Part of Commandant de Wet's force has been driven into a triangle formed by the junction of the Orange River and the Brak. The rivers are flooded, and the horses are not ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the instance of the United States Government, the Allies have accepted the principle that no Power shall seek individual concessions in Chinese territory without ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Pacific Mail S.S. Company's steamer City of Ri[?] de Janeiro, 3548 tons, from Hongkong and Yokohama, struck the ledge of the entrance to the Golden Gate, San Francisco, ...
Article : 728 wordsThe Imperial Government supports the proclamation issued by Lord Kitch[?]ner, prohibiting the circulation of newspapers and books calculated to encourage the B[?]ers ...
Article : 40 wordsAccoiding to the reports which reach [?] from South Africa the struggle of the guer[?] leaders against the British forces is bec[?]g more hopeless every day. The centre of the ...
Article : 2,021 wordsThe German authorities have commenced to transfer to the British the railway from Peking to Shanhaikwan. The British have already assumed control of the P[?]king to ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is estimated that the losses of the Boers in January were 1000 in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Over 200 dead were actually counted. The losses in February up to the ...
Article : 42 wordsLi Hung Chang states that Prince Chuang, who was ordered to commit suicide, and Yu[?]sien, whose decapitation was ordered by an Imperial edict, have now been punished in ...
Article : 49 wordsA military tribunal at Johannesburg has sentenced two burghers, who were captured while attempting to enter Johannesburg, to be shot[?] for espionage. ...
Article : 30 wordsFour hundred of Commandant d[?] Wet's force deserted him on hearing of the report of the proclamations issued by Lord Kitchener on December 20. The proclamations are now ...
Article : 39 wordsAn Imperial edict orders that the palaces in the Forbidden City of P[?]king shall be prepared for the return of the Court, which will be made at the end of March. ...
Article : 40 wordsAn explosion on the track stopped the mail train from Natal to Johannesburg, near Heidelberg, on February 20. Three hundred Boers in hiding fired on the train, and ...
Article : 45 wordsA British officer whom the Boers captured at Zand Drift, on the Orange River, and who was released at Houtkr[?]al, declares that Commandant do Wet treated his prisoners on ...
Article : 82 wordsThroughout all the negotiations with the Imperial Court, the Ministers of the Powers have consistently ign[?]red the Empress Dowager and have recognised the Emperor ...
Article : 35 wordsChinese regulars attacked 50 Germans westward of Pa[?]-ting-fu on Thursday. The Germans fought a rearguard action, and had one man killed and seven wounded. The Chinese ...
Article : 40 wordsThe second battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusili[?]rs has been ordered to leave Hongkong and proceed to Poking to relieve the Australian contingents, which it was recently ...
Article : 41 wordsThe column commanded by BrigadierGeneral Burn Murdoch, including the Natal volunteer and naval composite regiment, with a large convoy, has traversed the ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. J. E. Re[?]ond, Parnellite, moved an amendment to the Address in Reply asking an Imperial credit for the compulsory wholesale ...
Article : 159 wordsThe chaplains who are to accompany the troops have been officially appointed, and each will take the rank of captain. They are:—Church of England, the Rev. H. R. A. Wilson; Roman Catholie, the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe "North German Gazette" denounces as brutal the venomous attacks of other German newspapers upon king Edward, Whose visit to Germany, the "North German ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. E. H. Conger, the United States Minister at P[?]king, has been granted 60 days' leave of absence. Mr. Rockhill, the well-known traveller, will contiu[?]e the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe War Office, through the Governor (Lord Tennyson), has accepted with thanks the offer of the South Australian Government to despatch enough men to South Africa to fill up contingents to the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" accuses the South African Conciliation Committee of issuing pamphlets purporting to illustrate the horrors of "Lord Kitchener's iron hand," as ...
Article : 182 wordsThe situation in China appears to be less critical, and there are many who think that the serious difficulties which he in the path will yet be overcome without further bloodshed. The Boxer movement ...
Article : 2,037 wordsThe drowned in the wre[?]k of the City of Rio de Janeiro, at the Golden Gate, include Mr. R. Wildman, United States ConsulGeneral at Hongkong, and his family, Mr. C. ...
Article : 88 wordsThere is every probability that within a few days Mr. Mathieson (the Commissioner for Hailways) will tender his resignation to the Government. It is understood that while in England and America last ...
Article : 82 wordsIt has been decided that the Fifth Contingent will wear an opossum ba[?]d round the hat in[?]ead of the e[?] feathers. The Templemore will berth at Pinkenba, where the contingent will embark. ...
Article : 38 wordsTrooper A. Andrews, of the New South Wales Mounted R[?]es, who has returned from active service in South Africa, was on Wednesday evening entertained at a social gathering in Flood's ...
Article : 166 wordsThe total number of old age pension certificates issued to date is 8000, being 2000 more than Sir George Turner thought. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Irish Nationalists' press reminds the Irish electors that their claims are only granted in response to turbulence, violence, and refusal to pay rents. ...
