General Bruce Hamilton is now at Ventersburg to the south of Kroonstadt. He arrived there too late to intercept ex-President Steyn, who has gone to Winburg, in which district ...
Article : 41 wordsYESTERDAY the Police Magistrate (Mr. H. T. Mactarkane,) and his worship the Mayor (Alderman R. Tallon) received telegrams from the Home Secretary announcing that Saturday ...
Article : 754 wordsThe Crow Prince of Germany, who had the order of the Garter conferred upon him by King Edward, was invested with the symbol of the order by his Majesty, at ...
Article : 39 wordsJUST now (says the "Chronicle" of Tuesday) a large number of Toowoomba people are partioutary interested in "local" mining ventures, and it rumoured that several possible" Mount ...
Article : 407 wordsSINCE the official declaration of nominations on Saturday last interest in matters municipal [?]ms to be on the wane. It was thought, in some quarters that the candidates would have ...
Article : 76 wordsA squadron of Hussars recently surrounded a Beer farm near Standerton and captured six Boers, who were comfortably sleeping within. They also released an Englishman who had ...
Article : 37 wordsDuring a storm in the Gawler district 160 sheep out of a flock of 12,000 were struck dead by lightning on the Buckland Park estate. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt the colonial wool auctions to-day all classes were show of sale, and merinoes showed a downward tendency. The following average prices were realised for the clips ...
Article : 51 wordsIT is expected that the butter factory which is being erected, at Booval, for the Queensland Farmers Co-operative Dairy and Supply Company, Limited, will be completed by the end of ...
Article : 322 wordsSir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa, has warned the Dutch residents of Cape Colony that they will receive no compensation for damage done to their property, ...
Article : 45 wordsTHE casuaslites amongst colonial troops in the fighting near Balmoral, on the 23rd instant, were as follow :—New Zealand Mounted Infantry: Private F. W. Cedrail, ...
Article : 132 wordsM. Meyer, the Chief of Police at Lyons, has been dismissed from his position for having listened, with a secret microphone for the purpose of taking records, to the ...
Article : 58 wordsA party of Boers attacked a train which was standing at one of the stations on the Delagoa Bay railway line. The driver of the train shot Commandant Liebrandt dead for tampering ...
Article : 50 wordsTHE correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, states that he has been informed on good authority that the Duke and ...
Article : 100 wordsThe death is announced of Field-Marshal Count Joseph Gourke, the Russian general who distinguished himself in the Ruseo-Turkish war, in 1877, in his 78rd year. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex attended in state at the opening services of a week's Free Church mission in London. ...
Article : 134 wordsTHE new Ministers will probably be sworn in on Friday. At the same time the other Minister will he resworn. ...
Article : 25 wordsAFTER the usual Wednesday evening service, which was held in the East-street Congregational Sunday-school hall last evening the member of be congregation and choir took ...
Article : 112 wordsH.R.H. the Duke of York (who with the Duchess of York is to visit Australian shortly) has been suffering since Sunday last from German message. Sir James Reid K.C.B., ...
Article : 56 wordsTHE "China Dally News" announces that Prince Tran and Yu-hsien (Governor of Sh[?]ting) have both been executed. At is reported that Hon-cheb-yd son of ...
Article : 60 wordsCommandants De Wet and Paterson, commanding 500 Boers, crossed the railway line between Ventersburg and Holfontein on the night of the 23rd instant and ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Hon. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General for the colony of New Zealand, has handed to Lord Roberts a historic greenstone meri-meri on behalf of his Lordships Maori ...
Article : 37 wordsHis Majesty King Edward VII. has directed that Saturday next, the day on which Her late Majesty's funeral and burial are to take place, shall be observed as a day of ...
Article : 470 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has received the following telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies :—" I have received his Majesty's commands to be ...
Article : 112 wordsAt the wool sales, to-day, competition was somewhat brisker, and though a better tone prevailed prices were unchanged. LONDON, January 30. ...
Article : 54 wordsA careful estimate places the Boer losses for December last at 150 killed, 400 wounded, 200 prisoners, and 100 surrendered. The looses for January are about ...
Article : 31 wordsELSEWHERE it is announced that owing to Saturday being a holiday on account of its being the day fixed for the funeral Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, nominations in ...
Article : 41 wordsThe head quarters of General Louis Boths commandant-general of the Boer forces, to at Roos-Senekal, about 26 miles north-west of Lydenburg. Ben Viljoen commands the ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE leading Russian newspapers are commenting, in an angry manner on the defence character of the recently completed Auglo-German alliance. They assert that it throatens ...
Article : 37 wordsIN con [?]ation with a representative of [?]ris re[?] last night Mr. T. B. Cribb, M.L.A. stated that, owing to his acceptance of the position of State Treasurer in the Queensland ...
Article : 219 wordsON inquiry yesterday of Mr. W. Field secretary to the [?]stees of the Boys' Grammar school, we learned that Mr. J. F. M'Manamey, B. A. who has been appointed classical master, ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Band mine-owners at Johaunesburg are gaping £30,000 a month to 1200 mines guard. The damage done to the mines by the Boer is estimated at £300,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Australia Agricultural Company has paid a dividend of 35. per share. ...
