General De Lisle, with a strong column, including a number of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, has arrived at Piquetherg, in the south-western portion of Cape ...
Article : 78 wordsThe first series of colonial wool auctions for the present year opened to-day. Competition was brisk, and prices for merino wools showed an advance of 5 to 7½ per ...
Article : 263 wordsThe following is the order in which the Imperial, troops will be arranged in the procession:- Colonel Croie Wyndham (commanding ...
Article : 1,445 wordsThe following members of colonial contingents, who had been invalided on account of wounds or sickness, have now returned to duty:—Major Robbin ...
Article : 57 wordsAfter consultation with Sergeant-major Laughton, the Reception Committee decided that a change be made in the order of the sports programme ...
Article : 156 wordsOne thousand Boer refugees, who have given themselves up to escape coercion by the Boers now in the field, are being detained in the Government camps that have ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Queensland troops who returned by the steamer Orient will march in the procession through the streets, and also take part in the march past on the grounds, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe War Office authorities are enlisting 5000 Yeomanry for service in South Africa. The term of service is to be for one year, or during the duration of the war. ...
Article : 37 wordsInstructions were given to run several of the trains yesterday in two portions, and, in addition to this, a special train left Warwick yesterday at ...
Article : 472 wordsOnly the required number of candidates having been nominated for the vacancies on the Indooroopilly Divisional Board, they will be declared duly elected at noon ...
Article : 66 wordsA large number of destitute foreigners from the Transvaal are reported to be in Durban, the chief port in Natal, and are appealing to the police authorities for food ...
Article : 56 wordsLord Kitchener has reported that several small parties of Boers who have been raiding in Cape Colony are now returning towards the Orange River. Some of the ...
Article : 55 wordsWhat was to have been a welcome by the Government to the officers of both sections of the Imperial troops at the Parliamentary refreshment rooms last night was enlarged ...
Article : 1,779 wordsThe steamship Flinders is advertised to leave the new wharves of Wm. Collin and Sons, Limited, at noon to-day, after the procession, for a trip round the Bay, ...
Article : 96 wordsIt is reported that Mr. Mulholland, an American millionaire, has invited ex-President Kruger to visit the United States, and deliver a series of lectures. ...
Article : 33 wordsReuter's correspondent in Cape Colony telegraphs that a force of 500 Boers made on attempt to cut the water mains at Touws River, on the railway line, 160 miles ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is understood that information has been received of the illness, from enteric fever, of Lieutenant-Colonel Aytoun, who left Queensland in charge of the Fourth ...
Article : 30 wordsIn connection with the arrangements for the defence of Capetown, reports are to hand that 120 German farmers have joined the suburban guard that has been formed ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Beaver and Boko, steamers, will leave the Queen's Wharf at 11.30 a.m., and Adelaide Steamship Company's wharf at noon, to-day, enabling visitors to the ...
Article : 113 wordsUp to the present twenty-three men have gone into camp at Lytton, in connection with the contingent of troops to be sent to South Africa. They are employed by ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Cyclist Corps which has been formed in connection with the defence forces in Cape Colony, and which has already done excellent work, now numbers 300 members. ...
Article : 37 wordsNews is to hand that a sharp fight with the invading Boers took place at Murrays-burg, in Cape Colony, on the 11th instant. The casualty list shows that the British ...
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Advertising : 486 wordsNine hundred people suspected of assisting the enemy have been arrested at Vryburg (on the Bulawayo-Capetown Railway, ninety-six miles south of Mafeking), and ...
Article : 40 wordsOne of the prettiest street features of to-day's festivities will undoubtedly be the circulation of beautiful little floral emblems, which have been specially sent here ...
Article : 103 wordsThe enrolment of men for the South African Contingent was continued to-day. Fifty-one men who were in "England's last hope" when the last contingent was ...
Article : 105 wordsA report has been received that on the 3rd instant General White despatched 150 of Lord Kitchener's bodyguard, attached to General Knox's brigade, under Colonel ...
Article : 181 wordsIn conformity with official arrangements several military and naval con[?]ingen[?]s from the country, appointed to take part in to-day's celebrations, arrived by train in ...
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Advertising : 327 wordsThe Minister for Defence has not received any confirmation of the report that 10,000 Australian troops are wanted in South Africa, but he is of opinion that the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe High Commissioner for South Africa has authorised the Government to charter the steamer Orient to take the Victorian Contingent to South Africa, and also the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe troopship Britannic, with the British soldiers on board, the Orient, with the returned Queenslanders, and the Dalhousie, with the Indian contingent, all arrived in ...
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Advertising : 229 wordsIt has been ascertained in connection with the recent attack on Zuurfontein (on the railway line between Johannesburg and Pretoria) that a Kaffir led the Boers to the ...
Article : 50 wordsInformation [?] to hand that a squadron of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles caught a party of Boers in ambush at Holtfontein on Sunday last. Five of the Boers were ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the present time Parliament House has the appearance of a huge dormitory, as the various committee-rooms on the ground floor, and the Ministers' rooms, the ...
Article : 206 wordsThe following casualties among the colonial troops now serving in South Africa are reported:- Sergeant-major Weir (New South Wales ...
Article : 87 wordsThe troopship Dalhousie, with the Indian Contingent who take part in to-day's procession on board, arrived off Cape Moreton about noon yesterday, and, coming up ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 17 Jan 1901, Page 5
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