It will be learned with pleasure by West Australians that Drs. M'Williams, who served with the First West Australian Contingent in South Africa ...
Article : 74 wordsThe retirement of the troops of General Clements, after their defeat, was orderly, but a considerable quantity of their transport was lost through the ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is f[?]ed that Commandant De Wet, who was supposed to be advancing towards the mountains in the Ladybrand district, will again adopt the tactics ...
Article : 67 wordsThe reception of the Governor-General was an the whale a retry moderate affair. It only served to emphasise the Loading that prevailed among the less jealously ...
Article : 386 wordsThe troops of the Yangtse Viceroys are reported to be gradually st[?]ing the Emperor's hands now that Prince Tung-fuh-siang has been sent ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 wordsBad Language.—Mary Lynch was ordered to undergo seven days' imprisonment for having used obscene language. Alleged Forgery.—Samuel Edwards ...
Article : 178 wordsJudgment was delivered to-day in the Jenkins will case, in which Philip Jenkins, a nephew of the testatrix, alleged testamentary incapacity and undue influence ...
Article : 58 wordsNews has been received of the capsize of a Chinese steamer in the West River. There were 200 persons drowned. ...
Article : 31 wordsHis Excellency the Administrator received a cable message from South Africa yesterday, stating that, by the steamer Orient, which had sailed from Cape Town ...
Article : 155 wordsA force of Boers succeeded in detailing a number of trucks about ten miles from Standerton. British troops arriving on the scene ...
Article : 39 wordsDisastrous bush fires broke out on Saturday on tine Wallandool Station, and [?] are still raging. They have extended to the adjoining stations, Wallawalla, [?] ...
Article : 55 wordsA number of arrests have been made at Hoeping, in the Canton district, of Boxers who have been offering rewards , for foreigners' heads. Twenty ...
Article : 51 wordsCommandant Ferriera, surprised the British outposts at Vryheid, and tried to rush the town, but was repulsed after severe fighting. ...
Article : 42 wordsAnother case of plague has been reported in Brisbane. The patient was employed as a labour on the [?] Coquette, which has been lying in the river ...
Article : 40 wordsA force of 1,500 Boers is threatening the town of Komatipoort, district about 56 miles from Delgoa Bay. ...
Article : 22 wordsSly Grog-selling.—John Gettaz pleaded guilty to sly grog-selling. The defendant, who was the holder of a colonial wine [?] had supplied beer and weekly to ...
Article : 180 wordsA Reuter's cable from Tientsin states, on the authority of a credible Chinese source, that the Emperor has agreed to the payment to the Allies of an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsA large force of Boers has been attacking the British, garrison at Utrecht, [The latter, however, being armed with several guns, have been able to repulse ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Kruger has attended a meeting at his sympethisers held at Hamburg. He viclently denounced England, and condemned Count von Bulow for ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "Times" says Britain must adhere to the provisions of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty wearing neutrality to the Nicaragua canal, and entire ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Public Service Reclassification Bilt, which will be before the legislative Assembly next week, adopts the recommendation of the board with regard to the ...
Article : 75 wordsLord Methuen, in his march from Ottoshoop to Zeerust, succeeded in capturing large stocks from the enemy. Among these were 200 head of cattle ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Czar has now so far recovered his strength, as to be able to sit in the verandah in the open air for a little while each day. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 wordsCaptain Marian, N.S.W. Medical Corps, and Lieutenant Vernon, of W.A. Bushmen, are passengers for England on the same steamer Lord ...
Article : 28 wordsGeneral Lemmer, a Boer leader, has been killed in an engagement at Ottoshoop. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Government intends, if possible, closing the session on Thursday. It wishes to give the members every opportunity to attend the Commonwealth ceremonies is ...
Article : 30 wordsOf the many hundreds of steamers, which trade across the Atlantic at the present day, not one is better known or more ...