Article : 18 wordsON Tuesday last we had a visit form Mr. J. [?] Minns, at whose inti[?]tion the above [?] is now establishing business in Queensland From Mr. Morris we learn that the home of the ...
Article : 79 wordsA conference of committee of trades in connection with the Brisbane Traders' Association has considered the question of the observance of Saturday as a close holiday, and the follow ...
Article : 663 wordsKing Edward VII., in conferring the honour of the Order of the Garter upon the Crown Prince of Germany (Prince William) expressed a hope that this He would further cement and ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Boer raider in Cape Colony hays been twice repulsed at Oudtshoorn, and they abandoned a number of horses and waggons. The cold reception given by the ...
Article : 48 wordsA number of cattle, the property of the Bight. Hon. Cecil Rhodes, have been raided near Kimberley. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe death is announced of the Rev. H. R. Hawels, M.A., in this rd year. [The Rev. H. B. Hawels visited Australia, Including Queensland in the year 1894 or 1895 ...
Article : 72 wordsAT the first meeting of the Normaby Board since the annual election, which was held yesterday she members present were—Messrs. A. W. Seaty A. F. [?] C. Griff[?] Joseph ...
Article : 57 wordsColonel Plumer's column has dispersed several small band of Boer which were operating near Bronkhorst Spruit. ...
Article : 19 wordsHis Majesty King Edward VII. has been proclaimed at Pretoria, with the usual titles, and in addition Supreme Lord over the Transvaal. Hearty cheers were given at ...
Article : 37 wordsA meeting of shareholders in the Lake View Mining Company (which caused a sensation on the London Stock Exchange recently) was held yesterday. The meeting, by a large majority, ...
Article : 57 wordsWE and [?] that Mr. James M'Gill, who has for a number of years, been the Returning-officer for the Ipswich electorate in connection with Queensland Parliamentary elections will ...
Article : 60 wordsTHE " Daily Mail" states that King Edward VII. will open the Imperial Parliament in person. ...
Article : 28 wordsOwing to the proctimation of martial law in the Haover district of Cape Colony, Olive Schreiner and her husband, Mr. Cronwright-Schreiner, have been prevented ...
Article : 49 wordsA QUESTION has arisen (says yesterday's "Courier") as to how far the death of her late Majecty of the Queen affects the position of the justices at the peace. It is understood that the ...
Article : 53 wordsA YOUNG woman, about 22, jumped off the Manly steamer Narrsabean, last night, when the vessel was in the vicinity of the Heads. A boat was lowered, and within a ...
Article : 328 wordsNews is to hand that a force of 400 Boers on Wednesday lest attacked 120 of the New Zealand and Queensland Mounted Infantry, under the command of Major ...
Article : 87 wordsOWINGS the fast that the petted of national morning has been definitely fixed several previously-arranged social matters have been postponed. The concert in aid of sufferers ...
Article : 322 wordsMr. Harold Parsons, in a letter to the "Times," advocates the recognition in the King's titles of the kingdoms of Canada and Australia to the dignity of kingdoms in ...
Article : 113 wordsCATTAIN PAIN of the steamer, Reregrine which arrived on Monday night from Melbourne and Sydney reports that whilst off Point Looked a ter[?] squall the ship ...
Article : 70 wordsTHE case in which Richard He[?]ey was charged with having stolen a shirt the proparty of Richard Byrnes and which was adjou[?]ned [?] Monday last case on for further hearing. ...
Article : 155 wordsColonel Cunningham on Friday engaged the Boers under Commandant De la Rey at Kofferfontein, when four men were killed and 30 wounded on the British side. On ...
Article : 46 wordsJulian Tregenna Biddulph Arnold, Solicitor of Linooln's Inn who, was arrested in the United States some time ago, and extradited from San Francisco to England, ...
Article : 141 wordsMajor-General Smith-Darrien has had a fight with the Boers, which lasted five hours, between Wonderfontein and Carolina, in the east of the Transvaal. The ...
Article : 49 wordsThe various Royal personages will sleep on board their yachts on the night preceding the procession. The Royal yacht Alberta will be moored ...
Article : 52 wordsPrivate C. K. Ward, of the New Zealand rough-riders contingent has died of enteric fever at Johannesburg. Private J. E. Wilson, of the Victoria Mounted ...
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Advertising : 106 wordsThe display of mourning in America for her late Majesty Queen Victoria is so wide spread that one would think that the States were British possesions. ...
Article : 514 wordsThe Hon. Richard Solomon, Q.C., who was Attorney-General in Cape Colony in the Hon. W. P. Schrciner's Ministry, bee been appointed legal adviser to the British Administration in ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Italian Chamber of Deputise is being draped in black for the space of one week, in honour of the late Signor Giue[?]ppe Verdi, the eminent composer. ...
Article : 33 wordsActing under instructions received from London the Imperial contingent will sail early to-morrow for New Zealand. According to present arrangements the Indian troops will ...
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