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  2. THE BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT. QUESTION OF EMBARKATION.

    There is doubt whether the Bushmen's Contingent will embark on Saturday next or the following Wednesday. It would be quite possible for the transports to leave on Saturday, but to do so would ...

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  3. DISASTER TO THE LANCEES. FURTHER PARTICULARS.

    The steamer Persie, winch arrived yesterday, brings mails from Capetown. Writiug from Slingersfontein on January 20 Mr.A.B. Patersou,our special war correspondent, ...

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  4. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The order which was lately issued by the Admiralty for the cruise of the British Channel Squadron has been varied. The squadron will remain in British waters ...

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  5. THE WAR THE RELIEE OF KIMBERLEY.

    The movement planned by FieldMarshal Lord Roberts, leading to the relief of Kimberley, and causing the Boers to retreat from their strongholds ...

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  6. LATE EDITION. HERALD OFFICE, 7.15 a.m. THE WAR.

    After the capture of Cingolo Hill on Sunday General Buller, after a hard fight, drove the Boers from a strong position at Monte Cristo, and across the Tugela River. ...

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  7. MOVEMENT OF BOERS AROUND LADYSMITH.

    There is a considerable movement of Boers northward of Ladysmith, supposed to be the result of Lord Roberta's invasion of the Orange Free State. ...

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  8. INDICATIONS OF LAAGERS BEING ABANDONED.

    Ladysmith reports that there are indications that the Boers are abandoning their laagers in the vicinity of the town, ...

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  9. NEW YORK POISONING CASE.

    Boland Molineux, son of General Molineux, of the United States Army, who was recently sentenced to death in New York for poisoning Mrs. K. G. ...

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  10. THE POSITION AT MAGERSFONTEIN.

    The Boers abandoned Magersfontein in a panic. Cooked dinners were fonnd untouched and great quantities of stores were captured. ...

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  11. BOER POSITION AT IN HLAWE THREATENED.

    General Buller is threatening the Boer position at Inhlawe Mouut, east of Colenso, where the enemy is very strongly entrenched. ...

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  12. MOBILITY OF THE BOERS VANISHED.

    Owing to their oxen being overworked, the mobility of the Boera has vanished, ...

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  13. AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES.

    President M'Kinley, of the United States, believing the war in the Philippines to be ended, will shortly withdraw half the troops oporating there. A civil ...

    Article : 54 words
  14. THE BOER COMMANDANT COMPLETELY SURPRISED.

    A telegram which Commandant Cronje intended to have sent to the Boer headquarters was found in an abandoned laager, confessing that he was completely ...

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  15. STORES AND AMMUNITION CAPTURED.

    Lieutenant-General Kelly Kenny has captured 150 waggons. The loot inoludes thousands of stock. Biscuit boxes were found filled with ...

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  16. SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENT BY GENERAL BULLER

    General Sir Redvers Buller has captured the Boer position at Hussar Hill south of Inhlawe Mount, and has established his headquarters there. He also ...

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  17. BRITISH CASUALTIES AT KIMBERLEY.

    The British casualties in the relief of Kimberley numbered 50. The position was marvellously fortified and rendered impregnable. ...

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  18. THE GUARDS ENCAMPED AT MAGERSFONTEIN.

    The British Guards are encamped on the position at Magersfontein recently occupied by Commandant Cronje. ...

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  19. REV. HUGH PRICE HUGHES VISITS AUSTRALASIA.

    The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, M.A. (ex-President of the English Wesleyan Conference and superintendent of the West London Mission), will visit ...

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  20. PERMANENT COLONIAL FORCES FOR IMPERIAL SERVICE,

    The " Spectator " urges the "permanent inclusion in the British army of 20,000 Canadian troops, 10,000 Australians, and a foreign legion of ...

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  21. DISTRIBUTION OF ARMY STORES AT JACOBSDAL.

    The residents of Jacobsdal were amazed that the British troops, instead of looting tho town as they expected, distributed army stores to the inhabitants. ...

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  22. ATTACK ON JACOBSDAL.

    Commandant Delarey disobeyed an order from the Boer headquarters to retreat from Northern Cape Colony, and attacked Jacobsdal on the 15th instant, ...

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  23. FEELING IN AMERICA.

    Our New Yark correspondent, writing on January 20 respecting the State of public feeling in the United States towards England in her struggle with the Transvaal and Orange Free ...

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  24. THE LATE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER.

    The personalty of the late Dulce of Westminster has been sworn at £594,229. ...

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  25. DORDRECHT.

    It is reported from London that the colonials made a brilliant bayonet charge at Dordrecht on Friday night, and that the enemy considered that discretion was the better part of valour, and ran ...

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  26. PROCLAMATION BY LORD ROBERTS.

    Lord Roberts has issued a proclamation stating that President Steyn, and not the burghers of the Orange Free State, will be held responsible for the invasion, and ...

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  27. THE SITUATION.

