Yielding to the general wishes of the Canadians and those of the Imperial Government, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier of Canada, and Lady Laurier, together with several other ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the House of Lords last night Earl Carrington complained that wounded colonials were sent home steerage, packed like herrings. ...
Article : 176 wordsOn the motion for the adjournment ot the Legislative Assembly this morning Mr. Murray said he desired to call attention to the manner in which the Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, was being treated ...
Article : 181 wordsBrigadier-General Chaffee (Commander of the American troops) has written to Field-Marshal Count von Waldersee, Commander-in-Chief of the Allies, ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the debate on the Address in Reply to the Queen's speech, was resumed. Mr. Lloyd-George, Liberal, moved an ...
Article : 182 wordsLady Hopetoun is now convalescent from her attack of fever. She sailed from Colombo for Australia in the R.M.S. Rome on Monday. ...
Article : 29 wordsBy the orders of Count von Waldersee, Yiko, the Manchu secretary, of Li Hung Chang, has been arrested for having communicated with the Boxers. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe fact that the Earl of Hopetoun is far from strong after his recent severe attack of malarial dysentery, and that indeed he was so weak that he bad to be carried aboard the Royal Arthur at Adelaide, ...
Article : 1,133 wordsPoint Lonsdale signal station reported to Queenscliffe station to-tight that a collision had taken place at 9.30 in The Rip between two steamers, supposed to be the outward-bound Ormuz and the inward-bound ...
Article : 257 wordsThe past fortnight has been an uneventful one, and from appearances the coming winter on Peking premises to be of a similar nature. There are a few who think otherwise. At the present moment peace and ...
Article : 4,851 wordsThe French Senate has passed the Navy Bill providing for the expenditure of 762,266,000 francs (about £30,173,000) for the construction of six ironclads, 5 cruisers, ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the German Reichstag yesterday Count von Buelow, the Imperial Chancellor, in referring to Mr. Kruger's visit to Europe, said that prior to the war Mr. Kruger rejected the ...
Article : 120 wordsBaron von Thielmann, the Secretary of State for the Imperial Treasury, warned the Beichstag yesterday that Germany was entering a period of declining trade. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Legislative Assembly to-night continued the debate on the second reading of the Old-Age Pensions Bill. Several members objected that a pension of 7s a week was too small. Ultimately ...
Article : 76 wordsA committee of the Heading Presbyterians of the United States, meeting at Washington, has unanimously decided to recommend their General Assembly in favour of a revision of ...
Article : 44 wordsAnother contingent of soldiers returned from South Africa by the steamar Sophocles, which arrived at 7.30 a.m. yesterday. The men disembarked at Smith's Wharf, Miller's Point, and were received by a guard ...
Article : 459 wordsSir William Lyne was entertained at luncheon today by the Government. In addition to the Premier there were present the Minister for Lands (Mr. Duggan), the Minister for Mines and Water Supply (Mr. ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is understood that Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, in reply to Mr. Kruger's application for an audience, intimated she was displeased at Dr. Leyds publishing her ...
Article : 111 wordsBaron Lambermont, the Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Arbitrator between Great Britain and France as to the amount of compensation to be paid by ...
Article : 259 wordsAt a meeting of the Victorian Cricket Association to-night a committee was appointed to entertain the New South Wales cricket team, who pass through Melbourne to-morrow for Adelaide. A letter was ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Prince of Wales will meet Lord Roberts on his arrival from Capetown at Paddington Station on January 3, and will accompany the Commander-in-Chief of the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe conference between the representatives of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation and the Federated Seamen's Union, which has been sitting during various dates during the past fortnight, ...
Article : 915 wordsAt the wool sales to-day the selection was only moderate. Competition was extremely brisk for all merino wools, and the market for them was very firm. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe British Government is granting a gratuity to all troops who have served in South Africa. Privates are to receive £5 each, non-commissioned officers from £7 10s ...
Article : 69 wordsThe late Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt's estate is valued at £14,500,000. Mr. Alfred Vanderbilt, the second son, has been bequeathed £9,000,000. The elder son, ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Justice Hood sat at Ballarat to-day in the criminal jurisdiction, and Thomas Chalmers M'Kinlay was placed on trial on a charge of the murder of his wife on October 21. It was alleged that M'Kinlay, ...
Article : 86 wordsDr. Vandeleur Kelly, officer commanding the Near South Wales Army Medical Corps, partially paid, was in command of the contingent. When he first arrived in South Africa he took command of ...
Article : 467 wordsThe Ehrhardfc factories at Dusseldorf, Prussia, are delivering in England l8 batteries of quick-firing guns and 900 ammunition waggons in pursuance of a ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Customs receipts from July 1 to December 8 amounted to £271,208, being an increase of £5926. The excise duties totalled £17,183, or an advance of £1530. ...
Article : 130 wordsA burglar has stolen many of the Nelson relics from Greenwich Hospital, including a watch. Gold was stripped from a sword sheath. ...
Article : 30 wordsAmongst the returned soldiers who arrived in Melbourne by the Sophocles and came on to Sydney by rail was Major Victor Sellheim, of the Queensland Permanent Force, who perhaps has seen more South ...
Article : 1,413 wordsJames Huddart and Company receive a dividend of £5000 instead of their claim for £87,000 against the Canadian-Australian Steamship Company. James Huddart and ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Government expenditure returns published to-day show that the disbursements for November amounted to £244,025, against £237,937 during the previous month, and £207,978 during November last ...
Article : 62 wordsA wire from Cape Nelson, timed at 2.50 p.m. yesterday, gave the flagship H.M.S. Royal Arthur as passing there on her way to Sydney. Cape Nelson is 780 miles from Sydney, and an the Roval Arthur left ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Local Government Board is inquiring into the beer-poisoning cases in England. A murderer named Nordlund, who was beheaded yesterday at Westeraas, Sweden, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe steamer Keenookarra, which returned from Wyndham on Saturday, brought news that recently, at night, 36 aboriginal prisoners escaped from Wyndham gaol, and that the prospect of their recapture is ...
Article : 42 wordsAfter an inspection of the line the Minister for Works declares that the trunk line, Wellington to Auckland, will be completed within four years. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Premier has received a telegram from South Africa to the effect that the Aberdeen, which left Capetown on December 7, has on board for Sydney Captain Cortis, of the New South Wales Medical ...
Article : 41 wordsThe steamer Kasuga Maru anchored in Watson's Bay at 1.30 a.m. ...
Article : 15 wordsTown Hall: Organ Recital and Concert, 3 p.m. Womanhood Suffrage League: Lecture, School of Arts, [?]p.m. St. John's Glebe, Ambulance Class: Lecture, Record ...
Article : 139 wordsJudge Heydon finished the Quarter Seision business this morning. The jury, after being locked up all night, found A. P. Cunningham guilty on a charge of perjury, and he was sentenced to four ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 12 Dec 1900, Page 7
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