The Railway Commissioner Mr. Mathieson, states that early in the new year he will convene a conference of his officers and the representatives of the various railway unions to discuss the ...
Article : 227 wordsWAGGA, Friday. -- The Land Appeal Court, consisting of Messrs. Oliver (president), Brandis, and Houston, yesterday morning concluded a sitting commenced on Wednesday. Robert M'Gorman ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. S. Hordern, commodore of the Prince Alfred Yacht Club, yesterday received the following cable message from the Governor-General: "Have great pleasure in giving my name as ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. J. L. Fegan, Minister for Mines and Agriculture, opened a new school for boys at Cook's-hill yesterday afternoon. The accommodation at this school hae long been of the most primitive ...
Article : 580 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- Additional details are to hand referring to the recent engagement at Rietfontein, 35 miles east of Pretoria, between the British (20th Brigade), under ...
Article : 465 wordsThe appointment of Rear-Admiral Beaumont, who, according to yesterday's cables, is to leave England this month to succeed Roar-Admiral Pearson in the command of the Australian ...
Article : 232 wordsLISMORE, Friday. -- yesterday afternoon, while a boat was coming up the river, containing a gang of cane-cutters, a young man, Morton Hayes, who was sleeping on a scat on the upper deck, ...
Article : 103 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday. -- The New Zealand Postal Department is issuing khaki stamps as a memento of the colony's connection with the war. ...
Article : 25 wordsLieutenant Guy J. E. Whylly, late of the Tasmanian forces, and now Second Lieutenant in the South Lancashire Regiment, won the Victoria Cross by a display of conspicuous ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 63 wordsIt has been resolved by the council of the Old Newingtonians' Union to commemorate the participation of some 220 members of the school in the South African War, by the erection of some ...
Article : 305 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- Five hundred Boers forming part of General De la Rey's commando made a most determined attack on a British convoy proceeding from Pretoria ...
Article : 183 wordsWYALONG, Friday. -- The Mayor (Alderman Moriarty) has been presented anonymously with a purse of sovereigns in recognition of the efforts he has put forth during his mayoralty to conserve ...
Article : 2,518 wordsIn the vent of Professor Marshall Hall not being again appointed to the Ormond Chair of Music, he is likely to establish his own conservatorium of music. Should he do so, it is stated ...
Article : 169 wordsMr. H. W. 'Hlllier, who for some years has been manager of the North Sydney branch of the English, Scottish, and Australian Banking Company, Limited, has been promoted to the rank ...
Article : 562 wordsAt the Kauri Timber Company's meeting this evening, the trading profit for the present year was given as £35,667. A dividend of 3s was proposed, which was as large as was practicable ...
Article : 65 wordsMACHADODORP, Transvaal, November 3. -- Our regiment marched into Pretoria about the end of August, after an unsuccessful chase of De Wet, extending considerably over two ...
Article : 1,516 wordsA number of Victorian officers who served in South Africa have voluntarily written to the Minister for Agriculture, stating that no better tinned meat was tasted in South Africa than that ...
Article : 73 wordsThe trial of Policeman Smith at Capetown for the murder of a native in the Colesberg district last November was surely a most farcical piece of business (writes our London correspondent). ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- Lieutenant-General French has expelled 500 Boers from the Losberg district. He captured many prisoners and ...
Article : 52 wordsDuring last week 593 tons of ore were treated at Cockle Creek Sulphide Works, for a return of 315 tons of bullion, containing, in addition to lead, 59 oz. of gold and 19,538oz. of silver. Parcels of 200 ...
Article : 245 wordsThe manager of the Melbourne Tramway Company told a deputation to-day that the company would not undertake the extension of any of its lines in the present state of the Act. If the ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the new Land Bill which the Turner Government is to brong down on Tuesday, provision will be made for fourth-class lands quite outside the malice lands, as grazing allotments. Of these ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- The "Standard" states that the Boers claim that they still have 20,000 men in arms in South Africa, and that they are largely participating in a concerted ...
Article : 46 wordsOf the many bright young lives cut off in the war, few will be more generally regretted than that of Second-lieutenant N. L. Calvert, of the Carabiniers, who was killed during General ...
Article : 194 wordsAnother fatality attributable to riding on a loaded waggon occurred to-day at Dookie Agricultural College. A student named Morrell, son of the stationmaster at Mooropua, was carting, ...
