A Pullman train bound from Brighton came into collision during the fog yesterday with the Continental boat train from Newhaven, which was standing at ...
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Advertising : 94 wordsThe 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 wordsConstables 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsSince 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 ...
Article : 927 wordsThe Boers, it is declared, are running very short of ammunition for their longrange Creusot guns. ...
Article : 26 wordsCardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, has directed the Roman Catholic population of Great British to join with the members of other ...
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Article : 458 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in South Africa, took his departure from London yesterday for Southampton en ...
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Advertising : 62 wordsThe Foreign Office has issued a manifesto warning all British subjects and foreigners that if they are caught trading with either of the Boer republics ...
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Article : 60 wordsTHE 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 ...
Article : 823 wordsThe 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 wordsDr. 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 wordsAn 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 wordsHis 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 wordsBloemfontein, 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 wordsTO-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 wordsMr. 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 wordsFour 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 wordsMessrs. Burgoyne and Co., the Australian wine merchants, have presented 100 dozen of Tintara (S.A.) wine to the American hospital ship Maine. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThere 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 wordsThere 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 ...
Article : 50 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe British troops under Major-General French shelled the enemy's position near Naauwpoort, in northern Cape Colony, on the 19th instant. The ...
Article : 93 wordsAll classes are eagerly volunteering for service. The Imperial Yeomanry is especially gaining strength. Among the volunteers for this corps are the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 117 wordsA 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. ...
Article : 52 wordsOn 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 wordsThe Indian Government has decided to despatch to South Africa a British cavalry regiment and also 2000 native troops and a sufficiency of cavalry ...
Article : 38 wordsOwing 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 wordsTHE 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsAll the arrangements for the send-off of the troops are being expedited, and are well advanced. Patriotic offers are coming in from all parts ...
Article : 83 wordsThe 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 wordsOne hundred railway reservists and skilled line repairers at Crewe, the great railway depot in England, have been ordered to South Africa to join 130 ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. 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 wordsA message from Zeehan states that members of the local rifles corps and civilians are freely volunteering for service in South Africa. ...
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Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), Tue 26 Dec 1899, Page 2
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