It is officially announced that the Boers evacuated Middelburg, which, after the fall of Pretoria, was proclaimed the capital, in a disorderly trek. ...
Article : 149 wordsA further letter has been received from Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Ambassador, dated Peking July 6, He then wrote that three of the Legations were ...
Article : 209 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday the Earl of Wemyss asserted that a British military attache had declared that it was all important that Great Britain should ...
Article : 194 wordsA Chinese, representing the Russo-Chinese Bank at Poking, confirms the report of the massacres of the Europeans at the capital. ...
Article : 84 wordsFurther details of the massacres at Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, have been received. The Chinese troops protended to ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Secretary of Agriculture is taking, steps to facilitate the work of the German agents who propose to visit the colony with the object of purchasing horses for use by the German troops in China. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe steamer Taiyuan arrived this morning, bringing Hongkong files to July 14. They contain a few interesting details. A German naval officer of the gunboat Fuping ...
Article : 2,778 wordsAn Italian priest has arrived at Hongkong from Hunan, after a sensational journey. He escaped from the city concenlod in a ...
Article : 48 wordsThe forces of the Allies at Tientsin now number 28,000. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe ringleader of the Triad, a Chinese secret society, has been arrested. It is alleged that the members of the society were preparing an attack on the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Viceroys of tho provinces of the Yangts Valley, while professing to be taking measures for the preservation of peace, are energetically preparing for ...
Article : 57 wordsM. Iswolski succeeds the late Count M. Muravieff as the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe number of French officers and men volunteering for service in China is far beyond requirements. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe cypher message which was received by the United States Government from the Chinese telegraph authorities, and which the Chinese Government alleged to ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has allowed, with costs, the appeal of King v. Cheyne. The committee held that section 57, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe multiplication of letters from members of the foreign legations at Peking has hardly had the effect which the ingeurous Sheng, the Director of Telegraphs, contemplated. Thus the London "Times " ...
Article : 421 wordsThe Transvaalers have announced that they intend to continue the present guerilla warfare while awaiting the result of the United States presidential ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Privy Council has postponed till November next the delivery of judgment in the appeal of the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company v. the City of ...
Article : 38 wordsH.M. S. Mohawk, of the Australian Station, recently despatched to China, has arrived at Hongkong. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe "Express" states that a Chinese report is current that a large section of the "Boxers" in Peking, being in favour of the overthrow of the Manchus ...
Article : 65 wordsArrangements have been completed for the departure of the naval contingent by the Salamis on Monday afternoon. ...
Article : 24 wordsCorporal H. J. Kirkpatrick, of Mudgee, belonging to the First Australian Horse, and Private B. Armytage, of the Victorian forces, have each been granted a ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Privy Council has dismissed the appeal of Jellicoe v. the Wellington Law Society. [This was an appeal against the action of the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Hon. J. S. Turnor, M.L.C., died from failure of the heart's action this morning. A fire occurred at Messrs. Thomas Brown and Sons' Eagle-street warehouse to-day, but the ...
Article : 63 wordsA force of 1000 Boers is trying to surround Potchefstroom, in the southern Transvaal. Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen is ...
Article : 64 wordsFourteen members of the Newcastle Company of the Naval Brigade have volunteered for active cervice as a portion of a field force in China, and they will proceed to Sydney by to-morrow morning's ...
Article : 142 wordsThe commanding officers of the forces of the Allies have decided that the advance from Tientsin towards Peking will be made along the Taku-Peking railway line. ...
Article : 34 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has congratulated Colonel Willcocks on his accomplishment of the relief of Kumasi. ...
Article : 24 wordsWilliam Manson, one of the victims of the Garibaldi shooting case, died this afternoon. His mate, Thompson, is progressing well. An inquest will be opened to-morrow. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Imperial Government proposes to ask Parliament to vote small pensions to all widows and orphans of soldiors killed in action or dying of wounds or disease ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Chinese forces are concentrating at Getsnng, 10 miles from Tientsin. ...