Article : 90 wordsFurther destructive bush fires are raging in tho vicinity of Northam. It is alleged that a spark from a locomotive originated some of the fires. Heavy. claims are being sent to the Railway ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- Christian De Wet, who is now in the south-east corner of the Orange River Colony, close to the Cape frontier, crossed Kareepont Drift, on the Caledon ...
Article : 147 wordsFrom the beginning of the New Year the postage on parcels from this colony to the United Kingdom will be reduced by one-half. The proposal of the Government to subsidise a ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Minister for Works reports that all tin able-bodied men registered at the Labor Bureau are now fully employed. He recently had some difficulty in responding to a request to send 50 ...
Article : 437 wordsGRETA, Friday. -- All hope of recovering the entombed miners has now been abandoned, as it has been found impossible to cope with the fire. Rescue parties are unable to get further ...
Article : 588 wordsColonel De Lisle, in command of the 2nd Mounted Infantry, writing from South Africa to Dr. Watson, of Sydney, under date November 1st. says: -- ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Ministerial press gag circular to departmental heads, referred to yesterday, has raised the ire of most of the newspapers. The "Post" tears it is preliminary to the publication of a ...
Article : 53 wordsKALGOORLIE, Friday. -- Reliable news of Air. Hewitson's appointment as consulting engineer of the Ivanboo has been received by the English papers just to hand. It has caused widespread ...
Article : 215 wordsAt to-day's wool sales prices showed a drop of from 30 to 40 per cent, on fine crossbreds and 25 per cent, on coarse, compared with last year. Prices generally are on a par with latest London ...
Article : 41 wordsOver a thousand tons or butter and Cheese were shipped yesterday by the steamer Paparoa for London. This is the record produce shipment in one bottom. ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- With a view to providing some mentis of protection beyond that afforded by the Town Guard of 100 men, upwards of 100 loyalists of all classes ...
Article : 59 wordsCharles Walter Chandler was to-day committed far trial on a charge of criminal libel. The informant was Emma Bowden, who alleged that certain statements in an article, "In Darkest ...
Article : 46 wordsBRISBANE, Friday. -- The Legislative Assembly sat till nearly 2 o'clock this morning. The motion for the adoption of the plans of the Warwick towards Goondiwindi railway was ...
Article : 373 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- General Lord Kitchener has stopped paying burghers for the hire of waggons till the Boer resistance has ceased. ...
Article : 26 wordsA large meeting of shareholders in the Adelaide Steamship Company authorised the reconstruction of the company to enable it the bettor to cope with its increasing business. Under the ...
Article : 41 wordsAn executive meeting of the Queen Victoria Consumptives' Fund was held at the Town-hall on Friday. Dr. Sydney Jones presided. Dr. Purser reported having notified Dr. ...
Article : 365 wordsSplendid rain commenced in the Bundaberg district this morning, with every prospect of continuing. The fall will have a most beneficial effect on the young cane crop, which was ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The Ameer of Afghanistan has expressed delight at the success of the British in South Africa, and eulogises the bravery of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsBULLI, Friday. -- The Outtrim miners (Victoria) are appealing direct to this district for financial assistance in their present strike against the imposition of new conditions, which are said to be ...
Article : 328 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- Lord Roberts received an ovation at Durban. He has soiled for Capetown. ...
Article : 18 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- The following particulars are to hand relating to Australasian soldiers on active service in South Africa: -- NEW SOUTH WALES FORCES. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 wordsThe monthly meeting of the New South Wales Zoological Society was held at the secretary's office yesterday Dr. Rundle, president, in the chair. The secretary report showed that during the five weeks ...
Article : 171 wordsA most interesting debate look place at the above institution last Thursday evening, the subject being, "That the extension of business on the Sunday is prejudicial to the bent interests of ...
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Advertising : 84 wordsNew York's latest architectural wonder is to be it building 30 storeys high -- the whole structure reaching a height of 455ft. That is 4ft. higher titan Choops, the mightiest of the ...
Article : 60 wordsOne of the saddest deaths among the C.I.V. (writes our London correspondent) was that of Martin Bruce a young Scotch artist of 37, who [?] had just gained a footing in the art world, and ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Sat 8 Dec 1900, Page 10
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