Particulars regarding the cost of the Tamworth Waterworks have been obtained from the Public Works Department. The original departmental estimate was £37,500; but this amount was greatly ...
Article : 244 wordsA feature of the elections has been the violent and scurrilous attacks made by Mr. Henry Labouchere, Sir CampbellBannerman, Sir Wm. Harcourt, Mr. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe 400 departing mercenaries from Delagoa Bay include the Irish-American Brigade. ...
Article : 25 wordsOwing to an attack on a German patrol south of Peking, Colonel Hopfner, with 2000 men and artillery, burned, several villages where arms were found. ...
Article : 55 wordsReuter's correspondent reports that M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a Note to the Powers states that France agrees with Germany in the ...
Article : 120 wordsWhat one hon. member described last week as the game of battledore and shuttlecock, which has been going on in regard to the Cobar to Wilcannia Railway Bill culminated in ...
Article : 1,652 wordsThe Boers are intimidating farmers, shooting natives, and attacking pickets and communications in the Lindley district. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsThe contest for Stalybridge resulted in the election of the Home Secretary's son, not the Home Secretary, the Right Hon. Sir M. W. Ridley, as previously cabled. ...
Article : 32 wordsA Russian force, consisting of two battalions of infantry and one battery of artillery, will remain at Peking. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Premier states that he is in receipt of information of a reliable character to the effect that Lord Hopetoun, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Austria, will arrive in Sydney about ...
Article : 81 wordsThe secretary of the China Inland Mission in Melbourne advised the Adelaide secretary that he had received news that Mrs. and Mr. Middleton, formerly of South Australia, Mr. and Mrs. Goold, Mr. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe polling in the undermentioned constituencies took place yesterday and resulted in the re-election of the following gentlemen ...
Article : 533 wordsLieutenant Dalrymple, of the Victorian Contingent, and Lieutenant Forster, of the Tasmanians, have sailed for England. ...
Article : 23 wordsOwing to Parliament having decided to submit the proposed Belmore-Liverpool railway extension to the Public Works Committee, a meeting, convened by the Mayor (Alderman Christiansen) for the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe British trading steamers, have been withdrawn from the West River, Southern China. Owing to the vexations and the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Premier (Sir William Lyne) yesterday despatched the following telegram to Lord Hopetoun, requestiug that it should be delivered to his Excellency at the banquet which it was proposed to tender ...
Article : 126 wordsLord Roberts has appealed to employers who have men among the volunteers in South Africa to extend the time of their employees' leave of absence, so as to ...
Article : 45 wordsThe superintendent of the P. and O. Company in Australia, is advised of the following movements of Steamers employed as transports by her Majesty's Government ...
Article : 83 wordsA child of Mr. W. Boughton, bootmaker, two years of age, tell into an underground tank in a neighbour's yard to-day, and was found some time afterwards. Dr. Walker applied artificial ...
Article : 46 wordsIt was recently stated that the Chinese Emperor had in an Imperial edict addressed to the Emperor William stated that he had ordered oblations to be ...
Article : 311 wordsAn Imperial edict has been issued dismissing the Governor of Shansi and appointing to important offices men unconnected with the Boxers. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Premier yesterday despatched the following telegram to Lord Roberts:- "New South Wales offers hearty congratulations on your well-deserved promotion to ...
Article : 33 wordsA young man named Charles Murray, while carrying [?] and walking along the railway line this morning, met the paper train on a narrow bridge two miles this side or Wingello, and was struck ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Assistant-Secretary on the Earl of Hopetoun's stall is Mr. O. Savil Gore. Captain the Hon. C. H. C. Willoughby, of the 9th Lancers, is the military ...
Article : 63 wordsA suggestion was recently made that Sir Samuel Griffith should be invited to retire from the Chief Justiceship and come forward as a candidate for the Federal Parliament. This has naturally received ...
Article : 308 wordsCommandant Erasmus took advantage of the five days' armistice granted him by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts to remove 50,000 cattle to Pietersburg Plateau. ...
Article : 31 wordsReplying to congratulations from the colony on his birthday, Lord Roberts cables that Lady Roberts and himself were pleased at the compliment, and he would always be proud of having under his command ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Premier is in receipt of a telegram from Capetown stating that Captain Ryrie is in the hospital at Wynberg convalescent, suffering from a slight wound in the left shoulder. He will soon return to ...
Article : 42 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of a man found on the Guudy-road last night in a dying condition, and who died before re[?] the hospital. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe new fuse employed by the Royal Artillery in South Africa enables field guns to fire and burst shrapnel at 5400 yards. ...
Article : 34 wordsColonel C. J. Mackenzie, the Military Governor of Johannesburg, is ready to receive refugees, who desire to return to the city, at the rate of 3000 to 4000 a ...
Article : 42 wordsThe steamer Waknnui arrived from Capetown, and among the passengers who landed here were Nurse Mansfield and Trooper Vaughan, invalided. For Adelaide: Mr. D. J. M'Callum. For Melbourne: ...
