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  2. OLD RESIDENTS.

    FIFTY-FIVE years' residence in Australia is the record of Mr. Donald C. Cameron, the ever[?]ourteous clerk of the Purga Divisional Board, who arrived in Sydney in January, 1845, and ...

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  3. THE BOER WAR.

    NEWS is just to had form Natal that a further heliograph message has been received from General Sir George White regarding the desperate attack made by ...

    Article : 271 words
  4. MISCELLANEOUS.

    An incident in connection with the death of Major-General A. G. Wauchope, who commanded the Highland Brigade at the battle of Magersfontein, where General ...

    Article : 196 words
  5. GIFTS FOR THE TROOPS.

    The Chief Secretary (Hon. J. R. Dickson received a letter yesterday from the Bundaberg Distillery Company, Limited, offering five hogsheads of rum for the use of the contingent ...

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  6. PATRIOTIC FUND IN THE COUNTRY.

    A representative meeting of citizens was held to-night to form a Patriotic Fund, the Mayor occupying the chair. A sum of £147 was promised in the room, and a large ...

    Article : 528 words
  7. AGE OF THE OFFICERS.

    Some remarks have been passed about what is referred to as the youthtuiness of the officers appointed in connection with the second Queensland contingent for South Africa. A glance at ...

    Article : 404 words
  8. AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR.

    The following incident in connection with the war in South Africa be related by the "Pall Mail G[?]sffe" :—"The thunder of the big guns round Ladysmith was fitful. Most of the Boers ...

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  9. THE BRITISH FORCES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    When the British Cabinet met after the reverses sustained by Generals Buller, Metheun, and Geiacre (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph"), arrangements were completed for the ...

    Article : 208 words
  10. COLONEL PILCHER.

    Colonel Filcher, who commanded the Queensland and Canadian troops in their recent successful engagement at Sunnyside, is a comparatively young man. He is only ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. DISLOYAL MANIFESTATIONS IN THE TWEED RIVER DISTRICT.

    Apropos the war question, it is said that last week in Ballina, when the news of Buller's defeat reached them, a number of Government employees cheered wildly and ...

    Article : 159 words
  12. IMITATING THE BRITISH BUGLECALLS.

    With reference to the some what mean trick resorted to by the Boers of imitating the British bugle calls during an engagement, which resulted in the isolation and ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. SITUATION IN NATAL.

    General Buller'e scouts have ascertained that the Boers have fortified every hill around Ladysmith, and between that place and Colenso—a distance of 16 miles—and ...

    Article : 276 words
  14. PREPARATIONS TO SEND FURTHER HELP.

    The Government have decided, after the departure of the second. Queensland contingent, to keep camp at the Exhibition going, in view of the possibility of another draft of Australian ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM THE FRONT.

    The Premier of New South Wales has notified the Chief Secretary of the receipt of a wire from Colonel Hoad, who is in charge of the Australian Regiment at Enslin, in which that ...

    Article : 71 words
  16. BATTLE OF TUGELA.

    The following account of the Battle of Tugela, as published in the "Eastern Province Herald," December 19, has come to hand per the steamer Stassfurt, leaving for ...

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  17. CARTRIDGES FOR THE BOERS.

    The Berlin "Kreuz Zeitung" says that in the spring of 1899 two German sailing vessels from Elsfieth, Oldenburg, of about 1800 tons register, landed, one st East London ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. THE RUGBYITES OF THE CONTINGENT.

    Included in the contingent which is leaving Brisbane in a few days' time for South Africa are quite a number of well-known Bugbyites, and arrangements san being made by Brisbane ...

    Article : 42 words
  19. INVESTMENT OF FUNDS.

    It is understood that an application has been made by the Mayor to be allowed to deposit the proceeds of his Patriotic Fund with the Government Savings Bank at interest. Of course, ...

    Article : 100 words
  20. PREPARATIONS IN THE SOUTH.

    One thousand men are still drawing rations at the camp at Randwick in the following sections :—A Company, second contingent, 129 men; B Company, second ...

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  21. FURTHER REINFORCEMENTS.

    The War Office authorities have decided to further strengthen the artillery forces in South Africa, and a dozen additional batteries of field artillery have been warned to ...

    Article : 125 words
  22. The Federal Contingent.

    Monday (says the 'Courier"), for some reason or other, was an exceptionally quiet day in the camp at the Exhibition Building. A number of fine young fellows from Toowoomba ...

    Article : 551 words
  23. Apropos of the War.

    The army men employed to watch the line from Capetown to Port Elizabeth, via De Aar and Naauwpoort, is a striking indication of the care that has to be taken to ...

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  24. AT A RAILWAY EMPLOYEES' DINNER.

    A FRIEND of mine (on the staff of a local paper) on being requested to reply to the toast of "The Press," delivered himself as follows, amid much laughter and applause :—" Mr. ...

    Article : 183 words
  25. WOOGAROO LUNATIC ASYLUM.

    DURING the week ended on the 6th instant three females were admitted into the above institution and one female was discharged. Ten males have been transferred from Goodna ...

    Article : 51 words
  26. SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR.

    The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, delivered an important speech at Manchester last night with regard to the war in South Africa. He ...

    Article : 159 words
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