"Our friend the enemy!" For six weeks the New South Wales Lancers (with whom the present scribe is associated as war correspondent) had been in daily touch with the Boers. Six weeks of ...
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Advertising : 220 wordsMessrs. W. N. White and Co., of Covent Garden, importers of Australian fruit, are winding up. The liquidator reports that it is impossible to reconstruct. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Kegworth Public School at Leichhardt has started to collect funds and to make articles of comfort for our soldiers in South Africa. Miss Fripp, head mistress of the girls' school, Miss Smith, of the ...
Article : 845 wordsMr. J. P. Fitzgerald, of Fort Bourke pastoral holding, has received a letter from his brother, Adjutant P. Fitzgerald, of the Imparial Light Horse, and now locked up in Ladysmith. In the course of ...
Article : 387 wordsThe report of the directors of the Australian Agricultural Company shows a profit of £83,287 for the year. A dividend of 26s per share is recommended. A sum ...
Article : 63 wordsA Continental concert was held at the Bushmen's camp last night, under the direction of Messrs. N. J. Ge[?]de and H. J. Southwell, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the Bushmen's Contingent Fund. ...
Article : 263 wordsThe third series of London wool sales will open on May 8. The quantity to be offered is limited to 300,000 bales. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Melbourne and Auckland cricket match was resumed to-day and the score of Melbourne was carried to 554 before the last wicket fell. The principal scores were:—Graham, 67; Russell, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Mayor (Sir Matthew Harris) is in receipt of a letter from his son, Lieutenant John Harris, who is on active service in South Africa with his regiment, the In[?]iskilling Dragoons. The letter is dated ...
Article : 1,203 wordsThe biennial meeting of the Independent Order of Rechabites was opened yesterday morning at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street. G. Bro. J. H. Wise, J.P. (District Chief Ruler), presided, and there was ...
Article : 973 wordsIn view of the loss of officers sustained by the first Victorian Contingent in South Africa, the Minister for Defence hns decided that the whole of the 1[?] officers who have gone into camp at Langwarrin ...
Article : 237 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand was held to-day. About a dozen shareholders were present. Mr. Blair presided. After referring to the resignation of Mr. Teigetmeir, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 806 wordsDrill was put in in the morning, but so far as the bushmen were concerned the afternoon was a quiet one owing to the race meeting at Randwick. Today as many as can be mounted will be taken out for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,537 wordsThe work of discharging the cargo of the ship Duke of Portland, Which has been chartered to convey the third contingent, is being carried out night and day. The timber for the horse stalls has been ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Victorian Postal Department is sending six additional telegraph operators to South Africa for service in Rhodesia. ...
Article : 20 wordsYesterday afternoon the annual distribution of prizes to the scholars attending the Kegworth Public School at Leichhardt took place on the asphalt area in front of the school buildings, in the presence of a ...
Article : 313 wordsServices were held on Sunday at Gulgong and Guntawang. The collections, amounting to £3 5s ld, were in aid of the Patriotic Fund. AUCKLAAND, Friday. ...
Article : 51 wordsMajor Oldera[?]aw, of the 1st Regiment, has received a letter from Private V. Davis, of his regiment, and now in the first contingent, dated E[?]lin Camp. January 12, in which the following items ...
Article : 1,040 wordsMessrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., managing agents of this line, note:— The Airl[?] arrived at Sydney from Japan and Hongkong, via ports, February 12. ...
Article : 105 wordsA grand continental, promoted by the Newcastle Ladies' Patriotic League, and under the patronage of the military authorities, was held on the Upper Reserve this evening, and proved an unqualified ...
Article : 145 wordsThe ship Thalatta, from London to Sydney, passed Wilson's Promontory at S.5a.in. yesterday. Wind S.s.W., fresh. She comes to the agency of Messrs. Briscoe, Drysdale, and Co. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe ship Hartfield, with a general cargo from New York to Sydney, passed Green Cape at 9.15 yesterday morning. She comes to the agency of Messrs. R. W. Camer[?]n and Co. ...
Article : 33 wordsMessrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., Limited, advise the following movements of the steamers of the above line engaged in the trade between Australia, China, and Japan:— ...
Article : 122 wordsOn Wednesday last a farewell was tendered to Troopar A. S. W. James, of Lismore Detachment of New South Wales Lancers, en route to South Africa, by a number of his friends and schoolmates, ...
Article : 130 wordsSir.—The attention of the Strike Committee of the Master Builders has been drawn to reports, purporting to emanate from the Men's Strike Committee, to the effect that it was owing to sweating ...
Article : 585 wordsThe ship Republic is expected to leave Auckland:to-d[?] for Melbourne with a cargo of timber. The brigantine Linda Weber arrived at Mercury Bay on the 2nd instant after a smart run of 42 hours from ...
Article : 142 wordsThe club has arranged for a smoke concert in the clubrooms on Wednesday evening, the 21st instant, in honour of two of the members who are leaving at an early date for South Africa, Lieutenant-Colonel ...
Article : 105 wordsGleeson's Success has crushed 29 tons of stone at the Big Blow battery for 57oz. 16dwt. of gold. The average value of crushings from this mine for the last 12 months is 1oz. 11dwt., the highest ...
Article : 371 wordsYesterday the barque Sussex went up to Johnston's Bay to discharge her cargo of timber. The barque Musselerag has gone from Snails Bay to an anchorage in Neutral Bay. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Defence Department received a cable message to-day from the Agent-General, saying he regretted that "Ody" and "Roberts," of the first Victorian contingent, had been killed; that ...
Article : 874 wordsThe New South Wales Mounted Rifles unit which went away under command of Captain Antill, has evidently been winning e[?]logiums from commanding officers. The following extracts are taken ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 168 wordsSir,—Will you be good enough to grant me space in your columns to make the following suggestions in connection with the street procession on the departure for South Africa of the ...
Article : 405 wordsArrangements in connection with the Chinese procession to the patriotic sports carnival next Wednesday are practically completed. The procession will be headed by a Chinese band, and will consist of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 17 Feb 1900, Page 10
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