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  2. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    It is announced that Lieutenant-General Tucker has been appointed to the military command at Bloemfontein, Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter having been ...

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  3. THE BOER WAR.

    Only 100 of the colonials in Cape Colony have joined the eastern Boer commando un[?]er Commandant Kruitzinger, who was recently reported to be operating in the ...

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  4. GREAT BRITIAN.

    In the companies (winding-up) branch of the High Court of Justice to-day, Mr. Justice Wright gave his sanction to the voluntary winding up of the London and Globe ...

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  5. QUEENSLAND.

    At a meeting of Musgrove electors held on Saturday morning, which was largely attended, an Elections League was formed, and delegates were appointed to attend the Maryborough conference ...

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  6. NEW FARM STATE SCHOOL.

    The New Farm State School was officially opened by the Right Hon. Sir S. W. Griffith, G.C.M.G., P.C., C.J., on Saturday afternoon, under most ...

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  7. THE QUEEN.

    A court circular was published this morning stating that her Majesty Queen Victoria has lately not been in her usual health, and is unable to take her ...

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  8. DEATHS OF COLONIALS.

    Private J. M. Logan, of the New South Wales Bushmen, who was recently reported to have been wounded at Vlakfontein, has since died. He received a bullet wound in ...

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  9. AN APPOINTMENT.

    Mr. P. V. Bevan, son of the Rev. Dr. Bevan, bas been appointed assistant demonstrator in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University. ...

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  10. A GENERAL RETIRED.

    It is announced that Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Colvile, who was for some time serving in South Africa, has been placed on retired pay as from yesterday. ...

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  11. ESCAPE OF BOER PRISONERS.

    Information is to hand that twenty Boer prisoners of war jumped overboard from a British transport steamer on her arrival at Ceylon, and, took refuge on board a ...

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  12. BOERS TRANSPORTED TO LISBON.

    It is reported that the Portuguese authorities are transporting to Lisbon 900 Boer refugees who are now at Delagoa Bay in a destitute condition. ...

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  13. ENTERTAINMENTS.

    The two English artistes, Miss [?]zie Kirk and Mr. Frank (Leon, made their last appearance, at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, and the audience sent them ...

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  14. A QUEENSLANDER RESUMED DUTY.

    Captain Joseph, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, who had been invalided, has now resumed duty. ...

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  15. THE MURDER IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.

    In connection with the sensational murder committed in a railway carriage near Surbiton on Thursday by an ex-soldier, who gave his name as Hill, it has been ...

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  16. DISARMING OF CIVILIANS.

    The announcement that all civilians in the Cape Peninsula are forbidden to possess arms or ammunition after the 1st February is stated to have come as a ...

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  17. AN OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

    The official bulletin issued this morning states that the Queen passed a some what restless night, but the condition of her Majesty is otherwise unchanged. ...

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  18. TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

    So far 641 men have been med[?]cally examined for the Imperial Contingent for South Africa, and 133 rejected. Of 383 tested in shooting, 277 passed, and 10[?] out ...

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  19. VERY LATEST DETAILS.

    It appears that her Majesty has recently suffered from nervous excitability, with occasional attacks of faintness, but the chief failure of power occurred on Thursday last. ...

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  20. PRESENT SITUATION IN CAPE COLONY.

    Latest reports show that the advance of the Boers who have been raiding in the western portion of Cape Colony, has been checked, and the Boers are now retiring ...

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  21. CABLE MESSAGES.

    Further information concerning the wreck of H.M.S. Sybille at Saldanha Bay on the west coast of Cape Colony, states that the vessel was seeking shelter from a storm, ...

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  22. FIFTH AND SIXTH VICTORIAN CONTIGENTS.

    The offer of Victoria to send a Sixth Contingent of 500 men to South Africa in addition to the 500 required to bring the previous contingent to its fall strength, ...

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  23. GENERAL SYMPATHY.

    In connection with the Queen's illness, profound sympathy has been expressed throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada. ...

