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  2. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    Part of Commandant de Wet's force has been driven into a triangle formed by the junction of the Orange River and the Brak. The rivers are flooded, and the horses are not ...

    Article : 97 words
  3. CHINA.

    At the instance of the United States Government, the Allies have accepted the principle that no Power shall seek individual concessions in Chinese territory without ...

    Article : 38 words
  4. TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK.

    The Pacific Mail S.S. Company's steamer City of Ri[?] de Janeiro, 3548 tons, from Hongkong and Yokohama, struck the ledge of the entrance to the Golden Gate, San Francisco, ...

    Article : 728 words
  5. THIRD EDITION.

    The Imperial Government supports the proclamation issued by Lord Kitch[?]ner, prohibiting the circulation of newspapers and books calculated to encourage the B[?]ers ...

    Article : 40 words
  6. COMMANDANT DE WET'S POSITION[?]

    Accoiding to the reports which reach [?] from South Africa the struggle of the guer[?] leaders against the British forces is bec[?]g more hopeless every day. The centre of the ...

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  7. THE NORTHERN RAILWAYS.

    The German authorities have commenced to transfer to the British the railway from Peking to Shanhaikwan. The British have already assumed control of the P[?]king to ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. THE BOER LOSSES.

    It is estimated that the losses of the Boers in January were 1000 in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Over 200 dead were actually counted. The losses in February up to the ...

    Article : 42 words
  9. PUNISHMENT OF GUILTY OFFICIALS.

    Li Hung Chang states that Prince Chuang, who was ordered to commit suicide, and Yu[?]sien, whose decapitation was ordered by an Imperial edict, have now been punished in ...

    Article : 49 words
  10. MILITARY LAW AT JOHANNESBURG.

    A military tribunal at Johannesburg has sentenced two burghers, who were captured while attempting to enter Johannesburg, to be shot[?] for espionage. ...

    Article : 30 words
  11. DESERTERS FROM DE WET.

    Four hundred of Commandant d[?] Wet's force deserted him on hearing of the report of the proclamations issued by Lord Kitchener on December 20. The proclamations are now ...

    Article : 39 words
  12. THE EMPEROR'S RETURN TO PEKING.

    An Imperial edict orders that the palaces in the Forbidden City of P[?]king shall be prepared for the return of the Court, which will be made at the end of March. ...

    Article : 40 words
  13. JOHANNESBURG MALL STOPPED.

    An explosion on the track stopped the mail train from Natal to Johannesburg, near Heidelberg, on February 20. Three hundred Boers in hiding fired on the train, and ...

    Article : 45 words
  14. CALLOUS TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS.

    A British officer whom the Boers captured at Zand Drift, on the Orange River, and who was released at Houtkr[?]al, declares that Commandant do Wet treated his prisoners on ...

    Article : 82 words
  15. ALLIES IGNORE THE EMPRESS DOWAGER.

    Throughout all the negotiations with the Imperial Court, the Ministers of the Powers have consistently ign[?]red the Empress Dowager and have recognised the Emperor ...

    Article : 35 words
  16. CHINA.

    Chinese regulars attacked 50 Germans westward of Pa[?]-ting-fu on Thursday. The Germans fought a rearguard action, and had one man killed and seven wounded. The Chinese ...

    Article : 40 words
  17. RELIEFS FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENTS.

    The second battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusili[?]rs has been ordered to leave Hongkong and proceed to Poking to relieve the Australian contingents, which it was recently ...

    Article : 41 words
  18. THE TRANSVAAL OPERATIONS.

    The column commanded by BrigadierGeneral Burn Murdoch, including the Natal volunteer and naval composite regiment, with a large convoy, has traversed the ...

    Article : 64 words
  19. THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Commons last night Mr. J. E. Re[?]ond, Parnellite, moved an amendment to the Address in Reply asking an Imperial credit for the compulsory wholesale ...

    Article : 159 words
  20. THE CHAPLAINS.

    The chaplains who are to accompany the troops have been officially appointed, and each will take the rank of captain. They are:—Church of England, the Rev. H. R. A. Wilson; Roman Catholie, the ...

    Article : 57 words
  21. THE KING.

    The "North German Gazette" denounces as brutal the venomous attacks of other German newspapers upon king Edward, Whose visit to Germany, the "North German ...

