Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen on Saturday completely dispersed the Boors at Oliphantsnek, seven miles south-west of RusteNburg. ...
Article : 100 wordsAll the Governors of China's provinces and the Chinese ambassadors to the Powers, announce the receipt of the same news, namely:— ...
Article : 392 wordsQuite a sensation was created throughout this district to-day upon information to the effect that the Gilgandra aboriginals were making for the Hunter River district, and the excitement became ...
Article : 495 wordsAt a meeting of the British Empire League yesterday, the Duke of Devonshire, the Lord President of the Council who presided, said that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsThe Maharajah of Sindhia, India, has offered to fit out a hospital ship for China, costing twenty lakhs (2,000,000) rupees (about £130,000). The offer has been ...
Article : 38 wordsIt was not mediation but alliance, offensive and defensive, against Europe that the Chinese Emperor suggested to Japan, and our cables of this morning show how wisely this suggestion has been ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. W. H. Davis, R. N., the naval inspector of machinery at Garden Island, is one of the very few residents of Sydney who have been in Peking, the Chinese capital, and perhaps no one in the colony ...
Article : 1,184 wordsMore than ordinary interest was apparent in the celebration of the imprisoned Emperor Kwangshu's 30th birthday yesterday by the Chinese of Sydney and suburbs. It was the intention of the Chinese ...
Article : 426 wordsThe Right Rev. the Moderator of the General Assembly bus caused to be issued to ministers of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales the following pastoral lelter ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 wordsColonel Willcoeks before he relieved Kumasi had hard fighting. He deceived the Ashanti tribes regarding the route he intended to take. ...
Article : 99 wordsMajor-General Broadwood, with the cavalry, in pursuing the Boers who broke through the British cordon, and who fled towards Lindley, caine up with 2000 with ...
Article : 157 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night the Premier, in answer to Mr. Meaghor, said that on the following night he uould probably be in a position to submit a resolution to the House with regard to the despatch of ...
Article : 101 wordsSir Alfred Milner has cabled stating that the following members of the Imperial Bushmen Conti[?]gent were severely wounded at Bathlehem on July 3:—J. P. Richardson, J. G. Wagstalf, and L. ...
Article : 42 wordsCaptain D. Thompson, who has been connected with Clifton Gardens for the past 25 years, and was formerly in the service of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company, died at half-past 2 th[?] ...
Article : 52 wordsGoschen's Consols were quoted yesterday at 98. ...
Article : 15 wordsThree more deaths of New Zealnuders in South Africa from fever are reported, namely, Privates F. B. Brown, Broome, and Freeman. ...
Article : 28 wordsMatters in connection with the offer of the Naval Forces to supply a contingent of 200 men for China were practically at a st[?]udstill yesterday, owing to the Premier having deferred Parliamentary action ...
Article : 285 wordsLord Balfour, of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland; Mr. R. W. Hanbury, M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury; Mr. W. G. E, Macartney, Under Secretary to ...
Article : 95 wordsYesterday passed without any further case of buho[?] plague being discovered in Sydney, and the patients already in hospital are duing pretty wellOne, however, is said not to be gaining strength. ...
Article : 371 wordsThe Government has now finally taken possession of the Midland railway owing to the failure of the company to fulfil its engagements. ...
Article : 26 wordsWheat is 6d lower per quarter than last week. ...
Article : 14 wordsMr. W. O. Hodgkinson, editor of the " Queensland Mining Journal," at one time a member of the Ministry, died last night after a protracted illness. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the Legislative Council the Life Assurance Companies Amendment Act Bill was road the second time and passed through committee. The Naval Contingents Bill was passed through all its ...
Article : 615 wordsA sharp fight with a force of Boers took place 10 miles west of Bethlehem on Saturday. The Berkshire Militia, the Imperial ...
Article : 54 wordsSome human remains have been found about; 40 miles from here. They are supposed to be those of a man named M'Dowall, who mysteriously disappeared some years ago. The remains had ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Colonial Stock Bill was read the second time in the House of Commons last night. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the ...
Article : 129 wordsLast evening at the Pitt-street Congregational Church an in memorium service was held in connection with the recent massacres in China. The meeting was under the suspices of the N.S.W. ...
