Lieutenant-General Pole-Carew, with whom are the Australians, is advancing on Nelspruit, which is reported to have been evacuated by the Boers. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Earl of Hopetoun, the Governor-General of Australia, entertained his tenantry yesterday. During the course of a speech, Lord ...
Article : 55 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4 15-16d per ounce standard, a rise of 1-16d since yesterday. ...
Article : 24 wordsM. de Giers, the Russian Minister to China, has arrived at Nagaski, on the south-west coast of Japan. Sept. 14. ...
Article : 149 wordsLord Roberts has left Pretoria, and is now at Machadodorp. Sir Redvers Buller holds the junction of the entern and southern roads near Spitzkop. ...
Article : 6,951 wordsThe Premier was interviewed to-night regarding the correspondence between Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Tennyson. Mr. Philp said that he did not think that the salary of the Governor ...
Article : 307 wordsCaptain Wallington, private secretary to the Earl of Hopetoun, sails for Australia by the Britannia. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. John Lyne, father of Sir William Lyne, died this evening, aged 91 years. The late Mr. Joba Lyne, who belonged to an old English family in one of the western counties of ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Premier has not yet appointed the committee to draw up the "programme of ceremonies" in connection with the landing of Lord Hopetoan in Sydney, but he will take action in the matter ...
Article : 200 wordsA cable has been received in Sydney from Shanghai announcing the safety of Miss Booth, the missionary of the Young Women's Christian Association in China. ...
Article : 30 wordsFurther details of the disaster at Galveston, Texas, are that 1000 bodies were cremated, and that 1100 were dropped into the sea tied together in order to ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Boers attacked Major-General C. W. H. Douglas between Ottoshoop and Lichtenburg, in the western part of the Transvaal colony. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury, the Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, has arrived at Hatfield from Schucht, in the Vosges. He is much improved in health. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsA young man named Leelie Granger, aged 21, was reported to be ill with the plague to-night. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. G. H. Reid, in criticising the remarks of Mr. O'sullivan, Minister for Works, on the Government's actions, made the following statement yesterday to a repreaentative of the "Sydney Morning Herald":— ...
Article : 1,403 wordsThe hearing of the action, John William O'Brien, F.B.C.S., against Thomas Scott, M.R.C.S., both of Warrnambool, for the recovery of £1000 damages for alleged libel, was listed for continuance before ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Russian troops at Peking are being steadily reinforced, and there is every indication that they all along intended to stay in the capital. ...
Article : 126 wordsGoss, formerly a clerk at Parr's Bank, charged with having stolen from the bank, on January 23, 1899, notes to the value of £60,000, has been sentenced to ...
Article : 42 wordsLieutenant-General Hildyard has expelled, the Boers from Langwacht's Pass, east of Utrecht. ...
Article : 21 wordsLord Roberts has proclaimed the whole of the Transvaal Colony to be under martial law. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. Justice Holroyd to-day heard an application to vary the scheme of compromise arrived at in 1895 between the Standard Mutual Building Society and its depositors. The society in December, 1891, ...
Article : 222 wordsOne hundred thousand miners of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania, United States, have struck for an advance in wages. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe "Daily Mail" reports that General Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, has resigned his position owing to the cowardice of the Boers. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe trustees of the National Art Gallery yesterday received per the steamer Medic the memorial gifts of her Majesty the Queen to the Federal Parliament, secured at the instance of Mr. D. Barton, Q.C. They ...
Article : 736 wordsThe Japanese have arrested and handed over to the German authorities a Chinaman alleged to be the assassin of Baron von Ketteler, the late German Minister ...
Article : 47 wordsA fire broke out on the four-masted barque Hinemoa lying at Poplar, and severely damaged the main hold of the vessel. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe refusal of the directors of the Coal Creek, Jumbunna, and Outtrim coal companies to increase the rates of pay has resulted in the miners taking preliminary steps for a strike. A meeting of ...
Article : 60 wordsCaptain Webber, of Neutral Bay, has received information from Maieking to the effect that his son, Lauce-Carporal W. J. Webber, whilst engaged scouting on August 5, was ambushed by the Boers. It ...
Article : 48 wordsAn immense demonstration was held at Capetown on Wednesday in honour of Major-General Baden-Powell. Thirty thousand people thronged the streets, and ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Americans attacked 300 Imperialists at the Temple of Shaho, killing 30. The Russians defeated 500 Boxers at Machipo, killing the leader and 200 men. ...
Article : 39 wordsWith a view of inquiring into the alleged deterioration of Victorian butter, and the reasons why it commanded a lower price in the London market than Danish butter, the board appointed a few months ago ...
