Lord Kitchener has reported to the War Office that 200 Boers surrounded a patrol of 20 Imperial Yeomanry on the Doo[?] River, in the Orange River Colony. The ...
Article : 159 wordsThis engagement has been described by English officers as the most gallant fight of the whole war, and has been specially recommended by Conan Doyle as the finest, subject that an Australian balladist could wish for. It was on the fourth of August, as five hundred of us lay ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 334 wordsFriday's sitting is almost invariably given over to the discussion of abstract motions by private members. Yesterday Senator Pearce (W.A.)brought forward a motion ...
Article : 554 wordsA special general meeting of members of the Melbourne Cricket Club was called for last evening, at the pavilion, for the purpose of considering amendments to the ...
Article : 1,150 wordsIt is generally admitted that "civill"sation" in China has made but poor progress in response to the various forms of European stimulation. The ...
Article : 6,283 wordsThe conference of employers to discuss the Factories and Shops Act and proposed further industrial legislation will meet at the office of the Employers' Union, 372 ...
Article : 188 wordsIn a letter received by a friend in Melbourne from Trooper W. Parnell, of the Bush Veldt Carbineers, who has been with General Plumer, on the northern ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is estimated that from £75,000 to £80,000 is owing by the Imperial Government in connection with the Queensland contingents to June 30. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe proposed revision of the determination of the Butchers' Wages Board was considered at the last sitting of the board, but nothing was done towards granting ...
Article : 150 wordsAt a meeting of the general committee of the Transvaal Patriotic Fund to-day, in the mayor's parlour, it was stated that 38 applications for assistance had been ...
Article : 128 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the bill providing for a loan of £60,000,000 on account of the war passed through committee. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Trades-hall Council,presided over last evening by Mr. J.W. Billson,M. L. A., adopted a report from the executive committee, recommending that a conference of the ...
Article : 380 wordsThe Britannic, with New South Wales and Queensland troops, arrived to-day. It has not been decided when the troopship will leave for Brisbane, but unless ...
Article : 54 wordsSir,—In your issue of yesterday, under the heading of "Eager for Fighting," we learn that the New South Wales state Government has arranged for the return to ...
Article : 154 wordsThe health of His Excellency are Governor-General is slowly improving, and yesterday he was able to attend the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, at the Old ...
Article : 894 wordsA Boer named Duplessis has been arrested on the charge of having, in November last, murdered Lieutenant Newmeyer, who was commanding the forces doing ...
Article : 177 wordsThe representatives of the Chamber of Commerce of the state of New York, who recently visited England, have made a handsome recognition of the welcome which ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsFrom Middelburg, on June 3. Lieutenant S. R. Coulter, of the 5th V. M. R., writes to Mrs. Honlihan, of Gipps-street, Collingwood concerning the dtath of her son, Sergeant John F. Houlihan. He ...
Article : 323 wordsThe sitting almost lapsed. When the Speaker took the chair at 2 o'clock less than a quorum was present. The sandglass was turned and the bells set ...
Article : 861 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 2 [?]-16 per cent., being 7-16 per cent. below the Bank of England rate, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe House of Lords last night conturred in the grant of £100,000 to Earl Roberts in recognition of his eminent services in the South African war, which was voted by ...
Article : 72 wordsGeneral Fetherstonhaugh has recently scoured the fertile country between Rustenburg and Zeerust, in the Western Transvaal. He found that at hundreds of ...
Article : 72 wordsThe progress report made by the Royal Commission on Factory Legislation on the subject of the weekly halfholiday has aroused a doubt in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 wordsA shearing difficulty has arisen at Ulonga Station, 28 miles from Hay. A full board of 52 shearers had written and secured pens, lodging £1 deposit, and ...
Article : 213 wordsBoxer placards have been posted up at Canton threatening a rebellion, in consequence of the house tax which it is proposed to levy in connection with the war ...
Article : 40 wordsA Boer commandant, near Krugersdorp, in the Transvaal, has offered to send into the British refugee camps the female relatives of Boers who have recently ...
Article : 44 wordsSome discussion took place at the meeting of the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council to-night, in regard to the Factories and Shops Act, and at the close of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 wordsAn anarchist named Galliotti has been arrested in Switzerland. He had come from Paterson, New Jersey, where the plot was organised last year ...
Article : 137 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—Bradford—The market is firm but prices for tops are unaltered at 18¼d. ...
Article : 333 wordsA Boer commando, being in want of provisions, has entered Portuguese territory at Guanetz. It has two guns. A Portuguese force of 800 men has called upon the ...
Article : 41 wordsLieutenant W. J. S. Rundle, of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), and late of the New South Wales Lancers, has died of wounds received at Beaufort West, in the ...
Article : 121 wordsA child aged 2½ years, named Myrtle Brown, was knocked down by a tram yesterday afternoon in Toorak-road, between Carolinc and Little Davis streets. The child's ...
Article : 184 wordsFrank Williams, the young man who was arrested on several charges of incendiarism at Camberwell, Kew, and Canterbury, yesterday received a sentence of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsThere was a good deal of excitement in Pitt-street between Market and Park streets to-night, when a raid was made on premises occupied by Messrs. J. Dalveen ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 192 wordsVeterinary-Lieutenant Sherlock, of Frankston, in a private letter, writes of the Wilmansrust disaster as follows:— "The awfulness of that twenty minutes I ...
Article : 453 wordsSir William Garstin, the Inspector-General of Irrigation and Under-Secretary of State for Public Works in Egypt, has submitted to Lord Cromer, the British ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Legislative Council has negatived the Referendum Bill by 29 votes to 1. The Advances to Settlers Extension Bill, to enable the Government to borrow an ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the legislative Council to-day, the Minister of Education stated that the Government would continue to urge on the Imperial anothorities the necessity of steps ...
Article : 68 wordsAn open-air band performance will be given by the East Brunswick Brass Band, in the Prince's Oval, next to the Carlton Football ground, to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon. In aid of the fund. ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Geo. M. Munro, at North Carlton— House properties. Messrs. E. J. Dixon and Sons, at Windsor—House properties and building ...
Article : 91 wordsM. Gaston Stiegler, a representative of the Paris journal "Le Matin," has travelled round the world in 63 days. Mrs. Brodrick, wife of the Secretary of ...
Article : 156 wordsMichael Hoban, 23 Middle-street, Ascotvale, railway employe. Causes of insolvency —Sickness in family, borrowing money at high rates of interest, and pressure of ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Duke of Portland, from Brisbane May 29; Gothic, from Wellington ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 3 Aug 1901, Page 13
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