Lord Brassey, late Governor of Victoria, speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, called attention, and referred in most eulogistic terms, to the resources of Australia ...
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Article : 130 wordsIn a number of the city and suburban churches in memoriam services for the missionaries and native Christians who have fallen in the masacres in China were ...
Article : 87 wordsReports have been received that the Boers wrecked a train that was conveying twentyone sick men between Krugersdorp and Potchcfetroom. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe absence of further developments, which is the best of news, continues with regard to the plague in Brisbane. Neither on Saturday nor yesterday were any fresh cases ...
Article : 76 wordsReports are now to hand that the Russian troops have occupied all the important positions on the right bank of the Amur River after some severe conflicts with the Chinese. ...
Article : 63 wordsNews of a most satisfactory nature regarding some of the staff of the London Missionary Society stationed in China has been received in Sydney. It is stated that ...
Article : 117 wordsIt is stated that LI Hung Chang, before leaving Canton, added 5000 men to the force garrisoning the Bogue forts at that place. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe bulletin from Colmslie, issued at 4 p.m. yesterday, was as follows:—" Plague area: Stella Flood's temperature is normal. All other patients doing well. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe call for volunteers for service in China made by private circular to members of the Naval Brigade has been responded to by between sixty and seventy men, but ...
Article : 168 wordsThere is intense indignation expressed at Hongkong at the honours paid by the British authorities there to the Chinese Viceroy, LI Hung Chang, who, while ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. J. Fowler, the American Vice-Consul at Chifu, has forwarded a report, in which he states that he questioned the Chinese Governor of Shantung as to the rumours of ...
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Article : 182 wordsThe "Times'' correspondent at Shanghal hints that the Viceroy Li Hung Chang is likely to be detained as a hostage by the Powers until the situation at Peking has ...
Article : 133 wordsThe following memorandum was issued by Mr. A. W. Anderson, Acting Government Meteorologist, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon:—The wires received and recorded at 3 p.m., on Saturday how ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Queen's Federation momento will be shipped to Australia by the steamship-Medic. (A cable message, under dace 11th July, stated that the pen, table, and Inkstand used ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Canadian-Australian liner Warrimoo arrived from Vancouver, via Honolulu, on Saturday, and berthed at the Pinkenba wharf. From the files to hand we extract ...
Article : 720 wordsNews is to hand that fifteen burghers at Zeerust, in the west of the Transvaal, have been tried and sentenced to be banished to Ceylon, and their property confiscated, for ...
Article : 78 wordsM. Pichon, the French Minister at Peking, in a letter to the French Government, written on the 12th June last, and which has only just been received, states that obscure ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is reported that the Governor of Shantung now denies that he ever announced that there had been a massacre at the Legations in Peking, but he apparently mixes ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Viceroy Li Hung Chang has now arrived at Shanghai on his way to Peking. He states that his appointment as Viceroy of Chi-li has been signed by the Empress ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the meeting of the Joint Epidemic Board yesterday Dr. Turner submitted a strong report upon the state of the town, one sentence in the report reading, "The ...
Article : 133 wordsLatest information from the front in the Transvaal states that the British troops under General Lord Methuen have occupied Heckspoort, without opposition. ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is announced that Sir James Chance has given a donation of £50,000 to the endowment fund of the Birmingham-University, which has recently been, established. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 476 wordsRear-Admiral Reney, the American Naval Cammander, has cabled to Washington that the allied forces will advance against Peking on the 15th August. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Chinese Minister in Paris has presented to M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, an appeal from the Emperor of China, asking France to mediate ...
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Advertising : 402 wordsInformation has been received that the British force under General Pole-Carew had a stiff action with the Boers at Rietvali. The Boers, who were using Creusot guns ...
Article : 79 wordsM. Loubet, the French President, has telegraphed to M. Pichon, French Minister at Peking, that any mediation by France will depend upon the foreign Ministers ...
