There is as yet no definite development in connection with Sir William Lyne's efforts to form a Federal Government. Sir William Lyne, Sir George Turner and Mr. ...
Article : 840 wordsAnother band of Boer guerillas, making the third, has crossed the Orange River into Cape Colony. This commando crossed at Zoutpan's Drift, a few miles east of Orange ...
Article : 498 wordsAn important step has been taken by the powers with a view to terminating the crisis in China. This consists in the issue of a joint note, which reviews the whole ...
Article : 586 wordsThe extraordinary difficulty into which the University Council has drifted over the appointment of Professor Marshall-Hall's successor gave rise to a lengthy discussion ...
Article : 3,392 wordsThe list of British casualties in the fight at Nooitgedacht Farm, in the Magaliesburg Range, where Major-General Clements's camp was attacked by 3500 Boers last week, ...
Article : 229 wordsRecently during a debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the Dreyfus Amnesty Bill, Commandant Cuignet, who, as an officer of the Intelligence department, ...
Article : 125 wordsRecent news from America throws a new light upon the opposition of the United States Senate to the amended treaty relating to the projected Nicaraguan canal, and ...
Article : 135 wordsVisitors are beginning to crowd into the city, every boat bringing its full complement. The New Zealand steamer Mararoa arrived on Friday with a large contingent ...
Article : 49 wordsLord Kitchener remains inactive pending the arrival of the mounted troops necessary to the fulfilment of his plans for finally dealing with the Boers now in the field and ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Monowai sailed on Saturday for Sydney with over 200 passengers, including Sir Robert Stout, the Chief Justice, to witness the inauguration celebrations. Members of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe inauguration of the Commonwealth on New Year's day is to be marked by the Anglicans of Victoria by a fully choral celebration of the Holy Eucharist early in the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe decline in the high prices to which coal, especially steam coal, rose two months ago still continues, the fall in steam coal since September being about 10 per ton. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor has written to Dr. Quick, congratulating him and his literary colleague, Mr. Robert Randolph Garran, M.A., on the production of their ...
Article : 65 wordsThe directors of the Waihi Gold Mining Company Limited, capital £320,000, are about to make a further issue of 10,000 £1 shares to the present shareholders at £10. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe executive committee of the National Protection Union, presided over by Mr. Charles Ludowici, has received correspondence from Tasmania announcing the ...
Article : 217 wordsWestern Australia is to be represented at the inauguration of the Commonwealth by 107 men. These will comprise field artillery, infantry, mounted infantry and the medical ...
Article : 472 wordsThe cold shoulder that has been so unanimously turned to Mr. Kruger by the European powers having crushed all his hopes of foreign intervention, the ex-Boer ...
Article : 149 wordsAbout 2 p.m. on Friday volumes of smoke were seen rising in the north-east, and shortly after a horseman brought word of a bush fire near Mr. W. Brewer's Rosehill ...
Article : 187 wordsGeneral French, who moved out of Protoria to reinforce Major-General Clements after the Magaliesburg disaster, reports that on the 19th inst. he met a force of 2500 ...
Article : 109 wordsAn explanation is given by the Cape papers of the incident upon which Mr. Bryn Roberts, Radical M.P. for Carnarvonshire, based the charge, now withdrawn and ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. Philp, seen last night, said that no further communication had passed between Sir William Lyne and himself since his confidential reply to the former's message ...
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Article : 386 wordsSydney to-day presents the appearance of a garrison town. Stalwart kilted Highlanders are to be met with at every street corner. Lithe, clean-limbed Life Guardsmen ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 wordsSir,--It has been a custom for many years past of Mr. John Alsop, the trustee-manager and actuary of the Melbourne Savings Bank, to address the public, through the ...
Article : 526 wordsThe Western Australian Federal contingent arrived late on Friday night by the steamer Wollowra, en route to Sydney. The men landed on Saturday morning, and were ...
Article : 130 wordsLord Kitchener, replying to the cablegram from the War Office inquiring whether there was any foundation whatever for Mr. Bryn Roberts's charges, explains that ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the Assembly the supplementary loan estimates were tabled, which provide for the following new railways, all on account:--Kilkivan to Coolabanica, £10,000: Nerang ...
Article : 236 wordsArrived.--Orestes, steamer, from Sydney 20th October; Meissen, steamer, from Adelaide 25th September. Sailed.--For Sydney: Wilcannia. Avanti ...
Article : 171 wordsAll arrangements for the conveyance of the South Australian and Victorian troops to Sydney are completed. An express from Adelaide on Sunday at 10.50 a.m. should ...
Article : 141 wordsThe American consul at Capetown, in an official despatch, says he considers that the war is practically over. He praises the handsome treatment of Boer prisoners by ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Major Osborne who was recently reported to have left Capetown, invalided, for Halifax, Nova Scotia, was erroneously reported to belong to the New South Wales ...
Article : 94 wordsUnless some drastic action is taken by the Government, there promises to be some trouble over the composition of the Commonwealth procession. Proposals have ...
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Article : 84 wordsThe delegates of the coal miners on strike at Outtrim, Victoria, were present at a special meeting of the delegate board of the Newcastle Colliery Employes' Federation ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 24 Dec 1900, Page 5
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