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  2. Family Notices

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  3. SLEEPING SENTRIES.

    Earl' Roberts, the commander-in-chief, has pardoned several of the men convicted of sleeping on sentry duty who were volunteers. ...

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  4. BURSTING OF A DAM.

    An appalling catastrophe, recalling the celebrated Johnstown inundation of 1889, has occurred at Pocahontis, a county in the eastern part of the state of West ...

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  5. THE FRENCH CONSPIRACY.

    The second trial of the omte de Lur-Saluces on a charge of conspiring with M. Deroulede and others against the French constitution, has just been concluded ...

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  6. MR. KRUGER DENOUNCED.

    Mr. Duplessis, minister of the Dutch Church at Lindley, who is an inmate of the Vredfortraad refugee camp, has denounced Mr. Kruger, and appealed to his ...

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  7. A MISSING AUSTRALIAN.

    The body of Sergeant G. A. Whittington Wreford, late of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, who had been missing since last March, has been recovered. ...

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  8. THE REFUGEE CAMPS.

    The Rev. Adrian Hofmeyr, writing to "The Times" on behalf of the Distress Relief Committee, states that he visited the same refugee camps that were recently ...

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  9. SETTLING SOUTH AFRICA.

    [?] Settlement Committee, appointed last year at the instance of Mr. H. O. Arnold-Forster declares that unless a strenuous effort is made to establish a ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. THE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    Mr. George Robert Milne Murray, keeper of the department of botany in the British Museum, has been appointed scientific director of the national ...

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  11. CLEARING THE COUNTRY.

    Colonel Campbell's column has cleared the Harrismith; Bethlehem, and Spitzkop districts, in the east of the Orange River Colony, of the enemy. ...

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  12. TREASON TRIALS.

    Seven members of the Venterstad committee have been convicted of treason, and sentenced to pay a fine of £1,000 each and to undergo terms of imprisonment ranging ...

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  13. DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

    A memorial, sighed by 66 Unionist members of the House of Commons, has been presented to Mr. A. J. Balfour, asking him to send the bill legalising marriage ...

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  14. BRITISH REVERSE.

    On the 16th inst. 25 British troops were captured by the Boers at Paardekop, on the Natal-Johannesburg railway, a short distance from Amersfoort. The men were ...

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  15. AMERICAN OPINION ON THE WAR.

    Coloned Slocum, the United States military attache with the British army in South Africa, in his published report, considers that the slowness of Sir ...

    Article : 90 words
  16. FIRM SPEECHES BY MINISTERS.

    At a dinner given on June 26 by the United Service Club, at the Hotel Cecil, the Marquis of Salisbury said that he had no doubt that an early and complete victory ...

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  17. MR. KRUGER AT ROTTERDAM.

    Mr. Kruger, who is living at Utrecht, in Holland, has paid a visit to Rotterdam. He was received with great enthusiasm by the residents, a number of girls ...

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  18. TRUSTS IN AMERICA.

    The Attorney-General of the state of New York is preparing a case against a trust, with a view to testing the question in the courts as to whether the Federal ...

    Article : 60 words
  19. AN IMPERIAL COMMISSION.

    Lieutenant G. Bailey, of the fifth New Zealand contingent, has been granted a commission in the Manchester Regiment. ...

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  20. DE WET'S RECENT FIGHT.

    In the engagement at Reitz, on the 6th inst., General Elliott captured 100,000 rounds of ammunition. De Wet's convoy was olso captured, ...

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  21. BOERS AND GERMANS.

    Thirty-eight Boer families having trekked from the Transvaal into Damaraland, which is German territory, the local authorities took action against them. The ...

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  22. FIREWORKS EXPLOSION.

    A terrible explosion of fireworks, the origin of which is not known, has occurred at the important manufacturing town of Paterson, in New Jersey, 16 miles from ...

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  23. RAILWAY DISASTER.

