News from the front at Koodoosrand, where the Boer force under General Cronje is entrenched in the bed of the Modder River, surrounded by British troops, states ...
Article : 134 wordsIn moving the Naval Estimates (amounting to £27,500,000) in the House of Commons last night, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, deprecated ...
Article : 171 wordsInformation has just been received that General Cronje has surrendered after further desperate fighting. This news is officially confirmed. Later. ...
Article : 62 wordsLord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, and Lady Lamington are passengers for Brisbane by the Orient steamer Omrah, which left Naples on the 25th instant. ...
Article : 42 wordsYesterday five men were added to the strength of the Third Queensland South African Contingent. One of these, D. Macintyre, will fill up the blank "No. 5," ...
Article : 137 wordsA report ds to hand that when the transport steamer Maori King, conveying the second contingent of Queensland troops to South Africa, was off Madagascar one of ...
Article : 54 wordsMiss Ada Crossley, the distinguished Australian contralto singer, has been engaged as a soloist at the forthcoming Handel musical festival in London. ...
Article : 32 wordsNews from Natal states that the town of Colenso, from which General Buller is advancing towards Ladysmith, is now full of waggons laden with stores and luxuries for ...
Article : 58 wordsArrivals.—Mombassa, s., from Brisbane, via ports. Lady Elizabeth, barque, from Brisbane. Northern Monarch, barque, from Brisbane. Rakaia, s., from Wellington. Sahara, ...
Article : 132 wordsThe date of the departure of the transport Duke of Portland with the Third Queensland Contingent has been definitely settled for to-morrow. The day will not be ...
Article : 86 wordsGreat indignation has been aroused by a report that the Duc d'Orleans, the Royalist claimant to the French throne, wrote a letter of congratulation to M. Willette, a ...
Article : 200 wordsGeneral Gataere, who is operating in the vicinity of Stormberg, in Cape Colony, reports that Captain Montmorency (of Montmorency's Scouts) and Colonel Hoskier ...
Article : 40 wordsThe committee of inspection will visit the steamer Duke of Portland at 11 o'clock this morning, for the purpose of making an official inspection of the vessel. The ...
Article : 59 wordsEarly on Sunday last Major-General Clements, with the Inniskilling Dragoons and a detachment of artillery, and a strong force of Australian mounted troops, under ...
Article : 59 wordsAll excitement about the outbreak of bubonic plague has practically disappeared, largely owing to the fact that no fresh cases have been reported. ...
Article : 201 wordsAt an early hour this morning a cable was received, stating that after desperate fighting at the Modder River, near Koodoosrand, Cronje surrendered to the ...
Article : 749 wordsA deputation of Labour members waited upon the Postmaster-General to-day with reference to the Pacific cable. The interview resolved itself into a long statement ...
Article : 117 wordsBush fires are reported from several districts, notably Albury, Tuniberomba, Orange, and Burrowa, causing the destruction of a good deal of property. ...
Article : 332 wordsForty bushmen will be ready to embark aboard the Atlantlan on her arrival here on Saturday. ...
Article : 22 wordsA British force has TeoccuDied Barkly East, in the north-east of Cape Colony, a place which had been occupied by the Boers for some time past. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe fund Initiated by the Lord Major of London fon the relief of the sufferers from the famine in India has now reached £100,000. ...
Article : 32 wordsPreparations for the embarkation of the Bushmen's Contingent have advanced a further stage to-day. All arrangements have been made for a big demonstration in ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Shah of Persia has accepted the invitation of Queen Victoria to visit England in the autumn of the present year, and he will he the guest of her Majesty during his stay. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Rev. C. Glasgow Crawford, of Charters Towers, has received a unanimous call to the Presbyterian Church at Blayney. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt now transpires that it was LieutenantColonel Patterson, of Gympie, Queensland, and not Mr. A. B. Paterson, the Avar correspondent of the "S. M. Herald," who was ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Rev. W. H. Beale has been elected president of the Wesleyan Conference, and Mr. W. Halse Rogers has been re-elected secretary. ...
Article : 27 wordsNews is to hand that the extensas cellars in the chalk rock on whch the town of Eperaay, in France, is built, suddenly collapsed, and 500 casks and 1,500,000 bottles of ...
Article : 49 wordsAdmiral Pearson received a cable message to-day, announcing the death of his eldest son at Ladysmith last Thursday from typhoid fever. The deceased was a ...
Article : 60 wordsProfessor Lowrie has been making experiments in the cultivation of saltbush at Roseworthy College during the past few years, and reports having succeeded beyond his ...
