THE ship Illawarra, bound to Melbourne from London, was in a dangerous position off Caps Schank this morning, and signalled for the assistance of a tug. A lifeboat was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsBEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. Shepherd and Foxall. HAWKERS' LICENSES. Renewals if hawkers' licenses were granted to ...
Article : 1,816 wordsThe Queensland and Victorian troops were hotly engaged yesterday at Sunnyside, near the Modder River, about 20 miles north-west of Belmont. Jan. 3. ...
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Advertising : 115 wordsTHE members of the regimental band of the First Australian Horse entertained their bandmaster, Mr. T. A. Wilkie, at the Drill Hall on Tuesday evening. Mr. Wilkie has been promoted to take ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsIN response to his telegram to the Mayors of country municipalities asking them upon which day the residents in the districts desired to close their shops for the Saturday half-holiday, the ...
Article : 320 wordsIF ever the possibility of the project of massing a troop of Australian bushmen, 500 strong, and despatching it to the seat of war was in doubt, that period is now absolutely past. The success of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Pilcher has occupied Douglas, in Griqualand, near Sunnyside. The loyalists in the district are jubilant at the success of the British. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the engagement at Rensberg, near Colesberg, the troops under Major-General French had three men killed and seven wounded. BRISBANEE, Wednesday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsIT is reported that the Marquis of Lorne has been offered the position of first Governor of Eederated Australia. See what it is to be born clever! This young man's cleverness showed itself when he ...
Article : 1,158 wordsTHE South African war is likely to be a guerilla one practically to the end. The Boers may be ignorant in many respects, but they know exactly where their strength ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsThe Boers routed at Colesberg numbered about 4000. They used a British 15 pounder (probably one of the guns captured when Sir William Gatacre's division suffered a reverse near Stormberg) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 168 wordsAT a meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday it was resolved that three gentlemen should be appointed to not as a commission for the division of the colony into districts for the purpose of elections to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsThe Daily Mail states that the Government will shortly expend £5,000,000 in additional artillery with the view of securing mobility in the field and the adaptability of position guns as field ...
Article : 35 wordsThe question of the administration of the office of the Government Statistician was discussed at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting. It was decided that Mr. Coghlan, who recently vacated his position on ...
Article : 72 wordsMR. H. O'BRIEN has received a letter from his son, who is in camp in Sydney with the Australian Horse. He writes:—"I passed the doctor all right, and since the shooting I have been made a corporal, ...
Article : 212 wordsThe battery supplied for the New Zealand second contingent by Sir William Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., Elswick, Newcastle-on-Tyne, will be sent out in three weeks. ...
Article : 45 wordsIN connection with the dispute between the Premier, Mr. G. H. Reid, and the Auditor-General, with regard to the state of the public accounts, it was decided at a Cabinet meeting held on ...
Article : 89 wordsTwenty-five English-speaking foreigners, supposed to be spies working in the interests of Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal Plenipotentiary in Europe, endeavoured to enrol themselves as members of the ...
Article : 111 wordsTHE Commissioner of Police has received a wire from the Goondiwindi police to the effect that on New Year's Day a woman named Mrs. Pfingst was found dead in her house. Dr. Woodforde, who ...
Article : 147 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A few days ago a large and influential deputation waited on Dr. Thornton, Bishop of Ballarat, urging him to reconsider his contemplated resignation of the Sec. ...
Article : 357 wordsTHE Plimmer and Carey dramatic Company which play here this evening and to-morrow evening, are very highly spoken of by the papers in Bathurst and Orange where they played "The ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Queen has asked to be supplied with the portrait of C. A. E Huddart, of H.M.S Doris, who was killed at the battle of Grasspan. Her Majesty has also expressed sympathy with the ...
Article : 44 wordsSeven militia battalions have been ordered to South Africa. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe British authorities have seized the Hamburg steamer Hans Wagner in Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe importance of the victory which General French secured at Colesberg is shown by the news published to-day. The Boors, who were routed, numbered 4000, and 1000 of these fled towards ...
Article : 161 wordsSingleton, Wednesday.—Yesterday a little boy named Cooper, aged 9, and son of Mr. W. Cooper, of Coorangoola, died from the effects of a bite from a tiger snake. Thee lad was engaged driving cattle ...
Article : 306 wordsMembers of the Australian Horse Band visited Kenmore Hospital on Saturday last and rendered a capital programme of music for the entertainment of the patients. They were entertained at the close ...
Article : 63 wordsON Tuesday the Mayor received a wire from Lieutenant Thompson stating that the Goulburn encampment of the Australian Horse, arranged for 18th and 21st instant, had been postponed for the ...
Article : 57 wordsOn Wednesday 300 men were selected for the mounted infantry portion of the New South Wales detachment of the Federal Contingent. Major Knight, who as officer charged with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsThe French expedition to Central African under M. Foureau and Commandant Lamy, which was reported to have met with disaster, it safe. The leader of the expedition is sanguine that a ...
Article : 52 wordsA force of French marines leaded in the Mon-tan district, Southern China, and defeated 1500 Chinese troops, killing 200 of their number. The casualties on the side of the French numbered ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Thu 4 Jan 1900, Page 2
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