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  2. COLONIAL INTERESTS

    The "Westminster Gazette," in an article published to-day regarding the Common-wealth Bill, states that the difficulty with regard to the amendments proposed by the ...

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  3. CABLE MESSAGES

    Her Majesty the Queen has reviewed a gathering of 52,000 children in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Her Majesty afterwards treated the children to luncheon, and made a ...

    Article : 69 words
  4. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Boer commander De Wet has stated with reference to the recent reverse sustained by the British force under Colonel Broadwood at Koorn Spruit that the Boers ...

    Article : 245 words
  5. WAR NEWS BY MAIL.

    The following is taken from files of American papers just to hand by the R.M.S. Mariposa:- A despatch from Pretoria, dated 19th ...

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  6. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

    President Kruger, of the Transvaal Republic, has forwarded a cable message to H.R.H, the Prince of Wales, congratulating him upon his escape from the recent attempt ...

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  7. LORD BRASSEY'S YACHT.

    The yacht Sunbeam, with Lord Brassey, late Governor of Victoria, on board, has arrived at Simonstown, near Capetown. ...

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  8. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

    Arrivals.—Oaklands, barque, from Brisbane; Pellegrina O, ship, from Fremantle; J. H. Nicolai, barque, from Fremantle; Erin's Isle, ship, from Albany; Gulf of ...

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  9. MAFEKING ASKED TO HOLD OUT.

    Lord Roberts has sent a message to Colonel Baden-powell, urging him to persist in holding out against the investing Boer force until the middle of May. Colonel ...

    Article : 66 words
  10. LORD ROSEBERY AND ARMY REFORM.

    The Earl of Rosebery has announced his intention of actively taking up the question of British army reform, in respect of which he has previously expressed strong views. ...

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  11. THE IMPERIAL CONTINGENT OFFICERS.

    Sir,—Having spent thirty-five years of my life in the Australian bush, and having during that period made many valued friendships amongst all classes of ...

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  12. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    The Third Contingent of troops from New Zealand, who recently arrived at Capetown, have now sailed for Beira, in Portuguese East Africa, on their way to Rhodesia. ...

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  13. THE INDIAN FAMINE.

    Lord George F. Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, has informed the Lord Mayor of London that the famine is affecting 85,000,000 inhabitants in India. Of these ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    Three cases of bubonic plague were reported in Sydney this morning. These were Emily Shaw, aged 4, residing at Glebe; Godfrey Roven, 21 years, resident at ...

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  15. NOTE OF WARNING FROM BEENNLEIGH.

    Sir,—Now the plague scare is on, in the interests of the public health I would call attention to the insanitary state of Beenleigh. We have an open drain in the ...

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  16. GENERAL HUTTON'S COLONIAL BRIGADE.

    The brigade of troops which has been placed under the command of Major-General Hutton (lately Commandant of the militia force in Canada, and formerly Commandant ...

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  17. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.

    The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is about to visit Berlin on the occasion of the celebrations in connection with the majority of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Crown ...

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  18. THE EIGHTH ARMY DIVISION.

    With regard to the Eighth Army Division, which recently left England for Cape Colony, Reuter's Agency publishes the statement that the portion of the division ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. EPIDEMIC JOINT LOCAL BOARD.

    It is understood that arrangements are now being made to alter the personnel of the Metropolitan Joint Health Board, made necessary by the alteration in the basis of ...

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  20. TROUBLE IN WEST AFRICA.

    Further advices received concerning the recent outbreak of tribal fighting in Ashanti are to the effect that the Governor (Sir F. M. Hodgson), who was reported to ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.

    It is stated that Mr. A. Fischer, one of the members of the Executive of the Orange Free State, who, with Messrs. Wolmerans and Wessels, recently left. South Africa on ...

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  22. DEAF AND DUMB AND BLIND INSTITUTE.

    The weather was especially unfavourable for the fete arranged to be given at the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institution, South Brisbane, last evening. The rain came on ...

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  23. THE COMMONWEALTH BILL.

    Owing to the importance of the recent developments in connection with the Commonwealth Bill, arrangements are being made for a conference of colonial Premiers ...

    Article : 162 words
  24. THE TEACHERS DEPUTATION.

    Sir,—One is inclined to expect logic from the Minister of Public Instruction, especially as he is the head of our educational system in this, colony. If we cannot got ...

    Article : 308 words
  25. A PROMINENT CAPE REBEL.

    Information is to hand that a brother of the Hon. J. W. Sauer (Commissioner for Public Works in the Cape Ministry) has been arrested as a rebel at Barkly East, in ...

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  26. REPORTS FROM VICTORIA.

    A further bacterlogical examination of blood from the man James Brown, who was quarantined from the collier South Australian, has disclosed the true bacilli of ...

    Article : 143 words
  27. STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT STEYN.

    President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, declares that the action of the British Government in deporting the Boer prisoners of war to St. Helena will justify the Boers ...

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  28. SITUATION AT WEPENER.

    It is reported that Captain Dalgety, of the Cape Mounted Rifles, is now in command of the British force at Wepener, on the Basutcland frontier of the Orange Free ...

    Article : 103 words
  29. THE JOHANNESBURG MINES.

    Reports received from Johannesburg state that a bogus trial has been held there with a view to demonstrating that the threat made some time ago by Mr. Reitz, the ...

    Article : 57 words
  30. THE PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 words
  31. AN INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE.

    Dr. Ramsay Smith, chairman of the Central Board of Health, left for Melbourne yesterday to attend the intercolonial conference which has been summoned to ...

    Article : 68 words
  32. FREE STATE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.

    The seizure of the banks at Bloemfontein by Lord Roberts has hampered the operations of President Steyn, of the Orange Free State. As the Free State Bank is now ...

    Article : 61 words
  33. CONTRACTS FOR FODDER.

    The War Office authorities have signed fresh contracts for the supply of fodder for the horses of the British army in South Africa, and, as the term of these contracts ...

    Article : 52 words
  34. OUTBREAK AT FREMANTLE.

    A man named Sydney Wilson, employed in one of the stores at Fremantle, has developed glandular swellings, and the Illness has been pronounced to be one of plague. There is ...

    Article : 180 words
  35. QUEENSLAND PATRIOTIC FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 words
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  37. HORSES FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    The steamer Folmina, which left Gladstone (Queensland) on the 21st February with a large shipment of horses purchased for the Imperial Government as remounts ...

    Article : 43 words
  38. PATRICK CAMPBELL KILLED.

    Advice has been received in London that among the British who were killed at Boshof on Friday last, when Lord Methuen successfully engaged the enemy, was Mr. ...

    Article : 69 words
  39. NOTES ON THE CABLES.

    The Boer version of the events leading up tn the unfortunate mishap to Colonel Broadwood's force at Koorn Spruit, some twenty miles to the east of Bloemfonteln, is ...

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  40. OVERLAND PASSENGERS.

    The following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Miss Jobson, Mrs. Daniell, Miss Daniell, Miss Scott, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Buckland. Mr. ...

    Article : 131 words
  41. SITUATION IN NATAL.

    News has been received from Natal that a Boer force is now laagered near Dunkers-poort. There is another force of 2000 Boers, with eighteen guns, above Pomeroy, ...

    Article : 85 words
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  43. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir,—In the days when the world was young and people were wise, an ancient prophet said, "Thus saith the Lord God. Strike with thy hand, and stamp with thy ...

    Article : 610 words
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  46. LATEST FROM MAFEKING.

    News has now been received from Mafeking to the 1st April, on which date Colonel Baden-powell reported" All safe, and cheerful." ...

    Article : 200 words
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