Bar silver is quoted to-day 1-16d higher at 2s 1 11-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe steamer Abergeldie, with the captain and crew of the ship Port Patrick on board, arrived in Sydney harbour about 12.30 a.m. yesterday, and as the crew of the ship had come from Algoa Bay the ...
Article : 528 wordsThe Emperor of China has issued edicts enjoining the paying of respect and the giving of protection to missionaries and their converts. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe war correspondent of the "Daily News," accompanied Major Vallentin in the engagement north of Amersfoort in the first week of the month. The correspondent, in ...
Article : 405 wordsThe evening newspapers re-echo the plaudits of the morning journals in regard to the Commonwealth Parliament's attitude over the baseless charges made against British ...
Article : 62 wordsWhen the House of Representatives met this afternoon Mr. Barton stated that it was intended to send with Colonel Williams, C.B., whose services were asked for by Lord Kitchener, a field hospital ...
Article : 608 words"Well, we launched the boats," continued the mate," with myself in charge of one and the captain in charge of the other. The heavy sea, the thick rain squalls, and the darkness made the launching of ...
Article : 297 wordsA monument in marble with an appropriate inscription has been elected and formally unveiled at Gunning Park in memory of Trooper Denis J. Murray, who was a member of the Imperial ...
Article : 66 wordsLate to-night the head fire station received a call to a fire in King-street, where the premises of Blensby and Co., ironmongers, were found to be alight. The building is of brick, and consists of five ...
Article : 228 wordsMr. Burton has received cable messages from Capetown informing him that the Australasian left there on January 5, and has on board Lieutenant Smith (Prince of Wales Light Horse) and seven men ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Barton has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, through the Governor-General, the following telegram:—"Your telegram to-day (January 14) received. The people and ...
Article : 180 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Burns, of the New South Wales Lancers, speaking at the luncheon given yesterday in connection with the unveiling of the South African War memorial fountain, wild that he saw ...
Article : 334 wordsThe Imperial Parliament will be opened to-day with the same coremony as last year. No semi-official forecast of the Speech from the Throne has been issued. ...
Article : 33 wordsSeveral of the sailors of the Port Patrick were at the Sailors' Home yesterday, when a "Horald" reporter saw them. They were not inclined to say very much with respect to the abandonment of the ...
Article : 583 wordsIt was reported in yesterday's "Herald" that a meeting of representative citizens was held to consider the present condition of the public finances and the general tendency of socialistic legislation. ...
Article : 574 wordsMr. Edward Brodie Hoare, Conservative, has, owing to illhealth resigned his seat in the House of Commons as member for Hampstead. There are three candidates—Mr. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe German press is now silent on the Chamberlain-Bulow incident. ...
Article : 16 wordsCount von Billow has dined with Sir F. C. Lascelles, the British Ambassador at Berlin. ...
Article : 22 wordsHerr Liebermann, of Sonneberg, an anti-Semite, boasts that a full Government Bench in the Reichstag only mildly rebuked him for his insults to the British Army. ...
Article : 88 wordsQuantites of dead cattle and mules are floating in the sea opposite the Texas coast, United States. It is feared that a British transport has been lost either in a storm or ...
Article : 56 wordsGood progress was made yesterday in connection with the enrolment of men for the Federal Contingent at the Agricultural Grounds. Major Boam, D.A.A.G., attested 54 men, who had passed all ...
Article : 549 wordsPublic meetings have taken place in various parts of the colony denouncing the criticism of the German press on the British army in South Africa. Commenting on Mr. Barton's resolution the ...
Article : 190 wordsBuring yesterday, as it was found that the Port Patrick was in safety, the question of again manning the ship was considered. The law is that although a vessel may have been abandoned in the expectation ...
Article : 225 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier of Canada, in heartily reciprocating the greetings of Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, the Premier of Cape Colony, hoped that the year 1902 would see the ...
Article : 52 wordsA number of merchants have drawn attention through Mr. Wilks, M.P.(N.S.W.), to the anomaly of charging 10 per cent. ad valorem upon kegs and lins containing paints, colours, and varnishes if ...
Article : 886 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," says that a shell killed General Opperman in the fight north of Amersfoort. It is expected that his death ...
Article : 54 wordsThe tug Champion, with the ship Port Patrick in tow, passed Cape Schank at 8 a.m. to day making very slow progress against a strong north-west wind. Cape Schank is 19 miles from the heads, and thence ...
Article : 349 wordsThe French torpedo boat Bourrasque, on her speed trials, attained a speed of 31?, knots per hour. The Bourrasque was recently completed at ...
Article : 51 wordsA Blue-book has been issued containing copies of the negotiations between Great Britain and the United States regarding the Nicaragua Canal leading to the Nicaragua ...
Article : 181 wordsTwenty-five men of Commandant Brand's force ran the gauntlet of a heavy fire of blockhouses in the Thaba[?]nchu district, and proceeded in the direction of Dowetsdorp. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe master of the Port Patrick (Captain Galloway) was interviewed from a boat alongside the steamer after the anchor was dropped in Watson's Bay. He said the Port Patrick left Algoa Bay, ...
