On the receipt of the news at Windsor of the British reverse at Stormberg Her Majesty at once sent Sir Arthur John Bigge, her Private Secretary and ...
Article : 45 wordsDenmark has offered to sell its possessions in the West Indies to the United States. The price asked for the three islands ...
Article : 63 wordsThe detectives think that the St. Kilda tram explosion was probably caused by a dynamite cap having been accidentally dropped by the workmen ...
Article : 42 wordsFurther particulars which, have been received concerning the reverse suffered by Major-General Gatacre's forces at Stormberg show that when the British ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Kaiser's new Naval Bill was introduced in the German Reichstag yesterday by the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Hohenlobe-Schillingfurst. The ...
Article : 163 wordsThe result of the military inquiry into the conduct of the New South Wales Lancers who failed to accompany their comrades ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the instance of the Boer belligerents, the British Government has agreed to furnish lists of the prisoners taken during the war, together with particulars ...
Article : 64 wordsLetters of administration have been granted in the estate of Sarah M. J. Fitzgibbon, who died intestate. The estate is valued at £48,126, which will ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Geoffrey Sullivan, of Queensland, has passed his third examination at the Sandhurst Military College, with sword honors. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe nurse Emma Draper, who displayed bravery in connection with the burning of the railway station buildings at Guildford, was brought up in court ...
Article : 68 wordsThe steamer Cornwall has arrived at Port Elizabeth with, the remainder of the New South Wales contingent. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe results of the examination in connection with the Adelaide University, which were held in November last, have been received. The pupils of the ...
Article : 213 wordsNews received from the signal station at the South Head to-day stated that the barque Aberystwith Castle was off the port in tow. Much anxiety had ...
Article : 59 wordsThe death is announced of Lord Penzance, who resigned his position as judge of the Court of Arches in March last. Lord Penzance was born in 1816, his ...
Article : 189 wordsTwo thousand Boers are reported to be breaking up the railway line near Colesberg. The Australian Lancers, when ...
Article : 61 wordsA telegram received from Maseru on November 15 said:—The Boers are making frantic efforts to get the Basuto laborers to go and reap their crops. They ...
Article : 219 wordsAs a meeting of the committee of the Old Colonists' Association it was stated that the audit showed that £310 had not been accounted for. The committee ...
Article : 49 wordsA Frenchman named Samuels, while helping to thatch a haystack at Ivanhoe today, fell on the upturned prongs of a hayfork, which penetrated upwards ...
Article : 62 wordsAnnie and Michael Doyle, a brother and sister, 12 and 10 years old respectively, were shooting sparrows this evening, when a saloon rifle went off ...
Article : 46 wordsGeneral Sir George Stewart White has sent plans of the Boer position around Ladysmith to General Sir Redvers Henry Buller by means of carrier pigeons. ...
Article : 70 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, in reply to a question, the Premier stated that the proposal to pay the New Guinea Syndicate out of a subsidy ...
Article : 138 wordsOn Friday last, some of the troops comprising the Ladysmith Garrison made a sortie to the north of the town, their objective being the Boer position ...
Article : 54 wordsAlexander Tidyman (15) was found unconscious on the Barnawartha-road to-day with a bullet wound above his left ear. He expired while being ...
Article : 88 wordsThe furore which happened on the occasion of Miss Amy Castles's debut and subsequent appearances will be still fresh in the minds of many who viewed ...
Article : 619 wordsArrivals.—Indramayo, steamer, 2,709 tons, from Wellington (October 14); Buteshire, steamer, 3,636 tons, from Wellington (October 11); Salamis ...
Article : 77 wordsNews has been received from Colonel Baden-Powell at Mafeking, to the effect that the town was safe on November 30. ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Holder met the Legislative Assembly to-day. He had a good reception. His policy is practically that of the Kingston Ministry, except that the ...
Article : 120 wordsLieut.-Colonel Eagar, who was in command of the second battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles, and reported to be missing, is well known in Melbourne. ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. J. S. Dunn, representing the Central News Agency in London, telegraphed from Umsinga, after the battle of Glencoe:—I was taken prisoner by the Boers at Dundee ...
Article : 421 wordsThe arrest of Lovering and Johnston has not stopped attempted train wrecking, for this afternoon a fishplate was placed on the rails on the Oakleigh line. ...
Article : 43 wordsA firm of Collins-street cordial manufacturers has presented the Defence Department with 25 cases of limejuice for the use of the Victorian ...
Article : 48 wordsA daring attempt has been made to burn out Mr. C. A. M'Kenzie's Warrough Station. A fire was lighted on Sunday morning in six different places on the ...
Article : 72 wordsA court of inquiry has been held in connection with the collision between the R.M.S. Orizaba and the steamer Clar Mackay, in the Red Sea, in August ...
Article : 101 wordsTo-day Jacob Eden, 18; was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labor, for having indecently assaulted a girl. ...
Article : 28 wordsAlbany sent one man, named Brown, lately of the Customs Department, with the Western Australian unit to Africa, but another Albanian named Prideaux ...
Article : 255 wordsAll the Ministers in the Legislative Assembly have been returned unopposed, with the exception of Mr. M'Coll, Minister of Mines, Education ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Boer commando which is stationed at Colenso has six guns mounted. It is stated that German officers are advising General Schalk Burger in ...
Article : 44 wordsColonel James Foord Hilton has been appointed commandant of the Queensland Defence Forces. In China carrier pigeons are protected ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Boers who retreated to the northwards after the battle of Modder River are now entrenched in a semi-circular hilly position, which extends across the ...
Article : 143 wordsThe sixth of the season's series of London wool sales closed to-day. The closing rates were fully 5 per cent. above the opening prices. ...
Article : 31 wordsAlready the butter exports for this year have exceeded those for the whole of last year by nine and a half million pounds. ...
Article : 26 wordsFurther particulars concerning the occupation of Arundel by the British show that the Imperial force consisted of the New South Wales Lancers, the New ...
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Advertising : 150 wordsThe team to represent Victoria in the match with New South Wales at Melbourne on December 22 is as follows:—Ross, M'Leod, Trumble, Bruce ...
Article : 46 wordsEarl Grey, who was Administrator for the British South Africa Company in 1896 and 1897, states that the burgher principle adopted in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsMr. M'Lean, speaking at Bairnsdale this evening, explained the Government's policy. At the outset he made it plain that the Government meant to ...
Article : 177 wordsA message has been received from Pretoria to the effect that 672 British were captured by the Boers in the recent engagement at Stormberg. ...
Article : 37 wordsIn an article entitled "The Navy in the Present War," the "Navy League Journal" says:—So much for the general situation, which reminds us of the ...
Article : 298 wordsThe Earl of Wemyes, who was formerly Lord Elcho, and is a great volunteer enthusiast, is enrolling half-a-million volunteers, who are ready to form a ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 15 Dec 1899, Page 1
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