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  2. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Commercial Union Assurance Company (New Zealand branch) has subscribed 100 guineas to the Patriotic Fund. A number of Austrians have offered their services ...

    Article : 131 words
  3. QUEENSLAND.

    Persistent rumours are about to the effect that the police have some clue as to the perpetrators of the terrible tragedy which was committed at Gatton last year. These rumours no doubt are ...

    Article : 151 words
  4. DRIFTING HELPLESSLY AT SEA.

    The steamer reported from Troubridge Island on Wednesday evening as drifting in a disabled condition turned out to be the Sonneberg, of the German-Australian line. She arrived ...

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  5. NEWCASTLE.

    A meeting of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board was held at the offices, Newcastle, this morning. The president (Mr. H. D. Walsh) occupied the chair, and Messrs. J. W. ...

    Article : 309 words
  6. HORSES FOR THE CONTINGENT.

    Colonel Mackenzie, A.A.G., informs in that dou[?]rs of horses for the Mounted Infantry contingent are asked to have them delivered in Sydney not later than the 13th instant. ...

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  7. THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT.

    It has been decidEd by the Premier that the troops forming the second contingent from New South Wales shall leave Sydney on the 17th instant. The steamrs Southern Cross, Surrey, and Moravian will ...

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  8. "A STATE OF WAR."

    The "Times" correspondent at St. Petersburg telegraphed to that journal on November 26:— It is announced in the Russian newspapers that the British Charge [?] Affaires has informaed the Russian ...

    Article : 211 words
  9. COUNTRY VOLUNTEERS.

    Constderable disappointment is felt here, when Over 100 offers were sent for services in South Africa, that so far only one is known to have been accepted, whereas from other parts of the colonies ...

    Article : 288 words
  10. THE GOLD YIELD.

    The gold yield for the past year was 947,626oz., being an increase of 27,578oz on that of the provious year. Reports still continue to be received by the ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. RUSHING OUT AMMUNITION.

    The London "Daily Mail" of November 27 says: —Five thousand men and boys were at work all day yestenlay in the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, preparing war stores for South Africa. The ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. THE COAL EXPORT TRADE.

    The ship Star of Bengal sailed to-day for Honolulu with 2528 tons of Wallsend coal; the ship Ellen A. Read sailed for Manila with 1752 tons of West Wallsend [?]al; and the barque Oakbauk sailed for ...

    Article : 136 words
  13. NEW ZEALAND.

    The health authorities have received no advice of the Nineveh passengers being transferred to the Moans, as their term of quarantine must almost have expired. They consider that if the ...

    Article : 205 words
  14. NEWS FROM CAPETOWN PAPERS.

    "Files of the Cape Times" for December 5 and 9 reached Syney yesterday. On the first-mentioned date the journal in question published the following official list of casualties which occurred during the ...

    Article : 688 words
  15. VICTORIA.

    The Premier has received a cable from the Agent-General that the proprietors of the "Daily Mail" have placed £750 out of the Tommy Atkins fund to the credit of the Victorian Government on behalf of ...

    Article : 51 words
  16. THE JOCKEY CLUB.

    The monthly meeting of the committee of mamgement of the Newcastle Jockey Club was held at the rooms, Centennial Hotel, to-night. The president, Mr. C. H. Hannell, occupied the chair, and there ...

    Article : 160 words
  17. ZULU LOYALTY TO ENGLAND.

    A writer in the "St. James's Gazette" observes:— "When in the lalter days of 1878 it became apparent that we were committed to a desperate struggle with the ...

    Article : 999 words
  18. TASMANIAN DETACHMENT.

    The 43 meN selected as the Tasmanian contingent will be in barracks to-morrow. They are strong, active men, and are said to to be better marksmen than the first 8O sent to South Africa. Their ...

    Article : 92 words
  19. LATE MINING.

    The gold yield of the colony for the month of December was 138,620oz., of the estmmted value of £l,826,756. The yield for December fell short of the Nevember yield by 1,247on. ...

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  20. LICENSING COURT.

    The quarterly meeting of the Newcastle Licensing Court was held to-day. Messrs. C. H. Payten and L. S. Donaldson, S.Ms., and G. C. Martin, L.M., were in attendance. Sub-inspector Hinds, the ...

    Article : 61 words
  21. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT.

    At the Executive, council this morning the following were appointed subalterns for the second contingent from South Australia for service in the Transvasl:—Lieutenants Josenh Francis Humphris, ...

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  22. SHIPPING REPORTS.

    Custom-liouse.—Entered outwards: January 4, Gulf of Genoa, s., [?]13418 tons, Captain D. Swan, for South Africa and London, via Melbourne; Johannesburg, s., 4444 tons, Captain S, Stephens, for London, Dundirk, and Antwerp; ...

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  23. SUPPOSED DROWNING FATALITY.

    The police authorities received informition by telegraph to-night from the officer, stationed at Cockle Creek to the effect that it was reported that a man, name unknown, had been drowned ni Lake ...

    Article : 93 words
  24. NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

    Mr. Chamberlain addressed 7000 people at Leicester on the night of November 29, and, according to the London "Daily Mail" the bon gentleman said, in the course of his remarks:—"We are embarked ...

