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  2. WAR IN CHINA.

    THE commanders of the allied forces in China are sending an expedition to drive the insurgent Boxers from the villages in the direction of Pao-ting-fu, in the province of ...

    Article : 63 words
  3. Boer War.

    A BORE commando is now threatening the town of Wepener in the south-east of the Orange River Colony. [This is the town where Colonel Dalgely was so long besleged by ...

    Article : 65 words
  4. COLLIERY TROUBLE.

    AT 5 p.m., to-day representatives of the miners who are now on strike are to meet the members of the Coal Owners' Association in conference, in Ham's rooms, Nicholas-street ...

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  5. RETURN OF PRIVATE M. D. BRADY.

    COLONIALS all over the great Australian island-continent (writes "Old Sport") no doubt feel a glow of pride in the gallant behaviour of their soldiers fighting alongside the grand veterans ...

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  6. A SURPRISE PARTY AT MOUNT FORBES.

    A NUMBER of the friends of Mr., Mrs., had the Misses Schonfeld (writes a correspondent under date of the 4th instant) gave them a surprise party on Saturday night, ...

    Article : 296 words
  7. APPROACHING SCULLING RACE.

    For the sculling race to be rowed mat Monday between George Towas and James Wray, both Australians, the former is favourite, the batting being 12 to 4 on. ...

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  8. THE PLAGUE.

    FORTUNATELY so far the latest demonstration of the plague fiend has been confined to the case of the girl James at Russell-street, South Brisbane, and there has been ...

    Article : 108 words
  9. THE TAFFVALE COLLIERY STRIKE.

    Mr. Justice Barwell has granted as injunction restraining the Amaigamated, Society Railway Servants and their scorcturies, Messrs. Bell and Holmes, from watching end ...

    Article : 57 words
  10. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    THE death is announced of Mr. Henry Mort, M.L.C., one of the pioneers of Queensland. He settled in Moreton Bay in the forties, and before the establishment of constitutional government ...

    Article : 241 words
  11. LI HUNG CHANG AND THE INSURGENTS.

    A report has been received from Chinese sources that the Viceroy Li Hung Chang has issued an order to the native Chinese soldiery in the provinces of Hanan and Chill for the ...

    Article : 43 words
  12. DEATH IN BRISBANE.

    Mrs. Smith, a resident in Leichhardt. street, who had been ailing for the last few days, died on Thursday night. A post-mortem examination, to-day, revealed that ...

    Article : 39 words
  13. RUSSIANS REPAIRING THE RAILWAY.

    The Russians are stated to be now engaged in repairing the railway line between Tientsin and Pekin, which was recently destroyed by the Chinese in their efforts to oppose the advance ...

    Article : 41 words
  14. Advertising

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    Advertising : 312 words
  15. RIVAL TO FROZEN MEAT.

    AN experimental shipment of unfrozen Argentine beef, preserved under a new process with sterilised air, has arrived in England, but the experiment has proved ...

    Article : 167 words
  16. DEATH OF A COLONIAL.

    Private Belly, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, has died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein. ...

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  17. WESTERN STAR LODGE, G.U.O.O.F.

    ON Thursday night last the usual meeting of the above lodge was held at their hall, Brisbane-street. Bro. W. Statham, N.G, as usual presided. The attendance on this ...

    Article : 272 words
  18. AMERICA'S REPLY TO RUSSIA.

    The United State Government has informed Count Lamsdort, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the American troops at Pekin will be withdrawn only when the Russians ...

    Article : 33 words
  19. THE POSITION AT LADYBRAND.

    During their attack upon Ladybrand the Boer force lost 24 killed and 86 wounded. They have now raised the siege and retreated to Allendale. ...

    Article : 27 words
  20. LONDON, September 7. RESIDENTS RETURNING TO PEKIN.

    Matters at Pekin are now becoming quieter, and residents are returning to the town. ...

    Article : 21 words
  21. OPERATIONS NEAR LYDENBURG.

    Major-General Ian Hamilton, who was recently despatched to Lydenburg with the British troops under his command to co-operate with General Sir Redvers Buller against the ...

    Article : 77 words
  22. GERMAN PATROL ATTACKED.

    A force of 500 Boxers recently attacked a German patrol at Tisintan, but no particulars of the engagement are to hand. ...

    Article : 24 words
  23. PUNISHING BOXERS.

    The French authorities have shot two prominent Boxers at Tientain. The Japanese have beheaded two members of the Borer society at the same place. ...

    Article : 27 words
  24. MELBOURNE.

    Two men were severely injured by a mining explosion at the Star of the East mine, Sebastopol yesterday. Two holes had been charged, and the reports which were heard afterwards ...

    Article : 138 words
  25. BADEN-POWELL AT CAPETOWN.

    Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell is now on a visit to Sir Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner for South Africa. On his arrival at Capetown he was accorded a great ...

