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Article : 60 wordsJohn Jacob Astor, the American millionaire, has donated the sum of £5000 towards the formation of a city battery. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsThe Boers, who were reported to have occupied the town, of Molteno in some force shortly after the formation by General Gat- acre of an entrenched position near ...
Article : 44 wordsAn unsuccessful sortie was made from Mafeking on December 24, the repulse being due to treachery, which prepared the Boers for the attack. An armoured train was sent ...
Article : 218 wordsLord Curzon. Governor-Genenal of India, reports a melancholy state of things in regard to the famine. No rain has fallen in the affected districts,. ...
Article : 74 wordsLord Edward Cecil, son of the Marquis of Salisbury, who was wounded in a recent engagement at Mafeking. Is reported to be getting well rapidly. His wound is Heating, and ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Premier received a message this afternoon that the Maori King, which he engaged for the transport of the Queensland troops to South Africa, was at Newcastle. The vessel ...
Article : 122 wordsLieutenant A. G. Adie, of the Queensland contingent who was wounded whilst patrolling at Sunnyside before the attack was commenced by the British, has so far recovered ...
Article : 59 wordsA shocking fatality occurred this afternoon, a boy of 4½ years, named Herbert Franklin, being killed by a steam tram motor. The injuries, from the effects of which the ...
Article : 248 wordsAt the Hunter's Hill Council-chamber last night a meeting of several prominent residents was held for the purpose of making arrangements. for giving a valedictory entertainment ...
Article : 116 wordsA mounted infantry regiment is being formed in Ireland to join the Yeomanry force now being raised by Lord Chesham for, service in Africa. ...
Article : 43 wordsIn the recent engagement at Rendsberg. In which the New South Wales Lancers, under Major Lee, participated, the dash and wiliness shown by them helped very considerably ...
Article : 54 wordsNews has been received from Remsberg of the capture of two lieutenants belonging to a British cavalry regiment, caused through mistaking Boers for New Zealanders, owing to ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Premier received a cable from the Imperial authorities to-day to the following effect:--"The War Office is very anxious that no small arms other than mark II. should ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Times" correspondent states that the Boers are using explosive bullets, and states, that they have been guilty of plundering the dead and grounded British soldiers. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Chief Secretary has received a cablegram from the Agent-General stating this Lieutenant Adie, who was dangerous wounded at Sunnyside, has been, pronounced ...
Article : 53 wordsOne of our second contingent holding the rank of captain spoke in an airy fashion to-day of the campaign into which he was about to plunge. According to his own account he ...
Article : 140 wordsTrouble has arisen among the natives of Swaziland, which forms part of the eastern territory of the Transvaal, lying north of Zululand, and in a direct line between ...
Article : 224 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match New South Wales v. South Australia was interfered with by the rain to-day. At 12 o'clock the umpires, C. Bannerman and Philip Arglli, after ...
Article : 127 wordsThe recent successes of British arms in Northern Cape Colony is relieving the strain of the position in that part very considerably. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe steamer Duke of Portland left London on December 15 with 446 immigrants for Queensland. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 wordsNew Caledonia.--Fine, but cloudy generally. South Australia.--Fine and clear throughout; Victoria and Straits.--Fine and clear to ...
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Advertising : 223 wordsThe Household Cavalry, the 12th Field Battery, and the 1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment have been despatched to temporarily reinforce the troops under Major-General ...
Article : 44 wordsSix men landed in a boat at Townsville today from the steamer Queen Christian, bound from Shanghai to Newcastle in ballast. They report that they left the vessel ashore on ...
Article : 101 wordsIt has now been ascertained that in the engagement at Colesberg on New Year's Day, when Major-General French defeated 4000 Boers, the enemy lost fifty men killed, while ...
Article : 43 wordsThe departure of the second Canadian contingent has been marked by a tremendous outburst of enthusiasm. At Montreal, there was an enormous demonstration. far ...
Article : 51 wordsSatisfactory news has been received of operations in Natal, where General Sir Redvers Buller, in command of the Ladysmith relief force, now occupies a position at ...
Article : 130 wordsThe recent British success, under Colonel Pllcher at Douglas has had a most salutary effect upon the disloyal Boers of Griqualand, in Northern Cape Colony. After the recent ...
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Advertising : 71 wordsOn the suggestion of the Central Board of Health the chief |Secretary has cabled to the Government of Bombay for 500 doses of the plague prophylactic, with instructions how to ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Government is gratified at the acceptance of 10 New South Wales nurses by the Imperial War Office. Miss Gould, formerly matron of Sydney Hospital, will, as we ...
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The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), Sat 6 Jan 1900, Page 6
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