The newspapers contain columns of cablegrams describing the opening of the Federal Parliament of Australia. All the newspapers comment on the occasion ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Queen Victoria Memorial Fund is being raised to equip the Queen Victoria memorial pavilions of the Prince Alfred Hospital. The movement began auspiciously a few weeks ago, and has been ...
Article : 206 wordsCommandant Viljoen with 500 men attacked Brigadier-General F. C. Beatson's camp, near Carolina. The British opened fire with a pom-pom and a Maxim at close range ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the proposals of the committee appointed to prepare a Civil List for the King were carried by 307 votes to 58. ...
Article : 279 wordsOne of the most interesting and suggestive columns in the London "Times" is that which gives with more or less of detail the bequests of testators, and especially of those ...
Article : 1,224 wordsLieutenant A. Wynyard-Joss, of the Queensland Cycle company, with 10 men, while carrying despatches to Eerstefabriken, a few miles cast of Pretoria, captured nine ...
Article : 35 wordsBoth Houses of the Federal Parliament met to-day, and the Governor-General's speech was read with all the formulities usually attending the opening of Parliament. The Legislative Council chamber ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsA force of colonials repulsed Commandant Scheeper's band of raiders at Baviaan River. A cable yesterday stated that a body of colonial troops by a forced match occupied the passes of the ...
Article : 83 wordsWe are requested to draw attention to the advertisement in our columns asking friends of the Prince Alfred Hospital who desire to be invited to the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Chinese crew oE the Ewe, when passing under the bridge on the Po[?]ho declined to answer the sentry's challenge. The German sentry fired. No Europeans ...
Article : 96 wordsThe steamer Morayshire has sailed from Capetown for Australia with 730 officers and men aboard. ...
Article : 21 wordsA tragic incident happened on board the steamer Coogee as that vessel was approaching Williamstown from Port Phillip [?]ads this afternoon from Launceston. Mr. Charles Agnew, son of Sir James Agnew, ...
Article : 256 wordsThe PRESIDENT took the chair at 10 minutes to 11 o'clock. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH. At five minutes to 11 o'clock the Usher of the ...
Article : 2,453 wordsPrivate W. B. Burke, of the Victorian Bushmen, was severely wounded at Bavinans River, near the Winterberg Range. Private Henry S. Lamb, of the Victorian Mounted ...
Article : 98 wordsBands of Chinese pirates attacked several ports of Tonquin. In the punitive expeditions which the French sent agianst the pirates, 24 French soldiers were killed and wounded. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Agents-General of Australia having discussed the alteration in the Gorman tariff, consider that the increased duties will scarcely affect the interests of Australian ...
Article : 40 wordsVan Plazen, a farmer in Barkly East, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment and fined £1000 for treason. It has been arranged to ship 1700 Boer ...
Article : 143 wordsAt an early hour this morning a fire was discovered on prounsea in Collins-street East, occupied by Mrs. Pater and by a couple of medical men, who rented suites of rooms from her. The fire was confined to ...
Article : 161 wordsA bill has been submitted to the German Reichstag proposing to grant to Great Britain and the colonies "most favoured nation treatment" until the end of 1903. ...
Article : 37 wordsMuch regret is expressed at the receipt of the news of the death of Mr. Charles Stoward Agnew, a noted sportsman, who left on Thursday per the Coogee for Melbourne. The massage coming suddenly to Sir ...
Article : 55 wordsThe grounding of the German man-of-war Kaiser Friedrich III. at the Island of Ruegen, in the Baltic, was due to ice shifting a buoy. ...
Article : 32 wordsEfforts of the Harrimin-Kuhn elique to wrest the control of the Northern Pacific Railway from the Morgan-Hill group have caused an unparalleled panic in Wall-street. ...
Article : 140 wordsA groom, named Robert Waddington, met with a serious accident in a remarkable manner at Lloyd's Hotel, where he was employed, at Miller's Point, shortly, befre I o'clock yesterday ...
Article : 592 wordsThe Czar will visit England at the end of August, and afterwards go to Darmstadt, Germany, for some weeks. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Speaker took the chair at 11 o'clock. INTERPRETATION OF ACTS BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Mr. Alfred Deakin, Victoria) brought up a bill to provide for ...
Article : 824 wordsOn account of the Emperor of Corea disapproving of the loan (£500,000) offered by the Franco-Russian syndicate, the President of the Privy Council has resigned. ...
Article : 30 wordsNowadays the writer of a book or a play has only to contrive that it shall become the vogue amongst a certain set and its success is assured. Sometimes it ...
Article : 3,763 wordsThe London Missionary Society urges Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to direct that only the actual murderers of the Revs. James Chalmers and O. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe census of England and Wales has been completed. It shows that the population is 32,525,710. The population of the County of London is ...
Article : 126 words"Lo Matin" newspaper, Paris, states that the French banks are issuing a Russian loan of £16,000,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe plague at Capetown is diminishing. Rats are still dying by hundreds. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Union-Castle line authorities, the owners of the Tantallon Castle, which went ashore on Robben Island, near Capetown, consider that there is no hope of saving the ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Battersea, (London) Town Council discussed whether a street should be named Joubert or Methuen. The name selected was Joubert. ...
Article : 84 wordsA three-tailed comet has been photographed at Mauritius, travelling in a northwesterly direction. The length of the longest tail is 15 degrees. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsThe census returns show the population, exclusive of Maoris, to be 773,439, against 636,658 in 1891. The comparison is made for 10 years, because Australia took no census in 1896. Since 1896 the North ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 11 May 1901, Page 9
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