Major-General John D. P. French, who is in command of the British troops in the Colesberg district of Cape Colony, is still taking active measures against the enemy. ...
Article : 198 wordsNews is still being anxiously awaited from the front in Natal, but owing to the press censorship very little has come to hand. The correspondent of the London ...
Article : 90 wordsA sensational shooting affray is reported from Kentucky, in the United States. Mr. David G. Colson, formerly Republican member in Congress for Kentucky ...
Article : 66 wordsPrivate Rowland, of the 9th Lancers, has written to his mother at Gloucester, under date of November 14, from Orange River. He says:—"We had one set to at Belmont last Friday. ...
Article : 367 wordsIn response to the invitation of the Mayor of Adelaide, a number of gentlemen met to-day to consider the question, of co-operating with the other ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Newfoundland Government has expressed its willingness to follow the advice which was tendered by Mr. Chamberlain, the British Colonial. Secretary, to renew the modus vivendi with France ...
Article : 71 wordsThree thousand of the Imperial yemanry will sail from. England for Sout Africa at the beginning of February. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt Karrakatta enough saddles and harness have been delivered by the contractor to enable two divisions of the Mounted Infantry to be mounted, and ...
Article : 208 wordsMr. F. Clare has received notice that the troopship Surrey will coal here and not at Fremantle. It has been suggested that on the principle of patriotism ...
Article : 289 wordsThe Premier received a telegram form Mr. Lyne last night, urging that as the steamer Maori King would not leave before 10 o'clock to-day the Queensland ...
Article : 74 wordsThe "Times of Natal," a daily paper published in Pitermaritzburg, is responsible for the statement that a French steamer landed six Creuzet ...
Article : 62 wordsThe quotation for Australasian shares are the same as a week ago. ...
Article : 19 wordsGeneral Ben Viljoen was undoubtedly one of those heaven-boru strategists that are now and again to be met with in partisan warfare. Ever since the ...
Article : 648 wordsThe half-yearly report and balance-sheet of the Union Bank of Australia have been issued. The directors proposes a dividend of 6 per cent., and to ...
Article : 40 wordsA conciliation committee has been formed in London with the object of promoting a peaceful settlement of the troubles in Sooth Africa. ...
Article : 93 wordsIs not a cold; it is a fever which arise from a cold. It is especially prevalent now. First a cold, then a dull, drowsy, heavy feeling; then unrest in the ...
Article : 305 wordsSome further fighting is reported to hare taken place at Rensburg, where the British recently shelled the Boer camp at a distance of three miles, and forced ...
Article : 114 wordsThe quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,860,000 quarters, against 1,780,000 quarters a fortnight ago; and for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsThe January series of colonial wool sales was opened in London yesterday. A hesitating tone prevailed, and prices ranged from par to a 5 per cent. decline ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Government has decided to form a bushmen's corps, and to put the men in camp at Langwarrin. The application number 1,500, and the lists were closed to-day. ...
Article : 33 wordsNumbers of Anglo-Australians residing in England are desirous of joining the Bushmen's Corps, which is now being organised in Australia. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the wool sales yesterday Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Messrs. Charles Balme and Co., and Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. offered 8,471 bales. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "send-off" to the patriotic sons of New South Wales and Queensland forming a port of the second Australian contingent will be long remembered by ...
Article : 230 wordsThirty-one members and eighty-one clerks of the London Stock Exchange are going to South Africa with the Yeomanry and Volunteers. ...
Article : 57 wordsAnother armored train has left Durban for the front, this making the fourth at the disposal of General Sir Redvers Buller. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe last transport has sailed from England to South Africa in connection with the shipping of Major-General Charles Tucker's Seventh Division. ...
Article : 29 wordsTwenty-four of the largest hotel proprietors in the French and Italian Riviera have generously offered accommodation for the British troops wounded in South Africa. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe death is announced of Sir Alfred Kirby, at the age of 58 years. (Sir Alfred Kirby was Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1886-87, and was ...
Article : 126 wordsWith the consent of the Mayor of Fremantle, the matron and nurses of the Grosvenor Hospital will institute a collection among the Fremantle business ...
Article : 44 wordsLady Lamington, the wife of Lord Lamington, the Governor of Queensland, who is now in England, is engaged in collecting comforts for the ...
Article : 81 wordsDr. Caldwell, an English, medical man, was commandeered in the Orange Free State, under the declaration that every white man in the country must become ...
Article : 58 wordsThere is nothing new to report in connection with the outbreak of plague. M'Cann is progressing favorably towards recovery. Inspector Booth, who ...
Article : 64 wordsThe open-air concert held on the Fremantle Oval last night, in aid of the Patriotic Fund, was one of the most successful entertainments held at the Port, a result which must be highly gratifying ...
Article : 272 wordsThe War Office has published a correction in regard to the Private Jones, who was killed at Sumnyside on New Year's Day. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe absence of fresh developments in Adelaide in connection with the cases of bubonic plague which were reported from that city several days ago, confirms ...
Article : 85 wordsNews has been received through Beuter's agency of another engagement in, the Colesberg district. It appears that on Monday last a ...
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Advertising : 104 wordsAs proving the severity of the Boer losses in connection with, the assault on Ladysmith on January 6 it is stated that after the battle the British assisted to ...
Article : 82 wordsThe death took place yesterday of Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, the third Earl of Manvers, at the age of 74 years. ...
Article : 116 wordsA meeting of the Board of Health was held to-day. A letter was read from the British Consul at Honolulu, intimating that that place had been declared free ...
Article : 51 wordsThe remonstrances which have been made by the British in connection with the passage of contraband of war to the Transvaal by way of Delagoa Bay have ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 19 Jan 1900, Page 1
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