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  2. RAILWAY DISASTERS.

    A Pullman train bound from Brighton came into collision during the fog yesterday with the Continental boat train from Newhaven, which was standing at ...

    Article : 108 words
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  4. THE BOER WAR. A RUSH OF VOLUNTEERS.

    The Boers used smokeless powder in the battle of Tugela River, and this, it is alleged, largely contributed to General Buller's reverse. It was impossible, ...

    Article : 463 words
  5. FAREWELLING VOLUNTEERS.

    Constables Fraser, Gribben, and O'Neill, who have volunteered for service in South Africa, and who have been ordered to report themselves at head quarters in Sydney, were ...

    Article : 301 words
  6. A SORTIE FROM LADYSMITH.

    A portion of the British troops in Ladysmith made a sortie from the town on Monday last. The enemy was met, and a sharp engagement resulted. The ...

    Article : 41 words
  7. THE COLONIES AND THE EMPIRE.

    It is notified that Mr. Seddon, the New Zealand Premier, has accepted an offer from the Elswick Company to construct several Hotchkiss guns. ...

    Article : 103 words
  8. CHRISTMASTIDE.

    WHEN the wind rose on Saturday and brought the red sand billowing over Broken Hill people thought of Christmas and were gloomy. Especially so were the business ...

    Article : 614 words
  9. METEOROLOGICAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 words
  10. GREAT BUSH FIRES.

    Since Saturday bush fires have been raging in the Queenstown district. Throughout Sunday night the railway station was crowded with men and women who had fled ...

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  11. BOERS SHORT OF AMMUNITION.

    The Boers, it is declared, are running very short of ammunition for their longrange Creusot guns. ...

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  12. CATHOLIC PRAYERS FOR THE ARMY.

    Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, has directed the Roman Catholic population of Great British to join with the members of other ...

    Article : 40 words
  13. OBITUARY.

    The Duke of Westminster is dead, aged 74 years. Dwight Lyman Moody, the famous American evangelist, is dead, aged 62 ...

    Article : 27 words
  14. LOYALTY RUNS RIOT.

    A rumor recently circulated that some members of the German Club had made merry over the British reverses in South Africa, and had drunk success to the Boer ...

    Article : 458 words
  15. DEPARTURE OF LORD ROBERTS.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in South Africa, took his departure from London yesterday for Southampton en ...

    Article : 109 words
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  17. WARNING BY THE FOREIGN OFFICE.

    The Foreign Office has issued a manifesto warning all British subjects and foreigners that if they are caught trading with either of the Boer republics ...

    Article : 37 words
  18. GENERAL CABLE NEWS. [REUTER'S MESSAGES.] A Terrible Catastrophe.

    A terrible catastrophe is reported from Amalfi, a town in Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno, eight miles west of Salerno. An enormous rock, which ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. MOBILISING THE NAVY.

    The Spectator, reviewing the war, advocates the mobilising of the British Navy for purposes of protection, and the formation of a territorial army in Great ...

    Article : 60 words
  20. Barrier Miner.

    THE last, it seems, has not been heard of the decision of the South Australian Assembly not to raise the charges for carrying ore over the lines to the ...

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  21. AN APPRECIATION OF KITCHENER.

    The Khedive of Egypt has recorded his warm appreciation of General Lord Kitchener's services as Sirdar of the Egyptian army. He also expressed ...

    Article : 131 words
  22. INTERVIEW WITH DR. LEYDS.

    Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal agent in Europe, has stated in the coarse of an interview that the Boers will not accept mediation in the present conflict unless ...

    Article : 61 words
  23. In the Soudan.

    An Anglo-Egyptian force under Colonel Mahon has occnpied El Obeid, in the Soudan. The town, once a leading trading centre, was found to be a ...

    Article : 37 words
  24. The Holy Year.

    His Holiness the Pope inaugurated "The Holy Year" by an impressive service in St. Peter's Cathedral, in Rome, yesterday. The service lasted three ...

    Article : 64 words
  25. THE FREE STATE CAPITAL.

    Bloemfontein, the present capital of the Orange Free State, is said to be indefensible, and the capital is, therefore, likely to be transferred to Winberg, ...

    Article : 40 words
  26. AMUSEMENTS. The Wilson Forbes Dramatic Company.

    TO-NIGHT, at the Crystal Theatre, the Wilson Forbes Dramatic Company will present, for the first time in Broken Hill, the highly successful London drama, " The Up[?] ...

    Article : 213 words
  27. WINSTON CHURCHILL SAFE.

    Mr. Winston Churchill, the Morning Post war correspondent, who has been a prisoner in the hands of the Boers for some weeks, and who recently escaped ...

    Article : 47 words
  28. A LARRIKIN OUTRAGE.

