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  2. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    In the House of Assembly on Wednesday' afternoon the Chief Secretary, in reply to Mr. Coneybeer, said so far as he knew there knew was nothing in the rumour that ...

    Article : 663 words
  3. THE WAR.

    The 900 British rank and file soldiers in captivity at Nooitgedacht, within a few miles of Mr. Kruger's saloon car, are subsisting on mealies and suffering ...

    Article : 150 words
  4. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    From a message winch has come to hand from Pretoria it is gathered that many of the President's friends are hopeful that he will capitulate. ...

    Article : 147 words
  5. TROUBLED CHINA.

    The British Government have sent a gunboat to-every treaty port on the Yang-tsze-Kiang, where the Viceroys declared that they were unable to maintain order. ...

    Article : 620 words
  6. INJURY TO THE-DELAGOA BAY RAILWAY.

    Advices from Lorenzo Marquez state that a railway bridge near Hector Spruit, in Transvaal territory, has collapsed, and that goods traffic over the Delagoa Bay ...

    Article : 61 words
  7. COMPARISON OF WAR HORSES.

    General Sir F. Forestier-Walker, who is command of the lines of communications, has reported that during the campaign Australian horses have proved to be the ...

    Article : 108 words
  8. "A VINDICTIVE AND VORACIOUS FOE."

    Twenty-three members, reports the special correspondent of the "Daily News," attended the opening of the Volksraad. There were many cans in the horseshoe. ...

    Article : 327 words
  9. THE PLAGUE.

    Only one case of plague occurred to-day. The patient is James Hughes, aged thirty-six, residing at Bourke-street, Surry Hills, and he was employed at the Hospital ...

    Article : 118 words
  10. DEATH OF AN AFRICAN POTENTATE.

    It is reported that ex-King Samory, the "Black Napoleon" of Africa, has died in the Congo Free State, where he had been kept in exile by the French since the ...

    Article : 43 words
  11. A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WOUNDED.

    His Excellency the Governor has received a message from Sir Alfred Mimer stating that Trooper J. E. Croucher, of the Second South Australian. Contingent to ...

    Article : 60 words
  12. AX ENTERPRISING BLACK BARBARIAN.

    Samory, like many other African potentates, began life as a slave. His father was a Mendi and a Pagan, a petty dealer in kola puts who lives in Bissandugu, a ...

    Article : 992 words
  13. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES

    The Premier to-day received a cable message from Cape Town reporting the following casualties to New South Wales troops in the battle near Pretoria on June 12:— ...

    Article : 251 words
  14. MR. TREVES'S REPLY TO HIS CRITICS.

    To the storm of indignation which Mr. Treves arouse by his severe denunciation of what he termed the "plague of women" in Cape Town, the eminent surgeon himself ...

    Article : 783 words
  15. TALK WITH MR. STEYN'S BROTHER.

    Writing on April 10 the correspondent of the "Central News" gives some further particulars of the interview he had with Mr. Stevn brother of the President of the ...

    Article : 555 words
  16. THE BRITISH PRISONERS.

    The condition of the 900 British prisoners held in captivity by the Boers in the mountain ranges near Nooitgedacht is pitiable in the extreme. They are in rags, and are ...

    Article : 135 words
  17. THE WOMEN OF THE FREE STATE.

    Besides the courage and perseverance of our burghers' (wrote the Boer newspaper. "Volksstem" recently) there is yet another thing which justifies the hope that the ...

    Article : 246 words
  18. MISFORTUNE AT LEEUW SPRUIT.

    Dispatches from Bloemfontein mention that a railway train containing Royal Engineers engaged on reconstruction work was unexpectedly attacked on Thursday ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. VICTORIA.

    The Postmaster-General states that as soon as the Imperial authorities have advanced matters sufficiently far towards accepting a tender for laying the Pacific cable ...

    Article : 377 words
  20. BOER PRISONERS AND DUTCH REBELS.

    Commandant F. C. Eloff, a son-in-law of Mr. Kruger's, and 200 other burghers who were captured at Mafeking, and have been in gaol at Kimberley, are now on their way ...

    Article : 76 words
  21. SATIRICAL TOMMY.

    The following verses are the work of Private H. W. Hartland, of the Imperial Yeomanry Field Hospital. They have just arrived from the front:— ...

    Article : 233 words
  22. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the debate on the debate on the Adderss-in-reply and Mr. Reid's antagonistic amendment was resumed by Mr. Wilks who attacked the ...

    Article : 235 words
  23. LAING'S NEK TUNNEL REOPENED.

    The Laing's Nek tunnel, having been repaired by British, engineers, has been reopened for traffic, and complete railway communication is now possible right ...

    Article : 108 words
  24. WOUNDS IN WAR.

    When the medical history of the war in couth Africa comes to be written (says the "Hospital") it will no doubt be found chat many of our preconceived notions in regard ...

    Article : 451 words
  25. TELEGRAPH LINE DESTROYED.

    The following notice was posted at the General Post-office, Adelaide, on Wednes-day:—Berne notifies Great Northern Company advises Pekin-Kalgan line, middle ...

    Article : 36 words
  26. A TELEPHONE DISASTER.

    A good deal of consternation, was caused in Brisbane this morning on account of some of the telephone wires becoming heavily charged with electricity. Workmen ...

    Article : 161 words
  27. IMPORTANT MINISTERIAL UTTERANCES.

    The Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council, presided yesterday at a meeting of the Women's Liberal Unionist Association In the course of his opening ...

    Article : 108 words
  28. CLAUSE 74.

    When the Commonwealth Bill was under consideration in the House of Commons on Monday night, the Secretary of State for the Colonies said he was unable to divine ...

    Article : 519 words
  29. A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS OF THE CHINESE SITUATION.

    Hiss A. J. Goode, a daughter of Mr. Matthew Goode, returned to Adelaide about three weeks ago from a visit to China, having about a year in the northern per ...

    Article : 577 words
  30. QUEENSLAND.

    Two hundred members of the A.M.P. Society, who are opposed to the extension of the Society's business beyond Australia, met to-night, and expressed grave ...

    Article : 93 words
  31. A REBEL'S HONEYMOON SPOILT.

    Quite an interesting little occurrence took place immediately on our arrival at Reddersburg (writes the "Daily Telegraph" correspondent on April 12). Lieutenant A ...

    Article : 618 words
  32. MAORIS AND WITCHCRAFT.

    A native named Popata, who had been charged at Napier with wife murder, was to-day found guilty of manslaughter. Sentence was deferred. The most remarkable ...

    Article : 99 words
  33. THE CAPE MINISTRY.

    It is stated that the appointment of Mr. J. Rose-Innes to the position of Attorney-General at the Cape is a guarantee that Sir John Gordon Sprigg, the Premier, will ...

    Article : 98 words
  34. MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.

    The action brought by Joseph George Malouf, an Assyrian merchant, against Kabell Mackbell, to recover £2,000 as compensation for malicious prosecution ...

    Article : 71 words
  35. WRECKAGE IN NEWCASTLE HARBOUR.

    The Minister for Works has decided to place a vole of £1,500 on the Estimates for the purpose of taking away the masts of the ship Regent Murray and blowing up ...

    Article : 73 words
  36. INFERIOR BUTTER.

    It was stated a few days ago that the deterioration in the quality of butter sent from this colony to England, followed by a serious fall try values, was claiming the ...

    Article : 140 words
  37. Advertising

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  38. MEDICAL TESTIMONY.

    Mr. Frederick Treves, F.R.C.S., in the course of an address to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, said that no cases of injury by soft-nosed bullets occurred ...

    Article : 423 words
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