At a special meeting of the members of the Melbourne Bicycle Club to-night it was decided by 93 votes to 17 to withdraw from the League of Victorian Wheelmen as a preliminary to assuming the ...
Article : 53 wordsAlthough the Legislative Council [?] for less than an honr and a half yesterday, it transacted a considerable amount of business. A bill introduced by Mr. Hughes to regulate the business of ...
Article : 1,431 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the miners' delegate board was held at the Trades Hall to-day. Mr. Bower (miners' president) occupied the chair, and there was a full attendance of delegates, representing ...
Article : 648 wordsVignarons about Corowa have suffered further losses from a late frost. On Saturday night last the havoc wrought was especially heavy. In the lowlying vineyards hardly a grower bus escaped. The ...
Article : 2,416 wordsConstant skirmishes with small marauding bands of Boers take place at Wepener and Ventersburg, in the Orange River Colony, and near Welverdiend and ...
Article : 84 wordsSun-yat-son, the reformer, who unfurled his flag at Whei-chan, on the East River, to the cast of Canton, and whose followers desire to overthrow the Manchu dynasty, ...
Article : 60 wordsAn analysis of the polling at the general election shows that the Conservatives and Unionists polled 2,360,852 votes, and the Liberals 2,055,951. ...
Article : 128 wordsAt the sitting of the Criminal Court at Ballarat to-day the brothers Radcliffe and Benjamin Morgan, who were convicted of conspiracy to defraud in connection with the Glentine No. 1 salting scandal, were ...
Article : 386 wordsA force under Lieutenant-Colonel Bethune ambushed a Boer commando, near Vryheid. The enemy had 60 killed and 35 wounded, and 65 were captured. ...
Article : 29 wordsLi Hung Chang has ordered the Black Flags (Kwang-tung battalions) and the Kwang-si battalions now in Hunan to return to Canton. ...
Article : 42 wordsTheunis Bothn, a brother of General Louis Botha, has surrendered at Volksrust to the British. ...
Article : 22 wordsPrince Hohenlohe, the Chancellor of the German Empire has resigned his office on account of old age. Count von Bulow, the Minister for ...
Article : 173 wordsIt is stated at Shanghai that the Empress Dowager has issued a decree dismissing Liu-kun-yi, the Viceroy of the Liangkiang (Kiang-su, Kiang-si, Ngan-whei). ...
Article : 40 wordsThe War Office notifies that the issuing of the order for the return of the troops from South Africa depends upon military exigencies, which are based upon the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "Standard's" correspondent at Tientain says that it is believed that a threat to destroy the tombs of the Ming dynasty and to suppress the present ...
Article : 58 wordsDetails of the Molopo (Ottoahoop) engagement show that a patrol of New South Wales Bushmen was inquiring about concealed arms at a Boer ...
Article : 124 wordsA Townsville message states that the steamer Bee, running between Townsville and Magnetic Island, dragged her anchor in Picnic Bay and went on a reef, knocking a hole in her bottom. The vessel is ...
Article : 218 wordsPrince Ching and Li Hung Chang state that they are unaware of the existence of an edict ordering punishments of certain officials for having instigated ...
Article : 125 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier of Canada, speaking at Toronto, stated that he agreed with Mr. Chamberlain that freetrade is the only basis for an ...
Article : 47 wordsThe spring show of the Adamstown and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society was opened in the Carrington Hall, Adamstown, this afternoon, by Dr. Harwood, president of the society. ...
Article : 294 wordsPrivate members' business occupied the greater portion of yesterday's sitting of the Assembly. A motion in favour of the erection of a public battery and cyanide works at Tarcoola was earned without ...
Article : 398 wordsTrooper F. Avard, of the N.S.W. Lancers, has died of his wounds. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe challenge issued by Sir T. J. Lipton to American yatchsmen to race again for the America Cup has been accepted. The series of races will take place in ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Produce Depot at Port Adelaide is unable to deal with more than 1000 lambs daily. This number is actually less than were being frozen a year ago. Shippers are inconvenienced, and the market for lambs ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Yangtsze-kiang is covered with junks carrying troops, provisions, and ammunition past Hankau to Han-chung, whence canals connect with the ...
Article : 62 wordsA German missionary, the Rev. Carl Prozesky, has been sentenced at Durban to a year's imprisonment and has been fined £500 for treason. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (F.R.C.S.) has been conferred upon Dr. Alexander MacCormick, of Sydney. ...
Article : 145 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has received the following cable message from the High Commissioner of South Africa. Sir Alfred Milner:—"October 17; No. 207, F. Avard, New South Wales Lancers, died ...
Article : 65 wordsFine weather prevailed for the second day of the Agricultural Show, and there was a large attendance of visitors. ...
