It is officially announced that the Earl of Hopetoun (the Lord Chamberlain) will be the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
Article : 65 wordsFurther particulars have been received of the capture of 200 British at Nitrals Nek. Five companies of the Lincolnshire ...
Article : 488 wordsThe 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 wordsIn response to an Imperial edict the viceroys of the provinces are sending troops to Peking nominally to suppress the rebellion. ...
Article : 70 wordsCount 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 ...
Article : 7,192 wordsMajor-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 wordsThe telegraph line and the railway line between Greylingstad and Standerton, on the Transvaal-Natal Railway, have been repeatedly cut by the Boers. ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. 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 ...
Article : 2,460 wordsMr. 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 wordsThe British Consul at Shanghai has little doubt of the fate of the foreigners at Peking. ...
Article : 24 wordsLieutenant-Colonol Mahon's column and Lieutenant-General French's Cavalry Brigade dashingly captured the Boer positions at Reitfontein, The Boers fled, ...
Article : 32 wordsAnother army division is preparing for despatch from India. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe 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 wordsField-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 wordsMr. 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 wordsAn 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 wordsIn 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe Chinese have pierced the Imperial Canal near Tientsin. Great masses of Chinese troops seriously threaten the north and the east of the ...
Article : 199 wordsA 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 wordsEverything is in readiness for the departure of the Protector when final instructions have been received from the Imperial authorities. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsThe following extracts are made from files of newspapers which reached Sydney from China yesterday:— CHANGES IN THE TSUNG-LI-YAMEN. ...
Article : 436 wordsA 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 wordsAt 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 wordsTrooper W. Goodland, of the New Zealand Second Contingent, died of enterio fever at Kroonstadt. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe 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 wordsThree more deaths are reported of New Zealanders in South Africa from enteric fever, namely, Troopers Wiggins, To[?]will, and Gorrie. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe 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 wordsLord 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 wordsA 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 wordsPresident M'Kinley, in his campaign for the forthcoming Preisdential election in the United States, is boldly advocating the gold monetary standard. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsThe "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 wordsSir Frederick Hodgson, Governor of the Gold Coast colony, brought from Kumasi, Kokofu, King Prempeh's heir, July 14. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Allied Powers have decided to confine their present operations to fortifying Tientsin and to establishing communication with Taku. ...
Article : 29 wordsMajor-General H. L. Smith-Dorrien, commanding the 19th brigade, defeated the Boers with heavy loss at Krugersdorp on July 11. ...
Article : 58 wordsIn 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 wordsHeavy guns from Capetown have been sent to China. ...
Article : 15 wordsOwing 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 wordsThe 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 wordsGeneral 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsAll the Protestant missionaries in Mauchuria and in the province of Shantung are safe. Some Danish missionaries are ...
Article : 41 wordsRoyal Warrants have been issued appointing Messrs. Joshua Brothers, of Australia, to supply Boomerang brandy to the households of her Majesty the ...
Article : 42 wordsCount von Bulow, the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, states that Germany seeks no special advantages in China. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe 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 wordsSeceoooni, a loyal chief of Basutoland, has severely defeated the Boers who were marauding his territory. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsAt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe Australian bred marw Maluma is favourite for the Liverpool Cup at 6 to 1. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 16 Jul 1900, Page 7
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