The following appointments in the Fifth Contingent were made in Executive Council on Wednesday morning:—Mjrs.—Walter Service Vernon Harridge Edwards Capts. ...
Article : 929 wordsLord 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 wordsA 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. ...
Article : 4,924 wordsMr. 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 ...
Article : 95 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 44 wordsParticulars have come to band o the engagement near Lindley on the 3rd inst. in which British troops suffered heavily from the fire of Boer ...
Article : 250 wordsA 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 wordsThe following list of casualties tc Australasians was issued yesterday:— WOUNDED. At Vlakfontein.—Serit, Mjr. F. Y. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe 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 wordsAdvices from Odessa state 18,000 soldiers who were toiling day ind night to reach the three trains (containing 3,000 passengers, which were ...
Article : 59 wordsSir 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 ...
Article : 56 wordsOur Hobart correspondent telegraphs:—The Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, will visit Hobart at about the end of February and it is [?] probable that for the ...
Article : 944 wordsAn elderly man named Johan Colley died, while under chloroform at the Alfred Hospital. He was about to be operated on for cancer. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe debate on M. Waldeck Rousseau's highly controversial Bill for the prohibition or regulation of religious associations in France—opened ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. J. L. Dow has announced himself as a candidate for the Federal Senate ...
Article : 19 wordsMr. Mulholland, a United States millionaire has invited Mr. Kruger to visit America aid deliver a series of lectures in the large cities. ...
Article : 31 wordsJ. 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 ...
Article : 34 wordsThe 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. ...
Article : 134 wordsDr. Pupin, of the Columbia University, New York, claims to have solved the problem of audibly communicating by telephone over or through the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 55 wordsThe German survey vessel Moewe, captain Schonfeler, left port this morning for Sydney, en route to New Guinea. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt has transpired that a Kaffir was responsible for the Boers surprising the British at Zuurfontein, near Pretoria. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe strained relations between the mayor and the City Council continues. Several prominent private citizens are endeavouring co bring about a reconciliation. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe 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. ...
Article : 1,394 wordsA hitch has occurred in the arrangement reported to have been made by the London and Globe Finance Corporation with its creditors for the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 273 wordsThe 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 wordsNine hundred persons who are suspected of being in league with the enemy have been arrested at Vryburg ind removed to Kimberley. ...
Article : 252 wordsBreadstuffs.—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 ...
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Advertising : 759 wordsThe postal departments of the federating States may be amalgamated on March 1. The States Postmasters-General have administered their departments of late upon. ...
Article : 966 wordsA 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 ...
Article : 125 wordsOn 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 ...
Article : 228 wordsThe 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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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsDe Wet, Louis Botha, and other Boer leaders still resort to all kinds of false statements in order to attract burghers to their standard. ...
Article : 90 wordsAt 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 ...
Article : 608 wordsA 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 ...
Article : 236 wordsAn 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 ...
Article : 238 wordsA squadron of Johannesburg mounted rifles, who rode to Holfontein about 40 miles from the goldfields centre, cleverly caught a party Boers ...
Article : 50 wordsMany destitute foreigners, who are refugees from the Transvaal, are appealing to the Durban police for food and shelter. The consuls of their ...
Article : 40 wordsThe revised estimate prepared by the "Australasian" of the wheat crop is 19,001,901 bushels. This is much more liberal than the estimate several ...
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Advertising : 272 wordsThe 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 wordsSun 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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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Thu 17 Jan 1901, Page 5
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