Just when the satisfactory progress of the other Victorian bubonic plague patients avarice to a hope that Melbourne was successfully passing through the fire of ...
Article : 963 wordsThe "Express," the now London evening journal, which has already shown great enterprise in war matters, affirms that President Kruger has personally telegraphed to ...
Article : 69 wordsNo official details of the relief of Mafeking have yet been published, and the War Office has not even disclosed the name of the officer who commanded the relief ...
Article : 100 wordsWhen questioned yesterday as to the difficulties in the way of granting the ship owners' requests as to the clearance of vessels at the Heads, Dr. Gresswell said:-- ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Premier received a cablegram yesterday from the Governor of Capetown reporting with regret that Private H. J. Hiscock, of the Victorian Contingent, died ...
Article : 148 wordsTo-morrow morning special services of thanks giving will be held in St. Paul's Cathedral, namely, 8 a.m., Holy Communion, and 10 a.m. a brief fully choral ...
Article : 70 wordsYesterday the contacts in the Byron case recovered their freedom, to-morrow those from Montague-street, South Melbourne, will be released, and on Wednesday the ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is announced by advertisement that Mucking day has been proclaimed a bank holiday throughout Australia. ...
Article : 19 wordsTo-morrew (Wednesday) has been proclaimed a public holiday throughout Australia in honor of the relief of Mafeking. The proclamation issued by the Victorain ...
Article : 333 wordsOn the motion of the president, Mr. R. W. Best, M.L.A., seconded by the vice-president, Mr. W. E. G. Salter, the council of the League of Victorian Wheelmen ...
Article : 101 wordsIn the Fitzroy council last night, Cr. Wheeler, chairman of the health committee, referred to the Westgarth-street ease of plague. It was not of local origin. On the ...
Article : 260 wordsGeneral Sir Leslie Rundle, who, with General Brabant's Colonial Brigade, has been engaged in clearing the eastern portion of the Free Stale of Boers, and has kept ...
Article : 98 wordsAfter months of waiting it is probable that the members of what is known as the third contingent will go to South Africa, but if they go it will not be as a contingent, ...
Article : 307 wordsThe patriotic dinner which was held at the Athenaeum Club last evening in honor of the relief of Mafeking was a brilliant function. The president, Mr. Justice ...
Article : 195 wordsIt is repented from Pretoria, that the Transvaal Progressive party, which was entirely overborne by Kruger and his clique in respect to Sir Alfred Miner's franchise ...
Article : 175 wordsThough British official reports are silent, the Pretorian Government, which found it impossible to further conceal the fact, has deemed it advisable to publish an ...
Article : 97 wordsThe United States citizens of Capetown have drawn up and are signing in large numbers a memorial to be transmitted to America, urging the leaders of both the ...
Article : 262 wordsSir,--A petition has been presented to the corporation, as landlord of the Western Markets, signed by nearly every tenant on the ground floors of the offices abutting on ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Fitzroy council, immediately the mayor, Cr. Gross, took his chair last evening rose and sang the National Anthem. This was followed by three cheers for the ...
Article : 372 wordsA very different story from the Pretorian official repent is telegraphed front Delagoa Bay, where Portuguese officials reported the relief of Mafeking three days before ...
Article : 124 wordsAt Ober Ammergau, in Bavaria, the famous decennial performance of the Passion Play, in which the life and death of Christ is realistically represented, has commenced, ...
Article : 259 wordsFurther in formation with respect to the capture of Lindley, the new "Free State capital" by General Sir Ian Hamilton's Division, shows that a Free State ...
Article : 97 wordsTwo additional cases of plague, one of which was fatal, were reported to-day. They were those of Chesney Plant, a child of 4 year's, living at Woollahra, and William ...
Article : 132 wordsOn Saturday evening her Majesty the Queen was serenaded at Windsor Castle, in celebration of the Mafeking relief, by the students of Eton College. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Government has also made arrangements for a grand torchlight procession and pyrotechnical display in the evening. All the metropolitan fire brigades will take part ...
Article : 104 wordsThe news to-day, both military and political, though not of great importance in themselves, yet give promise of important developments. We hear, for the first time ...
