VICTORIANS are wont in a deprecatory, shamefaced sort of way, to apologise for their holidays, as though they were no better than youthful delinquencies, ...
Article : 3,651 wordsA serious bush fire broke out four miles from here on Sunday lest and it gradually worked in towards the town. By Monday morning it had ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Premier (Mr M'Lean) received a deputation from Broadford to himself and the Minister of Railways to-day, asking that damages be paid for fires ...
Article : 75 wordsThere was a good attendance at the old Mechanics Hall on New Year's night to give a send-off to the local members of the second Victorian contingent to leave for South ...
Article : 1,481 wordsPresent: Crs Edwards (President), Lamb, M'Donald, Rahilly. Sundlerman, Osborn, Hany, Linton and Horstman. CORRESPONDENCE. ...
Article : 1,523 wordsThe story of the disaster of Majula Hill has often been told yet tile subject is ever one of interest. It is told anew in "Macmillan's Magazine" for November by Major ...
Article : 812 wordsThe above picnic was held as usual when a good programme was successfully carried out under the management of the Messrs W. and J. B. Pearson and Gibbs (hon. sec.) ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Postmaster-General has made the necessary order instructing J. R. Jackson from the Lands Office to re. some duty at the Central Telegraph ...
Article : 148 wordsA meeting was held at Broadford on Monday to devise means of approaching the Government in order to obtain compensation for losses from tires started in the ...
Article : 616 wordsMajor-General French has sent in a list of casualtics sustained in the manceuvres by which he forced the Boers to abandon their strong position ...
Article : 59 wordsDetails have now been received regarding the. recent engagement at Sunnyside, twenty miles north-west of Belmont, in which the Colonial troops ...
Article : 173 wordsA gymkhana was held by the British at Modder River on New Year's Day, in spite of a constant bombardment by the enemy. ...
Article : 54 wordsA severe thunderstorm passed over the City to-night with exceedingly vivid lightning and terrific thunder, but little rain up to the present. ...
Article : 25 wordsLord Wolseley declares that the British field artillery, so hotly abused by the press as antiquated. is equal to any in Europe. The superior range of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsThe above picnic was held on Monday. Results:- Boys' Race, under 8 yrs, 50 yards, 2s, is 6d.—Davey 1, Stephens 2, Holt 3. ...
Article : 252 wordsThe latest details regarding the fighting by Major-General French's forces at Colesberg state that the Boers who were routed numbered about ...
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Advertising : 820 wordsThe Boers are straining every nerve to strengthen their position on the Tugela so as to oppose the passage of the river by Sir Redvers Buller's ...
Article : 94 wordsSIR—At the recent meeting of share- holders in the Sale Steamboat Co. I, as secretary, came in for a fair share of abuse at the hands of Mr Joseph Fidler, of this ...
Article : 642 wordsIt is announced that seven militia battalions are about to proceed to South Africa. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Premier has received an official message from the Secretary of State through His Excellency, Lord Brassy, as follows:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Sale Borough Council was held last night when there were present:—The Mayor (Cr. Wise) and Crs. Ridd, M'Douald, Cherry, Coverdale, ...
Article : 446 wordsThe crown and glory of manhood is strength-power. All human conquests have been won by it; individual and collective. The earliest sign of decay in man is ...
Article : 751 wordsOne of the best known of the many prosperous farmers who cultivate the rich flats on the Goulburn River, is 1r John Hutchinson of North Moor, says the "Seymour ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 273 wordsThe rainfall registered the local Government Observatory, Sale School of Mines, for the past year was as follows:— 1890. ...
Article : 401 wordsPresident: I. J. Gillett, Esq. . Vice-president : J Hillman, lsq. Treasurer: R. G. Timbs, Esq. Judge : W. W. Dobbin, Esq. ...
Article : 378 wordsThe Bagot Handicap, 1½ miles, was won by The Bride, by Escutcheon—Excelsior. The Bride at one time was owned by Mr W. A. Wrigglesworth. Silvermoor won the ...
Article : 175 wordsAfter ten o'clock on Tuesday night a number of the comrades and friends of the volunteers from the Rangers, assembled at the 'Mechanics Hall to give them a send-off ...
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Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Thu 4 Jan 1900, Page 3
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