The Premier and the Minister for Defence have had great difficulty in giving full and immediate attention to the urgent matter of the despatch of the troops. The strain of the lengthy sittings of ...
Article : 665 wordsAt the Sessions to-day before Messrs. Finnerty aud Cohn, the hearing of the charges against the alluvialists Carl zeeb, Michael Horan, Timothy Buckley, William Townsend, Samuel Morrison, ...
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Advertising : 355 wordsA message has been received by Mr. Lyne from the Premier of Victoria to the effect that Colonel Price has placed his services unreservedly at the disposal of that colony, and a message has been ...
Article : 150 wordsFor the past three days Veterinary-Captain A. P. Gribben, the principal veterinary surgeon of the New faouth Wales military forces, has had a very busy time. To his lot it has fallen to select the horses ...
Article : 841 wordsThe Defence Department is overwhelmed with applications for places in the second contingent. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir,—As to the measure of assistance New South Wales shall at this juncture offer to the mother country in respect of her trouble in South Africa, it is to be hoped the view-point of members will not ...
Article : 639 wordsThe citizens of Perth have resolved to send to South Africa 20 nurses free of cost to the British Government. ...
Article : 27 wordsProbably it is due to the fact that the Highland regiments already in South Africa have suffered so severely in their numerous conflicts with the Boer troops that their countrymen this side of the water ...
Article : 348 wordsNineteen members of the Bega Squadron of Mounted Rifles have volunteered. A public demonstrationas a send-off will be accorded them tomorrow night. ...
Article : 605 wordsIt is understood in military circles that the contingents of the various colonies now enrolling for South Africa will be known as the Australian Federal Brigade. An impression is abroad that owing to ...
Article : 587 wordsThe tramp of armed men compares poorly with the stamp of battery horses and the rattle of battery wheels in inspiring the spectator with a feeling of confidence in and respect for Boldiery. It was the ...
Article : 884 wordsThe attendance at the Town Hall last night was comparatively small, and but for the explanation made from the platform by Mr. J. C. Bowring (one of the concert managers) wellwishers to the Hellings ...
Article : 299 wordsThe number of men who are anxious to share in the glories of war under the shadow of the Geneva red cross is legion. The garrison hospital was besieged yesterday by men of all ages, and sizes, ...
Article : 424 wordsThe New Masonic Hall was crowded last night, when the students of Madume Charbonnet-Kellermann's Conservatoire gave their Christmas concert. During the evening Mrs. Nancy Evans ...
Article : 270 wordsSir,—In my opinion the New South Wales Patriotic Fund an it stands this morning is a disgrace to New South Wales. A miserable £6000 or £7000 from a community amongst whom there are a scored, if not ...
Article : 244 wordsCustom-house.—Entered outwards: December 21, Bufu[?] E. Wood, barque, 1331 tons, Captain B.H.M'Leod, for Honolulu, via Newcastle; Haydu Brown, barque, 822 tons, Captain P. Paulsen, for Honolulu, via Newcastle; ...
Article : 352 wordsWith tne permission of Captain Hixson, R.N., officer commanding the New South wales naval forces, Staff-sergeant Steel, of the Naval Brigade, has applied for active service in South Africa. ...
Article : 35 wordsVery keen interest is being taken by both the military authorities and the general public in the proposal to send further troops. Men are volunteering in every purt of the colony, and no difficulty is ...
Article : 249 wordsThe City Organist will give a holiday recital at the Town Hall to-night, when his programme will include the favourite "Storm Idylle," Christmas Carol[?], and other picces, as noted in another ...
Article : 40 wordsOur Parramatta correspondent writes:—Names are still being received here at the Laucers headquarters for the Australian contingent for South Africa, and it is expected that, should the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe attendance at St. Francis' Hall, Haymarket, where the fair is being continued, is proving satisfactory. For the remaining days of the fair the price of admission has been reduced. ...
Article : 39 wordsSir,—To "help the homes our Tommy's left behind him," I venture to suggest that all moneys payable to the Government for land and income taxes, school fees, interest on C.Ps., rents, &c., ...
Article : 95 wordsThe interest in the proposed despatch of a second contingent to South Africa is increasing throughout the northern district, and offers to volunteer for active service are being sent in in large numbers to ...
Article : 77 wordsOn Wednesday night a very successful smoke concert was given under the auspices of the Crow's Nest Literary and Debating Society, in Walker's Hall, Falcon-street, North Sydney. There was a ...
