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  2. AT THE FRONT.

    The army under command of General Hunter left Bethlehem and came down here with a view of capturing the " Free Staters " under De Wet. It must be explained that by occupying all the ...

    Article : 3,143 words
  3. THE TRANSVAAL' BATTLE NEAR LYDENBURG

    General Louis Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, with several thousand men and with four big guns, is holding a strong position overlooking Lydenburg. ...

    Article : 175 words
  4. LATE EDITION. HERALD OFFICE,8.a.m. THE TRANSVALL.

    The besiegers of Ladybrand have closed their cannonade, and are preparing to move. ...

    Article : 32 words
  5. CHINA. CONCERT OF THE POWERS.

    The Circular of Count Lamsdorf, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating that Russia at the outset of the Chinese crisis laid down the principles ...

    Article : 185 words
  6. IN PARLIAMENT.

    Shortly after the Legislative Council me[?] yesterday the Sydney Corporation (Amending) Bill was read the third time, and Mr.Cox then moved the adjournment ...

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  7. WELCOME TO CORPORAL FULLER.

    A large gathering of the young people of St. Luke's Preahyterian Church, Redfern, assembled in the session hall on Tuesday evening last to welcoms Corporal S.C. Fuller, Firit Australian Horte, ...

    Article : 90 words
  8. CRISIS IN CHINA.

    Much of the news appearing in the latest files per the Kasuga Maru, which arrived from China ports to-day, has already been published by cables, the Canton correspondent of the " Chiua Mail" ...

    Article : 928 words
  9. CASUALTIES TO NEW ZEALANDERS.

    News has been received that Trooper Butler has been killed, and that Colonel France has bad to retire from the front on account of illness, ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. GENERAL BOTHA'S DEFENCE.

    General Louis Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, is making a fierce stand near Lydenburg. He holds a lofty headland enclosing a ...

    Article : 38 words
  11. LATE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

    The steamer Whakatane, from the Cape, which arrived to-day, brought files of Capetown papers to August 14, containing the following items of war news:— ...

    Article : 563 words
  12. FEDERATION.

    There is a growing feeling inthe public mind that the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia should be marked by a ceremony worthy of the occasion, and it has been urged upon the ...

    Article : 304 words
  13. REPORTED DEATH OF GENERAL DELAREY.

    It is persistently reported that General Dolarey succumbed to his wounds at Elands River. ...

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  14. 7.15 a.m. THE RAID AT KLIP RIVER.

    During the recent raid on a train at Klip River the Boers fired a volley, killing the driver and seven others as they were in the act of surrendering. ...

    Article : 49 words
  15. SEIZURE OF STEAMERS.

    It is officially announced that the total amount of the indemnity to be paid by Great Britain for the seizure, [?]me months ago, of the steamers Bundesrath, Herzog, ...

    Article : 47 words
  16. THE EX-PRESIDENTS.

    Ex-President Kruger and Ex-President Steyn are living in railway carriages at Nolspruit, 44 miles east of Nooitgedacht. The vehicles are covered with red-cross ...

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  17. LI HUNG CHANG.

    An Imperial Edict, which is attributed to the Emperor Kwang Hsu, under date of August 19, orders Li Hung Chang to open negotiations with the Powers for ...

    Article : 66 words
  18. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    Natal delegates now visiting England are claiming Durban or Maritzburg as the seat of the Confederate Parliament. ...

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  19. BRITISH SUCCESS AT WARMBAD.

    Brigadier-General Plumer on Sunday defeated the Boers at Warmbad, on the Piotersburg railway, 64 miles north, of Pretoria. ...

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  20. CAMMARA ELECTORATE.

    A meeting of the supporters and friends of Alderman I. R Cohen was hold at Lappan's Colonmde Hall, Johnston-street, Annandale, on Tuesday night, in furtherance of his candidature for the ...

    Article : 69 words
  21. SURRENDERS AT EERSTE FABRICKEN.

    Ten Boers have surrendered at Eerste Fabrickon. with 5000 sheep, 800 head of cattle. 50 horses and several waggons and carts. ...

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  22. RUSSIANS IN MANCHURIA.

    A Russian force is marohiug to Kirin, where there is a large arsenal. [Kirin, the capital of the province of the same name in Manohuria, is 225 miles north-east of ...

    Article : 54 words
  23. FEDERAL ELECTORATES.

    The member for Burrowa has endeavoured to secure the aid of the council in a protest to the Fedtral Electorate Commissioners agninst the inclusion of this electorate in the federal electorate of ...

    Article : 149 words
  24. BOERS DERAIL A TRAIN.

    A detachment of Boers has derailed a train on the Protoria-Pietersburg line. Some of the West Riding Regiment in the train were injured. ...

    Article : 30 words
  25. ZOOLOGICAL PURCHASES FOR AUSTRALIA.

    A hippopotamus has been purchased at Hamburg for the Adelaide Zoological Gardens. The animal will be shipped for Australia in a fortnight. ...

    Article : 45 words
  26. GENERAL NEWS.

    At the instance of the Austrian Legation at Peking Chung-li, a member of the Tsung-li-Yamen, has been arrested for having protected rebels. ...