    Article : 43 words
  22. THE AMERICAN MINISTER,

    Mr. E. H. Conger, the United States Minister at P[?]king, has been granted 60 days' leave of absence. Mr. Rockhill, the well-known traveller, will contiu[?]e the ...

    Article : 40 words
  23. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENTS.

    The War Office, through the Governor (Lord Tennyson), has accepted with thanks the offer of the South Australian Government to despatch enough men to South Africa to fill up contingents to the ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. MISREPRESENTATIONS BY THE CONCILIATION COMMITTEE.

    The "Daily Chronicle" accuses the South African Conciliation Committee of issuing pamphlets purporting to illustrate the horrors of "Lord Kitchener's iron hand," as ...

    Article : 182 words
  25. WITH THE AUSTRALIANS IN CHINA.

    The situation in China appears to be less critical, and there are many who think that the serious difficulties which he in the path will yet be overcome without further bloodshed. The Boxer movement ...

    Article : 2,037 words
  26. THE SHIPPING DISASTER.

    The drowned in the wre[?]k of the City of Rio de Janeiro, at the Golden Gate, include Mr. R. Wildman, United States ConsulGeneral at Hongkong, and his family, Mr. C. ...

    Article : 88 words
  27. VICTORIA.

    There is every probability that within a few days Mr. Mathieson (the Commissioner for Hailways) will tender his resignation to the Government. It is understood that while in England and America last ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. QUEENSLAND FIFTH CONTINGENT.

    It has been decided that the Fifth Contingent will wear an opossum ba[?]d round the hat in[?]ead of the e[?] feathers. The Templemore will berth at Pinkenba, where the contingent will embark. ...

    Article : 38 words
  29. TROOPER A. ANDREWS ENTERTAINED.

    Trooper A. Andrews, of the New South Wales Mounted R[?]es, who has returned from active service in South Africa, was on Wednesday evening entertained at a social gathering in Flood's ...

    Article : 166 words
  30. OLD AGE PENSION CLAIMS.

    The total number of old age pension certificates issued to date is 8000, being 2000 more than Sir George Turner thought. ...

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  31. IRISH NATIONALISTS' PRESS.

    The Irish Nationalists' press reminds the Irish electors that their claims are only granted in response to turbulence, violence, and refusal to pay rents. ...

    Article : 31 words
  32. TRAGIC DROWNING ACCIDENT.

    A tragi[?] drowning accident is reported from W[?]nga. A young man named James M'Kay while bathing in the Murray became distressed. A farmer named O'Loughli[?], who had just left the ...

    Article : 120 words
  33. LATE MINING.

    Mount Morgan Company has declared a dividend of 7d per share for February, payable on Friday next. ...

    Article : 21 words
  34. POLICE R[?]CRUITING IN AUSTRALIA.

    Replying to questions in the House on Commons yesterday Mr. Chamberlain said that he entirely approved of Sir Alfred Milnor confidentially inquiring of the Earl of ...

    Article : 75 words
  35. MR. ERUGER.

    Mr. Kruger has abandoned his intention to seek an interview with King Edward [?]. at Flushing, on the ground that doing so would infringe the sanctity of the Sabbath. ...

    Article : 34 words
  36. THE KING.

    King Edward slept on board the Royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, last night, and leaves Sheerness at daybreak to-day. on his journey to Germany to visit his sister, the ...

    Article : 48 words
  37. A STEAM YACHT FOR THE N.S.W. GOVERNMENT.

    Captain Thomas M'Gill, superintendent of the Bermuda Dockyard, has surveyed the steam yacht Schemara, which was purchased from an American millionaire for the ...

    Article : 58 words
  38. MEMORIALS TO SOLDIERS.

    A public meeting was h[?]ld last night to consider the advisability of crecting a memorial to Privats P. lteilly, of the Picton Mounted R[?]es, who died in South A[?]s. The Mayor (Alderman J. M'Quiggan) ...

    Article : 237 words
  39. KILLED BY A TRAIN.

    The mangled body of James Moloney, an elderly man who resided at Kensington, was found on Saturday morning on the railway line at South Kensington. Inquiries made show that Malonoy [?]se from his ...

    Article : 79 words
  40. AUSTRALASIAN CASUALTIES.

    The casualty lists contain the names of the following members of the Australian and New Zealand contingents:- New South Wales.—Severely wounded ...

    Article : 269 words
  41. A MINING PATALITY.

