Lieutenant-General French, who commands in Cape Colony, has 34,000 men. It is considered that the number is insufficient to expel marauders from Cape Colony, since out of the ...
Article : 68 wordsParticulars of the engagement fought at Eland's River Poort, west of Tarkastad, where the Boers rushed a squadron of the 17th Lancers, under Major V. S. Sandeman, ...
Article : 238 wordsThe "Globe" says that the torpedo-boat destroyer Cobra sank in seven fathoms of water, and that there was no rock in her vicinity. ...
Article : 64 wordsKing Edward and Queen Alexandra have left Elsinore, Denmark, and are proceeding to England on the Royal yacht Osborne. They are voyaging via Kiel. ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Barton hopes to be in a position to make a statement in the House of Representatives to-morrow legarding the introduction of the Pacific Island Labourers Bill and the Tariff Bill. The ...
Article : 584 wordsThe City Council is scarcely to be congratulated on its attempt to deal with the state of things which has arisen, largely if not wholly in consequence of municipal ...
Article : 3,384 wordsAt the Teachers' Conference to-day Mr. R. Kyfin Thomas (president of the Royal Geographical Society in South Australia) presided at the morning session, and delivered an interesting speech, in which ...
Article : 62 wordsThe funeral of those of the Cobra's victims whose bodies were recovered took place at Grimsby yesterday, and was witnessed by 50,000 people. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York, now in Ottawa, yesterday spent a holiday among the river lumbermen, and had a trip on a raft down the rapids. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe magazine rifles entrusted to the Capetown Town Guards have been recalled, and in the place of those weapons Martini rifles have been issued. ...
Article : 70 wordsTwo men named Hutchison and Graham, who were committed for trial last week on charges of having been unlawfully on the premises of W. P. Weller, in Rundle-street, succeeded in escaping from Adelaide ...
Article : 95 wordsDiplomatists contrast the pacific principles proclaimed by the Czar and President Loubet, in the toasts which were honoured at entertainments during the Czar's visit, with the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe trial of Czolgosz on a charge of murdering President M'Kinley has begun. Czolgosz refuses to speak. Dr. Gaylord stated that the actual eause of ...
Article : 70 wordsThere were 42 questions on the paper of the Legislative Assembly last night, and they dealt with the usual miscellaneous matters of business which are from time to time brought to the notice of the ...
Article : 658 wordsOne thousand Boer prisoners have left Durban for Bombay. ...
Article : 14 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Cricket Association to-night it was reported that during the year the debt had been reduced to £482, besides which extensive improvements had been made and paid for. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe nephew of the late General Joubert. and two other prisoners at Bermuda, with the assistance of local sympathisers, escaped into the bush. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the Legislative Council the Old-age Pension Further Provision Bill was further debated, and the debate was adjourned. A bill providing for the purchase of Eurack Estate was passed through all ...
Article : 402 wordsA telegram has been received at Port Adelaide stating that the ship Acainis is ashore on Tuesday Island, in Spencer's Gulf. The vessel is on sandy bottom, and is in no danger. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe German Emperor himself carried the Czar's gift of 6000 roubles (£500) to the Russian frontier town of Wysztzten, which is on the borders of East Prussia, and which ...
Article : 69 wordsChemical and bacteriological examinations of Czolgosz's revolver did not reveal any trace of poison. [The autopsy showed that every point along the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Legislative Assembly continued its sitting after the first edition of the "Herald" went to press. The Tied-Houses Bill was under discussion, and the question before the House was the acceptance of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsA fire has destroyed the principal business block of eight buildings at Winton, near Invercargill. An old Maori at Napier has been convicted of practising pretended witchcraft and sentenced to one ...
Article : 256 wordsJohann Most has again been arrested for haranguing crowds. [Most was previously arrested for his publication of an inflammatory article in the "Freiheit," and ...
Article : 41 wordsAt their recent meeting the Czar and President Loubet discussed the difficulty between France and the Sultan, also the recent Armenian massacres. ...
Article : 34 wordsA message of condolence with Mrs. M'Kinloy and the people of the United States in connection with the death of President M'Kinley has been forwarded by the Manly Municipal Council. ...
Article : 128 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day Maggie Phillips, residing at Marcus Hill with her parents recovered from a dairyman named Johnston £100 damages for breach of promise of marriage. Mr. Justice Hood ...
Article : 95 wordsA French naval demonstration is expected to take place in Turkish waters. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe railway line at Paardekop was damaged by the enemy, and a number of trucks were derailed. In the derailment six men were killed, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 590 wordsThe distress caused by the floods on the Yangtsze-Kiang is harrowing. Ten million people are homeless. Civil disturbances are feared owing to the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Commercia Pacific Cable Company, with a capital of 100,000dol. (£20,000), has been formed at Albany, United States, to connect by a cable California with Honolulu and ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Appropriation Bill for £350,000 passed all its stages. The Premier's motion providing for the House-sitting on Fridays, making four days a week, was carried after ...
Article : 298 wordsA small outbreak of fire occurred at 5.30 this afternoon in a four-roomed weatherboard building situated in Hannell-street, Wickham, and occupied by Ernest Green as a pickle factory. The premises were closed as usual at 5 ...
