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  2. COMMONWEALTH BILL

    The legal members of the delegation from the Australian colonies which have adopted the Commonwealth Bill have prepared a memorandum, which has been adopted by ...

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  3. CABLE MESSAGES

    The Admiralty Court has awarded £16,500 to the steamer Asloun for the salvage of the steamer Waikato, which vessel, after drifting about in the Indian Ocean in a ...

    Article : 86 words
  4. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    At the colonial wool auctions to-day sales were fiat, and a large portion of the merine wools offered was withdrawn. The following were the average prices ...

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  5. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The burghers of the Orange Free State are surrendering to the British authorities a large number of inferior Weapons, and the impression prevails that they are concealing ...

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  6. LORD METHUEN'S POSITION.

    Later information regarding Lord Methuen's movements states that the enemy, with four guns, now hold a position on a ridge across the Vaal River, facing ...

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  7. OFFICERS FAMILIES FUND.

    The committee supervising the fund raised in England specially for the, benefit of the families of officers serving in South Africa who may be killed or wounded during the ...

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  8. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.

    In connection with the forthcoming University boat race, Oxford v. Cambridge, the Oxford crew have done a poor trial, and Cambridge is now a strong favourite. ...

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  9. COLONEL PLUMER'S OPERATIONS.

    The correspondent of the "Times" reports that Colonel Plumer, who is endeavouring to effect the relief of Mafeking, and who was attacked by the investing Boer ...

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  10. NOTES ON THE CABLES.

    Lord Methuen, who is marching northward from Kimberley, seems to have come across a strong loree of Boers at tne Vaal River. On Wednesday last his trrops engaged the ...

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  11. CRICKET RULES.

    The committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club have had under consideration a proposal to alter the law relating to leg-beforewicket, but they have decided not to ...

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  12. AN AUSTRIAN MARRIAGE.

    The marriage of the Archduchess Stephanie of Austria, widow of the late Crown Prince Rudolph, to Count Lonyay Elsmer, was celebrated yesterday at Miramar Castle, ...

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  13. SITUATION AT MAFEKING.

    Latest reports from the beleaguered town of Mafeking indicate that the garrison will be able to hold out for another three weeks against the Boers if the relief of the place ...

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  14. CAPE COLONY.

    News from Cape Colony states that the rebel Dutch colonists are disarming very slowly, and it is believed that most of them are hiding their rifles. ...

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  15. FAILURE OF AN AMERICAN PUBLISHING FIRM.

    The failure is announced of the wellknown New York publishing firm of Appleton and Co., the liabilities being stated at over 1,000,000 dollars. ...

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  16. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The quarantining of the wharves in Sussex-street has caused not a little consternation among the business people of the locality, and several of the shops have become vacant. ...

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  17. QUEENSLAND.

    There have been several light showers during the Week, but a lot more rain is required to give the potatoes a start. In most places they are coming up very irregularly, which, in a measure, could be ...

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  18. ACTION OF COLONIAL BANKS.

    Four of the local banks—the Bank of New South Wales, the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, the City Bank, and the Savings Bank or New South Wales—have ...

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  19. RECOVERY OF LOOT.

    The police in Cape Colony are recovering much of the property that was looted by the Boers. ...

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  20. DEATH OF A QUEENSLANDER.

    Information has been resolved by the Premier from Sir Alfred Miler that Privato T. Cummer (or Cumner), of the first Queensland contingent which went to South ...

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  21. BOER PRISONERS QUARRELLING.

    The Orango Free State and Transvaal Boers who are prisoners of wat at Capetown have been separated by the British authorities owing to the frequent quarrels ...

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  22. NEWS FROM THE SOUTH

    The names of the members of the first four squadrons of the Imperial Bushmen were published to-day, and the fifth lot will be announced to-morrow. ...

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  23. ESCAPING BOER PRISONER SHOT.

    One of the Boer prisoners of war at Capetown was shot by a British sentry while attempting to make his escape. ...

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  24. VICTORIA.

    Mrs. Fraser, wife of Dr. Fraser, was tried at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of shooting her husband, with intent to murder him, on 23rd September, at St. ...

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  25. THE COLONIAL TROOPS.

    The combined regiment of Australian Mounted Infantry is now at Normals Pont, on the frontier of Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, and is starting on a ...

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  26. NEW ZEALAND THIRD CONTINGENT.

    The steamer Knight Templar, with the Third Contingent of New Zealand troops for South Africa, which, as already reported, had arrived at Durban, has been ordered to ...

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  27. BOERS MASSING AT KROONSTAD.

    Information is to hand that the Boer forces are now massing at Kroonstad, in the north of the Orange Free State, about 130 miles from Bloemfontein, and are ...

