A destructive bush fire which swept over several miles of country and entailed the loss of a number of houses and large areas of grass and bush was experienced within a few miles of the city on ...
Article : 1,434 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the second reading of the Procedure Bill for reforming the procedure of the House of Commons was moved. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe steamer Barrier while going through the Hopetoun Channel at Geelong to-day came into collision with the dredge, John Nimmo, with such force that several of her plates were badly de[?]ted. ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, stated in the House of Commons last night that the Government had asked Lord Kitchener to communicate the Notes of ...
Article : 65 wordsThe term "railway men" has a wide scope. It includes the Commissioner and the fettler, the traffic manager and the porter, the scientific man who designs engines and the cleaner who cleans ...
Article : 2,047 wordsCorrespondents have recently been condemning in our columns in no half-hearted way the regulation which provides for the quarantining of all foreign dogs for six ...
Article : 1,941 wordsA big deputation representing the local authorities of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie as well as the townships along the line, waited upon the Premier to-day to represent the urgent necessity of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe speech delivered by Lord Salisbury on Wednesday at the Junior Constitutional Club has convinced Germany that Great Britain does not intend to abate her demands in South ...
Article : 37 wordsThe General then passed into the Agricultural Ground, where the "raw material" which into compose the State's quota of the second Federal Contingent was drawn up in line [?] the arena. As he went ...
Article : 109 wordsVice-Admiral Sir H.H. Rawson, the new Governor of New South Wales, starts for the State in the second week of April. He travels via America. ...
Article : 82 wordsIncluded in the long list of officers who called upon the Federal Commandant (Sir E. T. H. Hutton) was Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Byron, R.A.A., of Queensland, a gentleman who has done excellent ...
Article : 884 wordsThe Kruger clique among the Bo[?]rs is incensed at Dr. Kuyper's fruitless efforts for intervention in the war. ...
Article : 26 wordsPublicists in Berlin are strenuously endeavouring to convince Americans that it was Germany and not Great Britain which prevented a European coalition in favour of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe New South Wales quota of the Second Federal Contingent is rapidly filling up. Thirty-two additional men were attested yesterday by Major Boam, D.A.A.G. In the medical examination 28 ...
Article : 128 wordsM. de Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the "Times," says the opinion is gaining ground from the Note of Dr. Kuyper, Premier of the Netherlands, that he would be glad to ...
Article : 53 wordsMiss Nance O'Neill, the actress, who recently toured Australasia, has taken the Lyceum Theatre, London. Miss Nauce O'Neill, after closing her long ...
Article : 113 wordsGeneral Louis Botha has degraded Commandant Tobias Smuts for burning Bremersdorp. Smuts retorted that Commandant Christian Botha had offended in a similar manner and ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Prince of Wales has been installed a Fellow of the Royal Society. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsExplosions of gas occurred under pavements at Chicago. Some buildings were wrecked, and 13 persons were killed. ...
Article : 29 wordsMajor-General Sir Edward Hutton, G.O.C., devoted two hours yesterday to a careful and minute inspection—"inspection" in the true sense of the word—of the troops about to proceed to South ...
Article : 943 wordsThe opposition which the German Government has raised to the proposal to reduce the European garrison at Tientsin and the restitution of Chinese Civil Government in the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe "National Zeitung," a Berlin journal, states that the letter from Commandant Smuts recently intercepted shows that the so-called British barbarities are sometimes regarded as ...
Article : 132 wordsThe return of the R.M.S. Ophir to Australian waters recalls her last visit when she came here as a Royal yacht conveying the Duke and the D[?]chess of Cornwall and York, who were then on their ...
Article : 1,014 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that the British Government is withdrawing the garrison from Wei-hai-wei, retaining the civil administration. The German sphere of influence ...
Article : 135 wordsThe men of the Army Medical Corps unit turned out in Working rig—dungarees and white cricketing [?]ats-for Major-General Hutton's inspection, and it was after 1 p.m. before he was ready to see them. ...