Article : 176 wordsSurprise and regret were expressed in many quarters this morning when a telegram appeared in the newspapers announcing that Mr. Miles, of South Melbourne, had declined to assume the duties of the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe raiders in the north-east of Cape Colony are gradually working to the southwards. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Council at the Hague of the International Court of Arbitration has declared that it is incompetent to move in the matter of the Boer appeal. ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Fridham, an officer of the Public Works Department, under instruction from the Minister, renched Albury to-day for the purpose of making investigations with regard to opportunities available for ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Immigration Officers of the United States of America are deporting steerage passengers who are not provided with passports and papers of citizenship. ...
Article : 33 wordsGoschen's Consols are quoted at 93¼ on the London Stock Exchange—a fall of ½. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe city coroner, Mr. G. C. Martin, conducted an inquest at Wallsend to-day on the body of a single man named William Gough, 52 years of ago, lately residing at Teralba, who died in the Wallsend Mining District Hospital last ...
Article : 70 wordsA steamer with 180 tourists on board has returned to Marseilles. Two of the crew are suffering from the plague. The steamer has been quarantined. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe State Minister for Works (Mr. O'Sullivan) is in receipt of a report from Mr. L. A. B. Wade (principal engineer of water supply) upon the Yanko Creek and Murrumbidgee River. The ...
Article : 554 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "Daily News" states that General Botha and Commandant do Wet are confident the Dutch colonists in Natal and Cape Colony will rise ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, when the item meteorology, £4739, came on while the Estimates were being discussed, the Premier said that this vote had hitherto been under the Post and ...
Article : 190 wordsA pleasing function took place at the conclusion of the business of the Executive Council yesterday, when the Premier (Mr. John See) invited the Lieutenant-Governor (Sir Frederick Darley, G. C. M. G.) ...
Article : 343 wordsThe barque Invercauld arrived to-day from Melbourne to load a full cargo of coal from the Seaham Colliery for San Francisco, and the schooner Alice M'Donald arrived from Table Bay to load Duckenfield coal for Honolulu. The ...
Article : 302 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the debate on the budget was resumed. The trend of the criticisms was favourable to the Treasurer's estimates being realised. The House sat until shortly after 10 ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Amalgamated Copper Company of New York has declared a dividend which is disappointing. There has been a great break in the price ...
Article : 43 wordsThe farmers in the Graaf Reinet district (Cape Colony) are irritated at Commandant de Wet and Mr. Steyn's reception of Pastor Murray, and have become loyalists. ...
Article : 76 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly this afternoon eulogistic reference was made to the late Mr. Richarde Speight by the Premier and the leader of the Opposition. ...
Article : 242 wordsThe report of the Bank of Australasia shows that the deposits amount to £13,971,890; cash securities, £5,605,607; bills, £13,793,426. ...
Article : 29 wordsLieutenant J. Freeth, of the Sixth New Zealand Contingent, was slightly wounded at Wepenor, in the Orange River Colony. Private George Styles, of the Seventh New ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. J. Rowen has received a telegram stating that while galloping last week Footbolt struck himself. Although the injury is not serious his trainer has deemed it advisable to throw the horse out of work ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the wool sales to-day biddings were spirited. Prices for merinos showed an upward tendency. Medium and low crossbreds were very firm. ...
Article : 76 wordsNumbers of applicants who obtained "indulgence passages" for South Africa par the steamer Harlech Castle left insufficient addresses with Lieutenant Chaseling, Victoria Barracks, and consequently will ...
Article : 186 wordsYesterday morning Captain Sinclair-MacLagan, who had arrived from South Africa on the previous day by the steamship Sophocles, reported himself for duty to Major-General French. Captain ...
Article : 201 wordsThe senior billiard tournament under the auspices of the Waverley Bowling Club is drawing to a close. The defeat of Mr. W. Carter Smith by Mr. S. O. Irvine leaves Messrs. Irvine Reed, and Begg to ...
Article : 87 wordsLord Hopetoun left Brisbane at 12.30 to-day by special train for Melbourne. He was warmly cheered all along the route from Government House to the railway station, where he was hidden farewell by the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Government has decided to lease Cronbrook, at one time the residence of the late Hon. James White, as the residence for the Governor of the State of New South Wales. Cranbrook is delightfully ...
Article : 326 wordsThe City Council is taking active measures for the suppression of the smoke nuisance in Sydney. There are numerous chimney stacks in all quarters of the city that belch forth dense volumes of coal smoke, ...
Article : 307 wordsAt the Windsor September Meeting on Saturday last the Castle Selling Nursery Handicap was von by Mr. Lionel Robinson's ch. f. Etra-Weenie, by Carnage from Lady Halle. ...
Article : 182 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Meagher asked the Premier if his attention had been directed to a statement apparently made by the Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Commonwealth in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night Mr. O'Sullivan gave the preliminary notice relating to the city railway. He stated that he intended to move that it be referred to the Parliamentary Standing ...
Article : 223 wordsMessrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, managing agents of the Aberdeen line, have received a cable announcing the departure of the steamer Salamis from Cape Town on Monday last, for Australia, with 220 troops ...
Article : 83 wordsAt a meeting of the Tailoressea' Union, held at the Trades Hall last night, it was stated that the union had a paying membership of 800, and it was hoped that at the next meeting the secretary would be able ...
Article : 144 wordsThe following is the nominal roll of officers, noncommissioned officers, and men who returned to the State of Now South Wales by the steamship Sophocles:—Captain T. J. Lynch. C.B.C., ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 25 Sep 1901, Page 7
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