At a meeting of the locomotive drivers and other workmen on strike Mr. Helmes, M.P., and the Rev. G. E. Wheitley, Methodist minister, were delegated to interview the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsIn consequence of the inconvenience, the Government has decided that Wednesday next, the occasion of the departure of the troops, shall not be a public holiday, though ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 13 wordsMajor-General French's complete Household Cavalry Squadron operated on Sunday on the enemy's east flank, in the Colesberg district. The Boers withdrew ...
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Advertising : 50 wordsThe propretor of a threshing machine at Merino has rejected all applications to work for those farmers who are Boer sympathisers, and has announced that his machines [?] ...
Article : 56 wordsONCE more we can get comfort and consolation from events in South Africa. The successful resistance of the determined assault upon Ladysmith has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 275 wordsA correspondent reports that the New Zealanders forming part of Major-General French's column, approaching Colesberg last week, offered to capture a ...
Article : 51 wordsAn expert opinion has been given that it will take at least 30,000 Boers to successfully defend the Boer entrenchments north of Modder River against ...
Article : 38 wordsThe N. S. W. Patriotic Fund has now reached £10,900. ...
Article : 17 wordsAt a meeting of the Patriotic Fund Committee, held yesterday afternoon, the secretary reported that the fund now amounted to £5000. ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. M'Gowan, member of the House of Representatives for the Thames, has accepted the position of Minister of Mines. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 wordsMany of the British soldiers in their letters home complain strongly about the fanlty British generalship which led to the result of the battle at ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following letter from Mafeking, under date November 14, was sent through Reuter's Agency:— "Everything is quiet to-day. The garrison ...
Article : 385 wordsGreat Britain has arranged to pay compensation if any of the Delagoa Bay bound steamers seized by British warships prove to be unnecessarily delayed. ...
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Article : 339 wordsThe coal lumpers employed by the Adelaide Steamship Company and M'Jlwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. have struck work for an increase in pay of threepence per ton. The ...
Article : 46 wordsAT a meeting of the Indies' committee of the Trades Hall, held last night, great indignation was expresed at the action of the Trades Hall trustees in neglecting to thank ...
Article : 85 wordsPaol Kruger appeared before the Newcastle police court yesterday, charged with crimping German sailors. He was found guilty and fined £20—in default, two ...
Article : 35 wordsSir,—Having quite recently returned here from South Africa, most people seem to have come to the conclusion, and are not backward in expressing the same, that I have shown the ...
Article : 593 wordsTHE Block 14 Warriors Cricket Club held a very enjoyable dance social in the Freemasons' Hall last night. The weather was cool, and conseqnently the dancers were ...
Article : 179 wordsIF it makes and presses an application the Broken Hill municipal council ought to be able to get a special grant of a very substantial character from the ...
Article : 469 wordsFor some weeks past Mr. Josiah Thomas, M.P., who was the original mover in the matter of cheap summer excursions to the seaside, has been in communication with the ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Boers have showed, to the natives the British prisoners held at Pretoria, with a view of impressing them with an idea of the Boer successes. ...
Article : 31 wordsHow the Boers in the past got so much artillery and ammunition without arousing suspicion has troubled the British authorities considerably. ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. William Knox has given £100 to the Empire's Patriotic Fund, as the main War Relief Fund is called. Other contributors include Mesara. Baxter and Saddler, £50; ...
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Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), Thu 11 Jan 1900, Page 2
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