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Advertising : 1,594 wordsCommandant Olivier's column, with 800 waggons, made a forced march from the Orange River district, after being repulsed by the British, and reached ...
Article : 129 wordsEntries for all events to be run at the Easter meet of the Deloraine Turf Club close with the secretary, Mr. T. Learoyd, Deloraine, this evening. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe annual summer picnic of the Norther[?] Tasmanian L censed Victuallers' Association took place to-day, when Mr. Jas Boag, the president, invited a ...
Article : 308 wordsThe Zeehan Racing Club were fortunate in having splendid weather for their postponed meeting, which was held this afternoon. There was only a moderate ...
Article : 148 wordsIn ordinary circumstances, as touching matters of ordinary interest nnd con corn, floating rumour—assertions and opinion, that is, most clearly mirrored ...
Article : 1,551 wordsIt is difficult to estimate the force General Joubert will be able to concentrate at Kroonstad. Before the Boer reverses there was some data for ...
Article : 1,030 wordsThe Premier of New South Wales has telegraphed to the Hon. N. E Lewis the following copy of a cablegram received from Mr. Barton from London:—"Reeves ...
Article : 268 wordsA meeting of the Sennte of the University of Tasmania was held on Wednesday, in the Mayor's court-room, Mr. Justice Clark in the chair, and there ...
Article : 523 wordsThe following are the results of the Epsom races held to-day:- Handicap Hurdle Race, 2 miles.—Jenico, 10.3, 1; Insult, 10.8, 2; Cintra, 10.9, 3. ...
Article : 110 wordsPublic examination in Bankruptey of P. B. Billing, who carried on a drapery business in Brisbane-street, was held today before Mr. Commissioner Dobbie. ...
Article : 117 wordsHeavy rains are now falling throughout South Africa, and many of the military camps are swamped. Advance movements are thus ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. C. J. Inglis, with the sanction of the directors of the Moonlight-cum-Wonder G.M. Company, has withdrawn the offer he made on behalf of Mr. Melver, as ...
Article : 135 wordsA troop train has been overturned from an embankment near the Victoriaroad station, on the main Cape Town railway, owing to subsidence of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsMr. R. M. Johnston, the Government Statistician, yesterday supplied the Premier with a map, showing the division of the colony into five parts, for the federal ...
Article : 154 wordsColonel Baden Powell, on the 13th inst., making sortie from Mafeking, captured one of the enemy's trenches, and killed twelve Boers. ...
Article : 27 wordsLarge quantities of shrapnel and machine gun ammunition have been found hidden in farmhouses round about Springfontein, Orange Free ...
Article : 25 wordsMagnet, March 24. — No. 1 Tunnel—S. stope above this level been opened out to 27ft. wide, showing splendid gossan for full width, with Beams and bunches of ...
Article : 475 wordsJ. A. Roberts, of the New South Wales Lancers, has been discharged from the hospital at Protoria. A hundred Boer prisoners at Simons ...
Article : 74 wordsSir,—In your telegraphic messages in this morning's issue, we read: "The Standard' says leaders of the Opposition recognise that extension of British ...
Article : 819 wordsEiridsdale is nominated for the Cumberland Stakes, Autumn Stakes, All-Aged Stakes, and Final Handicap at the A.J.C. autumn meeting. ...
Article : 459 wordsThe Boers are massing at entrenched positions at Biggarsberg, North Natal. Their baggage waggons at Newcastle are all packed in readiness for retreat. ...
Article : 73 wordsWhile Cronje's possible consignment to St. Helena is lending a new touch of interest to "this vile rock in the midst of the ocean," as Bonaparte usually ...
Article : 629 wordsA reconnaissance was made on Mon day towards Brandfort, North of Bloemfontein, by the Sixteenth Lancers, and a skirmish resulted, ...
Article : 70 wordsLarge numbers of Kaffirs are now employed by the Boers in digging trenches around Johannesburg and neighbouring kopjes. ...
Article : 35 wordsTh[?] Western directors are inspecting mine. They spent the whole of to-day under the ground. Royal Tharsis (Mount Lyell).—Drive in ...
Article : 39 wordsA meeting was held at Margate on the 27th March. Present—Messrs. C. A. Hughes (chairman), J. T. Stansfield, C. Woods, E. Meredith, J. N. Worsley, and ...
Article : 306 wordsGold. — Moonlight-cum-Wonder, b. 7d. New Monarch, b. 2s. lfd., s. 3s. 3d. New Pinafore, b. 1s. l0d. Tasmania, b. £5 18s., a. £6 2s. Volunteer, b. 2d. ...
Article : 621 wordsColebrook v. Sorell. — Played at [?]olebrook, on 24th inst. and resulted in a close win for Sorell by 8 runs. T. Clark, D. Sidnell, and C. Fox batted beat for ...
Article : 46 wordsSir,—May I crave space to ask what is the position of a Justice of the Peace of pro-Boer proclivities? For instance, suppose a gentleman who ...
Article : 230 wordsSister Mary Reginald, O.S.D., of the Newcastle Convent, in Natal, in a letter to the English Catholic paper, the "Tablet," gives an account of the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 29 Mar 1900, Page 3
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