The disaster which occurred on the Illawarra railway line a few hundred yards beyond Sydenham station on Friday evening was the chief topic of conversation on Saturday. Throughout the railway ...
Article : 828 wordsThe British authorities have commandeered 4000 horses in the Harrismith district of the Orange River Colony, and 2000 horses in the Standerton district of the Transvaal Colony, ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons on Friday Mr A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, stated that the Government did not intend to introduce a bill altering the Coronation Oaths ...
Article : 140 wordsThree hundred and fifty of Commandant de Wet's force occupied Philipstown, in the northern part of Cape Colony, on Tuesday. A small garrison of Yeomanry defended ...
Article : 229 wordsAccording to present arrangements the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York will embark at Portsmouth on March, 16 for their voyage to Australia and Canada. ...
Article : 108 wordsAlderman J. G. Griffin, speaking with regard to the statement made as to the condition of the line where the accident occurred, said that he had travelled by the fast trains almost daily for the past ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. G. Pott, who was the Netherlands Consul at Delagoa Bay, returns to that territory in his private capacity. [Portugal, which withdrew its exequatur from Mr. ...
Article : 56 wordsSpeculation is rife as to the cause of the accident. Many theories have been advanced to throw light on what in offcial circles is shrouded in mystery. Numbers of people are under the impression that there ...
Article : 1,271 wordsMatten in connection with the enrolling of members to complete the contingent of 2000 men for service in South Africa were quiet on Saturday, operations at the Royal Agricultural Society's ...
Article : 835 wordsThe raiders in Cane Colony possess splendid maps of the colony provided by Mr. Steyn before the war broke out. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Alfred Henningliam, of Railway-parade, Hurstville, when seen by our reporter yesterday at his residence, was suffering from several abras[?] and severe shock. He attributes his escape fro[?] ...
Article : 178 wordsThe condition of the Duke of Cornwall and York has improved. ...
Article : 16 wordsA force of Boers, while attempting to cut the railway line at Bank station, near Johannesburg, had three men killed and 23 wounded. ...
Article : 34 wordsDr. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent, at Peking, states that the fact of the Imperial Court not returning to Peking is not inexcusable, in view, of the decision of the ...
Article : 121 wordsAs the result of much consideration, the conclusion has been arrived at that, instead of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York making Sydney their second port of call within ...
Article : 420 wordsCaptain Berry, of the Queensland Bushmen, and Lieutenant Levin, of the New Zealand Rough Riders, have been discharged from hospital and have resumed duty. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe following is a complete list of those who were killed or who have died since:- WILLIAM MORT, aged 14[?] years, a messanger, residing with his parents at Short-street, Carito[?] ...
Article : 356 wordsLi Hung Chang has informed the Imperial Court that Ministers of the Powers have consented to the suspension of the sentence on Tung-fuh-siang until the Imperial Court has ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Daily Mail" reports that Commandant do Wet and Mr. Steyn crossed the western railway between Houtkraal and Potfontein on Thursday, and that they destroyed two ...
Article : 86 wordsA sum of £250,000 has been subscribed in India for erecting a memorial to the late Queen Victoria in Calcutta. ...
Article : 31 wordsA force of Chinese troops attacked some Russians beyond Shan-hai-kwan. Four Russian officers and 40 men were killed. Reinforcements have been sent to the Russians. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company's steamer Ophir will be commissioned on February 26, and will then proceed to Ports-mouth. Her complement will be 460 officers ...
Article : 43 wordsMajor C.A. Wilson, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of the United Ancient Order of Druids (New South Wales), has forwarded the following address to his Excellency the Governor-General on behalf of ...
Article : 145 wordsBefore the Boers left Calvinia they flogged several officials for refusing to reveal where arms had been placed. They flogged Mr. Buk, a magistrate, and shot a native ...
Article : 196 wordsThe remains of the late ex-King Milan of Servia were buried quietly in the Kruschedol Monastery, at Gross-Karlowitz, despite the wish of his son, King Alexander, that the ...
Article : 42 wordsSeveral people have been frozen to death at Paris. ...
Article : 18 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Carrington Centennial Hospital Home for Convalescents on the 13th instant the followings resolution was adopted:—"The board of directors of the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe wedding of the Infanta Maria de las [?]cedes, Princess of the Asturias, with [?]nce Charles, second son of the Count [?]f Casert[?], of the Neapolitan Royal ...
Article : 62 wordsThe following is a complete list of those who were injured:- AT FRINGE ALFRED HOSPITAL. Charles Lake, aged 23, single, bootmaker, [?]iding ...
Article : 437 wordsThe Queen of Sweden and Norway, who was reported to be ill, is now recovering. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Rev. Henry J. C. Foreman, B.A., Wesleyan minister, at present stationed at Chatswood, has been nominated by the president of the Wesleyan Conference as chaplain to the federal contingent ...