Article : 165 wordsThe ship Samuel Plimsoll was yesterday to[?] from Smith's Wharf to an anchorage in the stream. The steamer Guthrie moved from the E. and A. Wharf to Pyrmont Wharf yesterday. ...
Article : 105 wordsWhen one of our reporters visited the Rifle Range at Randwick yesterday he found that a considerable change had come over the familiar scene. The open ground fronting the officials' residences and offices ...
Article : 481 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last evening Mr. Young said that there was a rumour in circulation in the city to the effect that troops from the colonies despatched to South Africa, as well as others that ...
Article : 186 wordsSir,—I think it the duty of every Britisher to help ni some way during the present conflict in the Transvaal, and that no opportunity should be missed whereby additions of the "[?]ble shilling" may be ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Moreaby, Captain John Williams, reports having left Sydney on November 2, Newcastle on November 4, arrived off Cooktown on the 10th. Received mails and passengers, and left on the 11th. Arrived at Port Moresby on ...
Article : 232 wordsIn view of the appointment of Lord Roberts as Commander-in-Chief of the Imporial Forces operating in South Africa, it is of interest to note that Rudyard Kipling published the following in the ...
Article : 456 wordsA letter [?]gned by the Under-Secretary of the Chief Secretary's Department, has been published regarding the accommodation on the transport Cornwall. It states that the Chief Secretary regards the ...
Article : 80 wordsBy scoring 806 against South Australia New South Wales broke the record for first-class intercolonial matches, which was previously 775 by New South Wales against Victoria in 1882, and for ...
Article : 596 wordsAt a meeting of many prominent rifle shots held yesterday it was decided to ask all first-class marksmen, long-range shots especially, who are desirous of proceeding to the Transvaal as a body of ...
Article : 74 wordsArtemis, barque, HJCT, from Hamburg—88 days. City of Adelaide, four-masted barque, WCHB,from Eureka—56 days. Mont[?]s, ship (NWGM), from Liverpool—[?]5 days ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Chief Secretary stated that he was in receipt of a communication from Mr. R. Barr Smith, which stated that as a patriotic citizen he had no horses to offer for the use of the South ...
Article : 129 wordsThe medical board, consisting of Captain G. H. Walton Smith, and Lieutenants G. Lane Mullins and M. O'Gorman Hughes, examined in all about 200 men yesterday, and of that number only about ...
Article : 544 wordsA Church Parade Service will be held by the 7th Infantry Regiment (St. George'e Rifles) at the Town Hall on Sunday afternoon in aid of the Patriotic Fund. His Grace the Archbishop will preach, and ...
Article : 59 wordsSt. Kilda, barquentine, from Kaipara to Sydney, hence to port Stephens, and hardwood from there to Wangan[?] Kenebee, ship, from San Francisco—general cargo to Melbourne. ...
Article : 38 wordsSir,—I notice by the papers that a great number of German and French officers are pouring into the Transvaal through Delagoa Bay. I should like to know whether it is customary for mercenary soldiers ...
Article : 163 wordsA grand military and naval tatoo and pyrotechnic display, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the New South Wales Patriotic Fund, were [?]rried out last night in the Birchgrove Reserve, Balmain, ...
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Advertising : 157 wordsA reply has been received from Mr. Chamberlain accepting the services of 45 men for South Africa. The Government has instructed Commandant Legge to at once enrol the required num[?]r. Many are ...
Article : 45 wordsIn our second edition yesterday there appeared a cable message stating that a flying column, with eight guns, i[?] being organised at Woolwich for service, and also that the formation of a howitzer ...
Article : 185 wordsSir,—May I be permitted to make use of [?]our v[?]luable columns to make a suggestion re the force of mounted men the Australian colonies are uniting to raise for service in South Africa? It is this: That ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Wellington citizens are subscribing largely to the war fund. The Otage Educational Board has decided to inaugurate a New Zealand Children's Transvaal Patriotic Fund. Other boards will be ...
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Advertising : 102 wordsLeonard Cook, who was injured in the vehicle accident this afternoon, died an hour after the accident. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Times" says that the Duke of Connaught was one of the first to seek employment in South Africa, and was willing to waive his seniority, but it was not deemed expedient that an officer some years ...
Article : 205 wordsShortly before the Queensland Contingent went to the war an insurance company made a proposition to the Government to assure the lives of the men at a rate much below that generally ruling. A Sydney ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 22 Dec 1899, Page 6
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