Yestordny the Government and the Opposition were suceessful in bringing about arbitration between their respective candidates for Melbourne East. The ...
Article : 2,767 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War, said that he had telegraphed to Lord Kitchener inquiring as to the truth of the ...
Article : 265 wordsIn official circles it is considered that there is a diffculty in securing state Governors for Australia, in consequence of the cost of the staff and other minor expenses ...
Article : 75 wordsAn important step has been taken by Rusia in the direction of inereasing her influence in the Balkan Peninsula. The Russian Imperial Bank, or, ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Paris journal, "Le Temps," referring to the Australian Defence Bill, which has been prepared by Sir John Forrest, the Commonswealth Minister of Defence, ...
Article : 97 wordsDuring the past few weeks we have intimated each day that the subscription opened by Mr. Marcus Beresford, with a contribution of £1,000, for the St. ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Royal party went by special train to Buekland-park to-day, and had a day's shooting The Duke bagged 12 wildfowl before lunch, and in the afternoon had ...
Article : 162 wordsMr. W. H. Pickburn, who left Queensland for South Africa as transport officer with the fourth contingent, has been appointed assistant comptroller of stores at ...
Article : 41 wordsTwenty-eight men were in hospital on the troopship Tagus, which arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday. The majority were suffering from pneumonia. One deathe ...
Article : 39 wordsSir John Cockburn, who is retiring from the position of Agent-General of South Australia, was entertained at a banquet at the Trocadero last night. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe statement by the "Daily Telegraph" that the King's Titles Bill may possibly be eventually associated with a measure for the redistribution of seats, which it is ...
Article : 116 wordsThe contingent of nearly 1,000 Australian soldiers brought by the troopship Orient landed in Melbourne yesterday. Though veterans of the war are no longer a ...
Article : 2,087 wordsColonel Frecman, the president of the Naval and Militay Club, last night entertained the member, of the club and their wives at Her Majesty's Theater, ...
Article : 789 wordsThe British naval mancenvres will begin on the 28th inst. One hundred and sixty-three war-ships will take part in them, and they will be ...
Article : 53 wordsSir,—May I be allowed through the medium of your valuable journal to suggest that, as the time has been extended for receiving subscriptions towards the above ...
Article : 123 wordsThe final test race between Sir Thomas Lipton's two Shamrocks, wlrich was delayed, owing to the accidents both yachts met with in a squall in the Solent in May ...
Article : 198 wordsAn Ohio state convention of the Dcmocratic party has, by the overwhelming majority of 950 to 6. rejected Mr. W. J Bryan as a candidate for the Presidency at the next ...
Article : 69 wordsA correspondent of the "Daily News" states that 60 Boers from Brandfort, in the Orange River Colony, have been, brought to Blocmfontein. They were in a ragged ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the market was firm. Low crossbreds were occasionally a farthing per lb. dearer. The following are the average prices ...
Article : 288 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Arnold-Forster, the Secretary to the Admiralty, stated that the hospital-ship Maine, which has been presented to Great ...
Article : 136 wordsThe question of state insurance was yesterday brought prominently under the notice of senators. Senator Neild (N.S.W.), who some four years ago prepared a ...
Article : 722 wordsA night operation has been successfully carried out by the British, near Edenburg, on the railway, south west of Bloemfontein, the result being that 50 Boers were ...
Article : 37 wordsLord Methuen, who is still operating in the Western Transvaal, has surprised and captured a Boer laager, near Zeerust, 125 miles west of Pretoria. ...
Article : 75 wordsSir,—On leaving Victoria in March, 1900, with the third contingent, I was much impressed with the fervent words of our Acting Governor in the Victoria ...
Article : 887 wordsThe Australian bowls team, having coneluded their Scottish engagements, played their first game in Ireland at Belfast yesterdny, and won by 14 points. ...
Article : 179 wordsFurther particulars have been published respecting the terrible railway collision at Norton, in the state of Missouri, from which it appears that the loss of life was ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War, said that the despatches received from Lord Kitchener contained no suggestion ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Chamberlain mentioned that General Botha had made inquiries of Lord Kitchener with regard to Great Britain's liability for the ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Levi Barker has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for bribiery in connection with the election for Maidstone in Octeber last. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsIn a cricket match between the counties of Lancashire and Somersetshire, James Phillips, the umpire, no-balled Mold, the Lnncashire bowler, 18 times in ten-overs. ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the House of Lords last night, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that Great Britain proposed to make a difference ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Roman Catholic bishops are not satisfied with the alteration in the King's declaration recommended by the select committee ot the House of Lords. They ...
Article : 126 wordsThe following arrivall and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—General Gordon, form Melbourne April 1; Medea, from the Bluft ...
Article : 45 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 2 9-16 per cent., being 7-16 per cent, below the Bank of England ...
Article : 44 wordsIn consequence of the statements that have been made by Boer sympathisers as to the treatment of the Boers in the refugee camps, a British official has visited ...
Article : 57 wordsAt 7 o'clock this morning, in pursuance with yesterday's agreement, the railway men on strike resumed duty, and at mid-day the normal train service was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 wordsIt is to be feared tha young Clegg's was not the only life lost through the fire at Anthony Hordern and Sons' Four other employes are reported missing, namely, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsThe House sat for two hours only, and dealt with private members' business. The time was spemt in a continuation of the discussion on the motion by Sir John ...
Article : 145 wordsSir,—Last year I gave a concert at the Town-hall, which was not a financial success. One-half the proceeds we announced for the "Mafeking Fund" originated by ...
Article : 283 wordsThe Prime Minister despatched the following telegram to Mr. Leake, Premier of West Australia, yesterday:— "Very glad to hear that strike is ...
Article : 49 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—Bradford.—The market is frm. Quotations for tops are 18d. for common ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Arbitration Board between the iron trades employers and the Ironworkers' Assistants' Union was agreed upon to-day. It provides for a living minimum wage, for a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsThe maid servant who gave sensationsl evidence concerning the fire at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, being the work of three strange men, who threatened her life if she ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 wordsFrank Wilson Smyth, Edsall-strect, Malvern, accountant. Debts, £1,300/8/6; assets, 5/; deficiency, £1,300/3/6. Causo of Insolvency—Having purchased shares in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsTrooper Samuel Whiting, of Tullibardine's Horse, whose death was announced in "The Argus" on Thursday, was well known here and throughout this district. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe P. and O. R.M.S. Victoria loft Suez for Australia on the 11th inst. ...
Article : 16 wordsSir,—I suggest in connection with Janet Lady Clarke's appeal for assistance to the poor that the Government should earry donations of firewood free to, say, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 13 Jul 1901, Page 13
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