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  2. THE WAR.

    LONDON, Friday Evening.--'"The Times" declares that Colonel Plumer's relieving force, after the engagement with Commandant Snyman, retired at night to Crocodile ...

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  3. THE PLAGUE.

    The appearance of two cases of plague in the centre of the city will not have a reassuring effect on those who fancied that the dry heat of the last few days, accompanied by the westerlies ...

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  4. SECOND EDITION.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Lord Roberta has reported that the country--at all events that immediately surrounding Bloemfontein--is becoming settled, and that ...

    Article : 57 words
  5. NEW ZEALAND ROUGH RIDERS

    LONDON, Saturday.--The transport Knight Templar has arrived at Capetown. The New Zealand Rough Riders, who were on board, will join Major-General Sir ...

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  6. THE LATEST PATIENTS.

    The plague abateth not. Two fresh cases were discovered yesterday. The first was that of a young man named Herbert Charles Hall, residing at 10 Maney-street, Balmain, and said to have ...

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  7. DEATH OF GENERAL WOODGATE.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Major- General Woodgate, who was wounded in action at Spion Kop, has succumbed to his injuries. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. IMPERIAL BUSHMEN.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 676 words
  9. THE BOER LEADERS.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Boer leaders, to keep the enthusiasm of their following giving way under the succession of ill-fortune which has been their lot of late, ...

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  10. MAFEKING.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, credits Captain Lord Edward Cecil with acting on his own responsibility, and having the ...

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  11. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE COUNCIL

    A conference took place on Saturday morning between the Premier, the Attorney-General, the Mayor of Sydney, the president of the Board of Health, the Under-Secretary for Works, and the ...

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  12. LORD KITCHENER.

    LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Lord Kitchener, having completed his successful operations against the rebels in north-western Cape Colony, has rejoined Lord Roberts ...

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  13. A BOER PRISONER SHOT.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--A sentry at Capetown has shot a Boer prisoner, who was attempting to escape. ...

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  14. ENCOURAGING THE BOERS.

    LONDON, Friday Evening.--Ex-President Stoyn, addressing the burghers at Kroonstad, declared up to the present the Boer losses numbered 800, while the British had ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. WAR NOTES.

    It seems that, after all, Mafeking has not been relieved. It has been the misfortune of Mafeking to have been associated with more plausible but fictitious reports than any other of the ...

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  16. A BROKEN SHAFT CASE.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The claim for salvage made by the owners of the steamer Asloun for towing the disabled steamer Walkato into Fremantle has been settled. ...

    Article : 143 words
  17. WITH METHUEN'S COLUMN.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The enemy, with four guns, are in possession of a ridge on the northern side of the Vaal River, facing Warrenton, which was occupied by Lord ...

    Article : 93 words
  18. THE FATE OF STEYN.

    LONDON, Saturday.--It is affirmed that a committee of burghers has been formed at Kroonstad which has assumed the authority of government and deposed Mr. Steyn. ...

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  19. THE WILY BOER.

    LONDON, Friday Evening.--The Free Staters who are surrendering are giving up many inferior weapons, under the impression that they can thus conceal the fact ...

    Article : 65 words
  20. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--In connection with the annual University boat race the Oxford crew has done a poor trial, and Cambridge is a strong favorite. ...

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  21. PATRIOTIC FUND.

    An outdoor collection by the ladies of Petersham in aid of the Patriotic Fund on Saturday last realised a sum of £70. Tho ladies, who wore handsome white badges, with gold ...

    Article : 146 words
  22. AT FOURTEEN STREAMS.

    LONDON, Friday Evening.--A reconnaissance by Colonel Peaktaan's column at Fourteen Streams on the 21st, resulted in an artillery duel, which lasted all the ...

    Article : 44 words
  23. THE "LEG-BEFORE" RULE.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Marylebone Cricket Club is unable to alter the "leg-before-wicket" rule for the 1900 season. ...

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  24. JOUBERT AT KROONSTAD.

    LONDON, Saturday.--General Joubert is in supreme command at Kroonstad, where the Boors, are massing and constructing entrenchments. ...

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  25. MISS LALLA MIRANDA.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Miss Lalla Miranda, the Victorian vocalist, has been engaged to appear at Covent Garden Theatre. ...

