The Defence Force authorities notify that in consequence of the necessary number of men for the Queensland contingent of the Imperial Bushmen's corps having been ...
Article : 52 wordsDefeat after defeat, disaster upon disaster, has overtaken the Boers, but worse remains behind. This they well know, and their Presidents are now as full of bargaining as ...
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Advertising : 601 wordsMAFEKING, January 17.--The Boers have moved the big guns two miles northwards, their old position being untenable through our sharpshooting and artillery ...
Article : 397 wordsCreamery butter was advanced to 9d. per 1b yesterday. Other grades also were advanced a half-penny. Two men were seriously injured yesterday ...
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Article : 150 wordsThe Cabinet has decided that the death penalty be carried out in the case of the man found guilty of the murder of a little girl on Boxing Day. ...
Article : 50 wordsA further case of plague was reported last nigh. He, with ten inmates of the house, will be removed to quarantine to-day. Dr. Ashburton Thompson is convinced that ...
Article : 244 wordsIt has transpired that the advance force of the British infantry, which were engaged with the enemy at Driefontein on Saturday, ran short of ammunition for a time. This ...
Article : 64 wordsThe committee of the Queensland patriotic fund have had under consideration 10 cases of relief. Four of these have been referred to district committees for ...
Article : 105 wordsIn the Daily Mail of January 27 is published the despatch referred to in our cablegrams at the end of January. This despatch from Sir George White, dated ...
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Article : 93 wordsLieutenant-colonel Harry Finn, of the 21st Lancers, who has been appointed to succeed Major-general Gunter as Commandant of the Queensland Defence Forces, is a passenger ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 words[Reports of lodge meetings must reach this office not later than the morning after the meetings, or they cannot be inserted.--Ed. Telegraph.] ...
Article : 26 wordsInformation has been obtained which shows that the Boers have remounted one of their large Creuzot guns at the fort at Johannesburg. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Central Fire Station received an alarm for a fire in Wynn street, off Ann street, Valley, at 2.44 o'clock this morning. Two reels were turned out, and on arrival it was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsThe War Office authorities have decided to embody in May, next the whole of the remainder of the militia for active service. ...
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Article : 245 wordsNotwithstanding the stupendous opposition there was a very satisfactory audience at the Opera House last night. The family circle and pit were crowded shortly after 8 o'clock, ...
Article : 127 wordsA grim story of the sea was brought to Dover of February 1 by 14 survivors of the crew of the steamer Remus, which now lies a broken-backed wreck on the rocks of the ...
Article : 195 wordsAt the City Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. P. M. Murray, P.M., and Messrs. J. F. Horsley, W. Cassidy, and T. Logan, JJ.P., for drunkenness Christina ...
Article : 321 words"British Pluck" is a phrase known throughout the world. There are other nations who[?]e bravery is undeniable--the French, Spanish, and Swiss, for instance-- ...
Article : 225 wordsA Shanghai telegram dated December 27 says: The text of the secret edict issued by the Empress Dowager on her own initiative on November 21 last, and of the circular ...
Article : 308 wordsIn a recent article in the Daily Mail on the military operations in the Transvaal, Mr. Easton, the American correspondent who was with the Boers, makes statements touching ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Cairo correspondent of the Daily Mail reports under date January 31: The Sirdar's hurried departure for Omdurman has been occasioned by the following untoward ...
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Advertising : 106 wordsOn her return to Ostend on January 30 from the North Sea fishery, steam trawler 89 had a remarkable accident to record. She was caught in a gale on the previous ...
Article : 104 wordsAT A FOOTBALL MATCH.--Jack: "Let's bet on the game. If we win, I marry you." May: "And if we lose?" Jack: "Why, then you marry me." ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Tue 13 Mar 1900, Page 5
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