The following is the full text of a cablegram, dated February 20, addressed by the Hon. R. Philp, Premier, to Field-marshal Lord Roberts: "Queensland Government heartily ...
Article : 55 wordsGeneral Bailer has telegraphed to the War Office to the effect that the enemy have now practically abandoned Colenso, and Majorgeneral Hurt occupied the place, after a ...
Article : 99 wordsA man employed cooking on Casuarina station fell from a launch and was drowned, at No. 5 Beacon, on the Fitzroy River, late on Tuesday night. The body has not been ...
Article : 37 wordsThe members of the third contingent were entertained at a send-off smoke concert in the Centennial Hall on 'Wednesday. The function, which has been worked up in a most ...
Article : 5,142 wordsThe following tenders have been accepted by the Department of Public Works: New stables. Ipswich Police Station, Robert Wilson, £147; additions to the Esk State ...
Article : 33 wordsAlthough the weather was dull, there was an enormous gathering at the patriotic sports, estimated at 25,000. The Chinese procession, which passed through the city, ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Queensland Post and Telegraph Department have received the following: Berne advises, "Telegrams for Cayenne will be forwarded by Gollette de Paramaribo on ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the wesleyan Sunday school picnic at Beltana a boy got away from his companions to bathe and was drowned. The only witness of the affair was his brother aged ...
Article : 63 wordsAt auction yesterday the following racehorses were offered under instructions from Mr. E. Murphy, of Queensland: Student, hurdle racer, sold for 61 guineas, to Mr. L. ...
Article : 66 wordsNews is to band that a mixed force of 200 Australians led by Captain J. G. Legge (New South Wales Infantry), Captain M'Leish (Victorian Mounted Rifles), and Captain F. ...
Article : 116 wordsLater reports received from Colenso state that the Boers are continuing their retreat, their rearguard being now half-way to Pieters, a place on the railway line 7 miles north of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe medical men have dropped the idea of forming a tuberculosis society for the present. The Attorney-General has a scheme for reforming the patent law on the lines of the ...
Article : 60 wordsIn connection with the sudden death of Maggie Forbes at her mother's residence, Bradley street, Spring Hill, on Tuesday evening, it appears that Dr. Wray held a ...
Article : 64 wordsThe correspondents of the Times and the Standard state that they believe that the Transvaal and Orange free State burghers who formed the Boer forces in Natal now are ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Governor states that so far as he is concerned the Government House flag incident is closed. Dr. E. R. Rosenby, who took his degrees at ...
Article : 83 wordsA horse attached to a springcart, owned by a furniture dealer named Kruger, bolted along Queen street at about a quarter past 10 o'clock on Thursday. On reaching Petrie Bight the ...
Article : 113 wordsReports from Pretoria state that preparations are being made there for the defence of the town against an attack by the British troops, and mines have been laid in all the ...
Article : 38 wordsIt has transpired that General Cronje on Saturday last, eluding the notice of the British outposts, crossed to the south of the Modder River before the advancing British army ...
Article : 54 wordsGeneral Buller reports that his losses in the operations near Colenso, from the l5th to the 18th instant, were 1 officer and 13 men killed, and 8 officers and 150 men wounded. ...
Article : 35 wordsOver 3,000 labourers are at the present time employed by the Government on cooperative works. Three members of the Chinese crew of the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe prisoners who have been captured by the British since General Cronje left Magersfontein accuse their leader of having deceived them, by alleging that the British troops ...
Article : 36 wordsLatest information regarding the retreat of General Cronje shows that he left Magersfontein with 5,000 Boer troops and all his heavy guns, and trekked across the front of ...
Article : 65 wordsInformation has been received by the police that on Wednesday afternoon a woman named Mrs. Evans had been found dead in a paddock at Broadwater. From the meagre ...
Article : 141 wordsThe residents at Kimberley have furnished the newspaper correspondents with harrowing descriptions of the privations they have experienced during the siege. The women and ...
Article : 79 wordsAt Flemington this morning the weather was fine. Henry and Cornquist ran 5 furlongs in 1 min. 4½secs. The latter went on and ...
Article : 211 wordsThere are persistent reports that General Cronje and his retreating army have been intercepted by the British troops and summoned to capitulate. ...
Article : 24 wordsLord Roberts is continuing his advance into the Orange Free State, and now is at Puardeberg, 30 miles east of Jacobsdal, and about 60 miles west of Bloemfontein, the ...
Article : 35 wordsThe House of Commons yesterday, by 286 votes to 152, refused to adopt a motion in favour of the reopening of the inquiry into the Jameson raid into the Transvaal in the ...
Article : 40 wordsIt will be remembered that a contract was let by the Railway Department to Walker's Limited, of Maryborough, in March of last year, for the construction of 15 passenger ...
Article : 166 wordsAmong the British officers wounded during Lieutenant-general French's operations for the relief of Kimberley were Lieutenant Brassey, of the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, and ...
Article : 86 wordsA message recently published stated that the Imperial Government had in contemplation the reorganisation of the British army, and proposed that Australian troops be ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Australasian contingents stationed at Orange River, Belmont, and Modder River all participated in the movement which resulted in the relief of Kimberley ...
Article : 368 wordsClaude Gilson Foxton and Frederick Orpen Steele have been appointed lieutenants in the Queensland Defence Force, ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 23 Feb 1900, Page 3
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