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  2. COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

    It is officially announced that the Earl of Hopetoun (the Lord Chamberlain) will be the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...

    Article : 65 words
  3. THE WAR THE NITRALS NEK MISHAP.

    Further particulars have been received of the capture of 200 British at Nitrals Nek. Five companies of the Lincolnshire ...

    Article : 488 words
  4. CHINA. LEGATIONS AT PEKING.

    The Governor of Shantung (Yu Shien) reports that General Tungfuhsiang was bombarding the legations at Peking on July 7 as a preliminary to a final assault ...

    Article : 197 words
  5. LATE EDITION. HERALD OFFICE, 6 a.m. CHINA.

    In response to an Imperial edict the viceroys of the provinces are sending troops to Peking nominally to suppress the rebellion. ...

    Article : 70 words
  6. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    Count von Bulow, the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, states that Germany seeks no special advantages in China. Ten steamers have been chartered by Germany to convey to China ...

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  7. BOER CAMP CAPTURED.

    Major-General the Earl of Dundonaldh has captured the camp of the Boers who destroyed the Leeuwspruit Bridge on the railway line, about 45 miles north-west of ...

    Article : 36 words
  8. RAILWAY AND TELEGRAPH LINES CUT.

    The telegraph line and the railway line between Greylingstad and Standerton, on the Transvaal-Natal Railway, have been repeatedly cut by the Boers. ...

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  9. BOMBARDMENT OF TAKU.

    Mr. Felix Schmell[?]tscheck, of Sydney, recently paid a visit to the scene of the disturbances in China, and arrived in Tientsm just before the Boxers invested the town. Fortunately he managed to leave ...

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  10. SIR SAMUEL WAY'S PAMPHLET.

    Mr. C. C. Kingston, the federal delegate of South Australia, has written to the "Times" condemning the pamphlet written and privately circulated by Sir ...

    Article : 69 words
  11. THE FATE OF THE LEGATIONS.

    The British Consul at Shanghai has little doubt of the fate of the foreigners at Peking. ...

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  12. BOER POSITIONS CAPTURED.

    Lieutenant-Colonol Mahon's column and Lieutenant-General French's Cavalry Brigade dashingly captured the Boer positions at Reitfontein, The Boers fled, ...

    Article : 32 words
  13. REINFORCEMENTS FROM INDIA.

    Another army division is preparing for despatch from India. ...

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  14. TROOPS REPORTED TO BE BAREFOOTED.

    The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that many of the British troops at Protoria are barefooted. The War Office is sceptical of the ...

    Article : 55 words
  15. THE TRANSVAAL WAR. PRISONERS FOR CEYLON.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts intends to send the Boer prisoners to Ceylon. The British are advancing through Van Reenens Pass from Natal into the Orange ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. THE DELEGATES' SECRETARY.

    Mr. E. Barton, the New South Wales Federal delegate, has expressed in warm terms his recognition of the zeal, fidelity, and [?]act shown by Mr. A. G. Berry, who ...

    Article : 72 words
  17. VICTORIA'S NAVAL CONTINGENT FOR CHINA.

    An inexplicable delay, with somewhat dispiriting effect, has taken place in providing transport for the Victotian Naval Contingent for service in China. By hard and continuous work everything was got ...

    Article : 110 words
  18. AUSTRALASIAN CASUALTIES.

    In the attack which the Boers made on Rustenburg Private P. M. Walsh and Private L. Hoy, of the New South Wales Bushmen, were wounded. ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Governor, Lord Tennyson, has received a cablegram stating that her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to approve of the appointmaut of the Earl of Hopetoun, K.[?]., K.C.M.G., as ...

    Article : 262 words
  20. TIENTSIN THREATENED.

    The Chinese have pierced the Imperial Canal near Tientsin. Great masses of Chinese troops seriously threaten the north and the east of the ...

    Article : 199 words
  21. THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLICS.

    A Reuter's message states that Mr. W. P. Schreiner (ex-Premier of Cape Colony) thinks the South African republics ought to retain a measure of their independence ...

    Article : 42 words
  22. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEERS.

    Everything is in readiness for the departure of the Protector when final instructions have been received from the Imperial authorities. ...

    Article : 26 words
  23. AUSTRALIAN BUSHMEN'S CONTINGENT.

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  24. NEWS BY THE MAIL.

    The following extracts are made from files of newspapers which reached Sydney from China yesterday:— CHANGES IN THE TSUNG-LI-YAMEN. ...

    Article : 436 words
  25. AN AFFAIR AT LINDLEY.

    A party of Boers clad in khaki surprised a picket of 25 men of the Yorkshire Regiment at Lindley. The picket fought doggedly and suffered 18 casualties. The ...

    Article : 41 words
  26. PATRIOTIC FUND.

    At a meeting this morning the local branch of the Public school teachers' patriotic fund was formally closed. The contributions totalltd £158 16s 1d. The chairman (Mr. D. J. Cooper, M.A.) stated that ...

    Article : 123 words
  27. (DEATH OF A NEW ZEALANDER.)

    Trooper W. Goodland, of the New Zealand Second Contingent, died of enterio fever at Kroonstadt. ...

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  28. MESSAGE FROM LORD HOPETOUN.

    The Premier has received the following reply from Lord Hopetoun to his cable conveying congratulations:—"Munday evening. Deeply touched at your message. Will try to deserve your kindness." ...

    Article : 37 words
  29. DEATHS OF NEW ZEALANDERS.

    Three more deaths are reported of New Zealanders in South Africa from enteric fever, namely, Troopers Wiggins, To[?]will, and Gorrie. ...

    Article : 30 words
  30. THE TROUBLE IN ASHANTI.

