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  2. RUSSIA AND BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, stated that the Government had been informed of the increase ...

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  3. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--After the capture of Cingolo-hill on Sunday, General Sir Redvers Buller advanced with a considerable force, and drove the Boers out of ...

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  4. INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Her Majesty the Queen has donated £1000 to the Indian Famine Fund, opened by the Lord Mayor of London--Alderman A. J. Newton. ...

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  5. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The Italian police have of late displayed considerable activity throughout the State. In connection with the workings of the ...

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  6. SIR HENRY TATE.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The personalty of the late Sir Henry Tate has been sworn not to exceed £1,250,000. ...

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  7. CAPTAIN J. F. THOMAS.

    Captain James Francis Thomas, of Tenterfield, goes with the Bushmen's Contingent as captain of the "A" Squadron. He is the son of Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Herr F. O. Licht, of Magdeburg, in his monthly report on the beet sugar industry, states that the production shows an increase of 314,000 tons, and the ...

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  9. KELLY-KENNY'S CAPTURES.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Lieut.-General T. Kelly-Kenny, whose division--the Sixth--is pressing close upon the track of the retreating Boers, has now captured a ...

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  10. SIR EDMUND MONSON AT PARIS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Right Hon. Sir Edmund J. Monson, British Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in France, has returned to Paris from the Riviera. ...

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  11. ON THE ROAD TO LADYSMITH.

    THE CROSS INDICATES THE LOCALITY OF GENERAL BULLER'S PRESENT OPERATIONS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. NEWFOUNDLAND MINISTRY DEFEATED.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Newfoundland Ministry has been defeated, but the question of the modus vivendl with France in connection with the fisheries dispute will not be affected. ...

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  13. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The British Commander-in-Chief, Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, has issued a proclamation stating that President Steyn, and not the ...

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  14. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--In the appeal case, Bank of New Zealand v. Simpson, the appeal has been allowed, with costs. The case of Forman v. Llddesdale has been ...

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  15. MESSAGE TO LORD ROBERTS.

    The Lieutenant-Governor yesterday, at the request of the Premier, dispatched a cable message to Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief in Cape Colony, congratulating him on behalf of the ...

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  16. LIEUTENANT CORNWALL.

    Mr. Charles E. Cornwall is attached to the "A" squadron of the Bushmen's Contingent, with the rank of second lioutenant. He is a native of Dendon, County Cork, Ireland. He received his ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. EARL JERSEY ON THE COLONIES.

    At the Druids' Dinner, Oxford, on New Year's Day, Earl Jersey, once Governor of New South Wales, concluded an eloquent speech by saying:--"In the midst of gloom how brightly the loyalty ...

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  18. THE REBEL IRISH.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Owing to their public expressions of disloyalty to the Empire, the Imperial Government has omitted the Lord Mayor of Dublin and a ...

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  19. WAR NOTES.

    The hand of fate is resting heavily on the Victorians. Hardly had intelligence of the disaster at Rendsburg been realised than comes the news of an even more terrible slaughter near ...

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  20. SHELLING BOER TRENCHES

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The artillery attached to General Buller's advancing column having poured shrapnel and Lyddite into the Boer trenches from Indhlawe Mountain to ...

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  21. DISASTER TO VICTORIANS.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Further fighting is reported from North Cape Colony. A troop of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and a party of Victorians defended the ...

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  22. ANOTHER BRITISH SUCCESS

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Colonel Brabant's column, consisting of Cape Colony mounted volunteers, with oxen and mules, left Penhoek, in the Stormberg district, and crossed ...

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  23. LIEUTENANT ROUSE.

    Lieutenant Thomas Henry Rouse goes with the Bushmen's Contingent as first lieutenant and quartermaster. Since 1898 he has been second lieutenant and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  24. BOER POSITIONS CAPTURED

    LONDON, Tuesday.--In connection with General Buller's forward movement in Natal the latest reports to hand state that the Boer guns on Monte Cristo having been ...

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  25. THE "FORGOTTEN" WILTSHIRES.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Boers claim that they have taken prisoners 142 officers and men of the 2nd battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment, including 44 wounded. These are ...

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  26. LIEUTENANT LYNCH.

    Mr. Thomas Joseph Lynch goes with the Bushmen's Contingent as second lieutenant, attached to the "C" Squadron. He is a native of this ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  27. BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

    The Bush Brigade will leave for South Africa by the Atlantian on Wednesday next. It was originally intended that the members of the Bushmen's Contingent should leave ...

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  28. METHUEN AT KIMBERLEY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Lord Methuen has successfully traversed the Boers' late stronghold at Magersfontein, and arrived at Kimberley without opposition. ...

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  29. A REMARKABLE PROPHECY.

    In July, 1879, the late Sir Bartle Frere, who was High Commissioner in South Africa from April, 1877, to August, 1880, placed on record the following remarkable prophecy:--"Any attempt ...

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  30. THE FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 525 words
  31. THE RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Later reports front the seat of war show that the Boer position at Magersfontein was abandoned in a panic. ...

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  32. JACOBSDAL IS AMAZED.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The people of Jacobsdal were amazed that the victorious British did not loot the town, but, on the contrary, distributed army stores among ...

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  33. ON THE RIET RIVER.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The "Daily Mail's" correspondent, who was present on the occasion, alleges that a British convoy with 200 waggons on the Riet River was only ...

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  34. MUNIFICENT MR. RHODES.

    LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Mr. C. J. Rhodes, who has shared the perils and hardships of a four months' siege at Kimberley, is paying for the conveyance of the ...

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  35. PRETORIUS RELEASED.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Commandant Pretorious, who was wounded and captured by the British, and subsequently had a leg amputated, has been released at Arundel ...

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  36. ARE THE IRISH DISLOYAL?

    ALBURY, Tuesday.--Father O'Sullivan, the Roman Catholic priest of this parish, has entered upon a vigorous denunciation of the charges made against Roman Catholics of disloyalty in ...

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  37. BUSHMEN'S FUND.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The London subscriptions to the Bushmen's Contingent Fund amount to £11,500. The committee will cable £10,000 to the Sydney committee for ...

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  38. THE SOUTHERN CROSS AT CAPETOWN.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The transport Southern Cross, which left Sydney on January 17 with a section of the second New South Wales contingent aboard, has arrived at ...

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  39. IN THE FREE STATE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--It is unofficially stated by the War Office that Commandant Cronje and his force of retreating Boers have been surrounded. ...

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  40. DR. CONAN DOYLE AND KRUGER.

    The following story is told of Dr. Conan Doyle, the novelist:--On January 22 Alfred Austin, the poet laureate, and Dr. Conan Doyle were the guests of the Authors' Club. In response to a ...

    Article : 188 words
  41. A BUGLER BOY HONORED.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Queen has summoned Bugler Dunn and presented him with a bugle. The boy was wounded in the firing line at Colenso on December 15, and ...

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  42. RE-ORGANISING THE ARMY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Mr. George Wyndham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, replying in the House of Commons to a question by Mr. Geoffrey ...

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  43. ARRIVAL OF THE MAPLEMORE

    Although nearly 2000 tons smaller than the Atlantian, the Maplemore, the second transport sent down from the Cape for the Bushmon's contingent, is a fine stamp of steamer, and her ...

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  44. A CONGRATULATORY CABLE ACKNOWLEDGED.

    A cable message was received by the Premier yesterday morning from Mr, Chamberlain, in answer to the one of congratulation sent on Saturday after the relief of Kimberley. Mr. ...

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