Article : 669 wordsThe leading burghers at Bloemfontein consider Mr. Chamberlain's proposals are liberal, and express their gratitude for them. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. J. Bryn Roberts created a stormy scene in the House of Commons by asserting that same of the Australian troops, when disappointed ef the ...
Article : 119 wordsGeneral Knox has driven De Wet, with 3,000 men, to the road lying between Thabanchu and Ladybrand British troops form a cordon between the ...
Article : 92 wordsBush fires are still raging between Bernalla and Wangaratta. A belt of country 15 miles by 9 miles has been stripped of grass, crops, fencing, and stacks, and in ...
Article : 43 wordsW. Caldwell, a New Zealand Roughrider, has died at Pretoria of enteric. ...
Article : 18 wordsThere were riotous proceedings in Ballarat this afternoon. A meeting of Chinamen had been called for the "Joss" house, to initiate a movement to support the ...
Article : 126 wordsInformation has been gleaned that official instructions have been received from London setting forth the manner in which the ceremony of swearing-in the ...
Article : 115 wordsEnglishmen in China, writing to the press, condemn what they describe as the mischievous activity of the Germans. ...
Article : 26 wordsSanderson, the New Zealand Government veterinary surgeon, has been appointed veterinary surgeon to General Baden-Powell's force of police. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe gunboat Protector arrived at Brisbane but night. She will leave for Adelaide to-morrow in charge of Captain Clare. ...
Article : 26 wordsEight hundred mounted infantry sew stationed at Aldershot at 200 men of the Army Medical Corps, have been ordered to prepare to start for ...
Article : 41 wordsDelarey's and Beyer's commandoes attacked General Clements north-eastward of Krugersdorp at dawn on Thursday. Though the first attack was ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. Artington, of Leeds, who was recently stated to have left £250,000 to the London Missionary Society, was a bachelor recluse, and lived most ...
Article : 55 wordsSince his arrival, the Governor-General has been much sought after by the representatives of the newspapers, but he declined to be ...
Article : 403 wordsThe representative Victorian soldiers to take part in the Federal inauguration ceremonies will leave Melbourne in three special trains on Christmas Day. Special ...
Article : 41 wordsThe police have recovered come of the Nelson relics, which were stolen from South Kensington. Several valuable curios have been stolen from West Ham ...
Article : 34 wordsA party of Boers looted the Riverton Road station, which was unprotected, removed four waggons of produce, and destroyed the contents by fire. They ...
Article : 41 wordsFire in Perth.—Shortly after 8 o'clock last night Lana Singh, a night-watchman at Federal buildings, at the corner of William and Murray streets, discovered a fire ...
Article : 452 wordsFredk. Schongnard, a laborer, was runover and killed by a train in Vincent-street. Porth Adelaide, on Saturday afternoon. He was attempting to cross the line ...
Article : 40 wordsCommandant Louis Botha, with 1,500 men, is now near Standerton. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Imperial Parliament has been prorogued until February 14. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe deficit of the Paris Exhibition amounts to two millions of francs. ...
Article : 17 wordsLord Raglan has announced in the House of Lords that for the future all wounded and invalided troops will be provided with the comforts supplied to ...
Article : 48 wordsThe steamer Chemnitz, from Hamburg which arrived on Saturday, while in 45½kg. of south last. and 113deg. of east long., passed an iceberg 300ft. high and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 233 wordsThe new conditions governing investments by trustees in colonial stocks have been gazetted. A Launch on Fire.—At about 7.30 p.m. ...
Article : 244 wordsMr. Seddon has received a cable message from the Agent-General, intimating the Secretary for War states that it is necessary that more than 200,000 troops ...
Article : 213 wordsGeneral Clements reports that the Northnmberlands resisted until their expended. Two thousand Boers attacked the ...
Article : 140 wordsSir,—The V.R.C. took the initiatory movement when a sportsman like Sir Rupert Clarke broke the rules of the V.R.C., through his agent, but it is left for ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 21 Dec 1900, Page 15
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