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  2. AN APPEAL TO DE WET.

    A report from one of Reuter's correspondents in South Africa states that Plet De Wet, who was president of the recent Peace Commission at Bloemfontein, has made a ...

    Article : 55 words
  3. CHINA.

    In a letter to the London " Times," Dr. Morrison, that paper's correspondent at Peking, complains that Great Britain neglected an opportunity of foreclosing on the ...

    Article : 253 words
  4. THE BOER WAR.

    It is announced that the British War Office have decided on the prompt despatch to the front of 30,000 mounted troops in addition to those already landed in South ...

    Article : 200 words
  5. GREAT BRITAIN.

    The proposal of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, that an Indian national memorial to Queen Victoria should be erected at Cal[?]ta has met with warm and immediate ...

    Article : 133 words
  6. AUSTRALIAN INTERESTS.

    It has been announced that the Board of Commissioners appointed under the authority of the Imperial Government to control the Pacific cable will consist of the ...

    Article : 131 words
  7. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Hon. E. Barton, Federal Premier, addressed a large meeting in the Town Hall to-night. He said that the first Ministry of the Commonwealth looked upon the ...

    Article : 633 words
  8. THE BULIMBA ELECTION.

    The nominations of candidates for the existing vacancy for the Bulimba Parliamentary electorate were publicly declared by the returning officer, Mr. Thomas Mylne, ...

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  9. PORTUGUESE RAILWAY IN BRITISH HANDS.

    The correspondent of the " Daily Mail" at Delagoa Bay states that the Portuguese section of the railway from Lorenzo Marques to the borders of the Transvaal is ...

    Article : 71 words
  10. NEW SOUTH WALES OFFICER RETURNING.

    Surg[?]on-Captain T. M. Martin, of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, who was recently invalided to England from South Africa, is now returning to Australia ...

    Article : 49 words
  11. A GOLD MINING COMPANY IN LIQUIDATION.

    The Victorian Gold Estates, Limited, which was registered in England in 1896, with a capital of £350,000, to acquire and develop a property of about 9000 acres on ...

    Article : 58 words
  12. A SCOTTISH MEMORIAL.

    Lord Rosebery has made the suggestion that the Castle of Linlithgow should be restored as a Scottish memorial to Queen Victoria. ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. QUEENSLANDER SERIOUSLY ILL.

    His Excellency the Governor has received a message from the High Commissioner for South Africa, stating that on 4th February a man named Goodwin, of the ...

    Article : 54 words
  14. PIGEON SHOOTING AT MONTE CARLO.

    Mr. Eales, the noted pigeon shot of New South Wales, and Mr. Marconlde divided the Carnation Prize, one of the principal events in the pigeon shooting contests now ...

    Article : 42 words
  15. FIFTH QUEENSLAND CONTINGENT.

    The number of men in camp at Lytton yesterday was 441, with 21 officers. There were also 437 horses within the lines. ...

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  16. PRAYERS FOR THE QUEEN'S SOUL.

    Under the auspices of the English Church Union, the body which represents the High Church section of the Anglican Church, a special service was held at St. Matthew's, ...

    Article : 200 words
  17. THE INDEMNITY QUESTION.

    The Ministers of the various foreign Powers at Peking, when discussing the question of the war indemnity to bo paid by China in terms of the joint note, have ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. THE NEW VICTORIAN MINISTRY.

    The Hon. A. J. Peacock completed the formation of a Cabinet to-night. He will himself take the offices of Premier, Treasurer, and Minister for Industry; the Hon. ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. CABLE MESSAGES

    The Metropolitan police have received information that an anarchist named Cal[?]agano has left New York for Europe. Detective Staley, however, is on the alert, ...

    Article : 49 words
  20. THE " TIMES" COMMENT.

    The London " Times," in an article commenting on the recent decision of the War Office to send more mounted troops to the front, characterises the statement as a ...

    Article : 200 words
  21. GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN

    It is officially stated that at the lunch at Marlborough House prior to the Emperor of Germany's departure from London, King Edward VII., in proposing the [?]oast of the ...

    Article : 230 words
  22. HOSPITAL NURSES.

    Sir,—If suffering is the heritage of women, it must be a commendable action to alleviate it as far as possible. We have charitable institutions in our midst ...

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  23. THE GUNS OF H.M.S. SYBILLE.

    The guns of the second-class cruiser Sybille, 3400 tons, which went ashore at Saldanha Bay on the West Coast of Cape Colony in January last, and afterwards ...

    Article : 46 words
  24. PERSONAL.

    Amongst those present at the complimentary banquet tendered to Mr. Gilbert Parker, M. [?] who was formerly editorially connected with the " Sydney Morning ...

    Article : 170 words
  25. PETROLEUM MAGAZINE BURNT IN RUSSIA.

    A terrible disaster is reported from Baku, situated on the shores of the Caspian Sea, in the Caucasus division o Russia in Europe, and the centre of the great oil ...

    Article : 106 words
  26. DUKE OF YORK'S HEALTH.

    His Royal Highness the Duke of York, who has been suffering from a severe attack of German measles, is now able to take a short walk indoors every day. ...