Article : 503 wordsA rush of water occurred yesterday in the Jupiter Mine at Bruex, Bohemia. Seventy miners escaped, but in the lower workings 40 others were imprisoned and were drowned. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe third engagement between England and Australia will commence on the Adelaide Oval to-morrow at noon. The weather to-day has been hot and muggy, and rain threatened, but, fortunately, ...
Article : 564 wordsLieutenant-Colonel H. G. Vialls, of the Western Australian Bushmen, has greatly distinguished himself by seizing positions and replying to the enemy at all points. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe conference of representatives of Trades Unions and Co-operative Societies now being held at the Memorial Hall has passed a resolution recommending that a pension of 5s per ...
Article : 69 wordsThe papers of Commandant Smuts lately seized showed that the Swazis supplied information, provisions, and munitions to the Boers. ...
Article : 28 wordsSmall batches of Boers, aggregating a considerable number, are being captured daily. ...
Article : 19 wordsAlthough the drought has decimated the herds in Western Qeensland, a line mob of about 200 head recently arrived in Adelaide from Bredalbane station, belonging to Mr. C. N. Griffiths, of Sydney. They ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is reported that the latest advices which Mr. Kruger has received from South Africa are to the effect that the Boer forces and their Afrikander recruits are rapidly dwindling. ...
Article : 57 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsThe examination of Mr. Whitaker Wright in regard to the London and Globe Finance Corporation was continued to-day. He admitted that he had allotted blocks of shares ...
Article : 73 wordsPrince Henry of Prussia, who will proceed to New York as the guest of the United States, to witness the christening of the German Emperor's new yacht, will land at New ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday select committees were appointed to inquire into the Collie coal industry and the management operations of agricultural banks with a view to extending the powers of that ...
Article : 86 wordsLord Kitchener has accumulated a vast number of remounts at Bloemfontein in readiness for reinforcements, and he is preparing for a big effort. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe New South Wales Agency last year received 17,434 letters, and despatched 12,304. It dealt with indents of contracts to the value of £848,390, exclusive of £459,105 ...
Article : 48 wordsA representative of this journal yesterday called upon the chief officer, who made the following statement:— "On the Monday evening we had been getting ...
Article : 477 wordsMr. J. O'Donnell, M.P., has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for unlawful assembly at Rahellu. He has appealed against the sentence. ...
Article : 29 wordsKing Edward yesterday inspected the battalion of 1200 Foot Guards who are about to proceed to South Africa. The King, in addressing the soldiers said that he trusted ...
Article : 61 wordsA well attended meeting of homestead lessees and others was held at the Darling Hotel to further protest against the provisions of the new Land Bill. The meeting unanimously expressed the opinion that the ...
Article : 166 wordsAn outbreak of ptomaine poisoning has been discovered in the vicinity of Cleveland-street, Darlington, during the past two days, by which at least 40 persons have been affected. In some cases whole ...
Article : 343 wordsKing Edward is the patron of the Brisbane Cathedral Fund. ...
Article : 15 wordsA Cape liner is aground near Co (?). It is feared she cannot be floated until the spring tides. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe following copy of a telegraphic despatch received by his Excellency the Deputy Lieutenany-Governor from the chief casualty officer Capetown, has been handed to the State Premier:— ...
Article : 157 wordsMiss Amy Castles has been engaged for all of the next series of ballad concerts. ...
Article : 21 wordsAn explosion occurred in the Vesuvius mine Chartere Towers, to-day. Two men were killed and two others were injured. The four men were George Gough, 35, married, with two children; Frank ...
Article : 182 wordsThe completed census gives the population of Scotland as 4,472,103. The census of 1891 gave the population of Scotland as 4,625,647. There is thus an increase in 10 years of ...
Article : 39 wordsM. Max Regis, an anti-Semite, has been arrested and sentonced to two years' imprisonment for failing to pay damages awarded against him in a libel case. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe annual meeting of the Kiama Cottage Hospital was held last evening, Rev. John Burgess, M.A. (president), presiding. The report for the 12 months ended December 31 last shows that the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe smallpox cases in London total 944, In the past week there were 45 deaths from the disease. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe South Australian taxation authorities mainlam that the Federal officers resident in the State should pay income tax. Their taxation will be asessed in the usual way, and if necessary the matter ...
Article : 49 wordsA cable has been received by the Department of Agriculture from the Agent-General that tenders will be received in London on January 20 for 500 tons of best Australian flour in new double bags, ...
Article : 115 wordswithout any chemical process whatever is [?] that is used for ARNOTT'S Milk Arrowroot Biscuits The Children's food.—Advt. ...
Article : 24 wordsGive the children ARNOTT'S MILK ARROWROOT BISCUITS, and they will Toward you by growing up healthy and strong.—Advt. ...
Article : 24 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 17 Jan 1902, Page 7
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: