Last evening a number of civilians met in the Sacred Heart School-room to consider the advisableness of adding to the strength of the proposed ...
Article : 580 wordsDesigns for bullet-proof shields are legion. As a rule, however, they lack the quality of practicability. One, differing from the rest in this particular, comes from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 80 wordsFollowing is an unofficial list of casualties in the New South Wales troops now at the front:—Deaths.—January 16, ...
Article : 268 wordsIn the Divorce Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Simpson, Thomas Cox sought a dissolution of his marriage with Annie Margaret Cox (formerly ...
Article : 280 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—Particulars of the attempt of the Boer prisoners at Simonstown, near Capetown, to escape state that they had excavated a tunnel ...
Article : 79 wordsThe anniversary services of the above church were held on Sunday last. Three meetings were held, and the attendance at each was fairly ...
Article : 359 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—The German Government, in reply to a message from President Kruger, asking Germany to intervene, declined to take ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.—General Gataere commands the road and bridge at Bethulie. The railway bridge has been damaged. ...
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Article : 290 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The total British casualties to date are 2418 killed, 8747 wounded, 3483 missing, 1029 died of disease; total, 15,677. ...
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Article : 207 wordsThe new French submarine torpedo boat Narval is said to have serious defects, and is not as successful as when first reported, and an order has been issued to cease ...
Article : 180 wordsVery few of our contemporaries seen to have noticed that the late Duke of Teck's three sons are at present serving with the British army in ...
Article : 121 wordsThe poets are not all of the masculine gender who sing of the glories of the present war. Kate Bishop, the famous "Kay Bee," is a woman, and she sings pretty ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Wed 14 Mar 1900, Page 5
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