Despatches from Lord Roberts' column state that the enemy facing Osfontein, where the British now are, are mounting their guns and.preparing ...
Article : 78 wordsSamuel Tanpan, of Maryborough, was smothered by a fall of earth in a surface; working ia which he was fossicking in that district. ...
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Advertising : 189 wordsA man asked for a night's accoramodations last night at a boarding-house in Elizabethitreet. He was shown into a room occupied by another lodger. Both.men retired to bad ...
Article : 131 wordsA fearful explosion of fire-damp has taken place at the Red Ash Colliery, Fayette County, West Virginia, U. S.A. About 100 miners were'entombed. Two ...
Article : 48 wordsA deputation will shortly interview Mr. John Bee, asking; permission to increass the New South Wales Lancera Regiment from 400 men to 1000. ...
Article : 33 wordsA Transport Fund has been opened in Sydney with the object of sending batches of transport service waggons to South Africa. Any person, firm, or body of workmen ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the London wool sales yesterday the selection offered was poor. There was a large attendance of buyers, and competition was keener than at the ...
Article : 51 wordsSHORTLY before 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a loar-roomed wood-and iron house at the corner of Cobalt and Iodide streets. The night was particularly calm, so ...
Article : 429 wordsTUB plant did very satisfactory work for the week, dealing with 1099 tons crnde sulphides, which returned 187 tons concentrates, ineluding 24 tons from tho buddies, worth 1st ...
Article : 211 wordsNews bas been received at Narrandera that John Andrew, part proprietor of the Berembed north station, a member of the New South Wales Second Contingent, has died in the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe New South wales Patriotie Fund has reached £27,758 and the Bushmen's Fund £30,670. ...
Article : 19 wordsTin is still strong on the London market; the latest quotation is £153 per ton. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe following are short extracts from the final letters of the late G. W. Steevens, which appeared in the Daily Mail during the last week of January ...
Article : 970 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain said that he was glad to announce that the Imperial Government's request of Australia for ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is probable that Mr. Barton and Mr. Deakin, the Federal delegates to England from New South Wales and Victoria, will be examined at the bar of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsFaller particulars of the capture of Labuscbaquea Nek and the adjacent positions in the Dordrecht district by Brigadier-General Brabant state that he ...
Article : 204 wordsWhen the western cro-scut at tho 950fthad reached 22ft. from Kelly's plat the footwall of the ore body was encountered. Since then the lode has been drawn across 14ft. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Alvess smoke consumer has been floated into a company, with a capital of £100,000. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Ameer of Afghanistan at a durban held recently, at which the British Minister was present, expressed his desire to send 50,000 soldiers to assist ...
Article : 38 wordsA case of bubonic plague has been discovered aboard a ship at Cape Town. The vessel had recently arrived from Rosario, in the Argentine Republic. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe mill last week, working tbree shifts daily, less 18 houts stoppages, dealt with 920 tons cruda sulphides, producing 164 tons concentrates, including 25 tons from the ...
Article : 206 wordsLady Hampden has sent 2311 articles of clothing, 2501b. tobacco, 300 pipes, and a quantity of chocolate to the men of the New South Wales Lancers and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe new duties proposed by the British Government for paying the expenses of the war have boen favorably received on the Continent. ...
Article : 84 wordsAnother serious fire occurred last night in Flinders-street, the scene of nearly all the most destructive fires recently, though on this occasion the flames were kept pretty well ...
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Advertising : 88 wordsThe plant last week dealt with 1804 ton* crude sulphldep, which yielded 335 tons firstgrade concentrates, assaying 651 per cent, lead, l9.60z. silver, and 8 per cent, zinc; also-, ...
Article : 250 wordsWHAT attitude should the council, as the body representing the town, take towards the proposal of the mining companies to carry out a water scheme of their own? ...
Article : 1,249 wordsIn the attack which a party of Cape Riflemen made on the Boer breastworks during Major Maxwell's operations north of Dordrecht on Monday, one of ...
Article : 86 wordsNegus and Sparks have acter a protracted trial been found guilty of highway robbery from Mr. Vesick, the mine manager, at Rutherglen, who was in November last ...
Article : 50 wordsTHE officers of Block 14 had a pleasant little gathering last night at Sayers' Hotel, when a presentation was made to Mr. B. H, Andrewartha, who lately left the mine to ...
Article : 244 wordsIn the Commons last night a resolution authorising the raising of a loan of £30,000,000 was agreed to by ICI votes to 26. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Governor (Sir Gerard Smith) has declined to attend a banquet arranged in his honor at Kalgoorlie, as he learned that the promoters intended to make political capital ...
Article : 65 wordsTho Berlin newspapers profess to be greatly, impressed with the determination of Great Britain to subjugate the Boers at all costs. ...
Article : 28 wordsTHE bicycle is having a bad time—comparatively, that is to say. The heights which it was going to reach are still far above it. A couple of years ago we pictured ...
Article : 828 wordsThere is still a force of Boers on the hills south of Orange River, in the Colesberg district. ...
Article : 25 wordsMajor James Traill, an Australian officer, has been appointed to Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington's staff for South Africa. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 437 wordsAt the Wesleyan conference yesterday a motion affirming the desirableness of obtaining legal authority to give effect to the extension ot the itinerancy limit, which is now three ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. A. G. (" Smiler") Hales, who was taken prisoner by the Boers in the fight at Hobkirk's Farm, near Rendsburg, has been released at Bloemfontein and has ...
Article : 71 wordsMR. W. J. WISE, as secrotary of the A. M. A., bas circulated the following letter among the newspapers of Melbourne and the Victorlan mining towns:-Owing to the continued influx ...
Article : 337 wordsThough supplies are now plentiful for Lord Roberts' army at Ostontein, the entire force had to live for days on fresh meat and porridge, the latter made from ...
Article : 143 wordsThirteen old members of the- Legislative Assembly have bean returned unopposed. ...
Article : 15 wordsGeneral Buller reports to the War Office that Natal is now wholly clear of the enemy. ...
Article : 27 wordsA man Damed Donnellan tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat at the Birossa waterworks yesterday; but, tbongh he mule himself very ill, he is not in a hopeless ...
Article : 97 wordsIt is officially reported that there are at present 800 cases of typhoid in Ladysmith. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe following is an extract from Field Force Army Orders, dated Orange River, South Africa, January 24, 1900:—"Appointment.— 2. Colonel W. D. C. Willinams, P.M.O. ...
Article : 323 wordsAt an auction sale held at Ladysmith on February 21, about a week before the arrival of the relieving column, the following prices were realised:—A tin ...
Article : 84 wordsA SPECIAL meeting of the Hospital Committee was held last night, Slr. h. H. M. Avery presiding. The special object ot the meeting was the consideration of a proposal to erect a new ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Maplemore, which sailed with the Bushmen from Targs anchorage at 9 o'clock yesterday, after a most enthusiastic send off at the Port, made a good run as far ...
Article : 172 wordsBEFORE the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Owen, and Mr. Justice Stephen, in the Full Court on Friday. Mr. Pring appeared for Henry M. M'Veagh and moved for a rule Risi calling ...
Article : 97 wordsIDr. Leyrla, _ the Transvaal agent in Europe, affirms that the Legislative Assembly of Gape Colony will shortly vote strongly in favor of the Boers ...
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