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  2. NEWS BY WIRE.

    IT has been announced that the Standard Oil Trust has purchased the Shell Transport Company for the sum of £12,000,000. It is stated, however, that the Trust ...

    Article : 55 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 2,379 words
  4. HEROISM OF AN AUSTRALIAN.

    The war correspondent of the" Morning Post," in giving his account of the severe engagement at Bakenslesgte, in the Eastern Transvaal, on the 80th of October last, when ...

    Article : 74 words
  5. STRENGTH OF THE BOERS.

    According to a statement made by ex-President Kruger, General Botha has reported that the number of Boers still in the field totals 16,000. ...

    Article : 32 words
  6. DOUBLE FATALITY AT OTTAWA.

    A distressing accident, with fatal results, has been reported from Ottawa, the political capital of Canada. A party from Government House were disporting on the ice in ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. THE CANADIAN CONTINGENT.

    It is now announced that the new contingent of Canadian mounted troops for service in South Africa will consist of 900 men, instead of 600 as at first arranged. ...

    Article : 37 words
  8. TROOPS FROM INDIA.

    The first battalion of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) and the second battalion Essex Regiment have sailed from Bombay for South Africa. ...

    Article : 29 words
  9. DRESDEN SAVINGS BANK FAILED.

    The Dresden Savings Bank has suspended payment. The deposits in the bank amounted to 7,000,000 marks (£140,000). ...

    Article : 24 words
  10. HEAVY GERMAN DEFICIT.

    The Budget of the German Empire for the current year shows a deficit of £2,945,000. ...

    Article : 21 words
  11. MORE HORSES FOR THE CAPE.

    The British Government has requistioned 100 horses in England for use in South Africa. ...

    Article : 22 words
  12. THE NEW CANAL TREATY.

    News from Washington states that the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate has approved of the new Canal Treaty arranged by Lord Pauncefote, the ...

    Article : 45 words
  13. Other Items.

    Private A. Brown, of the Second Contingent New South Wales Mounted Infantry, has died from enteric fever at Bustenburg, in the Western Transvaal. ...

    Article : 35 words
  14. TREATMENT OF ANARCHISTS.

    Senator Hoar, who has introduced a measure into the United States Senate dealing with the suppression of Auarohists, advocates the establishing of an ...

    Article : 50 words
  15. GERMAN OPINION ON COLONIAL ASSISTANCE.

    Several German newspapers publish articles sneering at Mr. Chamberlain end Lord Salisbury, and declaring that the disinclination shown by Australia to send ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. THE NEW FEDERAL COMMANDANT.

    Major-General Sir E. T. H. Hutton, who has been appointed Commandant of the Australian Commonwealth forces, will sail, for Australia, accompanted by Lady Hutton, ...

    Article : 49 words
  17. ATTITUDE OF BOER LEADERS.

    The Boer leaders in Europe have published statements to the effect that they will reject any proposals for peace ba[?]ed upon the British annexation of the Boer ...

    Article : 171 words
  18. SALE OF VICTORIAN TOBACCO.

    The Agent-General for Victoria has effected the sale of ten hogsheads of Victorian tobacco, which arrived by the Superb, the price obtained being 5½d. per 1b. ...

    Article : 34 words
  19. THE BOER WAR.

    A FORCE of 800 Boers has returned to Elandsberg, in the south of Cape Colony, near the Cape De Aar Railway to order to avoid being surrounded by the British ...

    Article : 77 words
  20. DIRECTOR OF NAVAL CONSTRUCTION.

    It is announced that Colonel Philip Watts has been appointed to the position of Director of Naval Construction, in succession to Sir William Henry White, who ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. A TRANSVAAL LOAN.

    Reports of a circumstantial character are in circulation that Sir Michael Hicks-Branch Chancellor of the Exchequer, intends, instead stead of making further issue of Console, ...

    Article : 51 words
  22. NEW RESERVES.

    AN alteration has been made in the reserve for Aborigines at Fraser Island, and it now 196 square miles in ares. The boundaries of the Lake Clarendon reserve, which is now to ...

    Article : 161 words
  23. COMPENSATION TO DEPORTED AMERICANS.

    The British Government have paid sum of £8000 in settlement of the claims of American citizens for compensation for being deported from South Africa by the ...

    Article : 208 words
  24. ACTIVE OPERATIONS AGAINST THE BOERS.

    In connection with the formation of specially mobile columns for active operations against the Boers, reports to hand show that the lightest men and the lightest carts are ...

    Article : 76 words
  25. POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.

    AT the Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. A. Hasenkamp, an elderly man named J. Carew was brought up on a charge of having made use of obscense language. While ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. DE WET'S COMMANDO.

    Commendant De Wet is now at the head of a large commando, the strength of which some estimates police as high as 1400. The commando he, however, being closely sand ...

    Article : 41 words
  27. ADVICE TO GERMAN ANGLOPHOBES.

    The Duke of Argyll, in a speech delivered at Manchester advised the Anglophobe German professors to visit South Africa in order to ascertain the true lacts so regards the ...

    Article : 57 words
  28. CAPTURE OF BOERS.

    General Lord methuen reports having captured 88 Boers belonging to Liebenberg's commando. ...

    Article : 19 words
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