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  2. A GREAT SOLDIER.

    Hector Archibald MacDonald was born in 1853 at Rootfield, Ross-Shire. Nearly 30 years have gone since the man, who is to-day admiral by the British nation ...

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  3. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    No fresh cases of plague have been reported. M'cann continues to make favorable progress towards recovery on Torrens Island. ...

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  4. A CHURCH PARADE.

    A church parade of the Roman Catholic members of the second contingent took pace at 7 o'clock on Thursday, Jan 25, when 17 members attended at the ...

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  5. INTERCOLONIAL.

    In reply to a deputation from the Council of the Chamber of Commerce, urging a strict adherence to the Pacific cable scheme, the Postmaster-General ...

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  6. FOREIGN CRITICISMS.

    The following appeared in the London "Standard" of December 20:—The Austrian press itself is beginning to revise its forecasts, as may be seen from ...

    Article : 774 words
  7. THE ORTONA AT ADELAIDE.

    The R.M.S. Ortona arrived at the anchorage this morning, but, in consequence of the plague, she held no direct communication with the boarding ...

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  8. IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The "send-off" to the contingent tomorrow promises to be most enthusiastic. A public holiday has been declared. The New South Wales troops ...

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  9. BOARD OF WORKS.

    At to-day's meeting of the finance committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works, it was decided to recommend the placing of a loan of £250,000 on the local ...

    Article : 67 words
  10. THE BUSHMEN'S CORPS.

    In connection with the busbmen's contingent, Major-General Downes has decided that 120 men shall be selected to pass the camp test for the bushmen's ...

    Article : 137 words
  11. WHAT BUSHMEN COULD DO.

    Mr. Hassall, the Minister of Lands in New South Wales, Speaking at the Dapto Agricultural Society's luncheon recently alluded to the splendid response of the ...

    Article : 319 words
  12. PLAGUE IN SYDNEY.

    The health officers diagnosed the ailment of the man Payne, and officially declared it to be bubonic plague. The man is Practically in the same state of ...

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  13. THE ARMY CORPS SHIPMENT.

    In the "National Review" for December Mr. Arthur Shadwell" indulges in a pecan of triumph over the shipment of the army corps from England to South Africa—a pecan which ...

    Article : 319 words
  14. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Benjamin Gaskell, a soap manufacturer, accidentally fell into a metropolitan pug-hole List night, and died shortly after he was taken out. ...

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  15. FATAL POISONING CASE.

    James Taylor, a bootmaker at Bowden, was admitted to the hospital this evening, and he died shortly afterwards. He showed symptoms of poisoning, and ...

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  16. TROOPER BRADFORD.

    Private letters received from Arundel state that the grave of Trooper Bradford, who was recently killed, has been found by his comrades. It is surmounted by ...

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  17. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The criminal classes are becoming sensationally daring. A well-known resident, while asleep in Hyde Park, was robbed of live sovereigns. A young ...

    Article : 129 words
  18. OFFICIAL TELEGRAM FROM SYDNEY.

    The Medical Department received the following telegram from the New South Wales principal medical officer yesterday with regard to the rumored ...

    Article : 196 words
  19. A BATTLEFIELD FUNERAL.

    An Australian war correspondent, writing from Modder River on December 13, says:— The sun has just set and the period of twilight has commenced. The great heat of the ...

    Article : 1,127 words
  20. PROPOSED THIRD CONTINGENT.

    The Governor received the following cable message from Mr. Chamberlain to- day:—"The War Office gladly accepts the third contingent. Her Majesty's ...

    Article : 60 words
  21. POINTS OF A RAM.

    Professor Curtis, of Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, gives the points of a good ram of the mutton breed as follows:—"The ram should be impressive ...

    Article : 267 words
  22. WITH THE NEW SOUTH WALES CONTINGENT.

    Mr. D. Drummond, who is a member of the New South Wales first contingent, writing to his mother in Perth, from Cape Town, on December 14, says ...

    Article : 576 words
  23. QUEENSLAND.

    News received from Thursday Island to-day states that the steamar Duke of Argyle passed the steamer Airlie yesterday, but she did not "speak." The ...

    Article : 57 words
  24. NEW ZEALAND.

    Dr. Grance, an old resident of Wellington, died suddenly to-night, at the age of 75 years. ...

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  25. MUNICIPAL TRADING.

    The success which has attended municipal trading in Birmingham has exceeded even the most sanguine expectations of the projectors of the movement ...

    Article : 355 words
  26. MESSAGES FROM MARS.

    Prophets who predict by the planets (says the London "Daily Mail") are now a very numerous race, and although in some instances their warning are very vaguely ...

    Article : 396 words
  27. GLADSTONE'S TRAITS.

    Gladstone (according to Sir Algernon West) had some peculiar traits. His "liberality, little heard of, while never exceeding the bounds of his income, was ...

    Article : 285 words
  28. TRIBUTE TO WAUCHOPE.

    Sir Charles Dalryimple, M.P., sends the following tribute to the late General Wanchope to the Edinburgh "Scots man":—"Apart altogether from the ...

    Article : 512 words
  29. HE'LL OWN THE EARTH.

    The boy who lends his class at school, A glorious child is he; We wonder at the boy who plays The violin at three! ...

    Article : 126 words
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