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  2. THE FIFTH CONTINGENT.

    The following appointments in the Fifth Contingent were made in Executive Council on Wednesday morning:—Mjrs.—Walter Service Vernon Harridge Edwards Capts. ...

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  3. WAR NOTES.

    Lord Kitchener reports that several small parties of Boers who entered the Cape Colony are returning to the Orange River, and that a number of ...

    Article : 168 words
  4. STANDARD MEASUREMENTS.

    A number of leading surveyors of the city assembled at the Surveyor-General's office on Wednesday afternoon at the invitation of the Surveyor-General Mr. W. ...

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  5. COMMONWEALTH CONCERNS.

    Mr. Barbon, communicated with at a rate honr to-night, Stated that he hoped to be in a position to announce the name of tie new Minister in the Federal Cabinet ...

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  6. IMPERIAL YEOMANRY REINFORCEMENTS.

    The War Office, is enlisting in Great Britain 5,000 fresh troops as Imperial Yeomanry. The men undertake to go on active service, for 12 months or ...

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  7. THE TBANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    Particulars have come to band o the engagement near Lindley on the 3rd inst. in which British troops suffered heavily from the fire of Boer ...

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  8. PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR.

    A Nihilist, who was known in the city as "Prince Nakachine," was arrested yesterday at Nice. It is said that some documents found in the ...

    Article : 88 words
  9. THE AUSTRALASIANS.

    The following list of casualties tc Australasians was issued yesterday:— WOUNDED. At Vlakfontein.—Serit, Mjr. F. Y. ...

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  10. FOUNDATION DAY REGATTA.

    The programme for the Foundation Day Anniversary Regatta was published to-day. The regatta will be the most comprehensive ever arranged in Australia in order to ...

    Article : 76 words
  11. THE BLIZZARD IN RUSSIA.

    Advices from Odessa state 18,000 soldiers who were toiling day ind night to reach the three trains (containing 3,000 passengers, which were ...

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  12. REMOUNTS FOR IMPERIAL SERVICE.

    Sir Wiliam Lyne has telegraphed to the Agent-General asking him to make an ap­plication to the Home Government to allow of the establishment of a depot in New ...

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  13. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    Our Hobart correspondent telegraphs:—The Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, will visit Hobart at about the end of February and it is [?] probable that for the ...

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  14. VICTORIA.

    An elderly man named Johan Colley died, while under chloroform at the Alfred Hospital. He was about to be operated on for cancer. ...

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  15. FRANCE.

    The debate on M. Waldeck Rousseau's highly controversial Bill for the prohibition or regulation of religious associations in France—opened ...

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  16. FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    Mr. J. L. Dow has announced himself as a candidate for the Federal Senate ...

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  17. MR. KRUGER INVITED TO AMERICA.

    Mr. Mulholland, a United States millionaire has invited Mr. Kruger to visit America aid deliver a series of lectures in the large cities. ...

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  18. QUEENSLAND.

    J. Hogan, of the City Club, has been selected to represent Queensland at the champion swimming carnival in Melbourne. He swam 100 yards to-night in 1 min. 6¾ ...

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  19. THE ST. KILDA VACANCY.

    The Speaker of the Legislative Asembly announced his intention to-day of issuing at writ far the election of a member for St. Kilda, in succession to Sir George Turner. ...

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  20. ANNIHILATING DISTANCE.

    Dr. Pupin, of the Columbia University, New York, claims to have solved the problem of audibly communicating by telephone over or through the ...

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  21. HELP FROM AUSTRALASIA.

    The Minister for Defence has not received any confirmation of the report that 10,000 Australasian troops are wanted in South Africa, but he is of opinion that ...

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  22. TASMANIA.

    The German survey vessel Moewe, captain Schonfeler, left port this morning for Sydney, en route to New Guinea. ...

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  23. THE ATTACK ON ZUURFONTEIN.

    It has transpired that a Kaffir was responsible for the Boers surprising the British at Zuurfontein, near Pretoria. ...

