Only 100 Colonial Dutch have joined the eastern commando under Commandant Kruitzinger. Jan. 19. ...
Article : 128 wordsThe murderers of M. Stamboloff, the Bulgarian ex-Premier, who was killed at Sofia in 1895, have escaped from prison. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Court Circular from Osborne, where her Majesty the Queen is at present residing, states that her Majesty has not lately had her usual health, and is unable to take her ...
Article : 336 wordsProfound sympathy is shown throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada with her Majesty the Queen in her illness. All the sovereigns of Europe have made ...
Article : 121 wordsMore interest is taken in the finances of Russia than in those of any other nation. And for very good reasons. With a wellfilled war-chest Russia is regarded as a ...
Article : 1,187 wordsThe work of enrolling the Imperial draft contingent for service in South Africa is proceeding apace. The intention is to organise a body of 500 men, divided into four companies, each 125 strong, ...
Article : 1,102 wordsOn Saturday a couplimentary launch picnic was given to Sergeant Tebbutt, Corporal Cousene, and Private Stovens, members of the Army Medical Corps, by their friends of Globe Point. The launch ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. P. V. Bevan, son of the Rev. Dr. Bevan, of Melbourne, has been appointed assistant-demonstrator to the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge university. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Queen's indisposition, news of which is cabled, will be heard of with sympathy and pain by her Majesty's loyal subjects everywhere. The news is the ...
Article : 313 wordsA welcome home was given to Trooper M'Nair in St. Jude's Hall, Randwick, on the 18th instant. The Rev. W. Hough presided, and with him on the platform were Aldermen Hodgson (Mayor), Hiucks, ...
Article : 359 wordsThe convict Gabrielle Bompard has been released by the French authorities on the ground of good conduct. In 1889 Gabrielle Bompard decoyed a ...
Article : 78 wordsThree squadrons of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles captured a Boer outpost at Springs, 30 miles cast of Johannesburg. Afterwards the Mounted Rifle, repelled a ...
Article : 45 wordsThe announcement that all colonists except officials and soldiers in the Cape Peninsula must give up their arms by February 1, came as a thunderbolt to the disloyalists. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe ex-soldier Hill, who, it is alleged, murdered a farmer named Pearson in a train between Surbiton and Arauxhall, was brought up at the police court and remanded. He ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Boors captured a train at East Balmoral, on the Delagoa Bay line. The train containcd a quantity of mining material. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Boers surrounded Danielsknil on January 5, and attacked it during five days. They threatened that unless the post surrendered they would destroy all the houses, ...
Article : 68 wordsSixty-seven of the Dutch colonists at Aberdeen have joined the raiders. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe general secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association has packed and forwarded to the Cape Colony Red Cross Society a case of hospital comforts and clothing for troops is South Africa. It is ...
Article : 68 wordsThe French vintage amounts to 67,000,000 hectolitres, being the largest yield since 1875. ...
Article : 20 wordsThere have sailed from Canada for Cape Colony 1300 troops and 500 men for MajorGeneral Baden Powell's police force. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Justice Wright has sanctioned the voluntary winding up of the London and Globe Finance Corporation, Limited, under the supervision of the Bankruptcy Court. ...
Article : 34 wordsTrooper W. S. Rich, of C Squadron New South Wales Mounted Riflies, writing from Kroomstadt under date of December 20 to his father, Mr. W. M. Rich, of Mount Victoria, in the course of his ...
Article : 1,102 wordsThe Australian Bushmen pnrticipated in the victory of the New Zealanders at Ventersburg, in the northern portion of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 61 wordsSir John Forrest has on several occasions luring the past week or so made reference to the prospect of an extension of the railway so as to bridge the distance between the ...
Article : 2,454 wordsCaptain E. J. Joseph, of the Queensland Imperial Bushmon, has resumed duty. ...
Article : 17 wordsField-Marshal Lord Eoberts, the Commander-in-Chief, had an audience with her Majesty on Monday last. Since Tuesday the Queen has stopped taking drives. ...
