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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 272 words
  3. THE FRENCH FLEET.

    The 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 words
  4. THE BOER WAR. SPREAD OF THE CARE REBELLION.

    Several 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 words
  5. A MILITARY SHERLOCK HOLMES.

    Colonel 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 words
  6. VICTORIA'S RESPONSE TO THE CALL.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 86 words
  7. THE METAL MARKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
  8. THE HOLIDAYS.

    THE 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 words
  9. THE RELIEF FUND.

    The 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
  10. GENERAL CABLE NEWS. [REUTER'S MESSAGES.] Li Hung Chang.

    [?]i Hung Chang has been appointed Vioeroy of the province of Kwang Tung, in Manchuria. ...

    Article : 28 words
  11. METEOROLOGICAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 words
  12. BOER MUNITIONS OF WAR.

    It has transpired that the Boers have recently received 150,000 rifles from Europe, landed via Delagoa Bay. The British Government has ...

    Article : 69 words
  13. BATTLE OF TUGELA RIVER.

    The following is the revised list of the British casualties at the battle of Tugela River last Friday:— Killed...... 148 ...

    Article : 113 words
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    Advertising : 229 words
  15. The Egyptian Sirdarship.

    Colonel 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 words
  16. UNDER THE RED CROSS.

    In 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 words
  17. A Steamer Afire.

    The 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 words
  18. WHO IS TO BLAME?

    The 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 words
  19. BROKEN HILL'S CHRISTMAS CHEER.

    HE[?] 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 words
  20. SPEAKING WITH KIMBERLEY.

    It 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 words
  21. MR. GLADSTONE AND MAJUBA.

    Speaking 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 words
  22. THE PARLIAMENT.

    Both Houses sat yesterday. ...

    Article : 9 words
  23. Barrier Miner.

    "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 words
  24. THE COUNCIL.

    In 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 words
  25. BOERS AND THE FLAG OF TRUCE.

    An 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 words
  26. THE ENGLISH WAR RELIEF FUNDS.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 83 words
  27. THE BRITISH TROOPS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 words
  28. KITCHENER ON THE WATER.

    General 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 words
  29. THE TRANSPORT ISMORE WRECK.

    An 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 words
  30. CHRISTMAS TRAFFIC.

    THE 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 words
  31. THE ASSEMBLEY.

    In 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 words
  32. THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE.

    Sir,—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 words
  33. A BARRIER INDUSTRY.

    IT 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 words
  34. THE LATEST. SPEECH BY MR. HERBERT GLADSTONE.

    Mr. 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 words
  35. LONDON VOLUNTEERS.

    The corps of London volunteer marksmen promoted by the Lord Mayor will be ready to sail for the Cape in 21 days. ...

    Article : 53 words
  36. SERIOUS MINING ACCIDENTS.

    A 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 words
  37. BRITISH TRANSPORTS.

    So 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 words
  38. WAR CRANKS AND OTHERS.

    Sir,—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 words
  39. THE HERO OF GLENCOE.

    Salta[?]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 ...

    Article : 395 words
  40. THE LONDON MARKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 words
  41. BRITAIN PURCHASING AMMUNITION.

    Immense 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 words
  42. TROOPS FROM GIBRALTAR.

    A company of the Gibraltar garrison artillery has been ordered to South Africa. ...

    Article : 22 words
  43. THE WEATHER.

    THE 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 words
  44. TO THE COLONIAL TROOPS.

    Lord 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 words
  45. [BY TELEGRAPH.] THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN UNIT.

    Captain Charles James Reade, of Jamestown, has been selected to command the Mounted contingent, which is shortly to leave Sooth Australia The subalterns have ...

    Article : 171 words
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