The question of the selection of a gentleman to occupy the position of Federal Premier was set at rest yesterday evening by the fact being made public that his Excellency the Governor-General had ...
Article : 353 wordsAt to-day's auction of Australian tallow 1250 casks were offered, and 550 casks were sold. Prices of all kinds were unchanged as follows:—Fine mutton, 28s 6d; medium, ...
Article : 54 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has sent through the Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General Sir Evelyn Wood, a message to those troops not of the regular army who have ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury, speaking at the luncheon of the Conservative Union Conference last night, said that the most pressing social question was that of over-crowding, ...
Article : 152 wordsSir E. M. Salow, the British Minister at Peking, has been instructed to demand that certain additions shall be made to the joint note of the Allies to the Chinese Government, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe sentences which the special tribunal appointed under the Cape Treason Act passed on the rebels of the Colesberg district have satisfied the loyalists. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Register" this morning repoats the opinion previously expressed that in the choice of alternatives between the delegation to London and the existing State Premierships as the ...
Article : 375 wordsThe French Government has ordered its troops in China to restore everything which they have seized belonging to the Chinese Government or to Chinese [?]ndividuals. This ...
Article : 48 wordsIt has been ascertained that only 48 men of Brabant's Horse surrendered after being surrounded by the Boers in a defile near Zastron on Friday. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe traffic branch of the police department will, probably in the course of a few days, issue regulations to deal with vehicular traffic in the city during the celebrations. There are one or two things that ...
Article : 541 wordsChing Sing, one of the Manchus guilty of anti-foreign outrages, has been appointed Governor of the province of Hupei. The Allies are distributing large quantities ...
Article : 37 wordsAn analyst at Manchester has discovered several malts containing arsenic. He warns the brewers of the necessity of analysing all malts. ...
Article : 28 wordsPrivate A. W. Oliver, one of the marines serving with the New South Wales Naval Contingent in China, writing from Ching Wang Fu Palace, Tartar City, Peking, on November 5, states:—"This ...
Article : 904 wordsThe Imperial Government has appealed to employers of volunteers still in the field to continue to patriotically keep the situations open in order to minimise the sacrifices which ...
Article : 37 wordsThe commander of the German frigate Gneisenau, which sank during a storm in the outer harbour at Malaga, Spain, refused to be leaved. He had previously disregarded advice ...
Article : 39 wordsThe 24 troopers who returned by the Waiwera yesterday will be entertained at luncheon by Ministers. There are signs that a further contingent will be organised for South Africa. The ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "Times," in the course of a leading article, states: "The Queen's appeal to the militia, the yeomanry, the volunteers, and the colonials to continue their efforts in aid of ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Premier, upon being seen last night, stated that he received a message to waitupon his Excellency the Governor-General about half past [?] o'clook in the afternoon. Lord Hopetoun asked him to ...
Article : 904 wordsSir John A. Cockburn, Agent-General for South Australin, has been elected a member of the council of King's College, London. Sir John A. Cockburn, who was educated at King's ...
Article : 50 wordsThe news that Sir William Lyne had been commissioned to form the first Federal Cabinet was received at Parliament House to-night with expressions of surprise, Sir William Lyne being regarded here as by no ...
Article : 263 wordsAt about half-past 8 last evening a fire broke out at the premises of Messrs. George Wilcox and Co., skin and hide export merchants, of Nos. 9, 11, and 13 Youug-street, and before it was extinguished stock ...
Article : 1,185 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly the Railway Loan Act Amending Bill, the Savings Banks Amending Bill to provide additional facilities for the issue of bonds, the Senators' Elections Bill, the Pacific Cable ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Great Lucknow Consols Gold-mining Company, Bathurst, including the Canoblas, is being formed with a capital of £640,000. All the shares are being issued for public ...
Article : 147 wordsThe following will be the detail of medical officers at the forthcoming respective camps during the celebrations:—Staff: Acting principal medical officer, Major H. Walton Smith; acting-adjutant, ...
Article : 186 wordsThe police received news that a man named George Ray had been lost between Sesbatin and Corfield, and the police at the latter place were notified. They started in search and discovered him in a very weak ...
Article : 65 wordsLater accounts of the engagement near Krugersdorp on December 13 show that a number of khaki-clad Boers at Nooitgedacht crept within 40 yards of Major-General ...
Article : 161 wordsA rather sensational incident occurred to-day. While a team of horses attached to a timber waggon was going over the railway line at the Day Dawu crossing, a train loaded with firewood dashed amongst ...
Article : 47 wordsRegarding the sending by the Governor-General for Sir William Lyne, Mr. Dickson, on being interviewed, said that he had anticipated that Mr. Barton, who has been accepted ...
Article : 170 wordsThe disabled barque Moel Eilian was spoken at 4 o'clock this morning by the Coogee during her voyage from Launceston to Melbourne. The Moel Eilian was then about 55 miles south-east of Cape Schanck. ...
Article : 129 wordsIt has been definitely decided by the League of Wheelmen to run the Lyne Wheel Race, which carries the biggest prize over offered for a bicycle race in New South Wales, on January 3, 5, and 7. The ...
Article : 274 wordsThe drought at Oodnadatta, continues. In the experience of the oldest residents the country never looked worse. Large numbers of stock are dying. ...
