The Earl of Hopetoun has arrived at Colombo from Bombay, and is the guest of Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, Governor of Ceylon. Lord Hopetoun was carried ashore. ...
Article : 81 wordsTwo Boers captured Lieutenant Neumeyer, the officer commanding the Orange River Colony Police at Smithfield, while he was driving unarmed to Aliwal North, on the ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the Reichstag on Saturday Count von Bulow, the Imperial Chancellor, stated that the Powers were unarumons on every one of the 11 points formulated by the Ministers as ...
Article : 305 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 5 9-16d per ounce standard, a rise of 1-16d since Friday. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe usual long lists of questions which have hitherto occupied the first portion of each sitting of the Legislative Assembly were conspicuously ab[?] from the business paper when the House ...
Article : 1,580 wordsSir,—The late U. S. Consul, George W. Bell, is no doubt a very wise man, but it will be found that he is not an infallible oracle. First—Every American at all intelligent aud intormed knows that ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Premier has been advised that the Harlech Castle will arrive next Tuesday morning, and a public half holiday has been proclaimed in order that the returning soldiers may have a fitting welcome. ...
Article : 359 wordsThis evening Mr. M. Glynn, M.L.A., one of South Australia's delegates on the Federal Convention, spoke at Hindmarsh on tbe fiscal policy of the Commonwealth. He said that ...
Article : 152 wordsAn important meeting of the executive of the above was held in the Town Hall last night. The Mayor (Sir Matthew Harris) occupied the chair, and amongst those present were Messrs. W. M'Millan, ...
Article : 447 wordsThe Government of Natal will send one of its Ministers to be present at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Premier, at 20 minutes past 12 o'clock this (Tuesday) morning, received a cable message from Lord Hopetoun, dated from Colombo. It was a code message, and Sir William Lyne was unable to ...
Article : 188 wordsSir,—Speaking at St. Leonards on July 5, 1894, Sir Henry Parkes said he "would use all his power to secure the election of a freetrade Federal Parliament." He also said he "was altogether in ...
Article : 128 wordsPresident M'Kinley, speaking at Philadelphia, said that his re-election to the Presidency implied the people's endorsement of the gold standard, of the policy of the "open ...
Article : 50 wordsLieutenant L. Paxton, with four men, while proceeding from Thaban'Chu to Ladybrand, mistook, the road and galloped straight into the Boer position. Lieutenant Paxton ...
Article : 44 wordsSir,—The idea of raising an appropriate memorial to the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia has, it seems, taken a strong hold of the mind of the people, and it also appears that they, as well as ...
Article : 279 wordsKing Leopold, of Belgium, has informed the Duke of Orleans that his projected visit to Brussels will be unwelcome. ...
Article : 27 wordsTung-fuh-siang, in whose hands the Imperial Court now is, threatens to usurp the throne. The Emperor Kwaug-hsu chiefly relies upon General Ma, who has a blood-feud ...
Article : 39 wordsBrigadier-General Settle's column has captured, in the south-western portion of the Orange River colony, 12 prisoners, 200 horses and 10,000 sheep. ...
Article : 28 wordsLieutenant Guy Wylly, who has won che Victoria Cross, is a member of the Tasmanian section of the Imperial Contingent of Australian Bushmen. He is aged 22 years, and is a resident of Sandy Bay. He ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday morning Mr. Hogue asked the Premier whether, in view of the fact that Lord Hopetoun was in an unsatisfactory state of health, any communications had passed ...
Article : 264 wordsThree hundred people at Manchester are suffering from the effects of drinking beer, the hops of which had undergone a peculiar chemical bleaching, which had produced ...
Article : 36 wordsIt was cabled two weeks ago that Russia would hand over to Count von Waldersee, who in turn would transfer to Mr. Kinder, the engineer, the railway line from Peking to ...
Article : 57 wordsMajor-General Smith-Dorrien has destroyed Dullstroom, on account of it having harboured and supplied the enemy with stores. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn invitation has been received from Sir William Lyne to send a detachment of Victorian troops to Sydney towards the end of December to take part in the Commonwealth celebration festivities. It is likely ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Citizens' Life Assurance Company, which is interested in the bestowal of the first Australian V.C. in connection with the war, because the first Australasian soldier to be thus decorated will be ...
Article : 170 wordsMr. Kruger, being tired, and apparently disappointed by the hysteria and the unreality of the demonstration at Paris, retired early yesterday and remains indoors all ...
Article : 87 wordsMiss Darchy, of Sydney, lectured in London on "Australian Forests." Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, presided. ...
Article : 26 words"Spectotor" suggests that each colony should contribute a triumphal arch to the Commonwealth display. "The Widower" recommonds the management of ...
Article : 186 wordsRussia has postponed the date of the withdrawal of her troops from Manchuria. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe London Valley Goldfields Company is being formed,' with a capital of £750,000. All the shares are being issued. The price of purchase is £700,000. The Earl of ...
Article : 63 wordsA strike has occurred among the men employed al the West Colliery Caul Mine. The men are demanding 4s 9d a ton, while the owners are determined not to pay more than 4s 6d. ...
Article : 247 wordsThe French accuse the Sikhs of ransacking the Imperial tombs at Siling. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Premier yesterday received a cable message from the High Commissioner for South Africa stating that Colonel Mackay had been appointed staff officer for Australian contingents at Capetown. ...
Article : 32 wordsSeveral questions were asked in Parliament yesterday with regard to the Commonwealth celebrations. The Premier, in answer to Mr. Moore, said the Government had not yet decided on the details of ...
Article : 294 wordsThe Tyson succession duty case was continued to-day. Further evidence was taken for the defence. The witnesses were Mr. John M'Donald, manager of Tinnenburra station, and Mr. James Tyson, retired ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 478 wordsThe British press in commenting upon Mr. Kruger's reception admit the scrupulous correctness of the conduct of M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the French Premier, and the abstention ...
