Twelve hundred Indian stretcher-bearers have left Durban to join Gene-ral Boiler at the front. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe United States troops have achieved another success in the Philippines, where the Filipinos under Aguinaldo are still holding out stubbornly. ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. J. S. Cavendish, the well-known African explorer, is organising a corps of gentlemen riders, travellers, and huntsmen to act as scouts in the South ...
Article : 105 wordsThe headquarters of Major-General Sir W. F. Gatacre are still located at Strekstroom, on the East London line, from where there is a branch line to the ...
Article : 109 wordsBefore Christmas (says the "Broad i Arrow") we shall have an army of over a hundred thousand men in. South Africa, a larger and a better-equipped army ...
Article : 286 wordsA disastrous fire which, broke out in New York yesterday destroyed the house of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, the well-known proprietor of the New York "World ...
Article : 78 wordsLieutenant T. M. M'Inerney, of the Victorian contingent, wrote as follows from the Orange River, to his brother in Melbourne:—Camp, Orange River ...
Article : 970 wordsThe contingent will leave on the 17th inst. positively. The steamer Surrey will go into dock forthwith for cleaning. The wholesale fruitsellers have offered ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. J. A. Arnot, electrical engineer to the Melbourne Municipal Council, was despatched some months ago to Europe and American in order to acquaint ...
Article : 86 wordsNews was received at Marble Bar yesterday morning that on the previous day a man had perished in the vicinity of Warrawoona. It appears that the ...
Article : 326 wordsIt is being arranged for the British Parliament to meet on the 30th inst. There is a growing outcry in the country on account of the unpreparedness of ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Democratic party in the United States is strongly in sympathy with the Boer cause, hoping by this means to gain the support of the Irish and ...
Article : 99 wordsThe swearing in of the second contingent was completed to-day. It is understood that 144 men and 6 officers are being taken. This arrangement is ...
Article : 144 wordsThe difficulty which the British are experiencing in conducting a war 5,000 miles away from home (says the "Mili-tary Review of Vienna") proves how ...
Article : 507 wordsthe Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday, with prices unchanged. The quantity offered was 5,773 bales, and of this 2,068 bales were sold. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Boers at Pretoria are showing the British prisoners to the natives with a view to impressing them with a sense of the Boer superiority. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe visible wheat supply in America to the east of the Rocky Mountains is 89,252,000 bushels aa against 89,265,000 bushels a week ago. | ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Indian Government is despatching to South Africa 800 horses beyond the number already announced. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe post and telegraph officers' patriotic fund amounts to over £1,500. It is probable that after all a Hotchkiss gun battery will be sent to the Cape in the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe annual balance-sheet of the North Queensland Mortgage and Investment. Company has been published. There as a credit balance of £1,743, and it is ...
Article : 49 wordsLarge numbers of letters have been received in Great Britain from soldiers who fought in the battle of Magersfontein on December 11, in which the ...
Article : 114 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, the new Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, arrived at Cape Town yesterday in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsTo-day the directors of the Bank of England fixed the rate of discount on three months' bills at 5 per cent. [Since November 30, 1899, the bank ...
Article : 45 wordsThe dispute between the coal lumpers and Messrs. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. and the Adelaide Steamship Company was settled temporarily to-day. ...
Article : 134 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller has telegraphed to the British War Office stating that the Boers claim that their losses sustained in the attack on ...
Article : 130 wordsA message received from Noumes on Thursday states that one European died from the plague on Sunday. He was employed in the infected quarter. Only ...
Article : 56 wordsThe British Government has decided to add six batteries to the Royal Field Artillery, bringing the total number of batteries up to 98. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsThe ? received a cable message to-day from the Agent-General stating that £500 from the "Daily Mail" Kipling Fund had been placed at the disposal of ...
Article : 109 wordsThe German-East African steamer Herzog, which was seized by the British while en route to Delagoa Bay, and taken, to Durban to be searched for ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. J. M'Kenzie, the acting secretary of the Fremantle Lumpers' Union, has received a telegram from Mr. A Colbenson, the secretary of the Lumpers' Union at Albany, to the effect that it ...
Article : 210 wordsA [?] of Queenslanders at present residing in London sent a telegram to Major Ricardo, the Commander of the Queensland contingent, on ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Staff College at Sandhurst, of which Colonel H. S. G. Miles is the Governor and Commandant, has had to be closed owing to the scarcity of ...
Article : 36 wordsThis afternoon Major-General Downes officially inspected the contingent. He is well pleased with the men. Lord Brassey, accompanied by a large party ...
Article : 314 wordsThe best abused man in South Africa will be Major Jones, of the Wiltshire Regiment, who is the principal press censor to Sir Redvers Buller (says "M.A.P."). ...
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Advertising : 135 wordsA Cape Town correspondent writes on December 4:—In connection with the battle of Belmont. I have a pathetic incident of which to tell. Just one week ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 19 Jan 1900, Page 2
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