The leading French newspapers are insisting upon the necessity for at once settling the fate of the New Hebrides group, which is now under the joint control of ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery delivered a stirring speech at Chatham last night, in which he dealt principally with the war in South Africa. In the course of his speech Lord ...
Article : 269 wordsNews from India states that the excitement there in connection with the war in South Africa has reached an extraordinary pitch, and quite eclipses that ...
Article : 108 wordsA cable message seat by General Sir Redvers Buller on the evening of the 23rd instant (Tuesday) has been received by the War Office, and is to the ...
Article : 262 wordsJust before the transport Maori King left here one of the Queensland contingent was put ashore without belt or accoutrements. It is stated that he had been insubordinate, ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is reported from Paris that twelve members of the order of Assumptionist Fathers, together with Father Ba[?]ey, director of the religious newspaper "La Croix," ...
Article : 56 wordsThe medical officers have had 105 bushmen and seventeen men for the third contingent for South Africa under their hands to-day. In all 651 bushmen have now been ...
Article : 123 wordsIt transpires that Private St. John, of the first battalion Grenadier Guards, and a champion boxer (known as the Welsh giant), killed eleven Boers at the ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is announced from Berlin that the German Government have decided, for administrative purposes, to attach the Caroline, Pelew, and Marianne (or Ladrone) Islands ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Premiers' Conference began the first sitting about 3 o'clock this afternoon, but owing to the volubility of the representatives not much business was done before ...
Article : 370 wordsLieutenant-Colonel H. A. Eager, of the second battalion Royal Irish Riffles, who was wounded in the engagement at Stormberg, where General Gatacre met ...
Article : 48 wordsThe death is announced, in his 69th year, of Professor David Edward Hughes. Professor Hughes was the inventor of the Huges printing telegraph instrument, which ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Governor has received a cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, accepting the services of nurses for South Africa. It is probable that half-a-dozen ...
Article : 53 wordsA cable message received from the Agent-General states that about 110 deaths from disease have occurred at Ladysmith since the 1st January. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is announced that Sir Julian Salomons, Agent-General for New South Wales, will, for personal and private reasons, resign that position in April next, and he will sail on ...
Article : 55 wordsInformation has been received that a Boer force has crossed Portuguese territory (which adjoins the Trausvaal on the east), in order to enter Rhodesia, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsThe Premier has informed the Imperial authorities that a third contingent of rough-riders, numbering 200 men, is to be sent to South Africa. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe body of Mr. John Ruskin, the eminent art critic and author, who died a few days ago, is now lying in state in Coniston Church, near his late residence. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe steamer Ruahine arrived to-day from the Cape, and the following items are taken from Cape flies:- A letter from Kimberley, under, date 5th ...
Article : 352 wordsA domestic tragedy is reported from Bodangarry, near Parkes. A man named Alfred Schnavel is reported to have shot his wife, killing her instantly. The parties ...
Article : 163 wordsTwo additional regiments of South African Light Horse, a colonial, force that has done excellent service during the present war, are now being raised ...
Article : 59 wordsMiss Eva Hooper, who is proceeding to Victoria to organise the kindergarten system of instruction in that colony, is a passenger for Melbourne by the R.M.S. Australia. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe preparatory work for the sending away of another contingent is now well in hand, and not since the original camp was shifted from Pinkenba have the Exhibition ...
Article : 483 wordsNews has been received that Captain Burkitt, formerly master of the British-India Company's steamer Jumna, running between Brisbane and London, and latterly captain ...
Article : 45 wordsThe horses shipped from Sydney by the steamer Damascus for the Imperial authorities in South Africa have arrived at Capetown in excellent condition. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsTwo sons of Mr. David Tweedie, of Adelaide, who have been in England for some time past, have joined the force of Imperial Yeomanry which is being ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, it was announced that the Government intend to enrol 100 men for the Bushmen's Contingent for South Africa, and will gradually ...
Article : 174 wordsA deputation from the Cleveland Divisional Board and the residents of Cleveland waited upon the Chief Secretary (Hon. J. R. Dickson) yesterday, to bring under his ...
Article : 308 wordsA conference of Labour men, at which Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria were represented, was held in the Trades Hall to-night, to adopt a federal platform. ...
Article : 52 wordsIt has transpired that Mr. Robert Standish Sievier, who is married to a sister of the fourth Marquis of Ailesbury, recently raised a company of ...
Article : 64 wordsA small scandal in regard to a large quantity of flour shipped by the troopship Surrey has been disclosed. The Government appointed a board of master bakers to ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. F. E. Forrester, of New Farm, writes: —May I offer a suggestion whereby I believe the Patriotic Fund could be considerably augmented? It is to hold a fair, or Bruce ...
Article : 395 wordsThe subscriptions to the Mansion House Fund in connection with the war in South Africa have been so liberal that the trustees of the fund are able ...
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Advertising : 303 wordsA correspondent of the Associated Press at Chievely Camp ways the Boers excuse themselves for firing on the stretcher hearers by asserting that two squads of ...
Article : 744 wordsNews from Washington states that Mr. Montagu White, who until the outbreak of the war an South Africa was Consul-General for the Transvaal in ...
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Advertising : 391 wordsOur Auckland correspondent telegraphs as follows:—The Premier has protested to the Australian Premiers against the acceptance of the Eastern ...
Article : 91 wordsIt is stated that the Boers admit that their casualties in the fighting on Saturday and Sunday last were heavier than in the battle at Colenso on the ...
Article : 88 wordsHis Excelleney the Lieutenant-Governor has telegraphed to the Chief Secretary that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has telegraphed to him stating that he has ...
Article : 64 wordsThe United States Court at Philadephia, at the instance of a British subject resident there, has granted an injunction detaining the steamer ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Minister for Railways (Mr. Murray) has received a letter sent on behalf of the saddlers of Rockhampton, complaining that in connection with the previous contingents ...
Article : 169 wordsA communication has reached the Home Secretary's Department to the effect that at a meeting attended by twenty-seven justices of the peace at Charters Towers, it was ...
Article : 83 wordsIn connection with the recent operations of the British force in the vicinity of Ladysmith, it is stated that Commandant Viljoen, one of the Boer ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Boer stronghold at Spionkop has now been ascertained to be one of great importance. The hill has a considerable altitude, and its rugged and precipitous sides form ...
Article : 824 wordsThe American hospital ship Maine, which was equipped by means of funds raised by Anglo-American, ladies, headed by Lady Randolph Churchill, who is ...
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Advertising : 108 wordsA telegram has been received by the "Western Champion" from Major Tunbridge, district officer at Rockhampton, asking for suitable volunteers for South Africa. The ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the expectation that the relief of Ladysmith will very shortly be effected by General Buller's force, the residents of Pietermaritzburg and Durban are ...
Article : 68 wordsUp to the present time between thirty and forty men have offered themselves here in connection with the third contingent for South Africa, exclusive of several bushmen ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 25 Jan 1900, Page 5
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