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  28. MELBOURNE, MARCH 25.

    The Rev. G. Poynder, incumbent of St. James's, Traraigon, has been suspended for twelve months by the Bishop of Melbourne for marrying his deceased wife's sister. ...

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  29. DEATHS AMONG THE COLONIAL TROOPS.

    Trooper T. Cumner, of the First Queensland Contingent, died at Kimberley from enteric fever. Private Jenks, of the New Zealand ...

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  30. THE BOER COMMAND.

    General Joubert, the Transvaal Commander, is now in supreme command of the Boer force at Kroonstad. ...

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  31. OVERLAND PASSENGERS.

    The following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mrs. Lord, Miss Lord, Miss O'Brien, Mrs. Turnbull, Mr. and Mrs. M'Namara, ...

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  33. BOERS AT FAURESMITH.

    Reports are to hand that a force, of 500 Boers is now entrenched at Fauresmith, in the south-west of the Orange Free State, between Bloomfontein and the Cape Colony ...

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  34. PRECAUTIONS IN TASMANIA.

    At the request of the Central Board of Health, New South Wales has been declared an infected colony, thus bringing the Quarantine Act into operation. The medical men will probably be ...

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  35. HON. EDWARD HUGH LYGON KILLED.

    The Governor has received a cablegram notifying that his brother, the Hon. Edward Hugh Lygon, who was recently appointed adjutant to the Third Battalion of the ...

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  36. REPORTS FROM NATAL.

    It is reported from Natal that the Boers now in Natal have sent all their women and children into the Transvaal. Deserters iront the enemy report that the ...

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  37. PRESIDENT STEYN DEPOSED.

    It is affirmed that a committee of Transvaal and Orange Free State burghers, Which has been formed at Kroonstad, has assumed the government of the Free State, and ...

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  40. CASUALTIES AMONG BRITISH OFFICERS.

    A report received by the War Office from Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, states that on Friday last four officers rode out from the British camp ...

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  41. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir,—The authorities at the present time are trying to impress on every householder the necessity of cleanliness, and rightly so. I desire to draw their Mention to the owners of pigeons, ...

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  42. REBELS AT LADYSMITH.

    A number of suspected rebel colonists have been arrested at Ladysmith, in Natal, and are being tried on the charge of treason. ...

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  43. TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Premier has received a telegram from Mr. Lyne, Premier of New South Wales, in which it is suggested, in connection with the proposal to form the bushmen's ...

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  44. DEATH OF GENERAL WOODGATE.

    Information has been received of the death of Major-General E. R. P. Woodgate, who was seriously wounded in the engagement at Spionkop, near Ladysmith, in January ...

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  45. QUEENSLANDERS IN ORANGE RIVER HOSPITAL.

    Major Fiaschl, of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, thus describes in a letter published in the "Australasian Medical Gazette" the wounds of the ...

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  46. SETTLEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    Our Adelaide correspondent wires, under date 23rd Instant:- A meeting of persons interested in the formation of a company to acquire land for ...

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  47. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    President Steyn is reported to have said, during an address delivered to the burghers of the Orange Free State at Kroonstad, that since the commencement of the war the Boer ...

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  48. DEATH OF SIGNOR SIMONETTI.

    Our Sydney correspondent telegraphs as allows:—The death, is announced of Signor Slmonetti, the well-known sculptor. The cause of death is stated to have been heart ...

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  49. MOVEMENTS OF TRANSPORT STEAMERS.

    The Premier has been notified by Mr. Lyne, Premier of New South Wales, that he has received a cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, giving ...

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  50. BATTLE EXPECTED NEAR MASERU.

    Latest reports show that a battle between the British and Boer forces is now imminent near Maseru, the capital of Basutoland, which is adjacent to the eastern frontier of ...

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  52. PREPARATIONS AT PRETORIA.

    Reports from Pretoria state that the Transvaal authorities are making preparations which will enable the town to hold out for two years in the event of its being ...

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  53. INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

    Our Hobart correspondent telegraphs that at all Roman Catholic churches in Tasmania on Sunday a circular was read from Archbisnop Murphy appealing for subscriptions ...

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  56. THE WESTERN FRONTIER.

    A reconnaissance which was carried out by a portion of the British troops under Lord Methuen at Fourteen Streams, fortyseven miles north of Kimberley, on the ...

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  58. CONTINGENT SERVICES AT THE EXHIBITION.

    There was a large congregation of the general public at the Exhibition Building yesterday afternoon, in addition to the officers and men of the Fourth Contingent, ...

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  59. BOERS TREKKING.

    Major-General French, who is now at Thabanchu, has received, a heliograph message from the British commissioner at Maseru, the capital of Basutoland, stating that ...

    Article : 73 words
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