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  2. THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

    A Router's telegram states that Father L. J. Mathews, the Roman Catholic chaplain who was taken prisoner by the Boers when the 1st battalion of the ...

    Article : 134 words
  3. SAMOA.

    The Colonial Office states that the provisions of the Anglo-German agreement of 1886 in regard to Samoa will continue to apply to Australian trade with Samoa ...

    Article : 37 words
  4. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The United States troops in tho Philippines have defeated 1200 Filipinos at San Jacinto. Eighty Filipinos were killed in the ...

    Article : 62 words
  5. IN PARLIAMENT.

    The Legislative Council, having now, so to [?]eak, warmed to its work, got through a considerable amount of business yesterday, and it may fairly be assumed that for the remainder of the ...

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  6. VICTORIA.

    At the wool sales to-day the record price for greasy merino fleece was raised to 19¼d. This price was realised for 5 bales of Mount Camel super combing, a very silky merino wool ...

    Article : 483 words
  7. NEW SOUTH WALES PATRIOTIC FUND.

    His Excellency Earl Beauchamp has intimated that he is pleased to become patron of the fund. Letters have been received from his Honor Sir F. M. Darley accepting the position of vice-patron, and ...

    Article : 350 words
  8. THE MAJESTIC AS A TRANSPORT.

    Owing to loud complaints as to the slowness of some of the transport vessels, the War Office has chartered the Majestic (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company) for ...

    Article : 42 words
  9. LORD KIMBERLEY'S VIEWS.

    Speaking at Nowcastle-on-Tyne last night the Earl of Kimberley, the leader of the Liberal party in the House of Lords, said that the Anglo-German ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. THE RAND MINES.

    The Rose Deep, Ferriera Deep, and 10 other of the principal Rand mines are being worked by the Boers. ...

    Article : 26 words
  11. GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

    British visitors have deserted Nice in favour of San Remo, the favourite Italian winter resort, owing to the bitterness of the Anglophobia in France, the feeling ...

    Article : 122 words
  12. THE WAR POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

    Lord Salisbury, in a letter to the "Times," in reply to Lord Edmond G. Fitzmaurice, M.P. (Liberal) for the Crickdale division of Wilts, shows that he did ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    Colonel Picquart asks for a judicial inquiry into the connection of General Gonse and M. Gribelin, the record-keeper, with the Dreyfus case. ...

    Article : 31 words
  14. NEW ZEALAND.

    Among the refugees from Johannesburg who have arrived at Durban are Mr. H. W. Blow, brother of the Under-Secretary of the New Zealand Public Works Department, his wife, and ...

    Article : 63 words
  15. RITUALISM IN ENGLAND.

    At a meeting of Bishops at Lambeth Palace yesterday it was decided to suspend refractory clergymen until they obey the Archbishop's decision ...

    Article : 45 words
  16. LORD KIMBERLEY IN SUPPORT OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

    Speaking at Newcastle-on-Tyno last night the Earl of Kimberley, leader of the Liberal party in the House of Lords, paid a tribute of praise ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. THE LADIES' PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.

    The first meeting of the New South Wales Ladies' Patriotic League, which has been called into existence mainly on account of the fact that so many of "our boys " ore en route for the seat of war, was ...

    Article : 638 words
  18. ALLEGED CONTEMPT OF PARLIAMENT.

    There was a large attendance in the Assembly and the galleries owing to the publishers of the "Age" and the "Austral[?]sian" having been cited to appear at the bar on account of their ...

    Article : 915 words
  19. THE SOUDAN.

    Lord Kitchener, Governor-General of the Soudan, has started from Cairo for Khartoum to organise the expedition for the pursuit of the Khalifa. ...

    Article : 41 words
  20. THE TIN MARKET.

    Heavy "bear" sales have taken place in tin, demoralising the market. Prices fell to £120 per ton, but subsequently recovered to £125. ...

    Article : 29 words
  21. THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.

    The bombardment of Ladysmith by the Boer artillery is increasing in intensity. General Joubert is hoping by this ...

    Article : 104 words
  22. STATUE TO OLIVER, CROMWELL.

    The statue to Oliver Cromwell at Westminster was unveiled to-day without ceremony. ...

    Article : 22 words
  23. THE EGYPTIAN MIXED TRIBUNALS.

    The Powers have approved of the Khedivial decree removing the trouble arising from the decision of the Egyptian mixed tribunals concerning the Soudan ...

    Article : 189 words
  24. SOUTE AUSTRALIA.

    At Burra on Sunday Adam Daniel Gordon, 52, a farmer, was found dead in a paddook with his skull shattered to fragments. It is supposed that a horse kicked him. ...

    Article : 86 words
  25. ATTITUDE OF PORTUGAL.

    The French newspapers describe Portugal as the accomplice of Great Britain. ...

    Article : 18 words
  26. THE TALLOW MARKET.

    At the auction sales of Australasian tallow to-day 1375 casks were offored. Fine mutton realised 28s; medium mutton, 20s; fine beef, 26s 6d; medium ...

    Article : 38 words
  27. THE CENSORSHIP.

    The censorship over telegraphic messages from Capetown applies to all official telegrams except those intended for or sent by the Portuguese Government. ...

