Mr. A. S. Roe, police magistrate of Perth, left Cossack yesterday morning in the steamer Sultan en route to Perth. ...
Article : 167 wordsThe fact that 10,000 recruits have joined the militia since Christmas. caused Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, to decide against embodying the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Canadian Government has offered to supply militia to release the first battalion of the Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) at Halifax, enabling the ...
Article : 61 wordsA description of the famous mounted corps known as Bulier's Horse, raised by Sir Redvers Buller during the Zula war, is given in a biography of the general by Mr. W. ...
Article : 475 wordsThe hardships of the siege are beginning to tell severely on the residents of Kimberley, and the death rate has assumed huge proportions. ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the police-court on Wednesday, before Mr. H. M. Thomas, acting R.M., Richard M'Bride was charged with having assaulted E. H. Porter outside of the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe German Reichstag has approved of the treaty between Germany and Britain in respect to Samoa, other islands of the Pacific, and Zanzibar. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn a report to the War Office in connection with his recent unsuccessful operations at the Tugela River, General Sir Redvers Buller states that it was ...
Article : 101 wordsAt the invitation of the manager of Burns, Philp, and Co., a representative gathering of residents took place on Wednesday for the purpose of ...
Article : 471 wordsThe British Admiralty has placed a large order for Sehwartzkopf tornedoes with a Venice firm. ...
Article : 24 wordsFinding that there is some difficulty in passing the "Kruger" sovereigns and silver coin, the Government at Pretoria is now minting imitations of British ...
Article : 38 wordsColonial bank shares are quoted as follow:—Bank of Australasia, £65; Union Bank of Australia, £32 10s.; Bank of New Zealand 4 per cent. ...
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Advertising : 709 wordsThe applicants for enrolment in the Bushmen's Contingent were as numerous on Feb. 14, as they were on the previous day. Taken all round they were ...
Article : 1,137 wordsLieutenant G. J. Grieve, a New South Wales special service officer, who is attached to the Black Watch (the 42nd Highlanders), was in the thick of the ...
Article : 162 words"Banjo" Paterson, writing from Rensburg, on January 10, says:—Yesterday the newly arrived Household Cavalry had their baptism of fire. These are ...
Article : 237 wordsThe quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,040,000 quarters, against 1,925,000 quarters a week ago; and for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsThe form displayed at Flemington today had an important bearing on the betting for the Newmarket Handicap and the Australian Cup. The best price ...
Article : 128 wordsTwo more men left to-day as candidates for the Bushmen's Contingent, after passing the preliminary examinations. An auction sale of girls to the ...
Article : 143 wordsA London contemporary publishes the following:—When, the gallant Colonel Baden-Powell was interviewed by the present writer on his return ...
Article : 294 wordsTwo thousand additional troops sailed from England for South Africa, yesterday. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Cape Town recommends that an additional 75,000 men should be despatched to South Africa. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt was just the irony of fate that the moment the new arrivals took the field trouble came upon them. A shell was fired at long range, and landed right in ...
Article : 252 wordsWhen the steamer Moana left Honolulu on the 1st inst. the plague was supposed to have been stamped out. No fresh cases had been reported for four ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Patriotic Fund is increasing rapidly. It now amounts to £20,852. All the four squadrons of the Bushmen's Contingent have been formed. ...
Article : 103 wordsOn Wednesday the weather was a great improvement on that of the previous day, through the prevalence of a cocl breeze from the south, though the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Boers have sent 1,400 refugees from Windoorton and other districts to the north of Kimberley on to Lord Methuen's camp at Modder River. ...
Article : 89 wordsOwing to the plague, the French steamer Pacifique, from Noumea, has been placed in quarantine. The Pacifique has 70 passengers; of these 63 ...
Article : 44 wordsThe proposal to keep a fourth contingent of 1,000 men in camp ready for emergencies steadily gaining ground. An M.L.C. has promised £500 towards ...
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Advertising : 72 wordsClaim for Demurrage.—The Cammissioner for Railways sued the Perth Municipal Council to recover £33 14s. for the demunage of tracks, containing ...
Article : 137 wordsPrivate Robert Carlyle, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, writing to his parents in Dumfries regarding the battle of Magersfontein, where his ...
Article : 164 wordsOn the general subject of war relief for widows, orphans, etc., a correspondent, "H. Br.,' wrote to the "Pall Mall Gazette" from Eton as follows:— ...
Article : 612 wordsThe British in the Colesberg district have withdrawn from their new camp at Slingersfoatein to their old quarters at Rerseurg, eight miles to the east. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following are extracts from a recent letter sent by Mr. H. H. Spooner, special correspondent of the Sydney "Evening News":— ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 16 Feb 1900, Page 9
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