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  2. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The House of Commons has agreed to the Address-in-Reply to the Speech from the Throne. Mr. Chamberlain, replying to a question, stated ...

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  3. NORTH SHORE RAILWAY WRECKERS.

    The North Shore railway line has been the scene of what appears to be a determined attempt at train-wrecking. On Friday evening, between 6 o'clock and 7, as a train from Milsan's ...

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  4. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Later particulars relative to the advance of the Ladysmith Relief Column, under General Sir Redvers H. Buller, show that the Boers expected ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--It is reported from North Cape Colony that a force of Boers shelled some New South Wales troops with a Vicker's-Maxim 11b. gun, near Cole's ...

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  6. MR. FEGAN AT TUMUT.

    TUMUT, Saturday.--Mr. J. L. Fegan, Minister for Mines, accompanied by Mr. D. C. M'Lachian, Under-Secretary, arrived here yesterday evening, and was entertained at dinner. Afterwards ...

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  7. COLONIALS IN ACTION.

    LONDON, Sunday.--On Friday fifty Australians and Tasmanians, under, Captain C. St. Clair Cameron, of the Tasmanian contingent (Evandale), made a reconnaissance near ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. LIEUTENANT NICHOLSON.

    Lieut. Charles Edward Nicholson, who has been selected to command the fourth troop of New South Wales Lancers, booked to leave for South Africa in the Australasian on Friday next, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. LOVE AND JEALOUSY.

    BROKEN-HILL, Saturday.--A sensation was caused in the southern end of Argent-street about 10.30 this morning by a shooting affair. In which John Thomas Bevan, postman, and Miss Amy ...

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  10. THE FRENCH STRATEGIST ON THE OBJECT OF THE WAR.

    Colonel Villebols Mareuil, who is General Jobert's chief of the staff, has written to a friend in London the following interesting and instructive letter, which has just been published:-- ...

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  11. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Imperial Government has decided to submit a supplementary army estimate covering an expenditure of £13,000,000, and providing for 120,000 ...

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  12. BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

    From the picturesque point of view, If not the patriotic, the departure of the Bush Brigade from Sydney should be the most effective "send-off" seen in Australia. The brigade, five hundred and ...

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  13. LADYSMITH SORTIE.

    LONDON, Sunday.--A Tugela Boer report, states that heavy firing was heard in the direction of Ladysmith on Wednesday night. It is thought that the garrison was ...

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  14. MURDER AT GRAFTON.

    GRAFTON, Sunday.--What is supposed to be a murder was reported this morning. A man named Young, while exercising his horse, found the body of a young man named Cyrus M'Farlane ...

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  15. BOERS RAID ZULULAND.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Boors have taken possession of the Inkandhla magistracy, in Zululand, directly south of the Vryheld district in the Transvaal. ...

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  16. LORD ROBERTS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Lord Roberts has arrived at General Methuen's base at Modder River. Major-General French, with a large force ...

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  17. GENERAL CLERY INVALIDED.

    LONDON, Saturday.--It Is officially announced that Lieut. General Sir C. F. Clery, who has been operating with General Buller's column In Natal, has been Invalided, ...

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  18. AN UNTENABLE POSITION.

    LONDON, Saturday:--The Boers report that General Buller's force has been so heavily shelled that he withdrew across the Tugela. ...

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  19. ATTACHES TO THE FRONT.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Reuter's correspondent at the Cape reports that a number of foreign military attaches, who have received permission to accompany the ...

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  20. THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--In connection with Major-General Hector Macdonald's unexpected withdrawal from his position at Koodoosberg it is now explained, that the ...

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  21. BOERS AS INFANTRY.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--A prisoner captured by the British In Natal states that so many of their horses have been killed that the Boers are forming infantry corps. ...

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  22. WHY NOT INDIAN NATIVE TROOPS?

    The employment of Indian native troops In South Africa was hinted at in our cable news from London on Saturday. The "Daily Mail," January 4, says that several ...

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  23. OFF TO THE WAR.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Mr. P. L. Rusell, of Car[?]gham (Vic.), has accepted a commission in the South Staffordshire Militia, and will presently proceed to the ...

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  24. PROPOSED HILLSTON RAILWAY

    HILLSTON, Friday.--The Railway Commissioners, Messrs. Oliver, Fehon, and Kirkcaldie, accompanied by Mr. John Harper, traffic manager, are visiting these districts on a tour of ...

    Article : 233 words
  25. THE BOERS' GUNS.

    LONDON, Sunday.--At a secret session of the Raad a memorandum was submitted. showing that the Boers had 230 modern guns prior to the outbreak of the war. ...

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  26. RELEASE OF A BRITISH OFFICER.

    LONDON, Sunday.-- President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has promised to release Lieut.-Colonel H. A. Eager, of the Royal Irish Rifles, who was wounded at the battle ...

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  27. NOTES ON THE SITUATION.

    "Great events are on the gale, and each hour brings a varying tale." The peerless old Knight of Abbotsford used those words when referring to the excited state of border feeling just ...

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  28. RESCUE AT SEA.

    A timely rescue at sea was effected by Captain Winthrop Ellis, of the E. and A. Company's steamer Eastern, while on a recent voyage from Hongkong. The Eastern was heading for ...

    Article : 88 words
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