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Advertising : 52 wordsAdvices from Natal show that General Joubert expected that the British troops would cross the Tugela River at Skiet’s Drift. He therefore massed his burghers ...
Article : 791 wordsA despatch from Cape Town states that a patrol of New South Wales mounted infantry was shelled near Colesberg yesterday from one of Vickers, Sons, & Maxim’s ...
Article : 240 wordsAmy Spain, a dark prepossessing young woman, started the lower end of Argent-street this morning by coodly shooting at John Thomas Bevan, with whom she ...
Article : 410 wordsAdditional subscriptions received by “The Register.” Previously acknowledge .. .. £2,362 16 111. Hewett-Hoey’s Old that .. .. 0 5 0 ...
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Advertising : 143 words“Justice” writes:—“One would imagine from the general news about the Transvaal campaign that the regular army engaged there is entirely composed of English, Irish, ...
Article : 92 wordsDisappointment was felt on Tuesday because Bugler did not arrive from Adelaide in time to be offered at auction that afternoon, but the postponement till to-day was ...
Article : 449 wordsSir—The man who signed himself “Forty-five Years in the Bush” is seemingly prejudiced against young men. He speaks of riding forty miles and making a johnny ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Address in reply to the Queen’s Speech was adopted in the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. Chamberlain has notified that the ...
Article : 45 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, after visiting General Gatacre’s headquarters at Sterkstroom, returned to De Aar, and proceeded northwards to the Modder River, where he ...
Article : 91 wordsMf. Maitland, Police Magistrate, held an inquest to-day to ascertain the cause of the death of Ralph G. Monsell (not Alfred Mansell), who was fatally injured at the ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Royal Yacht Squadron.—The Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron have had great cause of complaint this season against the clerk of the weather for the treatment ...
Article : 602 wordsA secret memorandum, which has emanated from the Volksraad at Pretoria, contains the intelligence that prior to the outbreak of war the Boers were armed with ...
Article : 62 wordsThe fifth annual picnic in connection with, the Children’s Sunbeam Society was held in the grounds of Mr. R. Barr Smith, at Torrens Park, Mitcham, on Saturday. The ...
Article : 767 wordsA murder was committed at Grafton last night, the victim being Cyris McFarlane, aged 15 years, who was found at the top of Princess-street with his head battered. A ...
Article : 314 wordsA large commando of Boers have captured the Magistrate’s Court, and residence in the Nkandnla district of Zululand. Mr. J. L. Knight, the Magistrate, previously ...
Article : 54 wordsTwo persons were drowned in the harbour this afternoon owing to the capsizing of a sailing boat. A party of five, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Leigh, Fred Riley, and ...
Article : 80 wordsA burgher, who has been taken prisoner by the British, states that so many of the Boers’ horses have been killed that the authorities in the Republics have been ...
Article : 43 words“A Resident of a Northern Town” hopes that as the . Government have put Bugler and his rider on our trains free of cost they will visit all towns along the line, ...
Article : 72 wordsPresident Steyn has promised to release Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Eagar, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, as soon as he is able to travel. Colonel Eagar was ...
Article : 55 wordsThe patriotic continental which was held in the Jubilee Exhibition Gardens on Saturday evening, in aid of the Bushmen’s Corps, proved in all important respects a ...
Article : 818 wordsOn the arrival of the mail steamer Orizaba at Albany the Premier and Messrs. Morgans, Moran, Leake, and Matheson went off in the pilot launch, and met Messrs. ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. M. Hogan, a wealthy farmer at Murrrimbum, has offered a valuable mare, Maid of Erin, of the cavalry remount stamp, as a gift to the Bushmen’s ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. P. L. Russels, of Carngham, Victoria, has accepted a commission in the South Staffordshire Militia, and proceeds to South Africa on active service. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. George Wyndham, Under Secretary for War, introduced Supplementary War Estimates for £13,000,000 to provide for 120,000 ...
Article : 66 wordsArrangements for the dispatch of the Bushmen’s Contingent are going on apace. Among those selected are several employes of the Melbourne Tramway Company, who ...
Article : 700 wordsA deputation from the Brisbane Chamber Commerce interviewed the Postmaster General on Saturday, and strongly supported the Pacific cable scheme. Mr. Drake ...
Article : 117 wordsA mysterious case of poisoning near Jondarjan on the Darling Downs. A family named Wakne, numbering ten in all, with one-exception, developed strange ...
Article : 103 wordsIt is understood that Major-General Downes has dealt finally with Trooper Ratcliffe, who was put ashore from the Eucalyus at Albany owing to his refusal to submit ...
Article : 54 wordsThe General Order issued on February 9 contained the following:—“On assuming the command of the South Australian Defence Forces (land)Colonel J. Stuart confidently relies on the ...
Article : 375 wordsSpecial intercessional services in connection with the war were held at the leading Protestant Churches throughout the colony to-day. They included special sessions, ...
Article : 128 wordsRecently Mr. George Armstrong Dairyman, a farmer, residing near Creswick, Victoria, left home to visit this colony. After spending a few weeks in the ...
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Advertising : 120 wordsThe report of Dr. Maxwell, a sugar expert, from Honolulu, on the Queensland sugar industry, deals exhaustively with the Bundaberg, Mackay, and Cairns districts. ...
Article : 86 wordsMiss G. Melville Hamilton wishes to impress upon those who intend sending lemons and apples to South Africa for the troops the absolute necessity for communicating ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 78 wordsMajor General Sir Francis Clery, K.C.B., Professor of Tactics at Sandhurst, is returning to England invalided. He has been for several weeks in Natal discharging ...
Article : 35 wordsParticulars are reaching the War Office of the fight which took place on the Riet River between Macdonald’s Brigade and a force of the enemy on Wednesday last. It ...
Article : 343 wordsIf the feeling in the lobbies of Parliament House is any indication, Mr. Higgins has no hope of carrying his adverse motion against the Government. Ministers are ...
Article : 94 wordsSlinda.—A meeting of ladies interested in Minda the Home for Weak minded Children—was held at Brookman’s Building on Friday, February 9, to arrange for a sale of goods left over from the ...
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Advertising : 38 wordsThe fifth round of pennant cricket matches was resumed on Saturday. Except as regards East Melbourne and Fitzroy this was the second Saturday of the round, the ...
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Advertising : 76 wordsLieutenant Herbert Fergus Darling, who was mentioned in the war cable messages in “The Register” of Saturday, for courageously rescuing ...
Article : 222 wordsThe ship Brilliant, which arrived to-day from London, had a sensational experience on the voyage. During a heavy electrical storm a huge meteor fell not more than ...
Article : 72 wordsGawler provided another novelty in aid of the Bushmen’s Fund on Saturday. A wager of 10s. was laid in favor of the Patriotic Fund that Mr. R. H. Barnet, a ...
Article : 155 wordsSir—I would like to offer some suggestions for the control of the Bushmen’s. camp: 1. That a site be selected away from town if possible. 2. that the drill ...
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Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912), Mon 12 Feb 1900, Page 3
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