When the intercolonial match was resumed to-day there was a very small attendance of the general public. The not out men, Stuart and Hack, resumed ...
Article : 1,131 wordsMrs. Britannia (through the London "Times"): "Don't you think you should up anchor and make a demonstration." Sailor John: "Plenty of time, Mum, you'll find they'll disperse all right the moment I am through this pipeful." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 310 wordsLondon, Thursday—Further particulars concerning the attack on the Boer position near Colesberg by four companies of the Suffolk Regiment, under ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Free Staters stuck to their positions until bayonetted in the ditch. The Transvaalers, in face of a counter attack during one of ...
Article : 166 wordsThe farewell demonstration tendered to the volunteers who have been selected from the Maitland district for service in South Africa was worthy of the men and of ...
Article : 900 wordsThe Early-Closing Act is like a young bear—all its sorrows are to come. The right of a government to regulate the hours at which a shopkeeper shall not sell certain ...
Article : 447 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, in command of the division near Modder River, is making a railway along his front in the ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Friday.—A trial was made yesterday of a turbine torpedo destroyer built for the British navy on the lines of Mr. Parsons' Turbinia. A ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Hon. T. A. Brassey is raising a Yeomanry Corps for service in South Africa. He will accompany the body. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Boers are laagered in strength, five miles east of Colenso. ...
Article : 22 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The "Daily Mail's" correspondent in Ladismith states that the British losses in the day's fighting are estimated at 14 ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Friday.—When General Methuen was slightly wounded at the battle of Modder River he was thrown from his horse, and sustained an ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Premier received word to-day that no further cases of bubonic plague have been reported at Noumea. Mr. Herbert Doust committed suicide this ...
Article : 499 wordsLONDON, Thursday—At the meeting of the Court of Directors of the Bank of England to-day, the rate of discount was reduced from 6 per cent (to which ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The "Standards" correspondent at Frere telegraphs that prior to the recent attack on Ladismith, President Kruger asked the ...
Article : 60 wordsRecently there was witnessed at Alder-shot one of the strangest military parades ever held in Great Britain. Fifteen of the twenty traction engines intended for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The editor of the Parisian illustrated journal the "Caricature" has been acquitted on a charge of publishing an obscene ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Newspaper correspondents have heliographed from Ladismith a few details of the recent fight. The place swarms with spies ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The first train from Cairo has arrived at Khartoum. ...
Article : 15 wordsDuring the interval at the concert, the officers and volunteers (adjourned to the council chamber upstairs, and several toasts were honoured. Lieut.-Colenel ...
Article : 589 wordsMr. A. J. Arnott, electrical engineer, Melbourne, has been on a tour of inspection of the electric lighting arrangements in the United States, on ...
Article : 147 wordsMesdames Beeston and Morris, assisted by a large number of other Newcastle ladies have during the past few days been planning, collecting, band deftly plying needle ...
Article : 194 wordsLONDON, Friday—Lord Strathcoma, the High Commissioner for Canada in London, has offered to equip and maintain 400 North-western rough riders at ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Queen has contributed to the artists' war fund sale two works, one by her own hand, and the other by the Prince Consort. ...
Article : 34 wordsA certain class of papers, also persons, hold that it is iniquitous to suppress the Boers because they are "the under dog." Were they a great deal stronger than they ...
Article : 397 wordsLONDON, Friday—The Canadian Government wishes to bear the whole cost of the contingents. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe officers and rank and file of the Newcastle corps of the Salvation Army have during the week had several special attractions at their meetings in ...
Article : 323 wordsProfessor Arminius Vambery tells in the "Humanitarian" for December "the origin and cause of his English sympathies." The conclusion of the ...
Article : 325 wordsThe result of the strike of railway employees in West Australia justifies Mr. Plesse's estimate of its importance. It will be remembered that the cause of final ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 307 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Portugal has decided that nobody shall enter the Transvaal via Delagoa Bay without a passport, and a consular guarantee not ...
Article : 43 wordsLord Brassey held his last Executive Council this afternoon and invited the Ministers to luncheon. He expressed his regret at leaving Victoria. ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The British Government have determined that food-stuffs in neutral ships bound for neutral ports are not liable to seizure ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Hon. St. John Brodrick, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, speaking in Maryle-bone last night, said that the Generals ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Jas. F. Kerr, Platt-burg, writes sa follows:—By answering the following questions you would confer a great favour. Can any one business man having two shops, one ...
Article : 140 wordsThe House of Austria is as noted for its peculiarities as it is for its misfortunes. Were the Crown of Austria an autocracy it might be said that it was tempered by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 335 wordsA meeting of the Newcastle Ladies' Patriotic League was held at the Council Chambers yesterday afternoon. The Mayoress (Mrs. Timbary) presided, ...
Article : 246 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Lieutenant-General French is constantly making reconnaissances from his position near Colesberg. ...
Article : 18 wordsTom Bratten, of the Scottish Rifles, who has been chosen to go to the front with the second contingent, paid a hurried visit to his home at Merewether yesterday, ...
Article : 1,008 wordsThe Queen has a certain peculiarity in the way of photo collecting, which is certainly not without its merit. Whenever one of her subjects does something, or ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 178 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—In the first reconnaissance made by the Household Cavalry near Colseberg on Sunday, Captain W. F. Ricardo (of the Royal ...
Article : 38 wordsDuring the heavy thunderstorm that broke over Stockton on Wednesday evening, at about dusk, Mrs. Wesche, residing in Church-street, a recent arrival in Stockton, ...
Article : 144 wordsA French writer informs us how to imitate the "ever-burning" lamps of the Egyptians. Take a cup, fill it nearly full of common salt, stick in the middle a wick of ...
Article : 200 wordsA prominent fruit grower and merchant in Sydney has donated 300 cases of fruit for the use of the troops going to South Africa. Fruit growers around ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The "Times" and the "Daily News' remind Mr. Balfour of the answer given to Australia at the outset of the war, that ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 13 Jan 1900, Page 5
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