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  2. WAR ITEMS.

    The "Daily Chronicle" of November 24 says:—"A Cabinet meeting was held yesterday, and we are not told what took place at it. But we are told that the Cabinet, either yesterday or ...

    Article : 265 words
  3. MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

    Numerous complaints have been made of late by the residents about the dust nuisance in George-street and the Pyrmont Bridge-road, Camperdown. At the last meeting of the local council the Mayor ...

    Article : 1,919 words
  4. INCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

    The extraordinary facility for getting mixed up with things which is characteristic of the George-street electric tram will be maintained, apparently, during the year just beginning, for the ...

    Article : 461 words
  5. HORSES FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    Major Charles Thompson, 7th Dragoon Guards, is seeking to purchase immediately broken-in horses for the use of the army in South Africa. The kind of horses required must be broken, either ...

    Article : 235 words
  6. HURSTVILLE PROGRESS ASSOCIATION.

    The Hurstville Progress Association met at the local council chambers on Friday evening, for the purpose of selecting by ballot one of their number to he run as a candidate for the Hurstville Ward ...

    Article : 402 words
  7. WAR AND PROMOTION.

    The Aldershot correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," on November 24, said: "Never before in the history of the British Army have such runs of promotion been experienced in the ...

    Article : 203 words
  8. RETURN OF THE WAIWERA.

    HOBART (TAS.), Tuesday.—The steamer Waiwera, from the Cape for New Zealand, has put in here for coal. She has on board Private Seager, of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, under ...

    Article : 89 words
  9. FAREWELLS TO VOLUNTEERS.

    A number of the friends of air Walter Downs, of H Company, 3rd Regiment, who is one of the contingent in camp at Randwick, preparatory to their departure for the Transvaal, took advantage ...

    Article : 214 words
  10. PERMISSIBLE DODGES IN WAR.

    So much has been made during the present war of the reported firing by the Boers upon Red Cross parties and places, and upon the white flag, that some authentic information as to the ...

    Article : 370 words
  11. DIVING ACCIDENT AT MANLY.

    A young man named Reginald Brierley, aged about 24, met with a serious accident while bathing at the Manly Lagoon. He was diving from a bridge some 10ft or 11ft high into about 4ft of ...

    Article : 82 words
  12. ACCIDENT NEAR BENDIGO.

    MELBOURNE, Monday Afternoon.—A Bendigo train bound to Axedale races to-day ran into a van containing a picnic party at M'Ivor-road crossing, a few miles out of Bendigo. James Brown, who ...

    Article : 176 words
  13. SINGLETON DISTRICT NEWS

    SINGLETON, Monday.—Mr. A. Gates, relieving C.P.S. here for the past six months, has been granted sick leave for two months. His place is being filled by Mr. Jameson, another relieving ...

    Article : 242 words
  14. A MODERN BATTLE.

    "The distance is 6600 yards from the enemy. The artillery is in position, and the command has been passed along the batteries to 'give fire.' The enemy's artillery replies. Shells tear up the soil ...

    Article : 583 words
  15. THE DERIVATION OF "KHAKI."

    It is refreshing to be able to bowl out Rudyard Kipling in a little matter of detail, particularly of Indian military detail, of which he is ordinarily a great master. But his spelling of "kharki" ...

    Article : 115 words
  16. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    Yesterday the Messageries Maritimes steamer Pacifique returned to her berth at Circular Quay from quarantine. It will be remembered that last week the vessel was ordered to the ...

    Article : 66 words
  17. SCHOOL OF ARTS DEBATING CLUB.

    On Thursday night the members of the club met as usual, not to discuss political questions, but to enjoy a musical evening. It was the last meeting of the year. There was an excellent ...

    Article : 278 words
  18. A NARROW ESCAPE

    "As a couple of young ladies were walking along Castlereagh-street shortly after 2 yesterday afternoon, they were alarmed by a tremendous crash upon the iron shop awning above their ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. AN ENTRENCHMENT PLOUGH.

    For some weeks prior to the departure of the last English mail the military authorities at Aldershot had been experimenting with a gigantic steam-plough, which can cut a trench 4ft deep ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. GENERAL G. A. FRENCH, R.A., C.M.G.

    General George Arthur French, R.A., is the son of the late John French, Esquire, of Mornington Park, County Dublin, and, like so many of his gallant countrymen, has followed the ...

    Article : 266 words
  21. A LONELY SUICIDE.

    Mr. John Smith, of Adolphus-street, Balmain, was walking through the bush near Pymble yesterday, when he discovered the body of a man, which was in a kneeling, position, at the foot of ...

    Article : 436 words
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