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  2. SPORTING EDITION.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.56 p.m.—The composite regiment of Household Cavalry has left Cape-town by train to reinforce Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen's forces ...

    Article : 40 words
  3. THE COAL TRADE.

    NEWCASTLE, Saturday Afternoon.—The colliery owners of the district met the miners' representatives in conference at the Chamber of Commerce to-day to discuss the terms of the proposed ...

    Article : 477 words
  4. MOOREFIELD RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,067 words
  5. ANOTHER TRAM HORROR

    A fatal tram accident ocurred near Belmore Park this afternoon, a child named Albert Franklin, 4 years of age, being killed. It appears that the youngster, with a brother, had been to "Paddy's ...

    Article : 278 words
  6. THE RAINFALL.

    The Government Astronomer is at present out of town, but an "Evening News" reporter, who made inquiries at the Observatory this afternoon, relating to weather matters in general, was informed ...

    Article : 418 words
  7. FAMINE IN INDIA.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.57 p.m.—Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, reports that there has been no rain, and prospects are worse. No fewer than two and three quarter million of people are being ...

    Article : 49 words
  8. SHIPPING DISASTER.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.57 p.m.—The Channel Islands mail steamer, Ibex, struck on the Black Rock, off the coast of Guernsey. The steamer afterwards sank slowly, all on ...

    Article : 39 words
  9. THE BOERS BEFORE GATACRE.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.57 p.m.—The Boers have evacuated Molteno. (A cablegram yesterday stated that the Boers had occupied Molteno and Cyphergat. Sir ...

    Article : 58 words
  10. DIED HOMELESS AND FRIENDLESS.

    The man whose body was found lying in Hyde Park on Wednesday last, having died from cerebral apoplexy, has been identified as Peter M'Cabe, 63, a laborer. Deceased, who was a native of ...

    Article : 59 words
  11. CONTINGENT NOTES.

    The Premier received a cable to-day from the Secretary for State for the Colonies, conveying the thanks of the Imperial Government to New South Wales for the prompt dispatch of "A" ...

    Article : 234 words
  12. AN ASIATIC PROBLEM.

    The prisoners' dock of the Water Police Court has probably contained at different times a greater variety of nationalities than any similar institution in the city, and to-day it guarded a more ...

    Article : 628 words
  13. TICK INOCULATION.

    Dr. Tidswell, who proceeded some short time ago to Queensland to test the efficacy of inoculation as a preventive against tick fever, reports to the Minister for Agriculture that a ...

    Article : 214 words
  14. AT RENDSRURG.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.56 p.m.—Two lieutenants of the British Cavalry were captured by the enemy at Rendsburg, owing to their having mistaken a body of the Boers for the New Zealanders. ...

    Article : 42 words
  15. MR. RUSSELL'S FORECAST.

    New South Wales.—Unsettled, muggy weather, rising temperatures; some rain and thunderstorms, chiefly on coast and highlands; winds tending to north-east. ...

    Article : 473 words
  16. THE DISLOYAL DUTCH.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.56 p.m.—All the prisoners captured by Colonel Pilcher at Sunnyside were rebels. The success of the British at Douglas has ...

    Article : 38 words
  17. BAD MEAT.

    At the Water Police Court to-day, before Mr. Macfarlane, D.S.M., Ernest Rivett, a duly-appointed inspector of the Board of Health, appeared to present a complaint that about 6cwt of corned ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. THE SHARE MARKET.

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  19. CIVIL SERVICE VOLUNTEERS.

    A large meeting of the employees of the Government Printing Office was held this morning in the reading-room on the premises, Bent-street, to consider matters in connection with the formation of ...

    Article : 452 words
  20. WOUNDED OFFICERS

    LONDON, January 5, 3.57 p.m.—Major lord Edward Cecil (fourth son of the Marquis of Salisbury) of the Grenadier Guards, who is Chief of the Staff to Colonel Baden-Powell at Mafeking, who was ...

    Article : 66 words
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  22. SWAZILAND.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.36 p.m.—The Queen of Swaziland is dead. The late King's brother, Necoco, is terrorising the natives, whom he is freely massacring. ...

    Article : 97 words
  23. THE ELECTORAL COM­MITTEE.

