The confusion which has hitherto existed at the Custom-house showed no diminution yesterday. There was no improvement in the accommodation for those who had to do business in what is known ...
Article : 308 wordsThe King and the Queen arrived to-day in London from Balmoral. ...
Article : 18 wordsSir Thomas Lipton has ordered Sir. Watson and Mr. W. Eife, jun., to design a yacht to be challenger for the America Cup in 1902. [Mr. W. Fife, jun., designed Shamrock I., and ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral Botha's commandos have been driven back towards Ermelo, 60 miles north of Volksrust, the northernmost Natal station. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe exile of Prince Tuan militates against the prospects of his son, Pu-chun, who was some months ago nominated heir to the Throne. Pu-chun is represented as being ...
Article : 127 wordsIt is announced that France refrains from coercion in her last dispute with Turkey regarding the claim of M. Lorando, a French banker, on the Porte. ...
Article : 103 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the debate on Mr. Reid's motion of censure was resumed by Mr. Cameron (Tas.). He said that Tasmania was willing to take the risks of federal partnership, and did not ...
Article : 907 wordsThe Boers are smuggling cannon and ammunition through Portuguese toritory. General Botha declares that it is indispensable that the Boers should have these arms in ...
Article : 44 wordsA sensation was created in the western end of the city this afternoon by a man who, armed with a rifle, pretended to stick up a Merewether tram. It appears that two boys, one of whom was carrying a ...
Article : 488 wordsFiles to hand by the mail steamer Sierra contain full accounts of the first completed race for the America Cup, while the description of the following race which was unfinished at the call of time is also ...
Article : 1,713 wordsLocal commandos disperse the moment British columns come into contact with them. The efforts of the Boers to break away south of Calvinia, in Western Cape Colony, ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Johannesburg correspondent of the "Cologue Gazette" commends the British civil administration in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal. He also ...
Article : 52 wordsCommandant Scheeper, who was recently captured, and other Boer leaders, have been banished from South Africa for life. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe projected Manchurian agreement between China and Russia is incensing Japan. Oct. 22. The Shanghai correspondent of the ...
Article : 110 wordsA number of Boers in khaki captured one of the patrols of Lieutenant-Colonel Pilcher near Smithfield, in the south-east of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 32 wordsGermany is offering Turkey a loan of £3,000,000, and is asking for the completion of the Bagdad railway and other monopolies. In 1899 there was a revival of the idea to connect ...
Article : 462 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Prince Alfred Hospital, held on Monday, a discussion took place as to the probable effects of the proposed federal place on the finances of the hospital, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe death sentence which was passed upon Botha, one of the rebels who was captured with Commandant Lotter, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 33 wordsContradictory reports have been received at Natal regarding Commandant de Wet. Boer prisoners persist in stating that he has died from wounds. ...
Article : 28 wordsOn account of the abolition of the border duties Brecht Brothers, local vignerons, yesterday for the first time sent several consignments of wine to Queensland. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Copeland, the Agent-General for New South Wales, will present to Major-General Baden-Powell in November, at the Imperial Institute, the sword of honour from New ...
Article : 46 wordsMany additional Boer prisoners at Ceylon are volunteering for the British army outside South Africa. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe hotelkeepers have formed a branch of the Licensed Victuallers' Association. An increase of hotel charges is talked of, but nothing definite has been arrived at yet. Storekeepers are adding the ...
Article : 52 wordsConstabulary posts between the railway of the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal-Natal railway stretch from Wilge River, near the former, to Greylingstad, on the latter, ...
Article : 78 wordsJudge O'Connor Morris, a County Court Judge of Ireland, after awarding a grazier compensation for the malicious destruction of a building, received a threatening letter in ...
Article : 57 wordsThere are 1000 deaths daily from plague in Foochow and other districts in Southern China. ...
Article : 21 wordsFreetraders are organising throughout the Hume to resist the tariff and oppose the Home Secretary. ...
Article : 22 wordsA meeting of the clothing manufacturers was held yesterday afternoon to deal with the recommendations as to the ruling prices made at the conference of employers and employees held on the previous ...
Article : 563 wordsIt was intimated this afternoon that in the case of an invoice of Ceylon tea the payment of duty would be required on the wood forming the chests and lead linings. In this case the cost of packing was not ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Ameer of Afghanistan, as an act of clemency to mark his accession to the throne, has released a number of prisoners, selected for the purpose throughout the country. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Cnnadian Department of Agriculture is shipping 500,000 bushels of outs to South Africa. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. P. A. M'Hugh, M.P., the proprietor of a Sligo paper, who was sentenced at Dublin on April 22 last to six months' imprisonment on a charge of seditious libel in alleging ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. Reid has received the following telegrams from Western Australia:—"A public meeting held in Perth on October 21, the Mayor presiding, passed the following resolution: "That this public meeting of ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. Joseph Walton, K.C., has been appointed a Justice of the King's Bench Division in succession to Mr. Justice Mathew, now a Lord Justice of Appeal. ...
