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  2. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    The latest development in connection with the plague is of the most startling character, coming as it does from [?] of Asiatics in the Wexford-street ...

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  3. THE CITY COUNCIL TIP.

    As was anticipated, Dr. Gresswell's strong and picturesque denunciation of the City Council tip at West Melbourne was the subject of a plain spoken memorandum, which ...

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  4. THE CAVALRY REMOUNTS.

    Lord Roberts, who is himself an expert horseman, pronounces the latest arrivals of remount horses for his cavalry a splendid lot of animals. ...

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  5. TWO BIG WILLS.

    Among the wills submitted for probate purposes yesterday was that of Charles Gibson Millar, late of Melbourne. There are three codicils attached. The ...

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  6. THE FREE STATE CAMPAIGN.

    Further information with respect to the three companies of the Royal Irish Rifles and "two companies of mounted infantry captured by the Boers at Reddersburg on ...

    Article : 370 words
  7. LORD ROBERTS'S STRENGTH.

    It would be most interesting if we knew the exact fighting strength of the British forces now in the field, but there is not the remotest chance of that information being ...

    Article : 700 words
  8. TEN THOUSAND HORSES KILLED.

    The British forces in the Orange Free State are very short of horses, so many having been lost through fatigue, starvation and fighting casualties during the forced ...

    Article : 92 words
  9. RATS IN OUTLYING SUBURBS.

    The rat has the reputation of being exceedingly intelligent, and many instances of its sagacity are recorded. It would, perhaps, be too much to infer that city rats ...

    Article : 167 words
  10. GENERAL IAN HAMILTON.

    General Ian Hamilton, formerly Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, who rendered distinguished service in Natal, commanding the infautry at Elands Laagte, and taking an ...

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  11. SUBURBAN ACTION.

    COLLINGWOOD.--The efforts put forward to ensure thorough cleanliness of premises is unrelaxed. The inspectors are pursuing their house to house visitation in a ...

    Article : 332 words
  12. WILL OF THE LATE LIEUTENANT ROBERTS.

    The wills lodged for probate yesterday included that of James Charles Roberts, formerly of Park-street, Brunswick, medical student, but lately serving with her ...

    Article : 96 words
  13. THE BOER PRISONERS.

    Typhoid fever, contracted in Cronje's camps at Magersfontein and Paardeberg, developed so strongly among a shipment of 1500 Boer prisoners who were embarked for ...

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  14. BOERS AND BASUT0S.

    The Boers, whose forces in the Free State are now chiefly on the border of Basutoland, have threatened to invade that territory, in order to invest from the east ...

    Article : 225 words
  15. THE BELGIAN BOY ASSASSIN.

    The man Meerth, whom the Brussels police arrested on charge of being the instigator of Sipido's attempt to assassinate the Prince of Wales, is an Anarchist. ...

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  16. CAPTURE OF STEYN'S BROTHER

    Telegrams from Pretoria report that among the Boer prisoners captured at Karree Siding, north of Bloemfontein, a few days ago, was a brother of ex-President ...

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  17. SEVEN ADDITIONAL CASES.

    Seven additional cases of plague have been reported, two proving fatal. The patients are Kate Mulkihill, a young woman living at a boarding house in Sussex ...

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  18. THE STEAMSHIP COLLISION.

    Details of the sinking of the Union S.S. Co.'s liner Mexican by the transport Wink field, near Capetown, show that the latter was steaming ahead in a dense fog when the ...

    Article : 102 words
  19. THE QUEEN IN IRELAND.

    Her majesty the Queen, now paying a visit to Ireland, was received with unspeakable enthusiasm and loyalty during a royal Progress which she made yesterday through ...

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  20. SUSPECTED PLAGUE AT FREMANTLE.

    William Campbell, taken ill on Saturday, died in hospital at Fremantle with glandular swellings in the groin. The case is believed to be one of plague, and the hospital and ...

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  21. THE SITUATION ABOUT BLOEMFONTEIN.

    Note--The black marks indicate the positions occupied by tho Boers about Bloemfontein. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  22. THE ARMY CONSPIRACY CASE.

    The case arising out of an attempt made some time ago, when the Imperial Yeomanry corps was being enrolled, to obtain fraudulently a certificate of ...

    Article : 167 words
  23. WILL OF THE LATE MR. T. J. PARKER.

    The will of Thomas James Parker, late of Melbourne and "Almeida," Toorak- road, South Yarra, merchant and ship owner, was drawn up on 22nd September, 1898. Mr. ...

    Article : 235 words
  24. FREE STATE SURRENDERERS.

    In the south-east of the Free State, in the mountainous country near the Basuto border, many of the burghers who flew the white flag over their homesteads and ...

    Article : 172 words
  25. THE QUARANTINED PATIENT.

    Nothing of a disturbing nature occurred in Melbourne yesterday in relation to the plague. The officer in charge of this quarantine station, Dr. Cowper Johnston, reported ...

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  26. MB. G. H. REID ON THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

    The ex-Treasurer, Mr. G. H. Reid, with what may be characterised as an expiring kick, challenges the personnel of the Committee on Public Accounts and bewails ...

