Jarvis has been omitted from the Australian Eleven team in the patriotic cricket match. The Rest of Australia team is:—Graham, Stackey, Saunders (Victoria), Mackenzie, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe British Government has decided to convert the port of Gaya, in British North Borneo, into a naval base, to counteract the effect of the French ...
Article : 49 wordsA rumor is current in the city that the Government has decided to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the management and conduct of the city police force. Mr. ...
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Advertising : 139 wordsWith reference to the abandoning of Spion Kop on Wednesday night last, it has been ascertained that Colonel Thorneycroft, who succeeded Colonel ...
Article : 152 wordsA laborer named Mortimer, working on the Federal wharf yesterday, was starting a gas engine when he became entangled in a wheel and was killed. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 259 wordsRussia has guaranteed a loan to Persia on the security of the Customs revenue, except that taken at Kars and in the Persian Gulf. Russia thus secures ...
Article : 38 wordsM. Waldeck-Rousseau, the French Premier, has reprimanded the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris and suspended the stipends of three bishops ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Russell's forecast for to-day is:—Fine warm weather, with some thunderstorms, chiefly on northern highlands and coast. Winds on the coast easterly. In the Western districts showery. ...
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Advertising : 81 wordsTHE appalling nature of the long drough that has lain, a veritable curse, on the back country is only brought home to the town dweller by figures showing the losses the ...
Article : 538 wordsThe Dowager Empress of China has directed the Tsung-li-Yamen and the viceroys of the provinces to forcibly resist any foreign aggression likely to ...
Article : 35 wordsIn response to Lord Roberts' inquiries Colonel Hoad, commanding the Australian Regiment, has offered to transform his five companies of infantry into ...
Article : 86 wordsThe French Cabinet has adopted a scheme of national defence costing a milliard and a half (1,500,000,000 francs). This embraces naval ...
Article : 89 wordsSince the outbreak of the plague at Noumea five Europeans and 40 blacks have expired from the disease. ...
Article : 24 wordsGENERAL BULLER is inclined to-day the blame for the British reverses in the war at the feet of certain officers who, more fighting men than strategists, adopt a ...
Article : 1,101 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Barrier Ranges Athletic League was held last night at Sayers' Crown Hotel, Mr. J. Souter in the chair. A letter was read from the secretary ...
Article : 313 wordsThe revenue of New South Wales for the month of January shows an increase on the corresponding month of last year of £122,957. The principal increases are:—Customs, ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Drury, the sculptor, has been elected an associate of the Royal Academy. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe War Office has notified that the British losses in the flanking movement at Spion Kop on Wednesday totalled 1397, including— ...
Article : 49 wordsDonald M'Donald, representing the Argus and other papers, is shut up in Ladysmith. Mr. M'Donald reached Ladysmith just in time to be present at the second attack by the ...
Article : 225 wordsJohn Sholto Douglas, the eighth Marquis of Queensberry, who has been twice married and twice divorced, is dead, aged 56 years. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Government has decided to offer 40 additional New South Wales Lancers for South Africa. If the men are accepted they will probably start on the 16th instant. ...
Article : 74 wordsAT the last session of the annual conference of the Political Labor League in Sydney, Mr. Brown, M.L.A., reported: Your committee having considered the questions ...
Article : 572 wordsBar silver (standard) is now quoted at 2s. 3¾d. per ounce. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, the Morning Post correspondent, states that the army in Natal has entire confidence in General Buller. It is exasperated by the recent ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the Legislative Council last night the Amending Factories Bill gave rise to a long discussion, but no material alteration was made and the bill passed through all its ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Patriotic Fund now totals £16,284, and the Bushmen's Contingent Fund, £25,672. MELBOURNE, Friday. The Mayor (Sir Malcolm M'Eacharn) will ...
Article : 46 wordsOur Sydney correspondent wires that in response to an influential petition the Australian Jockey Club has agreed to reopen the jockey Frank Fielder's case. ...
