The anxiety which was felt regarding the overdue steamer Boveric was relieved to an extent to-day by the receipt of a telegram from Fremantle announcing, as was generally surmised, that the vessel had met ...
Article : 755 wordsLord Kitchener reports:—"Major-General Elliott on Tuesday held the line from Lindley to the Liebenbergsvlei, while MajorGeneral Barker held the line of the drifts of ...
Article : 128 wordsThe match between the Australian Eleven and the London County team was abandoned early yesterday afternoon, owing to drenching rain accompanied by hail. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe delegations of the Austrian Empire and of the Kingdom of Hungary met at BudaPesth yesterday. The Emperor Francis Joseph, in addressing ...
Article : 214 wordsThe match between the Australian Eleven and Nottinghamshire was commenced to-day at Nottingham. Trumble, Carter, and Saunders were omitted ...
Article : 433 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury, the Prime Minister, speaking at the meeting of the Primrose League yesterday, said that in regard to the peace negotiations with the Boers ...
Article : 243 wordsSenator Neild resumed the debate on the Customs Bill in the Senate this afternoon. He spoke for a little over an hour, and, discarding arguments on the ethical aspects of the fiscal question, preferred to ...
Article : 917 wordsThe Australian Eleven will commence a match to-day against Nottinghamshire at Nottingham. The following will represent the county:— ...
Article : 56 wordsColonel Cooper, Lord Kitchener reports, has relieved Ookiep, in Namaqualand. The enemy have retired south. The miners at Concordia surrendered on ...
Article : 45 wordsOwing to a protest which has been made, the "Sportsman" has ceased publishing attacks by its Melbourne correspondent on the Australian Cricket Team and on the ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh (correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph") states that the burghers in the refugee camps regard peace as certain. ...
Article : 42 wordsA conclusion such as that which attended the open engagement of the present campaign is always unsatisfactory. The weather and the wicket were against good cricket; indeed, there ...
Article : 731 wordsIn the House of Commons Sir W. Vernon Harcourt will move an amendment to the second reading of the Finance Bill that the House declines to impose duties on ...
Article : 51 wordsThe London County Council is trying to purchase St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Smithfield, and Christ's Hospital, Newgate-street, for headquarters. The area of the sites is ...
Article : 38 wordsThe fifth (N.S.W.) battalion, Commonwealth Horse, is now complete in its establishment of 493 officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, and there are in addition 20 supernumeraries in camp at ...
Article : 353 wordsIt is expected that from £4,000,000 to £5,000,000 will be available to carry out the bequests of Mr. Cecil Rhodes. It is not likely that the executors will prove the will ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. J. J. Mooney (Nationalist) moved a resolution of censure on the Speaker (the Right Hon. William Court Gully, K.C.), for not calling ...
Article : 114 wordsThe " New York Post " says that American railroads, largely cowing to the operations of the navigation syndicate, hope to control the rates from the principal points in the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe news that the fine cargo-carrier Boveric, of the Howard Smith Company's fleet, was helplessly drifting about the Indian Ocean was received in shipping circles yesterday with a good deal of alarm. ...
Article : 187 wordsThe depreciation in the value of silver has increased the indemnity to be paid by China to the Powers by 90,000,000 taels. The heavy demands made upon the taxpayers is causing ...
Article : 44 wordsThe United States Fishery Commissioners announce that the artificial introduction of shad (a species of herring) and striped bass and other food fishes in the waters of the ...
Article : 44 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 1s ll¾ per ounce standard. ...
Article : 16 wordsDefinite news of the steamer Boveric, which was reported considerably overdue from Melbourne to Durban, was received at Fremantle this morning, when the chief and second officers and two of the ...
Article : 647 wordsThe directors and members of the New South Wales Sports Club, Limited, last evening entertained Captain F. W. C. Crane (their late chairman), who is leaving for South Africa on active service as ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Tientsin correspondent of the " Standard " reports that 40,000 well-armed insurgents are renewing the attacks on churches and missionaries in Chi-li. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Boveric is a steel screw steamer of 3087 tons gross register. She was built in 1898 by Russell and Co., of Port Glasgow, her dimensions being:— Length, 345[?]2ft.; breadth, 49[?]8ft.; and depth, ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Budget Committee of the Reichstag has agreed to the construction of the first section of the railway from Dar-es-Salaam, a port of German East Africa, to Mrogoro. ...
