JOHN GATES died of plague last night. He was removed to the quarantine station only is the morning, having been picked up on Monday in the street seriously ill. ...
Article : 272 wordsIt is learnt that Kaffirs are being engaged by the Boers in digging trenches on the kopjes around Johannesburg. ...
Article : 23 wordsNEWS is to hand that Trooper J. A. Roberts, of the New South Wales Lancers, who was, some time ago, wounded and taken prisoner, has been discharged, cured, from the hospital ...
Article : 90 wordsNEWS has been received from Cunninhame, at the entrance of the Gippsland Lakes, of the wreck of the steamer Giensig. She left Cunninghame, on Saturday, for Melbourne, with 20 ...
Article : 351 wordsTHE service of sacred song given in St. Paul's Anglican Church last evening was very well patronised, a fairly large and representative congregation assembling in the sacred ...
Article : 494 wordsTHE Hon. William S. Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finance, delivered his budget speech, in the House of Representative, yesterday The budget showed that, ...
Article : 74 wordsGeneral Joubert, the Boer commander-in-chief, who was recently at Kroonstad, has now returned to Pretoria. ...
Article : 19 wordsIn order to cope with the enemy's artillery the townspeople of Mafeking actually built a gun of their own, which could carry a 28lb shell. The genius under whose direction this ...
Article : 227 wordsLieutenant Osborne, an officer in the Australian Horse, has been given a commission in the 16th Lancers. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt is announced that Cape Colony police will be retained for service in districts south of the Orange River in deference to the racial susceptibilities of Free State colonists. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe race for the Lincolnshire Handicap was run at the second day's racing of the Lincoln spring meeting, to-day, with the following result Lincolnshire Handicap, of 1000 sovs., ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Minister for Defence has received a cable message from the Victorian Agent-General, stating that each company of the Imperial bushmen should have a major, a captain, four ...
Article : 88 wordsThe delegates from Australia in connection with the Commonwealth Bill, with their wives, and Mr. S. H. Parker, representative of Western Australia in connection with the bill, were ...
Article : 55 wordsIF it be true (says the " Times of Natal") that Field-Cornets Lombard, Grobelaar, Opperman, Erasmus, and another were killed at the Spionkon fight, then it would be interesting to know, ...
Article : 254 wordsIN the papers which arrived in Melbourne from Capetown yesterday (says Monday's " Sydney Morning Herald") there is an interview by Reuter's agent with Mr. Melton Prior, the ...
Article : 873 wordsIt is announced that Mr. W. N. Tomkins has retired from his position as secretary of the London Bank of Australia, and he will be suceeded by Mr. F. J. Curtis. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe first-class armoured battleship Goliath (which was launched in 1898—19,950 tons, 16 guns) has been appointed flagship on the British naval station in Chinese waters. ...
Article : 33 wordsTHE Boonah and Coobin clubs met on Saturday last, at Boonah, in connection the Fassifern Cricket Association fixtures Although, on paper, Coochin appeared likely to ...
Article : 326 wordsTHE Queensland patriotic fund now stands at £16,687. The "Courier" list, which is mostly included in the Queensland fund, has reached £8983, the Bushman's Fund £6185, and the ...
Article : 111 wordsONE of the most moving trials that the United States has furnished for a long time was concluded in New York on the 10th instant, when Roland B. Molineux, a prominent ...
Article : 875 wordsAFTER seven hours' continnous fighting the combined attack upon our position at Ladysmith on November 9th failed, and the Boers began to retire exactly at 12 o'clock, ...
Article : 147 wordsTHE aunnal meeting of the Ipswich and West Moreton British Football Association was held at Mr. G. Vincent's North Australian Hotel last night. There was a fair attendance of ...
Article : 546 wordsOne hundred of the Boer prisoners at Simon's Town are suffering from typhoid fever. ...