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  26. OVER-DARING OFFICERS.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Lord Roberts reports that four officers rode, unescorted except by a single trooper, eight miles beyond the camp at Modder River on the 23rd ...

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  27. CONCERT AT NEWTOWN.

    A patriotic concert and demonstration, under the patronage of the Premier, members of the Ministry, and the Mayors and aldermen of Newtown, Camperdown, Erskineville, and St. Peters ...

    Article : 100 words
  28. BOERS NEAR FAURESMITH.

    LONDON, Saturday.--A commando of 500 Boers is entrenched near Fauresmith, in the Free State, to the south-west of Bloemfontein. ...

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  29. COLLAPSE OF A PUBLISHING FIRM.

    LONDON, Saturday.--Messrs. D. Appleton and Co., publishers, of New York and London, have failed. The firm's liabilities are estimated at over 1,000,000 dollars (roughly £250,000). ...

    Article : 31 words
  30. A NIGHT WITH THE BOERS.

    ARUNDEL, February 17.--Captain Longhurst. R.A.M.C., spent a night with the Boers at Hobkirk's farm, looking after the wounded Australians. He says that the enemy ...

    Article : 295 words
  31. THE INFECTED AREA.

    Under the authority of the Board of Health, represented by Dr. Ashburton Thompson and Chief-Inspector Getting, a house-to-house inspection of buildings within the infected area was ...

    Article : 513 words
  32. NEWS FROM NATAL.

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Many arrests have been made, and trials of suspected rebels held at Ladysmith. ...

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  33. WAVERLEY PATRIOTISM.

    The Waverley branch of the Patriotic Fund win commence their local efforts By holding a popular concert at Waverley-hall on Wednesday night. A big array of artistic support has been promised, ...

    Article : 89 words
  34. A SIGNIFICANT STEP.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Boers in Natal have sent their women and children to the Transvaal, and deserters report that they intend to retreat with their gnus and stores ...

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  35. THE LATE LIEUT. LYGON.

    The Governor yesterday received the sad intelligence of his brother's death. In consequence of this event, all his Excellency's engagements have for the present been cancelled. ...

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  36. THE ATCHISON MEMORIAL.

    Subscriptions are coming in liberally at Epping towards the erection of a memorial tablet in the local Presbyterian Church in relation to the late Private Atchison, who met his death in action at ...

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  37. A SERIOUS ILLNESS.

    A cable bas been received from Sir Alfred Milner, dated Capetown, March 24, as follows:--"Regret to report the serious illness of P. J. Howe, R.A. [?]., from enteric fever, at the Orange River." ...

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  38. PREPARATIONS AT PRETORIA

    LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--At Pretoria elaborate preparations are being made to sustain a two years' siege. It is reported that the women at the ...

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  39. A PREMATURE DEMONSTRATION

    ALBURY, Sunday.--Loyal residents in the town and district celebrated the relief of Mafeking, which led to an extraordinary contretemps in consequence of the delay in the receipt of the ...

    Article : 362 words
  40. A MONUMENT TO COLONIAL SOLDIERS.

    The London "Spectator," writing apropos of recent events in the progress of the war, says:--"We desire to touch on a point which wo wish to develop further and in more detail at a later ...

    Article : 328 words
  41. OFFICERS' WAR FUND.

    LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The executive of the fund being raised in England to provide for the wives and families of Imperial officers who may fall in the South ...

    Article : 98 words
  42. NEWS FROM BASUTOLAND.

    LONDON, Friday Evening.--A heliograph message from Maseru has been received by Lieutenant-General French, who is at Thaba Nehu, stating that 4000 Colesberg ...

    Article : 76 words
  43. COMFORTS FOR THE SOLDIERS.

    Madame Fiaschi yesterday forwarded another cheque to Mr. C. Beresford Cairnes, hon. treasurer of the fund for providing fruit for the troops at the front, covering the following ...

    Article : 313 words
  44. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    LONDON, Saturday.--The following deaths from enteric fever are reported:--Trooper H. Budd, New South Wales Mounted Infantry, at Naauwpoort; Trooper T. ...

    Article : 53 words
  45. THE AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT

    LONDON, Saturday.--The section of the Australian Regiment which has been attached to Major-General Clement's command at Nerval's Pont is starting for ...

    Article : 40 words
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