To Lieutenant Setton, by the death of a captain, fell the charge of two companies, which operated with an Australian contingent on a disturbed and dusty border. The men clung to him ...
Article : 3,921 wordsMajor-General R. A. P. Clements and Major-General A. H. Pagot had sharp fighting for two days with the Boers in the vicinity of Bethlehem, and captured ...
Article : 86 wordsA Chinese official report at Shanghai states that the Empress Dowager resumed her authority on June 30, and appointed Yung Lu, the Commander-in-Chief of the ...
Article : 136 wordsColonel Willcocks and LieutenantColonel Traill-Burrcughs, whose combined columns for the relief of Kumasi amount to over 700 men, have arrived at ...
Article : 130 wordsAlmost the entire strength of the labour Parliamentary party is now at Bundaberg holding open-air meetings nightly. It is considered certain at Bundaberg that Mr. Glassey will be ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is estimated that the commandoes led by Generals Botha and De Wet number 11,000 men. The Boers have evacuated their positions around Senekal. ...
Article : 7,114 wordsThe " Cape Times " of June 15, to hand by the Salamis, contains interesting particulars of the capture of Botha's Pass by General Baller. The General laid his plans well, and favourable as the pate is for ...
Article : 853 wordsA large public meeting was held at Hughenden to-night for the purpose of urging on the Government the necessity for the introduction of relief legislation for the pastoralists. Mr. L. ...
Article : 146 wordsSo conflicting are the rumours about the state of affairs in Peking that it is permissible to hope for the best in regard to the safety of the foreigners who took, refuge in the legations. As was pointed out ...
Article : 348 wordsThe Boers have evacuated their positions around Senekal, and have apparently withdrawn in the direction of Ficksburg and Bethlehem. ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, recently received a memorandum from Mr. R. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, suggesting the ...
Article : 94 wordsAn initial step towards establishing schools of mines to help the mining industry, has been taken by the Government in the case of Charters Towers, where the Mining Institute existing there ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. P. J. Blignaut (State Secretary, of the late Orange Free State), Mr. Dickson (State Attorney), and Mr. G. van Tonder (a member of the Council), ...
Article : 43 wordsThe voyage from Liverpool of the barque Harold, which arrived here to-day, was marked by several incidents. When in the vicinity of the Canary Islands, on April 23, the barque narrowly ...
Article : 229 wordsThe following gentlemen have been appointed justices of the peace:—Mr. Robert Dixon Chapman, of Mungundi; Mr. Ernest Leslie Maitland, police magistrate, of Broken Hill; Mr. William ...
Article : 183 wordsLast night Captain Hixson, R.N., the officer commanding the Naval Forces, called a muster parade of the Naval Brigade and the Naval Artillery Volunteers at the drill hall, Fort ...
Article : 375 wordsPrince Ching has spiked the "Boxers' " big guns, which were trained on the Residencies. He also removed a quantity of ammunition, with the assistance of Yung ...
Article : 159 wordsAn outbreak of enteric fever has occurred amongst the British troops at Senekal, but it is being combated with great energy by the doctors. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe carge of the steamer Matatua (Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co.) caught fire at Monte Video owing to a defect in the insulation of the refrigerating ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is estimated at Pretoria that there are 11,000 men in the commandoes under General Botha and General de Wet. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Admiralty has ordered 119 warships to mobilise for the naval man[?]uvres. ...
Article : 19 wordsPrivate W. G. M'Phee, of the Western Australian Bushmen, died at Bulawayo during the administration of an an[?]sthetic ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the Assembly the Postmaster-General intimated that the question of substituting Fremantle for Albany as a port of call for mail steamers had been carefully considered by the Government ...
Article : 276 wordsThe Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of 7 per cent. The sum of £50,000 is carried to the reserve fund, and £19,864 is carried forward. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Aberdeen line steamer Salamis made the voyige from London to Capetown m 15,days 4 hours and 46 minutes actual steaming time, which was a very smart performance. Had she not been ...
Article : 208 wordsLance-corporal Lees, of the Australian Bushmen, writing from Marandellas to his sister at Bois Chere, near Goulburn, says:—"The Rhodesian Government are building huge barracks here, and it appears ...
Article : 339 wordsExcitement in the Share market over the offer of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Limited, to buy the South Tharsis mine for £45,000 was stimulated to-day by an official announcement ...
