The War Office authorities have now completed all arrangements for the mobilisation of the Eighth Army Corps Division. The Seventh Division has ...
Article : 245 wordsA 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 wordsSeveral 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 wordsA 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 wordsTremendous bush fires are raging in the Beechworth district and devastating it wholesale. The town of Beechworth was more than once in danger ...
Article : 512 wordsAmong 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. ...
Article : 89 wordsLast 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 ...
Article : 591 wordsSir 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 ...
Article : 88 wordsFollowing up Sir Francis Wingate's defeat of the Khalifa, an Egyptian force under Colonel Bryan Thomas Mahon has occupied El Obeid, the ...
Article : 46 wordsEstimates 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 wordsThe steamer Ariosto, bound from Galveston to Hamburg, went ashore the night before last in Ocracoke Inlet, off the coast of North Carolina, between ...
Article : 60 wordsThe British Government has accepted an offer from Canada to send to South Africa a squadron of rough riders, all thoroughly experienced ...
Article : 94 wordsA fatal accident occurred on the Swan River yesterday. A party of about 25, including Mrs Wilson, Charles Cuthbert, John Osborne, and John Rowan ...
Article : 143 wordsArrivals.—Morayshire, Gulf of Siam, Medic, Tolosa, Gera. Departures.—Fiery Cross, Brenda, for Sydney; Woodville, for Lyttelton. ...
Article : 26 wordsA 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 wordsGeneral 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 wordsGeneral Schalk Burger, who some days ago took General Joubert's position as Commander-in-Chief in Natal during the latter's temporary ...
Article : 65 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA shocking railway accident happened at the Percy-street railway crossing in Portland on Saturday night. The engine of the evening train from ...
Article : 174 wordsNews 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 wordsIn 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 wordsAbout 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 wordsA 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 wordsUp 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 wordsA 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 wordsIn 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 wordsThe "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 wordsYesterday was the hottest Christmas on record in Melbourne. The thermometer reading was 150deg. in the sun and 99deg. in the shade. Despite ...
Article : 129 wordsOn Saturday morning Queenstown was in great danger of total [?]truction by fire. Though the business places escaped, the fire pro[?] very ...
Article : 123 wordsA case of the wholesale poisoning of station employees occurred at Pounango, an out-station of the Momba Pastoral Company, Nine persons ...
Article : 82 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe Christmas holiday passed off very quietly in the city, the weather being almost wintry; ...
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