    A terrible disaster has occurred on the Wabash railway, in the state of Indiana. A trestle-bridge having been destroyed by a flood, a passenger train, the driver of ...

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  24. BOTHA NEARLY CAUGHT.

    Sir Bindon Blood, in his operations in the Transvaal, nearly captured General Louis Botha and the Boer Government at Carolina, where they were hiding. Sir ...

    Article : 89 words
  25. A CONSUL'S SAD DEATH.

    Mr. Adalbert Hay, the son of Colonel John Hay, and lately consul for the United States at Pretoria, has been killed by a fall from a hotel window at Newhaven, the ...

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  26. A CAPE FORCE SURPRISED.

    A squadron of the Midland rifles, a Cape force, was detailed to intercept Commandant Malan, one of the raiding leaders, at the Upsal-Zwagershoek Mountains, in the ...

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  27. NORTH POLE EXPEDITION.

    The Baldwin-Ziegler Arctic Expedition is on the point of starting under the leadership of Mr. Evelyn B. Baldwin. Three vessels will be used, namely, the ...

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  28. THE WAR.

    No. 1,573 (Private William Grimes), of the fifth Victorian contingent of Mounted Infantry, was dangerously all at Middelburg, Transvaal, on June 19. He is suffering from ...

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  29. POLITICS IN FRANCE.

    The Religious Associations Bill, which has been framed by the French Government to reduce the power of the monasteries and other religious associations in France, and ...

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  30. GENERAL CABLES.

    The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times" states that Germany, with the consent of England, proposes that China shall pay small amounts of the war indemnity ...

    Article : 48 words
  31. FRENCH NAVAL MAN[?]UVRES.

    The scheme of the French naval man[?]uvres this summer is to prevent the junction of two naval forces representing Great Britain's Channel and ...

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  32. BURGHERS SURRENDERING.

    Amongst the latest to claim the protection of the British are 55 Boer families who crossed over from the Transvaal into Khama's country, which is within the ...

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  33. THE MAD MULLAH.

    News from Somaliland shows that the Mad Mullah has received another severe repulse at the hands of the British. Having failed in his recent attack, ...

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  34. LUSITANIA WRECKED.

    The steamer Lusitania, 3,912 tons, formerly in the Australian trade, owned, by Messrs. Elder, Dempster, and Co., of Liverpool, bound from that port to ...

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  35. AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS.

    Major H. G. Vialls, of the West Australian forces, has been granted the local rank of lieutenant-colonel while in command of a column. ...

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  36. CHAFFEE'S INDICTMENT.

    General A. R. Chaffee, commander of the United States troops, says in his report that the looting and the indiscriminate shooting of coolies by the allied troops ...

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  37. ATTITUDE OF HOLLAND.

    The Netherlands Government is pressing Mr. Kruger to come to terms with Great Britain, and persuade the Boer commandos still in the field to surrender. ...

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  38. RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA.

    Dr. G. E. Morrison, "The Times" correspondent at Peking, states that Russia has intimated to China that she will require the resumption of the negotiations in ...

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  39. THE COAL DUTY.

    In the House of Commons the Government is slowly defeating repeated amendments on its proposal for an export duty of 1/ per ton on coal. On one occasion its ...

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  40. A DESPERATE ENGAGEMENT.

    Full details are available of the severe fighting between General Elliot's column and a Boer force under Det Wet at Reitz on June 6. General Elliot was marching ...

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  41. THE COLCHESTER MURDER.

    The newspapers condemn the police for their blunder, and suggest that Lilly white should receive compensation. ...

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  42. BRITISH CONDITIONS.

    Sir Ernest Satow, the British Minister at Peking, has announced that Great Britain will only consent to the Chinese customs tariff being doubled, to facilitate ...

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  43. A MILLIONAIRES WILL.

    A suit in connection with the will of the late Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, banker, of Manchester, who died in June last year, has just been decided by the Scotch Courts. ...

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  44. QUEENSLAND DINNER.

    At the annual Queensland dinner in London, Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, who presided, expressed regret that Queensland had sent an ...

