Lord Kitchener has reported to the War Office that, besides the Boer losses previously reported, 242 additional Boers have been captured, together with 238 rifles and ...
Article : 68 wordsAll offer has been made to the Canadian Government by a British syndicate to construct and control a canal from Lake Huron, via the Ottawa River, to Montreal, ...
Article : 196 wordsIt is announced that his Majesty King Edward has purchased an estate near Carnarvon, in North Wales. (Carnarvon is historically associated ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Ophir, with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, will sail to-day for Melbourne direct. The cruisers escorting the Ophir will ...
Article : 149 wordsYesterday the final return for the House of Representatives came to hand in the shape of that from Mount Emu, which completed the voting for the Kennedy ...
Article : 115 wordsAs might have been expected, very little pro[?] arrived here to-day, the roads being in some places very bad and the creeks too high to risk crossing with a load. ...
Article : 1,915 wordsAt the opening of the semi-annual Assembly of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, in London yesterday, the chairman, the Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D., referrsd ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. J. Macdonald (chairman), and Mr. J. F. Colo, of the Queensland National Association, asked the Acting Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. D. H. Dairymple) ...
Article : 670 wordsThe "Times" this morning states that the new Consols war loan of £30,000,000, for which applications have been invited by the Bank of England, has already been ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is apparent that notning more can be learnt here of the fate of the Rev. J. Chalmers and the Rev. O. Tompkins, who are supposed to have been murdered by ...
Article : 62 wordsT. MACDONALD-PATERSON (elected). ...
Article : 13 wordsAs an impression seems to be gaining ground in Brisbane that there is at least a possibility of the Revs. Chalmers and Tompkins not having been murdered by ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce at Gibraltar has forwarded a petition to Sir M. HicksBech, Chancellor of the Exchequer, against placing a tax of one shilling per ...
Article : 59 wordsA serious flood has occurred at Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Damage has been done to the extent of 3,000,000 dollars, and thousands of workmen have been thrown ...
Article : 37 wordsW. H. GROOM (elected). ...
Article : 11 wordsIt has been estimated that there are still [?]2,000 Boers in the field. ...
Article : 22 wordsJ. WILKINSON (elected). ...
Article : 7 wordsThe Duke of Cornwall and York has granted the crews of the Ophir and the escorting warships six hours leave ashore on arrival in Melbourne and Sydney for ...
Article : 76 wordsR. EDWARDS (elected). ...
Article : 6 wordsIn his monthly report of the sugar market, Herr Licht, of Magdeburg, reports that the production of beet sugar for the current campaign has increased by 378,000 ...
Article : 52 wordsInformation is to hand that the Boksbarg commando, consisting of 106 men, has surrendered to the British authorities at Middelburg, in the Transvaal. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn accident of a somewhat extraordinary character is reported from Dover. A twenty-ton gun for the fortifications at that place was being landed, when the ...
Article : 76 wordsA. FISHER (elected). ...
Article : 9 wordsA. PATERSON (elected). ...
Article : 7 wordsF. W. BAMFORD (elected). ...
Article : 8 wordsGeneral Louis Botha is reported to have recently crossed from the Transvaal into Natal to meet Commandant De Wet, but his progress being opposed daily, he recrossed ...
Article : 39 wordsW. PAGE (elected). ...
Article : 9 wordsArrivais.—Britannic, troopship, from Australian ports; Sarpedon, s., from Sydney, via ports; Wilcannia, s., from Sydney, via ports; Mimiro, s., from New ...
Article : 67 wordsThe German cruiser Hansa, from Java, en route to Melbourne, to be present at the Commonwealth festivities, arrived at Fremantle to-day. Rear-admiral Kirchhoff, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsThe death is announced of the Right Rev. William Stubbs, D.D., Bishop of Oxford, in his 76th year. ...
Article : 25 wordsA patrol of the South African Constabulary surprised a parity of Boer raiders during the night at Potchefstroom, in the south-west of the Transvaal, and recovered ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,—I wish to thank you for your sympathetic leading article in to-day's "Courier" on the martyrdom of Messrs. Chalmers and Tompkins, and to add my ...
Article : 872 wordsThe returning officer for the Herbert Federal division states that the cutter with the elections papers in connection with the polling at The Springs and Port Stewart has ...
Article : 143 wordsThe death is announced of Dr. Charles K. D. Tanner, one of the most prominent members of the Irish Nationalist party, who has represented the Mid division of ...
Article : 46 wordsThe steamer British Princess, which left Sydney on the 22nd March, has arrived at Durban (Natal). ...
Article : 21 wordsA brother of the Hon. J. W. Sauer, who was Minister for Works in the Hon W. P. Schreiner's Cabinet, has been convicted at Capetown of being ringleader in the ...
