His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor received a cablegram yesterday from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, announcing that the Secretary of State for War has ...
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Article : 102 wordsThe following are extracts from letters received by Mrs. Harris from her two sons, Corporal Harris and Driver Harris of the Royal Australian Artillery, who are attached ...
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Article : 81 wordsMr. Kingston will represent South Australia on the federal delegation. He will join the Orizaba at Adelaide on Thursday week. ...
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Article : 50 wordsThe Governor (Viscount Gormanston) is satisfactorily progressing towards recovery. Mr. C. Gilmore, member for Georgetown, has accepted the commissionerships at Queenstown. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsThe following letter has been received from Mr. J. B. Nicholson, formerly of Brisbane, and now of the Imperial Light Horse, and engaged in South Africa:-- ...
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Article : 68 wordsAt a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday the matter discussed was the appointment of a delegate to London during the passage of the Convention Bill through the Imperial ...
Article : 122 wordsIt is reported that the mutual conditions of peace between the Transvaal and Great Britain, which have been formulated by Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the Daily News, under date December 20, says: Paul Deroulede's hysterics at the High Court this afternoon beat all his previous performances. ...
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Article : 64 wordsThe Boer account of the battle of Magers-fontein (says the Daily News), like other accounts of battles from the same source, renders generous tribute to British courage. ...
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Article : 35 wordsAn exchange says: Just after the outbreak of the war in South Africa a young Englishman, named John Sydney Marwick, was serving as native commissioner at ...
Article : 163 wordsIncluding the Eighth Army Division, which now is being mobilised, there are 40,000 troops either afloat or under orders to proceed to South Africa. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe London Daily News printed on December 13 a capital account of the night sortie from Ladysmith on Thursday, December 7, under General Hunter. Additional graphic ...
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Article : 156 wordsAt the Theatre Royal last night a company headed by Miss Nora Thorne appeared in a drama, entitled "A Wife's Peril," a play introducing the story of a wife's. temptation, ...
Article : 155 wordsCITY AUDITORS.--Mr. W. D. Sym, in another column, solicits the votes of ratepayers for one of the auditorships of the city. Mr. Sym has now held the position for six ...
Article : 65 wordsAre you on the warpath for bargains? Then visit Charles Gilbert during stocktaking sale, commencing Thursday, February 1, and you will find them. A genuine reduction of ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Wed 31 Jan 1900, Page 5
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