Article : 25 wordsM. de Giers, the Russian Minister to China, and the Legation staff have been ordered to return from Tientsin to Peking. ...
Article : 29 wordsA youth named George Hocey, 17 years of age, lately employed as a wheeler at the Wallsend Colliery, died in the Wall[?]end Mining District Hospital this afternoon from [?], the result of an ...
Article : 115 wordsLandslips have occurred on the Rimutaka Range, as the result of the heavy local rains, and have blocked the traffic of the main trunk line. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Governor has received a letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Carrington enclosing an order issued relative to the death of Captain S. G. Hubbe. Sir Frederick Carrington states that ...
Article : 171 wordsA cable received to-day from the Agent-General states that a contract has been let by the British war authorities in India for the supply of 2000 tons of Victorian firewood for China. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe R.M.S. Ophir arrived from Colombo at 3.30 a.m. to-day. Passengers in the saloon are:- For Fremantle: Mr. H. [?]. Baker and Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Wainwright. ...
Article : 326 wordsThe four-masted barque Falls of Dee sailed to-day for Vaipara[?]o with 2899 tons of Hetton coal, and the ship Laomene sailed for Carrizal with 2728 tons of Wallsend coal, and the ship Bothwell cleared ...
Article : 274 wordsThe suspicious case of sickness at Limehouse has been proved not to be plague. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe blacks were seen by a boy named Coombes on Tuesday evening within a few yards of a house on Forbes River, about five miles below where Jimmy was shot at Coombes' selection on Suturday. The ...
Article : 562 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday Mr. Kerr moved the adjournment of the House to consider the acceptance of Cobb and Co.'s mail tender, Alpha to Tambo, £550; the next tender was £290. The Premier ...
Article : 568 wordsEight invalided soldiers from South Africa returned by the Melbourne express this morning. Colonel J. M. Gordon, Commandant of the Military Forces of South Autralia, also returned to ...
Article : 140 wordsGoschen's consols are quoted at 98?. ...
Article : 10 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 5¼d per ounce standard—a rise of l-16d since yesterday. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt the wool sales to-day biddings were brisk. For good wools there was a strong demand. Oct. 18. ...
Article : 74 wordsA report presented to the Colonial Secretary on affairs at Lord Howe Island by the acting visiting magistrate, Mr. Frank Farnell, was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday evening. Mr. ...
Article : 446 wordsThe billiard match between John Roberts, the English player, and F. Weiss, the champion of Australia, was continued to-day at the A[?]m Hall. The match which is for £600 a side, is 21,000 ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Melbourne Cup traffic this year premises to be very heavy and the Railway Commissioners have made ample arrangements for the convenience and comfort of railway travellers. Owing to the ...
Article : 265 wordsAt the sales of Australian tallow to-day 3225 casks were offered, of which 1200 were sold. Prices of all kinds were unchanged as follows:—Mutton, fine, 28s ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to inquire as to the merits of a bill introduced for the purpose of establshing racing associations held a meeting yesterday. Mr. T. S. Clibborn, secretary of ...
Article : 246 wordsSt. Philip's Parish Hall: Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition, 3 p.m. Lecture: Mr. C. M'Iv[?]r, Rockdale, 8 p.m. L.O. Lodges Association: Meeting, 8 p.m. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe grand choral contest for prizes amounting to £200, held in connection with the Ballarat musical competition, this evening, resulted as follows:- Ballarat Liedertafel, 263 points, 1; Ballarat ...
Article : 79 wordsThe flagship Royal Arthur, followed by the cruiser Ringarooma and the torpedo gunboat Boomerang, went out yesterday for a trial spin along the coast. The Royal Arthur, it is reported, will not ...
Article : 217 wordsHerbage in places is 18in. high. Nearly all the crops are [?] car. Shearing is in full swiug. It is estimated 263,000 sheep will be shorn in this district. ...
Article : 150 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night a motion was carried by 19 votes to 5 in favour of payment of members, and the motion applies to the present Parliament. The Premier announced that be would ...
Article : 48 wordsThe report of the Parliamentary committes on the claims of the debenture-holders in the Midland railway presented to Parliament is non-committal in character. It recommends that a Royal Commission ...
Article : 113 wordsYesterday being the Feast of St. Luke the Evan[?]list, Holy Communion was celebrated at St. Andrew's Cathedral at 8 a.m. At evensong at 4 [?].m. the service was intoned by the Rev. R. J. ...
Article : 87 wordsAs far as is known retains to hand show that the whole of the district lodges have agreed to the minutes of the delegate board's recommendation made in connection with the various matters ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 19 Oct 1900, Page 5
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