The Boer raiders were twice repulsed at Oudtshoon, and abandoned a number of horses and waggons. A number of cattle belonging to Mr. Cecil ...
Article : 46 wordsThe King directs that Saturday next shall be observed as a day of general mourning. The banks will be closed and business suspended. ...
Article : 490 wordsMr. Harold Parsons, formerly a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, in a letter to the "Times," advocates the recognition in the King's titles ...
Article : 127 wordsFor the first time in the history of Australia the quarter's earnings of the railway system of a single colony have come to over a million pounds. Naturally enough the ...
Article : 2,416 wordsThe Premier concurs in the suggestion that May 24 should permanently continue as a public holiday in honour of the memory of Queen Victoria ...
Article : 28 wordsA "Government Gazette" extraordinary has been issued as follows:- Chief Secretary's Office, Sydney, January 30. 1901. ...
Article : 170 wordsRegarding the request of King Edward VII. that "royal purple," instead of black, should be used as mourniug, the Premier says that as the Government has already draped the public buildings in black relieved ...
Article : 73 wordsThe cold reception which, they received at Kuruman, Bechuanaland, has discouraged the Bo[?]rs, who are returning to the Transvaal. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt the council meeting to-night the Mayor spoke in reference to the death of the Queen, and moved a resolution deploring the irreparable lose to the Empire. The motion was carried unanimously. ...
Article : 1,286 wordsHsu-chen-yi (son of Hsu Tung) and Chihsiu (a notorious Boxer leader and a member of the Tsung-li-Yamen) have been arrested in the Japanese quarter of Peking. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner for South Africa, has warned the Dutch colonists of Cap[?] Colony that they will not receive any compensation for damage done to ...
Article : 42 wordsIn connection with the Government's special desire that Saturday should be regarded as an entirely solemn day and free from business, the Mayor (Dr. Graham, M.L.A.) has arranged that all the markets ...
Article : 289 wordsThe China "Daily Mail" announces the execution of Prince Tuan, besides that of Yu-hsien. ...
Article : 22 wordsBrigadier-General Plumer has dispersed small bands of the enemy at Bronkhorstspruit. Jan. 30. ...
Article : 55 wordsRussian newspapers angrily comment upon the defensive character of the Anglo-German alliance, which, they assert, threatens injury to Russia. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt Prctoria the King was proclaimed with the usual titles as well as the title of "Supreme Lord over the Transvaal." The proclamation was received with hearty ...
Article : 40 wordsThe headquarters of General Louis Botha are at Roosenkaal. General Viljo[?]n commands the eastern districts of the Transvaal to the north of the ...
Article : 47 wordsCaptain the Hon. Arthur Lawl[?]y, Administrator of Matabeleland, has been appointed State Governor of Western Australia. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe "Times" states that the King will open Parliament. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe King at Osborne, with much ceremony, invested the Crown Prince of Prussia with the Order of the Garter. Jan. 30. ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. R. Solomon, Q.C., who was AttorneyGeneral in Mr. W. P. Schremer's Ministry, has been appointed legal adviser to the Transvaal Administration. It is stated that the ...
Article : 56 wordsA great deal of interest was shown yesterdav in the proposed arrangements to honour the occasion of the Royal funeral on Saturday. There was uncertainty whether all the shops, banks, &c., would be ...
Article : 296 wordsThe "Times" hopes that the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and of York will visit Australia, even if the occasion must be shorn of much magnificence. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe owners of the Rand mines are paying £30,000 a month to 1200 guards at the mines. The damage done to the mines during the war is estimated at £300,000. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Duke of Cornwall and of York has been suffering from an attack of German measles since Sunday. Sir James Reid, M.D., and Sir F. H. ...
Article : 38 wordsCommandant de Wet and Commandant Peterson, commanding 500 men, crossed the line between Ventersburg and Holtfontein, on the night of January 23, and escaped, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe German Emperor has appointed King Edward VII, Chief of the First Regiment of Dragoons of the Prussian Guard, in succession to her late Majesty, who was Chief of ...
Article : 42 wordsSix nominations were received this evening for the representation of St. Kilda in the Legislative Assembly, vice Sir George Turner, resigned. The names are as follows:—Robert S. Bradley, ...
Article : 344 wordsThe third-class cruiser Ph[?]be has been commissioned to join the squadron on the Australian Station. ...
Article : 21 wordsWith reference to the issue of the "Government Gazette" relating to the observance of Saturday as a day of mourning, the Railway Commissioners, as a special mark of respect, have given instructions that ...
Article : 101 wordsHis Excelleny the Governor-General has received the following letters of congratulation upon the King's accession:- "Monsieur le Gouverneur-General,—L'Avenement ...
Article : 336 wordsFierce fighting has taken place in Venezuela. The insurgents have killed hundreds of supporters of the existing Government. ...
Article : 26 wordsA careful estimate of the Boer losses which occurred in December is that 150 burghers were killed, 400 were wounded, and 200 were taken prisoners, while there were 100 men ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Manly Council met on Tuesday, last, the Mayor (Alderman W. H. Fletcher) presiding. There were in attendance Aldermen F. C. Passau, Owen Carroll, J. F. Walker, A. Russell. J. J. ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. W. P. Reeves, the Agent-General of New Zealand, has handed to Lord Roberts an historic green stone "mere" on behalf of his Ma[?]ri admirers. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe authorities have been informed that the King has directed that the draperies for buildings as mourning on Saturday shall be purple, not black. ...
