On Saturday last another important stage was reached in the progress of events, bringing the Australian colonies nearer to the close of the era of their existence as units of the great continent, and leaving ...
Article : 1,325 wordsReuter's correspondent at Tientsin, having obtained information from a credible Chinese source, asserts that the Emperor Kwang-hsu has agreed on the following conditions: ...
Article : 205 wordsA serious reverse has occurred to the column commanded by Major-General R. A. P. Clements at Nooitgedacht, near Krugersdorp. ...
Article : 415 wordsPrivate J. Mullampy, who has returned from South Africa, arrived by Saturday afternoon's passenger train from Sydney. He was met at the station by a large number of citizens, local members of the military ...
Article : 596 wordsA Parliamentary party proceeded down the harbour on the steam launch Eva, leaving Man-o'-War Steps about 9.30. The party included the Minister for Works (Mr. O'Sullivan), Mrs. O'Sullivan, the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Union liner Waikare, one of the fleet of vessels which steamed outside the Heads for several miles in order to accord Lord Hopetoun on H.M.S. Royal Arthur an aquatic welcome, had ...
Article : 502 wordsAt 8 o'clock the Torch left her moorings. So did the remainder of the escort. We found ourselves going outwards by the east channel. Leading were the Porpoise, with the Admiral on board, the ...
Article : 284 wordsWith unexpected punctuality the flagship Royal Arthur appeared off Bradley's Head steaming into the inner harbour about 10.20 a.m. Everything appeared to be in readiness, however, for her ...
Article : 757 wordsThe large party of Parliamentary members, repretentative citizens, and visitors who, with a considerable number of their lady friends, were fortunate enough to have the Government ...
Article : 224 wordsHow can you tell it's the Royal Arthur? Her masts are finer. But where are her masts? Everybody can see her in the distance except the shore man, whose principal trouble is to avoid floundering ...
Article : 894 wordsThe Yangtszo viceroys' troops are gradually strengthening the Emperor's hands now that Tung-fuh-Siang has been sent away. ...
Article : 25 wordsA fairly large party viewed the proceedings from the Government steamer Thetis, among those on board being Colonel Holborow, M.L.C., Mr. H. Moses, M.L.C., Messrs. Carroll, Haynes, H. ...
Article : 447 wordsA number of Chinese at Hoifing, Canton district, have been arrested for offering rewards for foreigners' heads. Twenty ringleaders will shortly be ...
Article : 42 wordsWere the friendliness of the "Land of the Rising Sun" towards the Australian Commonwealth and its chief ruler under her Majesty the Queen over doubted, the cordiality with which the ...
Article : 926 wordsThe South Australian gunboat Protector, which has been on service in China waters, and is now returning to Adelaide, arrived here late on Friday night. Captain Creswell will relinquish command of the ...
Article : 279 wordsA matter affecting the possession of a war trophy was decided by the pupils of the Sydney Girls' High School on Friday. The occasion was the presentation of prices, and there were present the Premier and ...
Article : 258 wordsIt is feared that 2000 men with Commandant de Wet will seatter to the farms, and may possibly rendezvous further off. Dec. 16. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Captain Cook was in evidence everywhere throughout the marine manœvres. The Superintendent of Navigation, Captain J. Edie, who was responsible for the successful issue of the nautical ...
Article : 98 wordsParliament was prorogued yesterday. It will re-assemble on February 14. ...
Article : 18 wordsAbout 11.15 everything was in readiness for landing. A boat manned by 12 man-of-war's-men was brought to the foot of the gangway at the side of the flagship, and awaited his Excellency the ...
Article : 304 wordsA Chinese steamer capsized at West River, and 200 persons on board were drowned. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Czar has sufficiently recovered to be able to sit in the open air on a verandah. ...
Article : 23 wordsSeveral of the ocean steamers moved out from Circular Quay to moorings off Mosman's Bay, Cremorne, and Neutrul Bay. The American transport Glacier, that white-painted fine steamer lying well in shore, ...
Article : 196 wordsThe "Times" states that Great Britain must adhere to the provisions of the treaty securing the neutrality of the Nicaragua Canal and the entire equality of commerce. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe death is announced of Lady Darling. Lady Darling was the only daughter of the late Mr. Christopher Salter, of West End House, Stoke Pogis, Buckinghamshire, and the third wife of the ...
Article : 82 wordsLieutenant-General Lord Methuen marched to Ottoshoop and Zeerust, capturing 200 head of cattle, 1000 sheep, and destroying stocks of grain. General Lemmer, the Boer leader, ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Lindon Bates, who is journeying to Queensland, is now inspecting the Suez Canal with the object of determining what prospect there is of widening and deepening it. Mr. ...
Article : 304 wordsNo finer spectacle could have been desired than was presented by the merchant steamers, which participated in the maritime display outside the Heads. For its success the Steamship Owners' Association of ...
Article : 823 wordsBroken into detail and robbed of its solidity of setting—the insubstantial something which we term diplomatically the general effect—a big celebration ceremony often fails to satisfy. Preconceived ideas ...
Article : 1,227 wordsA force of 1500 Boers is threatening Komati Poort, on the Portuguese border. The garrison at Utrecht, in the south-east Transvaal, having several guns, repulsed ...
Article : 107 wordsThe inquest concerning the death of the young man Arthur Brown, who succumbed to the effects of a revolver shot from Constable Hickey whilst attempting to escape from that officer at Leederville, on the ...
Article : 247 wordsBetween seven miles of bunting, from Farm Cove to Manly, the Royal Arthur steamed, and as his Excellency passed choruses of cheers resounded from shore to shore. Amid the gay-coloured pageant of ...
Article : 739 wordsThe first position in the merchantmen who went outside was assigned to Captain John Pain and the Peregrine, of Messrs. Howard Smith's line. There were 350 invited guests on board includiug many ...
Article : 179 wordsEight hundred mounted infantry at Aldershot, 400 mounted infantry from Malta, and 200 men of the Army Medical Corps have been ordered to prepare for their departure ...
Article : 37 wordsThe conditions governing the investment in colonial stocks of trust funds have been gazetted. ...
Article : 24 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has given authority for the formation of a Volunteer Rifle Corps, to be designated the "University Volunteer Rifle Corps," to be under the Volunteer Reserve ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. John Bryn Roberts, Liberal, created a stormy scene by asserting that some Australians when disappointed at not returning ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Imperial and Australian Wine Company is being formed with a capital of £80,000. Twenty thousand shares are being issued to the public at a discount. Viscount ...
Article : 41 wordsIt was, indeed, a great day for the boys in blue. That some evolutions were to be carried out outside the Heads, before thousands of people and the Governor-General, was known a day or two ...
Article : 353 wordsSir,—I would like to invite all freetraders who desire to assist in organising the freetrade forces for the approaching campaign to attend a meeting to be held this evening, at 8 o'clock, in the hall of the ...
Article : 100 wordsMany hundreds of people on Saturday correctly gauged the advantages which the cliffs of South. Head and its vicinity offered for a view of the approach of the Governor-General to the harbour and his entrance ...
Article : 527 wordsThe late Mr. Arthington, of Leeds, was a bachelor and a recluse, and lived penuriously. He has bequeathed £750,000 to assist charities with loans. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 17 Dec 1900, Page 7
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