Two Parliamentary parties left Sydney for the opening of the Inverell railway last week. On Friday the Minister for Works (Mr. O'sullivan), with Messrs. Hollis, Scobie, Estell, D. O'Connor, ...
Article : 618 wordsThe "Times" reports that Colonel Sir E. T. H. Hutton, K.C.M.G., C.B., A.D.C. to the King, has accepted the position of Commandant of the defence forces of Australia. ...
Article : 98 wordsA strong commando surrounded and captured the Railway Pioneers at Villiersdorp after a desperate resistance. The horses of the Railway Pioneers were stampeded by the ...
Article : 236 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day 1/8d lower at 2s 1[?]d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe cost of the federal central administration having given rise to some comment among member of Parliament, the following figures have been supplied by the Government:—Department of External ...
Article : 830 wordsThe completion of the Moree to Inverell railway, opened yesterday with some ceremony by the Minister for Public Works, is not only oE significance locally but as part of a decided ...
Article : 2,127 wordsA remarkable shooting case which presents exciting fea tures occurred at Balmain soon after midnight The victim was a young man named James D. Grant, described as a bank clerk. He now lies ...
Article : 554 wordsWith regard to the cablegram from Major the Hon. Rupert Carington requesting the raising of 150 men for service with the Third Bushmen's Contingent, a prominent officer in Sydney intends calling a meeting ...
Article : 92 wordsIn securing Major-General Sir Edward T. H. Hutton, K.C.M.G., C.B., as the first commanding officer of the Australian military forces, the Commonwealth gets the services of soldier who is ...
Article : 1,359 wordsThe Governor-General has received the subjoined despatch from the General of Communications, Capetown:—"The Wileannia left Capetown on November 14. The steamer has on board six ...
Article : 268 wordsSir J. Gordon Sprigg, the Premier of Cape Colony, has undertaken to detend certain districts of Cape Colony. A commencement will be made with the coast and the eastern ...
Article : 64 wordsThe relief committee of the Society of Friends in Sydney, whose object is to send comforts to women and children who they believe are suffering in South Africa through the war, appeal to the ladies of ...
Article : 90 wordsM. van Lynden, in the course of his speech at the Hague, stated that a Dutch Red Cross Ambulance had been arrested by the British authorities in South Africa, owing to the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Egyptian Budget is the best that has ever been presented, and shows increasing prosperity. ...
Article : 24 wordsBrigadier-General Gordon made the following statement this morning suggesting the sending of another Australian contingent to South Africa:— "I did not suggest that 1000 men should be raised ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 439 words[?]50 attended the banquet at the showground here. The sports were proceeding, and they were attended by about 6000. Alderman Bloore, the Mayor, presided at the banquet. In proposing the toast of ...
Article : 2,018 wordsM. Melvill van Lynden, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs, speaking at the Hague, said that Great Britain had not confiscated the Netherlands Railway of the Transvual. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Chamberlain has assured personal friends that he would quit public life instantly if he believed that this action would terminate honourably the war in South Africa. ...
Article : 134 wordsTwo British colonial officers accompany the ex-burgher corps. One acts as intermediary between the burgher who commands the corps and the commanders of the British ...
Article : 52 wordsSome time ago the executive committee and trustees of the Tasmanian Contingent Fund decided to distribute the moneys at its credit on the basis of the official list of casualties supplied by the Defence ...
Article : 95 wordsThe sailing vessel Ocean has put into the Tyne badly damaged. She reports that she encountered ten days of gales in the North Sen. Eight of her men were washed overbourd ...
Article : 52 wordsTrooper E. R. Boyd, late of Tumut, died from wounds inflicted in an engagement at Reitfontein recently. A few months ago Trooper Boyd returned here on a visit to friends, and was publicly ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Johannesburg conspiracy shows that persons were intriguing against the British and communicating with the enemy. Documents showing the working of the organisation have ...
Article : 33 wordsEarly in the present month the police charged a young widow woman named Harriet Harris with concealment of birth. On being questioned she made a statement to the effect that she threw the ...
Article : 629 wordsForty more of Ackerman's commando have been captured. Seven Boers, including Field-cornet S. Botha, were captured in the Amsterdam ...
