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  2. THE CHINESE CRISIS.

    As a demonstration of the sincerity of the Chinese Government's protestations that the Boxer leaders shall be punished for their outrages on foreigners, ...

    Article : 62 words
  3. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    The War Office reports Corporal J.W. M'Culloch, of the Victorian Imperial Bushmen, formerly a resident of Outtrim, slightly wounded in action at Schweitzer ...

    Article : 34 words
  4. HIS LATEST MOVEMENTS.

    The latest news received of De Wet is that among the Dutch farmers west of Hopetoun, he secured a number of horses to remount his men,many of whose animals ...

    Article : 131 words
  5. CABLE NEWS

    Considerable public alarm is felt at Capetown owing to the appearance of plague there. A thousand native laborers, who were employed in loading and discharging ...

    Article : 129 words
  6. IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    In the Eastern Transvaal. General French continues his vigorous operations against the Boer forces, which he is driving before him to the Swaziland border. Everyday he ...

    Article : 42 words
  7. A VICTORIAN OFFICER WOUNDED.

    Mr. F. C. Mason, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, has received the following telegraphic message from his Excellency the ...

    Article : 222 words
  8. THE RUSSIAN GRAB.

    Pekin telegrams do not fully corroborate the assurances which, according to Lord Cranbourne's declaration in the House of Commons, Russia has given in respect to ...

    Article : 291 words
  9. BOER INSUBORDINATION.

    General French in the Eastern Transvaal continues to drive steadily before him, pressing hard upon their rear, the forces which General Louis Botha has ...

    Article : 193 words
  10. KRUGER AND THE BURGHERS.

    The Pretoria correspondent of the "Morning Post" telegraphs that the Boer burghers in the disrupt States state that ex-President Kruger is returning to the ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. SMALL-POX AND VACCINATION.

    An outbreak of small-pox has occurred at Glasgow, causing such popular alarm, that 250,000 of the inhabitants have been revaccinated. ...

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  12. BRITISH TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION.

    In the House of Commons last night an amendment to the address in reply was moved by Mr. T. P. Whittaker, Liberal member for Spen Valley, expressing regret ...

    Article : 109 words
  13. THE FIFTH CONTINGENT.

    Early on Saturday morning the troopship Orient, which had been lying all night off the Gellibrand. Lightship, sailed for Capetown with the members of the Victorian ...

    Article : 46 words
  14. KITCHENER'S MOUNTED TROOPS.

    In the House of Commons to-day Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary for War, made a statement with respect to the mounted reinforcements which have been and are ...

    Article : 176 words
  15. BRITISH GENEROSITY.

    The British authorities in South Africa are daily accumulating fresh evidence that the placatory policy adopted with a view to the earlier and more permanent ...

    Article : 128 words
  16. RUSSIAN PANEGYRIC ON ENGLAND.

    Considerable attention has been attracted by an article published in the "Journal de St. Petersburg," the official organ of the Russian Foreign Office. The ...

    Article : 46 words
  17. STOWAWAYS ON THE ORIENT.

    Colonel Otter, commanding, officer of the Fifth Contingent, which left for South Africa by the transport steamer Orient, has telegraphed from Albany that no fewer ...

    Article : 108 words
  18. THE EMPRESS FREDERICK.

    His Majesty King Edward VII., who, with Queen Alexandra, proposed to start next month for Copenhagen to Visit the Queen's parents, calling at Berlin and ...

    Article : 96 words
  19. THE TAI-YUEN EXPEDITION.

    Washington telegrams report that the M'Kinley Cabinet strongly objects to the policy of military activity which Count von Waldersee, generalissimo of the powers in ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. SEVERE LESSON TO RAILWAY RAIDERS.

    The vigilance of the British patrols and station guards on the Transvaal railways is becoming increasingly active and efficacious in checking and punishing railway raiders. ...

    Article : 77 words
  21. QUEENSLAND.

    Arrangements in connection with the establishment of the Sixth Contingent will be proceeded with forthwith. The estimated strength of the contingent will be ...

    Article : 95 words
  22. DE LISLE'S AUSTRALIANS.

    Reuter's special war correspondent in Cape Colony reports that some of the officers and men of Colonel de Lisle's Mounted Infantry Corps, which consists chiefly of ...

    Article : 149 words
  23. PROTECTING THE LEGATIONS.

    In the House of Commons last night Lord Cranbourne, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, stated that the future protection of the Pekin ...

    Article : 59 words
  24. RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

    Uneasiness is expressed by the Berlin press with respect to the commercial relations between Germany and Russia, owing to the threats which are being vented in ...

    Article : 68 words
  25. ATTEMPT ON KITCHENER'S TRAIN.

    A daring, but miscalculated, attempt was made by Boer railway raiders to wreck the train in which Lord Kitchener returned to Johannesburg from Cape Colony ...

    Article : 91 words
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  27. MURDERED IN HONG KONG.

    A notable murder under remarkably sinister circumstances has been perpetrated in the British colony of Hong Kong. Yeuug-ku-wan, a prominent member of the Chinese ...

    Article : 86 words
  28. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

    H.M.S. Blake, first class cruiser, of 9000 tons, 21½ knots, has sailed for the Australian station with relief crew for the Australian flag ship Royal Arthur. ...

    Article : 34 words
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  30. A NATIVE TRAIN DERAILED.

    A party of Kruitzinger's roving bands of raiders, near Naauwpoort, succeeded in derailing a train near Kaibosch, and found a number of Kaffirs travelling in it. With ...

    Article : 74 words
  31. THE WAR EXPENSES.

    A further issue of Treasury bills, at 3 per cent., to cover war expenses, is announced. The amount required is £3,000,000. ...

    Article : 31 words
  32. MITIGATION OF PUNISNMENT.

    With respect to the reported submission of the Chinese imperial court to the punitive demands of the powers, the "Morning Post's" Pekin correspondent reports that ...

    Article : 230 words
  33. THE ANNEXATION POLICY.

    In the House of Commons to-day Mr. H. H. Asquith, who was Home Secretary in the last Liberal Government, expressed his approval of the policy of the present ...

    Article : 80 words
  34. A CANDID LETTER.

    A letter signed "P. S.," initials which are supposed to stand for Philip Schreiner, brother of Mr. W. P. Schreiner, late Premier of Cape Colony, and of ...

    Article : 287 words
  35. A CAPE WAR MEDAL.

    The Premier of Cape Colony, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, proposes to confer upon all soldiers of the home and colonel forces which have taken part in the war a special South ...

    Article : 46 words
  36. A YEOMANRY COMMISSION

    A commission as sub-lieutenant has been granted by the War Office to Mr. A. L. Phillips, lately a member of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry. ...

    Article : 32 words
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