    Article : 35 words
  28. QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. Woodbine, who was appointed to inquire into the extent of the losses of Northern and Central Queensland owing to the tick fever, estimates the destruction on 65 holdings at 334,160 head of ...

    Article : 385 words
  29. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Frank Brennan and B. N. White, minors, were injured on Monday by a full of earth at the Wallsond colliery. Brennan's condition is serious. An elderly man named John Hartley Bowen ...

    Article : 83 words
  30. ATTACK ON MAFEKING.

    Later particulars have been received of the situation at Mafeking, which is being gallantly defended by the British force under Colonel Baden-Powell. ...

    Article : 101 words
  31. CAPE COLONY CABLEGRAMS.

    The Postmaster-General has received the following from Adelaide:—"Cape Colony advises the transmission of all State telegrams in secret language, code, or cypher, via Cape Colony, is ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. THE POSITION.

    The Boers, our cablegrams inform us, are being encouraged by General Joubert to carry Ladysmith by assault. To this end the Boer commander has been bombarding the town with great pertinacity. ...

    Article : 1,048 words
  33. TASMANIA.

    The half-yearly meeting of the Stock Exchange was held yesterday. The report stated that though business was restricted it was sound, especially in investment stocks. There were 46 ...

    Article : 264 words
  34. THE QUEEN.

    The Queen will in the spring visit the Italian Riviera, where her Majesty will remain several weeks. ...

    Article : 26 words
  35. NEW SOUTH WALES CONTINGENT.

    Major-General French has issued the following memo. in general orders:—"The last detachment of the N S.W. forces having left on 14th instant, the G.O.C. desires to place on record his thanks to all ...

    Article : 413 words
  36. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.

    The Emperor of Germany, during his visit to England this month, will confine his visits to members of the Royal Family. It is announced that the naval debates ...

    Article : 49 words
  37. BOMBARDMENT OF KIMBERLEY.

    The Boers are bombarding Kimberley at a range of 8000 yards. No damage is caused by the shells, which fall into heaps of debris round the ...

    Article : 52 words
  38. WRECK OF AN AMERICAN CRUISER.

    The United States cruiser Charleston, one of the American squadron in the Philippines, has been totally wrecked off the coast of Luzon, the largest and most ...

    Article : 123 words
  39. ADDITIONAL TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    An additional infantry division of 11,000 men is being mobilised for South-Africa. This force, together with the troops already in South Africa and under orders ...

    Article : 124 words
  40. AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTS.

    The Factories and Shop Act Further Amendment Bill was further considered in committee, but, after Mr. Higgins had opposed the motion for an inquiry into the working of the present ...

    Article : 47 words
  41. THE WEATHER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 372 words
  42. QUEENSLAND.

    The debate in the Assembly on the Railway Works Standing Committee Bill was continued until 10.50 p.m. yesterday, when the House adjourned until to-day. The Premier announced ...

    Article : 55 words
  43. GIGANTIC SHIPBUILDING TRUST.

    A gigantic "trust," with the object of amalgamating shipbuilding concerns on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, is projected. ...

    Article : 57 words
  44. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    In the Assembly yesterday the Early Closing Bill was carried through committee with two important amendments, which were accepted by the Government. The Queensland Border ...

    Article : 112 words
  45. THE QUEENSLAND CONTINGENT.

    The steamer Cornwall, with the queensland contingent on board, arrived from Sydney at 5.30 o.m. One horse was lost on the voyage. Twenty members of the contingent ...

    Article : 188 words
  46. TO-DAY.

    St. John a Church, Milson'a Point: Moonlight Fete and Band Concert, Elamang Grounds, 3.30 p.m. St. Bartholomew's Pyrmont: Fancy Fair, 3.30 and 7 p.m. ...

    Article : 252 words
  47. TRANSPORTS AT CAPETOWN.

    Further transports have arrived at Capetown. They carry to Durban 2000 additional troops, who will arrive in Natal within the week. ...

    Article : 64 words
  48. THE PLAGUE.

    The plague has broken out at Trieste, the Austrian seaport at the head of the Adriatic. Dr. Pestana, a leading medical man at ...

    Article : 36 words
  49. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    In the Assembly yesterday the bill providing for seats being supplied shop assistants was read the first time. In reply to a question the Attorney-General said that the Government intended to ...

    Article : 95 words
  50. MINING COMPANIES.

    The capital of the Lake Way and Horseshoe and the Peak Hill Gold Mining Companies has been over subscribed. ...

    Article : 27 words
  51. A FRENCH STEAMER FIRED ON.

    The British cruiser Magicienne fired blank cartridge at the French steamer Cordoba, 70 miles from Delagoa Bay, in the belief that she carried ammunition for ...

    Article : 82 words
  52. THE RETURNING LANCERS.

    A copy of the correspondence in regard to a portion of the New South Wales Lancers sent for training to Aldershot, and who are returning to the colony, was laid on the table of the Assembly yesterday. ...

    Article : 223 words
  53. TASMANIA.

    In the Assembly this afternoon leave of absence was given to nine sick members. The Assembly decided by a small majority that Colonel Wallack should not go to South Africa, principally because ...

    Article : 46 words
  54. Advertising

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