The news of the great distress of settlers in the bushfire country was received everywhere yesterday with deep sympathy. As showing the intensity and the vastness of the bush conflagration, ...
Article : 252 wordsMr. Justice Holroyd delivered his reserved judgment to-day in the case of Frederic Gerhard, alleged to be a Swiss insolvent, who is detained under the Extradition Act upon a warrant signed by Mr. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe conference between the representatives of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation and the Federated Seamen's Union to discuss the proposed reduction of seamen's wages was opened at the ...
Article : 447 wordsMr. Barton met the military commandants in conference yesterday afternoon. The officers present were:—Major-General French, Major-General Downes, Brigadier-General Gordon, ...
Article : 1,485 wordsThe "Standard" says that Lord Rosebery has declined an invitation from Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, the Leader of the Liberal party, to join in the leadership. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Queen, who was suffering from a slight cold, is now convalescent. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe men who were taken prisoners by Commandant de Wet, in his attack on the Imperial Yeomanry camp at Tweefontein on Christmas morning, have been released, and ...
Article : 163 wordsTelegraphic messages transmitted between Australia and Tasmania pass over a cable owned by the Eastern Extension Company. Under its contract with the company the Tasmanian Government had ...
Article : 468 wordsThe Venezuelans consider that the presence of a strong American squadron in West India waters is significant in view of Germany's intended demonstration. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe New South Wales authorities have been somewhat perturbed over the discovery of ticks on a mob of horses at Charleville. The horses were dipped twice before leaving the northern quarantine line. ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. Croker has consented to continue the control of the Tammany organisation of New York. ...
Article : 21 wordsCaptain Moorhouse, R.N.R., who navigated the submarine mining steamer Lady Roberts to Albany, was ill upon arrival, and had to be removed to the hospital suffering from typhold. The vessel was ...
Article : 175 wordsWinton reports that during last week numbers of scattered storms with rainfalls ranging from half an inch to 2½ inches are reported from various stations in the district. A violent storm on the Leswalt ...
Article : 70 wordsThe hearing of evidence at the trial of Commandant Scheeper was continued on Saturday. Commandant Scheeper gave evidence on his ...
Article : 183 wordsHungary is exporting horses to India. Some are bringing as high as 1000 rupees (£66). Colonel Hunt, who has been acting as agent for ...
Article : 235 wordsA computation just made gives the total effective strength of the Queensland defence force as 5715 men, comprising 4127 in the defence force, 570 volunteers, and 1018 cadets. ...
Article : 190 wordsThe bush fire which devastated the country between Gundagai and Wagga on Saturday and Sunday last was the most destructive ever known in these parts. The outbreak occurred on Foster's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsMr. Allen, secretary to the Treasury, at the instance of Sir George Turner, thus outlines the new system of Commonwealth accounts which comes into force from January 1:—"It is intended to ...
Article : 845 wordsThe following works have been approved by the Minister for Home Affairs:—Defence Department. Victoria: Supply of gunmetal and files; repairs, Field Engineers' depot River Bank; repairs, Fort ...
Article : 251 wordsThe sixty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of South Australia, which fell on Saturday, was celebrated to-day by a public holiday. Twenty-five thousand people or more travelled to Glenelg, where ...
Article : 115 wordsA waterspout burst over Saffi, on the coast of Morocco, causing a flood. Two hundred people were drowned, and the customshouse and all the warehouses were ...
Article : 81 wordsA convoy which was proceeding to Calvinia, Western Cape Colony, was attacked by Boers, who were repulsed, losing five killed and 20 wounded. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 309 wordsThe jockey Egan was thrown off Galatea before the Turretfield Stakes race for two-year-olds was decided at Victoria Park to-day. He died after being removed to the Adelaide Hospital. This is the first ...
Article : 45 wordsMajor Chapman has dispersed Dannhauser's commando near Fort Prospect, in the neighbourhood of the Natal border. Major Chapman rescued five British prisoners. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe man De Robert, who is charged with being the leader of 225 other French smugglers, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and has been fined £2000. ...
Article : 107 wordsIn view of the experience of the Manawatu Railway Company, the Government has decided to send to America future orders for steel bridges for roads. Mr. Wilson Barrett has arrived at Dunedin, and ...