Article : 32 wordsPrivate M'Laren, of the Tasmanian Bushmen, was killed at Bronkhorst Spruit. Private W. Butler, of the Queensland Bushmen, died on the 26th instant at Bloemfontein, of ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. Peterson, who has been selected as the Professor of Music at the Ormond College, Melbourne, sailed in the R.M.S. Britannia. ...
Article : 28 wordsSpecial "In M[?]ori[?]" services were held in the Rockdale Conpgregati[?]al Church on Sunday last. The church was efectively draped. The congregations were very large, especially in the evening, when ...
Article : 197 wordsEarl Carrington, on behalf of the Common-wealth of Australia, has sent a wreath of wattle and arum lilies to Windsor. All the Agents-General of the States and of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London and the sheriffs attended in state the opening service of the Week's Free Church Mission in England. ...
Article : 28 wordsWith reference to the promised "appointment of Sir Spencer Walpole as chairman of the Pacific Cable Board, the Queensland Government has despatched a message stating that this State concurs in ...
Article : 97 wordsIt has been pointed out that the Commonwealth and other officials under the Crown required by law to take the oath of allegiance may continue in office for 18 months before doing so. The last message ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal, has announced that it is not desired, and is not expected, that the public will remain in deep mourning after March 6. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Italian Chamber of Deputies will be draped in mourning for a week in honour of the late Signor Verdi. ...
Article : 29 wordsOwing to the death of Queen Victoria the sale of work in aid of the new r[?]ctory fund previously announced to take place at the School of Arts, Kogar[?]h, in connection with St. Paul's Church, Kogarah, on ...
Article : 116 wordsA party of Boers attacked a train which was standing at a station on the Delagoa line. The driver of the train shot Commandant Liebrundt dead for tampering with the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Australian Agricultural Company has declared a dividend at the rate of 35s per share. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe mourning in America is as widespread as if the country was a British possession. The newspapers recall the late Queen's solicitude when President J. A. Garfield was ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Collie coal-mining trouble continues. A telegram was received yesterday from the Secretary of the Premier's Department to the miming registrar at Collie. The Fromier is of opinion that the best course ...
Article : 255 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that the Earl of Hopetoun and Mr. Barton snubbed Mr. Chamberlain for suggesting that the Earl of Jersey should represent the Commonwealth ...
Article : 52 wordsThe annual, meeting of the Lake View Consols Gold-mining Company, Western Australia, was held yesterday. The shareholders, by a great majority, ...
Article : 38 wordsAnother batch of undesirable persons has been expelled from Durban, Natal. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. J. C. Williamson presided at a meeting of the leading theatrical managers of the city, held at Her Majesty's Theatre yesterday, to consider the question of further observance of mourining connection with ...
Article : 201 wordsThe police on Sunday morning turned away 30,000 people from St. Paul's Cathedral. Hence it has been arranged only one service shall be held on Saturday at St. Paul's, and ...
Article : 82 wordsIn certain quarters, especially amongst philatelists, speculation is rife as to whether or not the death of the Queen is likely to lead to a speedy change in the postage stamps in force in the state of New South ...
Article : 580 wordsMr. Barton was spoken to last night by a "Herald" reporter in regard to the above matter "How can there be any snub?" he interrogatively replied to a question. "There can be no published ...
Article : 176 wordsNine hundred Hungarian horses have been shipped at Fiume for Cape Colony. Owing to martial law having been proclaimed Mrs. Cronwright Schr[?]iner (Olive ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Premier cabled to the Agent-General, Sir John Cockburn, instructing him to represent the Government at the funeral of the late Queen an Saturday next, and to provide a wreath on behalf ...
Article : 372 wordsThere is afloat for the United Kingdom 2,695,000 quarters of wheat, and for the Continent of Europe 780,000 quarters. ...
Article : 24 wordsSydney Cyclorama Company: Meeting, Union-chambers, Pitt-street, 4 p.m. School of Arts Debating Club: "Land Nationalisation," [?] p.m. ...
Article : 183 wordsThe task of enrolling troops for South Africa was continued yesterday. Fifty men were sent up to the doctors, and 38 were passed as being up to the necessary requirements. Thirty-two men were tested at ...
Article : 754 wordsThere was slightly more competition and a better tone in the market to-day. Prices were unchanged. Jan. 30. ...
Article : 62 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General continues to receive massages of condolence from different parts of the Commonwealth. Khuda Bukhsh, of Melbourne, writes:—"To Lord ...
Article : 1,827 wordsIt was explained in yesterday's "Herald" that it was originally intended that the Commonwealth Government should be represented in England on the occasion of the funeral of the Queen by Lord Jersey, ...
Article : 221 wordsM. Meyer, the Chief of Police at Lyons, has been dismissed for listening by means of a secret microphone to the Departmental profeet's private and political conversations, ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the weekly sales of Australasian tallow 1150 casks were offered, and 139 casks sold. Prices were unchanged as follows:—Fine mutton, 29s 3d, medium 27s; fine beef, 27s ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 31 Jan 1901, Page 7
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