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  2. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received September 3, 12.56 a.m.] THE WAR

    Generals Buller and French, after a rearguard action, expelled the Boers from the high hills, overlooking Helvetia, and most of the Boer guns retreated towards ...

    Article : 144 words
  3. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received September 3, 12.56 a.m.]

    Made their escape during the journey and have rejoined the British lines. Lieutenant Rundle, an Australian, was among them. Lord Roberts has burnt the farms of 30 Same British officers who were being transferred to Barberton by the Boers ...

    Article : 99 words
  4. [Received September 3, 12.56 a.m.] [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] THE CHINESE CRISIS.

    The barricades which were constructed by the foreign legations in Pekin are described as a wonderful sight on account of the novel and brilliant features. ...

    Article : 231 words
  5. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] [Received September 3, 12.56 a.m.] THE QUEEN.

    Her Majesty the Queen is now visiting Balmoral. ...

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  6. OUR SOLDIERS.

    I wrote last from Pretoria, where we were waiting for stores for the 4th Mountted Infantry Corps. When they came up we rejoined our companies, and have since ...

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  7. VICTORIA

    An elderly single man, Sydney Black, fell from a tram on which he was riding up Lonsdale-street on Saturday afternoon, and died four hours later. ...

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  8. THE LATE SIR SAUL SAMUEL.

    The funeral of the late Sir Saul Samuel Bart., took place at Golder's Green Jewish Cemetery, Finchley, Middlesex, yesterday. The chief mourners were Captain H. ...

    Article : 109 words
  9. ADELAIDE NURSES.

    Nurse Watts, in a letter dated Bloemfontein, July 16, writes thus to Lady Brown:— "Nurse-O'Shanahan is much better, and ...

    Article : 493 words
  10. THE EXPORT TRADE.

    Produce to the approximate value of £22,400 was exported last week through the Government cool storage depot to London. The principal shipments were 196 tons of ...

    Article : 41 words
  11. COUNT VON WALDERSEE.

    Brigadier-General Charles A. Cunningham, the British resident at Aden, has entertained Count Von Waldersee, the German generalissimo of the allied forces in ...

    Article : 189 words
  12. THE REVENUE.

    The revenue from July 1 till August 31 was £1,188,484, or £42,530 more than for the first two months of the previous financial year. For August alone the Treasury ...

    Article : 87 words
  13. CRICKET.

    Prince Ranjitsinhji, playing against Kent, scored 220 runs, this being his eleventh century for the season. This is a record. ...

    Article : 26 words
  14. ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE.

    A daring-outrage was attempted in a railway train on Friday night. A girl aged 14. who had been visiting her grandmother, entered a train at Boxhill to return to ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. ABEL'S ELEVENTH CENTURY.

    In the county match yesterday, Surrey versos Derbyshire, Robert Abel, the Surrey professional, scored 193. this being his eleventh century for the season. ...

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  16. UNION OF MUSICIANS.

    One hundred and fifty professional muskdans in Melbourne have decided to form a union. They intend to try and establish branches in the other colonies. ...

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  17. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of the famous agricultural chemist, Sir John Bennett Lawes. ...

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  18. THE CAPE VOLUNTEERS.

    It is reported that a commando of 1,500 Boers, with two guns, are now occupying Maquatting's Nek, in the Ladybrand district, and the British garrison at Ficksburg ...

    Article : 232 words
  19. TASMANIA.

    The revenue returns for August total £90,207, an increase as compared with the corresponding period of last year of £10,201. ...

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  20. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Mr. Bland Holt staged "How London Lives" at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night to a full house. "What Happened to Jones"' is having a successful run at the Palace, and Mr. Dampier's production. ...

    Article : 120 words
  21. SLAUGHTERING BOXERS.

    A letter written, by the Viceroy of Paoting-in, which has been intercepted, states that at the outset of the trouble in China, the Toatai of Thang-chau invited 2,000 ...

    Article : 220 words
  22. PLAGUE IN GLASGOW.

    In view of the risk of infection from plague, the New York authorities have decided to impose a quarantine of 12 days on all vessels arriving from Glasgow, the ...

    Article : 72 words
  23. BOATING FATALITY.

    A boating disaster happened in the harbor shortly after 5 o'clock this evening. An 18-footer sailing-boat, the Ruby, with 13 young men on board, capsized just inside ...

    Article : 499 words
  24. BURNHAM, THE SCOUT.

    Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and Burnham, the celebrated scout, especially sent for from the Yukon, Canada, by Lord Roberts, has had more wonderful ...

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  25. FRENCH WOOL FAILURES.

    It is announced that the total number of failures among the wool firms at Roubaix is 17, the total liabilities being upwards of 25,000,000 francs. The market has, ...

    Article : 61 words
  26. INTERCOLONIAL BASEBALL.

    The baseball match between Victoria and New South Wales resulted in a win for the visitors by an innings and two runs, the scores being—Victoria 8 innings, 11 ...

    Article : 39 words
  27. THE BRITISH ARTILLERY.

    Colonel Hoad, who returned from South Africa a week ago, invalided home, was entertained at a dinner on Saturday night by the officers of the Victorian Military ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. THE LATE KING HUMBERT.

    A solemn and impressive ceremony was enacted at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon in connection with the assassination of King Humbert of Italy. In addition to ...

    Article : 99 words
  29. GERMANY AND AMERICA,

    The New German-American cable, which has been laid between Emden, a seaport town in Prussia, and New York, was formally opened yesterday, when the ...

    Article : 46 words
  30. CORRESPONDENCE.

    "Enquirer."—Easter Sunday in 1901 wil fall on April 7. "Another Finders," Franklin Harbor, considers that both millers and shippers ...

    Article : 68 words
  31. WEST AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS.

    News by the mail states that the following general order was issued on the occasion of the death of Major Moore, of West Australia:—"By Major Moore's death ...

    Article : 92 words
  32. WITHDRAWAL FROM PEKIN.

    The Russian Government have orally informed the United States Government that the relief of the Legations at Pekin terminates the mission of the allied forces, and ...

    Article : 363 words
  33. MOUNT ARROWSMITH TRAGEDY.

    The first attempt having failed to recover the body of John Largan, lost on Mount Arrowsmith on Saturday, August 18, another party left Queenstown last Tuesday. ...

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  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Foster Barham has been appointed engineer of the Brisbane waterworks. ...

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  35. AUSTRALIAN NATIVES' ASSOCIATION.

    Sir—In reference to the paragraph appearing in "The Advertise" of August 27, taken from the "Medical Gazette," stati[?] that the Australian N[?]tives' Association in ...

    Article : 174 words
  36. BRITISH PRISONERS.

    Colonel R. G. Kekewich's forces, according to latest advices from the front, are now hastening north words from Kimberley, and the Lancashire Regiment is ...

    Article : 84 words
  37. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The revenue for August was £242,833, an increase of £6,560, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The total amount of money sent out of ...

    Article : 160 words
  38. SILVER.

    Silver is now quoted at 2/4 7-16d. per oz. ...

    Article : 13 words
  39. FINANCIAL NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 words
  40. THE MAFEKING TORNADO.

    Lieutenant Colonel E. C. Bethune is reported to nave occupied Vrede, 200 miles north of Bloemfontein, and to have captured lares quantities of ammunition, together ...

    Article : 163 words
  41. COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    Frozen Meat.—Quotations for frozen meat are as follows:—New Zealand sheep —Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes (55 to 65 Ib.)—Canterbury, 3[?]d.; Dunedin ...

    Article : 231 words
  42. BROKEN HILL

    The inquest on the body of John McKay, who was fatally injured at Block 11 on Tuesday morning was concluded on Saturday. A verdict of accidental death was ...

    Article : 76 words
  43. TELEGRAPH OFFICIALS DISMISSED.

    As the outcome of a protracted secretlyconducted enquiry into alleged breaches of trust by employes, of the Telegraph Department at Kalgoorlie, it is announced ...

    Article : 76 words
  44. AMBULANCE LECTURES.

    Sir—The letter of "The Advertiser's London correspondent with reference in first-aid instruction to railway employes should be considered by the St. Johan Am. ...

    Article : 214 words
  45. THE GOLD YIELD.

    The gold yield for August is 131,485 oz. The total production for the eight expired months of this year is 1,003,390 oz. ...

    Article : 25 words
  46. RUSSIANS WITHDRAWING.

    M. de Giers, the Russian Minister at Pekin, and General Lenevich, who is in command of the Russian troops in China, have been instructed by their Government, that, local circumstances permitting, all Russians in the Chinese capital should be withdrawn to Tientsin pending the appointment of plenipotentiaries. ...

    Article : 175 words
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