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  2. Train Accident.

    A shocking railway fatality is reported to have occurred at Portland. A train dashed into a buggy containing a woman and her four children. The buggy was ...

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  3. POINTS.

    THE widely expressed opinion that Mr. Philp would prove to be sadly wanting intact in his leadership of the Government has been somewhat justified. ...

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  4. TELEGRAMS.

    The labour recruiting schooner Fearless arrived from the islands on Saturday with 75 recruits aboard, all for Fairymead. The voyage was uneventful, the passage across ...

    Article : 55 words
  5. Very Latest.

    News has been received that the artillery tinder the command of Lieutenant-general J. D. P. French on December 19 shelled a position occupied by the Boers near Naauwpoort, ...

    Article : 136 words
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  7. Imperial Yeomanry.

    The enrolment of the Imperial Yeomanry Corps is proceeding apace. Lord Chesbam (hon. colonel Royal Buckingham Hussars, Yeomanry, formerly captain in the 10th ...

    Article : 76 words
  8. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Christmas Day was quietly observed in Sydney. At the hospitals and also the various Government institutions the inmates were regaled with special Christmas fare. ...

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  9. Canada Mobilising 5,000.

    The Government of Canada proposes to mobilise a force of 5,000 men in readiness for any emergency that may arise in South Africa. ...

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  10. London Volunteers.

    Money for the equipment of the force of London volunteers now being raised by the Lord Mayor is coming in freely, and the fund now stands at £70,000. The command ...

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  11. LATEST SHIPPING.

    December 24.--JULIA PERCY, s.,693 tons, Captain Hurford. from Rockhampton, via Maryborough. Passengers: Mesdamos Allen and child. G. A. Lobb and child, Bunkum and ...

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  12. VICTORIA.

    At Marchison on Saturday the heat was the highest on record for that locality, 114 in the shade. The bush fires burning in the Becohwdrth ...

    Article : 239 words
  13. Hospital Steamer Maine.

    The hospital steamer Maine, which has been fully equipped from funds collected by American ladies, sailed yesterday for the Cape. ...

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  14. Lord Kitchener.

    Major-general Lord Kitchener, who is on his way to Capetown, as chief of staff to Field-marshal Lord Roberts (Commander-in- chief of tho British Army in South Africa), ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. Dynamite Accident.

    The Ambulance Brigade received a call about 2.16 p.m. on Saturday from Coorparoo, and on arrival there found that a man named William Slattery, acred 59. and a seaman by calling, had ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. No Further Advance.

    The Times this morning declares that no important forward movement would be undertaken in South Africa until the arrival of the transports with reinforcements, which will ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. Dr. Leyds and Independence.

    Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal plenipotentiary in Europe, has informed an interviewer that the Boers will not accept the mediation of any Power, except on a basis which will give ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    At Gooseberry Hill, a few miles from Perth, some human remains have been found which are supposed to be those of a doctor who disappeared mysteriously about 20 years ...

    Article : 66 words
  19. The Lodgeroom.

    (Reports of lodge meetings must reach this office not later than the morning after the meetings, or they cannot be inserted.--Ed. Telegraph.] ...

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  20. Lord Methuen's Position.

    The position now held by Lieutenant-general Lord Methuen, a few miles north of the Modder River, is said to be impregnable. ...

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  21. Protestant Alliance.

    Onward Bound Lodge, No. IS.--The quarterly summoned meeting was held in the Alliance Hall. "Woolloongabba, on Friday evening last, W.M. Bro. G. O. Hjorth in the chair. ...

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  22. Duke of Connaught.

    It is announced that the Duke of Connaught asked to be attached to the staff of Field-marshal Lord Roberts in any capacity whatever, and Lord Roberts was willing that ...

    Article : 53 words
  23. Capetown Railway Corps.

    LONDON, December 25. A railway pioneer corps, consisting of 1,000 Outlanders and others, is being organised at Capetown. ...

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  24. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Christmas Day passed quietly, the usual Christmas services being held in the churches. The weather conditions were most unpleasant, it being oppressively hot. The city was ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. Queensland Contingent.

    Notwithstanding the intervention of the holidays all possible progress is being made with the preparations for the departure of the second Queensland contingent for South ...

    Article : 201 words
  26. Boers Intend to Fight.

    It is reported that Commandant Schalk Burger (who is commanding tho Boer forces in Natal during the absence of General Joubert) recently told a British officer that ...

    Article : 49 words
  27. Post and Telegraph Greetings

    The Christmas card of the officers of the Queensland Post and Telegraph Department is to hand. This year the card forms a booklet of & most interesting character. The cover is of ...

    Article : 129 words
  28. TASMANIA.

    Tremendous bush fires have been raging for the past two days. Part of the township of Queenstown has been destroyed. Sixteen residences and between 40 and 50 miners' ...

    Article : 63 words
  29. Wounded Rejoin Regiments.

