MR. THOMAS TINSON, Inspector of Nuisances for the city, dropped dead yesterday morning while transacting business in the railway goods shed. Mr. Tinson seemed to be in his usual state of health and ...
Article : 517 wordsIN response to a request we have decided to open a shilling fund the proceeds of which will be added to the amount raised for the patriotic fund in this district. The object of the patriotic fund is to provide for the ...
Article : 146 wordsSOME of the prisoners taken during the battle of Magensfontein state that the fire from the British artillery was most effective, entirely clearing the upper Boer entrenchments. So terrible was the ...
Article : 203 wordsTHE Highland Brigade at Magersfontein consisted of the 2nd Battalion Black Watch, 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, and 1st Battalion Argyll and ...
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Advertising : 1,794 wordsTHE break-up for the Christmas vacation of the above college took place in the Oddfellows' Hall on Friday afternoon. Rev. Canon Pritchard, B.D., occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance ...
Article : 1,764 wordsGeneral Cronje's force engaged in the battle included 4000 troops who had been taking part in the siege of Mafeking, ...
Article : 24 wordsThe first portion of the sixth division of the Army Corps sails from England for South Africa to-morrow. The Government is actively mobilising the seventh ...
Article : 46 wordsFresh drafts of Highlanders will embark to-morrow to take the places of those in the Highland Brigade, which lost so heavily at the battle of Magersfontein. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn connection with the advance from Frere of the Ladysmith relief column, Major-General G. Barton, C B., with 38 guns, bombarded Colenso on Wednesday. ...
Article : 213 wordsLieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren, who in to command the Fifth Infantry Division of 11,000 men, has arrived at Capetown. ...
Article : 22 wordsThere are no signs of a panic in Great Britain. The public is patient and is resolute in its determination to continue the war. ...
Article : 29 wordsA second Canadian contingent has been raised, and is ready to proceed to South Africa. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe newspapers insist on the employment of rapid transports for the conveyance of troops to South Africa. ...
Article : 20 wordsMrs. Hannibal A. Williams, a talented elocutionist from America, gave a recital of Shakespere's play, "As You Like It," in the Town Hall on Friday evening. The hail was crowded with ladies ...
Article : 277 wordsThe British Government line given instructions for the preparation of another seige train and a special mounted corps representing Great Britain and the colonies. ...
Article : 29 wordsDisloyalty is spreading in the Umtata River district, Victoria East, and King William's Town, three largo centres in the eastern province of Capo Colony. ...
Article : 41 wordsLieutenant-General Sir G. S. White, the commander of the garrison at Ladysmith, has blown up the bridge over the Modder Spruit to the eastward of the town, with the object of cutting off the ...
Article : 40 wordsAn engagement has taken place to the eastward of Arundel, south of Colesberg, between 1800 Free State Boers and Major-General J. D. P. French's division, to which Captain Cox's detachment of ...
Article : 63 wordsThe British transport Denton Grange, which recently went ashore near Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, with a large number of military munitions on board, is discharging her cargo. ...
Article : 32 wordsLieutenant Winston Churchill, the correspondent of the London Morning Post, who distinguished himself and was reported to have been slightly wounded at the armored train affair, which took ...
Article : 47 wordsSir William Gatacre's division at Sterkstroom has been reinforced by a battery of artillery. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsFour Natal Dutchmen have been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for disloyalty. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Daily Mail War Relief Fund, derived from the sale of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's poem " The Absent-minded Beggar," has, so. far, realised £37,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsMR. BANSHER, direct representative of the Goold Bicycle Co., is at present in town, and has on view at their agents, Messrs. Judd and Murphy, Auburn-street, samples of their latest models. These models ...
Article : 70 wordsMessrs. William Weddel and Company have sold the whole of the cargo of meat of the steamer Langton Grange at Durban. They have also sold the ship Timaru (of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsAT the evening service to-morrow Canon Pritchard will preach a special sermon on "The Call to Patriotism." The surplus offertory will be given to the N.S.W. Patriotic Fund. The ...
Article : 40 wordsA private message was received in Adelaide from London on Friday stating that Ladysmith had been relieved and that 6000 bad been captured. The cables, which left London several hours later, do not ...
Article : 451 wordsONE probable result of the war in South Africa is, or certainly should ne, the complete upending of the incapable British War Office. Its complete inadequacy has been ...
Article : 1,106 wordsAT the break-up of the Superior Public School, Bourke-street, yesterday Miss Rushforth, head mistress, and Miss Taylor, M.A., assistant, were each presented with tokens of the esteem entertained ...
Article : 66 wordsLord Salisbury has announced that Great Britain has signed the conventions drawn up by the late Peace Conference at the Hague for securing a pacific settlement of international disputes regarding the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 491 wordsThe public will be afforded an opportunity of inspecting some of the work done by tire students of the wood-working classes or the College this evening. The Mayor, Mr. J. Knowlman, will open ...
Article : 135 wordsSpeaking at York last night the Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council, said that the attitude of every Continental Government towards Great Britain was "absolutely correct." ...
Article : 38 wordsAT the Police Court to-day, before the Police-Magistrate, James Oxenberry pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly and to using indecent language in Auburn-street early this morning. He ...
Article : 41 wordsATTENTION is directed to an advertisement in another column calling a meeting of the women of Goulburn to take steps to assist the local branch of the patriotic fund. As it is desired to considerably ...
Article : 442 wordsWHAT is known in political circles as the "Coghlan inquiry" has been finished. The Premier states that the determination arrived at is that Mr. Coghlan shall remain in his present office an ...
Article : 65 wordsTHE above association met on Thursday evening. Mr. A. M. Betts in the chair, and there was a fair attendance. Mr. Sendall, secretary, informed the meeting that he had further reliable information ...
Article : 202 wordsTHE next performance of this company will be on Wednesday evening next, when the nautical drama, "Insured at Lloyd's," will be staged. Care will be taken to make the piece Us acceptable no previous ...
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Family Notices : 12 wordsWE have received a copy of the Xmas issue of the above, containing seventeen songs, including "Come into the Garden, Maude" "Good-night, Beloved," and "The Green Trees Whispered Low," Balfe; ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Sat 16 Dec 1899, Page 2
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