WEATHER IN PERTH.— The following were the shade temperatures registered at the Observatory yesterday : Max., 82.6deg. min., 60.8deg. ...
Article : 3,165 wordsIn the German Reichstag yesterday, Prince Hohenlohe, the German Chancellor, refused to repeal the arbitrary powers vested in the ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the enquiry into the death of the lad Thos. Bush, at Goose Hill, the jury's verdict was that Bush died from convulsions, but, owing to the absence of ...
Article : 105 wordsAccording to latest accounts received from the British army in the Free State, General Cronje had been surrounded for three days. His army ...
Article : 84 wordsGeneral Buller has succeeded in getting his heavy guns across the Tugela. The blue jackets, with their naval ...
Article : 48 wordsThe bombardment of Cronje's position, in which fifty British guns were employed, and which extended over Monday and Tuesday, added ...
Article : 88 wordsColonel Plumer, of the Rhodesian Field Force, made a night attack upon the Boer position at Crocodile Pools, on the railway north of ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Kingsmill, M.L.A., arrived by the Yaralla on Wednesday, and left to-day overland, on a visit to the Phillips River gold mining district. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Times, referring to the recent decision of the Privy Council in the Midland Railway Company's appeal case, expresses the hope that now that ...
Article : 62 wordsThe London Daily News publishes, this morning, from the pen of one of its war correspondents at the front, a graphicaccount of the pursuit of Cronje, ...
Article : 259 wordsMr. Rutter Clarke, of Adelaide, has contributed £100 to the Indian Famine Fund. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe management committee of the Goldfields Licensed Victuallers' Association met last night, and decided to oppose the majority of the applications ...
Article : 76 wordsIn the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord Salisbury was interrogated as to whether Her Majesty's Government had entered into an engagement ...
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Family Notices : 29 wordsWhen questioned on the subject of the message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding Western Australia and Federation, Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsPig-iron.—Pig-iron is quoted at 67s. 3d. per ton. Spelter : Spelter is quoted at £21 15s. Tin.—Tin is quoted at £144 0s. 10d. ...
Article : 168 wordsPrivate S. E. Atchinson, of the New South Wales Infantry, was killed at Arundel last week. He was struck with a fragment of a ...
Article : 41 wordsIn March last year a prospector named John Dobbie was murdered by natives at Mt. Broome, 140 miles from Derby. Dobbie was what is called a "hatter" in that ...
Article : 143 wordsThe death is announced of Quarter master Sergeant Bishop, of the first West Australian Contingent. Bishop died at De Aar, from ...
Article : 164 wordsThe intelligence received in London early this morning that General Cronje's retreating army had been surrounded at Koodoos Rand has ...
Article : 113 wordsIn response to the alternatives submitted to General Cronje by Lord Kitchener either to fight or surrender unconditionally, the former promptly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsThe War Office is in receipt of a despatch, dated Paardeberg, February 21, from Lord Roberts. In this despatch reference is made ...
Article : 154 wordsEarly this morning a four-roomed wood and iron dwelling at South Broken Hill was totally destroyed by fire, and the occupants, Patrick Walsh and his ...
Article : 153 wordsThe trying weather which has been experienced for some time past culminated on Monday evening in a thunderstorm, accompanied by almost a gale of wind. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,514 wordsLord Roberts has paid a warm tribute to the Canadian troops for the heroism they displayed in charging a Boer laager. ...
Article : 53 wordsAmy Spain, who was charged with shooting John Thomas Beaver with intent to murder, on February 10, was brought before Mr. Maitland, P.M., in ...
Article : 112 wordsFurther particulars have been received of the fighting at Koodoos Rand. It appears that the British force, ...
Article : 326 wordsCommandant D[?] Toit acknowledges that his commando, which had formed portion of the force investing Kimberley, retreated northwards towards ...
Article : 106 wordsThe funeral of Mr. J. C. Scandrett, the town clerk of Kalgoorlie, who succumbed yesterday to wounds self-inflicted with a revolver, took place this ...
Article : 116 wordsThe fifty prisoners who were taken by Lord Roberts on Tuesday are, it is stated, a portion of Botha's commando that was lately opposed to ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 24 Feb 1900, Page 5
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