Article : 55 wordsDuring the past three or four months robberies with violence in suburban streets have been so numerous as to call for increased vigilance on the part of the police on night duty. The list of these serious offences ...
Article : 77 wordsLast evening a public meeting of the residents of Newtown was held in the local Town Hall to take steps to protest against the existing arrangements in regard to the boundaries of Newtown in the matter ...
Article : 493 wordsThunderstorms have been reported from several stations in the Winton district. Ayshire got over an inch of rain, other places halt an inch. It is stated that the water supply at Birdsville is very short. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe European press in commenting on Mr. Kruger's reception at Paris declares that it is hopeless for him to expect anything beyond sympathy from the nations of Europe. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Postmaster-General will consult to-morrow with the Premier whether the Ministry should resume negotiations with the Eastern Extension Company concerning the Cape cable scheme at the point ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the Auckland sports F. M. Ruseingrave, of Sydney, covered 21ft. 10ln. in a long jump, establishing a fresh record for the colony. The man who was arrested by the police in ...
Article : 82 wordsM. Rochefort, the editor of "L'Intransigeant," in Paris, has made an appeal for an international subscription of 40,000,000[?]r. (about £1,600,000) to equip 250,000 men to ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Williams and a jury, Ernest M'Donald Scott, manager of the Co-operative Coupon Company, sued Robert Walker, proprietor of the "Bendigo ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the Vice-Admiralty Court to-day the BovericHellas collision case, the hearing of which occupied several weeks, was decided. The action arose out of the collision between the steamer Boveric and the ...
Article : 281 wordsRepresentatives from the Citizens' Commonwealth Celebrations Committee yesterday waited upon the Premier, and informed him that in view of the opinions expressed in certain quarters,that if the ...
Article : 167 wordsSome four or five months ago it was reported that a man named P. Killane was missing from Ebeagoolah. He was left alone prospecting in the direction of the Coleman, and not returning home within a ...
Article : 256 wordsDr. Leyds, the Boer agent, attended a diplomatic dinner given by M. Delcasse, the French Foreign Minister, in honour of Prince George of Greece. ...
Article : 31 wordsA middle-aged man named John Garde met with his death in Bell's claim, at Daylesford to-day. With Alexander Bell he was working in the bottom of the 60ft. shaft, and noticed the air was getting very foul. ...
Article : 86 wordsSir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner for South Africa, will make his final headquarters at Pretoria. He is overworked at present, and will shortly go aboard H.M.S. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. George Musgrove, who closed his grand opera season in the Princess Theatre on Saturday, lost no time in making start with comic opera, "The Scarlet Feather" being staged to-night in the presence ...
Article : 284 wordsIn view of the decision of the Premier not to expend more than £500 each on the four arches which the Decoration Committee recommended should be erected at a cost of £1200 each, the members of the ...
Article : 118 wordsLieutenant S. F. Osborne, of the New South Wales Lancers, has sailed from Capetown for England. Private A. W. Grey, of the New South ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 367 wordsSome time ago Mr. S. M'Caugbey waited on the Premier, and suggestsed the desirability of erecting a triumphal arch built of bales of wool, pointing out that it would be representative of the great national ...
Article : 326 wordsA meeting was held this afternoon in the Australian Hall to consider the question of requesting Mr. Barton to contest the electorate of Canoblas. A motion affirming the desirability of obtaining his ...
Article : 69 wordsThe meeting of the Dubbo Land Board was concluded on Monday last. The following were the principal cases dealt with:- The Works Department applied for an additional ...
Article : 494 wordsDuring a midnight raid on a Transvaal farmhouse a Hussar, seeing a Boer rise, rushed forward, and received in his stomach a shot which had been fired at Major-General ...
Article : 117 wordsIn another column Mr. C. J. Royle, of Bond-street, Sydney, announces his candidature for election to the Federal Senate, Mr. Royle issues a short address to the electors. ...
Article : 33 wordsA meeting was held in the Town Hall this afternoon to consider what steps should be taken to secure the representation of Orange on the route of the Commonwealth inauguration celebrations procession. ...
Article : 317 wordsThe intercolonial mails, ex Australia, left by special train at 6.40 p.m. yesterday. The weather on Saturday was unpleasantly warm, 106 degrees being registered. To-day was nearly ...
Article : 128 wordsA talegram has been received by LieutenantColonel Burns from Surgeon-Major Fiaschi, on board the Harlech Castle, stating that Trooper W. M. Ellis, No. 891, of the New South Wales Lancers, died from ...
Article : 75 wordsNominations closed this evening for the seats in the Legislative Assembly vacated by Sir George Turner and his colleagues by the acceptance of Ministerial office. Mr. William Densham, partner in the firm of ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Premier, some time since, received a telegram from the Natal Government, stating that it would be unable to be represented at the Commonwealth celebrations Yesterday, however, Sir ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. George Musgrove's opera season will open at the Theatre Royal with "[?] Trovatore" on Saturday. Verdi's work will be staged a second time on Monday, and will be followed by "Faust" (with a new ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. B. B. O'Conor asked the Premier whether he had seen the statement in the "Herald" of that morning to the effect that on the arrival of the ...
Article : 204 wordsWhen it was announced on the authority of the Premier that a prize would be offered for the most suitable poem or ode commemorative of the inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth little did the ...
Article : 215 wordsAt a soiree musicale recently given by the Glebe Musical Society at the Glebe Town Hall the retiring secretary, Mr. H. L. Woolscott, was presented by Mr. J. A. Hogue, M.L.A., on behalf of the members, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 27 Nov 1900, Page 5
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