Article : 552 wordsAt the, wool auctions to-day there was a good sale, and prices showed a hardening tendency. Buyers for the Continent were operating freely. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe suggestion that the Government should assist in the despatch of members of the Naval Brigade to China is not concurr[?]d in by a number of members in the Legislative Assembly. Mr. M'Laughlin has ...
Article : 150 wordsThe remarkable accuracy of the Chinese artillery practice in the attack on Tientsin on Friday last amazed the allies. Owing to the bad water supply at ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. J. Mathieson, the Railway Commissioner for Victoria, is satisfied that there will be no difficulty in shipping wheat in bulk from Victoria. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Parker, Q.C., has furnished the Government with an exhaustive legal opinion touching the duration of the present Parliament. He takes the same view as the Crown law officer, that ...
Article : 127 wordsTwo hundred and fifty women and children from Tientsin have reached Taku. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Governor has received a copy of a telegram from Mr. Chamberlain regarding the purchase of horses and mules in Australia by the German Government for seivice in China. The Government ...
Article : 54 wordsWith reference to a letter received by us from South Africa complaining of the lamentable condition of many of the Australian volunteers there, who have been discharged from the various military ...
Article : 187 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. St. John Brodrick, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that Great Britain had been pressing Japan to ...
Article : 56 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4½d per oz. standard, a fall of l-16d since yesterday. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the question of increasing rates on the carriage of ore from Broken Hill was further discussed, but the debate was not concluded. The House rose at 6.15 till ...
Article : 130 wordsThe gunboat Protector was the scene of great activity yesterday morning. Preparations for a speedy departure to China were in full progress. About 75 rounds of ammunition per gun are being ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the weekly sales of Australasian tallow 1375 casks were offered and 450 casks were sold. Prices of all kinds were unchanged as follows:—Fine mutton, 27s ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Executive Council to-day considered the cases of the five Manila men lying in the Fremantle prison under sentence of death for the murder of Captain Riddell, of the pearling ...
Article : 329 wordsThe troops of Russia in the Vladivostock district, Siberia, and in the Port Arthur district, Leao Tong Peninsula, Northern China, number 125,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe composition of the naval contingent for service in China is now complete, and Caplaint Tickell also has in reserve a dozen volunteers of good physique and intelligence for filling any vacancies ...
Article : 42 wordsAn enthusiastic demonstration took place to-day to welcome home Troope Walter Asquith. The procession reached the full length of the municipality. The friendly societies, rifle reserves, and all the ...
Article : 88 wordsS. Rowley, of New South Wales, won the Invitation 100 Yards Race at Stourbridge to-day in 10 seconds. This is Rowley's second win in England. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following will be the main points in the new Constitution Bill about to be introduced by the Government:—1. Reduction of the Legislative. Council franchise to £10 freehold and £30 ...
Article : 187 wordsGermany has ordered the third-class cruisers Geier and Seeadler to China. [The Geier is a third-class cruiser of steel and wood shoathed, with a displacement of 1776 tons. ...
Article : 94 wordsThis jealousy of Japan on the part of Russia is largely to be accounted for by the gigantic strides which Japan has lately made, and by the Russian feeling that sooner or later the two Powers must ...
Article : 524 wordsAll day on Tuesday a well-known American barquentine, the Wiestler, for many years a regular visitor to Australia from American Pacific Coast ports, was away out to the eastward off the Heads. She was known to be ...
Article : 399 wordsSeventy Austrian emigrants arrived by the German liner Munchen on Wednesday, en route to New Zealand. They are proceeding to that colony at the invitation of ...
Article : 138 wordsFrom private information received by friends in Allora it has been ascertained that Privates Joseph Banks and Sydney Washburn of the first contiagent, both of Allora, who have been ill of enteric ...
Article : 108 wordsAnother light is thrown upon the position of affairs in China by the news that the Dowager Empress was not poisoned into insanity by chloroform, and that ou June 30 last at any rate she was in power at ...
Article : 577 wordsA public meeting was held on Monday, the Mayor presiding, when a demonstration to be held on the cessation of the war was arranged. The programme includes sports and an entertainment for children, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Premier has received a cable intimating that the joint preliminary committee in connection with the Pacific cable have instructed their agents to invite tenders for the construction of ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Premier has decided to appoint a secret committee of the House to inquire into and make recommendations regarding the defences of the colony. He expects the defence vote this year to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 12 Jul 1900, Page 7
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