Article : 369 wordsThe raids on Commandant de Wet's numerous stores of grain are proving a worse blow to him than the blockhouses, as the absence of food prevents prolonged concentration of his ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Government of Canada will give 5000 dollars (£1000) annually towards defraying the cost of Ontario manufacturers' sample rooms in London. ...
Article : 27 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Sir H. S. Rawlinson has captured 30 of the commando of General Botha. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Denka tribe looted a British convoy with rubber south of Khartoum and killed Lieutenant J. Scott[?]Barbour, of the Highland Light Infantry, during the raid. ...
Article : 66 wordsSeventy Europeans recently joined General Louis Botha. They travelled through Zululand to his headquarters, and brought with them a new heliograph. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Y.M.C.A. tentwork among the troops has been continued every night this week, the Rev. R. B. S. Hammond delivering a special lecture to men last evening under the auspices of the White Cross ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," states that recently Lord Methuen, marching on a dark night and being indifferently led, moved in ...
Article : 40 wordsA Macedonian assassinated M. Kautcheff, the Bulgarian Minister of Public Instruction, and then committed suicide. Feb. 7. ...
Article : 39 wordsAbout 400 candidates presented themselves for enrolment in the Eighth Contingent this morning, though only 40, the Adelaide quota, were required. The majority of them were men of excellent physique, ...
Article : 46 wordsMembers of the Senate, forming with a few members of the House of Representatives and officials, a party of about 50, will commence a tour of inspection of suggested sites for the Federal capital on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsThe State Government having placed its yacht Victoria at the service of the officers and men of the Eighth New Zealand Contingent, who arrived on Thursday by the transport Surrey, en route to South ...
Article : 344 wordsDamad Mahmud Pasha, a son-in-law of the Sultan, has been sentenced to death in default of appearing at Constantinople. Damad Mahmud Pasha was, on the demand of the ...
Article : 61 wordsPrivate W. C. Jackson, of the 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 29 wordsYesterday afternoon a small fire occurred on property owned by Mr. G. Foley, Carrington-road[?] Waverley. About three acres of grass were destroyed, together with some 50 yards of a paling ...
Article : 40 wordsThe bush fire which started on Mr. G. W. Cotgrave's Dunheved run on Wednesday morning is said to have been caused by some boys. The fire, though noticed, was foolishly allowed to go its own ...
Article : 829 wordsSome time ago Major the Hon. R[?]pert Carrington, brother of Lord Carrington, and son-in-law of Mr. R. F. Horsfall, Widgera station, sent an intimation to Mr. Horsfall that he desired to strengthen the ...
Article : 241 wordsThirty lakhs of rupees (£200,000) have been promised by the people of India towards the Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Times" says that the movement for a preferential tariff within the British Empire has apparently contributed to quicken the German perception of the unwisdom of ...
Article : 76 wordsThe warden, Mr. Wilkinson, delivered to-day judgment in the Y[?]mble dredging application. He found that the landholders on the banks of the rivers owned the land up to the centre of the stream, ...
Article : 107 wordsYesterday the sub-committee of the board of directors of the Australian Natives' Association decided that for the patriotic demonstration which is to be held on Monday evening at the Town Hall the ...
Article : 224 wordsThe four companies were formed up in a hollow square, officers taking post, and addressed by Major-General Hutton as follows:— "Colonel Lyster and First Battalion of the ...
Article : 500 wordsIt is stated that the proposal to charge the British Government 3 per cent. in connection with the Imperial Contingents raised for service in South Africa was first brought under the notice of the South ...
Article : 203 wordsThe polling for the election of a representative for East Down in the House of Commons, in the place of Dr. J. A. Rentoul, who has been appointed a Judge of the City of ...
Article : 105 wordsA public meeting will be held in the Town Hall at [?] p.m. on Thursday to urge upon the Federal Parliament the necessity of bringing the federal site question to a definite issue. The meeting is the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 wordsA meeting of residents will be held to-morrow to [?]rrange for the reception of Senators when visiting [?]range in connection with the selection of the federal [?]apital site. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 8 Feb 1902, Page 9
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