Article : 1,305 wordsThe railway line north of Honing Spruit, which is 20 miles beyond Kroonstad, in the Orange River Colony, has been destroyed, and the telegraph wires have ...
Article : 55 wordsA report from Hamelin states that a violent hurricane visited the district on Sunday, and the barques Nornwester, Lovespring, and Kintinta parted their cables and were blown ashore in ...
Article : 237 wordsThis committee made its first progress report to [?] public meeting held at the Pier Hotel, Manly, on Saturday evening, when the Mayor (Alderman W. II. Fletcher) presided. The report detailed the steps ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Emperor of China has requested the United States to mediate between China and the Powers in, the present crisis. ...
Article : 89 wordsA Blue Book has been published relating to the treatment of rebels in South Africa. In one of the despatches Mr. ...
Article : 141 wordsLord Curzon, the Governor-General of India, reports in a hopeful' strain of the prospects of a good crop in the coming reason in India. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Emperor of China, about whose personal safety not a definite word has been received, is represented as inviting the mediation of various Powers. France has emphatically refused to interfere and the ...
Article : 236 wordsKing Alexander of Servia is betrothed [?] Madame Maschin, a widow, a lady-inwaiting to his mother, Queen Natalie. ...
Article : 25 wordsA rat, Buffering from a violent form of plague, has been found at Wellington. The Government has decided to take no special action unless the plague shows itself in any human being. ...
Article : 39 wordsA sad catastrophe occurred on the bar this afternoon by which three men were drowned. The tu[?] Marion Mayfield had proceeded to assist the stranded schooner Empress of India off the bar, where she had ...
Article : 155 wordsThe central committee of the Indian Famine Fund held a meeting on Monday availing at the Town Hall. There were present—the Mayor (Sir Matthew Harris, M.L.A.), in the chair, and Colonel Goodlet, Rev. N. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe " Times " in a leading article says [?]at the defence scheme for New Zealand proposed by Mr. K. Seddon, the colony's Premier, indicates that that colony is ...
Article : 45 wordsA Russian report states that a British force encountered Chinese troops near Wei-hai-wei, the British possession on the north coast of the Shantung Peninsula. ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. G. Wyndham, Parliamentary Secretary for War, in the House of Commons last night, stated that arrangements had been made in the hills of Ceylon for the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Chinese Government still persists in the assertion that the Ministers and other foreigners in Peking have not been massacred, or at least that the legations were safe on the 18th instant. The ...
Article : 453 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly this afternoon the Chief Secretary stated that the Government of Now South Wales had agreed that the Sydney plague expert should visit Adelaide, and that Dr. ...
Article : 256 wordsThe passengers on board the Cunard [?]tlantic liner Campania, which cut in two the barque Emhleton during a fog in the Irish Channel on Saturday last, ...
Article : 55 wordsLatest particulars of the fatality at the bar show that the Empress of India sprang a leak in the bay ou Sunday night. At 7 a.m. on Monday Captain Williams tried to enter the harbour. When on the ...
Article : 331 wordsAt Monday night's meeting of the Leichhard[?] Council Alderman T. E. Colebrook made reference to the efforts being put forward in the different parts of the colony with the object of raising funds for the ...
Article : 302 wordsThe allies having completely conquered Tientsin have established a provisional government in the city. ...
Article : 22 wordsIn the engagement which led to the capture of Bethlehem the following were the casualties amongst the Australasian forces:— ...
Article : 80 wordsBefore Li Hung Chang left Canton he reinforced the garrison of the Bogue forts. It is now stated that in addition to the ...
Article : 46 wordsA terrifie hailstorm is reported from Sorthampton. The hailstones, measuring l½ in. and up[?]ards in diameter, fell for 6 minutes, and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe matron and Sisters of the Central Mission Medical Institute having heard from South Africa that some of the New South Wales nurses there had been ill, and that the food supplied had been of the ...
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Advertising : 65 wordsLi Hung Chang, now on his way north to take over the Vice-Royalty of Chi-li, had a cool reception from the Europeans at Shanghai. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 25 Jul 1900, Page 7
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