Article : 18 wordsA solemn service of inccrcession to God in relation to the recent sad disturbances and sorrows in China was held in St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large congregation. ...
Article : 648 wordsThe Peking Government will probably find that it had called into existence and nurtured to strength a monster which it cannot control. The Boxers have admirably served the Dowager-Empress and her ...
Article : 260 wordsThe steamer Auchenarden, which left New York on July 21 with a cargo for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, has returned to New York on account of her ...
Article : 40 wordsLieutenant-General Sir H. M. Rundle, has taken Commando Nek, against which he had directed a strong artillery fire, and which is the southern exit of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe weather has been exceptionally boisterous all the week. Heavy rain has also fallen, nearly 2? inches having been recorded for the seven days, but the average fall has not yet been experienced ...
Article : 48 wordsLi Hung Chang stated a few days ago that the Tsung-li-Yamon was endeavouring to persuade the Empress Dowager to provide safe escort for the ambassadors ...
Article : 100 wordsOf the 240,000 volunteers in Great Britain 150,000 will undergo a fortnight's trining in camp. ...
Article : 25 wordsFor omission to comply with the award of the Arbitration Court, an employer has been ordered to pay a fine and costs amounting to £10. The Judge said that if the Court thought the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe marriage of Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill with Mr. George Cornwallis-West, lieutenant of the 3rd Battalion of Scots Guards, was celebrated ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. E. Burney Young, tho manager of the South Australian wine and produce depot, is urging the Australian Governments to and compile circulate an ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Premier has received a cable from the Agent-General stating that the mail companies would not deal with the proposal for an extra subsidy to secure the substitution of Fremantle ...
Article : 130 wordsAt the Liverpool July Meeting to-day the contest for the principal race on the card resulted as under:— Liverpool Cup of 1200 sovs., 50 sovs. in plate, or ...
Article : 172 wordsAs was naturally to be expected, the allies at Tientsin have taken no notice of the veiled threats or the impertinent promises of China, and are as firmly decided as ever to advance on Peking. In vian has ...
Article : 193 wordsMr. P. de Wet, a brother of Commandant Christian de Wet, has surrendered to the British at Kroonstad. ...
Article : 29 wordsGreat Britain, in replying to the Emperor of China's request for mediation, said that Great Britain would hold no communication with China until the ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Kenneth Inglis, of New Zealand, has won the China Scholarship of the Edinburgh University, amounting to £100 a year for eight years, and the Natural ...
Article : 42 wordsTwo hundred Boers have surrendered to the British at Ficksburg, near the eastern border of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe miners' general secretary has received from Mr. W. A. Firth, secretary of the Southern Coal Proprietors' Association, a reply to the request of the Illawarra miners for an advance of the hewing rate ...
Article : 328 wordsCablegrams from Shanghai to the council of the China Inland Mission in Melbourne state that Miss Edith Searell, of New Zealand, and Miss Whitchurch, of Englaud, have laid down their lives in the province ...
Article : 153 wordsPrivate C. E. Enderby, of the New Zealand forces, has died of enteric fever at Pretoria. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Emperor William, in taking farewell of the German contingent for China at Bremerhaven yesterday, addressed the troops. ...
Article : 111 wordsOn Friday night the Queen's Hall was crowded to hear speeches by Dr. Ellis and Messrs, Brimage and Beside, the delegates from the goldfields branch of the Federal League. The speakers had a good ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsThe Absrdeen line steamer Salamis left the harbour on Saturday last for Melbourne to embark the Victorian contingent of naval men for China. During her stay here of but 13 days this 1500 ton vessel has ...
Article : 360 wordsTha first definite step towards the formation of the New South Wales naval contingent for active servies in China was made on Saturday afternoon, when the examination aud swearing in of the volunteers ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 30 Jul 1900, Page 7
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