A branch of the Government Savings Bank is to be established at Gowrie Junction. ...
Article : 19 wordsAfter the loss of the Suffolks at Red Hill little or nothing was done for the next day or two. The clergyman who went out with the burying party reported that the Boers ...
Article : 3,518 wordsThe "Cape Argus," published at Capetown, stales president Kruger has sent to the front ninety guns in addition to those that are already in use. Owing to such a large number ...
Article : 620 wordsThe services at thc Methodist Neil street church on Sunday last were or a special character, it being Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday. The building, as befitted the ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Anglophobia which now exists in France is distinctly traceable to jealousy of the Kaiser's neutrality and friendship towards England, which is a monopolisation of France's ...
Article : 81 wordsFurther reports concerning the engagement between the British forces under General Buller and the Boers on Monday and Tuesday last state that an incomplete list of the British ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Clifton Jockey Club advertise a race meeting to be held on Monday, March 19th next. Full programme can be had from the Secretary, Mr T. Hanley. ...
Article : 29 wordsA social reunion under the above auspices will be held in the Masonic Hall on Wednesday week. The programme will include a number of dances, songs, and instrumental ...
Article : 52 wordsAmong the Toowoomba entries at the Warwick Show was Toowoomba honey, exhibited by Mr W. Dansdon, which was successful in gaining several prizes. Mr Dansdon also had ...
Article : 67 wordsThe annual meeting of the Darling Downs Permanent Building and Investment Society was held on Thursday evening at the Society's offices in Neil street. The Chairman o ...
Article : 195 wordsWe (Observer) understand that the question of defence has recently been receiving the attention of certain leading business men. As a result it was decided to approach the Mayor ...
Article : 96 wordsReports have been received from Ladysmith that there are signs of a general retreat of the Boers through Van Reenan's Pass in the event of their forces suffering reverse by General ...
Article : 37 wordsThe debate on the address in reply, to the Queen's Speech was continued in the House of Commons lost night. The Right Hon. H. H Asquith, who was ...
Article : 536 wordsIn our last issue we published interesting particulars from Sergeant-Major Ryan and Corporal Wagner of the engagement at Sunnyside, in which the Queenslanders came off so victorious. Sergeant Major Ryan enclosed the above sketch of the engagement, which serves to show how the troops were ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 92 wordsIt is slated that the fluid force under General Baller now amounts to 34,000, and over 100 guns. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Beer scheme for flooding Ladysmith is regarded as impracticable, although at present thirteen hundred natives are employed in damming the river. ...
Article : 30 wordsAs will be noticed elsewhere in our columns this morning, our local Patriotic Fund is sill on the increase and, with the assistance of the amount collected by the ladies, the total should ...
Article : 152 wordsGeneral Buller has, with the aid of three pontoons, got heavier artillery and more infantry across the Tugela, and is now entrenching a base from whence it is intended to ...
Article : 59 wordsThis match was commenced on Wednesday afternoon last on the School wicket. Stanfield winning the toss from C. Kemp elected to bat, Stirling and himself being the ...
Article : 318 wordsInformation is to hand that the Boers have made an attack on General Gatacre's force at Penhoek, near Bird River Siding, about twenty three miles east of Sterkstroom, on the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe camp at the Exhibition Ground with the ever increasing number of horses and men, is beginning to present a crowded appearance. There appears to be no lack of enthusiasm. ...
Article : 335 wordsThe report that General Buller had again crossed the Tugela in order to attempt the relief of Ladysmith, has been officially confirmed. General Buller's troops are holding ...
Article : 415 wordsA Scottish Reunion, under the auspices cf the Caledonian Society, will take place in the Masonic Hall on Wednesday evening, 21st inst., and tickets may be obtained from ...
Article : 111 wordsA sign of the progress of the times is to be noted in the fact that the Post and Telegraph Department have seen fit to arrange for Five additional pillar boxes for receiving letters, ...
