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Detailed lists, results, guides : 636 wordsCommandant Viljoen commanded the Boers who surprised the Victorians at Steenkool Spruit. June 19. ...
Article : 218 wordsM. Delcasse, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has informed the French Cabinet that the Powers have agreed upon the amount of the indemnity to be paid by China and to the ...
Article : 129 wordsAt the auction sales of Australasian tallow held to-day 1225 casks were offered and 1200 casks were sold. Prices were unchanged as follows:—Fine mutton, 28s 6d; medium ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the Senate this afternoon Senator Drake, having given notice of a couple of motions, informed Senator Walker that steps would be taken to have Common-wealth Government loans included in trustees ...
Article : 643 wordsDuring the past few days Lieutenants Chaseling and Grace have been fully employed at Victoria Ba[?]acks in discharged returned troopers from South Africa, and also in handing them their service [?]s. ...
Article : 306 wordsOne of the questions which the electors are called upon to decide during the present election campaign is that of the proposed new Constitution for the State. The Government propose to call together a ...
Article : 232 wordsThe fishing-boat Snapshot has been found ashore on the beach 18 miles from Fremantle. The boat is badly damaged, having apparently struck the Waneroo reef and then drifted ashore. The boat left port ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Paris banks have been heavily subventioned by the Franco-Indo-China Government to provide £3,000,000 to construct the Laokai-Yunnan railway. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe South Coast train, which was due at Redfern at 11.15 last night, was delayed for two hours by the engine leaving the rails at Dapto. Very little information could be obtained about the accident, but ...
Article : 156 wordsMr. C.A. Lee, the liberal leader, who his addressed enthusiastic meeting, in the northern district, left for B[?] yesterday, and is expected to reach Sydney by tram on Friday. He will speak at the Glebe next ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Ministers of the Powers at Peking have decided that it would be inadvisable for Chinese soldiers to return to Peking until the end of August when the foreign guards for ...
Article : 53 wordsThe persistent reports which have been circulated to the effect that Mr. Wise, the State Attorney-General, is looking out for an "easy" seat in the Legislative Assembly, are, that gentleman states, ...
Article : 218 wordsThe following message has been received from Wallaroo:—"The barge Gwyder, with a crew of three men and cargo of wheat, left Port Pi[?] on Sunday morning in tow of the tug E[?]r, Captain ...
Article : 216 wordsThe fire which commenced on Saturday last on Galernij Island, St. Petersburg, the site of three Government shipbuilding yards, and which was supposed to have been caused by ...
Article : 101 wordsCommandant Beyers is laagered with his force in a deep kloof at Zand River Poort, which is north-west of Warmbad. Two attempts to dislodge him have been without ...
Article : 52 wordsGreat Britain has notified the Powers of her refusal of China's application for increased duties on opium and rice. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Czarina has been accouched of a daughter (the fourth). ...
Article : 16 wordsThere are eight commandos, comprising 1500 men, operating in the midlands of Cape Colony, while 300 Boers are raiding in the Western Province. ...
Article : 76 wordsMinisters who have benn in the country districts state that they have had good receptions at all their meetings, and that if these can be taken as a criterion they will be returned with a good working ...
Article : 95 wordsOwing to the United States having placed an import duty on petroleum, Russia has placed import duties on resin and bicycles manufactured in the United States. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe R.M.S. Austral, which had been detained at Large Buy in consequence of the rough weather preventing the transference of mails and Adelaide passengers, began discharging her cargo at about 6 this ...
Article : 392 wordsThe bill for granting a Civil list to the King was read the third time in the House of Commons last night by 370 votes to 60. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe organisation of the campaign for the Liberal party is proceeding satisfactority. Advices received from various parts of the country indicate that the great freetrade vote given in the election of Senators ...
Article : 1,193 wordsThe Boers who have been taken prisoners of war number 19,242. ...
Article : 17 wordsMr. Childers, who was one of the Liberal candidates for Paddington who submitted himself to the committee, has retired in favour of Mr. Oakes, the selected candidate. Mr. C[?]lders is an English ...
Article : 427 wordsSir H. H. Johnston, special commissioner for the Uganda Protectorate, has confirmed Mr. Grogan's discovery of ape-like men distinct from dwarfs on the verge of the Congo ...
Article : 96 wordsWhen the House of Representatives met this afternoon, Sir William M'Millan asked a series of questions regarding the Anglo-Japanese treaty. Mr. Barton, in reply, said Queensland had obtained certain ...
Article : 553 wordsCorporal Jennings, son of the Rev.J. Jennings, of Balrauald, was welcomed back last night at the council-chambers. Alderman Miller, acting Mayor, presided. The speakers included Alderman Gibson, Mr. ...
Article : 428 wordsThe troopship Bavarian has sailed for South Africa with 850 men of the Manchester Regiment and 600 of the South Staffordshire Militia (4th Battalion). ...
Article : 30 wordsM. Caillaux, the French Minister for Finance, informed the Chamber ot Deputies yesterday [?] at the scheme for old-age pensions proposed by M. Millerand, the Minister ...