Article : 183 wordsPrivate Robertson, Queensland, who was admitted to the Singleton Hospital, having taken fits in the train, has recovered, and proceeds on his journey to-day. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Portuguese authorities admitted Mr. Kruger, the ex-President of the Transvaal, to Delagoa Bay exclusively in a private capacity. ...
Article : 26 wordsFighting has been more moderate in our immediate vicinity since our last big operation, when the native city of Tientsin was taken by the Allies on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 12th, 13th, and 14th instant, ...
Article : 1,159 wordsMr. Jellicoe has arrived from New Zealand, and is moving the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to rehear his appeal against the decision of tbe Supreme ...
Article : 46 wordsA Parliamentary return of the losses of the New Zealand contiugents shows that 9 have been killed in action, 23 have died of disease, and 49 have returned invalided. ...
Article : 36 wordsPrivate J. Masterton of the Queensland forces, has died of wounds at Krugersdorp. ...
Article : 22 wordsHis Excellency the Governor received a telegram this afternoon from Lieutenant Ives, of the South Australian Bushmen, stating that Captain Hubbe, commanding officer, was killed in action at ...
Article : 135 wordsMajor-General Paget has evacuated Warmbad, on the Pietersburg railway, 64 miles north of Pretoria, as it is humid and unhealthy. Bofore leaving he ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Beerbohm Tree has engaged Mr. King Headley for a leading part in "King Herod" at Her Majesty's Theatre. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Kotuku, the new steamer of the Union Company, commanded by M. H. Dawson, arrived from Greenock late last night. ...
Article : 26 wordsA during attempt at burglary during which a revolver was used freely was made at an early hour this morning at the Post Office Hotel on the Fern Tree Gully-road, about 17 miles from Melbourne. ...
Article : 286 wordsA Chinese has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for supplying opium to natives. ...
Article : 20 wordsMiss A. Greenaway, secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association, has received the following useful articles, which have been packed and forwarded per steamer Damascus, addressed to the ...
Article : 202 wordsWhile we were waiting just outside Pretoria General Ian Hamilton's division came in from the east. They had pushed on as far as Balmoral, which is about 25 miles this side of Middelburg, without ...
Article : 1,672 wordsAt East Fremantle yesterday a grocery store was gutted by fire. The damage is estimated at £200. Mr. Martin, who announced his intention to oppose Mr. Wood's re-election for West Perth, has ...
Article : 40 wordsGreat interest was taken, and the court was crowded, when the Warrah strike case was before the police court on Tuesday last. Messrs, Allnut, Seldon, and Moore, Js.P., presided. George Gillott was ...
Article : 519 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Australasian National League to-day considerable discussion took place on the question of the election for the Senate and representatives in the Federal Parliament. It was ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Westgarth has received a letter from his son, Lieutenant J. E. Westgarth, written at Mafeking on August 13, in which it is stated that of 300 men taken prisoners at Elands River, 100 belonged to ...
Article : 85 wordsThe advance in value of the Brilliant Central is due to a good reef in the sink on the underlie, and 5ft. of stone in the end of No. 5 west level. No. 2 South-east Day Dawn has cut 10in. of stone in the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Federation Arrangements Bill passed the second reading in the Assembly yesterday. The names of the constituencies under the bill are:— Perth, Fremantle, Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, and ...
Article : 49 wordsSt. Mary's Cathedral: Australasian Catholic Congress, 10 a.m.; St. Mary's Hall, 3 p.m. Town Hall: Congress Concert, 8 p.m. Centenary Hall: Alexander—Young—Page ...
Article : 173 wordsCorporal W. M. Legh, writing from Vredeport on August 5, says:—"There is no doubt about our fellows. All the generals refer to them as the 'carefor-nothing, independent devils.' I am sorry to say ...
Article : 99 wordsThe colliery dispute at Ipswich is still unsettled. At the conclusion of work at the New Chum Pit to-day the manager, under instructions, submitted certain proposals for a hewing rate on a sliding scale, ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. Austin Chapman, M.L.A. for Braidwood, a Federal candidate for Narriga in the House of Representatives, addressed a large and representative meeting in the Sohool of Arts last night. Mr. J. J. ...
Article : 153 wordsMr. T. F. Millard, war correspondent, writes as follows to the "Daily Mail":— When the war began Louis Botha was unknown to fame. Under Lucas Meyer he had served with ...
Article : 423 wordsThe Premier says that he intends to submit in the Government programme at the elections a proposal to make a reasonable reduction in the salary of future State Governors, on the understanding that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsADELAIDE.—Departures: September 14, Flensburg, s., for Java; Wollowra, s., for Fremantle, Arrival: September 14, Nemes[?], s., from Melbourne. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 15 Sep 1900, Page 9
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