A meeting of the Federal Cabinet will be held to-day, at which various matters of importance will be considered. It is understood that all the Ministers will be present, with the exception of Sir George ...
Article : 46 wordsZanddrift, where Commandant de Wet and Mr. Steyn crossed the Orange River, was the only drift in the river which the British had not mined. ...
Article : 176 wordsAn edict from the Emperor Kwangh[?] declares that the Princes and the officials are resisting the proposals to suppress the Boxers, and that the Court has thus ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. W. R. Cremer (Radical), member for Haggerston, declared at Peterborough that Mr. Chamberlain had grossly deceived Queen Victoria respecting the war in South Africa, ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Premier of Queensland has received an interesting communication from a resident in Frankfort-on-Main touching the establishment of an all-German cable to Eastern ...
Article : 3,050 wordsHis Excellency the Governor yesterday received a cablegram from Mr. Chamberlain accepting Queensland's offer of a sixth contingent for South Africa. Inquiries are being made about a transport. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe military authorities have not yet received any definite instructions respecting the transfer of the defence forces of the State to the Commonwealth. It is understood, however, that so far as possible ...
Article : 60 wordsLast evening at Sinnott's Town Hall Hotel, Oxford-street, Paddington, a largely attended meeting of returned New South Wales soldiers was held, for the purpose of discussing the question of the ...
Article : 66 wordsAt length the work of making out the electors' rights, rendered necessary by the Electoral Act passed last year, is drawing to a close; in fact, in may be said that little more remains to be done at the Chief ...
Article : 673 wordsAmong the troops who returned from South Africa by the Nineveh on Sunday was Captain J. M. Conroy, who left Sydney just a year ago with the New South Wales Bushmen on the Atlantian. Captain Conroy ...
Article : 728 wordsThe estate of the late Lord Armstrong is valued for probate purposes at £1,389,946. He be[?]ueathed £7000 to charities. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn anticipation of fresh taxation to be proposed in the Budget, enormous clearings are being made from bond. In tea alone 150,000,000lbs, have been withdrawn. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe German commissariat in China has ordred 1000 transport waggons to be in readiness in three weeks for an expedition which will extend over 80 days. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Standard's" correspondent states that Mr. Malcolm Clark, a Transvaal mining man, has made a daring cross-country journey from Leydsdorp to Pretoria. He captured ...
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Article : 5,361 wordsThe mobs of Belgrade are incensed at the interment of the remains of ex-King Milan in Hungary. The mobs hooted King Alexander and stoned his palace windows. ...
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Article : 21 wordsThe names of the following Australians appear in the casualty lists:- Queensland.—Severely wounded at Eichwavtz Kopjes on February 13, Corporal W. ...
Article : 125 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. John Dillon moved the adjournment of the House as a protest againt a long-standing rule of the leader of the House, Mr. A. J. ...
Article : 324 wordsThere is a great decrease in the German home trade, especially in iron manufactures. Fifty per cent, of the Berlin building trades' workmen are unemployed. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Sussex cricket committee has resolved that the action of the county captains in regard to certain bowlers throwing is ultra vires. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe second conference of permanent heads of the postal departments in Australia was concluded yesterday evening. As was mentioned yesterday, the conference sat in Melbourne last week, and when ...
Article : 214 wordsTwo cases of plague have occurred among the suspects at Capetown. A coolie employed at the docks has also been stricken with the disease. ...
Article : 49 wordsRenter's agent states that when Hertzog's commando at Calvinia heard of Queen Victoria's death they trampled upon portraits of her Majesty, and used ribald and filthy ...
Article : 121 wordsThe "Register" has published its annual estimate of the wheat harvest. The total yield is given at 13,200,00 bushels, which taken from 1,600,000 [?]cres, gives an average of 8 bushels 15lbs. per ...
Article : 96 wordsThe new Waitekauri Extended Gold-mining Company is being formed with a capital of £100,000 in 5s shares. It is issuing 360,000 shares at 3s 3d. ...
Article : 55 wordsA ceremony of a unique character took place at the Newtown Public School yesterday afternoon, when in the preseues of the teaching staff, the senior scholars, and a number of visitors, two presentations ...
Article : 905 wordsMr. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, has telegraphed to Mr. Holder that if the Indian troops carry out their original programme, winch he expected they would do, they would not reach Adelarde till ...
Article : 42 wordsAs illustrating the opinion in the country districts on the fiscal question, a gentleman who has moved about in them a good deal during the past few months remarked yesterday in conversation that the ...
Article : 866 wordsAt a meeting of Australian butter importers and butter agents yesterday, Mr. H. Copeland, the Agent-General of New South Wales, and Sir A. Clarke, the Agent-General of Victoria, ...
Article : 93 wordsThe enrolment of candidates for the Federal Contingent proceeded briskly yesterday. The medical staff examined 106, and 65 succeeded in passing the standard. Lieuteuant Grace put through 65 at the ...
Article : 876 wordsThe cremation society, which after many years' agitation has secured from the Government a site for a crematorium, held a meeting to-day, at which an influential committee of citizens was appointed to ...
Article : 147 wordsOwing to the depression in Imperial securities, and the probability of future borrowings on account of the war, financiers consider it unlikely that the Victorian ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Premier has received the following letter from Mr. F. E. Clotten, mining and financial agent, at Frankfort on-Main, under date January 8:—"Dear Sir—The following information, which has not ...
Article : 362 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4¼d per ounce standard, a rise of 5-16d since Thursday. ...
Article : 21 wordsSome additional figures have been received by the Mines Departmentt, thr[?] the wardens' annual reports, showing an inc[?] yield of gold last year of 11,615oz., making a total increase of 16,177oz. over ...
Article : 392 wordsGoschen's Consols are quoted at 97¾, a rise of ½ since Friday. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. George Graham, ex-member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe death is announced of Admiral Sir George Ommanney Willes, G.C.B., aged 78 years. Sir George O. Willes was born in 1823, and entered ...
Article : 106 wordsFederal Elections.—Australian Liberal Association: M[?]ting, Town Hall. Newtown; speakers, the Right Hon. E. Barton and others, 8 p.m. Mr. Bruce Smith at Granville Town Hall, 8 p.m. Mr. R. D. Meagher's meeting, ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Imperial troops left Auckland for Adelaide to-day. The Premier, Mr. Seddop, obtained the consent) of Lord Roberts to extend the stay of the troops for three days, which allowed them to go to ...
Article : 148 wordsThe R.M.S. China's gold shipment comprised 30 bars bullon for the Union Bank, London, £10,290; Bank of Australasia, £38,247; Union Bank, £27,810; National Bank, £21,350; P. and O. Company, £4000. ...
Article : 39 wordsSome days are likely to elapse before the protection ist organisation (the Australian Liberal Association) and the freetrade organisation (the Freetrade and Liberal Association) publish the names of the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 20 Feb 1901, Page 7
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