    Article : 37 words
  27. PROTECTION AND FREE-TRADE IN ENGLAND.

    In his opening address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the president (Mr. F. W. Thomson) said that, although the immediate prospects of the trade of Great ...

    Article : 111 words
  28. MILITARY OPERATIONS.

    The latest reports regarding the military operations against the Boers in the Eastern Transvaal state that General Smith[?] Dorrien has occupied Lake Chirissle (or ...

    Article : 89 words
  29. SOUTHERN NEWS.

    The manifesto of the Australian Liberal Association was issued to-night. The policy of the organisation is thus summarised:—1. The return or the best men. ...

    Article : 88 words
  30. DEFEAT OF THE ITALIAN MINISTRY.

    The Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of 318 to 102, has defeated the Ministry of Signor Saracco, ewing to the general policy held. The particular cause ...

    Article : 51 words
  31. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

    Arrivals.—Quirang, s., from Adelaide; Stettin, s., from Singapore; Marloo, s., from Westralia; Kittaw[?], [?]., and Warrego, s., from Melbourne. Sailed.—Pacifique, s., ...

    Article : 77 words
  32. GERMAN PRESS COMMENTS.

    In articles discussing the present relations between Great Britain and Germany several influential German newspapers attach considerable political significance to ...

    Article : 80 words
  33. BARRAGE OF THE NILE.

    Mr. Aird, who is in charge of the great barrage works now being carried out on the Upper Nile, at Assuan, for the purpose of facilitating irrigation, has telegraphed to ...

    Article : 63 words
  34. A " HOOLIGAN" HEAVILY SENTENCED.

    For the manslaughter of a policeman at Whitechapel in December last, a " Hooligan" has been sentenced to penal servitude for twenty years. ...

    Article : 33 words
  35. OUTWITTING TUE BOERS.

    A force of 200 British, who for a period of several days and night's marched backwards and forwards in a zigzag course across the country, with a view to confusing the ...

    Article : 78 words
  36. MR. DEAKIN ON THE FISCAL POLICY.

    Mr. Deakin, addressing a meeting of the National Liberal Association at South Melbourne, said that it anything were done to destroy industries whicn had built up ...

    Article : 59 words
  37. DAMAGES AGAINST A LABOUR ORGAN.

    The official organ of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in Great Britain has been mulcted in damages to the extent of £1000 for defamation in ...

    Article : 42 words
  38. CARNEGIE'S IRONWORKS.

    Carnegie's steel and iron works at Pittsburg, Pa., from which Mr. Andrew Carnegie sold out all his interest in 1899, have now been transferred to a syndicate formed ...

    Article : 62 words
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  40. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    With reference to the intention of Victoria to bring penny postage into[?]force in the State from the 1st of April next, Mr. Crick stated to-day that it was not ...

    Article : 86 words
  41. DE WET ACTIVE.

    On the 5th instant the Boers under Commandant De Wet, who recently passed Dewe[?]rp on their march to Cape Colony, inflicted a considerable amount of damage ...

    Article : 56 words
  42. INTERVIEW WITH MR. DRAKE.

    Mr. Drake was interviewed to-day with reference to the prob[?]ble da[?] which, the Post and Telegraph services would be taken over by the Federal Government. ...

    Article : 185 words
  43. AN AMERICAN STEEL RAILS CONTRACT.

    An order for 8000 tons of steel rails for the Great Eastern Railway Company (England) has been placed in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the great American centre of ...

    Article : 41 words
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  45. TROUBLE AT LORENZO MARQUES.

    Unofficial advices have been received that the adventurer Blake, who was in command of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boers, and who is reported to have ...

    Article : 117 words
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  47. SIR WILLIAM LYNE'S POSITION.

    Mr. Crick, when spoken to to-day regarding the legality of Sir William Lyne's action in remaining State Premier while holding the position of Home Secretary in the ...

    Article : 64 words
  48. AMERICAN LETTER BOXES.

    Some time ago it was suggested to the Post and Telegraph Office that it would, be advisable to adopt the system of letterboxes in vogue in America, which would ...

    Article : 324 words
  49. PURCHASE OF BEEF BY WAR OFFICE.

    Sir William Lyne has received a cable from the New South Wales Agent-General to-day, stating that the War Office had accepted 90,000lb of boiled beef, 27,000lb. [?] ...

    Article : 144 words
  50. COMMONWEALTH ELECTION NOTES.

    In the list of possible. candidates appearing in yesterday's issue, the name of the Hon. A. J. Thynne should have been included as a candidate for the Senate. ...

    Article : 697 words
  51. PORTUGUESE RAILWAY LINE CUT.

    The raliway line, between Delagoa Bay and Ko[?]matiepoort, in Portuguese East Africa, at a distance of thirty-three miles rom Lorenzo Marques, has been cut. ...

    Article : 34 words
  52. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    The Afrikander Bond has come forward with an offer to the British authorities in South Africa that they will urge the Boers who are Still in the field to surrender if ...

    Article : 128 words
  53. Advertising

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