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  2. BREVITIES.

    The Customs revenue received in Sydney yesterday was £5943. At Bourke yesterday, the thermometer recorded 112deg in the shade. ...

    Article : 1,458 words
  3. SAMOAN AFFAIRS.

    The Union Company's steamer Manapouri arrived here this morning from Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, after a passage of six days from Nadi. The Manapouri was the first vessel to convey the ...

    Article : 674 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 410 words
  5. THE BOER WAR.

    LONDON, December 8.—President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has arrived at Spytfontein, where he has been received with enthusiasm. LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—There are ...

    Article : 80 words
  6. STRENGTHENING THE FORCES.

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—A heavy siege train with an enormous quantity of ammunition has been dispatched by the Tantallon Castle. The War Office has issued orders for the ...

    Article : 46 words
  7. CAPE VOLUNTEERS IN THE FIELD.

    LONDON, December 7.—There are 10,000 Cape volunteers in the field. ...

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  8. MR. ROBERTSON ACQUITTED

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—Mr. Robertson (a friend of Mr. Cecil Rhodes), who was held by the Boers on a charge of illegally recruiting in Pretoria, has been acquitted. ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. THE TROOPS ENGAGED.

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—Mr. J. Powell, M.P. for South Birmingham, and Financial Secretary to the War Office, states that the forces engaged in South Africa, including the troops ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. THE POSITION AT KIMBERLEY.

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—The latest news from Kimberley states that there is sufficient provisions for 40 days, ana that "water is plentiful. ...

    Article : 35 words
  11. PRESIDENT KRUGER'S ASPIRATIONS.

    LONDON, December 8.—Lord Loch, formerly Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner in South Africa, during a speech at the Imperial Institute last night referred to the situation in ...

    Article : 77 words
  12. LORD METHUEN REINFORCED.

    LONDON, December 7.—A battery of Horse Artillery and the 12th (the Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers have reinforced Lord Methuen. ...

    Article : 26 words
  13. A LETTER FROM LADYSMITH.

    NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—Captain Cross, president of the local Marine Board, is in receipt of the following letter from his son, Mr. Edwin Cross, under date Camp, Ladysmith, Natal, October 27. ...

    Article : 579 words
  14. THE ORANGE RIVER COLUMN.

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—Two batteries of artillery and other reinforcements have reached Major General Gatacre. The spread of the rebellion in the north of Cape ...

    Article : 44 words
  15. Seeking Relief in Death.

    Yesterday two friendless girls, tired and weary of the cruel battle for existence which they had waged with the world while courage and endurance lasted, sought to end their existence and troubles ...

    Article : 534 words
  16. THE BARRON FALLS.

    If Mr. Dawson's assertion in the Queensland Legislative Assembly be true, his Labor Ministry, almost stillborn as it was, managed to find out something about the wicked long-lived ...

    Article : 456 words
  17. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 350 words
  18. DORDRECHT ANNEXED BY THE ENEMY.

    LONDON, December 8.—The Free State Boers have wrecked the Indwe Coalfields Railway, near Dordrecht, in the disaffected district of Cape Colony, and "annexed" the Dordrecht district to the ...

    Article : 39 words
  19. LADYSMITH.

    LONDON, December 8, 5.55 a.m.—Ladysmith was safe on the 5th instant (Tuesday last), though the situation was becoming daily more difficult. The bombardment is doing considerable damage. ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. THE BOERS AT COLENSO.

    LONDON, December 7.—The British naval guns have engaged the Boers "Long Tom" at Colenso. ...

    Article : 20 words
  21. TERRIBLE FATALITY AT YASS.

    YASS, Saturday.—The townspeople were thrown into a state of great consternation about 9 o'clock last night, when a messenger arrived in town with the news that four persons two men and ...

    Article : 251 words
  22. GERMANY.

    LONDON, December 7.—Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chancellor of Germany, has issued a decree repealing the recent prohibition against the union of political societies in the Empire. ...

    Article : 64 words
  23. THE NATIONAL CREDIT.

    IT was all very well in Mr. Lyne and his friends, with the assistance of the Auditor-General, to keep on defaming the financial credit of the country before they came into power, but now ...

    Article : 833 words
  24. ARREST FOR TREASON.

    LONDON, December 7.—Mr. Pretorius, a member of the Natal House of Assembly, has been arrested on a charge of treason. General Joubert, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, spent two nights ...

    Article : 41 words
  25. HEAT APOPLEXY.

    Few people need to be reminded that at the present time this colony in common with the others, i[?] experiencing what is mildly termed the effects of a heat wave, or by vulgar people, a spell of ...

    Article : 252 words
  26. DISASTER TO A LIFEBOAT.

    LONDON, December 8.—The Aldeburgh (Suffolk) lifeboat capsized in a gale off the coast of Suffolk yesterday. Six of the crew were drowned, and the ...

    Article : 41 words
  27. THE BOER FORCES.

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—Lieutenant General Sir G. White reports that dissensions have occurred between the Free State troops and the Transvaal troops, and that the enemy's ...

    Article : 46 words
  28. THE TRANSVAAL.

    "We've been hearing a lot of funny things late"ly" in the way of comments on the war. Says one commentator to-day: "In civilised warfare, so "great is the risk of officers recognised to be, and ...

    Article : 1,099 words
  29. THE KONIGIN LUISE ASHORE.

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—The North German Lloyd's steamer Konigin Luise in ashore in a critical position at the mouth of the Scheldt, Holland. ...

    Article : 58 words
  30. Advertising

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    Advertising : 110 words
  31. THE W.A. CONTINGENT.

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—The men of the West Australian contingent are night picketing on the Orange River. ...

    Article : 31 words
  32. THE MANLY DIVING ACCIDENT.

    The young man, Gilbert Thompson, lately employed at the Gundagal branch of the Bank of N.S.W., who was injured by diving into too shallow water at the Manly Baths on Wednesday, ...

    Article : 89 words
  33. Advertising

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    Advertising : 63 words
  34. THE N.S.W. CONTINGENT.

    LONDON, December 8, 4.15 p.m.—The Aberdeen Line steamer Aberdeen with the N.S.W. Infantry and Mounted Rifles arrived at Port Elizabeth on December 3, and was ordered to Capetown. ...

    Article : 32 words
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