The following are extracts of letters from Private Sydney C. McFarlane, of South Australia, who went with the Western Australian Contingent, to his father, Mr. D. ...
Article : 890 wordsIt was the night of August 3, 1849, that about 9.30 the quiet town of Cove was startled by hearing a gun fired from the warship in the harbour. This was ...
Article : 1,002 wordsLady Tennyson has consented to christen the Adelaides' new four-oared racing boat on Saturday afternoon, April 7. The Premier, Minister of Education ...
Article : 2,253 wordsThe fight on Friday near Karee Siding, fourteen miles south of Brandfort, provided a severe test to the skill of the British officers and the pluck and ...
Article : 255 wordsLord Roberts has supplied the War Office with further particulars regarding the fight on Friday last, near Karree Siding, fourteen miles south of Brandfort. ...
Article : 1,044 wordsThe Delagon Bay Railway Arbitration Tribunal at Berne his promised to deliver a judgment embodying the reasons which induced it to award to the shareholders of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Queen loses no opportunity of exhibiting her sympathy with the army, and her personal interest in the soldiers. Hearing the other day at Windsor Castle that ...
Article : 881 wordsConsequent upon the disgraceful scene created in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, when the President was pelted with paper pellets, and compelled ...
Article : 50 wordsReuter's correspondent at Bloemfontein has supplied particulars of an unfortunate contretemps in connection with the operations between Bloemfontein and the ...
Article : 407 wordsA deputation representing the Directorates of thirty-eight mining Companies of Western Australia have waited upon Mr. E. H. Wittenoom, Agent-General of the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe representatives of denominations who had consented to act on the Religious Instruction in State Schools Commission met at the Government Offices to-day, and ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. and Mrs. Smith, who were among the victims of the poisoning case which occurred at the inns of Court Hotel, Holborn, about the middle of July, due to the visitors ...
Article : 73 wordsBritish Revenue Returns. The revenue returns for the quarter ended March 31, the fast quarter of the financial year, show the total receipts to have been ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Holman, a member of the Labour Party, speaking at Grenfell to-day, defended his attitude with regard to the war in South Africa, which he said was iniquitous ...
Article : 465 wordsMr. Lyne has received a notification from the imperial authorities that there was an objection to either Major-General French or Major Thomson, who has been buying ...
Article : 131 wordsSir—I notice in "The Register" to-day your remarks regarding exports of South Australian products to South Africa. I enclose a cutting from the "Australasian," ...
Article : 106 wordsThe steamer Gulf of Taranto, on her way from Sydney, went aground about 6 this morning near Altona in a thick mist and rain, which made the atmosphere very dark. ...
Article : 140 wordsPresident Kruger has announced that he does not intend to retain the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Transvaal forces. He states that, in accordance with ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Henry Copeland, the new Agent-General, was to-night entertained by his political associates and other friends at a banquet. The ...
Article : 264 wordsA great expansion of the trade between Victoria and South Africa has taken place during the last few months; and judging by reports received regarding the quality of our produce, a very ...
Article : 710 wordsThe members of the Railways Staning Committee have completely failed in their last endeavour to pierce the mallee along rival railway routes. After being bogged ...
Article : 68 wordsMany of the leading newspapers in England and at the Cape are complaining of what they term the "undue leniency" with which rebel Dutchmen are being treated by ...
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Advertising : 211 wordsInformation to hand indicates that Colonel Plumer, who, with a Rhodesian column, is moving to the relief of Mafeking, has been reinforced by a body of fresh troops ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Premier, at the request of Mr. Aitken, of Mount Aitken, recently submitted to the Imperial war authorities an offer to equip a corps of ...
Article : 124 wordsWith reference to the terms of peace at the conclusion of the war, Mr. Lyne received the following message from Mr. Seddon to-day—"It is most gratifying indeed to ...
Article : 134 wordsThe news that in the colony of Victoria the German flag has been lowered by the people as a mark of disrespect has been largely circulated, but in Berlin it is not ...
Article : 609 wordsRemittance by money-orders from the colony during March totalled £27,943. The following were the principal destinations:—London, £4,011; South Australia, £3,000 ...
Article : 76 wordsG. Smesby, seaman of H.M.S. Dart, and Petty-officer J. Corbett were rabbit-shooting near Kempton to-day, when Smesby was accidentally shot in the back by ...
Article : 51 wordsA correspondent writes from London under date March 2 as follows:—On Friday London went absolutely insane. The news of the relief of Ladysmith came over ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsMr. [?] has issued a preliminary report on the agricultural and live-stock statistics of the colony for the year ended March. It shows that the area cultivated ...
Article : 146 wordsLillie Smart, aged three, fell into a basin of boiling water to-day and was scalded to death. All the men who were recently injured in ...
Article : 225 wordsThe consolidated revenue for March amounted to £453,003 an increase over the corresponding month of last year of £36,590. The revenue for the nine months totalled ...
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Advertising : 160 wordsThe consolidated revenue for March was £90,770, against £76,479 for the corresponding month of last year. ...
Article : 23 wordsWhile a picnic party, numbering thirty-five, was returning in a drag to Reefton on Saturday the vehicle fell over a bank. the driver was killed, and many of the ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Tue 3 Apr 1900, Page 5
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