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Article : 92 wordsDr. G. E. Morrison, correspondent of the "London Times" in Pekin, and one of the most widely travelled and adventuresome of Australians, returned to the colony for a ...
Article : 1,595 words"The Leader" illustrations this week cannot fail to prove of general interest. There is one page of pictures dealing with incidents of the war reproduced from ...
Article : 3,186 wordsTelegram from Belmont, where the Australian infantry contingent sent in the Medic and the Canadian troops are stationed, on the railway line between Modder ...
Article : 445 wordsMajor-General French, who so brilliantly out-manœuvred the Boers at Rensburg, drove them back on Colesberg, outflanked and put them to flight there on New Year's ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Mayor of Melbourne (Sir Malcolm M'Eacharn) has convened a public meting to be held at the Town Hall on Monthly next, for the purpose of putting the ...
Article : 56 wordsNotwithstanding the heat of the weather, the recent tropical rainfall, and the shelling of Boer big guns on the right flank of the ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the open air concert to be given in aid of the Victorian patriotic fund on Monday night, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the following artists will appear:--Miss ...
Article : 138 wordsTelegrams from General Buller's camp at Frere report that reconnaissances along the Upper Tugela River show that the Boers occupy very strong positions from there to ...
Article : 92 wordsField-Marshal Lord Wolseley, the commander in chief, has replied to the attack made upon the War Office by the "Times," which has declared the British field ...
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Article : 1,544 wordsA brutal murder was perpetrated near Goondiwindi, a township on the New South Wales border, about 200 miles south-west of Brisbane, on Saturday or Sunday night. A ...
Article : 405 wordsUnabated patriotic enthusiasm is manifested in regard to the Yeomanry Volunteer corps of 10,000 men, which is being raised in England for the South African war, and ...
Article : 133 wordsCanton telegrams report that Admiral Courrejolles, who two months ago had two of his officers murdered by a Chinese mob at Montao, on the Chinese mainland, ...
Article : 152 wordsThere was more military bustle in the camp yesterday than the previous day. By early in the forenoon the greater number of the men had arrived, and any moments ...
Article : 1,368 wordsIn addition to the casualties to the Queensland Contingent already mentioned, Private Victor Jones, of Mount Morgan, was killed. Sir Alfred Milner, in advising ...
Article : 173 wordsThe battery of four Hotchkiss quick-firing guns which the Elswick Gun Manufacturing Company has offered to provide gratis for the second New Zealand contingent in ...
Article : 49 wordsNews has been received in Algeria of the safety of the Foureau-Lamy French expedition, despatched last year to establish a new route though the Sahara to Lake T[?]had ...
Article : 142 wordsThe appeal for volunteers from the British militia and yeomanry for active service in the Transvaal, has been as readily responded to by the militia infantry as by ...
Article : 58 wordsThe aboriginal, Billy Broom, who was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of the girl Blowitz at Eureka on Boxing Day, slipped off his horse before ...
Article : 89 wordsInfluenza is prevalent in England, and the coincidence, of the disease with severe wintry weather has resulted in heavy increases in the mortality lists, a large number of ...
Article : 42 wordsAmong the candidates for enrolment in the Yeomanry Volunteer Corps for South Africa, which is being raised by Lord Chesham, were 25 foreigners who were able to ...
Article : 120 wordsThe patriotic enthusiasm prevailing throughout the Canadian Dominion in regard to the South African war is unbounded. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe executive of the Amalgamated Miners' Association waited on the Minister of Mines yesterday, and in asking that the labor covenants should be enforced in the ...
Article : 670 wordsSomething approximating to a coal famine exists in England at present, not on account of any falling off in the production of the mines, but because the supply of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 262 wordsLieutenant Pilkington, a New Zealand officer in the British army, has received orders to proceed to South Africa. ...
Article : 25 wordsFurther details of the brilliant tactical successes of Major-General French in the Rensburg and Colesberg engagements, resulting in the precipitate flight of the Boer ...
Article : 245 wordsAfter routing the Boers at Sunnyside, Colonel Pilcher pushed on thence to Douglas, a small town on the road to Campbell, which a Boer commando a few weeks ago ...
Article : 100 wordsHer Majesty the Queen, who was much affected by the heavy loss which the naval brigade attached to Lord Methuen's column suffered in the battle of Graspan, has asked ...
Article : 97 wordsOn Sunday last, while a fisherman named William Pearse, of Mordialloc, was idly paddling his boat in the vicinity of the pier, he saw a leopard seal about 6 feet long a ...
Article : 117 wordsLieutenant A. G. Adie, of "A" Company, Queensland contingent, a resident of Clifton, and a married man, was severely wounded by a bullet while on patrol duty ...
Article : 43 wordsThe example of the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharajah Seindiah of Gwalior and the rulers of Jodhpur, Mysore and Kashmere, has been followed by nearly every ruler of ...
Article : 51 wordsThe harbor master at Edithburg reported this evening that a large steamer was lying to off Troubridge Point, with signals flying, which the lighthouse keepers were unable ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 4 Jan 1900, Page 5
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