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  2. COMMON-WEALTH BILL.

    The London "Standard" has intimated that the Australian Commonwealth Bill will probably bo introduced in the British House of Commons either on the 10th or 14th May ...

    Article : 108 words
  3. SOUTH AFRICA.

    It is now reported that the prompt evacuation of DcoWetsdorp by the Boers, whereby they so narrowly escaped being captured by the enveloping British forces, was due to ...

    Article : 133 words
  4. NOTES ON THE CABLES.

    As was anticipated, the Boers under Commandants De Wet and Olivier, who were opemtlng in the Free Slate tenltory east of Bloemfontein, have managed to escape ...

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  5. THE PLAGUE.

    People were coming and going at the Town Hall throughout the whole of yesterday. Many of them were officials, and the objective point of one and all was the Mayor's ...

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  6. THE MINISTER'S VISIT.

    The Home Secietary (the Hon. J. F. G. Foxton), when interviewed by a representative of this journal ns to the results of his visit to Caircross Hospital on Saturday ...

    Article : 327 words
  7. ADVANCE ON LADYBRAND.

    According to latest information from the Orange Free State, Major-General Brabant, with his brigade of South African and other colonial troops, is now advancing on ...

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  8. BRITISH ADVANCE IMMINENT.

    Reports have been received that the British force stationed at Glen, a town situated on the railway line to the Transvaal, about fifteen miles north from Bloemfontein, has ...

    Article : 63 words
  9. THE DELEGATES ENTERTAINED

    The federal delegates from the Australian colonies, together with Mr. S. H. Parker, the special, delegate from" Western Australia, were the guests of tibe Goldsmiths ...

    Article : 91 words
  10. OMINOUS PREPARATIONS.

    News from Capetown states that the military hospitals there are now being cleared in view of the expected early advance of Lord Roberts's troops northward from ...

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  11. THE NEW FARM CASE.

    The removal to Cairncross of the patient Bishop was effected yesterday morning, and two married couples living in a house in Amelia-street upon whom Bishop called on ...

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  12. THE NEW ZEALAND ROUGH RIDERS.

    Six of Ihe New Zealand Rough Riders, who framed part ot General Brabant's force, while scouting beyond. Boesmanskop recently, encountered six Boers, with whom ...

    Article : 84 words
  13. DEATH OF CANON GLENNIE.

    It was in no way a shock to Brisbane to learm yesterday that Canon Glennie had that morning passed peacefully away, at the house in Wynnum, where for the past eight ...

    Article : 531 words
  14. THE RESIDENCE OK THE BISHOP FAMILY

    is an attractive and clean-looking weather-board cottage, nicely painted, and bowered in greenery and shrubs, the last place in the world one would imagine as the scene ...

    Article : 527 words
  15. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.

    As the Hamilton division has, from being a suburban one, practically become a part of the city of Brisbane itself, the chairman of the board (Mr. C. A. Clarke) thought It ...

    Article : 311 words
  16. AUSTRALIANS CAPTURED.

    Two members of the Australian Colonial Forces, Private Provis, of the South Australian, and Private H. Brein, of the New South Wales contingents, are stated to have ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. THE PEACE DELEGATES.

    "With reference to the mission of Mr. A. Fischer and his co-delegates from the Boer Republics, who have been visiting Europe wifh ithe object of securing the ...

    Article : 183 words
  18. MEETING AT BOOROODABIN.

    A public meeting convened by the chairman of the Booroodabin Divisional Board was held at the Valley State School last evening for the purpose' of discussing ...

    Article : 223 words
  19. COLONEL HAMILTON'S OPERATIONS.

    Information has been leceived that the British mounted force under Colonel Ian Hamilton, which effected a junction on-Friday morning with Geneial French's division ...

    Article : 48 words
  20. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    Information has been received that Mr. (Adalbert S. Hay, United States Consul at Pietoria, who has undertaken the charge of British interests in the Transvaal during ...

    Article : 78 words
  21. OTHER MOVEMENTS.

