During the last two days heavy rain has fallen in the southern and central districts of the colony. Last night rain fell intermittently in Brisbane and susburbs, being accompanied ...
Article : 128 wordsEnrolment is going on busily at the Pinkenba camp this morning, notwithstanding the unsatisfactory state of the weather. Steady rain has been falling ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Chief Secretory (the Hon. J. R. Dickson) has received from the Agent-Genoral for Queensland a copy of a letter addressed to him and to the Agents-General for the other ...
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Advertising : 726 wordsLieutenant-general Lord Methuen, who has taken up a strong position to the north of the Modder River, reports that the Boers are now using a disappearing gun, with which ...
Article : 80 wordsThe special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle reports that the Australian Infantry (Victorian, South Australian, West Australian, and Tasmanion) are at Enalin, the ...
Article : 82 wordsAdelaide, s., left Brisbane on Thuesday night for Sydney. Allinga,s., left Brisbane yesterday for Cairns, via ports. ...
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Article : 101 wordsA private letter received from America announces the death of Mr. Edgar Strauss, the well known 'cello player, who recently left here because of ill health for a trip. ...
Article : 382 wordsGeneral Cronje, the commander of the Boer forces in the western frontier, has notified that he declines to hold any further communication with Lieutenant-general Lord ...
Article : 40 wordsA successful public meeting to initiate a patriotic fund was held here last evening. At the close of the meeting subscriptions amounting to £290 were announced. ...
Article : 32 wordsNews from Kimberley states that the people of that town, including the troops under Colonel Kekewich, have sufficient provisions to lost for another six months. ...
Article : 28 wordsAnother sortie was made from Ladysmith on the 22nd instant, the British losing 9 men killed, and having 15 men wounded. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Liedertafel concert in aid of the Queensland patriotic fund (of which the Mayor, Ald. Hall, and Mr. J. H. Forrest are the trustees) will take place this ...
Article : 393 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller has received messages by heliograph from Ladysmith to the effect that the troops under Lieutehant-general Sir George White will be able to hold ...
Article : 63 wordsIt has transpired that Field-marshal Lord Roberts, who is now on his way to assume the command of the British army in South Africa, before leaving England. obtained a ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following are the latest scratchings:-- Carrington Stakes and New Year's Gift.-- Sweetheart. Tattersall's Can -- Vo[?] ...
Article : 68 wordsGeneral Joubert, the Commander-in-chief of the Transvaal forces, who was recently reported to have gone to Volksrust for medical treatment, leaving the command of ...
Article : 43 wordsNews comes from Pretoria to the effect that President Kruger is very suspicious concerning the presence in the Transvaal capital of a number of alleged spies. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, the special correspondent of the Morning Post has arrived at Durban. He states that he effected his escape from Pretoria by scaling the wall of ...
Article : 85 wordsHorse owners and others interested are notified that nominations close to-morrow (Friday). at 4 p.m. with the secretary (Mr. Alex. Reid) for all events of the January ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is reported that the Boer force at the Tugela River, in Natal, has been reinforced by 1,000 Dutch from Cape Colony. ...
Article : 26 wordsFurther reports of the engagement with the Boers at the Tugela River on the 15th instant state that both General Sir Redvers Buller and Lieutenant-general Sir C. F. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 wordsIt has been ascertained that the Boers have placed barbed wire as impediments in the bottom of the fords at the Tugela River. The guns which had to be abandoned by the ...
Article : 63 wordsWith reference to the surrender of a large number of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Gloucestershire Regiment to the Boors at Nikolson's Nek, near Ladysmith, on October ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Hon. J. Martin, M.L.C., died at his residence, Gawler, on Wednesday afternoon, in his 79th year. The veteran colonist had been unwell for some weeks past with a ...
Article : 123 wordsThe second battalion of the Lancaster South Regiment (Prince of Wales's Militia) and the second battalion Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) have arrived at ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is reported that a body of Cape Mounted Police has occupied Dordrecht, about 50 miles west of Stormberg, the Boer commando which recently ocoupied the place having retreated. ...
