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  2. LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

    THE regular monthly meeting of the Laidley Divisional Board took place, in the Victoria Hall, Laidley, yesterday. Present—Messrs. P. H. M'Grath (Chairman), G. Wyman, J. Camp ...

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  3. WAR IN CHINA.

    A DETACHEMENT of German troops has been despatched for the purpose of investigating the recent message of Christian converts at Yenking. ...

    Article : 42 words
  4. UPSETTING BOER CALCULATIONS.

    Lord Kitchener reports that the British forward movement in the esstern Transevaal district has thoroughly upset the Boer calcualtions. He states that General Botha, with a force of ...

    Article : 48 words
  5. THE BOER WAR.

    FIELD-COURNET STRYBERG, a loyalist resident of the Greaf Reinet district, in the central portion of Cape Colony, has made so officer to being 50 land-owners of the ...

    Article : 91 words
  6. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

    AT the Goodna Police Court, on Friday last, Before the Police Magistrate, the Queensland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty proceeded against the following persons, Mr. B. F. ...

    Article : 292 words
  7. GOOD WORK BY THE COLONIALS.

    A wide flanking movement, admirably executed by the New South Wales Rifle Corps, commanded by Captain Bennett, compelled the Boers to evacuate the Roggefeld Range, ...

    Article : 91 words
  8. CALVINIA OCCUPIED.

    A British column under Colonel De Lisle has occupied the town of Calvinia, about 190 miles north-east of Capetown. The Boers who were in the locality have retired northward to the ...

    Article : 35 words
  9. MEMORIAL TO THE KING.

    The British residents at Shanghai have memorislised King Edward VII., urging him to refuse to receive the congratulatory mission which the Chinese Government are ...

    Article : 57 words
  10. HARASSING BOER INVADERS.

    Colonel Haigh, who is operating against the Beer invaders in the Midland districts of Cape Colony, has driven them northward past the town of Aberdeen, to the north-west of Port ...

    Article : 34 words
  11. LORD ROBERTS'S DESPATCHES.

    Further particulars of the despatches sent by Lord Roberts to the British War Office are available. In a despatch dated March 16th, 1900, Lord Roberts drew attention to the good ...

    Article : 258 words
  12. MILITARY MATTERS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 words
  13. RETURN OF MAHOMEDANS.

    Twenty thousand of the Mahomedan residents of Pekin, who were compelled to vacate the city during the recent Boxer rising, are now returning by degrees, and the ...

    Article : 45 words
  14. PLAGUE AT CAPETOWN.

    The first signs of the presence of bubonic plague at Capetown were discovered in the south arm of the dockes there, where the military transports are berthed for the ...

    Article : 82 words
  15. COMMONWEALTH LEAGUE.

    A MEETING which had been convened by advertisment, for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a Commonwealth Electoral League was held in the Building Society's ...

    Article : 931 words
  16. A BRITISH SUCCESS.

    A British force has occupied Potrusberg, a town about 50 miles due west of Bloemfontein, in the Orange River Colony, and destroyed the supplies stored there. There ...

    Article : 39 words
  17. The New South Wales Contingent.

    There are in came on the Agricultural graounds, to-day, 1883 officers and men The first Imperial draft of the contingent of the Second Regimnet of Monnted rifles, as ...

    Article : 268 words
  18. IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS.

    THE following is a copy of the annual report for the year ended December 31st., 1900, which is to be submitted to the meeting of [?]bers to the School of Arts to ...

    Article : 617 words
  19. BURGHERS ANGRY WITH DE WET.

    The burghers of the Orange River Colony are said to be eveywhere indignant at the barbarity recently displayed by Commandent Christian de Wet in shooting the Peace ...

    Article : 36 words
  20. BOER RAIDERS RETREATING.

    Commandent Krentringer, who is in command of a force of Boar raiders in the south general portion of Cape Colony, is still retiring to the north cast. ...

    Article : 52 words
  21. QUEENSLAND NEWS.

