A strike of shearers has occurred at Larras Lake, Molong, owing to the reduced earnings of the shearers under the contract system now in vogue. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. T. K. Hamilton has been appointed president of the Medical Board. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe addresses of the Australian delegates at the International Commercial Congress, which is being held in connection with the Philadelphia National ...
Article : 184 wordsThe whole of the 25,000 British reserves, the calling cut of whom was announced on October 9, have responded, and are now under colors. ...
Article : 172 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night the debate on the proposal to send troops to the Transvaal was resumed by Mr. Hughes, who opposed the motion. He ...
Article : 150 wordsAppended is the test of the letter which the Premier sent to Warden Hare, Kalgoorlie, on Tuesday, with regard to the alluvial trouble: — ...
Article : 508 wordsThe Rev. John Leggoe, Wesleyan minister, suddenly died at Jamestown this morning. ...
Article : 14 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night a warm debate took place on the charges made by Labor members against Mr. Smyth, superintendent of public ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Boers have destroyed the railway at Ingagane, to the south of Newcastle, to prevent the British from using their armored train. ...
Article : 125 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly tonight Mr. Dawson's want of confidence motion was negatived by 39 votes to 28. The House is now discussing the Premier's ...
Article : 34 wordsA baker's promises at St. Kilda caught fire early this morning. A constable broke open a door, and dragged out a man named Doherty, who is ...
Article : 71 wordsThe gift of £400 by Her Majesty the Queen to the relatives of Jules Auguste Loth, the Boulogne fisherman who was killed on August 8 by a shot fired from ...
Article : 90 wordsTasmania's offer to send 80 men to the Transvaal has been accepted by the Imperial Government. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe special session of the Imperial Parliament was opened to-day with the usual formality. The Queen's speech was extremely brief, ...
Article : 106 wordsThe alluvial miners became aware this morning that the decision of the Government would be against them, and instantly there was talk in their ranks ...
Article : 717 wordsThe Boers have looted Ingogo and Ingagane, two stations between Laing's Nek and Dannhauser. They are also reported to be robbing ...
Article : 172 wordsTo-day the infantry unit was served with rifles of the 303 Martini-Enfield pattern, with bayonets and 6,000 rounds of ammunition. The Mounted Rifles are ...
Article : 32 wordsA meeting of the local branch of the A.M.A. was held to-night at Chiltern. It is reported that the ballot on the branch's action in calling out the men ...
Article : 62 words"Jack" Hellings, formerly of Sydney, won the 150yds. championship in London yesterday. He covered the distance in 1min. 46 2-5sec. ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is proposed to entertain the Victorian, Tasmanian, and South Australian volunteers in the Exhibition building before the Medic sails. ...
Article : 28 wordsFifteen steamers will accompany the Waimate to the heads on Saturday. The members of the contingent were sworn in to-day. The men will have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 wordsDr. Charles Tanner, Nationalist M.P. for Mid-Cork, Ireland, when speaking at Crosshaven, a village ten miles south-east of Cork, on ...
Article : 71 wordsAlthough Kimberley is being defended by four thousand men, its position is regarded by the residents as not being too safe. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe second event in the contest for the America Cup was sailed to-day, off New York, the coarse being a triangular one of 30 miles. ...
Article : 130 wordsCaptain Lascelles, A.D.C. to Lord Tennyson, is to accompany the South Australian contingent. He will join his regiment the Royal Fusiliers. ...
Article : 28 wordsNine thousand Kaffirs, who were employed on the Sand gold-mines, have been "commandeered" by the Boers. Two Englishmen have just arrived at ...
Article : 88 wordsOwing to the large amount of shipping tonnage which has been chartered by the Imperial authorities for transport and other purposes, it has been found ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Uitlanders at Durban have formed a mounted corps, one thousand strong. The British have destroyed the highway bridge over the Orange River at ...
Article : 41 wordsOn Sunday the dead body of a Chinaman was found in the vicinity of the Jarrahdale township. The post-mortem examination showed that the Chinaman's ...
Article : 56 wordsThe coal mines in Natal, to the north of Glencoe Junction, have been abandoned by the British. Glencoe is now the most northerly point held by the ...
Article : 69 wordsCranberry continues to give his [?] anxiety. This morning he was on the track at Flemington, but was not out of a walk. Ugly rumors arg in ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. J. Chamberlain, writing to the London correspondent of the New York "Tribune," acknowledges the recognition by the United States of the justice of ...
Article : 92 wordsParticulars which have come to hand regarding the accident to the Shamrock show that the British yacht had a slight lead at the time the disaster occurred. ...
Article : 56 wordsLater particulars go, to a large extent, to confirm the theory of foul play in connection with the Chinaman's death. It is evident, from the appearance of ...
Article : 218 wordsIn consequence of the Boers having threatened to murder any Englishmen who may fail into their hands, Mr. Chamberlain has sent a message to ...
Article : 62 wordsA British armored train while reconnoitring at Spytfontein, which is about fifteen miles south of Kimberley, surprised a party of Boers, killing five and ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is proposed to erect new city and district courthouses at the corner of Russell and Lonsdale streets, at a cost of £30,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn these days there is no royal road to fortune, although there may be innumerable pathways to impecuniosity. But sometimes chances are offered to the enterprising in ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Water Supply Advances Bill was got through the committee in the Legislative Assembly. The bill was reported, and then the members tackled ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsThe Johannesburg fugitives who have sought refuge in Natal and the Cape declare that the Boers rushed into war only because they were buoyed up by ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Boers and the Freestaters on the Natal frontier have subdivided their forces, and are entrenching themselves in the various passes. ...
Article : 111 wordsDinizulu, one of the leading chiefs in ZuluLand, which, in 1898, became a province of Natal, has offered his assistance to the British in the fight with. ...
Article : 242 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Laurence Cautley, the well-known actor. [Mr. Cautley, who, in private life, was known as L. A. Desborough, visited ...
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Advertising : 262 wordsTrouble occurred to-day at the Mount Lyell Company's No. 2 smelting plant. All hands were set to work to save the furnaces, which bad almost cooled off, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe British Government is asking for a vote of £10,000,000, supplementary to the army estimates. The debates in the two Houses of ...
Article : 281 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday, it was decided that the following officers should accompany the Western Australian contingent:— ...
Article : 380 wordsArthur Gruin, 19, a recent arrival at Zeehan, whose parents are said to be residents of Fitzroy, was killed by a fall of earth in the Silver Queen Extended ...
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