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  2. THE TRANSVAAL.

    Only 100 Colonial Dutch have joined the eastern commando under Commandant Kruitzinger. Jan. 19. ...

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  3. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The murderers of M. Stamboloff, the Bulgarian ex-Premier, who was killed at Sofia in 1895, have escaped from prison. ...

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  4. THE QUEEN.

    The Court Circular from Osborne, where her Majesty the Queen is at present residing, states that her Majesty has not lately had her usual health, and is unable to take her ...

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  5. SECOND EDITION

    Profound sympathy is shown throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada with her Majesty the Queen in her illness. All the sovereigns of Europe have made ...

    Article : 121 words
  6. RUSSIAN FINANCE.

    More interest is taken in the finances of Russia than in those of any other nation. And for very good reasons. With a wellfilled war-chest Russia is regarded as a ...

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  7. TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    The work of enrolling the Imperial draft contingent for service in South Africa is proceeding apace. The intention is to organise a body of 500 men, divided into four companies, each 125 strong, ...

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  8. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    On Saturday a couplimentary launch picnic was given to Sergeant Tebbutt, Corporal Cousene, and Private Stovens, members of the Army Medical Corps, by their friends of Globe Point. The launch ...

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  9. MR. P. V. BEVAN.

    Mr. P. V. Bevan, son of the Rev. Dr. Bevan, of Melbourne, has been appointed assistant-demonstrator to the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge university. ...

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  10. THE QUEEN'S INDISPOSITION.

    The Queen's indisposition, news of which is cabled, will be heard of with sympathy and pain by her Majesty's loyal subjects everywhere. The news is the ...

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  11. WELCOME TO TROOPER M'NAIR.

    A welcome home was given to Trooper M'Nair in St. Jude's Hall, Randwick, on the 18th instant. The Rev. W. Hough presided, and with him on the platform were Aldermen Hodgson (Mayor), Hiucks, ...

    Article : 359 words
  12. FRENCH CONVICT RELEASED.

    The convict Gabrielle Bompard has been released by the French authorities on the ground of good conduct. In 1889 Gabrielle Bompard decoyed a ...

    Article : 78 words
  13. THE TRANSVAAL.

    Three squadrons of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles captured a Boer outpost at Springs, 30 miles cast of Johannesburg. Afterwards the Mounted Rifle, repelled a ...

    Article : 45 words
  14. DISARMAMENT OF CIVILIANS.

    The announcement that all colonists except officials and soldiers in the Cape Peninsula must give up their arms by February 1, came as a thunderbolt to the disloyalists. ...

    Article : 70 words
  15. MURDER IN A TRAIN.

    The ex-soldier Hill, who, it is alleged, murdered a farmer named Pearson in a train between Surbiton and Arauxhall, was brought up at the police court and remanded. He ...

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  16. A MINES TRAIN CAPTURED.

    The Boors captured a train at East Balmoral, on the Delagoa Bay line. The train containcd a quantity of mining material. ...

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  17. A BRITISH POST SURROUNDED FOR FIVE DAYS.

    The Boers surrounded Danielsknil on January 5, and attacked it during five days. They threatened that unless the post surrendered they would destroy all the houses, ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. DUTCH COLONISTS JOIN THE RAIDERS.

    Sixty-seven of the Dutch colonists at Aberdeen have joined the raiders. ...

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  19. HOSPITAL COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS.

    The general secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association has packed and forwarded to the Cape Colony Red Cross Society a case of hospital comforts and clothing for troops is South Africa. It is ...

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  20. FRENCH VINTAGE.

    The French vintage amounts to 67,000,000 hectolitres, being the largest yield since 1875. ...

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  21. CANADIAN REINFORCEMENTS.

    There have sailed from Canada for Cape Colony 1300 troops and 500 men for MajorGeneral Baden Powell's police force. ...

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  22. THE LONDON AND GLOBE FINANCE CORPORATION.

    Mr. Justice Wright has sanctioned the voluntary winding up of the London and Globe Finance Corporation, Limited, under the supervision of the Bankruptcy Court. ...

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  23. LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.

    Trooper W. S. Rich, of C Squadron New South Wales Mounted Riflies, writing from Kroomstadt under date of December 20 to his father, Mr. W. M. Rich, of Mount Victoria, in the course of his ...

    Article : 1,102 words
  24. BUSHMEN IN THE ORANGE RIVER COLONY.

    The Australian Bushmen pnrticipated in the victory of the New Zealanders at Ventersburg, in the northern portion of the Orange River Colony. ...

    Article : 61 words
  25. THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILWAY.

    Sir John Forrest has on several occasions luring the past week or so made reference to the prospect of an extension of the railway so as to bridge the distance between the ...

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  26. RESUMED DUTY.

    Captain E. J. Joseph, of the Queensland Imperial Bushmon, has resumed duty. ...

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  27. THE FAILURE OF HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH.

    Field-Marshal Lord Eoberts, the Commander-in-Chief, had an audience with her Majesty on Monday last. Since Tuesday the Queen has stopped taking drives. ...

    Article : 70 words
  28. AUSTRALASIAN CASUALTIES.

    Private F. B. Thorpe, of the Victorian Bushmen at Pretoria, Corporal Westburgh, of the New South Wales Bushmen at Vryburg, and Corporal J. A. Smith, of the South ...