Article : 858 wordsIt is officially explained that the Botha captured with a field cornet, a number of Rand policemen and other Boers, by General Hutton's Colonel Mounted Infantry, 30 ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Lorenzo Marquess correspondent of the New York "Herald" telegraphs that it is reported at Delagoa Bay that President Kruger has telegraphed to Lord Roberts ...
Article : 109 wordsW. E. Walker, the plague patient lately from Mackay, died in the quarantine hospital to-day. He was in a dying condition from cancer when he contracted the plague. ...
Article : 98 wordsIn the House of Lords last night, a bill was introduced by the Marquis of Lansdowne Secretary for War, providing that volunteers in Great Britain may on enlisting ...
Article : 65 wordsThe mayor of Collingwood (Cr. Beazley, M.L.A.) has arranged for a free patriotic entertainment this evening, both inside and outside the local town hall, in honor of the ...
Article : 216 wordsInvitations have been issued by the Government to members of both Houses of Parliament to meet in the Queen's Hall at 2.45 p.m. to-morrow, for the purpose of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe burglary charges preferred against Wm. King, a negro, were investigated in the Prahran court yesterday. The Sensational circumstances connected With the Windsor ease attracted a great ...
Article : 856 wordsIn most of the churches throughout Great Britain "Te Deum" services Were given in thanks giving for the relief of Mafeking. The Australian federal delegates received ...
Article : 155 wordsIn response to the representations of Dr. Morrison and Dr. Cherry, the Treasurer, as already notified in "The Age," has agreed to place £500 on the estimates for next ...
Article : 135 wordsAnother case of plague was reported in the city shortly before midnight. The patient, named M'Mahon, 26 years old, is storeman in a large warehouse, and there ...
Article : 46 wordsThe following corps will take part in the naval and military procession, in the order named:-- Naval forces. ...
Article : 237 wordsGreat satisfaction has been caused among loyalists at the Cape by the effective prosecution of Mr. Vermooten, a Dutch Afrikander lawyer, resident in the Dordrecht ...
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Advertising : 771 wordsThe Premier despatched yesterday the following cable message to Colonel BadenPowell:-- Victoria sends heartiest congratulations to self ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Consul of the Netherlands Government, though the Premier, yesterday informed the Heath department that Victoria had been proclaimed by the ...
Article : 127 wordsOn the London Stock Exchange the news was received with immense patriotic fervor. All business was suspended, and the brokers sang with tremendous enthusiasm ...
Article : 56 wordsYesterday Mr. M'Lean also sent the following cablegram to Lord Roberts:-- Victoria sends heartiest congratulations on successful relief of heroic defenders of Mafeking. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe War Office has published a despatch from General Sir Redvers Buller, whose head quarters are at Newcastle, 80 miles north of Ladysmith, reporting that ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the meeting of the Council, of the University of Melbourne yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor (Sir Henry Wrixon) moved-- ...
Article : 183 wordsA striking demonstration occurred yesterday in the Paris Exhibition. The English visitors, when the Mafeking news was announced in the Exhibition, gathered ...
Article : 105 wordsThe disinfection and destruction processes applied to Messrs. Mundell's bags were continued yesterday, and have not yet been completed. Dr. Gresswell is having the ...
Article : 69 wordsIn view of the rapid advance of the British force in Natal towards the Transvaal border. Lord Dundonald, at the head of General Buller's brigade, being already at ...
Article : 65 wordsRailway arrangements for to-morrow ("Mafeking Jubilation day") and for Thursday (Queen's Birthday) provide for the suspension of the ordinary suburban services. ...
Article : 123 wordsDr. Gresswell yesterday visited the wharves on the Yarra and inspected their condition, and the extent to which the regulations are obeyed by ship owners. He ...
Article : 141 wordsA fund has been opened in London with the object of suitably commemorating the gallant and successful defence of Mafeking. A sum of £10,000 has already been ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the invitation of the mayor of Fitzroy (Cr. Gross) a large number of citizens, met after the council meeting in the mayor's room to do honor to the event of the hour. ...
Article : 276 wordsSome Boer commandos have recently entered Zululand, whence they have been making threatening demonstrations. General Buller has sent a force to expel these ...
Article : 39 wordsThe junior cadet corps attached to State schools within the metropolitan area will Join the military parade to-morrow, and the Minister of Education has decided to grant ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 22 May 1900, Page 5
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