Captain A. L. Winsloc will command the R.M.S. Ophir (which will convey the Duke and Duchess of York to Australia) and the flotilla. Commander Womyss will be second ...
Article : 200 wordsMr. Kruger wept when the Emperor William's refusal to receive liim was made known. He intends to renew the request later, reminding the Emperor of his significant ...
Article : 215 wordsIt is stated that 2,000,000 people in the province of Chi-li and in Manchuria are homeless and are starving. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe United States Congress was opened yesterday. President M'Kinley's message to Congress indicated the prevalence of peace and ...
Article : 325 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 5 11-16d per ounce standard—a fall of 1-l6d since Saturday. ...
Article : 27 wordsYesterday the Legislative Assembly bore no [?]es of having gone through an arduous session. At the meeting, however, the benches on all sides ware well filled. Karely, indeed, for ...
Article : 790 wordsA meeting of the committee was held at the Sports Club on Monday night. Mr. R. Coombe[?] occupied the chair. It was decided that the two bodie, should amalgamate, and Mr. R. Coombes was elected [?] ...
Article : 639 wordsBoth Houses of Parliament were sitting when the first edition of the "Herald" went to preis. The following ia a continuation of the business:- LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Czar has ordered the Russian authorities in China to immediately transfer the Tientsin to Shan-hai-kwan railway to the Germans. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Chief Secretary has received a message from Captain Creswell stating that the gunboat Protector left Hongkong an November 24, and Manila on November 28. The Protector is expected at Port ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Jewish Colonisation Association has had its appeal dismissed in regard to the succession duty on one of its bequests. The Treasury will thus obtain £1,250,000 as ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Countess of Hopetoun, who was suffering from an attack of fever at Colombo, had regained sufficient strength, to enable lier to take a drive yesterday. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe P. and O. Company's B.M.S. Victoria, by which Lord Hopetoun is travelling, should reach Fremantle from Colombo this evening or early tomorrow. The Royal Arthur is now at Fremantle, ...
Article : 78 wordsThe gunboat Sparrow, which left for Australia a few days ago, has returned to Plymouth, having injured her engines. ...
Article : 27 wordsAfter a long discussion, the Minister for Works withdrew the bill, DEATH DUTIES ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The Legislative Council's amendments in this bill ...
Article : 152 wordsFresh eases of beer poisoning have occurred in Shropshire. The consumption of beer in London has fallen one-fifth. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier in answer to Mr. Haynes, said he could not give an answer offhand, without considering the interest of the taxpayers, whether it would be possible to pay ...
Article : 393 wordsThe British casualties at the battle at Rietfontein were 13 killed and 59 wounded. Captain G. Crawshaw, Lieutenants J. E. Montgomerie, C. L. Somerville, and F. G. ...
Article : 47 wordsThere was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly last night the report of the select committee appointed on July 26, 1900, to inquire [?]to and report upon the general administration of the military ...
Article : 1,314 wordsThe refusal of the German Emperor to grant an audience to Mr. Kruger has led diplomatic circles to consider that the Emperor William has inaugurated a new era ...
Article : 47 wordsLord Kitchener's headquarters are at Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 12 wordsIn some quarters dissatisfaction is expressed [?] garding the order of the Commonwealth procession as anuuged last Saturday by the members of the Procession and Demonstration Committee. It is pointed ...
Article : 421 wordsOwing to a general order that Shorncliffe camp will make payment of arrears to colonial troops on their signing a certificate, the discretionary branch of the Patriotic Fund ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the Assembly to-night the Minister for Railways tabled the plans of the proposed railways—Warwick towards Goodiwindi, 24 miles; Drayton deviation. 10 miles; and Dartmouth to Stonehenge, 109 miles. The ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Imperial Parliament assembled yesterday. The Right Hon. William Court Gully was unanimously re-elected Speaker. ...
Article : 33 wordsTha returning voluuteers from South Africa by the Harlech Castle are leaving Melbourne to-night by special train, and will arrive in Sydney at 3.15 p.m. to-morrow. They will be met at the station by ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Dutch papers are everywhere reprinting the letters by some members of the Cape Legislative Assembly beseeching her Majesty the Queen to murder the Boer women in ...
Article : 66 wordsThe River Tiber has been badly flooded. When crossing a bridge at Rome King Victor Emmanuel had a narrow escape from being caught in a landslip. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe members of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Association mot in conference yesterday and to-day to consider the question of the seamen's wages, which was the subject of last week's ...
Article : 79 wordsA general order has been issued stating that a camp in connection with the Commonwealth celebrations will be formed in Sydney from December 30, 1900, to January 5, 1901, and the following troops will ...