Article : 90 wordsA robbery of a large sum of money has occurred at the Vatican. The thieves forced open a safe in the Palace and stole a sum of £14,000, which ...
Article : 52 wordsA special delegate meeting of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Labour Federation was held today, one delegate representing each mine being present. The principal business was the ...
Article : 2,638 wordsIn the general elections up to the present the Conservatives have gained six seats and the Liberals seven. All the latter are Liberal Imperialists. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsMr. "Jack" Hellings, the Australian swimmer, won the 100 yards championship of the southern counties in 65 1-5 seconds, beating Rubell, the Austrian ...
Article : 48 wordsSir,— It is to be hoped that the Government when planning events for entertainment purposes during the Duke of York's coming visit to Sydney will not forget the fact that the Duke is like the Prince of ...
Article : 152 wordsThe English mails were a day late in arrival at Adelaide at the latter end of last week, and consequently did not reach here until Saturday night, It was, therefore, impossible to deliver them until ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Italian Minister at Peking cables that the Imperial edicts as to the punishments of instigators of the recent outrages are a mere artifice. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe sitting, in connection with the eighteenth annual convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New South Wales were continued at the Young Men's Christian Association Hall to-day. ...
Article : 426 wordsFor the undermentioned constituencies the following gentlemen have been reelected unopposed:- ENGLAND. ...
Article : 90 wordsWith regard to the resolution carried in the Tasmanian Assembly proposing to send a joint cablegram to Mr. Chamberlain on the subject of the annexation of the Transvaal, a reply was sent ...
Article : 72 wordsThe German force at Liang-hsiang is occupying the railway from Peking to Paoting-fu. The Russian force at Tougshan is ...
Article : 35 wordsThe body of Mrs. Kuudson, wife of a lumper, was found in the sea near Fremantle jetty last night. The select committee appointed to consider the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Cape newspapers brought by the Wakanui contain a paragraph regretfully referring to Sir Alfred Milner's warning against the influx of miners and others being either unknown or unheard ...
Article : 127 wordsLieutenant-General Sir A. Gaselee commands the column at Peking. The German column which was at Tientsin is on the way to Paoting-fu. ...
Article : 33 wordsAdvices from India state that a Russian force is mobilising at Kohan, in Russian Central Asia, on the border of Chinese Turkestan, presumably with the object of ...
Article : 46 wordsThe new Russian naval estimates provide an additional expenditure of £1,000,000. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe barquentine Lorn of the Isles, from Sydney, went ashore north of Auckland, and became a total wreck. The crew was saved. The vessel had a cargo of bonedust. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Assaye left Capetown on August 22, via Las Palmas, for Southampton, where she was expected about September 10. The Manila arrived at Capetown on August 20 ...
Article : 89 wordsThe New South Wales Naval Contingent will winter at Peking. The Victorian Contingent has arrived at Taku. ...
Article : 26 wordsJack Hellings, the New South Wales swimming champion, yesterday won the 150 Yards Championship of London in 1 minute 46 seconds. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe four-masted barque Falls of Garry arrived to-day from Sydney to load a cargo of coal from the Duckenfield Colliery for Honolulu. The ship Tamar sailed to-day for Callo with 2972 tons of Seaham coal, and the steamer ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. Cogh, a Queensland officer, has been attached to the staff of BrigadierGeneral Loru Campbell, who commands the British forces at Tientsin. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe R.M.S. Oruba arrived from Colombo at 3.45 p.m. to-day. The passengers in the saloon are:- Far Perth: Mr. W. Brown. For Melbourne: Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Woodhead. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 380 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 5½d per ounce standard—a rise of 3-16d since yesterday. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe following gentlemen have been elected unopposed:- ENGLAND. Newbury.—Mr. W. A. Mount, Conservative. ...
Article : 40 wordsFrance has now declared her willingness to join with the Powers in exacting the due punishment of the notorious instigators of the Boxer outrages. The suggestion, it will be remembered, came from ...
Article : 567 wordsAt the sales of Australian tallow to-day 2825 casks were offered, of which 1625 were sold. Mutton, fine, realised 28s; mutton, medium, 26s 6d; beef, fine, 27s ...
Article : 40 wordsIt has been decided that the two chargers that are to be sent to South Africa as presents to Lieuteuant-General Baden-powell shall be exhibited to the Public at Victoria Barracks on the afternoon of the ...
Article : 131 wordsFor the undermentioned constituencies the following gentlemen have been reelected unopposed:- ENGLAND AND WALES. ...
Article : 121 wordsIn June last the Premier forwarded to the Government of India copies of Captain Oreswell's article on the establishment of Indian Government horse depots in the Northern Territory and of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe tracks of thr black's which were lost in the scrub between Nowendoe and Walcha have not been recovered. The police and civilians are working hard and enduring hardships. The mountainous ...
Article : 72 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 33 wordsThe total local receipts for the Indian Famine Fund amount to £140 4s. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 4 Oct 1900, Page 7
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