    Article : 108 words
  27. AT PRETORIA.

    Such a flying column as we are now with, consisting as it does purely of mounted infantry, who have over and over again proved themselves just the men wanted for a campaign of this sort, is not allowed ...

    Article : 1,239 words
  28. AUSTRALASIAN PRISONERS RELEASED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 words
  29. WRECK OF THE FUTAMI MARU.

    News received here of the wrecked steamer Futami Maru by the Kasuga Maru relatos that the weather on Friday night, August 19, was the blackest over experienced-rain and wiud squalls, though ...

    Article : 329 words
  30. BRITISH COAST DEFENCES.

    Lord Wolseley is engaged ia a drastic inspection of the British coast defences,' with a view to the preparation of an elaborate report. ...

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  31. LADYBRAND CLOSELY BESIEGED.

    Four commandoes, under Commandants Grobelaar, Fouries, Lemmer, and Sasebrook, are besieging Ladybrand. The Boers have commandeered all the ...

    Article : 120 words
  32. YELLOW FEVER AT DAKAR.

    An outbreak of yellow fever at Dakar, a seaport in the French colony of Senegambia, has reduced a regiment of marines from 1800 to 368 men. ...

    Article : 31 words
  33. THE SITUATION.

    There would seem to be but one opinion now as to the effect which the Russian proposal to withdraw the forces from Peking must have upon affairs. The concert of the Powers will be broken up, and ...

    Article : 856 words
  34. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4 11-16d per ounce standard, a rise of 3-16d since yesterday. ...

    Article : 25 words
  35. TALLOW MARKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 words
  36. THE IPSWICH COLLIERY STRIKE.

    After the conference with the Coal-owners' Association at Ipswich the miners' delegates reported the lesult to a largely attended meeting of minersAfter a long discussion it was moved,— the ...

    Article : 153 words
  37. WESTERN AUSTRAMAN MINING.

    A bore is being put down from the surface of the True Dluo lease ot tho Brown Hill Company to prospect the property at a death. The nir-compressor and winding plant for ...

    Article : 347 words
  38. SEIZURE OP STEAMERS.

    Advices from Hamburg state that Great Britain will pay an indemnity of£87,500 for the soizure some months ago of the steamers Bundesrath, General, and ...

    Article : 39 words
  39. MINISTER FOR MINES AT BROKEN HILL.

    The Hon.J.L.V.Began (Minister for Mines), accompanied by Mr.Josiah Thomas and the Chief Intector of Mines(Mr.Slee), arrived by the morning's express, and was welcomed at the station by the ...

    Article : 375 words
  40. THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 words
  41. THE FUGITIVE BLACKS. THE OUESTION OF REWARD

    Tho Colonial Secretary, in/ the Logislative Assembly yesterday, in answer to Mr.Moore, Bald that if he thought the offer of any largor reward for the uppreheusion of the Breelong blacks would have the ...

    Article : 165 words
  42. FUGITIVES AGAIN SIGHTED.

    The blacks bailed up and had dinner with a fencer named Woodley about 12 miles from Nundle to-day A search party of local civilians arrived on the scene, and tie fugitives lumped up und fired two shots at ...

    Article : 174 words
  43. PLAGUE CASE AT TOWNSVILLE.

    Lawrence Killian, a railway employee residing at Townsville, was pronounced plague-stricken to-day. The cale ia a mild one. ...

    Article : 25 words
  44. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 words
  45. PLAGUE AT GLASGOW.

    Another case of plague has been discovered at Govan, a suburb of Glasgow. There are now 13 cases of plague in the Glasgow Hospital. ...

    Article : 37 words
  46. TRAM AND 'BUS COLLISION.

    A collision, which resulted in two men being injured, occurred yesterdsy afternoon in Georgestreat West between a steam tram and an omnibus It appears that the 'bus was going down the hill near ...

    Article : 172 words
  47. PROVISION FOR NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS.

    The Government to-day introduced a bill into the Hours of Representatives to make provision for the men or families of the men who went to South Afrion with the New Zealand oonfirurenti sat mat ...

    Article : 45 words
  48. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    Troopers A. C Zietscb and A.L.M'Lean, of the Second Western Australian Contingent, were passengers by the steamer Wollowra, which sailed to-day for the Eastern colonies The soldiers were invalided ...

    Article : 146 words
  49. AN AUSTRALIAN ATHLETE.

    Stanley Bowley, the New South Wales amateur athelete, is returning to Australia by the Oceana. The weekly lecture of the International ...

    Article : 57 words
  50. THE REV. T. AND MRS. HOWARD SMITH.

    Ou Tuesday Mr.Thomas Prutt, financial agent of the New South Wales Auxiliary of the London Mrsionary Society, forwarded a cable to the representative of the London Missionary booiety in Shanghai, ...

    Article : 151 words
  51. INVALIDED NEW ZEALANDERS.

    The steamet Whakatane from the Cape, arrived this afternoon. Among her passengers are the following invalided New Zeulauriers:—Toopers Belf, Currie, Goulder, Kidney, Corporal M'Dowal, ...

    Article : 59 words
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