    The Premier has selected Mr. M'Masters, of the Selectors' Relief Board, and Mr. George Lewis, formerly of the Electoral Department, to be two of the members of the committee to divide the ...

    Article : 49 words
  24. THE CANADIAN VOLUN­TEERS.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.56 p.m.—The second Ca-nadian contingent left Montreal for Capetown to-day. There was an enormous demonstration at the ...

    Article : 36 words
  25. THE RAILWAY TRAMS.

    In connection with the running of the George-street tram into the railway station on and from Monday next, and the introduction of the 1d fare to and from the railway by all trams, the sale ...

    Article : 138 words
  26. A YOUNG WOMAN MISSING.

    The police have received word of the mysterious disappearance from Brisbane, on December 13, of a young girl, named Ethel Floyd, 16 years of age, 5ft 6in high, of dark complexion, and having black ...

    Article : 56 words
  27. N.S.W. PATRIOTIC FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 318 words
  28. THE CRICKET MATCH.

    The match New South Wales v. South Australia should have begun to-day, but at noon it was still raining, when the umpires (C. Bannerman and P. Argall) inspected the wicket and decided ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. IRISH FIELD HOSPITAL.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.57 p.m.—Lord Iveagh will equip a field hospital with Irish surgeons and nurses for service in South Africa. (Lord Iveagh is the third son of the late Sir ...

    Article : 69 words
  30. LATE SHIPPING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 539 words
  31. FIRE ON" A RIVER LAUNCH.

    MURWILLUMBAH, Saturday.—About 2 o'clock this morning a fire was discovered on board Messrs. Skinner Brothers' river launch Magnet, lying in the river, close to the new ...

    Article : 159 words
  32. AN ASPIRANT TO FAME.

    "It's all right, sir; I'm a detective," said a tall, seedy-looking individual to one of the assistants in the shop of Riley Brothers, George and Bathurst streets, yesterday. He did not however, possess ...

    Article : 263 words
  33. FRUIT.

    The threatening weather, following on the reaction after the holidays, has further conduced to dull business across counter, and yesterday afternoon and this morning wholesale orders ...

    Article : 359 words
  34. IRISH MOUNTED INFANTRY

    LONDON, January 5, 3.56 p.m.—A mounted infantry corps is forming in Ireland, to join Lord Chesham's Yeomanry Volunteers. ...

    Article : 28 words
  35. A BOY SHOT DEAD.

    COOMA, Saturday.—A fatal accident occurred here yesterday. Three lads were out shooting with two pea rifles, about a quarter of a mile from town. They were walking along when a ...

    Article : 134 words
  36. THE CITY OF LONDON VOLUNTEERS.

    LONDON, January 5, 3.57 p.m.—Mr. William Waldorf Astor, the American millionaire who has recently become naturalised in England, has given £5000 toward the formation of a battery ...

    Article : 54 words
  37. DOUBTS OF A LANCER'S SAFETY REMOVED.

    BERRY, Saturday.—Trooper Pestall, of the N.S.W. Lancers, an interview with whom by the war correspondent of the Melbourne "Herald" appeared yesterday in the "Evening News" had ...

    Article : 65 words
  38. ANOTHER SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

    Sydney Daniels, 14, residing at Foster-street, Leichhardt, was admitted to Prince Alfred Hospital this afternoon suffering from a wound in the right arm. He stated that he was shooting birds ...

    Article : 127 words
  39. COUNTRY VOLUNTEERS.

    WEST MAINTLAND, Saturday.—Messrs. Harold Mullen (of the Bank of Australasia), Fortescue, Cooper, and Jno. Dunshea, have volunteered for ...

    Article : 58 words
  40. RAILWAY ROBBERY.

    ALBUBY, Saturday.—A man was arrested this morning on a charge of railway at the railway station goodshed. A large Quantity of goods, including three cases of beer, bad been removed ...

    Article : 42 words
  41. ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.

    The Army Nursing Service Reserve is attached to the Army Medical Corps; and in connection with the cable received yesterday by Mr. Lyne intimating that the Imperial authorities had ...

    Article : 417 words
  42. HORSES FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    BERRY, Saturday.—Fifty horses were bought at Nowra yesterday by Major Thompson, who is buying for the British army In South Africa, through Messrs. Stewart and Norton. The ...

    Article : 70 words
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