Article : 18 wordsIn connection with the siege of Mafeking, Information has been received that on Tuesday, the 18th of March, some of the defending force, under Colonel Baden-Powell, made a gallant ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. G. A. Dowton has sold the racehorse Tarquin to Mr. R. Phillips for 1400 guiness. ...
Article : 27 wordsA large quantity of shrapnel and ammunition for machine guns has been discovered in some of the farm-house around Springfontein, in the southern portions of the Orange Free State. ...
Article : 31 wordsSister Mary Reginald, O.S.D., of the New castle Convent, in Natal, in a letter to the English Catholic paper, the "Tablet," gives an account of the experiences of her order at ...
Article : 412 wordsCommandant Oliver's force has, by means of forced marches, reached Glosloan, a town about 24 miles to the north-east of Ladybrand (at which place the force was last heard of), in ...
Article : 72 wordsA soon deal of annoyance and dismay has been caused by an announcement that the departing Governor has not taken taken with him the seperation petition as agreed upon, he ...
Article : 44 wordsTHE Sydney University examination results have been posted. Among the Queensland passes are the following:— French, Class H., Makel M. Murray-Prior, ...
Article : 36 wordsA large number of the natives of Basutoland are engaged in repairing the railway line to the north of Bloemfontein, some portion, of which had been destroyed by the enemy. ...
Article : 32 wordsTHE Deputy-Commissioner for Railways (Mr. J. F. Thallon) returned to Brisbane on Monday a night from Adelaide, where tended the conference of Railway ...
Article : 408 wordsHeavy rains have recently fallen throughout South Africa, turning many of the military camps into perfect swamps. ...
Article : 20 wordsA train conveying troops was overturned, owing to the subsidence of the railway line caused by the heavy rainfalls, on an embankment at victoria Road, in Cape Colony. Nine ...
Article : 48 wordsA DISASTROUS explosion occurred at the 800ft, [?] south mine, Broken Hill, this morning, causing the death of two men, William H. Baxley and Alfred May. The men were ...
Article : 125 wordsIt is reported that on Monday last Colonel Pilcher (who led the colonial troops in the engagement at Sunnyside), with a small force, drove the Boer outposts into the town of ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Boer column under Commandant Olivier, which is trekking northward, and was last heard of at Clocolan, about 24 miles north of Ladybrand, has now been reported in the ...
Article : 71 wordsAT a meeting of the shareholders of the Toowoomba Deposit Bank held on Friday (says the "Toowoomba Chronicle" of the 27th), it was decided to wind up the bank, ...
Article : 126 wordsWe have to chronicle, with thanks, the receipt of the following contributions in aid of the above fund. Further contributions as they reach or, will be acknowledged in due course:— ...
Article : 54 wordsLatest reports from Natal state that the Bosr forces are massing at the Biggarsberg mountians, to the north of Ladysmith, and near Dundee, where they occupy entrenched ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" (London) reports that a force of 20,000 Free State troops, under Commandant De Beers, assisted by some of the Harrismith residents, ...
Article : 46 wordsQueensland: North, Central, and South.— There is a tendency is scattered showers generally connection with electric disturbances [?] and local variable blows are ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the capturing of the Boer guns on the Little Umbolwan, Major "Karri" Davie was the most active of all on the hill (says the Ladysmith correspondent of the "Natal Witness") ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 wordsCONSIDERABLE excitement has been caused at Texas (says the "Border Post") by the discovery of a very promising gold-reef in the vicinity of Bloomfield Park, about nine miles ...
Article : 168 wordsThe "Daily News" states that Lord Roberts, the British commander-in-chief, will shortly leave Bloemfontein for Capetown, in order that be may there meet Lady Roberts, who has gone ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsTHE friends of Mr. James Johnstone Little are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of his deceased son, to move from the residence of Mr. H. Plostz, jun., Pine-street, ...
Article : 37 wordsOn Monday last the British troops made a reconnaisance towards Brandfort, a town on the railway fine about 35 miles north of Bloemtontein. The 16th Lancers skimished ...
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