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  2. FOR "QUEEN AND COUNTRY."

    "Prepare to mount"—"Mount!" and the clear, crisp, musical notes came trippingly from the lips of the bugler, ran down the lines of startled horses, penetrated the ...

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  3. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN ADELAIDE.

    Adelaide, the city of sanitation, cleanliness, and stringent health legislation, will probably to-day be declared to be plague injected, and under the provisions of the ...

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  4. THE WAR.

    The official list of the British losses in the battle at Ladysmith on the 6th inst. show that fifteen officers killed, including ...

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  5. THE NAVY WATCHFUL.

    The Channel Squadron, has been ordered to proceed to sea on the 31st inst. in order to relieve the Particular Service Squadron, now at Gibraltar, which has been ordered to the Cape. ...

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  6. NEWS FROM THE CONTINGENT.

    Several letters have been received at Ballarat from members of the first Victorian contingent, now serving with the Imperial army in South Africa. Private Coulter ...

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  7. DEATH OF DR. JAMES MARTINEAU.

    The death is announced in his ninety-fifth year of the Rev. James Martineau, D.C.L., LL.D., D.D., Litt.D., the famous preacher and author. ...

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  8. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    The War Office has published the official list of the British casualties sustained in the battle which was fought around Ladysmith on Saturday, the 6th inst. As is ...

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  9. DEPARTURE OF VOLUNTEERS.

    The first detachment of the Lord Mayor's Volunteer Force, which will comprise 1,400 riflemen—600 of whom will be mounted—were presented with the "freedom of the ...

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  10. THE COMMONWEALTH BILL.

    Mr. Edmund Barton was seen to-day on the matter of the action of Victoria with respect to the appointment of the Hon. Alfred Deakin to proceed to England. He ...

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  11. BOER RECRUITING TACTICS.

    An ex-officer of the French Army residing at Coromandel has received a letter form an old army comrade stating that if he would go to the seat of war he would be ...

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  12. THE REVERSE AT STORMBERG JUNCTION.

    In further despatches which have been received in regard to the fight at Stormberg Junction, in which General Gatacro's column suffered a reverse, it s stated that ...

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  13. A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TAKEN PRISONER.

    The Natal "Mercury" for December 8 reports:—"A letter has just come to hand in Durban from Trooper F. F. Wheeler, F. Squadron Imperial Light Horse stating ...

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  14. DEPARTURE OF LORD BRASSEY.

    Lord Brassey has addressed the following farewell message to the people of Victoria through the newspaper Press:—On leaving Victoria I desire to bid a kind and cordial ...

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  15. STATEMENT BY VICTORIAN PREMIER.

    Mr. McLean, the Premier, was seen on Saturday regarding the complaint that the Victorian Government had acted hastily in appointing Mr. Deakin to represent this ...

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  16. THE KIMBERLEY RELIEF COLUMN.

    There are persistent rumours to the effect that General Lord Methuen, who is in command of the British forces at the Modder River, is invalided, and will shortly return ...

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  17. THE MINISTRY CRITICISED.

    The British Parliament has been summoned to meet on the 30th inst. All the Conservative and Liberal-Unionist newspapers continue to assail the ...

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  18. THE MAORI KING.

    The south Brisbane Brigade received a call from Geddes & Birt's Wharf late on Friday night that a fire had broken out on the Maori King, by which vessel the ...

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  19. THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER.

    Genera] French's mobile force, which has been for some weeks harassing the enemy in the neighbourhood of Colesberg, is now strongly encamped near the eastern flank of ...

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  20. THE ENEMY'S STRENGTH.

    Signor Ruggieri, a well-known African traveller, who lately journeyed through the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, has estimated that the Boer armies comprise ...

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  21. INDIA.

    A Reuter telegram announces that the Indian Government are likely to take measures against the Maharajah Holkar of Indore, who is [?] variance with the British ...

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  22. CASUALTIES AT MAFEKING.

    Dispatches from Mafeking state that Captain Herbert Edward Vernon, D.S.O., of the Rifle Brigade, who commanded a squadron of the Protectorate Regiment, and ...

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  23. SIR GEORGE TURNER NOT SATISFIED.

    On being seen yesterday regarding the proposed delegation to London Sir George Turner said Cabinet having decided that it was necessary that Victoria should have a ...

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  24. SPORT.

    The Ringmer Maiden Steeplechase, of £38, was run yesterday at Plumpton over course of two miles. Result:—Ebor, br.g., by Robert the Devil ...

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  25. INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET.

    The Match Committee have selected the following to represent Victoria in the match beginning in Sydney on January 26:—Armstrong, Graham, Ross, Liver, McMichael ...

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  26. GERMANY'S NEUTRALITY.

    The German Government has requested the firm of Krupp & Co., Essen, to cease supplying the belligerents with guns or any other war material. ...

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  27. THE GOLDFIELDS SEPARATION.

    The "Western Australian" controverts the published figures issued by the Goldfields Separation League regarding the amount expended by the Government on ...

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  28. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Silver.—The price of bar silver to-day is 2s. 3 3-l6d. per oz., a rise of 3-l6d. since Thursday. Frozen Meat.—"Weddel's Review" says ...

    Article : 87 words
  29. LADYSMITH WELL PROVISIONED.

    Messages from Ladysmith mention that although the garrison have cause for anxiety, owing to die outbreak of typhoid fever and the continual bombardment by ...

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  31. THOUGHTFUL LORD HOPETOUN.

    A wing in Hopetoun House, in Linlithgowshire, in Scotland, is to be devoted, at the order of the Earl of Hopetoun, the late Governor of Victoria, to the use of wounded ...

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  32. THE SITUATION AT THE TUGELA RIVER.

    A despatch has been received from General Buller to the effect that on Thursday he went with a body of troops from Chicveley to Springfield, which is about ...

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  33. AUSTRALASIAN MEAT.

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  34. THE STEAMER SURREY.

    A strike, affecting between 2,000 and 3,000 men, occurred last night among the labourers and painters who were detailed to scrape, scrub, and paint the troopship ...

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  35. CANADA'S PATRIOTISM.

    The Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, in a speech, delivered yesterday in the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, said that the movement in favour of ...

    Article : 102 words
  36. AUSTRALIAN MINING STOCKS.

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  40. STRIKE AT BENDIGO.

    The engine-drivers on strike at Bendigo have not yet declared off. As the outcome of the strike a number of drivers consider that they are being ignored. While their ...

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  46. ADELAIDE PASSENGERS TO BE QUARANTINED.

    Dr. Gresewell, Chairman of the Board of Health, when interviewed to-night in reference to the outbreak of bubonic plague at Adelaide, said:—"Judging by the details ...

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