article : 151 wordsTen thousand British troops have left Estcourt, and are marching northwards to the relief of Kimberley. The Boers have destroyed the rail ...
Article : 78 wordsAn attempt at train wrecking was made on the Mordialloo-Oakieigh line near South Yarra this morning. A piece of railway iron, about seven feet ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsA naval contingent with two 4.7-lOin. guns has landed at Durban, and started for the front. ...
Article : 24 wordsJohn Newman, 38, a groom, died in the Melbourne Hospital to-day. He -was admitted while he was insensible on Thursday, and never regained ...
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Article : 72 wordsThe War Relief Fund has now| reached £326,000. Sir Thomas Lipton has contributed £10,000. The Princess of Wales has received ...
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