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  2. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    Both Houses of Parliament will meet to-morrow. The Legislative Council will be invited by the Solicitor-General to put through a bill to give effect to the amended ...

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  4. THE EMPIRE'S PATRIOTIC FUND

    Sir, --The fund initiated by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London, in response to the request of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and known as ...

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  5. PATRIOTISM IN CANADA.

    Canada's second contingent of 1000 picked riflemen, with a body of rough riders, left Montreal yesterday. The occasion was marked by a most striking display of ...

    Article : 89 words
  6. TO-NIGHT'S MEETING.

    The public meeting called by Sir Malcolm M'Eacharn Will be held in the Melbourne Town Hall to-night, for the purpose of placing the collection of money for the Patriotic ...

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  7. RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE.

    General Buller has reported to the War Office that after again shelling the Boer entrenchments on Inlahwe Mount, south of the Tugela River, he on Friday made a ...

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  8. THE ALEXANDRA COLLECTION.

    The collection at the Alexandra Theatre on Saturday night, that was taken up by the lady members of the company after Mr: W. G. Barker had sung. The Absent Minded ...

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  9. WOUNDED OFFICERS.

    Lieutenant A. G. Adie, of A Company, Queensland contingent, who was severely wounded by a bullet while on patrol duty just before the successful attack was made ...

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  10. LORD EDWARD CECIL.

    It is Reported that Lord Edward Cecil, of the Grenadier Guards, son of the Marquis of Salisbury, who was alleged in a Boer report of a sortie from Mafeking on 24th ...

    Article : 90 words
  11. THE MAFEKING SORTIE.

    News has been received from Mafeking via Buluwayo and Beira with respect to the gallant sortie made by Colonel Baden Powell's small garrison towards the end of ...

    Article : 337 words
  12. QUEENSLAND CONTRIBUTIONS.

    At a meeting of railway officials on Thursday, it was decided to start a railway patriotic fund, and a scheme was finally adopted, whereby each railway employe Will have an ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. PORTUGAL'S AFRICAN COLONIES.

    A semi-official announcement has been made at Lisbon; apparently as a sequence to the strong protests which have lately been made by the British Government ...

    Article : 189 words
  14. THE "DAILY MAIL" FUND.

    The Premier has received a cable from the Agent General stating that an additional sum of £250 had been allotted to New South Wales from the "Daily Mail" ...

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  15. SECOND BATTLE AT COLESBERG

    The Boer forces in the Colesberg district, which, since Major-General French turned their position on New Year's Day, occupied the hills which they held to the north of ...

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  16. ANOTHER BOER MOVE.

    Telegrams received from Major-General French report that yesterday (Saturday) he assumed the aggressive and attacked the Boers in various hilly positions around ...

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  17. ENTHUSIASM IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Seldom has such enthusiasm been manifested as that at the town hall last night, when the first civic concert was given in aid of the patriotic fund. The men who ...

    Article : 215 words
  18. REPORTED CAPTURE OF COLESBERG.

    A report is current at Capetown that General French has completed his victory over the Boers at Colesberg by driving them out of the town, and that he now ...

    Article : 56 words
  19. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    The local Postal department has a peculiar faculty for expending its energies in unexpected directions. Employes may be ...

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  20. CONTRABAND CARGOES AT DELAGOA.

    Since the discovery that munitions of war are being smuggled through to Pretoria in disguised forms, like the large consignment of Mauser rifles, which were first shipped ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. THE NEW YEAR'S DAY BATTLE.

    It has been ascertained that in the battle on New Year's day, in which General French Captured the Boer position at Colesberg, stampeded them out of the town and ...

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  22. ALLEGED BRUTAL ASSAULT.

    William Walker, of the Yarra Hotel, Johnston-street, Abbotsford, was brought to the Melbourne Hospital yesterday afternoon in a very low condition. He was ...

    Article : 331 words
  23. BOERS AND EXPLOSIVE BULLETS.

    The, "Times" correspondent at Mafeking, whose report came through with that of Colonel Baden-Powell, states that the Boers used explosive bullets in firing at the ...

    Article : 61 words
  24. NEW ZEALANDERS MISTAKEN FOR BOERS.

    The complaints which have been made as to the dangerous confusion arising from the Australasian troops wearing soft felt hats similar to those worn by the Boers have ...

    Article : 121 words
  25. THE SUNNYSIDE FIGHT.

    Careful inquiry has been made, in order to fix the identity of each of the 35 prisoners taken by Colonel Pilcher, who on New Year's day, at the head of 200 ...

    Article : 177 words
  26. TO -DAY'S CABLE NEWS.

    General French, while awaiting reinforcements, has able to stop the enemy from leaving his position without the risk of a fight. The enemy determined to risk an ...

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  27. A FLANK MOVE.

    At this stage General French despatched some squadrons of the 10th Hussars with the horse artillery battery to threaten the ...

    Article : 438 words
  28. BOERS EVACUATE MOLTENO.

    The Boer forces at Sternberg, which recently advanced southward to Cyphergat, and were attacked and driven back by Lieutenant-General Gataere, who advanced ...

    Article : 68 words
  29. A MAN'S SKULL FRACTURED.

    Among a crowd collected at the corner of Victoria and Lygon streets, city, on Saturday, at 10.10 p.m., Constable E. Poneer found a man in a seriously injured ...

    Article : 215 words
  30. PATRIOTIC BRITISH FEELING.

    Mr. William Waldorf Astor, the well known American millionaire, who has for some years resided in London, and has become a naturalised subject of Great Britain. ...

    Article : 111 words
  31. THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.

    It was announced a day or two ago that the Boers were closing in an Ladysmith, apparently with the object of making an attack in force on Sir George White's camp ...

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  32. FUNERAL OF MR. ROBERT CHIRNSIDE.

    Flags were floating at half-mast to-day above the business houses of all the local woolbrokers out of respect to the late Robert Chirnside, of Carranballae, Skipton. ...

    Article : 157 words
  33. LORD IVEAGH EQUIPS A FIELD HOSPITAL.

    Lord Iveagh (formerly Sir Edward Cecil Guinness) has intimated his intention of equipping a field hospital for service in South Africa,with a staff of Irish surgeons ...

    Article : 54 words
  34. MOUNTED INFANTRY FROM IRELAND.

    The enthusiasm awakened in England in connection with the movement to form a Yeomany Corps under Lord Chesham (formerly of the Coldstream Guards, the ...

    Article : 69 words
  35. ON THE TUGELA.

    Nothing definite has yet been received from Natal as to the big battle which is expected on the Tugela River. The only report which has come through from General ...

    Article : 154 words
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  37. PATRIOTIC CONCERT.

    An open air concert will be given this evening on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the Victorian Patriotic Fund. The guns ...

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