Heavy rain and floods are reported in Otago. In the Southland district the railway lines have been damaged in all directions and the trains delayed. The ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the Bathurst Gaol to-day a prisioner dealt Warder M'Bean a terrific blew on the head with a yard-broom. Other prisoners rushed up and took ...
Article : 56 wordsThe newspapers in the United States deprecate the remarks which were made by Mr. J. Chamberlain at Leicester last week in reference to the unwritten ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Chief Secretary has received a cable message from the Agent-General, stating that Captain V. C. Sellheim, of the Queensland Defence Force, was ...
Article : 63 wordsMany offers have been made by British ladies to nurse the wounded soldiers who are to be sent home to Britain. ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Solomon stated the policy of his Government in regard to Household Suffrage. He said that and other ...
Article : 266 wordsThe steamer Lynalder will leave tonight with 10,500 bags of oats for South Africa. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Legislative Assembly adjourned to-day owing to the illness of the Speaker. The consideration of the Estimates was completed in the Cabinet ...
Article : 33 wordsThe appeal which was made by Mrs. Anna Maria Druce in connection with the claim of her son, Sydney George Druce, to the title and estate of the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe matinee arranged by Mr. J. C Williamson in aid of the Patriotic Fund and Lady Randolph Churchill's fund was held in Her Majesty's Theatre ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. G. C. Klug, who for tie past five yean has been connected with the Proprietary mine at Broken Hill, has resigned to accept an appointment as ...
Article : 42 wordsA white-haired old King's Royal Rifleman (Color-Sergeant Meek), who was in South Africa 48 years ago, was called upon to acknowledge the toast of ...
Article : 358 wordsAt Broken Hill last night burglars entered an upstairs room in the Commercial Hotel, where the landlord, Mr. Briggs, was asleep, and boldly carried ...
Article : 78 wordsAppropriately enough the last telegraphic message which came through from Johannesburg to the Cape announced that the "Star" newspaper had ...
Article : 868 wordsHe wooden barque Johannes, 789 tons, which left Albany for London on August 14, is reported to have been abandoned in the Atlantic. ...
Article : 130 wordsSome British infantry, accompanied by the 12th Lancers (Prince of Wales's Royal) and the detachment of New South Wales Lancers, under Captain C. ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the Vice-Admiralty Court to-day a salvage claim, made against the ship Saint Louis, for £3,500, was heard. Judgment was given in favor of the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Boers were hardly visible throughout the battle, their rifle pits being protected by bullet-proof breastworks. They had spent seven weeks ...
Article : 151 wordsMajor-General Sir William Forbes Gatacre, who is commanding the British forces in the Orange River districts of Cape Colony, has removed 1,000 bags ...
Article : 62 wordsThere is still no trace of the missing captain of the ship St. Mirren. It is stated that a member of the crew had threatened his life. A telegram has been ...
Article : 83 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly met to-day Mr. Dawson announced the resignation of the Ministry, in consequent of the defeat of last week. He said that ...
Article : 116 wordsMost of the guns, arms, and ammunition which were on board the transport Is more, which went ashore while en route to the Cape, are reported to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 wordsThe Boers at Maretsani, some miles to the south of Mafeking, have sold by auction, horses, ploughs, and cattle belonging to the settlers, giving ...
Article : 57 wordsThe weather is warming up. To-day the thermometer registered 96deg. in the shade. ...
Article : 15 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the names of the members of the new Cabinet were announced as follow:— Premier and Chief Secretary, Mr. A. ...
Article : 221 wordsTo-day John King Tucker, 37, who pleaded guilty to having forged and uttered, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labor. Patrick ...
Article : 61 wordsThe members of the British Staff consider that the British Army never faced a severer or more sustained fire than that of the Boers at Modder River. ...
Article : 200 wordsHere is another little story of Sir Redvers Buller. On one occasion he was proceeding to Canada with a regiment of soldiers. Off the entrance to the St. ...
Article : 189 wordsThe telegraph line between Aden and Zanzibar has been repaired, and news will now be received more freely from Natal. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt has been finally decided that Major-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny shall command the Second Division of the Second Army Corps, instead of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe gold yield for November was 83,774oz. ...
Article : 14 wordsAll the shares have been allotted in connection with the Briseis Tin-Mine, of Tasmania, which was recently registered with a capital of £600,000. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe members of the New Zealand contingent, under Major A. W. Robin, who arrived at the Cape in the steamer Waiwera, have reached Naauwpoort ...
Article : 61 wordsWhile descending a shaft in his father's mine at Daylesford, Wm. Muir, 21, was overcome by foul air, and fell to the bottom. When help reached him ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Roe, P.M., has a penchant for Coming down heavily on anything savoring of larrikinism, and he was not slow in exercising his prerogative in ...
Article : 202 wordsA. Bailey, 11, a son of Mr. H. Bailey, of Curalulup, near Talbot, was watering a neighbor's horse to-day, when it trod on his chest and crushed him to death. ...
Article : 33 wordsLieutenant-General C. F. Clery, Commander of the Second Division, who is operating with General Buller in the advance on Ladysmith, is endeavoring to ...
Article : 48 wordsThe sixth of the series of London wool sales was continued to-day, when brisk business was done at top prices. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe bankrupt was examined by the official receiver on a balance-sheet presented by him, showing the position of his affairs previously to the time of his ...
Article : 138 wordsWm. Sims, bootmaker, gave himself up to the police at Collingwood to-day, on a charge of having wounded Cornelius Shanahan. The latter, at about ...
Article : 98 wordsA report has been received from Mafeking to the effect that many of the Boers are leaving the vicinity of the town. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsMajor Count Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen, of the Grenadier Guards, who was severely wounded at the battle of Modder River, on November 28, is ...
Article : 61 wordsUninterrupted fighting took place at Modder River from daybreak to dusk in the battle of Tuesday last. it is estimated that 11,000 Boers ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Cape "Times" states that the siege of Mafeking has practically been raised by the Boers. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe well-known Langham Hotel, in Bourke-street, was put up at auction to-day. The only offer was £12,000. The reserve being £17,000, the property ...
Article : 30 wordsWheat is sixpence per quarter cheaper than it was a week ago. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 8 Dec 1899, Page 1
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