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  24. PERSONAL.

    Our London correspondent writes as follows, under date 14th December:- (Miss F. G. Rudd, a Queensland musical student, now under the tuition of Mme. ...

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  25. ATTACK ON DELAREY.

    General Lord Methuen, who has been operating to the westward of Taungs (a station on the Capetown to Bulawayo raiway line, eighty-four miles north of ...

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  26. VISIT OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK.

    A report is current at Portsmouth that the intended visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Australia on the occasion of the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament ...

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  27. THE FRENCH VINTAGE.

    The French vintage for the past season has yielded 67,000,000 hectolitres of wine, this being the largest yield in any year since 1875: ...

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  28. GEORGE MUSGROVE'S GRAND OPERA SEASON.

    Mr. George Musgrove's grund opera company will complete their season at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, on Saturday next, and start after the performance in special ...

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  29. A MURDERESS RELEASED.

    It is reported from Paris that Gabrielle Bompard, who was connected with a sensational crime committed over eleven years ago, has been released from prison on the ...

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  30. OTHER MILITARY OPERATIONS.

    A detailed account has been received of in engagement between General Colville's force and the Boers during a march from New Denmark to Valakaagte. The enemy, ...

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  31. THE NEWS IN THE SOUTH.

    In the absence of any previous intimation, that the state of the Queen's health was such as to cause alarm, the news of her Majesty's serious illness was received ...

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  32. ARRANGEMENTS IN ADELAIDE.

    The Premier has made local arrangements for the transport of the South Australian Contingent to South Africa. He has engaged the steamer Ormizan as a transport, ...

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  33. NEW ZEALAND TROOPS.

    The Sixth Contingent of troops from New Zealand for South Africa will leave by the steamer Cornwall on Saturday next. ...

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  34. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

    Ella M. Yearwood has been readmitted into the service of the Department of Public Instruction as a teacher of class II., division 1, and has been appointed ...

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  35. THE STAMBOULOFF MURDER.

    News from Sofia states that the murderer of Mr. Stambouloff, ex-Premier of Bulgaria (who was assassinated at Sofia in July, 1895) has escaped from prison. ...

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  36. BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION.

    Herr Licht, of Magdeburg, in his monthly circular, states that the production of beet sugar for the current campaign has increased by 345,000 tons as compared with ...

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  37. SUCCESS BY COLONIALS.

    It is reported that a body of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry defeated 800 Boers to the westward of Ventersburg, in the Orange River Colony, a few miles east ...

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  38. THE FEDERAL POLICY.

    Mr. Barton, the Federal Premier, in the course of an interview, claimed that in his speech at West Maitland ne had made the fiscal issue perfectly clear, [?] the charges ...

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  39. FACTORIESFACT.

    A deputation representing the Master Bakers' Association had a lengthy interview with the Home Secretary on Saturday, and asked that bakehouses should be ...

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  40. OVERLAND PASSENGERS.

    The following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- Kor Brisbane: Mr. Taylor, Miss Taylor, Miss M. Taylor, Miss Thorn, Miss Orr, Mrs. M'Clucken, ...

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  41. UNSUCCESSFUL BOER ATTACK.

    Information has been received that on the 5th, instant a Boer force surrounded Danielskuil, and continued the attack for five days, threatening that unless the place ...

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  44. CONDITION OF DE WET'S COMMANDO.

    A British trooper, who was recently captured by the Boers, and afterwards released, states that the commando under Commandant De Wet (who has been giving ...

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  46. MR. G. H. REID ON THE FISCAL POLICY.

    Mr. G. H. Reid reached Melbourne to-day after his brief holiday in Tasmania. He defers a general review of Mr. Barton's recent speech until he addresses the electors ...

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  47. CAPTURE OF A BOER OUTPOST.

    News has been received that three squadrons of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles attacked and captured a Boer outpost at Springs, about twenty-five miles east of ...

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