Article : 33 wordsReports from Capetown state that members of the Africander Bond at that place report that a force of 8,000 European officers and men. all skilled in tactios and artillery, are ...
Article : 57 wordsPermission has been given Major-general G. A. French to go to South Africa, but in what capacity is not yet known. It has been decided that Colonel Sydenham ...
Article : 561 wordsMajor-general Lord Kitchener joined Field-marshal Lord Roberts on board the steamer Dunottar Castle at Gibraltar to-day. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe shooting of a young woman near Dunedin, which was supposed to have been a case of murder, is now found to have been accidental. ...
Article : 57 wordsLatest news from the Modder River states that the Boers will not reply to the shells fired by the artillery under Lieutenant-general Lord Methuen, fearing that they will ...
Article : 37 wordsTrooper G. Bradford, of the New Zealand contingent, who was wounded in a recent skirmish near Arundel, in the north of Cape Colony, is reported to be likely to recover ...
Article : 37 wordsReports from Odessa, the principal Russian port on the Black Sea, show that reinforcements of troops are being hastily despatched from that place for the Far East. ...
Article : 37 wordsIt as understood that prompt action is being taken by the Government with a view to preventing the introduction into Queensland of the bubonic plague from New Caledonia. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe correspondent of the Times ut Sterk-stroom, in the north of Cane Colony, reports that it is fear, not loyalty to the British Government, which is preventing a general ...
Article : 68 wordsMessrs. S. Hoffnung and Co. send us a copy of their admirably prepared "Australasian Diary and Almanac for 1900." It has been thoroughly brought up to date in the ...
Article : 110 wordsIn view of the approaching wet season Chas. Gilbert has just landed his first shipment of waterproofs, oilskins, and umbrellas. Special line of waterproofs, sewn and taped ...
Article : 41 wordsNews from Capetown states that three members of the Cape House of Assembly are implicated in a charge of sedition. ...
Article : 23 wordsReports are to hand that fever has broken out in the Boer camp near the Modder River, and also the disease in horses known as "pinkeye." ...
Article : 46 wordsThe leading fruit and daily produce firms at Liverpool have intrusted Mr. Whittles with a mission to Australia, the object of which is to encourage and develop direct ...
Article : 43 wordsPrecautions are being token by the civil authorities against the danger of an outbreak of an outbreak of bubonic plague in the city. The Mayor (Sir Matthew Harris) has taken active steps ...
Article : 374 wordsWho forgot to order his Christmas suit in time, should visit Charles Gilbert, the leading tailor, Queen street, near bridge, for a Now Year's suit. He has the finest selection of ...
Article : 64 wordsH.M.S. cruiser Forte has captured at Delagoa Bay a cargo of stretchers and railway sleepers intended for the Transvaal Government. ...
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Article : 75 wordsMajor-general Lord Kitchener, who is on his way from Egypt to South Africa to take up the position of chief of stuff to Field-marshal Lord Roberts, Commander-in-chief ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the Premier (the Hon. R. Philp) gave notice of the intended introduction of a bill to amend the Sugar Works Guarantee Act, and ...
Article : 237 wordsA very sensible-suggestion made by Mr. Henry Richmond, of Lytham, in a Manchester paper, deserves the widest possible publicity (Hays land and Water). It is that ...
Article : 232 wordsIt is announced that 20,000 man have volunteered for service in the Imperial Yeomanry Corps which the Imperial Government raising to supplement the regular forces ...
Article : 33 wordsIt now appears that the victim of the dogcart, accident, which was reported in yesterday's second edition, was George Jackson, who is employed by Dr. Fisher, of South ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Imperial Government have chartered the following steamers for the conveyance of troops to South Africa:-- Umbria, 8,127 tons, Cunard line. ...
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Advertising : 67 wordsThe Marconi wireless telegraph instruments intended, for the Transvaal Government, which were recently seized at Capetown, have since been tested in ...
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Advertising : 64 wordsThe special correspondent of the Times, who is with Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen's force at the Modder River, states that it is difficult to overestimate the effect ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Thu 28 Dec 1899, Page 5
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