The question of privilege raised by Mr. Mou[?]e was discussed at great length in the House on Wednesday. In obedience to the Speaker's summons, the publishers of ...
Article : 929 wordsIn "The Leader" this week the Illustrations cover a large variety of subjects. There is a page devoted to war matters, showing the departure of the New South Wales ...
Article : 3,281 wordsTelegrams from Manila report the total loss of the American steel cruiser Charleston, 3730 tons, 6666 [?].h.p., built at San Francisco in 1888 at a cost of £209,103. ...
Article : 85 wordsThough it is uncertain whether the precise extent of the financial shortage of Joseph Henry Grey, the missing Geelong solicitor, will ever be ascertained, the ...
Article : 711 wordsNews received from Ladysmith reports that the Boer artillery, which had been silent for some time, has renewed the bombardment with increased intensity. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Earl of Kimberley, formerly leader of the Liberal party In the House of Lords, who was Secretary for the Colonies in the Gladstone Ministry from 1880 to 1882, and ...
Article : 284 wordsAmerican troops under command of General Otis have encountered and defeated 1200 of the Filipino followers of Aguinaldo, at San Jacinto, In the Island of Luzon. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe War Office, In pursuance of the announcement recently made by Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley, is mobilising an additional infantry division of 11,000 for transport ...
Article : 98 wordsIn view of the extensive orders for the construction,of war ships which the United States Government intends to place, a shipbuilding "trust," 'with a capital of 50,000,000 ...
Article : 65 wordsThe third class British war cruiser Magicienne, 2950 tons displacement, which is employed in keeping a watch outside Delagoa Bay with the object of preventing the ...
Article : 145 wordsIt Is announced that the Emperor and Empress of Germany, who are about to pay a visit to the Queen at Windsor, will only be able to stay long enough in England to visit ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is announced that Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren, a Royal Engineers officer, of much South African campaign experience, will command the new infantry ...
Article : 212 wordsSir,--I am pleased to say that the publication of the cablegram from Lady Randolph Churchill, appealing for funds in aid of the American hospital ship, for the relief of ...
Article : 355 wordsThe latest messages received by the British military authorities at Estcourt from Ladysmith give no information beyond the fact that the recommenced bombardment of ...
Article : 85 wordsLord Kitchener, of Khartoum, Governor-General of the Soudan, who, a fortnight, ago, abandoned his expedition to hunt down the Khalifa, and came down to Alexandria ...
Article : 126 wordsThe notion of the British cruiser Magicie[?]ne in stopping with a blank cartridge the French merchant steamer Cordoba, 70 miles out from Delagoa Bay, to examine her ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 605 wordsMilitary experts consider, from the indication's afforded by the ordering of troops as they arrive from England at Capetown to Durban, that General Sir Redvers Buller ...
Article : 51 wordsThe steamer Narrung, one of Lund's we known Australian liners, has been chartered by the War Office as a troop ship for South Africa. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe second battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, part of the first battalion of which was involved in the Nicholson's Nek disaster, has arrived at Capetown, and has been ...
Article : 77 wordsThe European powers interested in the finances of Egypt, through representation on the Caisse de la Dette, have approved a decree of the Khedive, which renders ...
Article : 198 wordsIt is reported from Pretoria that the Transvaal Government has succeeded in keeping the Rose Deep and the Ferriera Deep mines, with 10 others of less importance, at work. ...
Article : 181 wordsColonel Picquart, the only member of the French army staff who believed in the innocence of Captain Dreyfus, and refused to suppress his belief, is not satisfied with the ...
Article : 88 wordsEleven of the transports chartered to convey the army corps [?]bo South Africa have arrived at Capetown, with 14,000 soldiers, of whom 6000 have been sent on to Natal. 8000 ...
Article : 83 wordsNews received from Mafeking, dated 31st ult., reports that the Boers, who have been repulsed with heavy loss in every attack they have made upon the town, at the time ...
Article : 121 wordsThe absurd length to which the Tory organ is prepared to go in its deep rooted hostility to the Attorney-General is well illustrated by its present attempt to show ...
Article : 498 wordsSpeaking at Newcastle last night, the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the last Liberal Ministry, referred in terms of cordial approval to the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe slowness of the transport steamers chartered by the Admiralty to convey the army corps and equipment to the Cape has caused strong and loud complaint, both in ...
Article : 134 wordsA peculiar case of fraud was yesterday placed in the hands of the Melbourne detectives for elucidation. Seemingly in the ordinary course of business the manager of the ...
Article : 423 wordsFurther troopships, conveying soldiers of the army corps, have arrived at Capetown, and will take 2000 troops to Natal within the week, in addition to the 2900 recently sent ...
Article : 38 wordsAt a meeting of Bishops of the Church Of England, held yesterday at Lambeth, the palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury, it was resolved to loyally and unflinchingly ...
Article : 102 wordsThe shares in the Horseshoe and Peak Hill Gold Fields Co., capital £250,000, issue £90,000, and in the Lake Way Gold Fields Co., capital £150,000, issue £69,000, have been ...
Article : 38 wordsNews received from Kimberley states that since the recent sharp repulse of the Boers Commandant Cronje has been continuing the futile shelling of the town from the safe ...
Article : 129 wordsThe latest news received from Colonel Baden-Powell, who is defending Mafeking against 7000 Boers, with heavy artillery, reports that on 31st October, the Boers, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 276 wordsLord Edmond Filtzmaurice (Liberal), M.P. for the Cricklade division of Wiltshire, who, though a brother of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary for War, is a strong ...
Article : 194 wordsThe manager of the electric telegraph branch yesterday received the following advice from Cape Colony:-- The transmission of all State telegrams in ...
Article : 61 wordsThe statue of Oliver Cromwell, erected at Westminster, in commemoration of the tercentenary of his birth, which occurred in 1599, was to-day unvelled, without any ...
Article : 38 wordsThroughout France a very bitter and general Anglophobic feeling prevails in respect to tire Transvaal war, So pronounced is the popular anti-British feeling that ...
Article : 108 wordsThe bubonic plague is spreading in Europe. A case is reported at Trieste, on the Adriatic, Austria's chief port. At Lisbon, whither the disease spread ...
Article : 46 wordsThe bombarding of Ladysmith goes on, but without any effort worth mentioning, except exhausting the enemy's ammunition. As this cannot be replaced, the more ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 16 Nov 1899, Page 5
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