As may be naturally imagined, the operation of the federal tariff has largely increased the work at the Custom-house. The institution of ad valorem duties has necessitated the organisation of what may be ...
Article : 261 wordsAt the invitation of the Mayor of Melbourne about 250 of the most prominent residents of Melbourne attended at the Town Hall to-day for the purpose of receiving General Sir Hector Macdonald. A crowd ...
Article : 184 wordsGeneral Botha has sent a force to escort his waggons eastward. Oct. 14. General Botha retreated through most ...
Article : 321 wordsAn Imperial edict by the Chinese Emperor enjoins officials to strenuously enforce the currying out of the Western reforms recommended by Liu-kun-yi and Chang Chi-tung, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe leaders on either side have employed themselves to-day in active preparation for the fight to commence to-morrow. The Cabinet met this morning and planned out the defence. Mr. Barton spent ...
Article : 1,747 wordsThe loss of the torpedo-boat destroyer Viper was followed by the loss of a sister boat, the Cobra, and now our cablegrams inform us of the partial breakdown of three more boats of ...
Article : 2,657 wordsAt a meeting of prominent citizens to-day a committee was formed to arrange a public meeting on Monday next to protest against the Kanaka Bill. In connection with his declaration to use " every ...
Article : 222 wordsPrince Ching has forwarded to the representatives of the Powers at Peking a bond for 450,000,000 taels (£67,500,000), which is the amount of the indemnity agreed upon in the ...
Article : 40 wordsA telegram received last night from Flinders reports that three foreign flshermen, named M. Sardella, A. Engestrom, and F. Didenna, who went out on Friday in a half-decked boat, had not since been ...
Article : 169 wordsAddressing the gathering which entertained Mr. B. Hall at Riverstone on Saturday night, the Minister for Works said that he was sure that when the federation had been working for a couple of years ...
Article : 98 wordsChinese troops at Canton are watching for the arrival from London of a vessel loaded with dynamite, arms, and ammunition, which, it is alleged, is consigned to the Reformers. The ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is understood that the financial position of New Guinea owing to the failures of the States or the Coramonwealth to come to an agreement is in an unsatisfactory condition since the British Government ...
Article : 107 wordsThe new Chinese tariff comes into operation on November 11. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe opening sale of the Melbourne wool season will be held on Wednesday by Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Lunited, when they will offer an attractive and representative catalogue of about 3000 bales. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Bevan, of the Independent Church, Melbourne, delivered an interesting lecture under the auspices of the Newcastle Congregational Church at the Masonic Hall to-night on the subject of ...
Article : 699 wordsRussia has not yet replied to the request of the Sultan, made through M. Zinovieff, that Count Lamsdorf, the Russian Foreign Minister, should mediate with France on the claim ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 586 wordsDetachments of Western Australian, New Zealand, and Queensland troops, belonging to the command of Major-General F. W. Kitchener, operating against General Botha, have ...
Article : 42 wordsThe hearing of a petition by Mr. John Linnett against the return of Mr. Henry Turner as a member of the Assembly for Rockhampton North was concluded to-day. When the case was last before the ...
Article : 402 wordsA Turkish officer has been arrested at Tunis on a charge of swindling. The French press asserts that the Porte sent the officer to raise the Arabs of Southern ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Natal volunteers, who were called out on the recent irruption of the Boers into Natal, have been relieved of duty, and have received the thanks of Lord Kitchener. ...
Article : 34 wordsM. Zinovieff, the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, during an audience with the Sultan complained of the persecution of Armenians at Sandjak and at Mush, in Asia ...
Article : 80 wordsCommandants Kruitzinger and Ackerman and others are trying to cross the Orange River southwards. The river is swollen. [On October 6 it was cabled that Kruitzinger's ...
Article : 57 wordsCommandant Scheeper, shortly before his capture, took prisoners two British coloured scouts. He forced them to draw lots, and he shot the scout which drew the shorter straw. ...
Article : 104 wordsTribal chiefs are journeying to Cabul to pay homage to the Ameer. ...
Article : 21 wordsDr. Grattan Guinness, who is conducting a mission in connection with the Y.M.C.A., was welcomed at luncheon to-day by the members of the Y.M C.A. board and the ministers of the city and suburban ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Constantinople correspondent of the " Times " reports that the Sultan is convinced that Great Britain will not occupy Koweyt, on the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf, nor ...
Article : 100 wordsTwo farmers, who were convicted of having twice joined the enemy, have been hanged at Vryburg (Bechuanaland). In the case of another farmer the sentence of death was ...
Article : 96 wordsA meeting of master coachbuilders and wheolwrights was held in the Queen's Hall last night to consider matters affecting their trade in connection with the Commonwealth tariff. Mr. T. J. Hoskins, ...
Article : 1,109 wordsThe steamer Airlie, from Hongkong, arrived yesterday, and sailed to-day for southern ports, her passengers being Mrs. Martin and two children, Misses Heaslip (2), and Mr. Brown. The Airlie's ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Rosetta Maru, from Japan and Hongkong. via ports, arrived at Moreton Bay yesterday evening, and came up to Pinkenba this morning. The voyage was uneventful, and the weather was delightfully ...
Article : 121 wordsMiss Stone, who was captured by brigands in Macedonia, is now detained on the TurcoBulgarian frontier, at Dutnitza. The pursuit of the brigands by the ...
Article : 80 wordsA farmer at Worcester (South-western Cape Colony) has been fined £100 for storing above a week's supply of food. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeneral Sir Robert Cunliffe, Low, G.C.B., Commandaut of the Bombay forces, is at present in Sydney on a holiday visit. He left Bombay on August 14 on 90 days' leave, and enroute to Sydney did some ...
Article : 403 wordsPrivate A. Murray (Fifth Victorian Mounted Infantry) has been accidentally severely wounded in the head at Vryheid. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York have visited the Niagara F[?]lls. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe steamer Miowera from Vancouver was sighted at Cape Moreton early this morning, and berthed at Pinkenba at 9 o'clock. She was expected on Saturday, but the delay is partly accounted for by the late ...
Article : 340 wordsCaptain F. Reid and Lieutenant J. Hawkins (Sixth Western Australian Mounted Infantry), Lieutenant N. Smith and Lieutenant J. H. Patterson (Fifth Victorian Mounted ...
Article : 59 wordsThe German Emperor has conferred upon Professer Vir[?]how, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Great Gold Medal of Science. The Emperor, in doing so, eulo. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Premier has received the following telegram from Capetown:—" Condition of Lieutenant Sweetland, October 9: Out of danger." ...
Article : 25 wordsA lively and lengthy debate is expected to take place on the proposed mail service lesolutions. Messrs. Sprecke[?]s and Co. have cabled stating they would not accept the Government proposals. There is ...
Article : 254 wordsCount Vaulx has started on a voyage in a balloon across the Mediterranean from Toulon to Algiers. He expected to be four days on the voyage. Count Vaulx's balloon ...
Article : 44 wordsA poll for the election of an alderman to fill an extraordinary vacaney in Phillip Ward, city, was taken yesterday. There were two candidates, Messrs. R. D Meagher, M.L.A., and John Blake. The ...
Article : 153 wordsA meeting of the East Greta branch of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held this afternoon at the Oddfellows' Hall, West Maitland, to receive the following reply to the request made by the ...
Article : 181 wordsSir Thomas Lipton has challenged the New York Yacht Club for the America Cup with his yacht Shamrock If. for 1903 if there is no other challenger. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsPORT ADELAIDE.—Arrival; October 14, Jupiter, barque, from Table Bay. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 15 Oct 1901, Page 5
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