Article : 48 wordsMajor Beresford's Constabulary raided Bothaville, in the north-west of the Orange River Colony, and captured 36 of the enemy. ...
Article : 25 wordsPro-Boer women in Vienna have adopted an appeal to the women of England in regard to the concentration camps in South Africa. The appeal contains wicked accusations of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe adjourned case against Captain E. Oesselmann, of the German mail steamer Prinz Regent Luitpold, on three charges laid under the Customs Act of 1901, involving an infringement of its ...
Article : 170 wordsShortly after 3 o'clock yesterday morning a police constable on duty in Lower Pitt-street discovered a fire burning in the premises of Messrs. Mason Brothers, Limited, general merchants and shipping agents. ...
Article : 844 wordsThe amusements announced for to-morrow, which is one of the great holidays of the year, are, as usual, of a varied character. On New Year's Day the harbour resorts, as a rule, are the favourite ...
Article : 372 wordsThe tramway conductors at Edinburgh have struck against Sunday labour, failing a settlement of the general wages question. Yesterday inspectors manned the three ...
Article : 69 wordsTwo Boers have been executed at Mafeking on a charge of murdering natives. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette," in what is believed to be an inspired article, strongly protests against the settlement of Boer refugees in German South-West Africa. ...
Article : 71 wordsAny feeling of doubt as to whether the tragedy in the Chamberlain family claimed four or five victims was removed to-day by the recovery of the body of the eldest daughter, Emily, aged 12, from the water ...
Article : 218 wordsA Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into the duration of the coalfields of the United Kingdom, as to transport, as to cost and conditions of production, and as ...
Article : 82 wordsThe bush fire which broke out on Dangar and M'Donald Brothers' Wantabadgery station on Friday has proved to be the largest ever known in the south [?]stricts. The Oura station fire joined it, and ...
Article : 606 wordsThe "Times" says that the Marquis of Salisbury (the Prime Minister) has conveyed to M. Szell, the Premier of Hungary, the assurance that Great Britain would be ever ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Zionist (Jewish) Congress at Basel has established a fund to purchase settlements for the return of the Jews in Palestine and Syria. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe railway arrangements for New Year's Day give the public ample facilities for making a short stay in the highlands and tourist districts. The Commissioners have arranged for cheap excursion ...
Article : 530 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies has forwarded to Mr. Barton, through the Governor-General, a copy of a despatch received by the Foreign Office from Sir W. Barrington (British ...
Article : 369 wordsIt is stated that the monument at Burghersdorp, commemorating in Dutch and the Taal the former independence of the Transvaal, has been secretly overthrown and mutilated. ...
Article : 34 wordsMuch interest was aroused yesterday by the arrest, on a local charge, of a man who is thought by several members of the police force to be identical with Sparks, who escaped from Pentridge Gaol, ...
Article : 299 wordsLord Kitchener reports that he issued 1600 permits to return to the Transvaal prior to January 15, and 80 special permits weekly for months to workers in the mines. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe organisers of the Sunbeam dinner given to poor children at Limehouse received sympathetic messages from the Princess of Wales, from Lord Roberts, and from Mrs. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe work of taking the names of the volunteers for the Commonwealth Contingent was continued to-day at the Victoria Barracks, and by the time Major-Irving had concluded his work for the day the list of ...
Article : 166 wordsThe State Premier is in receipt of the following telegram from Capetown:— "Dangerously ill of enteric fever at Wynberg, on December 21, Third New South Wales Mounted ...
Article : 44 wordsA private telegram has been received in Sydney from Colonel Lassetter as follows:—"Arrived Ermelo under General Bruce Hamilton. All well. All wounded doing well." ...
Article : 28 wordsA boating fatality occurred yesterday evening on Melville Water, Perth River. Ten men were out in a [?]acht, which a squall caught and overturned. All the occupants of the hoat were in the water for half ...
Article : 67 wordsOver 40 applications have been received at Brisbane for positions in the contingent for South Africa, while telegrams and letters have been received from all parts of Queensland containing offers of service. ...
Article : 76 wordsJapan is establishing a system of wireless telegraphy between Japan and the Korean coast. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Runic, which arrived on Saturday, has on board 16 returned soldiers for Melbourne, 17 for Sydney, and three for New Zealand. She waited here till 5 o'clock on Sunday morning for a pilot to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 31 Dec 1901, Page 5
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