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  2. SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

    At the opening of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria the Rev. W. C. Wallace, the retiring moderator, delivered a sermon before the ...

    Article : 978 words
  3. THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

    Sir George Turner, who was entrusted by the Lieutenant-Governor on Thursday with a commission to form a new Government, has almost completed hie selection of ...

    Article : 214 words
  4. THE WAR.

    Shocking atrocities are being perpetrated by the Boers upon the natives, who are being shot wholesale. '] In one instance the Boers threw the body ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. BADEN-POWELL ILL.

    Major-General Baden-Powell, who Was recently appointed to raise a semi-permanent force of 25,000 men for the pacification of the Transvaal and the Orange River ...

    Article : 39 words
  6. SIR REDVERS BULLER.

    Sir Redvers Buller, who landed at Southampton on November 9, and, was received enthusiastically, was presented with the freedom of the city by the mayor and ...

    Article : 178 words
  7. BOTHA SURRENDERING.

    A correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that General Botha, the Boer commander-in-chief, has forwarded to Lord Roberts a communication stating the terms ...

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  8. 'TWO DAYS' HARD FIGHTING.

    General Smith-Dorrien, who recently inarched with two columns from Belfast, on the Delagoa Bay railway, 40 miles east of Middcluburg, in a deluge of rain, and ...

    Article : 269 words
  9. IN PORTUGUESE TERRITORY.

    Sixteen Boers have been captured whilst endeavouring to enter Portuguese territory. ...

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  10. A POM-POM TAKEN.

    Lord Methuen has capturcd a "pom-pom" from the Boers [?]car Liehtenburg. ...

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  11. CONSUL SUPERSEDED.

    The Portuguese authorities, alleging grave reasons for the step, have withdrawn the exequatur, or writ, authorising Consul Pott to act as Transvaal Consul at Loreuco ...

    Article : 31 words
  12. WAR MEDALS.

    The Government has given orders at Birmingham for 150,000 silver medals, for distribution among the officers and men of the army serving in South Africa. ...

    Article : 58 words
  13. PROPESSOR KERNOT ON TOUR.

    Professor Kernot, of Melbourne University, who took a tour through South Africa, on his way to England, describes in private Jetters his visits to Pretoria (which ...

    Article : 681 words
  14. CAPTURE OF DUPLESSIS.

    A body of Cape boys, in a sharp fight near Vryburg, captured Field-cornet Duplessis. ...

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  15. GENERAL NOTES.

    Private R. Gerrald, of the Tasmanian Contingent, is reported as missing at Jacobsdal. Private Roscoe, of Western Australia, has ...

    Article : 62 words
  16. UNDELIVERED GIFTS.

    One hundred tons weight of gifts for soldiers in South Africa have accumulated at Pretoria, the War office having failed to deliver them. The bulk of the parcels ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. BOERS NEAR KIMBERLEY.

    Major-General Settle, in command of the lines of communication in South Africa has been heavily engaged with Boers to the south of Kiinberley. He captured ...

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  18. 700 SENT TO CAPE TOWN.

    Lord Roberts has sent to Cape Town 700 persons whose presence in the Transvaal and Orange River colonies he considered undesirable. The majority of them are ...

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  19. BOER OFFICERS KILLED.

    The casualties amongst the Boer officers have been very heavy in the recent fighting, which has taken place in the Eastern Transvaal. ...

    Article : 42 words
  20. CAPTURE OF VENTERSDORP.

    Major-General Douglas, in command of the 9th Brigade, has captured Ventersdorp, which lately has been the Boers' base of supplies, together with 21 Boers and ...

    Article : 52 words
  21. AN HEROIC DEFENCE.

    Later particulars show that the Boers psrsistently besieged Koffyfontein for a month. There was no military garrison, but the town, which is 24 miles from Jacobsdal. in ...

    Article : 217 words
  22. AT MIDDLEBURG.

    A regiment of hussars, under General Kitchener, the brother of Lord Kitchener, has been playing havoc with the Boer forces at Middleburg, on the Delagoa Bay ...

    Article : 78 words
  23. BRITISH CONVOY ATTACKED.

    The Boers have attacked a convoy, accompanying 250 women from Bethlehem to Harrismith. ...

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  24. REMARKABLE REVELATIONS.

    A remarkable statement has been made by a Boer, formerly landrost of a town in the Transvaal, and now a prisoner at Durban. ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. CONVOY ATTACKED.

    A force of 150 Boers attacked a small British convoy near Christiana, a few miles south-west of Bloemhof, in the Transvaal, and 72 miles from Kimberley. ...

    Article : 43 words
  26. ROBERTS'S STAY PROLONGED.

    Lord Roberts will remain at Johannesburg some weeks, owing to the condition of his daughter, who is suffering from enteric fever. She is clothed in ice-packs, ...

    Article : 43 words
  27. KRUGER.

    Dr. W. J. Leyds, late Transvaal envoy in Europe, declares that Mr. Kruger, before leaving the Transvaal, saved a portion of the money in the Treasury at Pretoria, ...

    Article : 53 words
  28. CRUSHING DEFEAT OF DE WET.

    An important cable message has been received at the War Office from Lord Roberts, stating that General C. E. Knox, ot the 13th Brigade, and Colonel P. W. J. ...

    Article : 415 words
  29. BRAVE POLICE PATROL.

    A police patrol at Petrusburg fought 100 Boers for several hours, retiring only when they had used all their ammuaition. Seven of the police were captured, ...

    Article : 41 words
  30. A BOER TREK.

    Advices from Berlin state that 15,000 Boers intend to leave their homes in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony and crek into Damaraland, in German ...

    Article : 67 words
  31. EXTREMISTS RESISTING.

    The Boers who are still fighting against the British in the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies are the extreme and irreconcilable men of the community. ...

    Article : 55 words
  32. COMMISSIONS FOR AUSTRALIANS.

    Commissions in the Royal Ficid Artillery have been granted to Private, W. H. Gosse and J. G. Saunders, of the South Australian Mounted Infantry. ...

    Article : 140 words
  33. AMUSING WAR INCIDENT.

    Walter Sheppard, sou of Mrs. Sherbourne Sheppard, of Maiveru, who has been serving with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, was reported "missing" Far same ...

    Article : 296 words
  34. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    The Victoria Cross has been awarded by Her Majesty the Queen to Private J. H. Bisdee, of the Tasmanian Bushmen's Corps, for rescuing, a wounded officer under a hot ...

    Article : 181 words
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  36. SYDNEY RUIT MARKET.

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