Article : 35 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Hopetoun were present at the Adelaide Cup meeting yesterday. They drove from Government House to Morphetville. The party also included ...
Article : 353 wordsAt a meeting of the Federal Cabinet to-day the pricipal business discussed was ass to the best method to effect retrenchment in the defence estimates, in accordance with the vote of the House of ...
Article : 743 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for April have been published. They show that the value of the imports has decreased by £65,689, and the value of the exports has increased by ...
Article : 53 wordsThe departure of the sixth (Victorian) battalion of the Australian Commonwealth Horse has been postponed from the 12th instant to the 19th instant. The principal reason for the postponement is that ...
Article : 59 wordsGeneral Palma, the President-Elect of Cuba, opposes the commercial treaty with the United States until the duty on Cuban sugar is reduced from above 25 per cent. ...
Article : 59 wordsFollowing on the promise of the Federal Minister of Defence to Parliament to reduce the defence estimates from £950,000 to £820,000, instructions have been received in Sydney intimating that the ...
Article : 659 wordsIt will be within the recollection of many, especicially those interested in shipping, that in June, 1899, the steamer Walkato had a similar experience in the Indian Ocean. The two cases appear to be ...
Article : 1,500 wordsThe Governor-General, accompanied by Lady Hopetoun and Major Willoughby, military secretary, to-day reviewed the 8th Battalion of the Australian Commonwealth Horse on the parade ...
Article : 83 wordsQueen Wilhelmina, who was yesterday reported to be in a very critical condition, is now stated to be improving. ...
Article : 28 wordsTurkey is Sending large shipments of Mauser rifles to Tripoli. It was recently cabled that Italy was preparing to occupy Tripoli. ...
Article : 24 wordsAt the wool sales to-day biddings were brisk. The opening day's prices were fully maintained. May 8. ...
Article : 60 wordsMrs. J. F. Cole, who has taken an active interest-in the welfare of the soldiers leaviug Sydney to participate in the South African war, renews her appeal to the public for magazines, books, or general ...
Article : 132 wordsThe German squadron was welcomed by the Channel fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay south coast of Ireland. It is reported that a Germansquadron, commanded ...
Article : 52 wordsThe annual report of the municipality of Petersham, submitted to the Petersham Council by the council clerk (Mr. D. Clifford) recently, and adopted at the last meeting of the council, showed the total ...
Article : 290 wordsThe contest for the principal event on the card for the second day's racing in connection with the Choster May Meeting resulted as under:— ...
Article : 199 wordsFifty-five South Australian soldiers returned from the war in the Columbian to-day, being dismissed at Largs Bay, where they had a cordial reception. The Columbian resumed her voyage to Melbourne at 1 ...
Article : 102 wordsThe eruption at Mount Pelee, Martinique, West Indies, continues. The persons killed by the eruption number 150. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe apples shipped by the R.M.S. Oceana and Orestes arrived in good condition. The market has improved. Tasmanians realised 8s to 11s, Australians ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. H. Howell, the manager in Sydney for the Howard Smith Company, Limited, was interviewed last evening by a representative of the "Sydney Morning Herald" in regard to the intentions of the ...
Article : 1,142 wordsThe following is a copy of a telegraphic despatch received by the Lieutenant-Governor from the Chief Casualty Officer, Capetown:—"Dangerously ill of enteric fever on May 4, at Heilbron: 3rd New South ...
Article : 52 wordsAt an inquest held this morning on the body of Mr. W. J. Baker, manuger of the Commercial Bank, who was found dead in an outhouse at the rear of the bank with a bullet wound in his head, the jury ...
Article : 214 wordsUpwards of 17,778 cases of preserved mutton in 11b. and 21b. tins has been shipped by the Sydney Meat Preserving Company, Limited, on the steamer Gulf of Taranto, for South Africa, to the order of ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Scottish Australian Investment Company, Limited, has applied the balance of the profit on the year, amounting to £1870, to reducing the loss in the general revenue ...
Article : 35 wordsand excellent in manufacture, always made with the children in view—ARNOTT'S Milk Arrowroots are the CHILDREN'S BISCUITS.—Advt. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 9 May 1902, Page 7
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