A northerly gale was blowing at Gabe Island this morning. The Customs revenue received in Sydney yesterday, was £5613. ...
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Advertising : 450 wordsLONDON, December 22, 3.45 p.m.—There is sufficient food in Ladysmith to last three months. ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, December 22, 3.45 p.m.—The Canadians are volunteering ten times in excess of the numbers required. ...
Article : 22 wordsLONDON, December 22.—The Lord Mayor of London is inundated with applications from persons who are anxious to join the volunteer corps he is raising. ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, December 22, 3.45 p.m.—The English soldiers who were taken prisoners at Stormberg were compelled to march for 48 hours without food or water to Burghersdorp. ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Lord Roberts, in a message to the Americans (?Australians) and Canadians, expresses the warmest admiration for the spirit of the colonies, which forms a glorious ...
Article : 56 wordsThe grand old gardener and his wife may smile at the claims of long descent, but there must, after all, be something in lineage, or many a worthy man would not rejoice that he is unable to say, ...
Article : 487 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Lord Methuen nightly signals to Kimberley. ...
Article : 13 wordsLONDON, December 22.—The "Times" urges the War Office authorities to purchase Australian and Argentine grass-fed horses for cavalry, artillery, and transport purposes in South Africa, as the ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Lord Methuen has protested against the arrest by the Boers of a British officer, who was protected by a flag of truce. Cominandant-General Cronje insolently replied ...
Article : 48 wordsHere in Australia we have hardly begun to realise what war means in loss and bereavement; but in Great Britain this Christmas will be a sad season for many, not quite as gloomy, but ...
Article : 1,609 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Immense quantities of shrapnel shells and cartridges are being manufactured to the order of the War Office by Nobel's Explosives Company, Limited, Glasgow, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Lord Kitchener performed the journey by rail from Omdurman to Cairo in 61 hours. The train was derailed at Luxor, but Lord Kitchener escaped injury. ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, December 22, 3.45 p.m.—The "Heroes of the Naval Brigade" war fund amounts to £44,000. The Queen has authorised collections to be ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Colonel Bullock, three officers, and 40 men of the Devonshire Regiment were captured while searching for wounded after the battle of Tugela, despite the fact that a flag of ...
Article : 43 wordsDuring the progress of the present war reference has been constantly made to the marvellous rapidity with which the Kaffirs transmit news. The ability to do this, however, is not confined ...
Article : 396 wordsLONDON, December 22, 3.45 p.m.—In the course ol a speech to-day, Mr. Herbert Gladstone, M.P. for Leeds West, said the volunteers had saved the country from a panic. It was Britain's duty to ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, December 22,.3.45 p.m.—It is proposed to recruit 1500 ho[?]men from lie British farmers in Cape Colony to harass the Free Staters. ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Consols are 3 lower on the week, at 98¼. The open market rate of discount for three months' bills has risen to 6? per cent The Bank ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON. December 22, 3.45 p.m.—Seven hundred men of the Naval Contingent are to leave Portsmouth at once for the Cape. A company of the Gibraltar garrison artillery ...
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Family Notices : 441 wordsLONDON, December 22.—The steamer Duke of Westminster, of the Queensland mail line, which left London on November 29 for Brisbane, arrived at Aden on fire. The goods in the foretold were ...
Article : 60 wordsA COLLOQUIALISM at one time in great use, but now become somewhat musty and decadent, exactly describes the effect of the defeat of Mr. Sleath as a candidate for membership of the Public Works ...
Article : 790 wordsLONDON, December 22.—The British Government has chartered the steamers Assaye, Umbria, Pomeranian, Parisian, Laurentian, and Braemar Castle for transports. ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Colonel Sir Francis R. Wingate, K.C.M.G., who commanded the Anglo Egyptian force which lately defeated the Dervishes and killed the Khalifa, has been appointed ...
Article : 57 wordsThe state of Sir Joseph Abbott's health has frequently led to speculation as to whether he could continue to occupy the Speaker's chair, and last night, for the first time, he took members into ...
Article : 230 wordsLONDON, December 22.—The friends of Major General Sir William Butler, late Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, declare that he had fully advised the War Office of the Boer preparations. ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, December 22;—The Naval Committee ol the French Chamber of Deputies has adopted the bill of M. Lockroy, the. late Minister for Marine, providing for the expenditure of £10,000,000 ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Bar silver is quoted at 2s 15-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 17 wordsLONDON, December 22.—The Boers have received 150,000 rifles via Delagoa Bay. In reply to the protest of the British Government Portugal stated that the Boers had been ...
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Advertising : 111 wordsLONDON, December 22.—Li Hung Chang, the I Chinese statesman, has been appointed Viceroy of the province of Kwang Tung. ...
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Advertising : 62 wordsLONDON, December [?]—An official inquiry has been held into the loss of the transport Ismore, which went ashore at St. Helena Bay, near Capetown, while conveying Hussars and Artillery to ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Sat 23 Dec 1899, Page 4
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