THE adjourned meeting of the council was held last night. Present, all except Alderman Linnane and Alderman Gubbins; for the absence of the latter through illness ...
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Advertising : 200 wordsBrigadier-General Pole-Carew, in command of the Guards Brigade, has retired from Norvals Pont to Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 122 wordsEngland's contribution to the Australian Bushmen's Contingent Fund has been apportioned thus:—New South Wales, £3836; Victoria, £1932; Queensland, £2219; West ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Indian Government is now feeding nearly 5,000,000 famine-stricken natives. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. Roberts, M.P., has been promoted to be sergeant in the Australian-Imperial Contingent, Several other non-commissioned officers have been appointed, but no ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Khedive of Egypt will visit England in the summer and be entertained by the Queen at Windsor. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe members of the Scottish Rifle Corps have been sworn in as volunteers. They have decided to adopt the Gordon tartan for the regiment, and have elected Mr. M'Lachlan, ...
Article : 55 wordsBar silver (standard) has increased in price to 2s. 3 11-16d. per ounce. ...
Article : 20 wordsGeneral Sir William S. A. Lockhart, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India since 1898, in succession to Sir George White, is dead, aged 59 ...
Article : 63 wordsBugler's tour in aid of the Bushmen's Fund has now ended and accounts have been squared. The fund benefits to the extent of £2500. It is now proposed to sell the horse ...
Article : 45 wordsLord Methuen, on Friday, having left a force at Boshof, arrived at Warrenton, on the Vaal River, and prevented the Boors, who were massing ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. J. B. Ford, one of broken Hill's representatives now in camp at Kensington, writes to say that he has received notice that the commanding officer has approved of his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsThe inquest on the victims of the Balmain colliery disaster was opened to-day. There were touching scenes at the identification of the bodies. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe British officers held as prisoners at Pretoria have had their quarters transferred from the centre of the town to the Daspoort Ridge, on the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe British cavalry under Major-General French have advanced eastwards from Bloemfontein, and hold Thaba'nchu, towards the Basutoland ...
Article : 25 wordsThe suspicious case in the Adelaide Hospital has been declared by the hospital doctors to be a case of plague. The patient, J. R. Grubb, died in the institution on ...
Article : 252 wordsProbably a travelling commercial agent will accompany Mr. Copeland to England. The N. S. W. revenue from March 1 to date shows an increase of over £41,000 on ...
Article : 70 wordsTHE mill lost seven shifts last week owing to general repairs; consequently only 1639 tons crude sulphides were treated, which produced 514 tons concentrates and slimes of ...
Article : 188 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, the Morning Post correspondent, states that there are still 14,000 Boers, with 20 guns, at Biggarsberg, to the south-west of ...
Article : 34 wordsD[?]ters from the ranks of the Boers have taken a Maxim and a 9-pounder gun to the British camp at Belmont. Another 9-pounder has been taken to ...
Article : 73 wordsSoma of the Transvaalers on the western frontier wish to trck to Damaraland, the German possession on the west coast of Sooth Africa, but a Hottentot ...
Article : 42 wordsUNDER this bending The Times is continuing to publish a series of letters, which are of much value, as describing from the inside the actual situation of the Boots. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsA British warship has landed a number of men and guns at Walwich Bay, a coaling station on the west coast of Africa, as a precaution against acts of ...
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Advertising : 32 wordsIt is estimated that quite threefourths of the Free Staters who were under arms have returned to their farms. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe plant, which is working freely, had a satisfactory run for the week. The quantity of crude ore treated was 2041 tons, which returned 404 tons first concentrates, including ...
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Family Notices : 93 wordsDespite the statements made by the British Ministers and the rebuff which President Kruger received from Germany, the Transvaal Boers, it is said, still ...
Article : 46 wordsAT the conclusion of the business on the notice paper at last night's meeting the council went into committee to consider the water supply question. Mr. A. J. Hall was ...
Article : 197 wordsIn the Orange River districts many Transvaal Boers have been taken prisoners and thousands of rebels have surrendered to the British. ...
Article : 54 wordsA Boer commandant's notebook found at the Tugela River, in Natal, indicates that the Boer casualties between December 12 and January 14 numbers 1494. ...
Article : 57 wordsWE should not have guessed the new Agent-General at the first try; not even in the first 20 tries. Mr. Henry Copeland did not seem to be in the running ...
Article : 1,196 wordsNo, he ain't a dandy mite, Can't Jack! And he wasn't schooled to [?]ght, Cap'n Jack. ...
Article : 992 wordsColonel Plumer and his Rhodesian Horse had reached Pitsani, 29 miles north[?]est of Mafeking, on March 18 (last Tuesday). Since then Colonel ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. W. P. Schreiner, Premier of Cape Colony, has prohibited the holding of jubilant celebrations in the colony to mark the British successes in South ...
Article : 40 wordsThe plant, which is in thorough going order, did profitable work during the post two weeks, treating 4119 tons sulphide ore, yielding 589 tons first product, assaying 62 6 ...
Article : 305 wordsColonel Tom Price, in command of the second. Victorian Contingent, fell in a sluit the other day and broke a rib. He has now recovered. ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE half-yearly general meeting of the Journeymen Butchers' Association was held last night at the Trades Hall. Mr. F. Groth presided over a good attendance. ...
Article : 168 wordsIn the siege of Mafeking, desperate sapping has been done by the besiegers and desperate counter-sapping by the garrison. The Boers who had advanced ...
Article : 139 wordsWilliam Johnston, residing at Pyrmont, while jumping off an electric tram in motion yesterday, fed underneath the cars and had his hand cut off, besides sustaining internal ...
Article : 308 wordsThe recriminations between the Free State and the Transvaal Boer prisoners at Simons Town have compelled the British authorities to take precautions ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsLord Roberts has entrusted the army hospital at Bloemfontein, containing 500 beds, to Surgeon-Captain Fiaschi, of the New South Wales Array Medical Corps, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 wordsThe Transvaal Boers have gutted the towns of Taungs and Vryburg, on the western frontier, between the Vaal River and Mafeking. Some of the rebels ...
Article : 91 wordsMany complaints hare been made to Lord Roberts that bad boots have been issued to the soldiers on service in South Africa. ...
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