Lieut-Colonel H. Finn, of the Twentyfirst Hussars, who has been appointed commandant of the Queensland Defence Force, sails in the s.s. Australia. ...
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Article : 104 wordsIn the Legislative Council last night, the Income Tax Bill was passed without amendment. The Bill, as passed through the Assembly, ...
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Article : 105 wordsOwing to Foreign Powers contracting very largely to obtain supplies of Welsh steam coal, The Times expects that famine prices will prevail until ...
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Article : 231 wordsOfficers of volunteer regiments throughout the United Kingdom are profoundly disgusted with the War Office obstacles thrown in the way of ...
Article : 49 wordsAll references made to Australian Federation are cheered to the echo in the House of Commons. When debute on the Government ...
Article : 291 wordsThirty men have offered their services through the Mount Lyell Standard for the Bushmen's Corps. Twenty-three can find their own horses. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Mayor of Kimberley heliographs that the citizens will endure any privations in defence of the town and for the honour of the flag. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn anticipation of an advance in force of French's or Gatacre's division on the central line, the Boers are constructing a strong fort at Stormberg. ...
Article : 71 wordsAt a special Communication of the Grand Lodge lost night the newly-formed Grand Lodge of West Australia was formally recognised, and fraternal ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Government have accepted the offer of Colonel Burns to provide and fully equip forty Lancers for service in South Africa. They sail in the Australasian on February ...
Article : 122 wordsMajor-General Tucker, commanding the Secunderahad district, will proceed to the Cape to take command of a division. Brigadier-General Hector Macdonald, ...
Article : 508 wordsThe Lord Mayor's War Fund, initiated at the Mansion House, London, in November last, now amounts to £661,300. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Cape Mounted Police have captured a thousand cattle in Dordrecht district belonging to rebel farmers. These will be a welcome addition to ...
Article : 40 wordsMercury v. Government Printing Office. —On top pitch, Domain, at 2.30 p.m. Teams from the following:—Mercury. Hooper, Sullivan, Goldie, McLeod, Heron, ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Boers are making desperate attempts to overcome the defence of Kimberley. A thousand shells were fired into the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe new plan of campaign suggested from London is almost exactly identical with the views formed by Sir Charles Holled-Smith and published in the Argus ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 520 wordsWheat continues firm, with deliveries barely up to shipping requirements. Farmers are still storing largely; 2/8 paid for large parcels, and 2/7½ readily obtained ...
Article : 34 wordsLatest report from Mafeking says everything is well there. Colonel Baden-Powell urges that for the present this place shall remain ...
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Article : 296 wordsA telegram has been received reporting the successful floating of the steamer Airlie off Clapham Reef. ...
Article : 21 wordsA coronial inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of William Holland, who was found shot through the skull, was held in the Police-chambers this ...
Article : 113 wordsAnother accident occurred at the Tasmanian Smelting Co.'s works this afternoon, an employee named W. Miller, aged 32, getting his right hand crushed in the ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Boers have commandeered three hundred British subjects at Barkly East to take up arms against their own countrymen, under penalty of death. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsA British force, with artillery, has Occupied Prieska unopposed. Prieska is situated on the south bank of the Orange River, forming the ...
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Advertising : 1,964 wordsThe War Office has ordered a hundred thousand woollen suits for the troops as a change from khaki. An order has also been given for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 wordsThe following letter has been received by a resident of Hobart from Private Graham Coulter, one of the first Victorian contingent: ...
Article : 722 wordsA Hanoverian officer, who until recently was a member of Colonel De Villebois Mareuil's staff at Pretoria, declares that there are 10,000 trained ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsMr. Bennett Burleigh, the Morning Post correspondent, states that the Boors were in the act of abandoning Spion Kop when the ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Rev. W. B. Costley, of Stockbridge, Ga., while attending to his pastoral duties at Ellenwood, that state, was attacked by cholera morbus. He says:—"By chance ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 3 Feb 1900, Page 3
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