Article : 52 wordsReports are to hand of a further serious conflict between the Chinese and Russians in Manchuria. It is stated that 27,000 Chinese troops, armed with Mauser rifies, ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Patrick Aloysius M'Hugh, member of the House of Commons for North Leitrim, has been convicted on a charge of criminal libel, and sentenced to six months' ...
Article : 88 wordsAt Port Piric to-day George Moore, master of the ketch Gambier Lass, was charged with the manslaughter of Charles Holme, who fell overboard on the previous night ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Cartwright, editor of the "South African News," who has just been tried at Capetown and convicted on a charge of publishing a seditious libel on Lord ...
Article : 45 wordsFor two nights only, last night and to-night, Pollard's Opera Company appears in the sparkling musical comedy, "The Gay Parisienne." Last night, a very fair ...
Article : 656 wordsTowns and Sullivan, the well-known oarsmen, rowed down the River Thames, from Oxford to Putney, a distance of 104 miles, in 13 hours 556min., which makes a ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following are the handicaps for the professional events to be decided at the Eight-hour sports on Monday, 6th May:- ANNIVERSARY HANDICAP, 130 Yards.— ...
Article : 332 wordsThe Boers, under Commandant Kruit[?]inger, are now reported to be advancing towards the Albert district, in the north of Cape Colony, eastward of Colesberg. ...
Article : 111 wordsSir Charles Todd, the Postmasttar-General of South Australia, has received word of the arrival of Professor Spencer and Mr. F. J. Gillen at Alice Springs, on their ...
Article : 37 wordsReuter's agency states that Wu-tingfang, the Chinese Minister at Washington, has forwarded a memorial to the Emperor of China, playing his Majesty to adopt ...
Article : 43 wordsAt Light's Pass on Saturday last a boy named Paul Albert Stantzky, aged 8 years, was accidentally shot dead by a companion, aged 13. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe inquest on the body of a baby named Ellen Perry, who died as a result of injuries in[?]cted by its father, Alfred Perry, during a maniacal outburst, was concluded ...
Article : 65 wordsThe general rainfall on Sunday morning will go a long way in assuring a splendid winter. Although the local fail was only three-quarters of an inch, the surrounding western and northern stations ...
Article : 367 wordsThe weather is wintry and rainy, and nearly the whole of the telegraph lines in the State have been interrupted. Heavy landslips on the railway lines between ...
Article : 70 wordsLord Kitchener has issued a warning to the residents of all the districts in Cape Colony that are now under martial law that they are liable to the severest penalties if ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Marine Court held an inauiry to-day into the circumstances connected with the grounding on 15th March of the Aberdeen line steamship Australasian, in the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Inter-State Railway Conference concluded its sittings to-day, and the representatives of New South Wales and Queensland left in the afternoon by the express ...
Article : 35 wordsWith regard to the suggestion recently made that a number of Boer prisoners of war should be sent to Tasmania, Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. J. J. Fenton, Government Statist, issued a statement to-day showing that the population of Melbourne and districts is 493,956, or an increase of 3060 in the past ...
Article : 55 wordsAn accident attended with fatal results ocourred this morning in connection with the sewer extension at Randwick. Several men were working in a cutting when the ...
Article : 92 wordsSir,—The ministers of the Methodists have been for some time, past impressing upon their flocks to be careful to call themselves "Methodists" in the census returns, ...
Article : 139 wordsThe following pa[?]engers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Sydney: Hon. J. G. Drake and Mrs. Drake, Miss Street, Mrs. Morehead, Miss West, Mrs. ...
Article : 75 wordsNews has been received that Private Foreman, of the New Souht Wales Mounted Infantry, died at sea from enteric fever on board the transport, steamer Custodian ...
Article : 37 wordsA bushman named Turner was engaged in felling timber this morning near his house at North Richmond, when the boughs of a falling tree caught in the fork of ...
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, April 23.—Arrivals: Eclipse and Titus, from the Solomon Islands; Firth of Clyde, from Glasgow; Sonoma, s., from San Francisco. Departures: ...
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Advertising : 198 wordsReplying to questions in the House of Commons last night, Mr. W. St. John Brodrick stated that there were now 20,671 Boer refugees in the concentration camps that ...
Article : 60 wordsOur Wellington correspondent telegraphs as follows:—For the New Zealand Government loan of £500,000, tenders have been received amounting to £801,300, the ...
Article : 35 wordsAmong those Queensland soldiers on board the steamer Tongariro, reported at Fremantle, W.A., is Master-gunner T. Cooney, for five years an instructor in the ...
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Advertising : 131 wordsMr. C. M. Jenkinson, M.L.A., has just paid a visit to Kilkivan, from which place complaints recently came of men being unemployed, having been attracted to the ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Brodrick stated in the House of Commons last night that the cost of the war in South Africa at the present time was about £1,500,000 per week. ...
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Advertising : 69 wordsOur Perth correspondent under yester-day's date telegraphs that Lady Lawley, wife of the new Governor of Western Australia arrived to-day with her two ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 24 Apr 1901, Page 5
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