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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mr. A. S. Roe, police magistrate of Perth, left Cossack yesterday morning in the steamer Sultan en route to Perth. ...

    Article : 167 words
  3. BRITISH ARMY.

    The fact that 10,000 recruits have joined the militia since Christmas. caused Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, to decide against embodying the ...

    Article : 168 words
  4. THE BOER WAR.

    The Canadian Government has offered to supply militia to release the first battalion of the Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) at Halifax, enabling the ...

    Article : 61 words
  5. BULLER'S LIGHT HORSE.

    A 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 words
  6. SIEGE OF KIMBERLY.

    The hardships of the siege are beginning to tell severely on the residents of Kimberley, and the death rate has assumed huge proportions. ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. ALBANY.

    In 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 words
  8. SAMOA.

    The German Reichstag has approved of the treaty between Germany and Britain in respect to Samoa, other islands of the Pacific, and Zanzibar. ...

    Article : 31 words
  9. REPORT BY BULLER.

    In 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 words
  10. GERALDTON.

    At 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 words
  11. BRITISH NAVY.

    The British Admiralty has placed a large order for Sehwartzkopf tornedoes with a Venice firm. ...

    Article : 24 words
  12. KRUGER AS A COINER.

    Finding 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 words
  13. FINANCIAL.

    Colonial bank shares are quoted as follow:—Bank of Australasia, £65; Union Bank of Australia, £32 10s.; Bank of New Zealand 4 per cent. ...

    Article : 50 words
  14. Advertising

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    Advertising : 709 words
  15. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

    The 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 words
  16. AT KOODOOSBERG.

    Lieutenant 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
  17. HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY UNDER FIRE.

    "Banjo" Paterson, writing from Rensburg, on January 10, says:—Yesterday the newly arrived Household Cavalry had their baptism of fire. These are ...

    Article : 237 words
  18. COMMERCIAL.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 41 words
  19. THE MAYOR'S FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 words
  20. LATE TURF NEWS.

    The 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 words
  21. ENTHUSIASM AT KALGOORLIE.

    Two 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 words
  22. BADEN-POWELL HATES COATSLEEVES.

    A London contemporary publishes the following:—When, the gallant Colonel Baden-Powell was interviewed by the present writer on his return ...

    Article : 294 words
  23. 2,000 MORE TROOPS.

    Two thousand additional troops sailed from England for South Africa, yesterday. ...

    Article : 18 words
  24. A CRY FOR MORE.

    The "Times" correspondent at Cape Town recommends that an additional 75,000 men should be despatched to South Africa. ...

    Article : 25 words
  25. A DISASTROUS EXPERIENCE.

    It 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 words
  26. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    When 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 words
  27. THE BUSHMEN'S CORPS.

    The 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 words
  28. KALGOORLIE.

    On 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 words
  29. NORTHERN REFUGEES.

    The 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 words
  30. PRECAUTIONS IN SYDNEY.

    Owing to the plague, the French steamer Pacifique, from Noumea, has been placed in quarantine. The Pacifique has 70 passengers; of these 63 ...

    Article : 44 words
  31. PROPOSED FOURTH CONTINGENT.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 47 words
  32. Advertising

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    Advertising : 72 words
  33. PERTH LOCAL COURT.

    Claim for Demurrage.—The Cammissioner for Railways sued the Perth Municipal Council to recover £33 14s. for the demunage of tracks, containing ...

    Article : 137 words
  34. AN "AWFUL MISTAKE."

    Private Robert Carlyle, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, writing to his parents in Dumfries regarding the battle of Magersfontein, where his ...

    Article : 164 words
  35. FOR THOSE WHO DIE IN WAR.

    On 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 words
  36. COLESBERG DISTRICT.

    The 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 words
  37. ITEMS FROM THE FRONT.

    The following are extracts from a recent letter sent by Mr. H. H. Spooner, special correspondent of the Sydney "Evening News":— ...

    Article : 721 words
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