Article : 41 wordsA stormy debate arose in the Greek Chamber of Deputies following on the recent riots in Athens. A member of the Opposition called M. Theotokis, the Premier, an assassin. ...
Article : 193 wordsA Dutch river expedition in Sumatra operating against the chief Sebukoel has been defeated by the chief, who captured the river flotilla of transports. Eight men of the ...
Article : 40 wordsA labourer named John Kelly, 32, residing at Hampden street, Paddington, was crossing the tramline Bridge-street yesterday when he was knocked down by a steam motor. Kellv was removed by ...
Article : 66 wordsTwelve field-cornets have been banished from South Africa. Wernec, a surrenderer, was executed for recommending surrendered to rejoin a ...
Article : 86 wordsThe German Antarctic exploring vessel Gauss, which was six weeks overdue, has arrived at Capetown. It was cabled last week that the non-arrival of ...
Article : 49 wordsWhile working on a building at Ocean-street yesterday, a painter named John Butler, 32, fell from a scaffold. He was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he was admitted suffering from shock ...
Article : 46 wordsThe City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) conducted an inquest at the Lloyd Hotel yesterday respecting the death of two children named Michael James Fahey, [?] years, and John Henry Sparkes, 5 years, who ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the Manchester November Meeting yesterday the race the leading event on the card resulted as under:— MANCHESTER NOVEMBER HANDICAP of ...
Article : 510 wordsThe "Statist " heads an appeal for funds for a Volunteer Mounted Corps to serve in South Africa with 1000 guineas. ...
Article : 27 wordsThree small fires were reported withing the city and suburbs yesterday afternoon and last night During the afternoon an outbreak was discoverer, on the roof of a house occupied by Mrs. Awesweaver, ...
Article : 237 wordsThe officers of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka report that they saw 700 icebergs when in the vicinity of Cape Horn. One iceberg was 4 miles long. ...
Article : 36 wordsMajor-General Baden-Powell, for health reasons, will remain in England until after Christmas. ...
Article : 17 wordsEarl Roberts, Commander-in-Chief, has assured tho mounted infantry at Aldershot that the Lee-Enfield rifle is an equal if not a supenor weapon to the M[?]ser. ...
Article : 37 wordsReuter's correspondent in a exhaustive review of the situation in South Africa states that solid progress is being made in restricting the enemy's area by the extension ...
Article : 40 words"When at a late hour last evening the Right Hon. G. H. Reid was informed that General Sir Edward T. H. Hutton had accepted the position of Federal Commandant his reply was couched in the following ...
Article : 305 wordsThe stewards of Henley Regatta have decided by a large majority that colonials and foreigners are eligible to compete at the regatta. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Bl[?]loch, the correspondent of the "Morning Post" in a deseription of the military farms shows that they are being worked at a profit. The area now under ...
Article : 39 wordsIn connection with the tariff, Mr. N. Wood, draper of this town, received a parcel of goods from Ireland to-day, the value of which was £4, and on which he was compelled to pay no less a sum than ...
Article : 49 wordsIn connection with the reported finding of news from the missing schooner Toogoloo by a resident of the Manning River district, the owners, Messrs. and T. Miles, residing here, in whose possission the ...
Article : 277 wordsDr. F. E. T. Krause is still confined in Holloway Gaol, as so far he has been unable to find bail. [In order to avoid the necessity of extraditing Dr. ...
Article : 110 wordsViscount Northland has been appointed an aide-de-camp to the Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. ...
Article : 54 wordsSydney Cricket Ground: England v. New South Wales, [?]oon. Simultancous Mission: Sydney and Suburbs. Rosebery Park Rac[?]: First event 2.30 p.m. ...
Article : 130 wordsWriting to a friend in Sydney under date October 20 from Capetown, Lieutenant Harold L. Lofts (1st Rogiment), and late of the China Naval Contingent, who left for South Africa towards the end of ...
Article : 234 wordsGabo, s., 2000 tons, Caption L. Leslic, from Melbourne. Passengers—Mrs. Barnett, Miss Hendry, Miss Sullivan, Miss M. Levy, Mr. J. Hngarthy, Mr. D. Smith, Mr. Burnett, Mr. E. J. Hill, Mr. J. D. Benson, Mr. J. N. Stephens, and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 26 Nov 1901, Page 5
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