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  2. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Saturday.--With a view to reopening communication with the Orange Free State by means of Botha's Drift,- some 20 miles west of Norval's Pout, and about ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 551 words
  3. BRITAIN, GERMANY, AND PORTUGAL.

    LONDON, Sunday.--In view of the vexed question of the propriety of supplies and munitions of war for the Boers being forwarded through Delngoa Bay (Portuguese territory), a statement ...

    Article : 134 words
  4. SECOND EDITION.

    PERTH, Sunday.--The following account of the Battle of Tugela, as published in the "Eastern Province Herald," December if has come is hand per the steamer Stessfurt, leaving for Fremantle ...

    Article : 798 words
  5. BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

    The Bushmen's Contingent Executive Committee has asked the Government to allow the men volunteering for the contingent who have passed the preliminary examination to go into ...

    Article : 346 words
  6. FAMINE IN INDIA.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, reports that no rain has fallen in the drought-stricken districts, and that the prospects of the people there are consequently ...

    Article : 55 words
  7. WOUNDED OFFICERS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Major Lord Edward Cecil, son of the British Premier, who was reported wounded at Mafeking, is said to be progressing satisfactorily. ...

    Article : 176 words
  8. MAIL STEAMER SINKS.

    LONDON. Friday Afternoon.--The mail steamer Ibex yesterday struck the Black Rock, off the Isle of Guernsey. The vessel settled down slowly, and enabled ...

    Article : 63 words
  9. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Pool River Land and Mineral Company, .Limited, has declared a further dividend of 3 per cent. ...

    Article : 27 words
  10. "THE EYES OF THE ARMY."

    Only military experts probably have any adequate Idea of the value which a contingent, of. Australian buskmen would prove to the British forces in South Africa in their conflict with the ...

    Article : 380 words
  11. DEATH OF- A FAMOUS AERONAUT.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Mr. Henry Tracey Cox- well, the famous aeronaut, has died at the ago of 70. Mr. Coxwell was the grandson of a clergyman, ...

    Article : 192 words
  12. BRITISH VOLUNTEERS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Mr. Astor, the American millionaire, who recently became a -British citizen, has given £5000 towards the battery manned by the Hon. ...

    Article : 91 words
  13. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

    LONDON, "Sunday.--The "Board of' Trade returns for the United kingdom for the month of December show a decrease of £4,625,890 in the value of imports, and an increase of £1,060,081 ...

    Article : 54 words
  14. INTO THE ENEMY'S ARMS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Two British cavalry lieutenants were captured by the Boers at Rendsburg through mistaking some Boers for New Zealanders. ...

    Article : 29 words
  15. WASHAWAYS AT COBAR.

    COBAR, Saturday.--Yesterday afternoon two washaways occurred on the railway line past Meryula, and about four miles further on a thunderstorm passed over the district. In some ...

    Article : 372 words
  16. THE PLAGUE.

    NOUMEA, Sunday.--Four fresh cases of plague have occurred. The men affected were all employed on board a coasting steamer, and on arrival at Noumea were at once placed in the ...

    Article : 53 words
  17. BOERS PUSHED BACK.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Boors have evacuated Molteno, on which point General Gatacre is pressing. ...

    Article : 20 words
  18. NATAL. HEADQUARTERS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Natal headquarters at Chleveley is just now the scene of very busy preparations. British scouts are doing most effective work, affording great ...

    Article : 95 words
  19. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE LACHLAN.

    HAY, Saturday.--Messrs. A. and A. Tyson, of Corrong and Pevensey stations, have instructed their agent, Mr. Charles Hldgcock to remit a donation of £100 to tho fund now being raised to ...

    Article : 46 words
  20. TROUBLE IN SWAZILAND.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Queen-Regent of Swaziland has died. The late Chief's brother, Necoco, is terrorising the people, and freely massacring his ...

    Article : 86 words
  21. A STEAMER FOR NOUMEA.

    The first vessel to leave Sydney for Noumea since the outbreak of the plague was the French mail steamer Pacifique. She sailed on Saturday, and took the New Caledonian portion of the ...

    Article : 87 words
  22. AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT

    Mr. See (Minister for Defence) says that Mr. Fosbery, as Inspector-General of Police, has provided 200 of the horses for the contingent that will leave on January 17. They are all ...

    Article : 793 words
  23. SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The stage of Ladysmith is still being prosecuted with considerable vigor, although the efforts of the Boors to reduce the garrison continue unsuccessful. ...

    Article : 120 words
  24. PERSONAL.

    On Saturday evening last, at the local council-chambers, Alderman Fred. G. Thompson, Mayor of Hurstville, was presented by the ratepayers with an illuminated address and a purse of ...

    Article : 542 words
  25. CANADIAN LOYALTY.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--There was an enormous demonstration at Montreal in honor of the departure of the second Canadian contingent for the sent of war. ...

    Article : 31 words
  26. ANOTHER STEAMER SEIZED.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The steamer Ilerzog, of the German East African line, hound from Hamburg to Delagoa Bay, lias been seized near her destination, upon suspicion ...

    Article : 48 words
  27. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. PRESTON M. GOWING.

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  28. CAPE' COLONY REBELS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--All the prisoners taken by Colonel Pllclior at Sunnyside on New Year's Day were Cape Colony rebels. Colonel Filelior's success lias checked ...

    Article : 36 words
  29. GALLANT LITTLE MAFEKING

    LONDON, Saturday.--A week ago the Boers in the neighborhood of Mafeking reported that tho gallant little garrison under Colonel Baden-Powell made a daring ...

    Article : 367 words
  30. NOTES ON THE SITUATION.

    No great battles have been fought, lost, or won in South Africa during the past week. A few, perhaps material, and certainly exciting, little skirmishes have taken place. Major-General J. ...

    Article : 1,766 words
  31. GEN. FRENCH'S POSITION.

    LONDON, Friday Night.--The composite regiment of Household Cavalry Colonel Audley Dallas Neeld) have entrained at Capetown for the north. ...

    Article : 154 words
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