Article : 32 wordsLord Tonnyson will be sworn in as Governor of the State of South Australia under new letters patent. The ceremony will take place in the Town Hall, Adelaide, on January 1, and the oaths will probably ...
Article : 75 wordsThe foundation-stone, of what will be the first Orthodox Greek Church in Victoria was laid to-day on a site at the corner of Lansdowne-street and Victoria-parade, East Melbourne. The cost of the ...
Article : 96 wordsTo-night, on being asked for his opinion regarding the sending for Sir William Lyne to form the Federal Ministry, Mr. Holder, the Premier, refused to say anything. ...
Article : 35 wordsCommandant Ferriera's force in its repulse by the British at Vryheid lost 250 men. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn the police court to-day the Bench delivered its decision on the hearing of the application for the forfeiture of 10 barrels "loco" boiler composite, weighiug 43cwt. lqr. 15lb, entered for advalorem ...
Article : 118 wordsA large company assembled at the Hotel Australia last night, when a banquet was tendered to Signor Hazon, who is about to make a trip to Europe, mainly on professional business. The Minister for ...
Article : 565 wordsSir John Downer, one of the Federal Convention delegates representing South Australia, is at present on a three weeks' holiday in Sydney. Last night he was staying at the residence of Mr. H. E. Russell, ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. f. Bridges, Chief Inspector of Schools, presided over a conference of teachers in the Girls' High School, Castlereagh-street, yesterday, when details of the displays by the children on January 1 and 3 ...
Article : 205 wordsWhen Mr. Justice Williams took his seat in the Divorce Court this morning to continue the hearing of the Stirling v. Stirling divorce suit, he was informed that the respondent did not intend to proceed ...
Article : 84 wordsOne column of Boer raiders invading Cape Colony reached as far as Philipstown, about 38 miles north-east of De Aar. Commandant Hertzog's commando arrived ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the wool sales to-day a large and representative catalogue was submitted, and attracted very brisk competition. For the bulk of merino wools the market was firm at last week's rates. ...
Article : 35 wordsA deputation of citizens and members of Parliament waited on the Ministers this morning to protest against the proposed purchase of the Mount Bischoff railway, the main objection being to the ...
Article : 185 wordsThe half-yearly statutory meeting of Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited, was held to-day. Sir William Z[?]al, who presided, said that the meeting being a statutory one there was no report to ...
Article : 156 wordsIt is gratifying to be able to announce that the New Zealand contingent of returned soldiers from the South African war will after all take part in the Commonwealth celebrations. As stated in ...
Article : 740 wordsPrivate letters from South Africa state that the Boers shot Commandant Lukas M[?]y[?], alleging that he had been guilty of treachery. ...
Article : 31 wordsA meeting of the executive committee in connection with the proposed united Sunday schools demonstration in Centennnl Park was held at the Paddington Wesleyan Church on Monday evening. Mr. F. ...
Article : 208 wordsLord Roberts will arrive at the Solent on January 2. He visits her Majesty the Queen at Osborne, and lands at Southampton on January 3. Lord ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Barton upon being spoken to last night, after the fact had been made public that Sir William Lyne had been asked to form a Federal Government stated that whilst he was fully aware of that ...
Article : 118 wordsA daring but fortunately unsuccessful, attempt at cold-stealing was made at the Great Boulder mine early this morning. About 3 a.m. the watchman (Walker) was [?] near the battery by three ...
Article : 315 wordsThe estimate loss by the bush fires is 750 tons of bay, 4000 acres of wheat, 2000 bags of stripped wheat, and 20,000 acres of grass, also 100 miles of fencing, which includes a lot of wire netting fence. ...
Article : 160 wordsA meeting of the New South Wales National Rifle Association was held last night at the United Service Institute. It was announcement that the entries to date for the Commonwealth meeting numbered 8316, ...
Article : 215 wordsThe thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral has been deferred till the end of the operations in South Africa. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr G. H. Reid, on being interviewed by a representative of the "Sydney Morning Herald" last night with reference to the federal political situation, said that the Governor-General had taken the only ...
Article : 923 wordsExchange quotations to-day were:—Chillagoe Railway and Mines, buyer 3ls. seller 33s; Mount Lyell, buyer £5 18s, seller £6 2s 6d; Lyell Tharsis, buyer 6s 3d, seller 7s; Royal Tharsis, buyer 1s 6d; Tasman ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, cabled to General Lord Kitchener, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, the substance of the charge brought by Mr. ...
Article : 129 wordsStock movements:—8000 crossbred ewes and lambs, from Bolavingar, Cannonbar, to Burrabogie, crossed on the 15th; 5600 ewes and weathers, from Toogimbie to Deniliquin Freezing Works, John ...
Article : 90 wordsAt the intercolonial rifle matches to-day Mr. Brown, of New South Wales, made top score with 56 points in the third stage of the Champion Match, his aggregate being 1[?]7 points against the winner of the ...
Article : 78 wordsAt a meeting of the Parliamentary Reception and Entertainment Committee held yesterday it was decided that as there was not sufficient seating space in the stand erected in front of Parliament Home to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 20 Dec 1900, Page 7
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