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Detailed lists, results, guides : 624 wordsThe "Standard" states that Major-General Hector MacDonald's Highland Brigade, with a Cold battery, and the Ninth Lancers occupied kopjes and a dam ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the debate on the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne was resumed. On the motion for the adoption ...
Article : 385 wordsSir E. J. Monson, the British Ambassador at Paris, absented himself without protest from the ceremony in connection with the decoration of M. Leandre by ...
Article : 84 wordsMajor-General Heator M[?]donald's Highland Brigade, with the 9th Lancers, and a field battery, have occupied some kopjes and a dam northwest of Spy [?] with [?] any opposition. ...
Article : 6,613 wordsAn application for bail on behalf of Mrs. Kathleen Fraser, who stands committed for trial on a charge of shooting at her husband, Paul Wilkes Fraser, M.B., with intent to do him grievous ...
Article : 330 wordsLieutenant-General Sir Wm. Gatacre's mounted troops are in touch with those of Lieutenant-General Kelly-Kenny at Thebus, between Rosmead Junction and ...
Article : 37 wordsPresidents Kruger and Steyn are complaining of General Joubert's inactivity. The latter in reply has invited the two presidents to "come and look at General ...
Article : 37 wordsNewspaper correspondents agree as to the futility of the efforts of the French press to persuade Germany to lead an anti-British campaign with regard to ...
Article : 48 wordsThe scarcity of means of transport is delaying the departure of the Imperial Yeomanry from England. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Cape "Argus" states that President Kruger has sent 90 additional guns to the front, thus denuding Pretoria of the whole of its artillery. ...
Article : 37 wordsConsequent upon the disastrous loss occasioned by the Carrapook bushfire, the residents of that locality held a meeting to discuss the formation of an organisation for systematically ...
Article : 290 wordsAlthough the Anglo-American Convention does not reveal the fact, an impression exists that America has made concessions to Great Britain in Alaska in return for ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Boers, by means of lyddite, have been shelled from a strong position between Slingersfontein and Colesberg. ...
Article : 29 wordsA great movement of the British forces is pending in South Africa. Field— Marshal Lord Roberts and Major-General Lord Kitchener have left Capetown. ...
Article : 31 wordsFive Boer' prisoners at Simon's Town, the naval station 20 miles south of Gapetown, made an attempt to escape. They seized a number of firearms and wounded ...
Article : 50 wordsThe population returns issued by the Registrar-General show the population to be 172,347, a net gain of 1325 over December. At Roeburne on Monday four natives were ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Government has authorised the formation of a bushmen's contingent, numbering 100 men, officered by one captain and three subalterns, and will form a second mounted infantry ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in thanking the Government of Newfoundland for its willingness to agree to a renewal of ...
Article : 69 wordsBrigadier-General E. W. Brabant, who has been appointed Major-General commanding the colonial mounted irregular forces, assured the colonial divisions, ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the division in the House of Commons on Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice's amendment 38 of the Government supporters, chiefly from the front benches, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 466 wordsBush fires are reported in various parts of the colony. Fortunately, no loss of life has occurred Much damage has been done. ...
Article : 25 wordsThere is such strong opposition in the provinces of China to the reported deposition of the Emperor, that the Empress Dowager has explained that the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe insolent message of Presidents Kruger and Steyn to Lord Roberts, in which they describe the British troops as "white brigands indulging in general ...
Article : 77 wordsThe man Wolfe, who murdered his two children at Petone, near Wellington, has been sentenced to death. He asked that his execution might take place within 48 hours. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe speech delivered by Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the House of Commons on Monday night during the debate on the censure ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. John E. Redmond, M.P. for Waterford City, has been elected chairman of the Nationalist section of the Irish Parliamentary party. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Gray, the Railway Commissioner, was taken ill on Saturday. Though be is a trifle better to-day he is still seriously indisposed Railway returns for January show the following ...
Article : 73 wordsThe official record of the temperature to-day was 118½ in the shade. Every provision was made for keeping the courthouse cool, but the business was conducted with considerable difficulty. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Channel squadron has sailed from England for Gibraltar. ...
Article : 19 wordsThirteen thousand troops, with 3000 horses and six guns, will embark, for South Africa within a week. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe United Irish League has ordered the graziers in the counties of Mayo and Roscommon and iu Eastern Galway to surrender their pastures in May, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe French are much chagrined at the increasing popularity and influence of Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. ...
Article : 28 wordsPresident Kruger has closed Robinson's Bank at Johannesburg. ...
Article : 17 wordsOwing to a number of reclamation and other works now being carried on in and near Sydney Harbour, such as those at Glebe Island, Darling Island, Pyrmont Bridge, Duck ...
Article : 513 wordsMr. E. Barton arrived in Adelaide by the Melbourne express this morning and was met at the station by several distinguished federalists. Mr. Barton and Mr. Kingston were entertained at ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Anglo-American Nicaragua Convention is meeting with opposition from American jingoes because under its provisions America will not be allowed the ...
Article : 41 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, has visited the steamers Warrigal and Euryalus, which recently arrived at Cape ...
Article : 101 wordsA London solicitor and three other persons have been arrestod for conspiracy to obtain the naturalisation of an alien, knowing the claim to be a dishonest one. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 359 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. W. Fairclough, manager of the London branch of the Bank of Victoria. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 492 wordsMr. Faber, a Conservative, has been elected to the House of Commons for one of the seats for York. He polled 6248 votes, defeating Mr. Murray ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the auction sales of Australasian tallow to-day 875 casks were offered and sold. Fine mutton realised 30s 3d; medium mutton, 28s 6d; fine beef, 29s ...
Article : 39 wordsA verdict of wilful murder was returned at the coroner's inquest against David Pert, who is alleged to have fatally stabbed a man named Gustoff Person, at Cumnock, on Monday night. In the ...
Article : 206 wordsThere was, perhaps, never such volenteering as for the Imperial Yeomanry, and private letters to hand by this mail go a long way to prove that many of the beat men in the United Kingdom joined. ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Maharajah of Jaipur has given a donation of a lakh of rupees (£10,000) to the War Fund initiated in India. ...
Article : 29 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 5-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 17 wordsSir E. H. Egerton, the British Minister at Athens, has in the Queen's name thanked Greece for her friendship towards Great Britain as shown by the recent ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Hon. I. A. Isaacs (late Attorney-General of Victoria) has arrived in London. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe large bush fire on the Pyrenees ranges is still burning fiercely, and the damage is considerable. A number of selectors have been burnt out, losing everything, including ...
Article : 170 wordsA conference bctween the directors and officers of the Outtrim Coal Mining Company and the representatives of the miners was held to-day to discuss various objections which had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. W. A. Long, President of the Bourd of Agriculture, stated that a serious outbreak of foot and mouth disease in sheep ...
Article : 43 wordsMajor-General Hector Macdonald, the successor of the late gallant Major-General Wauchope, who commanded the Highland Brigade at the Modder River, has soon ...
Article : 1,322 wordsA cargo of 8500 quarters Victorian wheat, February shipment, has been sold at 20s 4½d per quarter. ...
Article : 24 wordsAt the executive committee meeting held yesterday afternoon the programme of sports to be held on the 21st instant was finally adopted. The military section has been placed in the hands of Major Savage ...
Article : 100 wordsOwing to the demand in Natal for mutton, the s.s. Port Elliott, in addition to large consignments of wheat and forage, took as a dock cargo over 1400 sheap and 100 head of cattle. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 8 Feb 1900, Page 7
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