It is announced that Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is sending Mr. Basil Thomson to Tonga, to explain to the native authorities there the terms of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Governor, Earl Beauchamp, left Sydney to-night for Melbourne, en route to Tasmania and New Zealand. His Excellency will probably be absent for a month. ...
Article : 46 wordsReports from the front in Natal state that the Boers are now showing less tenacity against the British attack, and are seldom using their cannon. It is ...
Article : 179 wordsIn the above map the leading positions of the British and Boar troops respectively, as reported by recent cablegrams, are indicated by flags. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsThe transport Maori King, with the Queensland contingent, left Port Melbourne at [?] o'clock this morning, amidst-ringing cheers from people on the wharf. The Moravian, ...
Article : 60 wordsSt. Mary's Cathedral was packed this morning by a congregation who assembled to witness the marriage of Miss Mary Slattery, only daughter of Mr. T. M. Slattery, ...
Article : 69 wordsPreparations for the despatch of the third contingent have been commenced at the camp of the second contingent at Wellington, which remains intact. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe deaths of his Highness the Duke of Teek, Mr. Richard Doddridge Blackmore, the novelist, and Mr. John Ruskin were all caused by Influenza. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Department of Agriculture are taking; steps to recover the amounts due to the Government by various persons in different parts of the colony on account of seed wheat ...
Article : 70 wordsA man at Nowra, who expressed strong pro-Boer sentiments somewhat freely on Saturday night, was promptly." "ducked" in a horse-watering trough. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Royal Commission appointed last year to inquire into and report uron the question of automatic railway couplings has now drawn up its report. Among the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Acting Premiker, while not giving any guarantee as to the action of the Government in connection with the sending of a bushmen's corps to South Africa,, ...
Article : 76 wordsThe committee of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce to-day passed a resolution favourable to the proposed deviation of the English mail steamer from Albany to ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Railway Commissioners are taking in hand the work of the conversion of the present steam tramways to the electric system. An endeavour will be made to have the ...
Article : 97 wordsAs has been previously announced in these columns, Mr. A. H. Hasell, of Queen-street, Melbourne, very generously donated a sufficient quantity of gypsum for disinfectant ...
Article : 101 wordsFor the second time in the preparatory work for sending troops to the Transvaal the scene of the encampment has bec[?] changed. The Exhibition Building though ...
Article : 710 wordsMr. Thomas Aitken, who is connected with the London and Edinburgh Shipping Company, has made a gift of £40,000 to the Edinburgh Infirmary. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn engine-driver named Robert Jones was caught by the flywheel of the machinery at Block No. 10 mine at Hrokon Hill this morning, and frightfully mangled, death being ...
Article : 34 wordsProfessor St. George Mlvart, a prominent scientist and author of a number of works on biological and other subjects, has been formally inhibited by Cardinal Vaughan, ...
Article : 57 wordsThe local Patriotic Fund was to-day increased by £100, donated by the Jondaryan Estates Company, through their manager, Mr. Charles Williams. ...
Article : 919 wordsField-Marshal Lord, Roberts, the Commander-in-Chlef of the British forces in South Africa, has ordered cash payments to be made for all supplies ...
Article : 70 wordsThe following sciatchings in connection with the Anniversary Meeting of the Sydney Turf Club are aunounced:- Challenge Stakes.—-Influenza and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe balance-sheet of the Union Bank of Australia for the six months ended 31st August last, to be presented at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders, shows that ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. J. H. Want, ex-Attorney-General presided to-day over a meeting of anti-blllites which was convened for the purpose of expressing disapproval with the proposal to ...
Article : 172 wordsLord Roberts, the Commander-in-chief, as a compliment to the colonies, has chosen a number of colonial troops to act as his personal bodyguard. ...
Article : 33 wordsHerr Licht, ot Magdeburg, in his monthly circular, states that the production of beet sugar for the current campaign shows an increase of 268,000 tons, as compared with ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is now definitely announced that Major-General Hector Macdonald has succeeded the late Major-General A. G. Wauchope (who was killed ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Government have requested his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor (Sir S. W. Griffith) to submit to the home authorities an offer of a third contingent of mounted ...
Article : 159 wordsArrivals.—Wakanui, s., from Wellington; Weimar, s., from Sydney, via ports (at Bremen); Bielefeld, s., from Sydney, via ports (at Hamburg); Damascus, s., from ...
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Advertising : 440 wordsNews is to hand that Colonel Plumer, who is advancing fiom Rhodesia towards Mafeking with three armoured trains, has defeated a Boer patrol at ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. W. Kidston, M.L.A. for Rockhampton, addressed a large meeting of electors in the School of Arts to-night, the Mayor presiding. Mr. Kidston spoke for an hour and ...
Article : 137 wordsThree further batteries of artillery and 5000 soldiers have arrived-at Capetown from England since Friday last. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Chief Secretary, answering some questions yesterday afternoon as to the manner in which the Government viewed the proposal to send a (Bushmen's Contingent to ...
Article : 80 wordsColonel the Earl of Dundonald, with the force under his command, has advanced further to the westward, and now holds the approach to Olivier's ...
Article : 44 wordsSir William MacCormac, Bart, the eminent surgeon, who is with the British army in South Africa as consulting surgeon, has made a report in which he ...
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Advertising : 261 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Dickson) has received a telegram from the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Lyne), intimating that the latter has recived a cablegram from the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe British generals commanding the various brigades of General Bullers force are now echeloned (that is, occupying, a seiies of steps, or with one ...
Article : 111 wordsThe suggestion that Queensland pastoralists might render valuable help at the present juncture by contributing horses for service in South Africa has already borne ...
Article : 149 wordsThe barque Marie, which, had on board a cargo of Australian Hour for the Transvaal, and was seized by a British cruiser at Delagoa Bay, and taken to ...
Article : 38 wordsA meeting of the Citizens' Committee appointed in connection with the proposal to send a bushmen's contingent to South Africa was held yesterday afternoon in the Brisbane ...
Article : 615 wordsThe subscription list opened by the proprietors of the "Courier" for the benefit of those of the Queensland contingents who may suffer during the war in South Africa ...
Article : 157 wordsThe British forces in Natal are now closing in upon, the enemy around Ladysmith in a manner which presages the early smash up of General Joubert's command, and the ...
Article : 993 wordsNo little indignation has been aroused by the treatment meted out to the eleven members of the Shipwrights' Union who, as reported in our issue of Wednesday last, were ...
Article : 223 wordsLatest reports from Natal show that the various brigades of General Buller's force are slowly but surely converging upon the centre of the enemy's position, ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is expected that the Bushmen's Contingent, to which all the colonies will contribute, will number about 1100 men. Of this total 525 will come from Now South ...
Article : 200 wordsReports now to hand show that in the fighting on Sunday between General Warren's force and the Boers, the total British casualties were less than 100. ...
Article : 92 wordsA large meeting of residents of the town and country was held in the Town Hall this afternoon to consider the question of holding a patriotic demonstration and dealing with the Patriotic Fund. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 24 Jan 1900, Page 5
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