FURTHER particulars of the reverse sustained recently by the first battalion of the Suffolk, Regiment, forming part of General French's force, state that in a midnight ...
Article : 262 wordsFURTHER inquiry before the Acting-Police Magistrate at St. George in connection with the recent tragedy elicited but little fresh. It seems that the murderer Snow woke young Watson ...
Article : 119 wordsThe special correspondent, at Frere, of the London "Standard" states that President Kruger, becoming impatient at the delay in the reduction of Ladysmith, asked General Joubert ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. and Mrs. John Corney thank, elsewhere the residents of Gatton who assisted find their late son Walter, and also all those who attended his funeral and forwarded wreaths. ...
Article : 32 wordsA terrible murder was reported from Onslow last night. A Japanese woman named Claryson was stabbed by a Manilla man, whose name is Baldo. ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is said that all the available Boer forces in the trenches at the Tugela River, confronting Sir Redvers Buller's division, were withdrawn on Saturday, to strengthen the attack on ...
Article : 36 wordsVALENTINE PFINGST, on remand, charged with the murder of his wife, was brought before the Police Magistrate again this morning. Mr. Fletcher who appeared for ...
Article : 63 wordsIn some of the trenches before Ladysmith the fighting, on Saturday last, was of so sanguinary a nature that the Boer casualties were found to be in the proportion of five to ...
Article : 65 wordsA meeting of the executive committee appointed to arrange matters in connection with the patriotic demonstration to take place in Ipswich on Thursday night next, was held in ...
Article : 750 wordsLAST night's "Telegraph" says:—News was received by the West End police this morning of what appears to be a case of child murder. The matter was reported to ...
Article : 310 wordsWe ("Observer")learn that the A.M.P. Society has arranged with the Government to insure the lives of the men of the second Queensland contingent at the usual war rate of the society, ...
Article : 65 wordsYESTERDAY being the day preceding the day of nomination in connection with the annul election of member to the Bundanba divisional Board, caused by the retirement, through ...
Article : 634 wordsThe newspaper correspondents state that the steadfastness and Indomitable pluck of the British soldiers alone saved them from a disastrous defeat and rout. Notwithstanding the ...
Article : 74 wordsLieutenant R. M. Stodart, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, has been appointed a lieutenant in the second Queensland contingent about to be despatched to the Transvaal. The ...
Article : 61 wordsThe result, of a section of the Brisbane Technical College examinations was published, to-day In practical dress making, senior division Nellie Kennedy, of Ipswich, passed with 75 ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Hon. T. A. Brassey (eldest son of Lord Brassey, Governor of Victoria) has undertaken to raise a troop of yeomanry, in England, for service in South Africa. ...
Article : 35 wordsNews from Noumea, under yesterday's date, states that a European resident has been seized with the plague, and has been removed to the quarantine ground. Two deaths of kanakas ...
Article : 116 wordsThe London correspondent of the "Daily Mail and Empire" (Toronto) cabled on December 5:—"Mr. Julian Ralph, describing in the 'Daily Mail' this morning the ...
Article : 111 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has contributed to the war fund being raised by the artist of Great Britain two pictures—one from her own hand and the other by that of her late husband, his ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Dominion of Canada has expressed her desire to bear the whole of the cost of maintaining the Canadian contingents in the field, without assistance of any kind from the ...
Article : 38 wordsTHAT there is evidently a good demand for horses just at present. That the call has no doubt arisen owing to the war in South Africa, and to the fact that ...
Article : 1,021 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Mall" (London) says that, in repelling the three attacks of the Boers on Ladysmith, on Saturday last, 14 British officers were killed and 34 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 467 wordsThe Right Hon. Lord Strathoona, who is High Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada in England, has generously offered to equip and maintain a contingent of 400 rough ...
Article : 44 wordsIN the name of the Prophet, ticks! In my last I mentioned about the 'Tick Conference, which sat that day, also of the rumour that the New South Wales Minister for Agriculture, Mr. ...
Article : 837 wordsThe Government of Portugal has issued a proclamation to the effect that nobody shall be allowed to enter the Transvaal via Delagoa Bay without he possesses a passport and a ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Right Hon. St. John Brodrick, Parlialiamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking at Marylebone, contended that the generals now ...
Article : 93 wordsThe composite regiment of Household Cavalry, consisting of detachments from the 1st and 2nd Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards, under the command of Lieu. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Boers are laagered in great strength in a position five miles to the eastward of Colenso. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt has been discovered that when Lieutenant. General Lord Methuen was wounded in the thigh, at the battle of the Modder River, on the the 28th of November, he was thrown from his ...
Article : 47 wordsThe second Queensland contingent will embark for the Transvaal to-day, in the Maori King, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hutchison. By permission of the ...
Article : 98 wordsA newly-launched British turbine-driver torpedo-boat destroyer, in a trial trip has attained the enormous speed of 35½ knots an hour without any vibration. [In a recent trial ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is reported that Lord Methuen, who is in command of the British troops at the Modder River, is making a railway along the front of his position, and has engaged ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 wordsIt was decided to-day, in the interests of public safety, that the embarkation of the second contingent should be effected at Wooloomooloo Bay, instead of at Circular Quay. ...
Article : 122 wordsMajor-General French, who is in command of the British troops at Colesberg, is about to carry out a reconnaissance. ...
Article : 22 wordsLate reports from Ladysmith state that 21 deaths have occurred at that place, in five days, from dysentery and enteric fever. The special correspondents of some of the ...
Article : 145 wordsA visit to the Exhibition grounds on Thursday afternoon (writes "Old Sport") revealed a complete transformation, as it were. Men (of almost every position in life, and who, a few ...
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Advertising : 96 wordsA meeting of ladies, convened by his Worship the Mayor, was held in the Council Chambers, on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of forming an auxiliary committee to assist in ...
Article : 384 wordsIN connection with the seizure of vessels which have been made by British men-of-war because of their being supposed to contain contraband of war, the law is admitted by the ...
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