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  2. THE BOER WAR. MARCHING ON LADYSMITH.

    An idea of General Buller's plans in northern Natal is revealed by a telegram just received from the front. This telegram states that a British flying column, ...

    Article : 272 words
  3. THE PARTITION OF CHINA

    The French Press is exultant in tone at the publication of a Yellow Book in Paris showing that Great Britain abandoned her protest against the extension ...

    Article : 82 words
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  5. DELAGOA BAY.

    An extraordinary rumor was current in Berlin on December 27 (writes the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Chronicle) of an alleged secret Angle-German [?]eaty, under ...

    Article : 512 words
  6. THE SOUTH S. M. COMPANY.

    IN response to an invitation from the directors of the South Silver-mining Company about 50 shareholders met on Saturday night at the Freemasons' Hotel to discuss the ...

    Article : 2,894 words
  7. BIG FIRE AT WILLIAMSTOWN.

    A big fire occurred at Williamstown last night, the Victorian Stevedoring Company's sheds on the pier and a large quantity of fodder for the Cape being destroyed. The ...

    Article : 90 words
  8. METEOROLOGICAL.

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  9. TASMANIAN POLITICS.

    The Premier (Mr. Lewis) addressed his constituents at Richmond on Saturday night. On the subject of defence, he admitted that the defences of Tasmania to considerable ...

    Article : 145 words
  10. INCITING THE NATIVES TO RISE.

    The Times correspondent in northern Cape Colony states that the Boers in the Sterkstroom district are distributing pamphlets, printed in the Basuto ...

    Article : 54 words
  11. BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS.

    The Daily Mail to-day announces that the Imperial Government proposes to establish 15 new battalions of infantry. ...

    Article : 129 words
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  13. THE WYCHEPROOF TRAGEDY.

    The adjourned inquest into the death of Mrs. Viace, at Wycheproof, lasted until midnight on Saturday. Victor Hayes, recalled, expressed the ...

    Article : 323 words
  14. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] New South Wales.

    Mr. Barton left Sydney by the express en route to London on Saturday. Mr. G. H. Reid has returned to Sydney from New Zealand in good health. He speaks ...

    Article : 73 words
  15. Victoria.

    The shade register yesterday was 104 degrees. The weather is cool to-day, with rain threatening. Head and Thorpe's store, Sorrento, was ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. LADY SARAH WILSON'S ADVENTURES.

    The Cape Argus publishes the following despatch from Mafeking, dated December 10, by telegraph via Beira and Lorenzo Marques (Reuter's Special Services):— ...

    Article : 683 words
  17. COST OF THE WAR.

    The Times announces that the supplementary Army Estimates will include an item of £20,000,000 to cover the operations in South Africa until April. ...

    Article : 35 words
  18. RECENT BOER LOSSES.

    Native deserters from the Boer camp report that five field-cornets were killed in the recent fighting on the Tugela River and at Spion Kop, and that the ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. THE AFFECTION OF THE COLONIES.

    The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking during the debate on the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons, said that the ...

    Article : 194 words
  20. Barrier Miner.

    THE war news published to-day is of a reassuring character. That is, the little there is of it, and if it can be accepted as fact. General Buller hts started his ...

    Article : 639 words
  21. South Australia.

    The Marine Board has found that the grounding of the Benlarig was due to the master navigating the v. ssel to close to Cape Jervis, but decided not to take further ...

    Article : 71 words
  22. "FOR VALOR."

    The first Victorian Crosses of the campaign hare been awarded, and on General Buller's recommendation. They have been conferred for "conspicuous ...

    Article : 411 words
  23. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

    On Saturday afternoon James Jose, aged 24, was sitting on the Port Melbourne pier watching some men fishing, and, on getting up without looking, he was knocked down by a ...

    Article : 256 words
  24. West Australia.

    Sir John and Lady Forrest and Mr. Hackett returned to Perth on Saturday. On their arrival at the wharf a crowd of youths and lumpers hooted the Premier. ...

    Article : 90 words
  25. New Zealand.

    Lord Beauchamp is at present on a walking tour through the lakes district at Otago. ...

    Article : 20 words
  26. THE TOWN CLOCK.

    MR. CANN has not permitted the matter of a town clock for Broken Hill to lie dormant. In reply to periodical inquires, the Minister for Works has at last given a promise that the ...

    Article : 87 words
  27. INCIDENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

    It has been ascertained toat 40 of the British soldiers reported killed at the battle of Magersfontein are held as prisoners at Pretoria. ...

    Article : 73 words
  28. THE FIRE BRIGADE DIFFICULTY.

    SIR,—Re "Frank H. Davies" remarks concerning the fire which occurred in Blende-street on Friday night, I wish to make a few remarks. In the first place, he excuses the ...

    Article : 403 words
  29. THE WEATHER.

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  30. [BY TELEGRAPH.] THE WAR FUNDS.

    The Patriotic Fund is now £16,705 and the Bushmen's Contingent Fund £25,796. MELBOURNE, Monday. The Rev. Charles Clark preached a special ...

    Article : 59 words
  31. The Temperature at Wilcannia.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 words
  32. THE NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS.

    The whole of the New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent will be finally selected to-morrow. The extra detachment of Lancers depart ...

    Article : 57 words
  33. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    Writing from Palapye. Khama's Land, a correspondent of the Natal Witness says: "Khama is behaving splendidly, and is the only chief in the Protectorate who is not ...

    Article : 713 words
  34. THE INVASION OF THE FREE STATE.

    Major-General French is at present in Cape Town consulting with Lord Roberts concerning the coming invasion of the Free State. ...

    Article : 31 words
  35. A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN INVALIDED.

    Trooper Moore, of the second South Australian Contingent, has been invalided and taken to the Fremantle hospital. ...

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  36. THE NEW ZEALANDERS.

    With regard to the proposal to dispatch a fourth contingent to South Africa, the Premier says that the corps should depart on March 3 and comprise 300 men. ...

    Article : 37 words
  37. THE TRAMWAY.

    THE Mayor recently wrote to the Department of Public Works asking that an officer be sent to report on the advisableness of constructing a tramway system in Broken Hill. ...

    Article : 64 words
  38. NEWS FROM MAFEKING.

    Mafeking, despite the Boer report, is apparently still unrelieved. A message to the Queen has been received in London from the Mayor of the town, ...

    Article : 69 words
  39. ON A TROOPSHIP.

    Trooper Moody, of the New South Wales Contingent on the Surrey, was mounting a ladder on Saturday when he fell and sprained hil leg. He will proceed on the ...

    Article : 62 words
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