Article : 183 wordsThe result of the municipal elections to-day was that Messrs Ward, Bones, and Conlon were retained, defeating. Messrs Spencer and Morrison. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Australian mounted troops under Colonel Hoad, of the Victorian forces, are reported to be shaping very well, and they have been distributed in responsible positions ...
Article : 79 wordsThe annual meeting of the above was held yesterday, Mr J. Fogarty, M. L. A., presiding. The attendance was small. The Chairman expressed the pleasure in gave him to preside ...
Article : 207 wordsSir S. W. Griffith received the following cable from Mr Chamberlain:—"Her Majesty's Government learns with much pleasure the proposed increase of the third Queensland ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Boers having occupied an aggressive position between Rensburg and Colesburg, General French harassed them out on the east and west, while General Macdonald has ...
Article : 157 wordsWe do not identify ourselves with, or hold our selves responsible for the opinions expressed under this heading. ...
Article : 22 wordsDEAR SIR,—The residents of Pechey, wishing to be up-to-date, and having come to the conclusion that the Boers appear to be terrible bores to the 'absent-minded beggars' ...
Article : 236 wordsThe directors of the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Company, at their meeting on Tuesday morning, voted the sum of £500 to the bushmen's contingent fund. ...
Article : 150 wordsPrivate letters from Captain Holmes, of the Sydney contingent, state that he has recovered from a severe illness, and he has again gone to the front. ...
Article : 222 wordsThe seventeenth show of the Central Downs Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held at Allora on Wednesday last. The show was opened at noon by his Excellency the ...
Article : 524 wordsLetters from Baden-Powell, at Mafeking, state that be has made forty Fenian prisoners, including James Quintan, late station master at Mafeking. A quantity of treasonable ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr J. E. Redmond, who has been appointed chairman of the Irish Nationalist Parliamentary party, moved an amendment on the address in ...
Article : 292 wordsLord Roberts has issued a proclamation inviting any of the enemy to desert, and promising them generous treatment. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe report of the engagement telegraphed by the war correspondent of the "Times" states that the Boers occupied a line of kopjes extending from Spionkop (the scene of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsLord Roberts has authorised the enrollment of yeomanry corps throughout the Cape to protect the loyal farmers. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe authorities of the local Post Office have very kindly, placed at our disposal the statistics relating to its operations for the year 1899. They will be found worthy of perusal and ...
Article : 214 wordsIt has been ascertained that the Boers at Vaalkrautz are employing armed natives in the fighting line. The "Daily Chronicle" states that if the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe whole town was en fete yesterday for che patriotic demonstration. The decorations were most extensive and everything was a great success, surpassing the jubilee ...
Article : 78 wordsLord Roberts is now at Steikstroon, about fifty miles from the Orange Free Stale border, on the railway from East London. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Daily News" correspondent stales that a body of West Australians at Slingers-fontein, whilst attacking Pottsberg on Tuesday, feigned a retreat, thus drawing a large body of ...
Article : 94 wordsIn order to demonstrate the fact that the German residents in the colony are not sympathisers with the Boers, Mr J. F. Ulz, formerly a well-known resident of Glen Innes, ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Cabinet sat for over three hours this afternoon, and discussed the question of the defence of the colony. It was decided o request the Commandant to submit a scheme ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr Higgins with its concurrence of Sir George Tone Later of the Opposition, gave notice of a want of confidence motion in the Government. The ...
Article : 51 wordsLatest reports state that Lord Roberts is concentrating a force 30,000 men at the front in Cape Colony, and he intends to strike hard at the enemy in the centre, while at the same ...
Article : 57 wordsThe residents at Capetown arc taking steps to supply the colonial troops at the front with fruit and other comforts. ...
Article : 23 wordsA very successful concert, under the of the British Empire League, and under the Queen's patronage, was held last night in the Albert Hull. The entertainment was given ...
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Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1881 - 1922), Sat 10 Feb 1900, Page 7
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