The Queensland Turf Club's second summer meeting will begin on Tuesday (Boxing Day) and be continued on New Year's Day. The racing will be good and the stakes, ...
Article : 110 wordsAdelaide, 8., is timed to leave Sydney to-day for Brisbane and in due here on Monday. Agnes, schooner, arrived at Maryborough this morning from Rockhampton. ...
Article : 989 wordsA meeting of a number of prominent citizens, convened by the Mayor, was held last night to consider the question of raising patriotic funds. It was decided to hold a ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Legislative Assembly resumed at 9 o'clock this morning, and the discussion on the loan estimates was continued. Mr. DAWSON, in reply to some remarks made ...
Article : 677 wordsNews is to hand that the British troops who were captured by the Boers during Lieutenant-general Sir William Gatacre's attack on the Boer position at Stormberg on the ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. Douglas Story editor of the late Boer newspaper, the Standard and Diggers' News, writing in the Daily Mail of November 9 asks. ...
Article : 1,415 wordsTwo hundred pounds a day is being collected on the penny sections of the George street electric trams. Under existing conditions a public servant ...
Article : 232 wordsThe course was open two hurdles wide, and the work done was about divided between here and the tan track. Few gallops were over a greater distance than 6 furlongs, ...
Article : 303 wordsAn increase of £100,000 is shown in the export of gold from New Zealand for 11 months of this year. A yonng Maori women fell into a boiling ...
Article : 61 wordsWith regard to the 10 guns which were abandoned by the British at the Tugela River, and which several war correspondents report as having been captured by the Boers, ...
Article : 44 wordsA proposal has been made for the recruiting of 1,500 experienced horsemen from the British farmers in Cape Colony, the force to be utilised in invading the Orange Free ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsA serious affray occurred at the Old Men's Asylum in George street yesterday afternoon. Two inmates, a white man and a Chinaman, it is said, quarrelled, with the result that the ...
Article : 86 wordsIt is announced that the beleaguered army and people at Ladysmith have supplies of food sufficient to last three months. ...
Article : 23 wordsA naval contingent consisting of 700 men, will leave Portsmouth for Capetown immediately. ...
Article : 16 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Government were urged to consider the advisableuess of sending to South Africa a company of bushmen, rough riders and good ...
Article : 78 wordsOffers from volunteers in Canada for service in South Africa are pouring in from all parts of the Dominion, and ten times the number required (1,050) have signified their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 wordsLieutenant Colquhoun, a Victorian officer, has arrived at Capetown. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe fund for the assistance of the wives and dependents of the heroes of the Naval Brigade, who may fall during tho war, stands now at £44,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe New South Wales Parliament virtually completed the session last night. The chief feature was the election for the vacancy on the Public Works Committee. Mr. Sleath. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Right Hon. Herbert Gladstone, Liberal M.P. for West Leeds, speaking last evening, declared that the Volunteers in Great Britain bad saved their country from a panic. During ...
Article : 89 wordsMajor Thompson received a cable from the Imperial Government yesterday, instructing him to purchase horses for the use of the army in South Africa. ...
Article : 278 wordsWho forgot to order his Christmas suit in time, should visit Charles Gilbert, the leading tailor, Queen street. near bridge, for a New Year's suit. He has the finest selection of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsThe Council met at 10.30 o'clock this morning. After prayers had been read by the President, Mr. DRAKE informed the House that he regretted business would have ...
Article : 111 wordsAll doubts were set at rest concerning the fear that the supposed wreck at White-top Rocks was the German steamer Friedrich Der Grosse, as this boat has arrived at Adelaide. ...
Article : 71 wordsIn our advertising columns will be found particulars of the Brisbane Jockey Club meetings, to be held on December 30 and January 3. Nominations for December 30 close on ...
Article : 46 wordsThe following team has been selected to play the return matches against Victoria and New South Wales: Darling, Hill, Jones, Giffen, Reedman. Lyons. A. H. Jarvis. F. ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last evening. Mr. J. T. Annear, M.L.A., gave notice of the following motion for Thursday next: "That it having been demonstrated by the ...
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Advertising : 57 wordsThe following is a description of the dead body of a woman found in a lane off Ann street, near All Hallows' Convent on the morning of December 22. and which is ...
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Advertising : 2,135 wordsCollections in aid of the Queensland patriotic fund are being taken up in the streets and principal resorts of the city to-day by authority of his worship the Mayor ...
Article : 100 wordsThere is a popular character in Pendleton who has a slight impediment in his speech. He talks eloquently, yet he stammers. The other day he went to the telephone to talk to ...
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Advertising : 260 wordsThe Liedertafel patriotic concert in aid of the war fund, which will take place on Thursday evening next, December 28. is being made expressly attractive for country visitors to ...
Article : 209 wordsIf only people would wash out their mouths twice or thrice daily with an antiseptic there would be far less disease than there is now, since most disease germs are taken into ...
Article : 127 wordsAt the City Police Court this morning before Mr. G. P. M. Murray, P.M., Ruby Taylor was lined £9, in default two months' imprisonment, for using improper language. George Doyle ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Sat 23 Dec 1899, Page 7
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