Article : 995 wordsThe mail ateamer Omrah, which arrived from London to-day, had on board Corporal S. Helsham and Troopers M'Arthur, Gooch, and Browning, of the Victomn Mounted Rifles; Troopers Pitt, Duffy, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Czar, who was suffering from an attack of typhoid fever is now out of danger. It is expected that he will leave his bed next week. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe welcome home demonstration to the troops who returued from South Africa by the Harlech Castle was overpowering in its warmth. The city streets were packed with sightseers to such an extent ...
Article : 1,781 wordsMr. Whitcombe has resigned his seat in the Council. R.M.S. Austral takes from Fremantle 30,000 [?] for Colombo from the Commercial Bank, ...
Article : 184 wordsSergeant O'Connor, of Boulia, wired last night to the Commissioner of Police stating that Ah Look reported at 2.45 p.m. that Loo He Koong had stabbed Thin Foo and Jimmy Foo Jah with a butcher's knife ...
Article : 139 wordsThis morning the Administrator-received a cable message from Lord Roberts as follona:—"Lord Kitehoner informs me that General Paget has brought under his notice the great gallontry of Major Vialls, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe award of the Swiss arbitrators in the Franco-Brazilian dispute in regard to the frontier of French Guiana is almost wholly in favour of Brazil. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe official card of invitation to guests from the other colonies to attend the Commonwealth celebrations will be despatched to-day. Some 2000 cards have been addressed. In the case of the more ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that arrangements are in progress for the building of wireless telegraphy stations on the Marconi system along the steamer route to Australia, ...
Article : 80 wordsA singular story of fire at sea was related by the master and the chief officer of the burque Bun Avon, which reaohed Hobson's Bay from New York From the account furnished it seems beyoud doubt that a ...
Article : 528 wordsThe Government baa approved of a recommendstion by the organising committee that, in order to impress upon the rising generation of New South Wales the historical importance attached to the ...
Article : 93 wordsSlight showers fell during last night at Charleville. At noon to-day steady rain commenced to fall, but did not lastlong. Appearances, however, indicate more rain. Reports from the country towards ...
Article : 119 wordsThe report of Dr. Ashburton Thompson, president of the Board of Health, on the outbreak of plague at Sydney in 1900 was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly last night. The report, with ...
Article : 717 wordsIt is officially announced that the Pacific Cable Committee, on behalf of the Imperial, the Australian, and the New Zealand Governments, has accepted the tender of the ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night Mr. Hawthorne asked the Minister for Education it all school children taking part in the procession and festivities would be carried free by rail. ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. Eh Carter has reported to the Richmond police that a fire occurred at Noondah Downs on Saturday evening last, by which a woolroom and all the wool were burned. No farther particulars are available. ...
Article : 38 wordsMunicipal Elections.—Bligh Ward: Mr. J. W. Brindley' M'Namee's Hotel, 8 p.m., Mr. Philip Henry Morton, Cardigan Hotel, 8 p.m.: Mr. T. J. We[?]t, Execlsior Hotel, 7.30 p.m.; Mr. John Hughes, Henneby's Hotel, 8 p.m. ...
Article : 568 wordsThe teaching of tho Eughsh language has been made compulsory in all the upper schools in Germany. The French language is an optional subject. ...
Article : 37 wordsWith reference to the inspection of balconies, staginga, &c., to be [?]sed in connection with the forthcoming Commonwealth celebrations, it would appear that the responsibility of providing for the public ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Rev. Herbert Edward Ryle, D.D., Hulscan Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, has been appointed Bishop of Exeter in succession to the Right Rev. E. H. ...
Article : 37 wordsHer Majesty the Queen was awarded three challenge cups, three special, and five first prizes, and one second prize at the Birmingham Agricultural Show. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt the meeting of Marrickville Council on Monday evening the Mayor (Alderman H. A. Langley) reported that he had arranged for an officer of the council to give evidence bofore the Public Warks ...
Article : 173 wordsIt was also learned yesterday from the Citisen's Committee, through the Swiss Con[?]ul, Mr. Butty, that the Consul-General for France is moving in the matter of the celebration, and proposes, through the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Examiner of Plays has refused to license the Rev. George Walters's play "Joseph of Canaan." Dec. 4. ...
Article : 42 wordsA meeting of protectionist members of the Legislative Assembly, who are candidate, for the Federal Parliament, waa held yesterday afternoon at No. I committee room. The chair was taken [?]y Mr. T. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 5 Dec 1900, Page 7
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