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 ...
Article : 373 wordsTHE widely expressed opinion that Mr. Philp would prove to be sadly wanting intact in his leadership of the Government has been somewhat justified. ...
Article : 1,162 wordsThe 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 wordsNews 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, ...
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Advertising : 928 wordsThe enrolment of the Imperial Yeomanry Corps is proceeding apace. Lord Chesbam (hon. colonel Royal Buckingham Hussars, Yeomanry, formerly captain in the 10th ...
Article : 76 wordsChristmas Day was quietly observed in Sydney. At the hospitals and also the various Government institutions the inmates were regaled with special Christmas fare. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Government of Canada proposes to mobilise a force of 5,000 men in readiness for any emergency that may arise in South Africa. ...
Article : 30 wordsMoney 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 ...
Article : 45 wordsDecember 24.--JULIA PERCY, s.,693 tons, Captain Hurford. from Rockhampton, via Maryborough. Passengers: Mesdamos Allen and child. G. A. Lobb and child, Bunkum and ...
Article : 1,049 wordsAt 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 wordsThe hospital steamer Maine, which has been fully equipped from funds collected by American ladies, sailed yesterday for the Cape. ...
Article : 27 wordsMajor-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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsDr. 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 wordsAt 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(Reports of lodge meetings must reach this office not later than the morning after the meetings, or they cannot be inserted.--Ed. Telegraph.] ...
Article : 25 wordsThe position now held by Lieutenant-general Lord Methuen, a few miles north of the Modder River, is said to be impregnable. ...
Article : 28 wordsOnward 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. ...
Article : 150 wordsIt 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 wordsLONDON, December 25. A railway pioneer corps, consisting of 1,000 Outlanders and others, is being organised at Capetown. ...
Article : 21 wordsChristmas 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 wordsNotwithstanding 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 wordsIt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsTremendous 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 wordsNews 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 wordsThree 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 wordsThe 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. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere 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 ...
Article : 315 wordsLatest 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 ...
Article : 39 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 37 wordsColonel 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 wordsColonel 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 ...
Article : 45 wordsThe 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 wordsIt 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 ...
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Advertising : 36 wordsCaptain 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 wordsIt 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 442 wordsNews 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 wordsAt 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 wordsLONDON, December 25. The Afrikanders in Cape Colony in the Colosburg district remain generally speaking loyal to Great Britain. ...
Article : 25 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMistress: "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 wordsIrish 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMr. 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, ...
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Advertising : 120 wordsThe 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 ...
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Advertising : 29 wordsHorse owners and trainers are reminded that nominations for the Brisbane Jockey Club meeting on Saturday, December 80, close to-morrow at 4 o'clock. ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Tue 26 Dec 1899, Page 5
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