It is reported that the cone of Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, has fallen in and been engulfed in the crater of the volcano, and in consequence the eruptions, which ...
Article : 54 wordsMajor-General French, Commandant of the New South Wales Defence Force, left by to-night's express train for a week's holiday in Brisbane. ...
Article : 42 wordsLast evening about half-past 6 the Mayor (Alderman J. N. Robinson), as president of the Joint (Epidemic) Authority, was apprised of another case of plague in ...
Article : 329 wordsThe colonial bodyguard attached to the British Commander-in-Chief in South Africa (Field Marshal Lord Roberts) were the first British troops to enter Kroonstad on ...
Article : 88 wordsA cable has been, received by his Excellency the Governor to the effect that Private W. Devitt, of the First Queensland South African Contingent, died on the 12th instant ...
Article : 98 wordsThe British troops under Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Rundle and Major-General Brabant, who are operating against the Boers in the Thabauehu region, are ...
Article : 166 wordsReports have been received of a disastrous railway collision near Philadelphia, in the United States. It appears that a goods train came into collision with another ...
Article : 94 wordsThere has been a remarkable revival in the coal trade at Newcastle during the past few weeks, and indications point to an early return of the prosperous conditions which ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Premier has received advices from the American Consul at Pretoria, stating that the New Zealand prisoners are in good health, and provided for comfortably. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe following extracts are made from l[?]tters forwarded by a member of the First Contingent to his relatives in Brisbane:- Bloemtontein, 3rd March: We have been ...
Article : 449 wordsAnother meeting was held to-night an connection with the Indian Famine Relief Fund, and it was announced that the amount available for despatch to India is ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is reported that the Colonial Brigade under General Hutton has captured 100 Boer prisoners. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe entire estate of the late John Ruskin, the eminent author and art critic, has been valued for probate at £10,000. Mr. Ruskin, who was the son of a London ...
Article : 45 wordsAn exciting incident occurred on the voyage of the steamer Elingamite from Melbourne to Sydney. A passenger is said to have developed delirium tremens, and early ...
Article : 107 wordsThe British force under Colonel Broadwood is reported to have overtaken a portion of the retreating Boer convoy south-east of Ventersburg on Thursday, and captured ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. T. Givens, M.L.A., addressed the electors in the Divisional Board Hall on Saturday night. The Mayor was in the chair. ...
Article : 341 wordsThe following bulletin was issued from the Plague Hospital at Colmslie, by Dr. Hutchens at 10 a.m. yesterday:- "Mrs. Knight slept rather better Jost night, ...
Article : 95 wordsIt is reported that General Louis Botha, the Boer Commandant-General, and Commandant De Wet, have accompanied the retreating Transvaal troops to the Vaal River ...
Article : 91 wordsA sensational suicide is reported from Temora. Dan M'Allery, an employee at the Sebastopol Cyanide Works, [?]lled a glass with cyanide solution from the vat, and, ...
Article : 59 wordsWar God and Tartar have beeu scratched for the Queen's Birthday Cup. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Mayor (Alderman Robinson) yesterday made the following interesting report to the council:—The special cleansing gang inaugurated some weeks ago on the authority ...
Article : 392 wordsA hotelkeeper, named Richard Cohen, was having an altercation with his wife last night, when her brother interfered. He presented a gun at Cohen, and threatened ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is reported that the Boer commandoes operating to the north-east of Thabanchu have been irresolute and demoralised for a week past, as they are completely astounded ...
Article : 127 wordsLady Mary Lygon and Lady Susan Gilmour, sisters of Lord Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales, accompanied by Lady Bertha Wilbraham, arrived here to-day, and ...
Article : 44 wordsIn spite of the efforts of the military men and police on the spot, there has been a good deal of pillaging in connection with the cargo of the wrecked ship, Sierra ...
Article : 116 wordsThe following letters have been received from Private (now Corporal) T. J. Logan, with the First Contingent, dated Bloemfontein, 26th March:—I received your letter of ...
Article : 743 wordsLater details of the operations in connection with the occupation of Kroonstad sbate that on Friday General French's Cavalry Brigade seized a drift over the ...
Article : 181 wordsWhen seen yesterday with reference to the statements mads by Mr. Givens as to the allaged overtures made to the Labour party by the Hons. R. Philp and J. V. ...
Article : 68 wordsAnother instance of the abuse of the white flag by the enemy has been reported. From the details received it appears that a number of Boers fired upon a party of the ...
Article : 65 wordsIn addition to Lieutenants Green, Philp, and Cowley, recently appointed to be supernumeraries in the Fourth Queensland South African Contingent, Lieutenant W. H. ...
Article : 142 wordsThe representative of the Peninsular and Oriental Company at Albany has been informed that there is no intention on the part of the company of changing the port ...
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Advertising : 436 wordsMajo[?] Cameron, of the Tasmanian contingent, was wounded in the elbow at the Zand River engagement on Thursday. Lance-corporal Stephenson, of the ...
Article : 95 wordsDr. Bancroft has furnished the Mayor (who is the president of the Joint Epidemic Board) with the following important information bearing on plague: ...
Article : 374 wordsA girl named Florence Holloway, employed at Clarke's boot factory, had her hair caught in the machinery to-day, and her scalp was torn off. She is now in a critical ...
Article : 43 wordsCaptain F. L Jones, who has been given his step from divisional leader to the command of a company, will now take charge of "F" Company as senior captain. ...
Article : 93 wordsE. Reynold, W. Tierney, and Draffin left by the steamer Mariposa to-day, on route to Paris, where they intend to compete in the world's championship bicycle event[?] ...
Article : 40 wordsFurther reports receives from Kroonstad state that the scene presented in the town on Friday (the day previous to Lord Robert's entry) was a perfect ...
Article : 164 wordsInformation has been received, that Trooper W. J. James, of the First Australian Horse, and Corporal Harkus, of the New South Wales Lancers, have died from ...
Article : 38 wordsFrom present appearances it seems that the transport for the conveyance of the contingent to South Africa will not leave Sydney until to-morrow. This means, of ...
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Advertising : 294 wordsThe report received, through Pretoria that a British column was advancing by forced marches along the Kimberley-Buluwayo railway line towards Mafeking has been ...
Article : 62 wordsOfficial intimation having been received by the Government that Private C. M. Reimers, a member of the Second Queensland Contingent, had died of enteric fover in ...
Article : 91 wordsNews received from Capetown states that the schism in the ranks of the Afrikander Bond in Cape Colony is now widening. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe entry of Lord Roberte into Kroonstad is stated to have been the most impressive scene that has taken place during the present war in South Africa, with the exception ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Boer forces in the Free State appear to be now little else than a rabble. The burghers from the two Republics quarrelled grieviously, and1 have now for all practical ...
Article : 913 wordsHis Excellency the Governor is in receipt of the following telegram from M. Posschart, the Consul-General of the Netherlands in Melbourne, with reference to the ...
Article : 132 wordsA second stampede of contingent horses took place yesterday morning. When returning from the watering place about eighty of them took fright, and stampeded in ...
Article : 63 wordsA conversazione is to be held at the Synod Hall on Thursday next to bid the Rev. C. V. P. Day adieu on his departure for South Africa as chaplain of the Imperial ...
Article : 98 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 39 wordsA rat which was sent by the local Health Board to Mr. Pound, the Government Bacteriologist, has been pronounced to be infected with true plague bacilli. The board ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the action on Thursday last two of the Boer guns were smashed by the British artillery, and three others were afterwards disabled. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 15 May 1900, Page 5
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