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  2. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    There is nothing fresh to report regarding the plague. The ship Formosa, on which Epp[?]tein arrived in Adelaide, reached Kingston yesterday. All were well aboard, but as ...

    Article : 68 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 144 words
  4. ACCIDENT OR MURDER?

    The house of a farmer named Vince was destroyed by fire at Wycheproof yesterday, Mrs. Vince, the wife, perishing in the flames. The husband, on returning home from work ...

    Article : 182 words
  5. THE BOER WAR. ANXIETY ABOUT BULLER.

    No official news has been received from General Buller since the 11th instant, and profound anxiety is felt in consequence. The unofficial reports ...

    Article : 203 words
  6. A QUESTION OF UNIFORM IN WAR.

    The customs of war are based on custom and are to a great extent formulated by Vattel and other writers on International Law, by the American regulations issued in ...

    Article : 384 words
  7. OFFICIAL ACTION TAKEN.

    The Mayor (Alderman Dunstan) has received the following telegram from the Board of Health, Sydney, in response to a wire dispatched yesterday asking for instructions ...

    Article : 121 words
  8. METEOROLOGICAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 words
  9. AN EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.

    An extraordinary accident occurred at the refrigerating works of Bennett and Woolcocks, butchers, Collingwood, yesterday afternoon. The governing belt broke, and the ...

    Article : 126 words
  10. THE LATEST.

    Major-General French has shelled and wrecked the Colesberg road bridge, in order to embarass the retreat of the Boers. ...

    Article : 100 words
  11. LOCAL CONDITIONS.

    Sir,—The imminence of a great danger, if it menaces a community collectively, teaches the individualist as well as the most rabid socialist that interdependence must be an ...

    Article : 627 words
  12. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] New South Wales.

    Mr. J. L. Thompson, travelling instructor in agriculture to the Government, died yesterday. ...

    Article : 23 words
  13. South Australia.

    The disabled steamer Sonneburg was towed to the Port yesterday. The contract for repairing the broken shaft has been let to Mort's Dock Co., of Sydney. The work will at ...

    Article : 38 words
  14. AT DURBAN.

    Our special correspondent in Natal wrote on December 5:— Durban is almost deserted compared with what it was. When war seemed imminent ...

    Article : 259 words
  15. THE FEDERAL DELEGATION.

    The question of the Federal Delegation to England cropped up in the Assembly last night. The Premier explained that he had telegraphed to all the Premiers, asking ...

    Article : 168 words
  16. Advertising

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    Advertising : 32 words
  17. [BY TELEGRAPH.] DEPARTURE OF TROOPS. LEAVING SYDNEY TO-DAY.

    The Premier (Mr. Lyne), finding that the Queensland contingent by the Maori King would be unable to depart from Sydney before noon to-day, wired Mr. Philp ...

    Article : 143 words
  18. West Australia.

    Mr. Campbell, locomotive superintendent, has severed his connection with the West Australian railways. ...

    Article : 17 words
  19. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 47 words
  20. Tasmania.

    A number of navvies have been paid off by the Emu Bay Railway Company for refusing to work under 1s. per hour. Fully half the men, however, resumed work, and ...

    Article : 65 words
  21. Barrier Miner.

    IT is really becoming time in the name of that liberty which we prize so much —in the name of that liberty which makes us so justly proud of being ...

    Article : 1,204 words
  22. FIGHTING IN A DUSTSTORM.

    During a duststorm which enveloped Slingersfontein Camp, a position occupied by the British near Rensburg, the Boers shelled the British position. The ...

    Article : 68 words
  23. New Zealand.

    Another discovery of petroleum has been made near Kotuku. The oil is reported to be of splendid quality and the quantity is apparently unlimited. ...

    Article : 41 words
  24. THE RAILWAY TOWN POST-OFFICE.

    THE mind of Mr. Thomas, M.P., has been sorely exercised about the Railway Town post-office, whose erection has been so long deferred. Each delay, however, has only ...

    Article : 207 words
  25. VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT.

    The question of the purchase of the cyanide patent rights for use in Victoria cropped up on a motion for adjournment in the Assembly last night. The Minister for ...

    Article : 117 words
  26. THE WAR FUNDS.

    The Bushmen's Contingent Fund now amounts to £21,888 and the Patriotic Fund to £12,372. The members of the Adelaide Stock ...

    Article : 70 words
  27. THE WEATHER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 368 words
  28. RELIEF FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 349 words
  29. EXCITING CHASE AFTER REBELS.

    On the 12th instant (last Friday) 60 men of the New South Wales mounted force and 120 men of Rimington's Gorps of Guides drove a body of ...

