When the report of the proceedings of the House of Representatives in our first edition closed, the committee was considerimg the proposal of the Government to place a duty of 20 per cent, on "Piece ...
Article : 187 wordsCount von Billow, the Imperial Chancellor, in introduciug the Customs Bill into the Reichstag yesterday, said that the now tariff was a fair compromise of the necessities of ...
Article : 67 wordsM. J. B. F. Dubief, the Reporter to the French Foreign Office, in referring to the Anglo-French diplomatic difficulties, complained of Great Britain having forgetten her ...
Article : 133 wordsLieutenant-General French reports that Commandants My burgh and Fouche have suffered heavily and that their forces have scattered. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe working of the Customs regulations was the subject of a question addressed by Mr. Glynn (S.A.) to Mr. Kingston in the House of Representatives this afternoon. Mr. Kingston's reply was suave and ...
Article : 1,254 wordsThere is no subject so refreshing and inviting to a majority of the Assembly as a land bill. To the general public legislation dealing with the public estate is as dry as the ...
Article : 2,057 wordsAmongst the questions of which notice had been given which were put to Ministers in the Legislative Assembly yesterday two at least were fully up to date, and in view of present conditions were full of ...
Article : 1,086 wordsMajor-General Bruce Hamilton, Brigadier-General Plumer, and Brigadier-General Spens are hustling the enemy in the Ermelo district, in the South-eastern Transvaal. ...
Article : 52 wordsTwo editors of the "Vorwarts have been sentenced, the one to six months and the other to seton months imprisonment, for having accused the force of Major-General ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Legislative Assembly continued its sitting after our first edition went to press. The debate on the motion for the second reading of the Western Lands Bill was continued. Mr. Webster and Mr. Burgess ...
Article : 287 wordsLord Kitchener telegraphs as follows to the War Office:—"Since my last a week ago columns report 32 Boers killed, 18 wounded, 256 prisoners, 14 surrenders, together with ...
Article : 45 wordsAt a meeting of the Chamber of Munufactures yesterday the president, Mr. F. T. Derham, referred to the impending removal from the State of Mr. D. Fallshaw, an active and useful member of the ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Imperial Court has postponed the last stage of the journey to Peking on account of the Empress Dowager being in ill-health. ...
Article : 31 wordsBoers are constantly escaping from the concentration camps and are joining commandos, regardless of the oath of neutrality. ...
Article : 26 wordsLocal officials have agreed upon an indemnity of 5,000,000 tales (ubout £700,000) for the missionaries and outraged native Christians who are not included in the general ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Rev. W. G. Knox-Little, Canon of Worcester, in a sermon on Sunday advocated the driving out of the traitors at home and abroad whose language has prolonged ...
Article : 38 wordsA force of Boxers has badly defeated the Chinese Government troops in the north-east of the Chili province. ...
Article : 24 wordsCorporal George Taylor, of the 3rd Regiment of New South Wales Mounted Infantry, died of enteric fever at Middleburg. Private J. Birch, of the Victorian Mounted ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the wool sales to-day there was very good competition for merine wools, the market for which was practically unchanged compared with a week ago. Inferior and course crossbreds, however, remain ...
Article : 337 wordsAn armed Swede named William Miller has been arrested at Philadelphia for declaring that President Roosevelt ought to be shot. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe action brought by the Minister for Trade and Customs against Captain C. Gadd, master of the P. and O. Company's steamer Occana to recover £150 by wasy of penalties under the Federal Customs Act ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsThe Italian Budget shows a surplus of 41,000,000 lire (about £1,640,000). Italian Consols have reached par. Last year the Italian budget showed a deficit of ...
Article : 46 wordsAn association has been formed at St. Petersburg to boycott British products. The membership numbers 600 pearsons. ...
Article : 25 wordsLieutenant Scott, of the 3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen, under Major Carington, with Colonel Williams's column, now on furlough, returned here by the Damascus, and proceeds to-day ...
Article : 198 wordsThe running of trams on Sundays has been started at Edinburgh. Many protests have been made by the Churches. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe gold export, including the Mint returns, for November was 174,481oz., against 146,636oz. for November last year. The export for the 11 months of this year was 1,704,591oz., which is larger than ...
Article : 150 wordsThe official returns show that the smallpox patients at London have, during the past fortnight, increased from 410 to 413. ...
Article : 27 wordsA meeting of returned soldiers belonging to the Second Bushmen's Contingent was held at the Arcadia Hotel, Pitt-street, last evening to deal with the question of deferred pay. The chair was ...
Article : 119 wordsShortly after the Orizaba, which arrived at Largs Bay on Monday, left Colombo three stoways were discoverec on board. Upon being examined and interrogated they proved to be Boer officers. It was ...
Article : 229 wordsThe "Times" states that Mr. Justice Hodges's proposal for a new Appellate Court, it adopted, would form a wonderfully strong Court, which would command the respect of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Postmaster-General has approved of the recommendation to delegate certain powers to deputy Postmasters-General subject to and in accordance with the laws of the States, and in case of their ...
Article : 724 wordsThe arrangements in connection with the payment and discharge of returned troops from South Africa are now conducted at the Treasury-buildings, Macquaric-street Notth. The supreme control of the ...
Article : 317 wordsThomas Goudie, the absconding bookkeeper of the Bank of Liverpool, was arrested at a Workmen's Lodging House at Booth, where he had lived since the robbery. It is believed ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Dunnett, representative of the Occanic Steamship Company, is now in Aucklan. He has received letters from Mr. Spreekels in reference of the proposals of the New Zealand Gopvernment for an 18 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsThe Premier yesterday received a further telegram from the Premier of Queensland stating that kanakas in that State were on March 31 distributed as follows:—Mackay distrct, 1361 males, 114 ...
Article : 498 wordsA fire occurred at the residence of Mr. G. Taylor, Louisa-street, Summer Hill, yesterday, about 2.5 p.m. Constable Martin, of Ashfield, noticed the smoke, and, with the assistance of others, had the ...
Article : 73 wordsA shocking railway accident has occurred near Invercargill. On the arrival of a special mail train the driver found entangld in the coweatcher the wheel of a railway tricycle. A search resulted in the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Edward John Eyre, the Australian explorer, aged 86 years. ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Wilcannia armed to-day from London, via the Cape. She has on board 29 officers and men from South Africa, in charge of Lieutenant-Colonel E. T. Wallack, C.B., of Tasmania. They include:— ...
Article : 347 wordsAt the inquest on the body of Crawford, the victim of the Oriental Hotel fire at Wellington, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The jury added a rider to the effect that every hotel license should state ...
Article : 175 wordsDuring the debate in the Legislative Assembly on Mr. Irvine's want of confidence motion, it was indicated pretty clearly that members were favourable to a reconstruction of the Cabinet. The Premier ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 236 wordsThe New Zealand Rugby Union has resolved to send Mr. Hyams as delegate to the conference in Sydney in February to arrange matters relative to the interchange of visits. The request of New ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Governor-General to-day sent the following telegram to her Majesty Queen Alexandra:— "My Ministers and I with humble duty wish your Majesty many happy returns." ...
Article : 50 wordsDr. Harbison, of Adelaide, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. ...
Article : 25 wordsALBANY.—Departures: December 3, Egremont Castle, for Dunkerque; Aberdeen, for London, via the Cape; Franklin, for Esperance Bay. At 3 p.m. the F.M.S. Occanian, for Fremantle, passed Breaksea. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 4 Dec 1901, Page 9
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