An appalling disaster, resulting in great loss of life, and in the total destruction of the vessel, has attended a trial run of the new torpedo boat-destroyer Cobra. ...
Article : 765 wordsTwo reverses have occurred to the British arms in South Africa. In one case, the particulars are reported by General French, who is in command of ...
Article : 189 wordsThe funeral of the late Piesident M'Kinley took place yesterday at Canton, Ohio. The ordinary population of the town is about 30,000, but on the present occasion ...
Article : 787 wordsThe Australian ship-owners in Great Britain wrote recently to Mr. Chamberlain, asking him to use his influence to secure the exemption of all ocean-borne trade ...
Article : 2,220 wordsThe inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the collision between two Box. Hill trins at Jolimont on Friday last was concluded yesterday, at the Railway Offices, ...
Article : 2,567 wordsOn the motion for the third reading of the Property Acquisition Bill, Senator Neild rode one last tilt against the Government proposals as embodied in the ...
Article : 1,258 wordsThe steamer City of Lincoln, having on board 24 Victorian soldiers, returning from South Africa, is expected to arrive in Hobson's Bay on Sunday forenoon. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. C. W. Campbell, of the Victorian Field Artillery, has received a letter from Company Sergeant [?]Major A. H. Bo[?]ke, 5th Victorian Mounted Infantry, who sustained a compound fracture of the ...
Article : 89 wordsPORT CAMPBELL.—Corporal R. M'Rae and Lance-Corporal C. N. Ward, both of the Imperial Regiment, who lately returned from South Africa, were entertained bv the residents on Tuesday nijfbt ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Czar Nicholas and the Czaritsa, accompanied by President Loubet, arrived yesterday at Rheims, in the north-east of France, where the annual autumn ...
Article : 274 wordsThe other reverse was more serious, and is described in a report by Lord Kitchener. At 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening three ...
Article : 431 wordsAn Australian and New Zealand exhibition, to be held under the auspices of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce, is projected. The proposal is to hold it at ...
Article : 148 wordsThe publication of the butting averages at the close of the English cricket season shows that the scoring his been exceptionally high all through the season, but ...
Article : 405 wordsThe reserve of notes and coin is £27,886,000, against £27,237,000 for the previous week, the proportion to liabilities being 53.19 per cent., against 52.73 per cent, ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the Banco Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Holroyd, and Mr. Justice Hood, the motion for a new trial in the case of Kemp v. Madden ...
Article : 240 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 2 5-16 per cent., being 11-16 per cent. below the Bank of England ...
Article : 41 wordsA dashing feat by a party of Hussars and Australian Imperial Bushmen is reported. The British, who numbered 40, were ...
Article : 97 wordsThe hearing of the action in wihch James Mirams sought to recover £1,000 damages from David Syme, the proprieor of the "Age" newspaper, was concluded in the ...
Article : 369 wordsClosing quotations on Thursday for Government stocks compare with those at a week previous as follows:- Sept. Sept. Rise ...
Article : 165 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day there was spirited competition for all classes, and prices were unchanged. The following are the average prices ...
Article : 108 wordsThe South Melbourne police last night raided a house situated at 143 City-road, and arrested 34 men, who were found on the premises playing "two up." The ...
Article : 315 wordsCommandant Scheepers, who on Saturday last was brought to an engagement by Colonel Crabbe's force, near Ladismith, in the south of the Cap[?] Colony, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following sales are reported on the London Stock Exchange:- Chillago[?], 12/6. Mt. Lyell, £4/15/. ...
Article : 20 wordsFurther noting took place yesterday at the fishing port of Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, where 5,000 fishermen have been on strike for three months. On Wednesday ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. Louis Bernacchi, formerly of the Melbourne Observatory, who accompanied as scientific observer the expedition in the Southern Cross, under Mr. C. E. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations;— Wool.—Bradford.—The market is firm. Tops are quoted at 19¾d. for common ...
Article : 168 wordsIt appears that the object of the Boer raid on Belfast, on the Pretoria and Delagoa Bay railway, on Sunday last was to capture supplies. The Boers were ...
Article : 57 wordsJames Trimble, late of Greenhill, near Kyneton, who died on August 9, left a will dated December 21, 1897. The real estate is valued at £4,120, the personal at £3,288, ...
Article : 312 wordsThe Mayor of Melbourne, hon. treasurer of the above fund, acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following additional contributions:- ...
Article : 239 wordsIn the House of Assembly this evening Mr. Propsting gave notice that on Tuesday he would move that in the opinion of this House the action of the Government in ...
Article : 65 wordsThere are now 2,000 Boer prisoners at Durban. It has been decided to send them out of the colony. Some of them are to be shipped to India and others elsewhere. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:- Arrivals.—Mermerus, from Port Germein May 21; Persic, from Melbourne ...
Article : 47 wordsDr. Willmot, Government veterinary surgeon, after investigating the outbreak of disease among cattle in the Scottsdale district, returned to Hobart on ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 21 Sep 1901, Page 13
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