A British armoured repairing train proceeding north of Ma[?]eking was attacked by a party of armed Boers, and a sharp encounter ensued, in which ...
Article : 134 wordsGoldsbrough, Mort, & Co, Limited 0report holding their second sale to-day, when they submitted a very attractive catalogue of 6,276 bales, of which, 5,881 ...
Article : 282 wordsMahinapua, s.s., 458 tons, G. J. R. Wald, for Strahan. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Farrell and 2 children. McCutcheon, Brooks and child, Stewart and 2 children, ...
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Advertising : 47 wordsStreets of New York will be played at Theatre Royal to-night. Banquet to Sir Edward Braddon at Launceston on 30th inst. ...
Article : 4,609 wordsEDDYSTONE.—October 18 — Glenloth passed south. ST. HELEN'S.—ARRIVED. October 18— Warrentinna, s.s., from Hobart. ...
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Advertising : 396 wordsJohannesburg refugee[?] declare that the Boers clamoured for war only because they were buoyed up with the hope of a general rising of the Cape ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Boers have looted Ingogo and Ingagane, and are robbing refugees, including Basuto natives. Railway lines at Ingagane have been ...
Article : 40 wordsCoogee, s.s., 1,000 tons, F. Carrington, from Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Williams, Stomach, Pike, Shah and infant, Edwards; Misses Ogilvy, ...
Article : 115 wordsAn armoured train, whilst reconnoitring near Spytfonteiti, 15 miles south of Kimberley, was attacked by a detachment of Boers. The military ...
Article : 58 wordsA Router's message states that H.M.S Thetis is chasing the German vessel Kaiser, which a few days age unloaded at Port Said four thousand ...
Article : 65 wordsARRIVED.—October l8 — Pateena, s.s., from Launceston, at 5 a.m. Penguin, s.s., from Hobart [?]ia ports, at 4 p.m. MELBOURNE. ...
Article : 36 wordsDinizulu, the Zulu Chief, to whom overtures were made by Commandant Cronje, on behalf of the Boers, but declined, has offered to place the services ...
Article : 107 wordsIt has transpired that Sir Alfred Milner had to force Premier Schreiner to sign the treason proclamation or else resign his position. ...
Article : 54 wordsRainfall for the last 24 hours:—Corinna, 0.12in.; Strahan, 0'10in.; Waratah, 0-09in.; Southport, 0.02in. Hobart automatic records for the last 24 ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Boors have subdivided their forces, and are now entrenching in various passes. Sir W. Penn Symons, the British ...
Article : 51 wordsThis Day.—Victoria and other colonies. OUTWARDS. Friday.—New South Wales, Queensland, South and West Australia, etc., 6.30 a.m.; ...
Article : 40 wordsKimberley, now isolated, has found means to send an urgent message to Capetown asking for assistance. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Netherlands Consul at Natal notifies neutrality, and all the foreign consuls at Pretoria enjoin neutrality of their fellow-subjects. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe whole of the 2,500 Reservists from the British Army, now residing in Cape Colony and Natal, have rapidly responded to the call for active duty. ...
Article : 28 wordsReturn showing the value of imports and exports, also duties collected at the several ports and sub-ports of Tasmania during the month ended September 30, 1899, as ...
Article : 269 wordsSeveral Boer spies bave been arrested at Ladysmith. French-Canadians aro enthusiastically joining the Canadian Contingent. ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the Theatre Royal last evening, Trilby was produced by the Darrell Dramatic Company with a success which left no room for adverse criticism, and realised all that ...
Article : 583 wordsOwing to the Boer advance the coal mines at Glencoe, the chief source of supply for the Natal railway, have for the present been abandoned. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Minister of Defence notifies that a communication has been received by His Excellency the Administrator of the Government from the Secretary of State ...
Article : 163 wordsNine thousand Ka[?]rs and miners, commanded by two Englishmen have walked from Johannesburg to Ladysmith. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe malignant feeling of the Boers towards Mr. Cecil Rhode's is manifest in a communication made to the Globe nowspapor, which affirms that the ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Joseph Chamberlain, in view of continuous threats, m[?]de by the Boers that they will murder all the English people coming within their clutches, ...
Article : 53 wordsA team of recruits, under Corp. Gore, travelled to Glenorchy on the 14th inst. to [?]ire a match with the local team. After a very close contest the Brighton men won ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Mount Lyell Co. are offering £25 reward for information that will lead to the conviction of persons who cut the sleepers on No. 33 railway bridge, near ...
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Advertising : 84 wordsI was reading an advertisementof Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrh[?]a Remedy in the Worcester Enterprise recently, which leads me to write this. I ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 19 Oct 1899, Page 2
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