    News come from the front that one-third of the men who were wounded during the engagement between Lieutenant-general Lord Methuen's force and the Boors at ...

    Article : 46 words
  30. Bubonic Plague.

    Three fresh cases of bubonic plague are reported to have occurred in Noumea, two victims being kanakas and one a Tonkinese. The portion of Noumea where the bubonic ...

    Article : 110 words
  31. Reinforcements at Durban.

    The First Battalion of the South Lancashire (Prince of Wales's Volunteers), which on arrival at Capetown were ordered to proceed to Natal, have arrived at Durban. ...

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  32. City Police Court.

    There were 45 cases dealt with at the City Police Court on Christmas morning, before Mr. G. P. M. Murray. P.M., and Mr. George Harden. J.P. All the drunkards who pleaded ...

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  33. Boers at Magersfontein.

    Latest intelligence is to the effect that 20,000 Boers are now at Magersfontein under General Cronje, and that they are engaged in doubling the trenches, their front extending a ...

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  34. Eighth Division Mobilising.

    The War Office have completed all preparations for mobilising the eight division (Second Army Corps). The despatch of the seventh division for South Africa will begin on ...

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  35. Soudan Campaign.

    Colonel Mahon who, with a force of Egyptian troops advanced southwards after the defeat and death of the Khalifa at Godid, has now occupied El Obeid. once the chief ...

    Article : 61 words
  36. Colonel Long Explains.

    Colonel Long, who was in charge of the guns which were abandoned in the Tugela River fight on December 15, explains that he expected supplies of ammunition, in view of ...

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  37. Australian Contingent.

    The Government anticipate the advisableness of sending a third contingent, and volunteers rejected from the present New South Wales contingent will be kept in camp. ...

    Article : 230 words
  38. Free State. Capital Indefensible.

    It has now been found that Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State, is incapable of being adequately defended, and it is considered likely that the capital will be ...

    Article : 50 words
  39. Advertising

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  40. Sailor Rescued.

    Captain R. D. Henry, of the schoonerTom Fisher, from Cairns, reports: "On Saturday, December 9, while lying off Fitzroy Island we saw a coloured man on the beach ...

    Article : 183 words
  41. Difficulty With America.

    It is Reported that vessels laden with American flour have been seized by the British authorities at Delagoa Bay on the ground that their cargoes were contraband of ...

    Article : 76 words
  42. A.J.C. Races.

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  43. Disloyal Cape Farmers.

    News of disloyalty on the part of the Afrikanders in the north of Cape Colony continues to be received. The latest information to hand shows that the Boersympathisers ...

    Article : 67 words
  44. Feeling at Broken Hill.

    At Broken Hill feeling has been running high for sometime between the British and proBoersections of the community. The Britishers, to the number of 150, made an attack on ...

    Article : 65 words
  45. Colesburg District Loyal.

    LONDON, December 25. The Afrikanders in Cape Colony in the Colosburg district remain generally speaking loyal to Great Britain. ...

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  46. Knocked Down by a Car.

    A man named George Hamilton, residing in Cornwall street, Thompson Estate, was knocked down and rendered insensible by a tramcar at about 12 o'clock on Saturday. ...

    Article : 54 words
  47. Son's Heroic Sacrifice.

    A fuller account of the foundering off Stonehaven of the Gourdon (Kineardineshire) fishing boat Truelight on Saturday (says the Daily Mail October 31). reveals an act of ...

    Article : 157 words
  48. Railway Reservists.

    The remaining 100 railway reservists at Crewe, where are situated a great railway junction and the huge works of the London and North-western Railway, have been ...

    Article : 52 words
  49. No More She Did.

    Mistress: "Bridget, I can't get into tho parlour." Bridget: "Sure, it's meself knows that, an' ye won't, for I've, got the kay in me ...

    Article : 149 words
  50. Holiday Washing Suits.

    Irish brown linen drill coat and trousers, 10s. 6d.; tussore silk coat and trousers, 22s. 6d.; finest assam silk, 30s.; perfect fitting, in any size, at Charles Gilbert's, Queen street. ...

    Article : 118 words
  51. Unlikely Calamity.

    The fate of mankind depends on tho international position of England, and a more obscuring of the British sun would be the worst calamity of the century. No power in ...

    Article : 119 words
  52. Winston Churchill.

    Mr. Winston Churchill, the special correspondent of the Morning Post, whose escape, recapture, and safety at Delagoa Bay have already been reported, need not, it appears, ...

    Article : 64 words
  53. Advertising

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  54. Precautions Advised.

    The Spectator this morning, in an article dealing with the situation in South Africa, advocates the mobilisation of the navy; the formation of a territorial army of 100,000 ...

    Article : 71 words
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  56. Albion Park Races.

    Horse owners and trainers are reminded that nominations for the Brisbane Jockey Club meeting on Saturday, December 80, close to-morrow at 4 o'clock. ...

    Article : 26 words
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