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Advertising : 272 wordsThe Naval Committee of the French Chamber of Daputies has adopted the bill of M. Lockroy, providing for the expenditure of [?] millions to increse the ...
Article : 54 wordsSeveral of the war correspondents of English newspapers with General Buller's force assert that the Boers have abandoned the southern bank of the Tugela ...
Article : 69 wordsColonel Baden-Powell, the defender of Mafeking, is the Sherlock Holmes of the British Army, for no one has employed the methods of the great detective of fiction to ...
Article : 701 wordsThe response to the call for volunteers for South Africa has been most enthusiastic. More men than were wanted came forward. The Defence Department is allowing the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsTHE post and telegraph offices will be closed on Monday (Christmas Day), but will be open as usual on Boxing Day. The telephone will be open all the time. The MINER will ...
Article : 283 wordsThe object of this fund is to relieve the sick and wounded in the field, to provide for the wants of the families of the men who are fighting our fight, and to provide also for the ...
Article : 142 words[?]i Hung Chang has been appointed Vioeroy of the province of Kwang Tung, in Manchuria. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsIt has transpired that the Boers have recently received 150,000 rifles from Europe, landed via Delagoa Bay. The British Government has ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following is the revised list of the British casualties at the battle of Tugela River last Friday:— Killed...... 148 ...
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Advertising : 229 wordsColonel Sir Francis Wingate, who has been serving under Lord Kitchener throughout the Soudan campaign, has been appointed to act as Sirdar of the ...
Article : 40 wordsIn view of the intelligence that a considerable number of our wounded were left in the hospital at Dundee, and of the anxiety which has been expressed in some quarters ...
Article : 711 wordsThe steamer Duke of Westminster, from Australia, arrived early in the week at Aden, on fire. A great quantity of goods in the to [?] ...
Article : 59 wordsThe friends of Sir William Butler, who was relieved of his command in Cape Colony by the War Office, declare that Sir William had fully advised the ...
Article : 124 wordsHE[?] are some figures that would make Sancho Pan[?]a's eyes glisten and his month water. They give some idea of what Broken Hill is going to eat for ...
Article : 269 wordsIt is thought that Lord Methuen at Modder River is contemplating another advance shortly. Each night lately he has exchanged messages by a system of ...
Article : 48 wordsSpeaking recently in England, and referring to Mr. Gladstone's surrender after Majuba, Lord Roseberry said:—"Now, gentlemen, I venture to think that there has ...
Article : 441 wordsBoth Houses sat yesterday. ...
Article : 9 words"PEACE on earth, goodwill toward men!" And then we turn to the war news. How can we square precept and practice, the wish and the deed? Of ...
Article : 845 wordsIn the Council. Mr. Mackay moved that the second reading of the Stamp-Duties Act Amendment Bill stand as an order of the day for the next ...
Article : 202 wordsAn officer of Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen's force at Modder River went forward into the Boer lines during the week, protected by a flag of truce, and ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Queen gave her patronage to a concert held in the Albert Hall last night, under the auspices of the Empire League, in aid of the relief fund for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 wordsGeneral Lord Kitchener, Lord Roberts' chief-of-staff, arrived at Cairo yesterday, and is now on the water. He performed the journey by rail from ...
Article : 75 wordsAn official inquiry has been held into the wreck of the British transport Ismore, which went ashore at St. Helena Bay while conveying Hussars ...
Article : 51 wordsTHE railway traffic for the present Christmas promises to be the heaviest for years. Last night's express was somewhat late in getting away, there being over 300 persons to be ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Assembly, Mr. Wise, in reply to M[?] Lees, said the Government would in [?]dy entertain the question as to the advisables [?]ss of distributing ...
Article : 441 wordsSir,—Kindly allow me to correct a wrong impression which has got abroad re the vote of the Caledonian Society to the wives and families of the Highland Brigade killed and ...
Article : 249 wordsIT is not so many years ago that the buckboard buggy and the bollock waggon were the most fashionable conveyances about Broken Hill. No one who has been in the ...
Article : 479 wordsMr. Herbert Gladstone, M.P., who is the chief whip of the Liberal party, delivered an important announcement last night. He admitted that the ...
Article : 224 wordsThe corps of London volunteer marksmen promoted by the Lord Mayor will be ready to sail for the Cape in 21 days. ...
Article : 53 wordsA fearful accident occurred in the Ulster mine, Bendigo, yesterday. John Sherwood and George Shearer, both about 30 years of ago, were boring a hole, when an explosion ...
Article : 105 wordsSo as to hurry the British reinforcements to the seat of war, the British Government has chartered the P. and O. steamer Assaye (7240 tons), the Allan ...
Article : 85 wordsSir,—Since the commencement of the present war by the Boers against the British several traitorous letters have appeared in your columns; but surely that which is ...
Article : 1,019 wordsSalta[?]h, the little Cornish borough with whose surroundings the late General Sir W. Penn Symons was so intimately connected, has decided to promote a memorial to that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 wordsImmense quantities of shrapnel shells and cartridges are being manufactured to the order of the British War Office by the Nobel Explosives Company and ...
Article : 33 wordsA company of the Gibraltar garrison artillery has been ordered to South Africa. ...
Article : 22 wordsTHE weather to-day is beyond words. Last night's lowest record was 85½ degrees. This morning the north-westerly gale quickly had the town smothered in thick dust, and by 10 ...
Article : 95 wordsLord Roberts, the new Commanderin-Chief in South Africa, has issued a message to the Australian and Canadian troops engaged and intending to engage ...
Article : 91 wordsCaptain Charles James Reade, of Jamestown, has been selected to command the Mounted contingent, which is shortly to leave Sooth Australia The subalterns have ...
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Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), Sat 23 Dec 1899, Page 2
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