It has been announced that the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has consented to see Mr. Walter Griffiths, M.P., relative to the petition from ...
Article : 99 wordsNews from the front in the Orange Free State shows that the operations of the British cavalry under Major-General French are having the effect of slowly compelling ...
Article : 112 wordsA banquet was given last evening by the British Empire League in honour of the colonial Federal delegates now in London, and also in recognition of the services of ...
Article : 945 wordsMr. Frederick Treves, the eminent English surgeon, who proceeded do the front in South Africa as consulting surgeon, and has just returned to England, has been ...
Article : 78 wordsThere were fortunately no fresh cases of plague yesterday. Two or three cases privately regarded as suspicious were reported to the authorities, but the ...
Article : 575 wordsA telegram received from Albany states that the transport Armenian, with the New South Wales Imperial Bushmen's Contingent on board, had arrived there, and landed ...
Article : 35 wordsDisinfecting-rooms are to be erected to-day at Roma-street and Petrie-terrace Police Barracks, in which officers who have been on duty in connection with plague cases ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Victorian Contingent of Imperial Bushmen, to the number of 608, with 779 horses, embarked on the troopship Victorian to-day. As the contingent proceeded from ...
Article : 47 wordsThe details which have come to hand respecting the gallant resistance made by Colonel Dalgety with 1700 men against 8000 Boers at Wepener again worthily ...
Article : 1,015 wordsThe South Australian contingent of Imperial Bushmen were farewelled to-day, the streets being lined with enthusiastic citizens. The crowds were quite as large as on ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Ellhu Root, the United States Secretary for War, has published an article in the American Press, in which he warns Americans that in a few years they will be ...
Article : 64 wordsWhen the police went to investigate a reported case at Petrie-terrace a man who had been feigning illness and lying on the reserve rose up and went away laughing. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe members of the South Australian Contingent of Imperial Bushmen left to-day for South Africa by the troopship Manhattan, which also has the Tasmanian contingent on ...
Article : 54 wordsA curious, plague incident, which was not without its humorous side, though fraught with much anxiety to more than one of the participants, occurred on Monday. A ...
Article : 523 wordsThe London " Times," commenting on the recent win of the Australian racehorse The Grafter in the City and Suburban Handicap at Epsom, characterises the transactions in ...
Article : 43 wordsThere are passing to-day a mob of 295 fat bullocks from kinbombi,.Messrs. Baynes Bros. owners, and P. Nolan in charge. GATTON, April 30. ...
Article : 1,061 wordsArrival.—Karamea, s., from Wellington. Departures.—For Sydney: Aristomene, ship, from Liverpool; Lord Shaftesbury, barque, from New York; Darmstadt, s., ...
Article : 80 wordsThe jury returned a verdict of guilty late to-night in the case of the man Raleigh, who was charged with the murder of a man named Cornelius Teahan. Raleigh was ...
Article : 113 wordsFurther details received concerning the gallant stand which was made at Wepener by the British force under Colonel Dalgety show that 1700 British troops resisted 8000 ...
Article : 63 wordsThis event progressed a stage further last night by closing of entries and pairing of players, Although the players are well representative of local clubs, the country clubs have not responded, ...
Article : 262 wordsThe bulletin issued at 4 p.m. by the president of the Epidemic Board stated that the patients at Cairncross were doing well, and that everything was progressing ...
Article : 172 wordsIt is reported that the Ambulance Brigade attached to the New South Wales contingents have paid a visit to the Boer lines east of the Bloemfontein waterworks, and are ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Rev. H. F. Nelmeyer, of the German Apostolic Church, Hatton Vale, was at Woolloongabba on Monday afternoon, when he had occasion to go into ...
Article : 212 wordsWith reference to the coming visit of the Boer peace delegates to the United States, after the failure of their mission, in Euro reports from Washington state that ...
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Advertising : 386 wordsObjection has been expressed against the method adopted in conveying plague-stricken patients by road to Cairncross, and the matter has received attention from the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe patient Ernest Storm, so far as is known, is progressing satisfactorily. A further report from Dr. Routh, the quarantine medical officer, is expected to-morrow. ...
Article : 64 wordsDespite the efforts of the police to trace the "wanted" contacts, nine of the fifteen passengers and seven of the crew were still at large yesterday morning. It was ...
Article : 345 wordsIt is announced that Private J. Anderson, of the New Zealand Contingent, has died from dysentery at Dielfontein, and Private Heintzies, of the 'First Australian ...
Article : 43 wordsThe man Purcell, who was suffering from plague, and Goy and Lewis, who are supposed to be affected, left town this evening for Mackenzie Island. ...
Article : 219 wordsOwing to the number of men volunteering for the local regiments of the Scottish Rifles, a proposal is on foot to raise a company of 125 men for service in South Africa ...
Article : 63 wordsThere are indications that General Sir Archibald Hunter, who was recently appointed to the command of the Tenth Army Division, and has arrived at Kimberley from ...
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Advertising : 206 wordsThe officers attached to the third contingent have sent a cable message to the London "Daily Mail," asking that journal to endeavour to do something to secure the ...
Article : 69 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons last night with regard to the recently published despatches from Lord Roberts, in which General Buller and other ...
Article : 127 wordsOne or two cases have occurred recently in which the relatives of soldiers now at the front had applied for the pay as arranged before the departure of the men ...
Article : 140 wordsSir,—In view of the Bubonic plague, I would suggest that all books in the various libraries be thoroughly disinfected ere they are redistributed among the public. At all ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is understood that the new plague regulations are in a forward state, and will probably be promulgated on Thursday. ...
Article : 25 wordsDr. have the secretary to the Central Board of Health, who for two days past has been confined to his house from the effects of his inoculation on Friday evening ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 2 May 1900, Page 5
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