The intrinsic value of the America Cup is £100. Yet to win it Englishmen have during the past 50 years spent hundreds of thousands of pounds. To retain it the Americans have spent a like amount. ...
Article : 5,577 wordsLord Kitchener reports that British reinforcements have worked into Natal and that the raiders in that colony are retiring to the east and the north-east. ...
Article : 69 wordsAt the auction sales of Australasian tallow held to-day, 1750 casks were offered, and 1450 casks were sold. Prices realised were as follows:—Fine mutton, 32s 9d; medium ...
Article : 50 wordsTo-day's sitting of the Senate was somewhat more subdued in its character than usual. This was due to the attractions of the other House where an interesting debate on the Immigration Restriction Bill ...
Article : 268 wordsThe Minister for Works has come to the conclusion that the time is opportune to set the usual official movement towards the city railway extension again in progress. He has ...
Article : 2,697 wordsLord Kitchener has telegraphed to the War Office as follows:—"Since my last of a week ago, columns report 9 Boers killed, 16 wounded, 350 captured, 48 surrenders, ...
Article : 53 wordsOn Tuesday evening the State Premier (Mr. See) forwarded the following telegram to the Commonwealth Premier (Mr. Barton):— "I strongly urge that the passing of the Property ...
Article : 578 wordsThe following local promotions in the 3rd Regiment New South Wales Mounted Riflies, Imperial Draft Contingent on active service in South Africa, have been published in a general order. The exact ...
Article : 132 wordsBur silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2?d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 15 wordsNatives report that the Boers who were in the vicinity of Utrecht are retiring. Lieutenant Rundle with a patrol of a volunteer composite regiment has driven the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Legislative Assembly continued its sitting after the first edition of the "Herald" went to press. The PREMIER moved the second reading of the ...
Article : 298 wordsThe gratuity of two months' pay, granted to the first three Victorian contingents who served in South Africa, will not be granted to the fourth and fifth contingents (Imperial). To make this concession ...
Article : 97 wordsCommandants Myburg and Fouche are near Lady Grey, in the north-east of Cape Colony. Colonel Gorringe, Colonol Haig, and Lieutenant-Colonol Doran are in pursuit. ...
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Article : 43 wordsThe incidents connected with the German Emperor's visit to Wysztzten have caused a sensation in France. A cablegram published yesterday stated:—"The ...
Article : 95 wordsThe country to the west of the railway to Bloemfontein is clear of the enemy, and the columns which were operating in those districts have crossed to the eastwards, and have ...
Article : 55 wordsThe trial of Czolgosz on a charge of murdering President M'Kinley was continued at Buffalo yesterday. The accused throughout the trial maintained ...
Article : 247 wordsThe State Premier, when seen last night, said that he regretted that the Legislative Council had, by 26 votes to 21, thrown out the Women's Franchise Bill on the third reading. The will of the people, as ...
Article : 303 wordsReuter's correspondent says that Lieutenant-Colonel Thorneycroft, operating in the southern portion of the Orange River Colony, recaptured one of the 15-pounders taken at ...
Article : 65 wordsDuring the Netherlands military manœuvres, in the province of Limburg, a motor car overturned and its occupants, foreign military attaches, were injured. ...
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Article : 107 wordsThe casualties of the engagement which Lovatt's Scouts had with Commandant Kruitzinger in the south-east of the Orange River Colony, and in which Colonel the Hon. Andrew ...
Article : 73 wordsAs soon as the Legislative Council met yesterday the Vice-President of the Executive Council gave notice of his intention to move this afternoon the suspension of so much of the Standing Orders as would ...
Article : 873 wordsIn giving evidence to-day before the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the working of the factories and Shops Act Mr. Allan Tye, managing director of Tye and Company Proprietary, Limited, ...
Article : 178 wordsThe bulk shipment of wheat from Sydney by the steamer Persic carried excellently. There were no signs of it shifting. The Persic shipped in Sydney 1200 tons of bulk ...
Article : 58 wordsThe following additional missing in Major Gough's engagement at Blood River Poort are announced:—33 men of the 69th Battery of Field Artillery and three other men. ...
Article : 57 wordsMiss Emma Goldman, whose lectures inflamed the mind of Czolgosz, and who was arrested at Chicago on a charge in connection with the crime of Czolgosz, has been ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the wool sales to-day competition was well maintained. Prices were unchanged. Sept. 25. At the wool sales yesterday the following ...
Article : 50 wordsLord Kitchener reports that a line of block-houses from Potchefstroom in the Southern Transvaal, meets another line of blockhouses from Koppies station on the railway in the ...
Article : 181 wordsMr. W. Spier, manager of the Callide Railway and Coal Company, in the course of an interiew at Rockhampton yesterday, stated that he had been approached by a large British coal shipping firm with a view to ...
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Article : 20 wordsGeneral the Duke of Connaught has been appointed to the command of the Third Army Corps district, whose headquarters are at Curragh, Ireland. ...
Article : 37 wordsFive thousand persons have applied to become students at the Universities in Scotland under Mr. Carnegie's benefactions. Sept. 25. ...
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Article : 106 wordsThe Germans claiming railway property at Tongku placed guards on the boundary. The British objected, also placed guards, and referred the dispute to Major-General Creagh ...
Article : 32 wordsThe secretary of the Marine Board received the following telegram from Mr. A. Cole, harbour master at Port Lincoln:—"Tho William Scruby, from Stilsby Island, reports that the ship Acamas, in ...
Article : 124 wordsAdvices from Brussels state that the funds of Mr. Kruger are almost exhansted in paying numerous refugees who are in the service of the so-called Boer Government, also in ...
Article : 80 wordsNone of the replies to the advertisements by the Government for a South African steamer service are satisfactory, the trouble being that there are no return cargoes from South Africa to New Zealand. ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Mikado, in accepting the apology of the Chinese Emperor, offered through Nat'ung, for the murder of M. Sugiyuma, the Chancellor of the Japanese legation in Peking ...
Article : 87 wordsA return was laid on the table of the House of Representatives this afternoon showing the number of the coloured population of Queensland as computed by the census of 1891 and 1901 respectively. ...
Article : 322 wordsThe R M.S. Arcadia arrived from London at 5 o'clock this morning, with the following passengers in the saloon:— For Fremantle: Mr. and Mrs. and Misses Hassell, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 26 Sep 1901, Page 7
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