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  45. A BILLIONAIRE BENEFACTOR.

    Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the American billionaire, has given one million dollars as an endowment to the medical school of Harvard University. ...

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  46. FRENCH METHODS.

    The amount of the indemnity claimed by France from China is £11,460,000, which includes £3,720,000 as compensation to the Roman Catholic missions, for the losses ...

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  47. THE AMEER FORTIFYING.

    The Ameer of Afghanistan is erecting modern forts on the Oxus, the northern boundary of his state, and arming them with heavy Krupp guns. ...

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  48. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    A Reuter's telegram states that the Cape squadron will proceed from Simonstown to Natal to meet the Ophir, with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of ...

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  49. PLOT IN VIENNA.

    Several arrests have been made in Vienna in connection with a rumoured plot against the life of the Emperor of Austria. ...

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  50. DE WET AND STEYN.

    General De Wet and ex-President Steyn [?]ve recently attempted, but without success, to cross the railway between Stander[?] and Heidelberg. ...

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  51. BANK FAILURE IN GERMANY.

    Following upon the stoppage of the Dresdener Creditanstaalt, the Leipziger Bank, at Leipzig, has suspended payment. ...

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  52. AN ARISTOCRATIC SHOWMAN

    The Hon. Eric James Lascelles, brother of the Earl of Harewood, has just died. He has been missing for a long time, and it has been discovered that during the time ...

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  53. "BOXERISM" REVIVED.

    A movement known as "The Allied Villagers'" movement is spreading in China. It is merely the "Boxer" movement under another name. ...

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  54. THE REFUGEE CAMPS.

    [?] Boer refugee camps have been [?]tablished in the Orange River Colony, be[?]des nine camps for natives. To supply [?] 88 tons of foodstuffs have to be ...

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  55. TUNGFUHSIANG IN REVOLT.

    It is reported that General Tungfuhsiang is marching on Taiyuenfu, the capital of the marching on Taiyuenfu, the capital of the Province of Shansi. The Governor of ...

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  56. LORD METHUEN SCORES.

    Lord Methuen, who has for a loner time past been operating in the Western Transvaal, has defeated a Boer force at Welgebom Spruit, killing 26 of the enemy, and ...

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  57. ADMIRAL HOSKINS DEAD.

    The death is announced of Admiral Sir Anthony Hiley Hosting, formerly commander on the Australian naval station, aged 73. ...

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  58. ANOTHER BATTLE-SHIP SENT.

    The first-class armoured battle-ship Albion, 12,950 tons, 16 guns, has been ordered to China to strengthen the British squadron. ...

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  59. FRANCE AND GERMANY.

    Several Paris newspapers support a suggestion that the Emperor William should be invited to be present at the French naval man[?]uvres at Cherbourg. ...

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  60. THE CAPE RAIDERS.

    In the House of Commons Mr. Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War, stated that there were between 1,000 and 2,000 Boer raiders in the Cape Colony. ...

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  61. IMPERIAL APPEAL COURT.

    The conference of jurists summoned by Mr. Chamberlain to consider the establishment of an Imperial Court of Appeal met on June 26. ...

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  62. A HOT RETORT.

    [?] Austen Chamberlain declared at a [?]servative luncheon that the meanest [?]bbler and the meanest journal had never [?]de a more infamous and unfounded ...

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  63. JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.

    Since the breakdown of the charge against him, Dowie's city of Zion, 42 miles north of Chicago, on the shore of Lake Michigan, has been growing rapidly. ...

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  64. ARTILLERY ACCIDENT.

    During artillery practice at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, the breech of a 12-pounder burst, killing a captain and a gunner and wounding six men. ...

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  65. BOERS AND THEIR BRETHREN.

    Mr. Jacobus Nicolaas Petrus Botha, one of the members of the Cape House of Assembly for Aliwal North, has been cruelly flogged with a sjambok, or raw-hide whip, by ...

    Article : 53 words
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