    Lleutenant-Geneial Rundle, who was reported by Lord Roberts to be eight miles south of Thabanchu on Thursday night, has since arrived at that place, which had been ...

    Article : 91 words
  22. Advertising

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    Advertising : 368 words
  23. SUGAR WORKS QUARANTINED.

    The Sugar Refinery, where the patient Bishop had been employed, was placed under quarantine, though portions of the works were in operation during the morning. This ...

    Article : 342 words
  24. LATEST BULLETIN.

    On inquiiy at Cairncross'Hospital late last eveLhig we learned that the patient Drevesen, though not quite so well in the afternoon, showed decided signs of Jmpiovement ...

    Article : 63 words
  25. RAT FEE'S 'INCREASED.

    On and after this morning the fees paid by the Joint Board for the capture of rats will be increased from 2d. to 6d. Mils has 'been decided upon as a method ...

    Article : 56 words
  26. MAFEKING RELIEF OPERATIONS.

    There are indications that General Sir Frederick Carrington, who is in command of the Colonial Mounted Force in Rhodesia, and General Sir Archibald Hunter, who during ...

    Article : 114 words
  27. THE RETREAT OF THE BOERS.

    Information has been received which shows that the Boers who were investiag Wepener, after being compelled to redie from that place, had so strong a disinclination to ...

    Article : 81 words
  28. A THIRD CASE.

    The position with regard to the local outbreak of plague was accentuated yesterday by the arrival in Brisbane of the s.s. Maranoa, a steamer of the A.U.S.N. ...

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  29. INOCULATION OF JOINT BOARD SECRETARY.

    Mr. Harpur, the secretary of the Joint Board for the Prevention of Epidemic, is to be inoculated with plague prophylactic probably this morning. ...

    Article : 31 words
  30. Advertising

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  31. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A question suggested by the circumstances connected with the discovery of the second case of plague in Brisbane has been, why did not Dr. Bancroft order the removal of ...

    Article : 137 words
  32. PUNITIVE MEASURES.

    Later information has. been received of the operations of Lieutenant-General PoleCarow, who has been advancing northwards from De Wetsdorp, and taking punitive ...

    Article : 156 words
  33. BOERS TO THE FRONT.

    It is reported that a Boer commando, which has hitherto been stationed on the Swaziland border to watch the natives of that territory, has now been ordered to ...

    Article : 42 words
  34. THE ARSENAL EXPLOSION.

    With regard to the report recently received that a disastrous explosion bad occurred in the Government arsenal at Pretoria, information now to hand shows that ...

    Article : 124 words
  35. THE DOCTORS.

    Dr. Love, the secretary to the Central Boord of Health, who was inoculated on Saturday, is still confined to his bed, and unable to attend to business. Dr. Bancroft, ...

    Article : 58 words
  36. CAIRNCROSS HOSPITAL.

    The Works Department report that everything in connection with the preparation of the Cairncross Hospital for the reception of plague patients, suspects, and contacts ...

    Article : 243 words
  37. SUGGESTED EXAMINATION DEPOT.

    a representative of one of our leading shipping firms waited upon the Joint Board yesterday and threw out, as a suggestion, that a central floating depot might he ...

    Article : 87 words
  38. THE COUNTRY CLEAR.

    Strong British garrisons now occupy Thabanchu and De Wetsdorp. The country to the eastward of the railway line in the Orange Free State is now ...

    Article : 63 words
  39. THE JOHANNESBURG MINES.

    Information received from Pretoria states that President Kruger has reluctantly cancelled the orders that had been given for the destruction of the Johannesburg mines ...

    Article : 67 words
  40. PROTECTION FOR WHARF LABOURERS.

    A correspondent writes:—Kindly draw the attention of those who have the power to the fact that although they may be doing good to householders, they are doing very ...

    Article : 126 words
  41. GENERAL BOTHA'S STRATEGY.

    It is stated that General Botha, the Boer Commander, by his stiategy in withdrawing the main portion of his forces post Thaba Patchoa, up the valley of the Leeuw River, ...

    Article : 58 words
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