Article : 288 wordsVery little is doing in Westralia in connection with the Bushmen's Corps. ADELAIDE, Friday. The Bushmen's Fund now amounts to over ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Boers are reported to be still abusing the white flag. They, it is asserted, fired a volley upon Colonel Thorneycroft's brigade before he was ...
Article : 63 wordsThe MINER acknowledges £17 9s. 6d. towards the Patriotic Fund from the employees of the South mine. Details will be published later. ...
Article : 471 wordsBROKEN HILL'S patriotism is certainly more than skin deep. After the people had so handsomely patronised Wednesday night's concert, the promoters were hardly prepared ...
Article : 241 wordsThe cabman Clifford, charged with shooting at Miss Docker, daughter of Judge. Docker, has been committed for trial, bail being refused. ...
Article : 156 wordsA correspondent at Delagoa Bay reports that the Boers are sending huge quantities of timber and sandbags to dam the Klip River, so as to flood the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe New Zealand Government has decided to increase the volunteer force by 2000 men, while a large supply of rifles has been ordered. A field battery of artillery of six guns is also ...
Article : 73 wordsA body of 500 Australians and Canadians have had a smart fight at Badendorst and Rietrieker, on the western frontier. The colonials expelled ...
Article : 39 wordsA CONCERT was given in the South Broken Hill Baptist Church last night in aid of a resident who desires to undergo an operation to his eyes. There was a fair attendance. ...
Article : 200 wordsMr. G. A. Mills, J.P., is in receipt of the following letter from his son, posted from Enslin Camp:— December 6.—We left Cape Town last ...
Article : 1,289 wordsLord Roberts is at present busy maturing his plans for an invasion of the Orange Free State. He has assigned the colonials an important share ...
Article : 52 wordsTHE Caledonian Society has taken up very heartily a proposal to establish in Broken Hill a company of the 5th (Scottish Rifles) Regiment. Mr. J. P. Megaw, the secretary ...
Article : 110 wordsThe commercial Bank has declared its half-yearly dividend of 3 per cent. on preference shares. The profits were £65.351. A fire at Echuca yesterday destroyed ...
Article : 98 wordsDuring the debate in the House of Commons last night, Sir Michael Hicks-Beech, Chancellor of the Exchequer, indignantly denied the ...
Article : 87 wordsSIR,—As an ex-member of the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers and a hearty sympathiser with any movement to promote mental, moral, or physical culture, I beg to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsCyanide of potassium has proved so effectual in poisoning rabbits that the Government has made special arrangements to supply it at cost price to land owners, lessees, and others ...
Article : 36 wordsNEWS has been received from Geralton (W. A.) of the death on Sunday last of Mr. George Rowe, one of the Barrier's best-known pioneers and a most energetic worker in ...
Article : 208 wordsThe E. and A. Company's steamer Airlie, which went ashore on Chatham Reef, on the Queensland coast, has been refloated. The Commissioner of Police has received a ...
Article : 111 wordsAN inquiry was hold on Wednesday at Burungull before Mr. H. C. Swan, S.M., and a jury of six, touching the origin of the fire which proved so destructive on New Year's ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. W. P. Reeves, the New Zealand Agent-General, addressing the Leeds Chamber of Commerce said that the colonies resented the Continental taunts ...
Article : 46 wordsMRS. A. M. EATON, Hodges-street, Grahamstown, recently said: "Candidly, I have such faith in Chamberlain's Cough Remedy that I would not care to go to bed without knowing ...
Article : 196 wordsAT the conclusion of the Lancer March by the Central School Corps at the Patriotic Concert on Wednesday night, Mr. G. A. Mills, J.P., presented each of the youthful Amazons with ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament, referring to the naval preparations of other nations, expressed confidence that the Imperial Parliament ...
Article : 50 wordsJames Philson, a leading Auckland auctioneer, died suddenly yesterday. Speaking at a banquet given to Mr. J. G. Ward at Invercargill, the Premier said the ...
Article : 110 wordsA SPECIAL meeting of the local shareholders in the South mine will be held at the Freemasons' Hotel to-morrow evening, when the directors will be present. As considerable ...
Article : 92 wordsA fourth cavalry brigade will embark from England for South Africa immediately. ...
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