Article : 48 wordsThe permanent heads of the Postal Departments of the States who met in conference in Melbourne last week to make arrangements for the handing over of the postal servies to the Commonwealth have ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Duke of Westminster has been married to Miss Clodagh Cornwallis West. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe troopship Cornwall, with the New Zealand Contingent, arrived from Sydney early on Friday. On Wednesday evening the vessel met with a heavy blow, and the horses were knocked about a little, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Empress Dowager Frederick is suffering from disease of the kidneys, and dropsy has supervened. The physicians strive to postpone the inevitable end. ...
Article : 30 wordsPolice Commissary Thiel, of Berlin, has been sentenced to three years' penal servitude and to deprivation of civil rights for a period of five years for having accepted bribes in the ...
Article : 52 wordsAll the male inhabitants of the Grasfontein district have been arrested for having assisted the invaders. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Oliver, Chief Railway Commissioner, was seen on Saturday by a "Herald" reporter, and asked whether he could give any information which was likely to throw light on the cause or causes of the ...
Article : 844 wordsDr. Edington, the Government Bacteriologist, now admits that the rats whose bodies have been examined at Capetown have died from bubonic plague. The blacks of ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Premier states that the Government has received a cable from the authorities in South Africa similar to that sent to the other States asking if there was any objection to men being recruited here for ...
Article : 132 wordsCommandant de Wet's shooting of the peace envoys, and the Boer raiders looting friends in Cape Colony are alienating the Dutch from the enemy. ...
Article : 31 wordsOne thousand native labourers in the docks at Capetown have struck work, fearing the plague. The steamship Warrigal, bound for ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Premier, when spoken to yesterday, stated that he regarded the accident as one of the most disastrous experienced for years. He bad a couference with the Chief Commissioner for Railways on ...
Article : 122 wordsA force of Boers endeavoured to destroy with explosives the railway line near Edenberg, south of Bloemfontein, at night. Troops in an armoured train discovered the Boers' ...
Article : 50 wordsA fire has broken out in a colliery in Cumberland, Vancouver. Sixty miners had their escape cut off, and they are imprisoned in the colliery. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe following troops returned yesterday by the Aberdeen line steamer Nineveh from Capetown:- For Sydney: Captain Conroy, Sergeant-major Sullivan, Sergeants Stauson, Raymond, ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Bulimba election resulted as follows:—W. H. Barnes, merchant, 1065; E. J. Sydes, barrister, 462; J. R. Dickson, 145. All the candidates are Ministerialists. Two small returns are to come, but ...
Article : 44 wordsThe R.M.S. Sonoma, the second of the three new sister ships built expressly for the Pacific service between San Francisco and Sydney, via Honolulu, Samoa, and Auckland, in the A. and A. line, armed ...
Article : 459 wordsMajor-General Smith-Dorrien has occupied Amsterdam, 40 miles east of Ermelo, in the Eastern Transvaal. Lieutenant-General French has captured a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has granted leave to appeal in the case of Bensusan v. the Perpetual Trustee Company of New South Wales, and in the ...
Article : 48 wordsA representative of the "Herald" interviewed an export yesterday regarding certain matters which have beeu made public as affecting the accident. The opinion had been expressed in prominent circles ...
Article : 499 wordsThe weather report states that a storm broke over Longreach yesterday, and that two inches fell outside the town. Hughenden reports 68 points last night, and from halt an inch to an inch and a half all round ...
Article : 102 wordsUpon inquiry at the Prince Alfred and Merrickville Cottage hospitals regarding the condition of the injured persons, it was ascertained last evening that in most canes satisfactory improvement had been ...
Article : 435 wordsColonel G. C. Knight, of New South Wales, who was wonnded in December, and Colonel A. Aytoun (Queensland Bushmon), have been discharged from the hospital, and have ...
Article : 36 wordsThe question of the reduced pay to members of New South Wales contingents who have returned from the war is being taken up by the men. A meeting has been called of all the returned soldiers ...
Article : 63 wordsFederal Elections.—Socialist Labour Party: Opining the campaign, Protestant Hall, 8 p.m. Mr. Thomas H. Loxton at Ryde Council-chambers at 8 p.m. Meetingo f Mr. M'Gowen's commitee at Schoolroom, Raglan-street, ...
Article : 143 wordsPrivate D. K. M'Donald, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, has died of tubercle of the lung at Preteria. Feb. 17. ...
Article : 86 wordsA private message reached Sydney on Saturday, advising that Lieutenant Stevens, of the New South Wales Naval Artillery Volunteers, who went away with the Imperial bushmen to South Africa, was ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Imperial troops bad a splendid reception at Auckland. Fine weather has attended their whole progress through the colony. In the Supreme Court in Banco, in the case to ...
Article : 177 wordsIn acknowledgment of a letter from four Victorian children residing at Christmas Hills, Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has sent them a photograph of himself. MOREE, Saturday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 18 Feb 1901, Page 7
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