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  2. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

    SOME matters in connection with the alleged discrepancies in the account-books of the Ipswich Municipal Council came before the members at the usual fortnightly meeting, ...

    Article : 2,046 words
  3. G. U. O. O. F.

    THE 11th biennial meeting of the committee of management of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows was held in the Western Star Lodge-room, Brisbane-street, on Monday last, under ...

    Article : 1,136 words
  4. THE VERY LATEST.

    IT has been announced that Her Majesty the Queen has decided to prolong her visit to Ireland until the 27th of this month. It was originally intended that Her Majesty's ...

    Article : 56 words
  5. OUR GATTON LETTER.

    THE committee of the club held a meeting a tow evenings ago at the Wilmot Hotel, when the following members were present:—Messrs. Walker, Skinner, Donoghue, jun., ...

    Article : 1,006 words
  6. Boer War.

    THE Boer sympathisers in the United States have, it is said, despatched a messenger-boy to personally present to President Kruger a commendatory address signed by 22,000 American ...

    Article : 91 words
  7. THE SHAH OF PERSIA.

    The Shah of Persia—Muzaffar-ed-Din—who, it will be remembered, was recently invited by the British Government to pay a visit to England during his Europe tour, ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. BOER APPEAL TO AFRIKANDERS.

    It has transpired that the Boers are secretly circulating in Cape Colony an impassioned appeal to the Afrikander population to rise against British rule. ...

    Article : 29 words
  9. The Battle of Spionkop.

    Despatches relative to the battle of Spionkop from Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warron, General Sir Redvers Buller, and Field-Marshal Lord Roberts have been gazetted. ...

    Article : 326 words
  10. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE IN CAPETOWN.

    It is now stated that five cases of bubonic plague have occurred at Capetown. (The plague appears to have been dormant at the capital of Cape Colony for some weeks, as ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. THE PORTE AND RUSSIA.

    Advices have been received from Reuter's Agency at Constantinople indicating that the Porte has decided to ask Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to visit the Tuskish ...

    Article : 86 words
  12. BULLER'S GREAT UNDERTAKING.

    The letters of war correspondents and others, new coming to hand, show very clearly the enormous difficulties which confronted General Buller in his efforts to relieve Ladysmith. ...

    Article : 465 words
  13. THE COMMONWEALTH BILL.

    Mr. Walter Griffiths, of South Australia, who is representing the West Australian Separation League in London, has written letters to several of the leading newspapers in which he contends ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. MRS. LANGTRY AND THE PRO-BOERS.

    In consequence of the extreme iritability exhibited by many et the pro-Boers in New fork and elsewhere, in the United Stetes, at any expressions of feeling adverse to the Boers, ...

    Article : 50 words
  15. THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

    IT is announced that the Emperor William of Germany intends visiting Cowss (in the Isle of Wight), the base of the big annual yachting carnival, in August of the present year. ...

    Article : 38 words
  16. PRISONERS AT ST. HELENA.

    In connection with the arrival of the Boer prisoners of the Island of St. Helena, from Capetown, it is reported that five British bands played the prisoners, including Colonel Schief, ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

    The Citizens' Life Assurance Company have paid over to the relatives of the late Lieutenant Powell and Private Smith, members of the South Australian first contingent, £250 each, ...

    Article : 42 words
  18. DROWNING CASE.

    FROM the "Wide Bay News" of Tuesday the following additional particulars are taken of the sad d[?]ewning accident which happened at Pialba on Easter Monday ...

    Article : 363 words
  19. SAFEGUARDING DIAMONDS.

    With regard to the recent capture by the Boers of Mr. Frank Smith, a prominent diamond mine-owner of Kimberley, information has now been received that Mr. Day, the ...

    Article : 86 words
  20. THE FOURTH CONTINGENT AT LITTON.

    "Old Sport" writes:—The surroundings at Lytton presented an exceedingly animated scene on last Saturday afternoon and on Sunday morning. When I arrived at the camp, at about ...

    Article : 1,025 words
  21. LONDON, April 18. A NEW ZEALANDER ILL.

    News has been received that Private George Heenan, of the New Zealand mounted infantry, is seriously ill with typhoid fever at the Winberg Hospital, near Capetown. ...

    Article : 33 words
  22. THE QUEENSLAND CONTINGENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 words
  23. AUSTRALIANS ARRIVING AT BEIRA.

    The steamers Atlantian, Maplemone, and Euryalus, conveying the New South Wales, Tasmanian, and Victorian bushmen's contingents, have safely landed 1100 bushmen, ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. A BOER ATTACK REPULSED.

    News has been received of a skirmish which look place on the 13th instant. A body of 200 Transvaalers made a determined attack on a detachment of Orpen's Horse. The latter, ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. Laidley District Patriotic Fund.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 words
  26. NEW SOUTH WALES BUGLER MISSING.

    It transpires that Bugler Melville, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, took part in the engagement at Karree Siding, north of Bloemfontein, some time ago, and has since ...

    Article : 35 words
  27. LANDS DEPARTMENT.

    MR. R. MORRISBY, who has been in charge of the selection branch of the Lands Department since the Act of 1897 came into force, has (says the "Observer") been ...

    Article : 110 words
  28. WEATHER FORECASTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 words
  29. THE LATEST FROM MAFEKING.

    In the engagement between the relieving British force under Colonel Plumer and the enemy, near Mafeking, on March 31, the British casualties totalled 70. Many of the men, ...

    Article : 79 words
  30. QUEENSLAND NEWS.

    A FETE, in aid of the Indian famine fund, was held in the Exhibition building to-night, consisting of two distinct entertainments. The attendance did not exceed 3000, ...

    Article : 75 words
  31. TENDERS INVITED.

    BY Mr. A. Macgregor, Ellenborough-street: For the erection of a reading-room, April 24. ...

    Article : 15 words
  32. WEDNESDAY.

    Queensland (North, Central, and South).—Cloudy and unsettled over a large tract of the colony, with variable rains, mostly, however, east from a line joining Burketown, Alice, ...

    Article : 56 words
  33. Advertising

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    Advertising : 69 words
  34. THE POSITION AT WEPENER.

    Lord Roberts, in a despatch forwarded on Tuesday, the 17th instant, reports that the British troops at Wepener were still surrounded, but the attacks of the Boers wee being made ...

    Article : 139 words
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