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WELLINGTON, January 18.--New Zealand could not do what your Commonwealth did to meet the outburst of German spleen. Parliament not being in session it was impossible to bring…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commenting upon the statement made by Viscount Cranborne, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affirs, as to the attude of Great Britain towards the United…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An incident in connection with the Alien Restriction Act has occurred at Sydney, particulars of which are interesting. Two Indian soldiers, who, it is stated, have been serving in China, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trooper C. Taylor, son of Mr. John Taylor, of Parramatta, had an exciting experience with Seheepers, the Boer commandant, who has just been executed. Taylor was out on sentry with a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A meeting of military men returned from South Africa, whose claims for additional pay have been considered and refused by the Government, was held at the Hotel Arcadia last night. There was a large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At Paddington Police Court yesterday Ernest H. G. Pickering, wearing the uniform of an artillery man, was charged with stealing a sliver hunting watch and gold chain, two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--The proposal of the Minister to resume the historic square opposite the Lands Office for the purpose of a soldiers' memorial-hall is hardly one which will commend itself to those…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Paddington Court, before Mr. J. A. King, D.S.M. a soldier in the uniform of the New South Wales Artillery was charged with stealing from his room-mate, at the Victoria Barracks, a silver watch, gold chain, and two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PERTH, Thursday.--Major-General Sir E. T. Hutton, the first Federal Commandant, arrived at Fremantle this morning in the R.M.S. Austral, accompanied by Lady Hutton and Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albert Farrell, 19, carter, was charged at the Newtown Court yesterday, ith maliciously wounding Guy Kemmis, with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, at Croydon, on the 18th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Boer doctor states that in the engagement at Amersfoort, Transvaal, on January 5, between Major Vallentin and Commandant Christian Botha the enemy had 42 killed and 70 wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 211 →"To get rid of war, though much less easy, is no more impossible than was the abolition of duelling or of slavery. Indeed, I hold that it will soon have become less…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Says a London Radical daily: Mr. Brodrick went out of his way recently to offer the most elaborated and calculated series of insults to journalists as a class that have perhaps ever…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"With Rimington," by L. March Phillipps, late captain in Rimington's Guides (Edward Arnold), is one of the distinctive books on the South African trouble. Captain Phillipps was at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Friday. -- The War Office authorities have declined to assist Lord Hobhouse in taking legal action in connection with the deportation of his niece, Miss Emily…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Major R. E. Whitehead and a company or the Royal Munster Fusiliers stormed a Boer position near Griquatown with the bayonet. Major Whitehead and four men were killed, and five others…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →TROOPER Cecil Shearman, a Parramatta King's School boy and a son of the Rev. J. Shearman, rector of St. Luke's C.E., Liverpool, who left for South Africa with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday. -- Mr. Seddon says he is surprised to learn the news about the Argentine meat contracts for South Africa, and considers that this colony and Australia are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that Commandant Scheeper, who was executed last week, had been guilty of the cold-blooded…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Kruger, in a note to the Dutch press, in reply to Mr. Chamberlain's recent speech in the House of Commons, says that the Boer leaders claim complete independence, and…
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