    The escape of Sir F. M. Hodgson (Governor of the Gold Coast Colony), whose arrival with his party at Cape Coast Castle was reported last week, was marvellous. ...

    Article : 66 words
  31. THE FIRST GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

    Lord Hopetoun, the first Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, is well and favourably know to the people of these States. He is a young man, comparatively speaking, and he looks younger ...

    Article : 435 words
  32. PROMOTION OF A SOLDIER.

    A cable message was received by the Defence Department from General Carrington, who is commanding the Australian Bushmen Co[?]ps, stating that he had promoted Sergeant Roderick Howe, of ...

    Article : 72 words
  33. UNITED STATES MONETARY SYSTEM.

    President M'Kinley, in his campaign for the forthcoming Preisdential election in the United States, is boldly advocating the gold monetary standard. ...

    Article : 30 words
  34. EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ACTION.

    The Ministers wired the Tientsin consuls and officers on Saturday (wrote a correspondent in Tientsin on June 12) that the situation was every hour increasingly critical; the messages got briefer, more ...

    Article : 412 words
  35. THIS WOOL SALES.

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  36. 3000 CHINESE KILLED.

    The "Daily Mail" states that the Cossacks have captured six Krupp guns at Tientsin, and chat the allies have killed 3000 Chinese, including General Key. ...

    Article : 31 words
  37. THE TROUBLE IN ASHANTI.

    Sir Frederick Hodgson, Governor of the Gold Coast colony, brought from Kumasi, Kokofu, King Prempeh's heir, July 14. ...

    Article : 72 words
  38. TIENTSIN TO BE FORTIFIED.

    The Allied Powers have decided to confine their present operations to fortifying Tientsin and to establishing communication with Taku. ...

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  39. BRITISH SUCCESSES.

    Major-General H. L. Smith-Dorrien, commanding the 19th brigade, defeated the Boers with heavy loss at Krugersdorp on July 11. ...

    Article : 58 words
  40. AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTS.

    In the Assembly on Friday the first reading of the Great Western Railway Bill was agreed to, and the measure was referred to a select committee to report on Friday next. A motion was carried ...

    Article : 118 words
  41. GUNS FROM CAPETOWN.

    Heavy guns from Capetown have been sent to China. ...

    Article : 15 words
  42. SHANGHAI-CHIFU TELEGRAPH CUT.

    Owing to the land telegraph wire between Shanghai and Chifu having been cut, the Admiralty is unable to communicate with the naval officers at Taku. ...

    Article : 33 words
  43. TRUST FUNDS IN COLONIAL STOCKS.

    The House of Lords last night passed the Colonial Stocks Bill, which provides for trustees investing trust funds in certain colonial stocks subject to a guarantee ...

    Article : 39 words
  44. COMMANDANT DE WET HAED PRESSED.

    General Botha's attacks on the British at Nitrals Nek and at Derdepoort, near Pretoria, constituted a desperate effort by the Boers to relieve the pressure on ...

    Article : 71 words
  45. LORD HOPETOUN'S VICTORIAN CAREER.

    The Earl of Hopetoun, who came to Victoria as Governor in 1889, in the 29th year of his age, with much modest misgiving on his part, and left five years later, was one of the most highly esteemed ...

    Article : 983 words
  46. GENERAL NIEH AND THE BOXERS.

    The following account from a Chinese official despatch deacribes the fight on the 5th instant between General Nieh's Climbh troops and the I-[?]Chuan at Lofa. The translation is from the "N. C. Daily ...

    Article : 414 words
  47. RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT NEWTOWN.

    A serious accident occurred at Newtown at 7 o'clock last evening, when a man named Charles Nesbitt and two of his children, were more or less injured by alighting from a train which was in ...

    Article : 177 words
  48. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The members of the Adelaide Club entertained Captain Wallington at dinner on Friday night. At a meeting of the Metropolitan councils on Friday it was decided as follows:—"That this ...

    Article : 147 words
  49. MISSIONARIES IN MANCHURIA AND SHANTUNG.

    All the Protestant missionaries in Mauchuria and in the province of Shantung are safe. Some Danish missionaries are ...

    Article : 41 words
  50. HONOUR FOR AN AUSTRALIAN PRODUCT.

    Royal Warrants have been issued appointing Messrs. Joshua Brothers, of Australia, to supply Boomerang brandy to the households of her Majesty the ...

    Article : 42 words
  51. GERMAN TROOPS FOR CHINA.

    Count von Bulow, the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, states that Germany seeks no special advantages in China. ...

    Article : 48 words
  52. THE TURBINE SYSTEM OF ENGINES.

    The torpedo-boat destroyer Viper, under the turbine system of engines, in a trial trip, steamed at the rate of 43 miles an hour. ...

    Article : 35 words
  53. NATIVES DEFEAT THE BOERS.

    Seceoooni, a loyal chief of Basutoland, has severely defeated the Boers who were marauding his territory. ...

    Article : 24 words
  54. TO-DAY.

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  55. LATE MINING.

    At the G[?]eat Boulder Persevernuce preparations are being made to despatch another parcel of rich sulphide ore to the smelter[?]. With the consent of tha Kalgurli Gold Mines ...

    Article : 182 words
  56. "CIVILISING AND CHRISTIANISING CHINA."

    The Rev. George Walters, minister of the Australian Church, preached to a large congregation last evening in the I.O.O.F. Temple on "Civilising and Christianising China." He stated that he had a good ...

    Article : 367 words
  57. A BATTERY SURPRISED.

    A party of Boers, creeping through a mealie field, surprised the 38th Battery of Field Artillery while marching to Bethlehem, recently occupied by the British. ...

    Article : 73 words
  58. HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND.

    The Australian bred marw Maluma is favourite for the Liverpool Cup at 6 to 1. ...

    Article : 21 words
  59. Advertising

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