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  2. 1200 STRETCHER-BEARERS.

    Twelve hundred Indian stretcher-bearers have left Durban to join Gene-ral Boiler at the front. ...

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  3. THE PHILIPPINES.

    The United States troops have achieved another success in the Philippines, where the Filipinos under Aguinaldo are still holding out stubbornly. ...

    Article : 60 words
  4. THE BOER WAR.

    Mr. 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 ...

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  5. GATACRE RECONNOITRES.

    The 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 ...

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  6. THE DANGER OF SUCCESS.

    Before 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 ...

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  7. UNITED STATES.

    A 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 ...

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  8. LIFE AT ORANGE RIVER.

    Lieutenant T. M. M'Inerney, of the Victorian contingent, wrote as follows from the Orange River, to his brother in Melbourne:—Camp, Orange River ...

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  9. IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The contingent will leave on the 17th inst. positively. The steamer Surrey will go into dock forthwith for cleaning. The wholesale fruitsellers have offered ...

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  10. ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

    Mr. J. A. Arnot, electrical engineer to the Melbourne Municipal Council, was despatched some months ago to Europe and American in order to acquaint ...

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  11. DEATH FROM THIRST.

    News 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 ...

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  12. THE DEADLOCK.

    It 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 ...

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  13. AMERICAN DEMOCRATS.

    The 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 ...

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  14. IN QUEENSLAND.

    The 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 ...

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  15. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    The 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 ...

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  16. COMMERCIAL.

    the Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday, with prices unchanged. The quantity offered was 5,773 bales, and of this 2,068 bales were sold. ...

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  17. BRITISH PRISONERS ON SHOW

    The Boers at Pretoria are showing the British prisoners to the natives with a view to impressing them with a sense of the Boer superiority. ...

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  18. WHEAT SUPPLY.

    The 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. | ...

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  19. INDIAN HORSES.

    The Indian Government is despatching to South Africa 800 horses beyond the number already announced. ...

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  20. IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The 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 words
  21. FINANCIAL.

    The 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 words
  22. MAGERSFONTEIN.

    Large 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 words
  23. LORD ROBERTS.

    Field-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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  24. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PATRIOTIC FUND.

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  25. THE BANK RATE.

    To-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 ...

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  26. COAL LUMPERS' STRIKE.

    The dispute between the coal lumpers and Messrs. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. and the Adelaide Steamship Company was settled temporarily to-day. ...

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  27. ATTACK ON LADYSMITH.

    General Sir Redvers Henry Buller has telegraphed to the British War Office stating that the Boers claim that their losses sustained in the attack on ...

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  28. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    A message received from Noumes on Thursday states that one European died from the plague on Sunday. He was employed in the infected quarter. Only ...

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  29. FIELD ARTILLERY.

    The 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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  31. NURSES' FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 words
  32. THE SECOND CONTINGENT.

    The ? 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 ...

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  33. THE HERZOG RELEASED.

    The 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 ...

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  34. TELEGRAM TO FREMANTLE.

    Mr. 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 ...

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  35. QUEENSLAND CONTINGENT.

    A [?] of Queenslanders at present residing in London sent a telegram to Major Ricardo, the Commander of the Queensland contingent, on ...

    Article : 66 words
  36. STAFF COLLEGE CLOSED.

    The 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 ...

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  37. IN VICTORIA.

    This afternoon Major-General Downes officially inspected the contingent. He is well pleased with the men. Lord Brassey, accompanied by a large party ...

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  38. BULLER'S PRESS CENSOR.

    The 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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  40. A PATHETIC INCIDENT.

    A 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 ...

    Article : 275 words
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