    Article : 33 words
  26. PEACE PROPOSALS.

    The Viceroy of Wu-Chang is stated to be urging Great Britain to take a lead in securing peace in China and preventing as far as possible any further injury to the commerce of the ...

    Article : 38 words
  27. PORTUGUESE TROOPS FOR DELAGOA BAY.

    A thousand Portuguese troops are being despatched from Lisbon to Delagoa Bay, presumably with the object of watching the frontier. ...

    Article : 27 words
  28. LANDING TROOPS AT SHANGHAI.

    A force of 500 German troops has been landed at Shanghai; also 1000 additional British. ...

    Article : 19 words
  29. ROSEWOOD LETTER.

    THE weather still continues dry and warm, though the nights remain chilly. A shower of rain would now be very acceptable to freshen the grass, crops, &c. ...

    Article : 665 words
  30. BREELONG OUTLAWS.

    DURING yesterday afternoon the Breelong blacks entered a house owned by a man named Mackay, and helped themselves to some sugar and blankets. The house was unoccupied, and ...

    Article : 268 words
  31. THE GOVERNOR AT PUBLIC MEETINGS.

    MR. KIDSTON was to have moved on Thursday. In the Legislative Assembly pursuant to notice:—"That this House while entertaining the highest respect for his Excellency the ...

    Article : 113 words
  32. ATTITUDE OF GERMANY.

    The United States Charge de'Affairs at Berlin reports that the German Government consider it necessary to retain the allied troops at Pekin. ...

    Article : 61 words
  33. ADELAIDE.

    The Wilcannia arrived here from Capetown this morning with 30 invalided soldiers on board. Included among the number are Sergeant-Major Morris and Privates Allery and ...

    Article : 53 words
  34. THE VERY LATEST.

    INFORMATION has been received that Captain Brake, with a force of 1000 men and two guns, by making a frontal as well as a flanking movement, defeated a force of 3500 hostile natives at ...

    Article : 121 words
  35. DROUGHT OUT WEST.

    CONSTABLE FADDEN arrived here yesterday. He had travelled from Birdsville, via Winton, and describes the state of the country in the far West as pitiable. At Birdsville there is no ...

    Article : 227 words
  36. Mass-Meeting.

    ON Thursday morning a mass-meeting of strikers was held near the south eastern corner of the Bundanba racecourse. The decision arrived at at the meeting held on the previous ...

    Article : 434 words
  37. THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BRANCH.

    THE Agent-General, who was recently asked to secure a man in England suitable to take charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Police Department in Brisbane has ...

    Article : 176 words
  38. FRANCE AND THE PLAGUE.

    The French Government have intimated that they will require a clean bill of health from all vessels coming from Scotland, England, or Ireland, on account of the outbreak of ...

    Article : 40 words
  39. ROCKHAMPTON SHOOTING CASE.

    M. HENDERSON, the victim of the shooting case, is declared by his medical attendant to be progressing se satisfactorily as could be expected, but it is too early yet to ...

    Article : 72 words
  40. WEATHER FORECASTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 words
  41. A PRO-BOER M.P.

    The Right Hon. Leonard Courtney, member of the House of Commons for Bodmin, who has been one of the most prominent Boer sympathisers in England, has been rejected by his ...

    Article : 53 words
  42. LAND SELECTION IN THE GAYNDAH DISTRICT.

    INSTUCTIONS are about to be issued to Mr. F. J. Charlton, surveyor for the sub-division into agricultural arms of the BanBen resumption [?] will be cut up ...

    Article : 75 words
  43. ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    Later news received states that the steamer Stella Polare, which has just returned from the Arctic regions to Norway, was embedded in the ice for 11 months. The expedition reached a ...

    Article : 55 words
  44. FRIDAY.

    Queensland: North, Central, and South.—Increasing temperature generally inland, including the Gulf country, followed by monsoonal weather, consisting of thunderstorms, ...

    Article : 53 words
  45. TENDERS INVITED.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
  46. RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

    MASS to advertised to be celebrated at Tarampa, Rosevale, Grandchester, Bandy Creek (Dolan's), Mount Walker (O'Neill's), Mount Crosby (Tansey's), and Hilleide (Ryan's) during ...

    Article : 63 words
  47. TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

    The Trade Union Congress of Great Britain, now sitting at Huddersfield, has by an immense majority, rejected a motion by Mr. Ben Tillet in favour of the constitution of a ...

    Article : 49 words
  48. Second Mass-Meeting.

    The strikers held another meeting near the racecourse yesterday afternoon, when it was resolved that the roll should be called at all future meetings. It was mentioned that the ...

    Article : 136 words
  49. CHAMPION LADY SWIMMER.

    Madame Icacescu, the champion Austrian swimmer, recently attempted to swim from Calais to Dover, a distance of 21 mens, and though she failed in completing the whole of ...

    Article : 52 words
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