Crich, the orderly, sat on a camp-stool cheering Parker, who lay suspiciously quiet. Parker had come from Queensland, via New Jersey, among other cities, and the registered ...
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Article : 226 words"The Boxers," a seditions society, are murdering and plundering within 29 miles of Pekin. Japan has landed a force of blue jackets ...
Article : 40 words"The Boxers" (a seditious society whose members have been committing outrages in North Eastern China) are reported to be marching towards Pekin. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the voting in the House of Lords on the motion for the second reading of the Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister Validity Bill, introduced by Lord ...
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Article : 26 wordsThe following letter has been received by the Mayor of Melbourne from the Lord Mayor of London:— "I acknowledge with profound gratitude the receipt of your Worship's kind letter of 14th March ...
Article : 325 wordsMr. Borchgrevinck, the Antarctic explorer, has arrived in London from Hobart, where he left the Southern Cross, his exploring steamer. ...
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Article : 25 wordsThe London branch of the Western Australian Goldfields League has been dissolved. The secretary predicts that there will ...
Article : 44 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 9-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 17 wordsMajor-General H. Hildyard, commanding the 2nd Brigade, after occupying Newcastle, in northern Natal, discovered barrels of dynamite in the Town Hall. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Premier, in replying in the Legislative Assembly to Mr. Robson, said: "I have stated to my colleagues, we don't know what these charges are, but if any of you have done anything ...
Article : 117 wordsMrs. Gladstone, widow of the late Right Hon, W. E. Gladstone, is seriously ill, and is in a critical condition. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is reported from Pretoria that the Transvaal Boers have determined to risk everything on a last stand at the Gatsrand Mountains, north of Potchefstroom, where ...
Article : 44 wordsForty rebels surrendered at Newcastle yesterday. The oath of neutrality, which they have now taken, under penalty of death for disobedience, allows them to ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Holman, M.L.A., addressed an audience of about 600 parsons at the Excelsior Hall, East Wyalong. The Mayor (Alderman Moriarty) presided. Mr, Holman spoke for two hours dealing with ...
Article : 118 wordsThe market has opened. Prices for Panyongs are rather higher than last season, and only a moderate business is doing. The first steamer will be the ...
Article : 62 wordsAn outbreak of fire was discovered shortly before 2 o'clock this morning in a tobacconist's shop in George-street. nearly opposite Railway-square, occupied by Mr H. Collins The M.F.B. attended ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Boer forces at Laing's Nek have been reinforced. ...
Article : 17 wordsA report from Delagoa Hay states that the British have cut the Pretoria to Heidelberg railway line. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt St. Heliers, Jersey, the French female shopkeeper who provoked the recent riot which arose over the Mafeking celebrations has been sentenced to four ...
Article : 78 wordsLiout.-General Ian Hamilton, whose Colonial Mounted Infantry Division followed Major-General Broad wood across the Vaal River on Saturday, marched ...
Article : 41 wordsA writ has been issued by the Crown against the Queensland Trustees, as administrators of the estate of the late James Tyson, for £68,482 11s 6d, to recover the amount [?]amed as succession ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. F. M. Rothery, secretary of the Animals' Protection Society of New South Wales, wrote to the War Office asking them to take some steps to destroy horses wounded at the war. Mr. G. Wyndham, ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Ward, the Minister for Railways, speaking at Riverton last night, stated that it had been decided to reduce the fares on the railways all rouud and to make ...
Article : 105 wordsThe people of Kumara (a mining town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand) are sending Sir Redvers Buller a magnificent double grcenstone and gold albert chain to which a ...
Article : 80 wordsA proclamation was issued form Bloemfontein yesterday formally annexing the Orange Free State to Great Britain. ...
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Article : 161 wordsLieutenant K. K. Mackellar, of the 1st Australian Horse (New South Wales), has been transferred to the 7th Dragoons. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe steamer Waiwern, from the Cape, arrived this afternoon, She left the Cape on the 8th, and the voyage was uneventful. She departs for Wellington to-morrow. ...
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Article : 208 wordsThe Governor yesterday received a cable message from Lord Roberts in reply to the message despatched by his Excellency to the Commander-in-Chief on the receipt of the news of the relief of Mafeking:— ...
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Article : 145 wordsThe great bazaar at Kensington, in aid of the British soldiers wounded in South Africa, realised £50,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe barque Vidylia, which met with a [?]vere handling in the course of her passage from Melbourne to South Africa, and put nto the Semaphore anch[?]rage on Sunday for ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Bishop of Newcastle, in opening the synod of his diocese yesterday, said:—In the Church's effort "reconcile the ways of God to men," to use Milton's words, she must feel painful concern ...
Article : 618 wordsPretoria is panic-stricken, According to the last official report from the front Lord Roberts was within l8 miles of Johannesburg. The Commander-in-Chief of the Boer forces (Mr. ...
Article : 1,086 wordsConsequent on the heavy rains experienced in the Upper Muriumbldgee country a fload is anticipated here. At noon to-day the river here was 25½ft. above summer level and rising. As the river continues to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 30 May 1900, Page 7
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