Article : 31 wordsA tragi[?] drowning accident is reported from W[?]nga. A young man named James M'Kay while bathing in the Murray became distressed. A farmer named O'Loughli[?], who had just left the ...
Article : 120 wordsMount Morgan Company has declared a dividend of 7d per share for February, payable on Friday next. ...
Article : 21 wordsReplying to questions in the House on Commons yesterday Mr. Chamberlain said that he entirely approved of Sir Alfred Milnor confidentially inquiring of the Earl of ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Kruger has abandoned his intention to seek an interview with King Edward [?]. at Flushing, on the ground that doing so would infringe the sanctity of the Sabbath. ...
Article : 34 wordsKing Edward slept on board the Royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, last night, and leaves Sheerness at daybreak to-day. on his journey to Germany to visit his sister, the ...
Article : 48 wordsCaptain Thomas M'Gill, superintendent of the Bermuda Dockyard, has surveyed the steam yacht Schemara, which was purchased from an American millionaire for the ...
Article : 58 wordsA public meeting was h[?]ld last night to consider the advisability of crecting a memorial to Privats P. lteilly, of the Picton Mounted R[?]es, who died in South A[?]s. The Mayor (Alderman J. M'Quiggan) ...
Article : 237 wordsThe mangled body of James Moloney, an elderly man who resided at Kensington, was found on Saturday morning on the railway line at South Kensington. Inquiries made show that Malonoy [?]se from his ...
Article : 79 wordsThe casualty lists contain the names of the following members of the Australian and New Zealand contingents:- New South Wales.—Severely wounded ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Lazarus gold mine at New Chum, in the Bandigo district, was the sc[?]ne yesterday morning of a shocking fatality, Three experienced miners George T[?]ner, Edward N[?]y, and William ...
Article : 547 wordsThe New South Wales Government has placed Treasury bills to the amount of £1,000,000 at 4 per cent, for four years. The price is withheld. ...
Article : 86 wordsViscount Cranborn[?], the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, said that the German Emperor had made no offer to arbitrate between ...
Article : 45 wordsThe War Office has nominated Captain W. H. P. Plumer, of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, as the Deputy-Assistant Adjutant General for Queensland for musketry instruction. ...
Article : 64 wordsSir Michael Hi[?]ks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated in the House of Commons that heretofore the cost of the war had been £81,500,000, but that now it was ...
Article : 41 wordsAt few days ago a cable was received from South Africa stating that Lieutenant Masou, son of th[?] Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, was severely wounded. A further cable was received yesterday i[?] ...
Article : 195 wordsA lady, while returning front a fancy dress ball at Cologne, was frozen to death. Feb. 23. The Misses Gri[?]iths (three) played at ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Premier says that the New South Wales Government has placed Treasury Bills for £1000,000 upon the London market. They will have a four years' currency at 4 per cont. sir William Lyne was ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that Major-General Sir H. E. Colvile was sent home from South Africa ...
Article : 129 wordsSir F. H. Jeun[?], President of the Admiralty Court, has awarded the salvors of the Chiltonford £10,000. The Chiltonford, four-masted barque, bound from ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Government has agreed to increase all sala[?] of class[?] female assistant teachers from the beginning of the year. The dead body of a man 40 years of age was found ...
Article : 156 wordsThe final course of the Waterloo Cup, run at Alt[?]ar, resulted as follows:- Waterl[?] Cup, for 64 subscribers at £25 each; winner £500, second £200, two dogs £50 each, four ...
Article : 206 wordsFederal Elections,—Sir Willam M'Mi[?]an will Address the electors of Weatworth at the Randwick Town Hall, [?] p.m.; Mr. John Norton M.L.A., Goulburn Town Hall, 8 p.m.; Mr. Fran[?] Ab[?], for the Senate, Odd[?]ws' ...
Article : 260 wordsFive hundred Boers who were at Delagoa Bay have been conveyed in transports by the Portuguese authorities to Lisbon. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe London County Council is maturing a scheme for housing 40,000 poor people at a cost of £1,500,000. The rents will be from 6s to 9s 6d weekly. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe hopes entertained that the Kurrwang woodcutters' strike would be satisfactorily adjusted were realised to-day when the men decided to accept the company's offer of 24s a truck, equal to 8s a cord, ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Queen's chocolates, sent as presents from the late Queen Victoria to the soldiers engaged in the war in South Africa, have only just reached Mafeking. ...
Article : 33 wordsKittawa, s., from Tas[?]a: [?] bags potatoes, [?] bags silver lead [?], 600 bags cats, 407 bales str[?], 4[?] [?]ks pea[?]. For Newcastle.: [?] bags ore, [?] bags potatoes. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is stated that the Australian landing place of the Pacific cable will be South Port, Queensland. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe work of enrolling men for the Imperial draft contingent is progressing satisfactorily at the Agricultural Ground, though up to Saturday the full strength of the contingent had not been completed. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 25 Feb 1901, Page 7
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