Lord Brassey returned to Launceston this afternoon, walking many miles along the main road from Longford to the city. The rest of his party have gone on cycles to Hobart. ...
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Article : 786 wordsThe Boers who were engaged in the two days' lighting with Dr. Jameson's troops at and near Krugersdorp admit freely that they fought with the greatest gallantry ...
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Article : 372 wordsSILVER.--Bar silver is to-day quoted at 2s. 6⅝d. per oz. standard. ...
Article : 19 wordsCaptain Coventry, a son of the Earl of Coventry, one of Dr. Jameson's officers, who was desperately. wounded at Krugersdorp, and was afterwards reported to have ...
Article : 43 wordsThe New Zealand Shipping Co.'s R.M.S. Tongariro left Capetown for Hobart and New Zealand on 5th inst. Published in part of yesterday's issue. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Times correspondent at Berlin reports that the German newspapers, which at first enthusiastically applauded the scheme of landing German marines at, ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Enabling Bill was passed through its final stages in both Houses to-night, with a few minor amendments. Provision is made for the payment of members. ...
Article : 40 wordsLast night Constable Foster, of the Albert Park police, arrested a young man named Martin M'Grail and placed him in the South Melbourne lockup on a charge of having ...
Article : 366 wordsRear-Admiral Harry Holdsworth Dawson, C.B., of the Cape and West Africa squadron, has sailed in his flagship for Delagoa Bay, where the cruisers Phœbe, ...
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Article : 128 wordsThe Horse Guards authorities have been instituting pressing and urgent inquiries into the effective strength and mobilising capabilities of the English militia ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 10 Jan 1896, Page 5
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