Sir,—If any further evidence were needed to prove how our military authorities keep up their reputation of "how not to do it," then ...
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Article : 85 wordsThe Trust met on 9th inst. Present:—Messrs. Thos. Riggall (chairman), W. H. Bennett, R. C. Kermode, and Thos. Parramore. ...
Article : 122 wordsIt is believed that the bubonic plague has been introduced here by rats, and the City Council has decided to thoroughly cleanse the city. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe weather at St. Helen's for the past ten days has been cold and wintry. Several welcome showers of rain have fallen, and on the 8th it rained nearly all night. ...
Article : 361 wordsThe annual meeting of electors of Glebe Town took place on the 11th inst., at 1 p.m., there being only a few electors present. Mr. Riddoch moved that ...
Article : 175 wordsAdvices from Honolulu, received per s.s. Mariposa, show that there have been 64 deaths from plague there. Inquiries made by the Government ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Melbourne "Herald" special war correspondent, Major W. T. Reay, writing from Colesberg, on March 3rd, said: — "The South Australian Company is ...
Article : 221 wordsFor these races on Easter Monday the number of entries are:—Trial Stakes, 17; Hurdle Race, 6; Sorell Plate, 12; High Weight, 12; Time Handicap Trot, 24; Free ...
Article : 42 wordsAt Rotorua a few days ago there took place a very interesting ceremony connected with the consecration ot Mr. C. E. Nelson's carved house by the Arawa ...
Article : 372 wordsA Boer commando, numbering two thousand men, well armed and equipped, is now marching on Springfontein. Rundle's division, which had been ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Maribyrnong Racing Club meeting to-day was held in showery weather. There was a poor attendance. R. Wren, the trainer of Utah, was brought before ...
Article : 189 wordsCertain documents, which a correspondent has received from some "stock and share dealers," and which he has forwarded to us for inspection, are of ...
Article : 947 wordsThe Midland people are not of an initiative disposition, nor are they susceptihle to the impulse of the moment, to laud or condemn, but with critical eye ...
Article : 434 wordsDirectly the news reached Bloemfontein that three companies of the 2nd Battalion of the Irish Rifles and two companies of the 9th Mounted ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Premier states that the cost of fighting the bubonic plague amounts to nearly £30,000 per month. Inspection of houses in the area ...
Article : 636 wordsMany of tho Orange Free State Boers who had surrendered and laid down their arms at Rouxville, north of the Orange Rivor, have again risen in ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Boers report that on the 5th inst. they surrounded and shelled a hand of armed Kaffirs who were escaping from Mafeking. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe town has been busy of late, owing to the rush of potatoes to the port for shipment. A kind of panic has seized the farmers in regard to the bubonic ...
Article : 692 wordsAll the prisoners recently captured at BoBhof by the British are French, German, and Russian mercenaries, except three Dutchmen. ...
Article : 22 wordsPrivate F.W. Matthews, of the South Australian Mounted Contingent, has died from enteric fever at Deelfontein. Corporal Allen, of the New South ...
Article : 78 wordsYou have heard it said that the b[?] is father to the man. Yes. Very good. Now see what a prodigious de[?] may be tied up in that idea. ...
Article : 727 wordsThe members and friends of the Wesleyan Church tendered Mr. Crocker (who has been in charge for the past three years) a farewell social on Monday ...
Article : 151 words"Indaba," of the Melbourne "Hornld," commenting upon war cables, writes:- Trouble is anticipated along tho Basutoland borders, it being considered ...
Article : 659 wordsTwenty thousand horses from Australia, Buenos Ayres, and New Orleans will be landed at the Cape during April and May. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe transport steamer Duke of Portland, which left Brisbane on March 1st ult., with Queensland contingent, has left Capetown for Beira. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Council met on the 9th inst. Present:—Councillors Thos. Riggall (Warden), W. H. Bennett, H. W. Brown, H. J. Davis, and Thos. Parramore. ...
Article : 159 wordsTroops are leaving Natal to r[?]inforce Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein. Bluejockets sent from H.M.S. Monarch to r[?]inforce Lord Roberts are now ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Boers have received thirty new guns from European factories. Some of these are of heavy calibre. The guns were landed at a western ...
Article : 60 wordsCronje has been safely landed at St. Helena. ...
Article : 12 wordsNon-attendance returns were tabled. A letter from Mr. Murphy, asking for the assistance of the Board to enable him to recover certain fees owing to ...
Article : 119 wordsThere are indications that the vanguard of Lord Methuen's Mafeking relief force has traversed Vryburg, 96 miles south of Mafeking. ...
Article : 34 wordsColonel Plumer was slightly wounded in the arm, and his horse shot under him, during the rifle engagement with the Boers within six miles of Mafeking, ...
Article : 64 wordsA harvest festival service was held in the Congregational Church, uonville, on Sunday, the 8th inst. The church was tastefully decorated with fruit, flowers, ...
Article : 349 wordsThe Trust met on 9th inst.:— Present:—Messrs. Thos. Riggall (chairman), W. H. Bennett, H. W. Brown, and Thos. Parramore. ...
Article : 189 wordsOur little boy was afflicted with rheumatism in his knee, and at times unable to put his foot to tho floor. We tried in vain everything we could hear of ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. Abraham Fischer, member of the Orange Free State Executive Council, who is now on his way to England, accredited as a peace ambassador from the ...
Article : 98 wordsWould it not be desirable to consult the doctor as to which soap commends itself to our uses, as to many skins are rained past redemption by inferior soa[?] PEARS' SOAP is recommended ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 12 Apr 1900, Page 3
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