Article : 120 wordsAdvices have been received from Vienna. stating that the Russian Government have requested the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid [?] as Ca[?]ph of Islam, to ...
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Article : 60 wordsInformation is to hand that the Japanese Government are embarking another division of troops for China, together with a large siege train of artillery. ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is announced that the Victoria Cross has been awarded to Captain Meiklejohn and Sergeant-Major Robertson, of the Gordon Highlanders, for gallantry displayed by ...
Article : 57 wordsNews from Washington states that on the 11th instant the Chinese Minister there despatched a message in cipher from Mr. Hay, United States Secretary of State, to ...
Article : 256 wordsIt is reported that the Emperor of China wrote to the Mikado on the 3rd instant, urging that Japan and China should make common cause against the European Powers, ...
Article : 68 wordsPrivate Ward, of the 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, is the winner of the Queen's Prize at the National Rifle Association meeting at Bisley, with a score of 341 ...
Article : 42 wordsNews has been received that the steamer Annerley, which left Melbourne on the 9th June, has arrived at Durban, in Natal. She was bringing a large shipment of horses to ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Chifu has reported that in the recent fighting at Tientsin the Chinese soldiers and insurgents bravely encountered a perfect hail ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the appeal case, Melbourne Tramways Company v. the City of Fitzroy, judgment has been reserved by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is reported from Capetown that, in anticipation of British reinforcements being sent to China, which may require the withdrawal of troops from South Africa, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Parliament of Cape Colony was opened yesterday, and the Governor (Sir Alfred Milner), in his opening speech, stated that he anticipated an early close to the present ...
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Advertising : 213 wordsThe correspondent of the London "Times" at Shanghai states that Liu, the Chinese Viceroy at that city, has forbidden the strengthening of the Woosung forts at the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Yokohama correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" reports that the Japanese accuse the Russians of callous, wholesale massacre of Chinese, including women and ...
Article : 46 wordsShanghai, June 22.—Foreigners and commercial men and residents of the treaty; port are of opinion, that the Chinese Government has been wrecked beyond repair, ...
Article : 450 wordsOn inquiry last night, we learned that the total rainfall at the Brisbane Observatory for the thirtysix hours ended at 9 p.m. yesterday amounted to 2.4Sin.; this with 0.24in. registered at 9 a.m. on ...
Article : 44 wordsA British force under Colonel Little met and fought the Boers under Commandant De Wet near Lindley, in the Orange River Colony. The Boers were repulsed and ...
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Advertising : 156 wordsAdmiral Seymour, the British Commander on the China station, has telegraphed that Tientsin and its neighbourhood have now been entirely evacuated by the Chinese ...
Article : 34 wordsEighty-two, Belgian missionaries, who were engaged in mission work in various parts of China, are reported as being missing, but their fate is unknown. ...
Article : 31 wordsNews is to hand that Sergeant F. Maxwell, of the Queensland Contingent, was killed at Hornankraal. Private D. Gardiner, of Queensland, was ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is announced that the various Powers have agreed to a proposal made by M. Delcasse, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, to prohibit the exportation of arms ...
Article : 59 wordsEnergetic movements on the part of the Russian troops on the Russo-Chinese frontier are reported, but the Chinese operating there are stated to have been reinforced. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe English newspapers are unconvinced that Mr. Conger, the American Minister at Peking, is still alive, and they suggest that the official American [?]ipher code has fallen ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. George Wyndham, Under Secretary for War, stated in reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday that 12,203 troops had been sent to South Africa ...
Article : 38 wordsAn employee of the Cape Government, who was Implicated in the rebellion in Cape Colony, has been convicted, and sentenced to five years imprisonment; and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe national memorial service, which was to have been held in St. Paul's Cathedral in connection with the supposed massacre at the British Legation in Peking has, now ...
Article : 45 wordsReports have been received from St. Petersburg that the Russian Government now admits that a state or war exists in Eastern Siberia, but hopes to restrict it to ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 23 Jul 1900, Page 5
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