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  2. AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT

    Our section of the Australian contingent will leave Woolloomooloo Bay at 4 o'clock to-day for South Africa. Last night there was a practical certainty that the Surrey would not be quite ...

    Article : 489 words
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    Advertising : 43 words
  4. PREPARATIONS ON THE TRANSPORTS.

    There was much bustle and excitement throughout yesterday and last night at the three wharves at which the New South Wales transports are berthed. The Surrey, being in Woolloomooloo Bay ...

    Article : 324 words
  5. THE LAST DAY IN CAMP.

    Yesterday saw a clearing out at the Agricultural Ground camp. All heavy baggage was put aboard the troopships, and in the afternoon the horses of the mounted infantry section were led ...

    Article : 729 words
  6. THE MEN GOING TO THE FRONT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,421 words
  7. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--This morning the contingent struck camp at an early hour, and left for Marino, about 10 miles from the city, near Glencig, where they camp for several days, and ...

    Article : 84 words
  8. DENTAL ATTENTION.

    With reference paragraph in our issue of yesterday that contain dentists had offered to provide members of the contingent with dental examinations gratuitously, we are requested to ...

    Article : 83 words
  9. PROJECTED DATES OF ARRIVAL.

    Although every effort has been made, it is now round to be impossible to dispatch the steamer Surrey for South Africa to-day. The drawback appears to be cargo. The Surrey will, however, ...

    Article : 383 words
  10. FOR THE ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.

    Messrs. W. S. Park and Son, chemists, of Pitt-street, have forwarded to the Army Medical Corps a case containing 105lb. of the best absorbent cotton wool for use with the wounded soldiers ...

    Article : 42 words
  11. NEW ZEALAND

    WELLINGTON, Tuesday.--Lieutenant Harold Williams, of the Napier Guards, leaves for Cape town by the steamer Waiwera on Saturday, having won a commission in the Imperial army. He ...

    Article : 83 words
  12. COUNTRY PATRIOTISM.

    ARMIDALD, Tuesday.--Mr. F. W. Roberts, who has taken in hand the work of forming a squadron of Australian Horse in Armidale district, is securing numerous signatures to a petition, which will ...

    Article : 901 words
  13. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION.

    Miss Woolcott (hon. secretary of the North Sydney branch of the St. John Ambulance Association) has prepared and forwarded to South Africa by the steamer Moravian a large case ...

    Article : 138 words
  14. MEAT FOR THE TROOPS.

    There was an important little gathering yesterday afternoon at the Board for Exports office, Young-street, when sample tins of meat selected at random from a cargo being forwarded to the ...

    Article : 333 words
  15. FAREWELLS TO VOLUNTEERS.

    The committee of the recent railway demonstration to railway and tramway men proceeding to the Transvaal entertained the latter at a little dinner at the Railway Institute. Mr. F. ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. THE EARL OF AVA.

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  17. NURSES FOR THE WAR.

    Miss Martin, of "Clarmont" Private Hospital, Darlinghurst, was a Sister of the principal Female Surgical A Yard at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and of the Operation Theatre. She also ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. SEND-OFF TO THE REV. FATHER PATRICK.

    At the Marrickville Town-hall last evening the Very Rev. Father Patrick, who is going as Roman Catholic chaplain with the contingent, was given a hearty farewell by the residents. The building ...

    Article : 212 words
  19. OFFICERS LEAVING FOR THE WAR.

    Captain Charles Godfrey Anderson, who goes as lieutenant with the Mounted Infantry unit, holds his commission in "B" battery of the New South Wales Field Artillery. He is a native of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 136 words
  20. COLONEL BELL ON THE WAR.

    Speaking last night at the Elite-hall, Queen Victoria Markets, on the occasion of a farewell tea given by Mr. and Mrs. Quong Tart to the nurses who leave to-day with the contingent for ...

    Article : 263 words
  21. MISS ANNIE GARDINER GARDEN.

    Before being attached to the nursing staff for service in South Africa, Miss Garden had ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 86 words
  22. CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

    The officers of the New South Wales Corps of Engineers met at the Hotel Australia yesterday afternoon to say farewell to their comrades who are proceeding as special service officers to South ...

    Article : 1,598 words
  23. MISS ANNIE JANE MATCHETT.

    The whole of Miss Matchett's training as a nurse was obtained in Prince Alfred Hospital. She was in this institution for four years, during which period she successfully passed the requisite ...

    Article : 80 words
  24. LIEUTENANT LAMB.

    Lieutenant Cecil waiter Lamb, who was selected from the Royal Australian Artillery to proceed to South Africa as a special service officer, has had a very long experience in the New ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 297 words
  25. LADY HARRIS' "AT HOME" TO THE NURSES.

    There rarely has teen so enthusiastic, so animated a gathering la the Mayoress' private reception-rooms as the one held there yesterday afternoon in honor of Miss Gould and her staff of ...

    Article : 491 words
  26. MISS ANNIE AUSTIN.

    Miss Annie Austin began her training as a nurse in the Sydney Hospital, in which institution she remained for eight years. She gained the usual, but necessary, certificates, and left for ...

    Article : 69 words
  27. SHIPPING THE HOUSES.

    The popular idea of how horses are taken on hoard a vessel is that the quadrupeds are attached to slings and hoisted on board through mid-air. That, however, is only done in the case of very ...

    Article : 517 words
  28. A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN COX.

    During the week, Mrs. C. F. Cox, who resides in Parramatta, received a letter from her husband, Captain Cox, of the Lancers, now with Major- General French in South Africa. Its ...

    Article : 219 words
  29. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--In response to a request made by Mr. J. Randal Carey, chairman of the Sydney Bushman's Corps committee, Sir Malcolm M'Eacharn. Mayor of Melbourne, has taken ...

    Article : 312 words
  30. DINNER PARTY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

    Last night his Excellently the Governor entertained the following officers of the second contingent and other guests at dinner at Government House:--The Chief Justice, Mr. John See ...

    Article : 157 words
  31. THE QUEENSLAND CONTINGENT.

    The transport Maori King, with the second Queensland contingent for South Africa aboard, arrived in Sydney Harbor at daybreak yesterday morning. She moored in Neutral Bay, where ...

    Article : 715 words
  32. THE NURSES ENTERTAINED

    Mr. and Mrs. Quong Tart last night entertained the band of nurses who are leaving with the contingent for the seat of war (with Miss Gould at their head) at a farewell tea at the Elite-hall, ...

    Article : 454 words
  33. IN THE COUNTRY.

    MOSSVALE, Tuesday.--The ladles of the district have dispatched to go by the Moravian, in charge of Nurse Gould, for the use of the wounded in the Transvaal, two cases containing nearly ...

    Article : 229 words
  34. WITH THE FRONTIER MOUNTED POLICE.

    ALBURY, Tuesday.--The following is an extract from, a letter from Gordon Fleming (of "A" squadron of Colonel Baden-Powell's Frontier Mounted Police):-- ...

    Article : 485 words
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