Article : 34 wordsLord Kitchener telegraphs to the war Office as follows:—"Since my last of a week ago columns report 25 Boers killed, 18 wounded, 190 captured, and 50 surrenders, ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the instance of Lady Francis Cecil the Court of Chancery issued an injunction forbidding her son, Mr. Richard Cecil, marrying Miss Jessie Bain, a daughter of Mr. Bain, a ...
Article : 244 wordsM. Waldeck-Rousseau, the Prime Minister of France, has taken steps to prevent the interruption of coal imports in the event of a strike among the miners occurring. ...
Article : 35 wordsA correspondent sends us a suggestion which originated with Colonel Lassetter, now at the front. It is that if persons who expect to receive replies from numbers of regiments now fighting in South ...
Article : 145 wordsBurglars dug a tunnel into a post-office at Chicago, and from it stole coin and stamps to the value of 76,000dol. (£15,200). ...
Article : 32 wordsThe report of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank show's a total profit of £103,392. The reserves stand at £15,000. A dividend of 3½ per cent. is recommended, and ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Seddon told the House of Representatives that the Government was not in a position at present to state what steps it was proposed to take in regard to the Commonwealth tariff. ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is reported that the teller and the bookkeeper of the Merchants' National Bank, Lowell, Massachusetts (U.S.A.), have absconded with 115,000dol. (£23,000). ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Premier is in receipt of the following telegram from Capetown:— "Referring to your telegram of October 14, Lieutenant Clive Innes, of the Scottish Horse, is with ...
Article : 158 wordsThere have been no new developments in the political situation. Rumours are current in the lobbies that desertions are expected from the Ministerial ranks, and that the division will be closer than was ...
Article : 379 wordsA large and representative citizens' meeting was held to-night for the purpose of discussing the federal tariff proposals. The following resolution was adopted:—"That this meeting, representing the ...
Article : 277 wordsMr. Whitaker Wright proposes a combine to reconstruct the London and Globe Finance Corporation and the British America Standard Exploration Company, with a capital of ...
Article : 36 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day 1.16d lower at 2s 2½d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 18 wordsA mass meeting of the Tailoresses' Union was held at the Protestant Hall last night to consider the recommendations of the conference which was held between the employers and representatives of the ...
Article : 560 wordsThe election for the seat in the Legislative Council rendered vacant by the death of the Hon. C. H. Grant resulted in the return of Mr. W. G. Gibson, who polled 431. Other candidates were Mr. A. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Defence Department was advised to-day by cable that the Suevic left Capetown on October 12, with 23 men of various corps for Sydney seven for Melbourne, four for Adelaide, three for Brisbane, ...
Article : 44 wordsAt a meeting of directors and secretaries of mining companies held in Brisbane to-day for the purpose of discussing the bill to amend the law relating to mining companies, at present before the Assembly, it ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Premier has received the following cabkegram from Colonel Porter, commanding the Seventh New Zealand Contingent:—"We engaged Botha's force on the 6th instant. The battle lasted eight ...
Article : 166 wordsA rabid outbreak of Anglophobia has taken place on the Continent, the German and Austrian newspapers making violont denunciations of what they term Mr. Chamberlain's ...
Article : 39 wordsA cable from Wellington (New Zealand), timed at 5 p.m. yesterday, said, "No sign of the Monowai." Speaking with Mr. Bussell, the Government Astronomer, last night, as to the state of the weather ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 391 wordsSir,—The question of the tariff at this moment naturally excites a deal of attention, and it is a noticeable fact that the cries raised against the tariff in so far as the above industry is concerned come ...
Article : 300 wordsNine thousand persons in Berlin, including former officers of the army, have appealed to the public to assist in an anti-duelling campaign. ...
Article : 29 wordsA meeting of the citizens of Brisbabe was held to-night in the Centennial Hall, which was crowded, to protest against hasty legislation by the Federal Government on the question of Pacific Island labour. ...
Article : 481 wordsThe report of the Wine and Produce Depot Royal Commission was laid before the Assembly to-day. Amongst the recommendations are the following:— That as there is a not deficiency of £26,051, and the ...
Article : 404 wordsTwo thousand Armenians at Mush have signed a petition asking to be allowed to enter the orthodox Church in order to secure Russian protection. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Freedom of the City of Liverpool has been presented to Mr. Benn Wolfe Levy, a Sydneyite, and founder of the David Lewis Trust. ...
Article : 46 wordsSir,—In to-day's "Herald" Mr. Staple argues that the trader who takes advantage of the tariff to make more of his stock in hand deliberately robs the public. If this be true, then all stock-jobbers, all ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Cape-Australia cable was successfully completed to Perth, Western Australia, on the 19th instant, and will be officially opened on 1st proximo when large reductions ...
Article : 173 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day John Bennett, aged 30, charged with wounding Margaret Conway on October 5, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, was found guilty of unlawful assault. Bennett made ...
Article : 203 wordsSir Archibald Levin Smith, who recently resigned the position of Master of the Rolls, is dead. Sir Archibald Levin Smith was born in 1836. He ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 23 Oct 1901, Page 7
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