It is hoped that the Ministry will be able to begin revising the draft tariff drawn up by the Minister of Customs, Mr. Kingston, and the Treasurer, Sir George Turner,in ...
Article : 2,522 wordsGeneral Fetherstonaugh, who is operating in the South-western Transvaal, has captured near Klerksdorp a Boer convoy of 86 waggons, containing 9,000 rounds of ...
Article : 240 wordsTheir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York have sailed from Cape Town in the Ophir for Ascension Island, 700 miles north-west of St. ...
Article : 42 wordsWhile the mantelpiece-makers welcome the prospect of having the wages board determinations affecting their trade reviewed, they are speculating as to the probable ...
Article : 1,130 wordsProceedings on the Stuck Exchange on Saturday in connection with the Duke of York share corner were only of interest in the sense that they were strongly ...
Article : 654 wordsJohn Webber, a Soutn Melbourne labourer, experienced the sensation of being fired at by an angry husband on Satruday evening. He came out of the ordeal ...
Article : 980 wordsTo-morrow the Treasure[?] (Mr. Peacock) will deliver his financial statement. The statement is later than usual this year owing to the fact that the Federal ...
Article : 898 wordsReplying to an address presented to him by a German pro-Boer society, Mr. Kruger declared that Lord Kitchener's recent proclamation showed that he recognised the ...
Article : 46 wordsBefore leaving Cape Town their Royal Highnesses wrote a letter to Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of the Cape Colony, stating that they had been deeply ...
Article : 76 wordsLieutenant Ernest Evans, late of the Tasmanian Mounted Contingent, has died at Klipplaat. Private J. Pullin, of the second New ...
Article : 39 wordsIn connection with the dispute between France and Turkey a conciliatory step has been taken by the Sultan. The difficulty was caused by the Sultan not having ...
Article : 86 wordsThe troopship Britannic left Melbourne for Cape Town on Saturday, taking with her about 800 Australian soldiers, who have previously served at the war, and are ...
Article : 406 wordsThe Japanese Government has decided to reorganise the army and navy, so as to render it even more efficient than it is now. A beginning has already been made ...
Article : 60 words"The Times" urges that with the view of specdily terminating the war, seasoned British regiments from India, who are about to return to England, should be sent ...
Article : 65 wordsM. Camilla Pelleton, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies, and a wellknown authority on naval matters, who holds the position of reporter on the ...
Article : 74 wordsA number of Cape Colony rebels have been tried at Graaff Reinet. Three woresentenced to death, and ten to penal servitude for life at Bermuda. ...
Article : 82 wordsM. Etienne, the leader of the Colonial part in the French Chamber of Deputies, urges that the Government should take steps to secure the abrogation of the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Czar Nicholas has accepted an invitation from the Emperor William to be present at the German naval manœuvres shortly to be held at Dantzig. ...
Article : 39 wordsAlthough the Cape Parliament has been prorogued until September 18, it is not expected that it will assemble even in october, unless the sitution changes for ...
Article : 129 wordsA meeting to support the immediate abolition of the stock tax was held in the Brunswick Town-hall on Saturday night. The mayor (Councillor J. W. Fleming) ...
Article : 548 wordsHeavy scoring continues the order of the day on the English cricket-grounds. Yesterday eight century scores were made in five innings. C. B. Fry, playing ...
Article : 49 wordsBar silver is quoted at 26 15-16d. per oz. standard, being a decline of 1-16d. since yesterday. LONDON, Aug. 24. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Referee,'" commenting on Mr. A. C. Macluren's efforts to form a cricket team to visit Australia next season, says that the day seems to have passed for ...
Article : 86 wordsA military order has been issued closing all the country stores in the Queenstown district, the residents of which are nearly all Dutch, and in sympathy with the Boer ...
Article : 94 wordsThe wisdom of the action of the Board of Public Health in declaring consumption an infections discase, and thereby including it in the list of notifiable diseases, is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsA largely-attended meeting of representatives of all branches of the railway service was held in the Trades-hall on Sunday, Mr. J. Farrell in the chair, when ...
Article : 478 wordsTom Mann, the well-known labour leader, and vice-president of the Workers' Union, who keeps a publichouse in Long Aere, London, has been fined £10, with ...
Article : 40 wordsQuotations for frozen meat are as follows:— New Zealand Sheep.—Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes (55lb. to 651b.)— ...
Article : 208 wordsIn his despatch to the War Office reviewing the operations in South Africa to July 8, Lord Kitchener referred to the delays in April and June. He explained ...
Article : 96 wordsA fearful attempt to murder her own child was made on Saturday night by a woman named Sarah Jane Cooper, aged 41, at the house of her brother, Thomas Knox, ...
Article : 552 wordsLord Kitchener has sent back to England 200 Imperial Ycomanry recruits, who were found to be unfit for service, as they were suffering, some from deafness, and others ...
Article : 63 wordsA meeting of the Master Butchers' and Live Stock Buyers' Association will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon, at the Colonial Mutual Buildings, 60 ...
Article : 73 wordsCommandant Smuts and 120 Boers have crossed the railway in the Orange River Colony, 30 miles south of Edenburg, and have trekked in the direction of ...
Article : 39 wordsA determined suicide was reported to the police at Nathalia on Friday evening, when a man named John Daly, employed by Mr. Stickells, a shire contractor, drowned ...
Article : 326 wordsA local record sale of bullocks—seven head at £16 per head—was made by Messrs. Wilson, Gibbon, and Co. on Friday, the vendor being Mr. Thomas ...
Article : 49 wordsDr. T. G. To Water and two other prominent members of the Afrikander Bond have refused to contribute to the expenses of Pastor Murray's self-imposed mission to ...
Article : 69 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Robertson v. Green (part heard). First Civil Court. (Before Mr. Justice Holroyd.) ...
Article : 156 wordsMessrs. Graham (chairman) and Langdon, M.L.A.'s, members of the Council of Agricultural Education, accompanied by the other members of the Parliamentary ...
Article : 134 wordsThe National Trustees Company is applying for probate of the will of James Patrick Cleary, late of Errol-street, Footseray, who died 29th July, 1901, leaving ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 26 Aug 1901, Page 5
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