    Article : 107 words
  30. THE BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

    Mr. Cameron, of Bairnsdale, has offered to find 40 men for the Bushmen's Corps and to provide £2000 towards the expenses of the corps. ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. [BY TELEGRAPH.] Dr. Napier's Accident; Hopes of Recovery.

    Dr. Leith Napier, who met with the accident yesterday, is still alive, and the doctors now say that unless unfavorable developments occur there are some hopes of ...

    Article : 43 words
  32. THE SADDLERY SCANDAL.

    A question was asked in the Assembly last night regarding the responsibility of supplying defective equipment to the Victorian second contingent. The Government promised ...

    Article : 65 words
  33. EFFECTS OF THE DROUGHT.

    FURTHER evidence concerning the disastrous effects of the drought in this district was forthcoming to-day (the Bourke correspondent of the S. M. Herald reported on ...

    Article : 404 words
  34. THE ST. GEORGE TRAGEDY.

    The coroner continued his inquiry to-day into the circumstances of the St. George tragedy, in which Mrs. Goward, her son, and daughter were killed. ...

    Article : 329 words
  35. Attacked by a Bull.

    Mrs. Hughes was attacked by a bull while seated under a tree at Camberwell yesterday, and was severely injured. ...

    Article : 26 words
  36. NEWS FROM MAFEKING.

    News has been received that Mafeking was still safe on January 6—on Saturday week. The Boer bombardment of the position had, however, been resumed. ...

    Article : 31 words
  37. DISLOYAL OFFICERS.

    The Warnambool council has decided to instantly dismiss any of its officers proved to be disloyal. ...

    Article : 21 words
  38. Killed on the Raliway.

    Patrick Callighan, employed on the W. A. railways, while shunting yesterday, was knocked down and killed. ...

    Article : 22 words
  39. A PRO-BOER M.P.

    The Warrnambool people are convening a meeting to protest against Mr. Murray's recent pro-Boer speech in Parliament. ...

    Article : 22 words
  40. WAR CORRESPONDENTS DEAD.

    Mr. Mitchell, the London Standard's war correspondent in Ladysmith, has died from typhoid. Mr. Ferrand, the Morning Post's ...

    Article : 36 words
  41. Oliver Bainbridge Shot.

    Oliver Bainbridge, the longhaired person so welt known in Australia, who is alleged to be walking round the world, while in the Otahuhu district, was shot by a revolver, the ...

    Article : 85 words
  42. LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.

    Captain M'Inerney, in command of the Victorian infantry, writes from Belmont, December 9, describing how they got there: —"At 5 in the evening it was decided to ...

    Article : 539 words
  43. CHESS NOTES.

    THE ladder tourney now in progress at the Barrier Chess Club's rooms (in which any player in an inferior class has the privilege of challenging to a match game an opponent in ...

    Article : 337 words
  44. MAJOR-GENERAL CARRINGTON TO THE FRONT.

    Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington has been ordered to leave England for South Africa at once. [Sir Frederick has had a great deal of South ...

    Article : 101 words
  45. A Boy's Arm Broken.

    A boy named Garfield, 10 years of age, was running behind a cab in Argent-street last night when he fell and broke his arm. The lad, who is a brother of Mrs. West, wife of ...

    Article : 57 words
  46. Fatal Termination of an Accident.

    John Gill Millar, 51, who had his ribs broken by a fall at the new mill, Proprietary mine, yesterday afternoon, died from his injuries in the Hospital at 7.45 last night. ...

    Article : 230 words
  47. A DOCTOR IN TROUBLE.

    An English doctor named Caldwell, who was commandeered by the Boers, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for attempting to desert. ...

    Article : 30 words
  48. MORE BUSH FIRES.

    Bush fires are rasing at Ararat, Benalla. Camperdown, Coleraine, Euroa, Geelong, and Gisborne. "Thompson's Almanack and Encyclopaedia," ...

    Article : 102 words
  49. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    On the guardship at Simons Town is one old Boer of 65. At Elands Laagte he shot five of the Highlanders dead, one after the other. At last one of them reached him as ...

    Article : 655 words
  50. THE LIVESTOCK MARKET.

    BAGOT, SHAKES, AND LEWIS, Limited, report having yarded 39 head of good quality cattle at their saleyards on Monday, 15th instant, at West Broken Hill, and disposed of ...

    Article : 130 words
  51. THE BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

    An influential meeting of Australians was held last night to form a committee to raise funds for the equipment of the proposed Bushmen's Contingent. Sir ...

    Article : 65 words
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