    Article : 43 words
  29. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    At the wool sales to-day bidding was spirited and prices were fully maintained. Jan. 19. The following prices were realised for the ...

    Article : 113 words
  30. DE WET'S COMMANDO.

    A trooper, who was taken prisoner in one of the engagements with Commandant de Wet, and who was subsequently released, states that the men of the Commandant's ...

    Article : 64 words
  31. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The transport Britannic, with the Imperial troops aboard, will remain in New Zealand from February 2 to Fobruary 11. She will reach Adelaide on February 17, and ...

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  32. THE NEWS IN THE COUNTRY.

    The news of the serious illness of her Majesty Queen Victoria has caused much concern here, and later news is anxiously looked forward to. BRISBANE, Sunday. ...

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  33. CHANGES IN COMMANDS.

    Lieutenant-General C. Tucker, commanding the 7th Division, has been appointed Governor of Bloemfontein, vice Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter, who has been invalided. ...

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  34. THE LONDON DINNER.

    The dinner which was to have been given to-morrow to celebrate the inauguration of the Commonwealth has been postponed. ...

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  35. SIR WILLIAM LYNE AT ALBURY.

    Sir William Lyne arrived here this morning. During the forenoon he was waited upon by a deputation from the hospital Mr. C. Tenbrink pointed out that the Government had recently voted £9000 for ...

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  36. THE VICTORIAN DRAFT.

    The Minister of Defence has almost concluded arrangements for chartering the City of Lincoln for the conveyance of horses for the fifth coutingent to South Africa. This steamer recently took 875 horses ...

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  37. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    It is reported at Portsmouth that, in consequence of the illness of the Queen, the visit of the Duke and the Duchess of York to Australia has been abandoned. ...

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  38. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of the Due de Broglie, aged 80 years. ...

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  39. THE OPERATIONS IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    During the march of Colonel Colvile from Geelbecksvlei (New Denmark) southwards to Vlaklaagte, near the south-eastern border of the Transvaal, 700 Boers attacked ...

    Article : 106 words
  40. CHILD MURDER AT MELBOURNE.

    A middle-aged man was arrested to-day on a charge of wilful murder, at North Melbourne, of a child named Frederick Gladstone Geacb, aged 2½ year. The facts of the crime are peculiar. ...

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  41. THE COMMONWEALTH FESTIVITIES.

    Speaking at Hunter's Hill on Saturday evening, Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan referred to the manner in which the festivities in connection with the inauguration of the Commonwealth had been carried out. ...

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  42. THE CRUISER SYBILLE WRECKED.

    H.M.S, Sybille, which went ashore at Saldanha Bay, was seeking shelter from a storm, and is a total wreck. She has two large holes in the bottom of her keel. ...

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  43. SIR H. E. COLVILE.

    Major-General Sir Henry E. Colvile, lately commanding the Infantry Brigade at Gibraltar, has been placed on retired pay, to date from yesterday. ...

    Article : 173 words
  44. VICTORIA.

    Captain Tickell, officer commanding the Victorian Naval Contingent in China, has reported that the stores supplied to the contingent before leaving Victoria were found to be good, and gave no cause of ...

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  45. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DRAFT.

    The Premier (Mr. Holder) has mads local arrangements for the transport of the South Australian contingent to South Africa. Mr. Holder found that under the proposals contemplated in the other States ...

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  46. THE IMPERIAL TROOPS.

    The visiting Imperial troops were entertained at the Exhibition Grounds last night. It is estimated about 40,000 persons were present. A number of aboriginals gave a corroboree. The main street of ...

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  47. TO-DAY.

    North Sydney Federal Electorate: E. M. Clark Addresses the Electors at North Sydney School of Arts, 8 p.m. Adjourned Special Meeting of Tailors, Trades Hall, Dixon-street, 8 p.m. ...

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  48. RABBIT DESTRUCTION.

    Mr. H. Bowler, manager of Mr W. Lee's Middlefield station, near Narromine, writing to the district inspector of stock (Mr. R. G. Dulhunty), reports having coped with the rabbit post very successfully ...

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  49. TRANSPORTATION OF BOER REFUGEES.

    The Portuguese authorities are transporting to Lisbon 900 Boer refugees at Delagoa Bay. ...

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  50. AUSTRALASIAN CASUALTIES.

    Private J. M. Logan, of the New South Wales Bushmen, who was reported dangerously wounded at Vlakfontoin, received a gunshot wound in the abdomen. It has since ...

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  51. AUSTRALIAN NATIVES' ASSOCIATION.

    At the Gymea branch of the A.N.A. meeting on Friday night Mr. L. C. Russell-Jones (president) occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance. Thirteen new members were elected, amongst them ...

    Article : 86 words
  52. A RETURNED OFFICER.

    Lieutenant-colonel J.H.P. Murray, who returned from South Africa on Saturday morning by the R.M.S. Oroya, was received by an escort composed of a detachment of men from his own regiment (the ...

    Article : 203 words
  53. Advertising

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  54. CONGRATULATIONS FROM FIJI.

    The citizens of Suva and Fiji Federal League have written to Mr. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, who left Sydney last night for Melbourne, requesting him to convey to the Government of the ...

    Article : 60 words
  55. Advertising

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  56. GENERAL NEWS.

    Twenty Boer prisoners jumped from a transport on arriving-at Ceylon, and took refuge on a Russian steamer bound for, Odessa. No effert was made to detain the ...

    Article : 35 words
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