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  2. FIGHTING IN THE FREE STATE.

    During the night on which the British reached Kimberley, the Boers at Spytfontein and Magersfontein, under Cronje, evacuated their positions, leaving large ...

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    Our correspondent, who is nursing in a military hospital at Maritzburg, sends us some further notes:—"The heat is very trying, 135 deg. often outside, and 94 deg. in ...

    Article : 1,389 words
  4. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Captain E. W. A Wallington, drove down from Marble Hin on Tuesday morning to attend a meeting of the Executive ...

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  5. THE WAR.

    The messages from the Orange Free State, though somewhat conflicting, show that a terrible struggle took place on saturday near the Bloemfontein ...

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  6. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    The War Office has just made public a despatch received from Bloemfontein, which confirms the report telegraphed by Reuter's correspondent to the effect that a ...

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  7. OUR SECOND CONTINGENT.

    In my last letter I told of our voyage and first sight of Africa. For two days we ran along with land dimly in view. Mountain after mountain, grim and jagged, was ...

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  8. THE PLAGUE.

    The plague record for to-day consists of six additional cases, bringing the total to date to seventy-five. The patients are:—Arthur Casson, 22, a resident of Rockdale, employed ...

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  9. LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.

    Private G. Merrotsy, in a letter from Arundel, dated February 27, says:—"We are about full up of the war now. Most of us have been out four or five days at a ...

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  10. THE FEDERAL LEGISLATURE.

    A conference has taken plate between the Exhibition trustees and the President of the Legislative Council, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, and the Clerk of ...

    Article : 140 words
  11. A WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COLLIERS' STRIKE.

    The labour dispute at the Collie coalfields came under the attention of the Minister of Mines to-day. It was represented to him by a deputation that men were ...

    Article : 132 words
  12. BOERS USING SOFTNOSED BULLETS.

    In the fight at Karree Siding on Friday last, when Lord Roberts executed a splendid turning movement against the enemy, the Boers used soft-nosed bullets, which ...

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  13. PLEAS FOR ANNEXATION.

    It is stated that 2,000 of the Dutch residents of Paarl have demanded of the British authorities the annexation of the Free State and the punishment of ...

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  14. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Captain Borchgrevink, while declining to give any details of the results of his expedition to the Antarctic regions, states that its chief object has been accomplished ...

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  15. AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL REGIMENT.

    Mr. Philp has telegraphed to Mr. Lyne asking that one of the Imperial transports may be sent to Brisbane, and stating that the Queensland Contingent could be ready ...

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  16. THE LATE GENERAL JOUBERT.

    Lord Roberts has dispatched messages to Mrs. Joubert and President Kramer condoling with them in the death of Commandant P. J. Joubert, whom he describes ...

    Article : 46 words
  17. A TARDY VICEREGAL CHEQUE.

    Recently the Melbourne Hospital Committee commented on the fact that Lord Brassey, the late Governor, had never given a contribution to that institution. To-day ...

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  18. WRECK OF THE GLENELG.

    The inquest on the loss of the steamer Glenelg was begun at Bairnsdale to-day. Alexander Lamb, seaman, one of the survivors, in giving evidence stated that he ...

    Article : 278 words
  19. TO-DAY'S DIARY.

    Sun rose, 6.32 a.m.; sets, 6.7 p.m. Moon rises, 11.4,a.m.; sets, 9.6 p.m. Semaphore.—Low w., 11.30 a.m.; high, 6 p.m. 9.5.—Frome-road—Zoological Gardens. ...

    Article : 74 words
  20. NOTES FROM THE CAPE.

    The steamer Atlantian, from Sydney and Hobart, with troops on board, arrived yesterday at Cape Town. Trooper Ernest Lacey, of the first ...

    Article : 41 words
  21. SALVATION ARMY CARNIVAL.

    The great annual carnival of the Salvation Army was held to-night in the Exhibition Building, wider the conductorship of Commandant Beech, and the ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. THE STRANDED STEAMER GULF OF TARANTO.

    The steamer Gulf of Taranto, which went ashore on Monday morning near Altona Bay, remained hard and last in that position to-day. The work of lightening the ...

    Article : 146 words
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