Article : 136 wordsIt is reported that Mr. Kruger is selling his Transvaal and other South African securities, and is reinvesting the proceeds in British Consols, French Rentes, and other ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Australian bowlers played a Leicester team yesterday and were defeated by 6 points, the totals being—Leicester, 97; Australia, 91. The scores were:—Mr. Hanigan's ...
Article : 60 wordsSquadrons A and B of the 4th Victorian Contingent, Have left Tarkastad, and are proceeding to East London, where they will embark for Australia. ...
Article : 32 wordsProfessor Lowrie, principal of the Agricultural College, has definitely decided to accept the position of professor at the Canterbury Agricultural College. There had been some friction between him and the ...
Article : 108 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3¾d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Boers captured by Major-General Elliot in the Orange River Colony were in a deplorable condition. Some were wearing women's skirts. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe French submarine boat Narval has remained under water for 12 hours. The first hours were passed in comfort, but then the situation became serious. Exhaustion and ...
Article : 38 wordsThe weather to-day was inclement. Strong northerly winds accompanied by heavy rain rendered outdoor functions most disagreeable for the spectators. Notwithstanding this people assembled in ...
Article : 588 wordsMr. G. H. Reid will speak in the Protestant Hall to-night in support of Mr. T. Hughes for the King Division. One of the federal members, Mr. Wilke, M.P., is ...
Article : 134 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, before the Chief Justice and a jury, Charles Walter Chandler was arraigned on a charge of having written and published in the "Free Lance and Licensed Victuallers' ...
Article : 207 wordsIn replying to the petition of the Cretan Assembly for the union of Crete with Greece, the four protecting Powers—France, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia—intimated ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Governor-General has received the following cablegram from the Duke of Cornwall and York:— "The Duchess and I are deeply grieved to hear of the heavy losses sustained by the Victorian Mounted ...
Article : 86 wordsThe hearing of the evidence against the man Lillywhite, who was extradited from New Zealand on a charge of the murder of a clothier named Weleh, at Colchester, in 1893, ...
Article : 116 wordsA largely attended meeting was held at the Albion-street Primitive Methodist Church on Tuesday night for the purpose of welcoming Captain the Rev. James Green, who returned from South Africa on Friday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 wordsA cable message reached the Lieulenant-Governor to-day from the Casualty Department at Capetown giving the names of the Victorian killed and wounded at Wilmanrust on June 12 last, as follows:— ...
Article : 1,432 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr.Bent asked as a matter of privilege what position members held with regard to Parliament House, He said that he had found it turned into a common ...
Article : 304 wordsTo-morrow the Senate will be asked to deal with the new Supply Bill. The omission of the estimates of expenditure from the first measure has been rectified, but the enacting clause is still considered ...
Article : 212 wordsMr.E.J.M'Groth writes:—" About the end of April last the police went the rounds of this division collecting names of all electors who up to that time had not obtained rights. I, among many others, ...
Article : 580 wordsA pleasant gathering took place at the Gordon Public School on Friday last, when a hearly welcome home was given to Sergeant J. Taylor, of the Australian Bushmen, until recently ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. A. O. Jones (captain of Notts), playing against Sussex, scored 249. Mr. Greig, playing for Hampshire against Lancashire, also scored 249. ...
Article : 29 wordsBy Tuesday morning's express Captain Ryrie, who left Sydney on March 1, 1900, for South Africa, returned to Sydney. He, together with eight men who were passengers by the same train, came over from ...
Article : 102 wordsAt the Ascot June meeting yesterday the Forty-fourth Ascot Biennial Stakes for two-year-olds, colts 9st., fillies 8st 10lb., 1 mile, was won by Mr. R. S. Sievier's be Lavengro, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Federal Capital League has forwarded a letter to the State Premier urging that Mr. Oliver be requested to hold an inquiry at Eden. YASS, Wednesday. ...
Article : 96 wordsDetails have been received respecting the death of Prooper Thomas Barker, who was killed in a fight with the Boers at Korannafentein, neaa Klerksdorp, on May 10. Some of the [?]giment were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 wordsThe Australian Agricultural Company has declared a dividend of £2 per share. The South Australian Company has declared a dividend of £2 4s per share. The report ...
Article : 39 wordsThe steamer Moresby arrived this afternoon from New Guinea, bringing news of the murder of a man named Jack M'Lean, a storekeeper at Mile Bay. The murderers cut the man's arms to pieces, and severed ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Treasurer, the Hon. B. S. Brid, has made complete arrangements for the accommodation of the visiting and local press representatives [?]ing the Royal visit. Rooms at the Masonic Hall will be at ...
Article : 54 wordsTo a friend of Trooper Wobster, Colonel Lassetter, commanding the 2nd Regiment N.S.W. Mounted Rifles in South Africa, has written the following letter dated May 11:—"You will have seen by the ...
Article : 130 wordsMonowal, s., 2187 tons, Captain M'Donald, from Wellington, New Zealand. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 20 Jun 1901, Page 7
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