THE usual monthly meeting of the above Board was held in the Victoria Hall yesterday, when the members present were—Messrs. P. H. M'Grath (Chairman), John Cook, V. ...
Article : 1,968 wordsTHERE was more than ordinary gaiety in the song of the sailors who manned the capstan of the barque Sita, this morning, as is was being swung round at the wharf, for ...
Article : 865 wordsDURING the advance on Kroonstad the division under Major-General Hutton's command, consisting of Australasian and Canadian troops, captured 100 prisoners. ...
Article : 142 wordsWhen the British troops entered Kroonstad on Saturday, Lord Roberts found a field-coronet and 300 Free Staters all eager to surrender. A few British residents warmly cheered Lord ...
Article : 65 wordsReferring to the disputed question of whether plague patients might or might not be safely removed from Ipswich to Cairncross, by steamer, a writer in our issue of the 8th instant ...
Article : 208 wordsIn addition to Lieutenants Green, Philp, and Cowley, recently appointed to be supernumeraries in the fourth Queensland South African contingent, Lieutenant W. H. ...
Article : 147 wordsA large railway bridge to the south-east of Kroonstad had been destroyed by the Boers, but another viaduct in the same locality remained intact. ...
Article : 30 wordsLatest news received states that the enemy are entrenching themselves at a place called Stal, to the north of Kroonstad. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is reported that the Boer commandoes to the north-east of Thabanchu, which were intending to re-occupy that town, are very irresolute with regard to their actions, and have been ...
Article : 57 wordsHis Excellency the Governor is in receipt of the following telegram from Mr. Posechart, the Consul-General of the Netherlands in Melbourne, with reference to the ...
Article : 125 wordsReuter's correspondent at the front expresses the opinion that the opposition of the Free Staters towards the British troops has practically ended. At several meetings at the large ...
Article : 93 wordsCaptain F. L. Jones, who has been given his step from divisional leader to the command of a company, will now take charge of "F" company as senior captain. ...
Article : 90 wordsFrom present appearances it seems that the transport for the conveyance of the contingent to South Africa will not leave Sydney until Wednesday. This means, of ...
Article : 188 wordsAmong the deaths from enteric fever at Bloemfontein are those of Private W. J. James, of the West Australian Mounted Infantry; and Corporal Harkers, of the New South Wales ...
Article : 33 wordsAnother case of plague was reported here to-night. The victim is a wharf labourer, named Hans Larsen, 43 years of age, residing at Rosalie. He is a married man. ...
Article : 125 wordsReports have been received describing Kronstad as a perfect pandemonium on Friday last, the day prior to his occupation by the British Some of the disheartened Transvaalers ...
Article : 271 wordsMR. T. GIVENS, M.L.A., addressed the electors in the Divisional Board Hall on Saturday night. The Mayor was in the chair. In his speech, Mr. Givens, referring to the work of last ...
Article : 265 wordsSOME matters in connection with the threatened outbreak of bubonic plague in this district were dealt with at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Ipswich ...
Article : 592 wordsIT is reported that the cone of Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, has fallen in and been engulfed in the crater, and in consequence the eruptions have ceased. ...
Article : 44 wordsMajor Cameron, of the Tasmanian contingent, was wounded in the elbow at the Zand River engagement on Thursday. Lance-Corporal Stephenson, of the Tasmanians, was slightly ...
Article : 84 wordsReports have been received of a serious railway collision near Philadelphia, in the United States. It appears that a goods train collided with another in a tunnel. The goods train ...
Article : 69 wordsLAST night's "Observer" says:—The police yesterday afternoon received information that the body of a newly-born child had been discovered under a house at the Hamilton. The ...
Article : 316 wordsIn the fighting on Thursday, to the northward of the Zand River, two of the Boer guns were smashed by the British artillery, and at a late period three others shared a similar fate. ...
Article : 37 wordsA SENSATIONAL suicide is reported from Temora. It seems that Dan M'Allery, an employee at the Sebastopol cyanide works, filled a glass with cyanide solution from a vat, ...
Article : 66 wordsFurther Information regarding the reported quarrels between the Transvaal and the Orange Free State troops is to the effect that the Boer commander-in-chief (General Louis Botha) and ...
Article : 60 wordsThe news received via Pretoria that the British column under Major-General Sir Archibald Hunter advancing by forced marches to the relief of Mafeking had passed Vryburg has been ...
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Advertising : 236 wordsDR. BUTLER, the present Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, may be regarded as the man who exercised the most influence on Lord Kitchener's career. It was found, upon the ...
Article : 126 wordsIt now transpires that the portion of the Boer convoy recently captured by the forces under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Rundle and Major-General Brabant contained ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Orange Free Staters are greatly incensed at the turn which affairs have taken, and loudly accuse the Transvaalers of having used them to serve their own ends and of now deserting ...
Article : 35 wordsA hotel-keeper, named Richard Cohen, was having an altercation with his wife, last night, when her brother interfered. He presented a gun at Cohen, and threatened to shoot him. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe body-guard of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, which consists of colonial troops, were the first to enter the town of Kroonstad on Saturday night last. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the advance of Lord Roberts's army against the retreating Boers, the British front extends for a distance of 80 miles, this formation being adopted with the object of rounding ...
Article : 95 wordsThe voting in connection with the Southport Divisional Board took plane to-day, with the following result:— Mr. Berry Mr. Downes ...
Article : 135 wordsColonel Broadwood, with the brigade under his command, who had been pursuing the retreating Boers in their flight towards Kroonstad, overtook the rear portion of the ...
Article : 48 wordsAgain news comes of the abuse by the Boers of the white flag. As a detachment of the Inniskilling Dragoons were approaching a farm-house on which the white flag was hoisted, ...
Article : 54 wordsMR. B. DUNSTAN, who has been engaged on geological surveys in the Mackenzie district west of Rockhampton, is at present in town for the purpose of carrying out some special work ...
Article : 145 wordsThe schism in the ranks of the Afrikander Bond in Cape Colony is reported to be widening. President Steyn, after leaving Kroonstad, ...
Article : 36 wordsLatest information regarding the operations of the British troops states that, on Friday last, Major-General French seized a drift in the Vaalsch River (on which Kroonstad is situated), ...
Article : 85 wordsA cable has been received by his Excellency the Governor to the effect that Private W. Davitt, of the first Queensland South African contingent, died on the 12th instant at ...
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