SIR,—As an elector in the Metropo[?] Province, and as I have not been ab[?] attend any of the public meetings w[?] the candidates have addressed, I w[?] ...
Article : 601 wordsColonel Plumer has communicated with Mafeking from the north by means of pigeon post. He is endeavouring similarly to communicate ...
Article : 117 wordsThe House of Lords yesterday, by a majority of 45 to 42, negatived a resolution submitted by Lord Temple having reference to the report of ...
Article : 173 wordsMr. David Forrest's nomination was the only nomination received for the Ashburton seat in the Legislative Assembly. He was declared duly elected. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Dutch colonial friends of the Boers have raised £9,000 to provide comforts for the Boer prisoners. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Australian Federal Delegates had an interview yesterday with Mr. Chamberlain at the Colonial Office. It appears from what transpired ...
Article : 170 wordsGeneral Rundle's division, which, when last heard of, was pursuing the Boers north of Thabanchu, has been joined by General Brabant's column ...
Article : 35 wordsSome particulars have been published of the experiences of Troopers George Whittington and Milverton Ford, of the New South Wales ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Tangier left here on the morning of April 13 with 461 prime fat bullocks. Fully thirty horses are in training for the ensuing race meeting and good fields ...
Article : 188 wordsMiss Marie Boucicault's concert, promoted to provide comforts for the colonial contingents, was held last evening. ...
Article : 42 wordsPrivate Gazzard, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, was slightly wounded during the fighting at Brandfort. Private G. Bristowe, of the same ...
Article : 41 wordsThe May series of colonial wool sales in London was opened to-day. There was a brisk sale. Prices, however, declined from 7½ to 12½ per ...
Article : 200 wordsThe revival of W. G. Wills' historical drama, "A Royal Divorce," in the Theatre Royal last evening, after an interval of nearly 18 months since its ...
Article : 965 wordsMessrs. Elder, Smith, and Co. report having sold for shipment to Western Australia the following fat sheep :—100 Lincoln wethers, 30s. a head; 100 ...
Article : 55 wordsMiss Ada Crossley, the Australian vocalist, is engaged to sing at five great musical festivals during the year. ...
Article : 94 wordsIn response to Lord Roberts' request, many Imperial and Colonial officers are applying for appointments as District Commissioners in the ...
Article : 37 wordsWhile kangaroo hunting in that monotonous and somewhat dreary country abounding to the eastward of the Avon Valley, and at a spot from thirty-five to ...
Article : 816 wordsThe municipality of New York has decided to tender to the Boer peace delegates an official welcome. A resolution to this effect was carried with ...
Article : 80 wordsThe War Office has received the following despatch from Lord Roberts :— "The railway line between ...
Article : 104 wordsGeneral Buller's cavalry have been scouring the country in the north, and west of Natal. As a result of these operations the ...
Article : 74 wordsMt. Vesuvius is in eruption. One day last week four English-men, disregarding the warning of their guide, ventured too near the ...
Article : 53 wordsQuotations compare with those of a fortnight ago as under (the figures for the earlier period are given in parentheses) :—Bank of Australasia ...
Article : 66 wordsThe New Zealand troopship Maori has arrived at Beira. ...
Article : 1,081 wordsA Court-martial recently tried and sentenced to death Lieutenant Murchison for having murdered the war correspondent, Mr. Parslow, at ...
Article : 87 wordsThe bubonic plague has reappeared at Alexandria. ...
Article : 15 wordsA report from Bloemfontein states that a party of Boers from a farm house, where a white flag was flying, fired upon and wounded three Western ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Buller has reduced the death sentence passed upon one of his gunners for desertion to the enemy to imprisonment for life. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe bacteriological examination of the specimens taken from the glands of the children Green, at Coolgardie, and Grainger, at Golden Gate, were concluded ...
Article : 299 wordsThe result of the April operations at the Hill End mine was—Stone crushed, 770 tons for 641oz. 19dwt.; average yield per ton, 16dwt. 16gr.; estimated value of ...
Article : 299 wordsIn the Diverce Court, to-day, Walter Horace Ladyman was granted a decre[?]nisi for the dissolution of his marriage with Jane Ladyman on the ground of ...
Article : 83 wordsGeneral Hamilton is reported to have advanced north of Winburg for a distance of about ten miles. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe s.s. Moravian has sailed from Capetown for Australia with fifty invalided colonial soldiers on board. ...
Article : 24 wordsGeneral Hunter's Division, now operating north of the Vaal, and which is understood to be making its way to Mafeking, includes Colonel ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Transvaal Volksraad was opened last week. Laurel wreaths were placed on the chairs last occupied by the late ...
Article : 180 wordsYesterday afternoon a deputation from the municipal councils and residents of Helena Vale and Guildford waited on the Minister of Works in reference to the ...
Article : 407 wordsA good deal of mystery attaches to the movements of General French. All news as to this officer's whereabouts is being strictly withheld from ...
Article : 35 wordsGeneral Hutton, who was last heard of at the Vet River, has with his mounted division pushed on to Welgelegen. ...
Article : 67 wordsSeveral despatches from Lord Roberts and Colonel Kekewich, dealing with the defence of Kimberley, have been published. ...
Article : 107 wordsSir J. A. Co[?]kburn, the South Australian Agent-General, has been instructed by Mr. Holder to represent the views of the Government in favour of the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe death sentence recently passed at the Bathurst Circuit Court on Alfred Alladine Schnavol, who was convicted of the murder of his wife by shooting her at ...
Article : 47 wordsThe splendid behaviour of General Hutton's Mounted Canadians and Australians during the operations north of [?]loemfontein and Brandfort ...
Article : 65 wordsInformation has been received from Leougatha that a vessel in ballast, bound from Capetown to Newcastle, had gone ashore between—Cape ...
Article : 39 wordsNo more Boer prisoners will, it is announced, be sent to St. Helena. ...
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