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  2. CABLEGRAMS.

    The War Office authorities have now completed all arrangements for the mobilisation of the Eighth Army Corps Division. The Seventh Division has ...

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  3. TELEGRAPHIC

    A couple of dreadful boating [?]trophes took place to-day, involving the loss of eight lives. One of the boats was a stiff, containing seven ...

    Article : 353 words
  4. CABLEGRAMS

    Several war correspondents note that when the ten guns were finally abandoned on the Tugela and the men were ordered to retire, many of them wept ...

    Article : 106 words
  5. CABLEGRAMS.

    A terrible accident occurred yesterday at Amalfi an old Italian town in Campanea, on the Gulf of Salerno. An enormous rock, situated high up ...

    Article : 150 words
  6. TELEGRAPHIC

    Tremendous bush fires are raging in the Beechworth district and devastating it wholesale. The town of Beechworth was more than once in danger ...

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  7. BRASSEY VOLUNTEERS.

    Among the volunteers' for the Lord Chesham's Yeomanry Corps of 8000 is the Hon. T. A. Brassey, son of Lord-Brassey, the Governor of Victoria. ...

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  8. FAREWELL TO REV STANLEY REID.

    Last night meeting of Boulder residents was held in the Mayor's, room to bid farewell to the Rev. Stanley Reid who is joining the West Australian ...

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  9. TUGELA BRIDGE DESTROYED.

    Sir Redvers Buller has destroyed the road bridge over the Tugela, which has been held by the British throughput, in order to prevent the Boers south of ...

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  10. SOUDAN AFFAIRS.

    Following up Sir Francis Wingate's defeat of the Khalifa, an Egyptian force under Colonel Bryan Thomas Mahon has occupied El Obeid, the ...

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  11. BOER FORGES.

    Estimates of Cape Town set down the total Boer forces now in the field as about 65,000. (It is exceedingly difficult to arrive ...

    Article : 237 words
  12. WRECK OF A STEAMER.

    The steamer Ariosto, bound from Galveston to Hamburg, went ashore the night before last in Ocracoke Inlet, off the coast of North Carolina, between ...

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  13. CANADIAN ROUGH RIDERS.

    The British Government has accepted an offer from Canada to send to South Africa a squadron of rough riders, all thoroughly experienced ...

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  14. FATALITY ON THE SWAN RIVER.

    A fatal accident occurred on the Swan River yesterday. A party of about 25, including Mrs Wilson, Charles Cuthbert, John Osborne, and John Rowan ...

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  15. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrivals.—Morayshire, Gulf of Siam, Medic, Tolosa, Gera. Departures.—Fiery Cross, Brenda, for Sydney; Woodville, for Lyttelton. ...

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  16. TELEGRAPHIC

    A telegram received here yesterday from Leeuwin states that H.M.S Penguin has searched the whole neighbour-hood of the White Top Rocks without ...

    Article : 139 words
  17. FOREIGN OFFICERS.

    General Count Gourko, one of the most distinguished Russian, officers of the present day, has started for Delagoa Bay. He is accompanied by two ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. BOER CONFESSION.

    General Schalk Burger, who some days ago took General Joubert's position as Commander-in-Chief in Natal during the latter's temporary ...

    Article : 65 words
  19. BOERS AT MAGERSFONTEIN.

    The general opinion at Cape Town is that the Boers are making their entrenchments at Magersfontein so very extensive in order to include within ...

    Article : 55 words
  20. Amusements,

    The Kalgoorlie Miners' Institute will be occupied for the first time to-night by the Frolics Company, a strong variety organisation, headed by no less ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. RAILWAY FATALITY.

    A shocking railway accident happened at the Percy-street railway crossing in Portland on Saturday night. The engine of the evening train from ...

    Article : 174 words
  22. BUBONIC PLAGUE,

    News received here from Noumea states that a sanitary bulletin was issued on Sunday. It announced three fresh cases of the bubonic plague in New ...

    Article : 176 words
  23. CAPE DISLOYALTY.

    In order to prevent any possible harm that might arise from the disloyalty of the district in which he is encamped, Sir W. F. Gatacre has ...

    Article : 68 words
  24. MAGERSFONTEIN WOUNDED.

    About one-third of the British soldiers who were wounded at the battle of Magersfontein and sent back to the Orange to recuperate have now ...

    Article : 82 words
  25. ASSAULTON A WOMAN.

    A brutal outrage was committed at Port Kembla on Saturday afternoon, a woman named Williams being the victim. She left the Kembla Hotel in ...

    Article : 135 words
  26. AUSTRALIAN ASSISTANCE,

    Up to the present upwards of 50 men have passed the examination for the contingent and are going into camp tomorrow. A large number have yet ...

    Article : 346 words
  27. FLYING JORDANS' CIRCUS.

    A great crowd of residents of Kalgoorlie town and district attended last evening at the first performance in this city of the Flying Jordans' circus, which ...

    Article : 378 words
  28. BATTLE OF THE TUGELA,

    In his official despatches giving an account of the battle of the Tugela General Schalk Burger reports that the Boer casualties were only 30 in all. ...

    Article : 255 words
  29. A WEEK'S CALM.

    The "Times" thinks that there will be no important movement of British troops to chronicle for a week to come. It will require about that time to ...

    Article : 125 words
  30. VICTORIA.

    Yesterday was the hottest Christmas on record in Melbourne. The thermometer reading was 150deg. in the sun and 99deg. in the shade. Despite ...

    Article : 129 words
  31. FIRE AT QUEENSTOWN.

    On Saturday morning Queenstown was in great danger of total [?]truction by fire. Though the business places escaped, the fire pro[?] very ...

    Article : 123 words
  32. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    A case of the wholesale poisoning of station employees occurred at Pounango, an out-station of the Momba Pastoral Company, Nine persons ...

    Article : 82 words
  33. BOER PREPARATIONS.

    A well-known resident of Cape Town warned the British Government as far back as 1894 that he had seen at Pretoria written plans for a campaign ...

    Article : 79 words
  34. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The half-decker Atlanta, with 20 people aboard, capsized in a stiff breeze to-day off Bradley's Lead Ferry. The steamer Lily succeeded in ...

    Article : 69 words
  35. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The Christmas holiday passed off very quietly in the city, the weather being almost wintry; ...

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