Tho presence of so many women iiv Cronje's camp has been explained. So cock-sure were the Boer women of Kimberley being given over to loot,, that large numbers of them came and stayed in the camp, prepared with trunks and pillow-slips ready to.- fill.. One letter from a Boer lady to, hcuhusband imn'ored him to give- her a. fc.r day's notice before Kimberley' would be taken, as she wanted to beone of the first into Oliver's largodraper's shop. Mr William Kershaw, a well-knowrv Australian drdging engineer, has received an offer from an Englishsyndicate, having large interests in Siberia, to go to that country tosuperintend the erection and workingof five dredges. It is seriously asserted by a contributor to the l Australian Mining' Standard that the capita] now embarked in the dredging industry in New Zealand has reached 18 millions! A Victorian religious paper informs, its readers " That a memorial service in commemoration of Miss Williams' death was held, and a most enjoyableafternoon was spent." WITCHES' OIL Cure 3 Old and Obronia-' Pain, Rbeumatism, Neuralgia, Cold on tloes ' Chest, Sciatica, Try it.:
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 9220, 15 June 1900, Page 1
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181Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 9220, 15 June 1900, Page 1
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