Article : 70 wordsPrivate F. B. Thorpe, of the Victorian Bushmen at Pretoria, Corporal Westburgh, of the New South Wales Bushmen at Vryburg, and Corporal J. A. Smith, of the South ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the wool sales to-day bidding was spirited and prices were fully maintained. Jan. 19. The following prices were realised for the ...
Article : 113 wordsA trooper, who was taken prisoner in one of the engagements with Commandant de Wet, and who was subsequently released, states that the men of the Commandant's ...
Article : 64 wordsThe transport Britannic, with the Imperial troops aboard, will remain in New Zealand from February 2 to Fobruary 11. She will reach Adelaide on February 17, and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe news of the serious illness of her Majesty Queen Victoria has caused much concern here, and later news is anxiously looked forward to. BRISBANE, Sunday. ...
Article : 80 wordsLieutenant-General C. Tucker, commanding the 7th Division, has been appointed Governor of Bloemfontein, vice Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter, who has been invalided. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe dinner which was to have been given to-morrow to celebrate the inauguration of the Commonwealth has been postponed. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir William Lyne arrived here this morning. During the forenoon he was waited upon by a deputation from the hospital Mr. C. Tenbrink pointed out that the Government had recently voted £9000 for ...
Article : 757 wordsThe Minister of Defence has almost concluded arrangements for chartering the City of Lincoln for the conveyance of horses for the fifth coutingent to South Africa. This steamer recently took 875 horses ...
Article : 424 wordsIt is reported at Portsmouth that, in consequence of the illness of the Queen, the visit of the Duke and the Duchess of York to Australia has been abandoned. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe death is announced of the Due de Broglie, aged 80 years. ...
Article : 21 wordsDuring the march of Colonel Colvile from Geelbecksvlei (New Denmark) southwards to Vlaklaagte, near the south-eastern border of the Transvaal, 700 Boers attacked ...
Article : 106 wordsA middle-aged man was arrested to-day on a charge of wilful murder, at North Melbourne, of a child named Frederick Gladstone Geacb, aged 2½ year. The facts of the crime are peculiar. ...
Article : 196 wordsSpeaking at Hunter's Hill on Saturday evening, Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan referred to the manner in which the festivities in connection with the inauguration of the Commonwealth had been carried out. ...
Article : 300 wordsH.M.S, Sybille, which went ashore at Saldanha Bay, was seeking shelter from a storm, and is a total wreck. She has two large holes in the bottom of her keel. ...
Article : 38 wordsMajor-General Sir Henry E. Colvile, lately commanding the Infantry Brigade at Gibraltar, has been placed on retired pay, to date from yesterday. ...
Article : 173 wordsCaptain Tickell, officer commanding the Victorian Naval Contingent in China, has reported that the stores supplied to the contingent before leaving Victoria were found to be good, and gave no cause of ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Holder) has mads local arrangements for the transport of the South Australian contingent to South Africa. Mr. Holder found that under the proposals contemplated in the other States ...
Article : 262 wordsThe visiting Imperial troops were entertained at the Exhibition Grounds last night. It is estimated about 40,000 persons were present. A number of aboriginals gave a corroboree. The main street of ...
Article : 271 wordsNorth Sydney Federal Electorate: E. M. Clark Addresses the Electors at North Sydney School of Arts, 8 p.m. Adjourned Special Meeting of Tailors, Trades Hall, Dixon-street, 8 p.m. ...
Article : 168 wordsMr. H. Bowler, manager of Mr W. Lee's Middlefield station, near Narromine, writing to the district inspector of stock (Mr. R. G. Dulhunty), reports having coped with the rabbit post very successfully ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Portuguese authorities are transporting to Lisbon 900 Boer refugees at Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 22 wordsPrivate J. M. Logan, of the New South Wales Bushmen, who was reported dangerously wounded at Vlakfontoin, received a gunshot wound in the abdomen. It has since ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the Gymea branch of the A.N.A. meeting on Friday night Mr. L. C. Russell-Jones (president) occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance. Thirteen new members were elected, amongst them ...
Article : 86 wordsLieutenant-colonel J.H.P. Murray, who returned from South Africa on Saturday morning by the R.M.S. Oroya, was received by an escort composed of a detachment of men from his own regiment (the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 21 Jan 1901, Page 7
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