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  2. THE BOER WAR. BATTLE WITH DE LA REY.

    News has just been received that a Boer force, under General De la Rey, attacked Colonel H. G. Dixon's, column at Vlaakfontein, in the Western Transvaal. After ...

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  3. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    "The Times" publishes the Canadian programme of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. It states that the Royal steamer Ophir ...

    Article : 192 words
  4. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1904.

    Candidates are announced and canvassing is proceeding vigorously in connection with the half-dozen vacancies in the Legislative Connell. Five ...

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  5. THE ORMUZ SMALL-POX. SIX MORE CASES IN MELBOURNE.

    Yesterday morning Dr. Cresswell, chairman of the Board of Public Health, received word from the Point Nepean Quarantine Station that six of the passengers ...

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  6. OLD-AGE PENSIONERS.

    At the last meeting of the Benevolent Asylum committee, Mr. R. Mitchell, in speaking of the old-age pensions, made some statements of rather a startling character. ...

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  7. A GALLANT ACT AND WONERFFUL ESCAPE.

    Lieut.-Surgeon Horne, of Cameron's Scouts, is now in Traralgon, after being invalided home, suffering from five wounds, which were sustained in rescuing a wounded ...

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  8. A FREMANTLE PASSENGER AFFECTED.

    David Berry, a second-class passenger by the R.M.S. Ormuz, was pronounced on Saturday to be, suffering from small-pox. Berry, who was convalescent from typhoid, ...

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  9. PERSONAL.

    Mr. Barton, Prime Minister, returned to Melbourne on Saturday from Sydney, whither he went some days ago to take part in the celebrations connected with ...

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  10. FOUR BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED.

    The engagement at Vlaakfontein took place on wednesday last, the 29th inst. Among the British casualties were four officers killed. ...

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  11. THE ARTILLERY LOSSES.

    A partial return of the casualties at Vlaakfontein shows that the 28th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery suffered severely. A lieutenant and five men were ...

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  12. THE METZ INCIDENT.

    Notice had been given of an interpellation in the French Chamber of Deputies respecting the parade of German troops held at Metz in honour of the birthday of ...

    Article : 174 words
  13. SIEGE OF BOSHOF.

    Boshof, in the Orange River Colony, 40 miles north-east of Kimberley, has been invested by the Boers for four months. During the last two months the garrison ...

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  14. THE HIGH TARIFF FAILURE.

    The assistant Government statist has published the "Australasian statisties" up to the year 1899. In this particular return Mr. Fenton gives only the bare figures, and ...

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  15. HOW THE CROSS IS WON.

    Lance-corporal Ledgerwood, son of Mr. R. Ledgerwood, of Barwon Downs, writing from Aberdeen-road, Cape Colony, in reference to the incident for which Sergeant ...

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  16. GREAT VELDT FIRES.

    Great veldt fires are raging in the Orange River Colony, between the Vaal River and Bloemfontein, greatly hampering the operations of the Boer marauding bands. ...

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  17. GERMANY AND HOLLAND

    Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and her husband, Prince Henry of MecklenburgSchwerin, have arrived in Germany on a visit to the Emperor William. They have ...

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  18. VICTORIAN TROOPS.

    The column commanded by General S.B. Beatson, of the Indian Staff Corps, consisting of Victorian troops, which is operating on the Pretoria-Delagon Bay railway, has ...

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  19. THE MINERS' CONGRESS.

    At the sittings of the International Miners' Congress, in London, yesterday, the French delegates endeavoured to induce the congress to support an international ...

    Article : 86 words
  20. THE DUTCH CONSUL.

    A Reuter's telegram states that the Dutch consul at Pretoria has been several days at Standerton, in the South-eastern Transvall, awaiting a visit from General ...

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  21. SLAVERY IN ZANZIBAR.

    A return has been published showing that last year only 1,162 slaves, out of 50,000 in Zanzibar, have claimed their freedom. The majority of them prefer slavery ...

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  22. CAMERON'S SCOUTS.

    On the eve of his departure for England Sir Frederick Carrington, commandant of the Rhodesian Field Force, made a farewell speech to his troops at Balawayo, and paid ...

    Article : 314 words
  23. THE CAPE COLONY.

    An important petition has been presented to Sir Walter-Hely-Hutchinson, the Governor of the Cape Colony. It is signed chiefly by loyalists, but also by ...

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  24. TRAMWAY TRAFFIC.

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  25. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    The election of a member of the House of Commons for the Saffron Walden division of Essex to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. Armine ...

    Article : 162 words
  26. THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

    The gross Customs collections for last month reflect the activity displayed by merechants in importing spirits and narcoties and taking the former out of bond ...

    Article : 217 words
  27. IMPERIAL COURT OF APPEAL.

    At the annual banquet of the Royal Colonial Institute, on April 24, the Earl of Onslow, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, and formerly Governor of New Zealand, stated ...

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  28. MURDER AT ROCKHAMPTON.

    A murder took place at Rockhampton tonight. when Fanny Hardwick, 23 years of age, was stabbed by a Portuguese, known as "Black Reuben." It appears that the ...

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  29. THE SYDNEY CASES.

    Yesterday morning the disquieting intelligence was received from the quarantine station that nine of the passengers and crew of the R.M.S. Ormuz had developed ...

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  30. QUEEN'S STATUE.

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  31. THE REFUGEE CAMPS.

    The Bumber of Boers, men, women, and children, who are being maintained in the British refugee camps in Natal and the Orange River Colony is now 20,000, in ...

    Article : 45 words
  32. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL.

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  33. SIR JOHN COCKBURN.

    The retirement of Sir J. A. Cockburn from the position of Agent-General of South Australia, and his early departure from London, is deeply regretted in ...

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  34. THE IRON-TRADE STRIKE.

    There was actually no new development in connection with the ironworkers' assistants' strike yesterday; but the strikers appeared to be more favourable to some ...

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  35. THE NEW ZEALANDERS.

    Lord Kitchener has allowed the New Zealand fourth and fifth contingents to take back with them to the Colony a gun and a pom-pom captured from the Boers. ...

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  36. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Please find enclosed cheque for £5 5/ towards the St. Vincent's Hospital Fund for obtaining the magnificent donation offered by Mr. Beresford. The hospital is ...

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  37. THE AUCKLAND FIRE.

    In connection with the fire at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, it is now reported that the body of Mr. Ayres, sub-inspector for New zealand of the Bank of Australasia, ...

    Article : 147 words
  38. CASUALTIES.

    Private Herbert Williams, of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric fever at Springfontein, in the Orange River Colony. ...

    Article : 121 words
  39. NEW SOUTH WALES REVENUE.

    The Premier, Mr. Sec, is gratitled at the consolidated revenue returns. He states that for May the balance of revenue over expenditure was £139,346, and for the 11 ...

    Article : 94 words
  40. FEDERAL RELIEF FUND.

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  41. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    Anotner case of bubonic plague was discovered at Brisbane yesterday, the patient being a Chinese, residing at Fortitude Valley, who, with 16 other Chinese, has been ...

    Article : 42 words
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  44. MAIL STEAMERS.

    The P. and O. R.M.S. Victoria arrived at Plymouth from Australia on the morning of the 31st ultimo. ...

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  47. RETURNING TROOPS.

    The troopship Morayshire, with Victorian troops and troops belonging to other states on board, reached the anchorage after dark to-night, and will not be boarded ...

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