    THE annual meeting of members of the Queensland Patrictic Fund was held this afternoon. It was shown that £876 had been disbursed from the special fund known as the ...

    Article : 126 words
  22. INSPECTION OF TROOPS.

    Sir Alfred Milcer and General Forestier-Walker inspected 7500 Capetown Guards, including artillary, cavaley, and cycle corps They were warealy complimented on their ...

    Article : 27 words
  23. LONDON, February 11. OPERATIONS AGAINST DE WET.

    News has been received that, on the 31st ultimo, Colonel Pilcher and Major Crewe, on opposite sides of the Tabakeberg Range, engaged a large force of Boers ...

    Article : 254 words
  24. BOWEN.

    The police having reported the discovery of remains supposed to be Anderson's body Dr. Brown, the official medical officer, has gone up to exhume the body and make his report. ...

    Article : 55 words
  25. THE VERY LATEST.

    THEIR Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dochess of Cornwall and York, who have been at Osborne during the illnese of the Duke of York, have now returned to London. ...

    Article : 42 words
  26. COOKTOWN.

    A man named H. Tiffen committed suicide here last night by blowing his brains out, with a revolver, in Chariotte-street. ...

    Article : 27 words
  27. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

    THE following transfers in the Department of Public Instruction are announced, —Daniel P. Cleary, from Pink Lily Lagon to Christmas Creek; Geo, Crawford, ...

    Article : 186 words
  28. MR. KENSIT'S APPEAL TO THE KING.

    Mr. Kensio, who took such a prominent part in protesting against ritualistic practices in the Anglican Church, acting on behalf of the Protestant Truth Society has appealed to King ...

    Article : 79 words
  29. AN APPEAL TO DE WET.

    Piet De Wet has appealed to his brother, Commandant Christion De Wet, to use common sense, and recognise that the struggle in which he is engaged is a hopeless ...

    Article : 113 words
  30. LOCKYER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

    A MEETING, of the full committee of the above society (writes our Laidley correspondent) took place, in the Laidley Court-house, last Saturday afternoon. The chair ...

    Article : 774 words
  31. AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

    King Edward VII. has warmly thanked the President of the United State Cabinet for attending the reseat memorial service at Washington. President M'Kinley has replied ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. THE KING'S RACEHORSES.

    The London "Sportsman" asserts that the Duke of Devonshire has leased the racehorses owned by King Edward VII., and which he so successfully raced while he was the Prince of ...

    Article : 42 words
  33. DE WET AND THE CAPE FARMERS.

    Commandant Be Wet and ex-President Steyn have issued a proaamation in which they state that they intend to enter Cape Colony and give the farmers there a taste of the sufferings of ...

    Article : 41 words
  34. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    SIR William Lyne has received a cable message from Capetown, stating that the pay and allowances to members of the Federal contingent for South Africa will be at the same ...

    Article : 97 words
  35. PLAGUE AT CAPETOWN.

    Eleven fresh asses of plague have been reported at Capetown, the capital of Cope Colony. ...

    Article : 21 words
  36. AN ENGAGEMENT WITH LOUIS BOTHA.

    The latest news from the Eastern Transvaal states that at daybreak on the 6th instant Commandant Louis Botha, with a force of 2000 Boers, attacked a British force under General ...

    Article : 76 words
  37. STRENGTHENING RAILWAY BRIDGES.

    ON account of the heavior or[?]e to be emplyed on the Queenland railways, the engineer's department is having all the bridges strengthened. Though a strength of only 10 ...

    Article : 81 words
  38. THE FIFTH QUEENSLAND CONTINGENT.

    Now that the offer of 100 additional men and 50 additional horses, making 500 men and 550 horses, has been accepted by the authorities, steps being taken to enrol a number ...

    Article : 65 words
  39. TRAINS WRECKED.

    Three more trainse have been wreaked by the Boers on She Natal-Johannesburg line. ...

    Article : 15 words
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