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  2. FOLLY BRIDGE.

    The Boers had wrecked the three centre spant and blown buge pieces out of the stone piers. The wreekage lay adrift in dirty water, and a section of the British army was now picking up the ...

    Article : 4,643 words
  3. CHINA. REBELLION AT PEKING.

    Mr. L. C. Hopkins, the British Consul at Chefu, has telegraphed to the Foreign Office that the Chinese troops at Peking on June l8 murdered Herr von Ketteler, ...

    Article : 222 words
  4. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    General Coke's brigade shelled 2000 Boers strongly posted at Amersfoort last Friday. Lord Roberts has ordered civilians who were returning to Johannesburg to retire to ...

    Article : 9,333 words
  5. GREAT FIRE AT NEW YORK. HOBOKEN DOCKS IN FLAMES.

    Further accounts of the great fire at the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous than first reports indicated. ...

    Article : 366 words
  6. FOREIGN INTERVENTION.

    Thero is evidently no time to be lost if affairs are not to be allowed to grow worse. The Japaness are the only people who can promptly furnish sufficient force to restore order or to relieve foreigoers from ...

    Article : 166 words
  7. THE ALLIES AT TIENTSIN.

    The troops of the allies have captured over 50 maxims around Tientsin. ...

    Article : 19 words
  8. WILL N.S.W. TROOPS BE SENT?

    In the Legislative Assembly last night Mr. Dacey asked whether any New South Wales troops were to be sent to China. Mr. Haynes asked the Premier whether he would ...

    Article : 202 words
  9. FROM TAKU TO TIENTSIN.

    The route by the Peiho river from Taku to Tientsin is open. The railway from Taku has been repaired to within nine miles of Tientsin. ...

    Article : 33 words
  10. THE CHINESE REFORM ASSOCIATION.

    To most people in the colony it will be news to learn that there is established in Sydney a large and active branch of the Chinese Empire Reform Association an organisation which is making great ...

    Article : 544 words
  11. PREPARATIONS ON THE YANGTSE RIVER.

    The Chinese are laying torpedoes between Shanghai and Kianghan, the Chinese arsenal, three miles above Shanghai, on the Hwangphu. ...

    Article : 48 words
  12. HAM.S. WALLAROO EN ROUTE.

    The Wallaroo has the houour of being the first of Australia's auxiliary squadron to join her Majesty's ships in foreign waters for active service. She took her departure on Monday afternoon for ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. JAPAN'S ASSISTANCE.

    The "Times" this morning states that Japan is the only Power able to afford prompt and adequate assistance to the Legations at Peking. ...

    Article : 67 words
  14. TELEGRAMS TO CHINA AND THE EAST.

    The Postmaster-General has received the following:—"Telegrams in secret language, either private or commercial, are admitted for offices in the Amoor territory only an conditions that the codes are ...

    Article : 178 words
  15. GERMAN NAVAL PREPARATIONS.

    The German armoured cruiser Furst Bismarck has been ordered to China. July 3. The Emperor William has ordered the ...

    Article : 34 words
  16. MISSIONARIES AT WEHSIEN.

    The Governor of Kiauchau, in Shantung, Captain Jaesshke, wished to send a force to Wehsien, the most important town of the province, to rescue the ...

    Article : 68 words
  17. INTERVIEW WITH MR. QUONG TART.

    Conversing with Mr. Quong Tart yesterday a "Herald" reporter gleaned some information with regard to the conditions at present existing in China. Mr. Tart stated that so far as he could gather from ...

    Article : 1,171 words
  18. OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS.

    The Secretary of the German legation (Dr. von Prittwitz) sent a runner to RearAdmiral Bendemann, the commander of the German squadron at Taku, giving him ...

    Article : 207 words
  19. THE MISSIONARIES IN CHINA.

    A meeting was held last evening in the chapterhouse, under the suspices of the Courch Missionary Association, for the purp se of holding united prayer and supplication on behalf of the missionaries ...

    Article : 502 words
  20. NAVAL BRIGADE LEAVES PORTSMOUTH.

    A naval brigade, 900 strong, with six 12-pounders and two Maxims, has sailed from Portsmouth for China. ...

    Article : 24 words
  21. MARVELLOUS ESCAPES.

    Seventeen men, who were imprisoned in the coalbunkers of the Main for hours, had a marvellous escape. They were rescued after the vessel had ...

    Article : 64 words
  22. THE SITUATION IN CHINA.

    The worst fears would seem to have been realised with regard to the position of affairs in Peking. The foreign ambassadors, according to the latest accounts, did not escape as was reported, and one at ...

    Article : 362 words
  23. FIVE HUNDRED DEATHS.

    The deaths caused by tne great fire at New York are now estimated at 500, including 126 of the crews. With the exception of the Thingvalla, which ...

    Article : 239 words
  24. QUEENSLANDERS VOLUNTEERING.

    Mr. Philp has received a telegram from the Queensland Naval Commandant, who is at present in the north with the Gayundah, which notifies that all the officers and crews of the Queensland gunboats ...

    Article : 50 words
  25. EMPEROR AND EMPRESS.

    The highest Chinese officials at Nanking believe that the Empress Dowager and the Emperor have fled westward, and that Prince Tuan has proclaimed his son, who ...

    Article : 66 words
  26. LATE COUNTRY NEWS.

    During the past quartet 41 deaths were registered at Bathurst and 74 marriages. To-night an organ recital was given at the Wesleyan Church by Chevalier Wiegand, who played ...

    Article : 226 words
  27. VICTORIA. THE PACIFIC CABLE.

    A cable message has been sent by the Government to the Agent-General, stating that Victoria is willing that the laying of the Pacific cable should be proceeded with on the general ...

    Article : 54 words
  28. THE OTHER FOREIGN MINISTERS.

    The other foreign Ministers in Peking, learning the fate of their German confrere, and finding their legations attacked, took refuge in the British Embassy. That, according to Consul Hopkins, was on ...

    Article : 220 words
  29. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    A horrible accident occurred this afternoon at Ormond railway station, to an elderly lady named Mrs. Sarah Ann Geach, the wife of Major G. O. Geach, of Caulfield. She was endeavouring to ...

    Article : 328 words
  30. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 324 words
  31. FOREIGNERS AT PEKING.

    The foreigners at Peking include 100 at the legations, 50 in the Customs service, 100 missionaries, 150 tourists and visitors, and 700 guards for the legations. ...

    Article : 32 words
  32. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 words
  33. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER DEPOSED.

    General Yung Lu in his despatch says that neither the Empress Dowager nor the Tsung-li-Yamen is able to restrain the soldiery, whils he himself is powerless. With his messsge word comes that the ...

    Article : 141 words
  34. THE RELIEF OF PEKING.

    In the House of Commons last night Mr. St. John Brodrick, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the allies had made no further advance ...

    Article : 43 words
  35. THE TAKU BOMBARDMENT.

    In the bombardment of the Taku forts it was reported that the Russian gunboat Mandjur had her magazine exploded by a shell from one of the forts. ...

    Article : 91 words
  36. GENERAL YUAN SHI KAI.

    Readers of Lord Charles Beresford's recent book on China will remember that he singled out one of the Chinese Generals as able and active. This was Yuan Shi Kal who then commanded the Imperial ...

    Article : 194 words
  37. THE NAVAL BRIGADE OFFER.

    The proposal outlined in yesterday's "Herald" to send a combined force of 300 men of the Naval Brigades of the principal colonies in H.M.S. Europa to China next week met with favourable criticism in ...

    Article : 155 words
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