    The movement by which Lord Roberts invaded the Orange Free State and brought about the relief of Kimberley is pronounced in England to be " unsurpassed." In very trying climatic ...

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  28. OBITUARY.

    fhe death is announced of Mr. Joseph Cowen, the well-known coal-owner of Neweastle-on-Tyne, and proprietor of the Newcastle " Chronicle," at the age of 69, ...

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  29. LORD ROBERTS CONGRATULATED BY THE QUEEN.

    The Queen has congratulated Field Marshal Lord Roberts upon the success which has attended the movements of the British forces. Her Majesty also ...

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  30. KIMBERLEY RESIDENTS SENT TO THE SEASIDE.

    Mr. Cecil Rhodes is paying the expeuses of the conveyance of women and children from Kimberley to the seaside. ...

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  31. QUEENSLAND.

    The Landa Department is receiving a cumber of applications for sngar lands, but there is very little that can be thrown open to selection. Soon, however, some 28 portions in the parish of ...

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  32. THE BUSHMEN'S DOG.

    After all it has been decided that a tenner shall not occupy the position of honour of accompanying the Bush Contingent that will probably sail from Sidney on Saturday next. Mr. F. Montague ...

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  33. DISLOYALTY OF THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN.

    The British Government has, woing To his disloyalty, omitted the name of the Lord Mayor of Dublin from the list of other Mayors apppointed as Assize Court ...

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  34. CONGRATULATIONS FROM NEW ZEALAND.

    The Governor yesterday cabled to Lord Roberts conveying the hearty congratulations of the people of New Zealand on the selief of Kimberley. Today his Excelleney received the following ...

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  35. 5.30 a.m. FIGHTING AT THE RIET RIVER.

    The "Daily Mail's" correspondent, who was present at the fighting which look place at the Riet River between a large Boer force from Rensburg, with 10 ...

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  36. CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN CAPE COLONY.

    The fighting at Rensburg on Monday last was fierce and determined. Four thousand Boers attacked a hill defended by troops of the Worcester Regiment, ...

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  37. TASMANIA.

    Lord Gormanston was still too unwell to attend the Executive meeting. Mr. Ritz has been appointed Instructor of Modern Languages in the Tasmanian University. ...

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  38. VICTORIA.

    Another burning fatality is reported from Geelong, making the third fatality of this kind within the past three weeks. The victim, Miss Kate Fox, aged 23, was the daughter of a well-known ...

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  39. THE BOER AND HIS OXEN.

    According to the cablea the mobility of the Boor bas been Badly interfered with, and when his oxen failed be fauud himself in a sad predicament. The bullock is all very well in a way, but he cannot be ...

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  40. KELLY-KENNY'S DIVISION REINFORCED.

    The Highland Brigade, under the command of Major-General Hector MacDonald, has reinforced LieutenantGeneral Kelly-Kenny's division, which ...

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  41. ROMAN CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

    A meeting of the Roman Catholic clergy and laity was held in the vestry at St. Patrick's Cathedral today, to make preliminary arrangements in connection with the proposed Roman Catholic Congress, which ...

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  42. PRESENTATION TO THE BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

    At the invitation of Mr.James Inglis, of Messrs. James Inglis and Co, Limited, a number of gentlemen assembled yesterday at his office to witnoss the presentation by him of 525 " billies " ...

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  43. BRILLIANT BAYONET CHARGE BY THE COLONIALS.

    The colonial troops made a brilliant bayonet charge on Friday night at Dordrecht, which was lately occupied by the enemy. The Boers fled. ...

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  44. WHOLE BOER FORCE ALMOST SURROUNDED.

    The " Times " correspondent at Modder River says that a day's unavoidable delay in the transport arrangements at Do Kiet's Drift prevented the British surrounding ...

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  45. THE VICTORIAN CASUALTIES.

    According to an official correction, Private M'Cance, one of the Victorians who was reported to have been killed in the fighting near Rensburg on the 10th ...

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  46. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Dr. Ramsay Smith has submitted the following to the press for publication:—Dr. Gerald Hayward, who attended the alleged bubonie plague patient M'Cann at the quarantine station, ...

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  47. THE PURSUIT OF CRONJE.

    The bulk of Commandant Cronje's forces orossed the Modder River, and proceeded towards Bloemfontein, in order to avoid starvation. ...

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  48. DEFENCE OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Premier states that the Government is not losing sight of the necessity of having everything roady for the defeucs of New South Wales, should any uuforcseeu political complication arise. ...

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  49. RECONNAISSANCE ON SATURDAY.

    The 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, with four guns, the 6th Dragoon Guards, a detachmeat of Lancers, and two companies of Australian troops under Captain J. G. ...

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  50. THE DISASTER TO THE VICTORIAN CONTINGENT.

    Mr.Lyne forwarded a telegram to Victoria expressing sympathy on behalf of the people of this colouy with the relatives of thoso Victorians who were killed and in[?] during the recent engagement ...

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