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  24. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The strained relations between the mayor and the City Council continues. Several prominent private citizens are endeavouring co bring about a reconciliation. ...

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  25. CHASING DE WET.

    The subjoined account of the great chase after De Wet is from Reuter:—Aliwal North, December 7. The pursuit of De Wet by four commas commanded by Gen. ...

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  26. THE FALL IN LAM VIEWS.

    A hitch has occurred in the arrangement reported to have been made by the London and Globe Finance Corporation with its creditors for the ...

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  27. THE ORMDZ-ISMAILIA COLLISION.

    The Ismailia was floated into the Alfred Graving Dock to-day, for the purpose of having the damage received by her ia the collision with the Ormuz repaired. The ...

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  28. THE IMPERIAL TROOPS.

    The troopship Britannic, with the Imperial troops on board, and the Orient, with invalided soldiers, arrived in Moreton Bay this morning, and anchored. Owing to the ...

    Article : 179 words
  29. THE SOUTHERN INVASION.

    Nine hundred persons who are suspected of being in league with the enemy have been arrested at Vryburg ind removed to Kimberley. ...

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  30. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Breadstuffs.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,640,000 qrs., compared with 2,145,000 qrs. a week ago and 1,170,000 qrs. a year ago. The ...

    Article : 329 words
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  32. FEDERAL POST OFFICE.

    The postal departments of the federating States may be amalgamated on March 1. The States Postmasters-General have administered their departments of late upon. ...

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  33. TROUBLE ON THURSDAY ISLAND.

    A serious affray occurred at Thursday Island this afternoon. About 100 South Sea Islanders attacked half thai number of mania men with, stones and sticks. The ...

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  34. COMPLETING THE ESTABLISHMENT.

    On Wednesday another large crowd of volunteers for South Africa paraded for section to the Fifth Contingent, despite the act that the majority of men needed had ...

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  35. THE NEW ZEALAND CENSUS.

    The census of the colony will be taken on March 31. Special returns will also be collected regarding the values and other particulars of industries and manufactures of ...

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  36. STOCKS AND SHARES.

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  37. BOER DECEPTIONS.

    De Wet, Louis Botha, and other Boer leaders still resort to all kinds of false statements in order to attract burghers to their standard. ...

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  38. LOOT.

    At an afternoon tea table—no matter just where, except that it was in Pekin—the chat was heard to run along these lines:— "Were you much, frightened during the ...

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  39. IN OTHER STATES.

    A few days ago the minister for Defence cabled to the Imperial authorities that the Victorian Government was in a position to arrange locally for the transport of the fifth ...

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  40. A PRETENDER LOVER'S AVARICE.

    An extraordinary case has been brought under the notice of the Victorian police. On it the Attorney-General, Mr. Isaacs, look prompt action to-day. By an ocean ...

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  41. ENEMY AMBUSHED NEAR JOHANNESBURG.

    A squadron of Johannesburg mounted rifles, who rode to Holfontein about 40 miles from the goldfields centre, cleverly caught a party Boers ...

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  42. DESTITUTE FOREIGNERS AT DURBAN.

    Many destitute foreigners, who are refugees from the Transvaal, are appealing to the Durban police for food and shelter. The consuls of their ...

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  43. THE VICTORIAN WHEAT YIELD.

    The revised estimate prepared by the "Australasian" of the wheat crop is 19,001,901 bushels. This is much more liberal than the estimate several ...

    Article : 78 words
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  45. COALMINERS' TROUBLES.

    The strike of wheelers at the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, Newcastle, was terminated today. The wheelers were persuaded to go to work by the miners, and ...

    Article : 68 words
  46. TO-DAY'S DIARY.

    Sun rises 3.23 a.m.: sets 1.28 p.m. Moon rises it a.m.; sets 4.31 p.m. Semaphore.—High and low water doubtful 9.5—Frome road—Zoological Gardens. ...

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