    Article : 575 words
  27. THE BOER POSITION

    The Boer forces, which have made the late demonstrations against Bloemfontein, and have effected the Koorn Spruit and Reddersburg surprises, are now dispersed in ...

    Article : 91 words
  28. THE PRESENT POSITION.

    The situation in the Free State is a little mixed, at first sight; but a little thought will show that this uncertainty is apparent rather than real. It arises from the fact ...

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  29. EMPIRE'S PATRIOTIC FUND.

    Mr. Mathieson, accompanied by several officers of the Railway department, waited on the Mayor at the close of the meeting of the City Council yesterday and handed him ...

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  30. A TEXAN CLOUDBURST.

    American telegrams report an extraordinary cloudburst in the State of Texas. The downfall was so immense and sudden as to inundate the central part of the State, ...

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  31. THE IMPERIAL CONTINGENT.

    The suggestion has been made by Mr. Purves, Q.C., that instead of reducing the 800 men now in camp to 670, the number agreed upon as Victoria's quota to the ...

    Article : 265 words
  32. CLEMENTS IN THE FREE STATE

    During General Clement's march through the Free State from Norval's Pont to Bloemfontein, in three columns, by way of Jagensfontein, Fauresmith and Philippolis ...

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  33. BOER PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.

    The new plan of campaign evolved by the Boers in the Free State--that of keeping their line of defence to the mountainous country in the east, and thence raiding the ...

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  34. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

    Dunean M'Hutchison, fashionably attired, appeared before the Malvern bench on Monday, charged with' having unlawfully assaulted a boy named Alfred Rosevear on 31st March. The ...

    Article : 189 words
  35. FOREIGN MERCENARIES

    After the fight at Boshof, in which a force of Imperial Yeomanry obliterated a Boer detachment, killing, wounding or capturing every man in it, soft-nosed and split ...

    Article : 95 words
  36. A SEDITIOUS IRISH JOURNAL.

    In consequence of the publication of seditious articles in "The United Irishman" the authorities have suppressed that Irish journal. ...

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  37. PLAGUE TENTS AT MELBOURNE HOSPITAL.

    In accordance with the request of the Public Health department, two tents have been erected on the grounds of the Melbourne Hospital so as to isolate patients suspected ...

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  38. THE BRITISH REVENUE.

    Owing to the large increase which has taken place in the British revenue receipts during the financial year, the deficit, due to the war expenditure, instead of ...

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  39. A SPLENDID TRANSPORT.

    A magnificent type of the British transport is the Armenian, which arrived this morning from South Africa. She is the first of the fleet ordered here to take the ...

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  40. A SALESMAN'S PECULATIONS.

    Yesterday, at the Prahran court, George L. Thompson, salesman for Benjamin Nathan, furniture dealer, Chapel-street, was placed in the dock on two charges of embezzlement. On the charges ...

    Article : 156 words
  41. BAYONETS FOR BOERS.

    Though the Boers themselves are utterly opposed to close quarters fighting, and never await a charge when there is a possibility of escape, there are so many foreign ...

    Article : 72 words
  42. A BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY.

    In view of Dr. Cherry's report upon bacteriological and kindred questions. Dr. Morrison moved, at the meeting of the University Council yesterday, that in view of the ...

    Article : 416 words
  43. LONDON WOOL MARKET.

    Received by Dalgety and Co. Limited:-- London, 6th April.--The tone of the wool market is rather firmer. ...

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  44. CYCLONE IN QUEENSLAND.

    A fearful cyclone broke over the town last evening, accompanied by rain and hail. The rain gauge indicated a fall of 2 inches, but this is no criterion of the fall of water. ...

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  45. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    Received by Dalgety and Co. Limited:-- London, 6th April.--Frozen Meat: The market is quiet, and prices unchanged, except that values of frozen lamb are rather lower. Rabbit Skin sales ...

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  46. THE NORTHWARD ADVANCE.

    The troops in the Orange Free State are all in summer kit, but the cold season is now fairly commenced, and a number of pneumonia cases have occurred among the ...

    Article : 110 words
  47. INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND

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  48. MELBOURNE HOSPITAL BAZAAR

    Lady M'Eacharn requests that all articles that have been promised her for the Melbourne stall at the forthcoming bazaar be sent to her at "Goathland," Balaclava-road, Balaclava, by Wednesday ...

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  49. BLUE JACKETS IN THE WAR.

    A contingent of marines and blue jackets from H.M.S. Monarch, third class battle ship, 8930 tons, stationed at the Cape, a guardship under Captain R. D. E. Bruce ...

    Article : 56 words
  50. THE CABLE CENSORSHIP.

    The postal authorities have received the following notification front Berne:-- with reference to notification of 14th March, the British Administration advises that the A B C ...

    Article : 75 words
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  54. THE NEW SOUTH WALES OFFICERS.

    The principal business at the military camp to-day was the selection of officers for the Imperial Contingent. These appointments are temporary, and subject to ...

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