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  25. MANCHESTER UNITY ODDFELLOWS.

    The annual meeting of the Newcastle District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows was held at Adamstown yesterday under the presidency of the district grandmaster, Alexander ...

    Article : 247 words
  26. PARRAMATTA DISTRICT.

    The Granville Council met on Wednesday evening, the Mayor, Alderman Mahony, presiding. There were also present—Aldermen Lane, Finnegan, Windsor, Kirk, Duncum, and Hanken. The council ...

    Article : 181 words
  27. THE ORTONA'S VOYAGE.

    The Pacifie Steam Navigation Company's (Orient line) R.M.S. Ortona (twin screw), 8000 tons, 10,000-horse power, left London on November 24, at 1.36 p.m., arrived at P[?]ymonth on the 25th at 2.57 p.m., and sailed the same ...

    Article : 279 words
  28. THE WEATHER.

    Yesterday was a most oppressive day in Parramatta, the thermometer at noon registering 10[?] under the verandahs. Shortly after 2 p.m. a violent storm, accompanied by vivid lightning and loud peals ...

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  29. THE R.M.S. ORTONA.

    A Melbourne report of this new steamer says:—The Pacif[?]e steam Navigation Companys powerful new steamet Ortona, of the Orient line, reached the authorage early on Munday morning, and was fairly rushed by visitors, she ...

    Article : 454 words
  30. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The application made hy the French Consul-Genersl to the Health Department of New South Wales tor some of Haffkine's prophylactic lactic to forward to New Caledonia for inoculation against the bubonic ...

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  31. ZEALOUS AUSTRALIANS.

    The "Cape Times" on December 8 published the following telegram from its Hopctown co[?]respondent:—The Australians, who have been on picket duty at Orange River, exbibit tremendous ...

    Article : 109 words
  32. A HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

    During the storm yesterday afternoon the residence of Mr. J. Armitage, Derry Bawn, was struck by lightning, which t[?]re a hole at the rear of the upper story and set fire to the building, which is a large ...

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  33. THE TRANSVAAL MINT.

    The "Cape Times" on December 8 published the following:—Pretoria, December 4,—Over 12,000oz of gold were lodged in the Nationnl Bank as part of the November crushing from the Robinson, ...

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  34. A RESERVE OF MEN.

    The call for volunteers to form the second con-tingent from this colony for service in South Africa has drawn many men from the country in excess of the numbers required. Now tha[?] the ranks of the ...

    Article : 239 words
  35. KHAMA AND LINCHWE.

    The "Bul[?]waye Chronicle" of October 28 states as follows:—The only men sent out of the country are about 40 pelice and 85 volunteers, the force of 100 sent to Palapye being despatched because it ...

    Article : 173 words
  36. THE VILLE DE LA CLOTAT.

    The French mail steamer Ville de [?] Clotat is due to-day from Maraseille. A Melbourne report says:—The passage from Marsseilles was a plcasantone, the thermometer never having reached [?] even in the Red [?] She left ...

    Article : 122 words
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  38. MR. CHURCHILL INTERVIEWED.

    The Loudon "Daily Mail" of November 25 publishes the following telegram:—"Pretoria, Nov. 23.—Through the courtesy of the authorities I was enabled to visit Mr. Winston Churchill. Beyond a ...

    Article : 229 words
  39. THE GERMAN-AUSTRALIAN LINE.

    The Augsburg is due here this week from Hamburg. The steamer left Hamburg on October 28, and Antwerp on November 8. The passage to the Cape was uneventful. She reached there on December 8, and left again the same ...

    Article : 94 words
  40. ISLAND TRIP OF THE HAUROTO.

    The Union Company's steumer Hanuroto, Captain W. J. Newton, from Aucklnnd, via Friendly Islands, Samos, and Fiji, arrived yesterday. She sailed from Gueenstreet Wharf, Auckland, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 13th ...

    Article : 199 words
  41. LATE COUNTRY NEWS.

    Much interest is taken in the Early Closing Act among business people. CUDAL, Thursday. At a meeting of business people it was decided to ...

    Article : 163 words
  42. FAREWELL TO A VOLUNTEER.

    An interesting gathering took place on the evening of Wednesday, 3rd instant, at Restliffe, the residence of Mrs. Fmigan, B[?]yce-street, Glebe Point, when the members of the Glebe Y.W.C.T.U. and some friends ...

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  43. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    The final competition for the quarterly prizes (service conditions, live shots, one sighter, at 300, [?]00, and 800 yards), resulted as follows:- Lieutenant Heane, 17,[?]15, 18—50; Private G. Paul, 19, ...

    Article : 69 words
  44. CAPE DUTCH WARNED.

    The London "Daily Mail" on November 25 published the following telegram:—Capetown, November 23.—Sir Alfred Milner his issued a proclamation to the people of Cape Colony. After saying ...

    Article : 207 words
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  46. PROPOSED NAVAL CONTINGENT.

    At a meeting of the members of the Naval forces a resolution was unanimously carried offering the Government the services of 120 officers and men of the Naval Brigade, to be accompanied by six guns, ...

    Article : 102 words
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