Article : 86 wordsA balloon sent up from Lord Kitchener's lines disclosed the fact that four of the enemy's ammunition waggons were standing in the river bed. The fire of the British ...
Article : 54 wordsWith a view to guarding against the introduction of She plague from Sydney, special precautions are being adopted to prevent rats getting ashore from steamers ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Grand Theatre at Islington (London) caught fire last night, and was burned down. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture has directed the managers of the different Government farms to make up a consignment of preserved and dried fruits, jams, &c., for ...
Article : 70 wordsLieutenant E. Martin, of Adelaide, has received a commission as lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment, now serving in South Africa. ...
Article : 58 wordsA correspondent points out, in view of the measures adopted by our City Council for the wholesale destruction of these dangerous pests, that the Victoria Park is ...
Article : 51 wordsLater reports regarding the operations at Koodoosrand state that the British Engineers are now sapping towards the Boer laager. ...
Article : 66 wordsA cable message from Noumea, under to-day's date, gives the following additional deaths from plague:—At Noumea, two whites and eight Kanakas; at Nepoul, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Bushmen's Fund now amounts to £29,701. The number of horses donated for the use of the contingent is 285. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mr. and Mrs. Courtenay Asten, Miss Turner, Dr. and Mrs. Hardie, Mrs. Dobbins, ...
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Advertising : 413 wordsSir,—As it is the expressed intention of our Sanitary authorities to encourage the destruction of rats—consequent on the near approach of bubonic plague—the following staple means has, according ...
Article : 190 wordsThe second contingent of Tasmanian troops, who recently arrived at Capetown, have now left for the front. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe regulations, designed in the first instance to prevent the introduction of bubonic plague, which have been prepared by the Central Board of Health, were passed ...
Article : 456 wordsAt a meeting of the Cabinet, consideration was given to the matter of providing for the widows and dependents of those victims who fell at Rensburg. It was ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Hon. J. W. Sauer, Commissioner for Public Works dn the Government of Cape Colony, has stopped the pay of all railway employees who are serving at the front as ...
Article : 43 wordsGeneral Cronje having refused the offer of medical aid made by the British Commander, Lord Roberts has now allowed a German ambulance to assist the wounded Boers. ...
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Advertising : 160 wordsNews is to hand that President Kruger has reopened the Robinson South African Bank at Johannesburg, which was recently seized by his order (the accounts of the ...
Article : 51 wordsInformation is to hand that twenty additional men of the Canadian Contingent (who form pant of the force under Colonel SmithDorrien, and who suffered very severely in ...
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Advertising : 317 wordsThe latest reports to hand regarding Lord Roberts's operations state the British cordon around the Boers is being daily drawn closer. On Friday last the Gordon Highlanders made ...
Article : 94 wordsWhen approached regarding the establishment of a cordite factory in. South Australia the Premier declined to make any agreement, as he thought it a matter to be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsSir,—The season of the year being now close at hand, when this disease makes its appearance, I should like to bring under the notice of those interested, especially our ...
Article : 241 wordsSeven nurses have been chosen to go to South Africa, and they will leave next week, via Melbourne. ...
Article : 30 wordsWork at the encampment may now be regarded as practically completed, the troops now only awaiting orders for embarkation. The official inspection of the ...
Article : 339 wordsThe cablegram received by the Premier from Lord Roberts on the question of sending more troops to South Africa was before the Cabinet yesterday, and was fully ...
Article : 161 wordsInformation to hand shows that in consequence of the British invasion of the Orange Free State, 5000 Boer troops will be withdrawn from Natal by Friday next. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Government have decided to proclaim Wednesday a public holiday owing to the embarkation of the Bushmen's Contingent. The Sydney Meat Preserving Company are ...
Article : 123 wordsLatest information from the front in Natal states that heavy fighting around Grobler's Kloof, a short distance north of Colenso, was continued throughout Thursday, Friday, ...
Article : 183 wordsThe annual show of tills association will be held this year on Wednesday, 13th June, not on tho 15th, as stated in yesterday's issue. It may be only a coincidence, but it is, all ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the course of an interview with a representative of the "Sydney Daily Telegraph," Dr. Ashburton Thompson, chief medical officer, was asked, How is the virus ...
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Advertising : 32 wordsIn view of the cablegrams received to-night from the seat of war, the Premier was asked whether the favourable outlook of events would prevent the despatch of the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 28 Feb 1900, Page 5
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