The Chief Secretary is in receipt of a cable from Colonel Ricardo, stating that 40 horses belonging to the first contingent have died. The military authorities have ...
Article : 422 wordsA specially appointed police board of inquiry recently sat in Newcastle for the purpose of investigating the charge against a police-constable of having publicly ...
Article : 122 wordsDr. Gething, of Port Adelaide, has received a post-card from Dr. Toll, who went to South Africa with the first contingent. It reads as follows:—" Enselin Camp, ...
Article : 147 wordsIncluded in the cargo which the Surrey will take is 384,000lb. of tinned meat for the troops and 12,500 sacks of flour for the troops in South Africa. ...
Article : 101 wordsBy the death of Colonel W, H.DickCunyngham, the army has lost a splendid soldier, and one of its most trusted officers, His career was already a distinguished ...
Article : 1,119 wordsThe South Brisbane Brigade received a call from Geddes Birts' Wharf late on Friday night stating that a fire had broken, out on the Maori King, in which vessel the ...
Article : 301 wordsTrooper Connell has been killed in South Africa. He was a shorthand teacher. His widowed mother lives at Paerate, South Auckland. ...
Article : 29 wordsA private letter which was received to-day from a lady in Maritzburg, South Africa, states that Major-General Yule, who brought the column from Dundee to ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following extracts have been made from a letter card dated, Orange River, 4th December, addressed to Detective Walsh by Sergeant Lessey, who was at the time ...
Article : 236 wordsIt has come to the knowledge of the Government that there is an intention on the part of a certain firm in Sydney to reship to a port at present undisclosed a ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Premier states that a man-of-war will be sent from the Cape to meet the Australian troopships about half-way. It has been represented, to Mr. Lyne that the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe following extracts are taken from a letter received from his brother, Mr. J. E. Ord, who is attached to the Cape Mounted Artillery, by Mr. D. B. Ord, Private ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Tasmanian contingent paraded this afternoon with the full strength of the defence force. There was a great gathering of spectators. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn ex-officer in the French army residing at Coromandel has received a letter from an old army comrade stating that if he will go to the seat of war he will be well ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. F. Clare, the local manager of the Adelaide S.S. Company, has been advised from the head office at Adelaide that the troopship Surrey would call At Albany for ...
Article : 37 wordsThe registration of volunteers for the bushmen contingent continues. The number on the roll is nearly 600, of whom 320 have received passes for the Randwick ...
Article : 755 wordsSIR,—It has been generally understood that all civil servants volunteering for service in South Africa should have the assistance of the Government in ...
Article : 552 wordsThe South Australian Register Shilling Patriotic Fund now amounts to £2,898. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe patriotic fund amounts to nearly £13,200, of which £5,328 has been contributed through the Courier. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt a meeting of the officials of the various cycling organisations to-day, it was decided to recommend to the cycling bodies the establishment of a cyclists' ...
Article : 59 wordsThe following printed proclamation, surmounted by the Royal Arms, has been, posted in conspicuous positions at Horsham:—" Proclamation to the loyal ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. Tom Stock, who went to South Africa from Casterton with the first contingent, has written an interesting letter from De Aar to his friends. He expresses ...
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Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Sat 20 Jan 1900, Page 19
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