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  2. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    A meeting of the Board of Health was held yesterday afternoon. The only fresh matter that cropped up in connection with the bubonic plague outbreak was a request from the M.M. ...

    Article : 255 words
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  4. WAR ITEMS.

    The Brisbane "Courier," of Monday, publishes the following interesting extracts from private let­ters from Major Sellheim, of the Queensland de­fence force, whose gallant feai in swimming the ...

    Article : 1,050 words
  5. THE MOREE SUICIDE.

    MOREE, Tuesday.—The coroner (Mr. C. H. Gale) held an inquest yesterday at the court-house on the body of John H. Polak, aged 41, a draper's assistant. Deceased was a native of ...

    Article : 344 words
  6. "THE TRUMPET CALLS."

    "We have received from Mr. G. Dunne, of this city, a copy of a patriotic poem entitled "The Trumpet Calls," composed by him on Christmas Day. Mr. Dunne offered the proceeds of the ...

    Article : 148 words
  7. JUBILATION IN JAVA.

    "When the steamer Clitus, which has returned to Melbourne, called at Java, there was great jubilation amongst the Dutch, in that island over information received from Boer sources that the ...

    Article : 391 words
  8. SERIOUS NEWS FROM NOUMEA.

    NOUMEA, Tuesday.—No new cases of plague were reported on Saturday and Sunday, but to-­day one European, one Arab, and two kanakas were placed in quarantine, from the infected ...

    Article : 229 words
  9. N.S.W. GOLD YIELD FOR 1899

    The last statement of the year, prepared by the Department of Mines, showing the gold yield of the colony for December and during the past twelve months, was issued yesterday. It may ...

    Article : 307 words
  10. THE GLEBE ASSAULT.

    At the Glebe Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Wilshire, S.M., Tobias O'Toole, 20, laborer, was charged with having, in company, with others, assaulted John Napier, a resident of ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. GASTRIC TROUBLES.

    Sir,—Our men in the Transvaal are likely to be much troubled with gastric troubles, due to bad water and change of food, to which every soldier is subject, in common with others. To have ...

    Article : 230 words
  12. THEFTS AT PADDINGTON BARRACKS.

    The recent movements in connection with war matters have had the effect of leaving a lot of cast-off military impedimenta knocking about the Victoria Barracks at Paddington, Which the ...

    Article : 308 words
  13. ALLEGED ASSAULT AT CAMPERDOWN,

    At the Glebe Police Court yesterday, Quarry Johnson, 27, Thomas Sager, 22, and Harry Parysons, 28, were charged with having in company, assaulted Neil Matthew Spithill, occasioning actual ...

    Article : 358 words
  14. TATTERSALL'S SWEEPS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 words
  15. THE BYRNES MONUMENT.

    The monument raised to the memory of the late Hon. T. J. Byrnes (who was Premier of Queensland at the time of his death) by the family of the deceased statesman in Toowong Cemetery (says ...

    Article : 319 words
  16. THE SOLDIER'S PLEA.

    At the Central Criminal Court, London, recently, before the Common Sergeant, Sir Forrest Fulton, Q.C., Frederick James Rous, who wore the uniform of a sergeant of the 4th Battalion of the ...

    Article : 192 words
  17. THE BUSH CONTINGENT.

    Sir,—The suggested contingent mentioned by Mr. Willis, M.L.A., in the House for service in South Africa, is good business, and I quite concur in every word that gentleman says in his ...

    Article : 221 words
  18. ROBBED IN THE STREET.

    Richard Gunn, 27, a cabdriver, and Annie Grant, 35, married, were charged yesterday, at the Central Police Court, with having stolen a purse from the person of a man, name unknown. ...

    Article : 148 words
  19. THE HORSE HE WANTED.

    The following incident (says the Natal "Mercury") is vouched for by a gentleman just arrived from Johannesburg: A few days after hostilities commenced, a sale of horses was conducted on ...

    Article : 281 words
  20. HAWKESBURY ITEMS.

    WINDSOR, Tuesday.—A petition for the establishment of a school in the vicinity of Cornwallis is being largely signed, and Mr. J. Upton has offered to donate a suitable site. The Roman Catholic Chapel in Windsor was ...

    Article : 150 words
  21. POPULARITY OF MANLY.

    The popularity of Manly as a watering place for N.S.W. residents is ever-increasing, and visitors from everywhere rarely leave without passing a considerable portion of ...

    Article : 269 words
  22. EXPERIENCES OF A SCOUT.

    A member of Thornycroft's Mounted Infantry writes to the Melbourne "Argus" from Mooi River, November 25: We have been in action for the last three days, ...

    Article : 1,569 words
  23. LICENSING COURTS.

    The annual licensing court for the Redfe[?]trict was held at the local police court [?] There were in all 144 applicants for hawk [?] amongst them being 6 English[?] ...

    Article : 173 words
  24. THE BOYS AND THE PISTOL

    Another shooting accident, caused by the temporary juxtaposition of a boy and a pistol, occurred last evening in the Camperdown Park. Two boys are said to have been ...

    Article : 148 words
  25. AFTER TWO ESCAPES.

    The police have received word of the capture, in West Australia, of a man named Ben Bridges, said to have been at one time well known about the Hunter district. Bridges escaped from the ...

    Article : 77 words
  26. AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL.

    "WINDSOR, Tuesday.—As a few acceptable showers of rain have fallen, farmers look less gloomy. The holidays have greatly interfered with operations; and though the crops do not ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. THE WENTWORTH PARK SEWER TROUBLE.

    The subject of the delay in proceeding with the construction of the low level sewer near Wentworth Park was before the Glebe Council at Tuesday night's meeting, when a letter ...

    Article : 302 words
  28. AN AUSTRALIAN TRAINING SHIP

    A London contemporary states that H.M.S. Raleigh, until recently commodore's ship, of the Training Squadron, will be sent to Australia to serve as a colonial training ship. ...

    Article : 127 words
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  30. RESIDENCE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

    In regard to the statement that Sir George Turner, when Premier of Victoria, wrote to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, offering Government House for the use of the ...

    Article : 93 words
  31. THE REFORMERS' REVENGE.

    A correspondent, writing to the "Times," tells the story of how and why the Imperial Light Horse was raised, and sees a trace of Nemesis in the fact that in their first fight the Reformers' ...

    Article : 203 words
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