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  2. CABLEGRAMS.

    The British Engineers are now engaged in sapping towards the Boer laager. Lord Roberts has allowed a German ambulance to pass into the laager and ...

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  3. CABLEGRAMS.

    President Kruger has re-opened the premises of the Robinson South African Banking Company, which he closed about a month ago, and has replaced ...

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  4. TELEGRAPHIC

    There has been no fresh outbreaks of the plague here. Two other persons were today removed to the quarantine station, making 27 now under ...

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  5. CABLEGRAMS.

    In the House of Commons last night the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, introduced supplementary naval estimates, providing ...

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  6. TELEGRAPHIC

    Mr H. C. Callahan manager of the Lake View Consols, left Perth for the goldfields by tonight's train. Mr Owen's report concerning the ...

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  7. CORDON DRAWN CLOSER.

    The cordon round the Boer position has been drawn closer every day since the investment began. On Friday the second Shropshire Light Infantry ...

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  8. NORTH CAPE COLONY.

    Within the last few days Major-General R. A. P. Clements has received some reinforcements, among them a number of the Australian second contingents of ...

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  9. DETERMINED TO FIGHT.

    When a draft of 100 officers and men of the Highland Light Infantry was recently being prepared at Deyonport for service in South Africa, Private ...

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  10. EFFORTS FOR RELIEF

    Since the investment of General Cronje several thousand Boers, circling round the British lines, have made determined but ineffectual efforts to ...

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  11. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    With regard to the proposal of the Victorian Government for adding a cordite factory to the works of the Australian Explosive Company at ...

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  12. DUKE OF ORLEANS.

    The Duc[?]d' Orleans has just publicly denied having written a letter of congratulation to a certain M. Villette, a French artist, who had drawn, some ...

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  13. DESTRUCTIVE BUSH FIRES.

    Sensational incidents are coming to light in connection with the bush fires now raging in various parts of Victoria, Gippsland being the centre and the ...

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  14. BARKLY EAST OCCUPIED.

    Following up the success of Brigadier-General E. Y. Brabant at Dordrecht on Sunday week, the colonial troops have re-occupied Barkly East ...

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  15. KAISER AND THE WAR.

    It has already been stated that many of the higher German officials bitterly complain of the spiteful way in which many of the German papers give ...

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  16. CAPE VOLUNTEERS.

    Mr. J. W. Sauer, Minister of Public Works in the Schreiner Cabinet, has stopped the pay of all the Cape Colony railway employees who are now serving. ...

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  17. FREE STATE GOVERNMENT.

    The Free State Government has decided to carry out a plan proposed some time ago in consequence of the impossibility of defending Bloemfontein ...

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  18. FIRE IN ISLINGTON.

    The Grand Theatre in Islington was burnt down last night, but no deaths are reported. ...

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  19. AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS.

    Lieutenant E. Martin of Adelaide, has been appointed to a lieutenancy in the Manchester Regiment, the first battalion of which is now in Ladismith. ...

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  20. VICTORIA.

    The Victorian and Tasmanian Wesleyan 27th Annual Conference commenced today. The Rev. Henry Greenwood, retiring president, was ...

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  21. COLLAPSE OF CELLARS.

    Some huge chalk cellars at Epernay collapsed yesterday, and 500 casks and 1,500,000 bottles of champagne were destroyed. ...

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  22. TWO LADISMITH JOURNALS.

    The craving for news at Ladismith, says the "Standard's" correspondent, has led to the publication of two journals— the "Bombshell" and the "Ladismith ...

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  23. THE CHURCH AND THE WAR.

    Church and chapel, says the London "Referee," have been busy with the war since Christmas, but the preachers are not quite at ease in the pulpit. ...

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  24. CRONJE SURRENDERS.

    A cable despatch has just been received from Lord Roberts to say that General Cronje has surrendered after desperate fighting. ...

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  25. TRANSPORT MAORI KING.

    While the transport steamer maori King was off Madagascar a deliberate attempt was made to set her on fire, for which a lamp cleaner on the vessel was ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN ASSISTANCE.

    The Bushmen have been at mounted drill for the past couple of days, and are getting everything in readiness for their departure. ...

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  27. SHAH OF PERSIA.

    His Highness Mazaffer-ed-Din Mirza, Shah of Persia, has accepted the invitation of the British Government to pay a visit to England, and will be the guest ...

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  28. TASMANIANS TO THE FRONT.

    The Tasmanian second contingent have left Cape Town for the front. An additional list of Canadians wounded during the surround of ...

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  29. LORD LAMINGTON

    Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, and Lady Lamington, are returning to Australia by the R.M.S. Omrah. ...

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  30. CAMPAIGN IN NATAL.

    In view of the certainty of the speedy relief of Ladismith, Colenso is full of waggons laden with all kinds of necessaries and luxuries, which will be sent ...

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  31. DEVOTION TO QUEEN AND COUNTRY.

    Reuter's correspondent, writing from Chieveley camp on December 28 says:—The history of the battle of Colenso has been already written, and the one ...

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  32. QUEENSLAND.

    A man named J. Hill was charged at the police court today with the murder of Edward Bone. During a quarrel o Saturday night it is alleged that Hill ...

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  33. INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

    The Mansion House Fund for the relief of sufferers by the famine in India has now reached £100,000. ...

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  34. INVASION OF THE FREE STATE.

    General Cronje and his army are still hemmed in on the Modder. The Boer commander, who evidently realises that unless he is relieved speedily ...

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  35. BULLER'S ADVANCE.

    In the fighting round Colenso on Tuesday last, the 20th inst, the casualties of the British rink and file numbered 113 in all. ...

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  36. TRADE AND FINANCE

    The wheat arrivals have been 280,500 quarters, of which 81,500 quarters have been forwarded, leaving 257,000 quarters available. Prices have been 6d ...

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  37. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The annual conference of the Wesleyan Church was opened today in the Centenary Hall. The Rev. W. H. Beale was elected president. ...

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  38. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrivals—Rakaia, Sahara, Hampton, Mombasa, Lady Elizabeth, Falls of Dee, Matatua, Delphic, Northern Monarch, Waikato, West Australian ...

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  39. Amusements.

    This popular place of amusement had another crowded audience last evening and every item received a liberal amount of applause. To-night Miss ...

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