The forces of the Allies commenced their advance on Peking on Saturday. The Japanese discovered that large forces of Chinese cavalry and infantry ...
Article : 152 wordsAn anarchist named Valletta, who has been arrested, was the man who found the money for Francis Salson, the assailant of the Shah. ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Japanese Consul at Shanghai has received information dated from Peking on the 5th instant, stating that General Tung Fuhsiang had stopped provisions being supplied to the legations. ...
Article : 7,178 wordsMr. Thompson, the missionary, has been bayonetted in Chu-chou-fu, in Chekiang Province. His four children were beheaded by the ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. John R. Wallace, who leaves with the Naval Contingent as assistant paymaster, was accorded a send-off at midday yeserday by a number of residents of Randwick and representatives of various ...
Article : 369 wordsAdvices from Shanghai state that Hsuching-cheng and Youn, the two members of the Tsung-li-Yamen, whom General Li Ping Heng executed on account of their ...
Article : 58 wordsBoer marauders, with detonators of dynamite, are trying to destroy by explosions the railway north of Kroonstad, in the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe examination of horses for use in China by the German army was continued yesterday by the German commission. Mr. Gruonw (Vice-Consul for Germany) is president. Mr. Breymann acts as ...
Article : 152 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts reports that there are indications that Lieutenant-General Sir Fred. Carrington, commanding the Rhodesian field force, has ...
Article : 58 wordsBy "Gazette" issued yesterday it is notified that Lieutenant Alexander Gillespie, R.N., of H.M.S. Mildura, has been appointed to the command with rank of Captain of the N.S.W. Naval Contingent ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Japanese Consul at Shanghai has received information dated from Peking on the 5th instant stating that General Tungfuhsiang had stopped provisions ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. Chamberlain (Secretary of State for the Colonies) is unable to fix a date for the proclamation inaugurating the Commonwealth, until the Parliament of ...
Article : 51 wordsWhilst the well-known Manly steamer the Brighton was on the 10.30 o'clock trip last night from Sydney to Manly, and when a little distance below Chowder Bay, she came into collision with the collier ...
Article : 555 wordsLana, the anarchist, arrested on a charge of being the accomplice of Bressi, the assassinator of King Humbert, dogged the footsteps of Queen Margherita ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick asked the Colonial Secretary if it was within his knowledge that Captain Hixson was going only as far as Hongkong in command of the naval ...
Article : 449 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly the debate on the Health Bill was resumed, and the bill was read the second time. The Northern and Central Boundaries Bill went through the committee stage. The ...
Article : 135 wordsThe New South Wales naval forces have at length, after persistent endeavours, obtained their opportunity to demonstrate on behalf of their colony what manner of fighting men they are when the British ...
Article : 660 wordsIn committee of the House of Commons last night the Colonial Stock Bill was further considered. On the motion of Sir Michael ...
Article : 154 wordsThe railway traffic earnings for July show a decrease of £23,176 compared with the corresponding month of last year. All the lines show decreases except the Normanton and Cairns. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe amateur golf championship of Queensland was contested to-day. The blue riband remains for this year with the Brisbane Golf Club. The battle was well fought out, and the excitement ran high. ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Railway Commission to decide upon the test route to tap the St. George district in Queensland came to St. George last week and took evidence. The members of the Commission ...
Article : 193 wordsCowper Wharf, Woolloomooloo, has been the scene of much larger crowds within the put few months, but never a more enthusiastic gathering has there been in that quarter of the town than that ...
Article : 691 wordsThe Lords of Appeal of the House of Lords, by a majority of 4 to 1, have sustained the appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of the ...
Article : 239 wordsThe popularity of the Empress Dowager is increasing. All the provinces of the Empire are sending troops and money to Peking. ...
Article : 34 wordsA fatal accident occurred last evening at 94 mine, Pitfield. Two men, Andrew Liston and W. Yeoman, went to work on the afternoon shift, and were engaged in a part of the mine by ...
Article : 131 wordsOn Monday night a large number of the residents of Leichhardt assembled in the local Town Hall for the purpose of bidding farewell to Mr. S. Patterson, A.B., prior to his leaving for China with the Naval ...
Article : 841 wordsLi Hung Chang, the Viceroy of Chi-li, has denounced General Li Ping Heng, who had previously impeached Li Hung Chang, and has demanded his dismissal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 wordsWhen seen by a "Herald" representative at Chowder Bay at an early hour this morning the Brighton presented a forlorn appearance, and waa almost a wreck. Fortunately for the vessel, the ...
Article : 127 wordsA telegram was received by the Commissioner for Police from Port Lincoln this evening, stating that M'Farlane Brothers' store at that place had been completely gutted by fire. The estimated ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Imperial Government has decided to employ on service in China the troops of native states of India. The decision of the Imperial ...
Article : 42 wordsThe steam collier Brunner, after transhipping the Brighton's passengers to the Narrabeen, proceeded on her way to the Gas Company's wharf at Darling Harbour, where she was seen this morning by a ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Governor, Viscount Gormanston, with Lady Gormanston, the Hon. Ismay Preston, and the private secretary, left the colony by the Pateena to join the steamer Warrimoo at Sydney, ...
Article : 178 wordsThe announcement that there was to be no public demonstration on the departure of the New South Wales Naval Contingent for China seems in the upshot to have been futile, for yesterday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsReplying to-day to a deputation from Boulder city, the Minister for Railways stated that the matter of arbitration and conciliation in labour disputes was under ths consideration of the ...
Article : 139 wordsTo-day's news is conflicting. We have Baron Nichi, the Japanese Minister, writing under date July 26, and staling that hostilities in Peking had been suspended at that time. He does not say ...
Article : 1,153 wordsOn the harbour the scene presented by the Victorians swarming the rigging of the troopship, manning the yards on the fore, and hand-in-hand singing in true British tar style "Three Cheers for ...
Article : 881 wordsA canoe, containing 16 Maori children and two adults, has been capsized. All the occupants were drowned. ...
Article : 21 wordsNEWCASTLE.—Arrival: August 7 Dovedale, s., from Port Pirie. Departure: August 7, Catarina Accame, ship, for Chenaral. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 8 Aug 1900, Page 7
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