As this year Christmas Eve fell on the Sunday, the characteristics of the day and night preceding Christmas Day were transferred to the Saturday. All that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 wordsFurther reports of the battle with General Sir, Redvers Butler's forces at the Tugela River, near Colease, in Natal, on tho 15th instant, show that the smokeless powder ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 24 wordsMessrs. Burgoyne and Co., the well known colonial wine merchants, in London, have presented 100 dozen of Tintara wine to the Anglo-American hospital steamer Maine. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsMr. Winston Spencer Churchill, the special correspondent of the Morning Post, who was reported to have been recaptured by the Boers after having made his escape from Pretoria, ...
Article : 39 wordsCardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, the head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain, has issued directions for public and united supplications to ...
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Article : 129 wordsAt 10 o'clock on Saturday evening a fire broke out on the top floor of Messrs. Rankin and Morrow's confectionery factory in George street. The Central Fire Brigade ...
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Article : 27 wordsBrigadier Horskins held farewell meetings at Ipswich on Sunday last. Most of the corps held their ordinary meetings, with special carol singing on Christmas Sunday. ...
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Article : 39 wordsField-marshal Lord-Roberts, the now Commander-in-chief in South Africa, left England on Saturday for Capetown. Lord Roberts was accorded a splendid ...
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Article : 375 wordsHis holiness the Pope yesterday inaugurated a holy three and a-half hours' service, by opening the holy door at St. Peter's Cathedral. Three thousand persons were ...
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Article : 135 wordsMr. Alfred Gross, senior partner in the firm of Messrs. A. Gross and Co., Elizabeth street, left Brisbane for Europe on Sunday. Before departing he was presented with a ...
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Advertising : 50 wordsAmongst the many rejoicings that marked the recurrence of the great Christian festival none was pleasanter to witness, from the unclouded joy it brought, than that held at the ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Tue 26 Dec 1899, Page 4
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