LONDON, March 20.—Sir M. Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has practically abandoned the stamp duty of 1s on contracts for the sale of produce concluded through brokers. ...
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Advertising : 1,780 wordsLONDON, March 20, 4.1 p.m.—In the course of an interview, President Kruger said he did not expect outside help in the present struggle. "There were," he said, "40,000 men fighting, ...
Article : 181 wordsAfter our last edition went to press on Tuesday evening, the "chargeman" at the shaft, John Jones, was still in the witness-box. In reply to the coroner, he said the light was placed on the ...
Article : 819 wordsLONDON, March 20.—The match between "Dido" Plumb, of London, and Jim Ryan, of Australia, for the 11st championship of England, came off at the National Sporting Club last night. ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, March 20.—Sir Robert Mowbray (Conservative) has been returned unopposed to the House of Commons for the Brixton division of Lambeth vacant by the resignation of the Hon. ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, March 20.—The Maharajah of Jeypore has given 15 lakhs of rupees (at the present rate of exchange about £76,000) to the Indian Famine Fund. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsLONDON, March 20.—Lieutenant Cecil Lamb, who accompanied "A" Battery to South Africa as a special service officer, has been appointed Staff Officer on the lines of communication and ...
Article : 38 words"William Ferris, 39, a painter, residing at 121 Underwood-street, Paddington, was taken to the Sydney Hospital this morning by his wife, suffering from serious and extensive burns about the ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, March 20.—The detachment of the New Zealand troops ordered to Prieaka, Griqualand, marched from Carnarvon to Van Vyks Vlei, a distance of nearly 50 miles, in 24 hours. ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, March 20.—There are now 31,000 troops on the voyage from England to South Africa. This number includes the Eighth. Division of ...
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Advertising : 69 wordsOn December 16 last several employees on Purmanga Station, about fifty miles from White Cliffs, were suddenly seized with illness, apparently from the effects of poison, and six days later one of ...
Article : 205 wordsLONDON, March. 20, 4.1 p.m.—Sir M. HicksBeach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in" the House of Commons last night, stated that the applicants for the war loan of £30,000,000, ...
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Advertising : 330 wordsLONDON, March 20.—The movement of Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, who was last reported at Warrenton, is interpreted as an advance to Pretoria either via Mafeking and Rustenburg ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, March 20.—Consols closed yesterday at 101½, a rise of ½ since Friday. ...
Article : 17 wordsLONDON, March 20, 4.1 p.m.—Lord Kitchener has occupied Prieska, in the north-west of Cape Colony, without opposition. The rebels surrendered. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, March 20, 4.1 p.m.—Miss Anna Parnell urges the Irish crowds to drown the cheers for the Queen during her Majesty's visit to Ireland by singing a hymn in praise of President ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Hon. the Minister for Works will receive a deputation at his office to-morrow at 2 p.m., from the residents of Waterloo, Redfern, Alexandria, Darlington, Botany, and ...
Article : 99 wordsThe inquest into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the five victims of the colliery accident at Balmain on Saturday was resumed this morning, before the city coroner, at the Coroner's ...
Article : 848 wordsLONDON, March 20.—Trains are now crossing the river Tugela at Colenso taking supplies to General Buller preparatory to an advance. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe quaint musical and interesting songs "which have made Signor Lardelli so popular in London, have a prominent place in to—morrow night's programme at the Y.M.C.A., ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, March 20.—A grave near Pieters Station, marked with a cross, has been opened, and found to be full of explosive bullets. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 wordsLONDON, March 20.—It is reported from Mafeking that the Boer fire has slackened. ...
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Advertising : 252 wordsLONDON, March 20.—Colonel Peakman and the Kimberley Mounted Rifles had a brisk skirmish With 500 of the enemy opposite Fourteen Streams, a few miles north of Warrenton. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe concert to be given in the Town Hall tonight by Signer Hazon's popular orchestral society is another of the many musical efforts to swell the Patriotic Fund. The fame of this body ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsLONDON, March 20.—Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gatacre has sent some mounted troops to Smithfield, 60 miles eastward, with a proclamation intended to prepare the way for Brigadier-General ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, March 20.—In criticising the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Bill, the Lawofficers of the Crown chiefly object to clause 74 of the bill, on the ground that it impairs the Queen's ...
Article : 195 wordsLONDON, March 20, 4.1 p.m.—It is reported that Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington, late in command of the Belfast District, who was recently ordered to South Africa, will form a field ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, March' 20.—Reuter's correspondent at Capetown reports that the High Commissioner, Sir Alfred Milner, and his military secretaries have left Capetown by special train for the front. ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, March 20.—Corporal Raff, at the battle of Driefontein, bayoneted a Boer who was firing while he was under the white flag. Corporal Raff was immediately promoted to the ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, March 20.—In a swimming match yesterday Percy Cavill, of Sydney, defeated Vans by six seconds. ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Wed 21 Mar 1900, Page 5
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