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Article : 344 wordsA meeting of the Federal Cabinet was held to-day, at which all the Ministers, with the exception of Sir George Turner, were present. Mr. Barton, when seen at ...
Article : 406 wordsIt has been announced that his Majesty the King and Queen Alexandra will lunch on board the Ophir prior to the departure of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and ...
Article : 186 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons last night, Lord Cranborne (Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs) stated that so far as Great Britain was ...
Article : 87 wordsIt is stated that the Tartar general, Tseng-chi, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese troops in Manchuria, was dismissed from his post by the Imperial Court for ...
Article : 103 wordsLord Kitchener, who has returned to Pretoria, after being present at the Hout-kraal action in Cape Colony on the 15th instant, reports that Commandant De Wet, ...
Article : 123 wordsLieutenant Higson, of the Fourth (Imperial Bushmen) Queensland Contingent for South Africa, has returned to Brisbane, and is in very much better health and ...
Article : 695 wordsThe men of the Fifth Contingent speak in the highest terms of the efforts of the Y.M.C.A. to make life in camp more pleasant. The large tent, which will seat ...
Article : 196 wordsQuestioned as to the measures to be taken in connection with the government of the annexed colonies of the Orange River and the Transvaal in the House of ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Peking correspondent of the London "Times," Dr. Morrison, has informed his paper that Yang-yu, the Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, has telegraphed a series ...
Article : 171 wordsIt has been decided that thirty members of the band of the Royal Marines (Chatham division) shall accompany the Duke and, Duchess of Cornwall and York on board the ...
Article : 44 wordsCommandant De Wet is said to have threatened to shoot all Dutch colonists in Cape Colony who have refused to fight with the Boers. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach) stated that at the present time he was unable to indicate on which ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is stated that Commandant De wer has obtained remounts for his force in the district to the westward of Hopetown, on the northern borders of Cape Colony. ...
Article : 35 wordsA dissension has arisen between the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society with regard to the question of command of the National Antarctic ...
Article : 93 wordsThe transport Templemore, which is to convey the Queensland Contingent to South Africa, arrived in Sydney to-day. She will be docked here, and take in coal before ...
Article : 89 wordsA meeting of the general council of the Commonwealth Electoral League was held at the League's Rooms, in George-street, last evening, the Hon. A. J. Thynne ...
Article : 526 wordsIn reply to Piet De Wet's suggestion that the Afrikander Bond should send a deputation to Commandant Christian De Wet and ex-President Steyn, intimating ...
Article : 246 wordsDuring the debate on the Address in reply, the Right Hon. W. St. John Broderick (Secretary of State for War) made a promise that there should be a frank ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. William Castles will, it is understood, become a candidate for election for the Oxley division. A meeting of the Redcliffe Progress ...
Article : 612 wordsThe united States Government is objecting very strongly to the activity displayed by General Count von Waldersee, who is in command of the allied forces in China, ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Government are in receipt of a cable message from South Africa, stating that Lord Kitchener is very grateful for the offer of troops which the Queensland ...
Article : 98 wordsIn connection with the war loan, for which tenders were opened by the Bank of England on Monday week last, the Imperial Government are now issuing ...
Article : 39 wordsA scene occurred in the House of Commons last night, occasioned by the efforts of Mr. John O'Donnell, the Nationalist member for South Roscommon, to address ...
Article : 42 wordsThe firm of Messrs. Bostock and Co., Limited, who were recently involved in litigation arising out of the supply by them of arsenicated material to English brewers, ...
Article : 53 wordsDuring the last few days three of the candidates for the Moreton—namely, Messrs. Darvall, Neilsen, and Kellett—have visited this district on election business. There is at present but little interest ...
Article : 862 wordsA cable message has been received by his Excellency the Governor from Sir Alfred Milner, dated Capetown, 19th February, stating that No. 39, Wilson; No. 116, ...
Article : 91 wordsBrigadier-General Reginald Pole-Carew has been married to Lady Beatrice Butler the oldest daughter of the third Marquis of Ormonde. ...
Article : 195 wordsLi Hung Chang and Prince Ching, the peace plenipotentiaries, have announced to the foreign Ministers at Peking that the Imperial Court has now agreed to inflict ...
Article : 128 wordsApproval was given yesterday to the appointment of the officers of the Fifth Contingent for South Africa, as follows:- To command: Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe undermentioned members of the Third Queensland Contingent have been appointed lieutenants in the contingent from the dates mentioned in connection ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Schalk-Burger, who was deputed to act as President of the Transvaal during Mr. Kruger's absence in Europe, is reported to be still in the northern portion of the ...
Article : 52 wordsLord and Lady Lamington paid a visit to the Brisbane General Hospital on Tuesday, and made a comprehensive tour of the institution, in which they evinced a deep ...
Article : 573 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Pretoria reports that an extensive expeditlon is being organised there to expel the Boers from Pretersburg (which is about ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is understood at Shanghai that the expedition to Tai-yuen-fu, or further, during the spring, to prepare for which Count von Waldersee issued a General Order a ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Government of Denmark has refused the offer to purchase the Danish West Indian islands, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, for 12,000,000 kroner (about ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Boer train-wreckers, who have of late been particularly active on all the Transvaal lines, derailed a train on the main trunk line between Vereeniging and ...
Article : 46 wordsA public meeting called by the Sandgate branch of the Queensland Commonwealth Electoral League was held in the lecture hall of the local School of Arts on Tuesday ...
Article : 381 wordsThe appeal case Parsons v. New Zealand Shipping Company has been dismissed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ...
Article : 31 wordsA report has been received that as General French pushes forward through the Eastern Transvaal there have been continual surrenders of Boers. ...
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Advertising : 288 wordsOwing to an outbreak of smallpox which has occurred in Glasgow, 250,000 people there have been revaccinated. ...
Article : 27 wordsAll stores in Komatlpoort and Barberton have been closed by the British military authorities owing to the discovery that they were supplying the Boers engaged in ...
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Advertising : 203 wordsIt has been decided that the members of the Fifth Contingent shall be armed on arrival at the Cape with the Lee-Metford rifles. They will take sufficient other ...
Article : 40 wordsA very enjoyable concert was given on Tuesday evening in the Mission Hall by Mrs. Dawson Edwards and her pupils, in behalf of the mission funds. There was a ...
Article : 318 wordsFifteen cyclists, under Mr. A. Wynyard Joss, attended at Headquarters at 4 p.m. yesterday, and were served with rifle, bandolier, and fifty ...
Article : 410 wordsA hundred members of Lord Strathcona's Horse, who are at present in London on their way home from South Africa, have signified their intention of joining General ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is reported that Privates L. C. Wilson, C. B. Horne, and L. R. Rawson, of the second Queensland Contingent, who were taken prisoners by the Boers at Schwartz ...
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Advertising : 43 wordsPrivate Albert Abbott, of the New South Wales Bushmen, is reported as having been slightly wounded during a skiamisc at Cypherfontein. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 21 Feb 1901, Page 5
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