Mr. Justice Bigham, of the Queen's Bench Division, has granted Lloyd's Bank, of 72 Lombard street, London, E.C. damages to the extent of £10.826 ...
Article : 85 wordsIn the opinion of military experts, it is considered that the Australian troops would be of much more use in the field if they were all mounted. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Government statistician estimates the present season's wheat yield at 13,660,700 bushels from 1,361,511 acres, saved for grain. ...
Article : 29 wordsDisorderly.—Antonio Molinas (30) was fined 15s., in default three days' hard labor, for having annoyed the patrons of Cremorne Theatre ; and H.M. Grant (35) 20s., for ...
Article : 928 wordsThe British forces at Frere, in Natal, hare commenced their march to the north, with the object of relieving Ladysmith. A general advance on Colenso has be ...
Article : 40 wordsSome of the Boers were located at the foot of the eastern spur of the kopje at Magersfontein, and waited there on Monday till before daybreak. ...
Article : 246 wordsMessrs. Houlder Bros. have been informed, by cable message, that the steamer Langton Grange arrived at Durban yesterday. She lost only six ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat ali night, and continued the sitting throughout to-day, until the usual hour for to-day's sitting (adjourning only ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has reserved its judgment in the ease of Jonathan Falkingham and .Sons v.the Victorian Railway Commissioner. ...
Article : 225 wordsMr. Lyne to-night sent a cable message to the Imperial Government regarding the "Times" article, to ascertain whether additional [?] were ...
Article : 130 wordsA special sitting of the Quarter Sessions was held before Messrs. Wright, R.M. (chairman), and R. M. Thomas, J.P., on December 7, W. Berryman was ...
Article : 319 wordsOn charges of having imposed on the managers of the branches of the Commercial Banking Company and the Bank of Australia at Bathurst by ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Premier has decided to follow the precedent already established by giving a fortnight's work at the Government Printing Office to some 50 printers who ...
Article : 31 wordsMajor-General Andrew Gilbert Wanehope was born in 1846, being the only surviving son of the late Mr. Andrew Wauchope, of Niddrie Marischal ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Steamship Owners' Association has decided to grant an advance in the wages of seamen and firemen engaged on intercolonial vessels. The men asked ...
Article : 81 wordsThe visible supply of wheat in America east of the Rocky Mountains is estimated by "Bradstreet's" at 86,757,000 bushels, as against 84,687,000 ...
Article : 41 wordsThe London 'Times " of this morning says that the repulse of the British at Magersfontein is the most serious event of the war. ...
Article : 150 wordsA case which has been before the court for some days, and has not yet been concluded, is remarkable for the number of witnesses being called for the plaintiff, ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Marquis of Winchester was born in 1858. He became a major in the Coldstream Guards in 1897, having joined that regiment as second ...
Article : 41 wordsThe debenture-holders of the Union Mortgage and Agency Co. have approved of the scheme which provides for the amalgamation of the company with the ...
Article : 188 wordsIn response to the request of General. Sir Redvers Henry Buller for 2,200 i European stretcher-bearers and ambulance men to go to the front, 700 have ...
Article : 37 words"We" shall drink champagne in Mafeking to-morrow," telegraphed a man attached to the Western Border commandoes to a friend in Pretoria. Thus the I ...
Article : 729 wordsA conference of the Amalgamated Engine-drivers' Association was held at Eaglehawk to-day. The first business taken was the calling-out of the drivers ...
Article : 146 wordsYet another disaster to a British transport has to be recorded, the steamer Denton Grange, 5,742 tons (Houlder Bros. and Co., Ltd.), having gone ashore ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Bunbury Municipal Council has at last moved in regard to the formation of a fire brigade for the town. At an informal meeting, which was held for the ...
Article : 149 wordsTelegraphing on Tuesday, Lord Methuen said:—"To-day I am holding my position, which is being entrenched. We faced at least 12,000 of the enemy ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Boers report that Lady Sarah Wilson, who was made a prisoner near Mafeking, and sent to Pretoria, has been exchanged. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe contributories of the Union Mortgage and Agency Company have approved of the amalgamation scheme. ...
Article : 28 wordsFurther particulars have come to hand in reference to the fighting at Magersfontein, between the British under Major-General Lord Methuen and ...
Article : 141 wordsLord and Lady Brassey gave a garden fete at Government-house this afternoon to some 4,000 senior school children. The weather was not too favorable, but ...
Article : 33 wordsA child named Sarah Ann Clarke was burned to death at 3 o'clock this morning. At the hoar named the father was [?]by the noise of roaring flames, and ...
Article : 248 wordsAt the Quarter Sesions on Dec 7, Thomas G. A. Brown was found guilty of having obtained the sum of £5 from Charles Sommers, and he was sentenced ...
Article : 246 wordsTelegraphing from Modder River on Tuesday evening, Lord Methuen said:—"As the Boers were occupying their trenches strongly, I retired here in ...
Article : 133 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Umphelby, of Victoria, who was recently appointed to the staff at Cape Town, has been attached to a howitzer division. He left ...
Article : 37 wordsThe report and balance-sheet of the National Mutual Life Association of Australia, to September 30, shows 4,865 new policies, amounting in value to ...
Article : 73 wordsMajor-General Gataere, after having abandoned Molteno, retired to Strekstroom, about 20 miles to the southeast, on the line to East London. ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. P. O. Hatehinson, chairman of the Encounter Bay district, shot himself on his farm, at Hindmarsh Valley, to-day. No cause has been assigned ...
Article : 103 wordsThe War Office has received a telegram from Major-General Lord Methuen in reference to the fighting at Magers fontein. ...
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Advertising : 631 wordsOn Tuesday 293 wounded British arrived at Orange River from Modder River. The number included 27 officers. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 22 Dec 1899, Page 2
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