    Four young men entered Ro[?]e's Family Hotel, Annandale, about noon yesterday and demanded liquor. The proprietor refused to supply it and was attacked. Two friends, ...

    Article : 132 words
  29. A PRESENT OF WINE.

    Messrs. Burgoyne and Co., the Australian wine merchants, have presented 100 dozen of Tintara (S.A.) wine to the American hospital ship Maine. ...

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  30. ACTION BY MELBOURNE TRADES HALL.

    The Melbourne Trades Hall Council has carried the following resolutions:—(1) "That this council institute a fund, to be called the Trades Hall Council Tommy Atkins ...

    Article : 104 words
  31. THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

    The Lord Mayor's corps of London volunteers has been increased to 1400 men, owing to the rash of applicants. Six hundred are mounted. ...

    Article : 152 words
  32. THE LATEST. BRITAIN'S LINE OF ADVANCE.

    The Times to-day says that no important movement of the British forces in South Africa will take place until there are transport reinforcements ...

    Article : 133 words
  33. HOW MANY BOERS ARE THERE?

    There is further evidence this morning that the Boers are in far greater strength in all directions than had been supposed. Before the war we were assured that the utmost ...

    Article : 338 words
  34. ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER.

    There are 20,000 Boers now encamped at Magersfontein, on the western frontier. Their trenches have been doubled. The enemy's front now covers a distance of ...

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  35. AN EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT BOURKE.

    A man named Richard Barlow, while cantering into Bourke through the bush yesterday, heard a child's screams. Looking round he noticed a kerosene tin exposed to the ...

    Article : 108 words
  36. Cornish Carol Concert.

    The Concord Society made a brave display in the Theatre last night, when a number of Cornish carols were sung. There were some 40 vocalists on the stage, and, under the baton ...

    Article : 221 words
  37. ACTION NEAR NAAUWPOORT.

    The British troops under Major-General French shelled the enemy's position near Naauwpoort, in northern Cape Colony, on the 19th instant. The ...

    Article : 93 words
  38. PEERS AS VOLUNTEERS.

    All classes are eagerly volunteering for service. The Imperial Yeomanry is especially gaining strength. Among the volunteers for this corps are the ...

    Article : 70 words
  39. [BY TELEGRAPH.] THE N. S. W. CONTINGENT.

    The contingent camp on the rifle range was quiet yesterday. One hundred country volunteers were put through a rifle test: 60 of the 100 averaged "outers," and were passed ...

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  40. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

    A man reported to be Peter Kemp's (the oarsman's brother) arrived at Brewarrina yesterday and stated to a friend that he had come to spend his last Christmas with him. ...

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  41. FEARFUL ATTACK UPON A WOMAN.

    On Saturday afternoon a woman named Williams left the Mount Kembla Hotel, Wollongong, in compnny with Thomas Carlton; and a little while afterwards some ...

    Article : 226 words
  42. REINFORCEMENTS FROM INDIA.

    The Indian Government has decided to despatch to South Africa a British cavalry regiment and also 2000 native troops and a sufficiency of cavalry ...

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  43. Bursting of an Air-Compressor.

    Owing to the bursting of an air-compressor at the Proprietary mine on Sunday afternoon, several workmen who had been making some adjustments to the machine had a remarkably ...

    Article : 217 words
  44. THE WEATHER.

    THE change which Sir Charles Todd promised on Friday was hardly recognisable when it came. Friday's heat record was 114 degrees; on Saturday it was mounting ...

    Article : 209 words
  45. THE IRRECONCILABLE OF ALMA.

    Mr. Ferguson, M.P., as already indicated in our telegrams, takes the stand that in view of the disasters in South Africa it is Australia's duty to help. Whilst he told the ...

    Article : 570 words
  46. THE QUEENSLAND CONTINGENT.

    All the arrangements for the send-off of the troops are being expedited, and are well advanced. Patriotic offers are coming in from all parts ...

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  47. THE REBELLION IN CAPE COLONY.

    The disloyalists in that part of Cape Colony north of Stormberg, on the East Loudon line, have risen in open rebellion. A number of loyalist farms have been ...

    Article : 93 words
  48. SKILLED RAILWAY MEN.

    One hundred railway reservists and skilled line repairers at Crewe, the great railway depot in England, have been ordered to South Africa to join 130 ...

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  49. "CONTRABAND OF WAR."

    Mr. Hay, a son of Colonel Hay, United States Secretary of State, who has been appointed United States consul at Pretoria, is making inquiries ...

    Article : 75 words
  50. VOLUNTEERING IN TASMANIA

    A message from Zeehan states that members of the local rifles corps and civilians are freely volunteering for service in South Africa. ...

    Article : 50 words
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