    The Lazarus gold mine at New Chum, in the Bandigo district, was the sc[?]ne yesterday morning of a shocking fatality, Three experienced miners George T[?]ner, Edward N[?]y, and William ...

    Article : 547 words
  42. N.S.W. TREASURY BILLS.

    The New South Wales Government has placed Treasury bills to the amount of £1,000,000 at 4 per cent, for four years. The price is withheld. ...

    Article : 86 words
  43. THE QUESTION OF ARBITRATION IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    Viscount Cranborn[?], the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, said that the German Emperor had made no offer to arbitrate between ...

    Article : 45 words
  44. QUEENSLAND IMPERIAL OFFICERS.

    The War Office has nominated Captain W. H. P. Plumer, of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, as the Deputy-Assistant Adjutant General for Queensland for musketry instruction. ...

    Article : 64 words
  45. THE COST OF THE WAR.

    Sir Michael Hi[?]ks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated in the House of Commons that heretofore the cost of the war had been £81,500,000, but that now it was ...

    Article : 41 words
  46. LIEUTENANT MASON.

    At few days ago a cable was received from South Africa stating that Lieutenant Masou, son of th[?] Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, was severely wounded. A further cable was received yesterday i[?] ...

    Article : 195 words
  47. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A lady, while returning front a fancy dress ball at Cologne, was frozen to death. Feb. 23. The Misses Gri[?]iths (three) played at ...

    Article : 126 words
  48. EXPLANATION BY THE PREMIER.

    The Premier says that the New South Wales Government has placed Treasury Bills for £1000,000 upon the London market. They will have a four years' currency at 4 per cont. sir William Lyne was ...

    Article : 189 words
  49. THE CASE OF SIR H. E. COLVILE.

    Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that Major-General Sir H. E. Colvile was sent home from South Africa ...

    Article : 129 words
  50. SALVAGE AWARD.

    Sir F. H. Jeun[?], President of the Admiralty Court, has awarded the salvors of the Chiltonford £10,000. The Chiltonford, four-masted barque, bound from ...

    Article : 42 words
  51. QUEENSLAND.

    The Government has agreed to increase all sala[?] of class[?] female assistant teachers from the beginning of the year. The dead body of a man 40 years of age was found ...

    Article : 156 words
  52. COURSING IN ENGLAND.

    The final course of the Waterloo Cup, run at Alt[?]ar, resulted as follows:- Waterl[?] Cup, for 64 subscribers at £25 each; winner £500, second £200, two dogs £50 each, four ...

    Article : 206 words
  53. TO-DAY.

    Federal Elections,—Sir Willam M'Mi[?]an will Address the electors of Weatworth at the Randwick Town Hall, [?] p.m.; Mr. John Norton M.L.A., Goulburn Town Hall, 8 p.m.; Mr. Fran[?] Ab[?], for the Senate, Odd[?]ws' ...

    Article : 260 words
  54. BOERS TRANSPORTED TO LISBON.

    Five hundred Boers who were at Delagoa Bay have been conveyed in transports by the Portuguese authorities to Lisbon. ...

    Article : 28 words
  55. HOUSES FOR THE POOR.

    The London County Council is maturing a scheme for housing 40,000 poor people at a cost of £1,500,000. The rents will be from 6s to 9s 6d weekly. ...

    Article : 36 words
  56. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The hopes entertained that the Kurrwang woodcutters' strike would be satisfactorily adjusted were realised to-day when the men decided to accept the company's offer of 24s a truck, equal to 8s a cord, ...

    Article : 137 words
  57. GENERAL NEWS.

    The Queen's chocolates, sent as presents from the late Queen Victoria to the soldiers engaged in the war in South Africa, have only just reached Mafeking. ...

    Article : 33 words
  58. LATE SHIPPING.

    Kittawa, s., from Tas[?]a: [?] bags potatoes, [?] bags silver lead [?], 600 bags cats, 407 bales str[?], 4[?] [?]ks pea[?]. For Newcastle.: [?] bags ore, [?] bags potatoes. ...

    Article : 35 words
  59. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    It is stated that the Australian landing place of the Pacific cable will be South Port, Queensland. ...

    Article : 23 words
  60. IMPERIAL DRAFT CONTINGENT.

    The work of enrolling men for the Imperial draft contingent is progressing satisfactorily at the Agricultural Ground, though up to Saturday the full strength of the contingent had not been completed. ...

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