General Sir Redvers Buller has advanced to 20 miles south of Wonderfontein (on the Delagoa Bay railway), which is 28 miles east of Middelburg ...
Article : 143 wordsLi Hung Chang, in answering the reply of the United States Government to the Imperial edict appointing him to confer with the American Consul with a view to ...
Article : 412 wordsShortly after 2 o'clock this morning a large sevenroomed two-storied weather-board house, situated in Victoria-road, Bellevue Hill, was completely destroyed by fire. The building, which stood on a hill ...
Article : 289 wordsLi Hung Chang, in answering the reply of the United States Government to the Imperial edict appointing him to confer with the American Consul with a view to the cessation of hostilities, ...
Article : 7,134 wordsA Eudunda telegram last night states that a terrific boiler explosion had occurred at Edwin Davey and Sons' flour mills about 6.20 p.m. William Chanstrom, the night engine-driver, ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Warrnambool, with two officers and three men invalided home from South Africa, arrived early yesterday morning, and made fast alongside the Central Wharf, Miller's Point. Her passengers were as ...
Article : 775 wordsLiu-kun-yi, the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang Provinces, is ready to welcome, the British to Shanghai, but objects to international occupation of the city. ...
Article : 278 wordsA fresh caso of plague was reported at Townsville to-day, a man named Bernard Stephens, a labourer, aged 40, being the patient. John Hang, the Chinaman who was quarantined on Monday, ...
Article : 71 wordsLieutenant-General Sir Frederick Carrington, commanding the Rhodesian Field Force, attacked the enemy at Ottoshoop on their front and on the right ...
Article : 32 wordsThe billiard match Robarts v. Devine concluded to-night. Brilliant play was witnessed, the champion being particularly effective. He caught his opponent 400 from home, and went out with an ...
Article : 61 wordsReuter's correspondent states that Commandant de Wot is beyond Ventersdorp, and is trying to join Commandant Delarey, who is at Rustenburg, 60 miles north of ...
Article : 44 wordsOn Monday last the Minister for Mines, through the Lientenant-Governor, communicated with Sir Alfred Milner, asking him what prospect there was of employment being found for 10,000 miners ...
Article : 350 wordsThe R.M.S. Victoria, E. Craw commander, arrived from Colonibo at 10.30 a.m. to-day. The passengers (saloon) are:— For Melbourne: Mr. Tivey. ...
Article : 94 wordsCommandant Olivier is at Heilbron, in the north of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 18 wordsShoeing-smith M. F. Ford was shot in the leg. Pessistent efforts were made to extract the bullet, but it still remains in the leg. Trooper Smith, who left here with the First Contingent, has seen a ...
Article : 1,571 wordsPresident Kruger is sounding America whether the United States Consul at Delagoa Bay will accord him a sanctuary. ...
Article : 26 wordsCold bleak westerly winds have prevailed for the past two days, with very light showers of rain about 9 o'clock last nigth. BATHURST, Friday. ...
Article : 272 wordsThe "Daily News" says that the treatment of the colonial contingents in South Africa needs the severest investigation. The journal affirms that the nation will ...
Article : 52 wordsThe loan of £75,000 made by the British Government to the Viceroy at Wuchow to pay the provincial troops of the Hupoi and Hunan provinces has ...
Article : 81 wordsPrior to his murder by Boers, Colonel C. W. H. Helyar, commanding a battalion of Imperial Yeomanry, was reported missing. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe vice-chiarman of the Patriotic Fund (Mr. M. Gotthelf) and the secretary (Mr. Henry Charles Mitchell) were at Princes Staris to meet the invalid soldiers per Pen[?]ic. Owing to the limited space on ...
Article : 234 wordsMr. J. M. Higgins, formerly metallurgist of the Dry Creek Smelting Works, gave some information to-day concerning the probable requirements of coke by the Chillagoe Railway and ...
Article : 255 wordsMr. E. H. Conger, the American Ambassador, in a message despatched from Peking, presumably between August 5 and August 11, says:— ...
Article : 83 wordsAs the extensions of the Brisbane tramways necessitate an increase of capital for the company. Sir Malcolm M'Eacharn has arranged for the subscription of a further ...
Article : 37 wordsAn ore body showing fair prospects has been internected in sinking the main shaft of the Crœsus Proprietary bellow the 400ft level. At Brookman's Boulder the erection of a small ...
Article : 530 wordsPrivate A. W. Suttor, of the Queensland Bushmen, and Private W. Braidley, of the Tasmanian B[?]shmen, were taken prisoners at Kalfontein. ...
Article : 35 wordsA prize fight has been arranged to take place between the well-known pugilists FitzSimmons and Sharkey, at Coney Island, on August 24. The stake will be ...
Article : 32 wordsThe defences of Canton are very formidable, and the river is guarded by submarine mines. The torpedo boats lying at Whampoa, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe ceremony connected with the landing of the Persie's batch of invalided, troops yesterday was of the simplest character. The steamer lay in Neutral Bay during Thursday night. Yesterday morning the ...
Article : 1,541 wordsThe recent visit of the Federal Commissioner to Orange was for the purpose of inspecting an alternative site for the federal capital and to examine maps with respect to Wellington and Millthorpe sites, also ...
Article : 51 wordsA message in cypher received by the United States Government from Mr. E. H. Conger, its Minister at Peking, through Wou-ting-fang, the Chinese ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 164 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Seddon, promised the House of Representatives an opportunity for discussing the question of New Zealand joining the Australian Commonwealth. Mr. Seddon has expressed the ...
Article : 110 wordsIn connection with the strike of coalminers at Ipswich, the employees of the Snanhank Colliery have made satisfactory arrangements with the management, which practically means the ...
Article : 247 wordsDesperate fighting between the Russians and the Chinese has occurred at Sangshan, in Manchuria. The Russian troops, although outnumbered, ejected 4000 ...
Article : 46 wordsTungchau; 10 miles from Peking, was occupied by the Japanese on Sunday. Aug. 17. The Allies have captured ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsAnother day has passed without any report of a case of bubonic plague in Sydney. A case of suspicious illness was brought under the notice of the export staff of the Board of Health yesterday, but ...
Article : 142 wordsIt is semi-officially announced in Paris that France has informed Germany that the exalted rank of Field-Marshal Count von Waldersee, Commander-in-Chief of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has received a table message from the General of Communications at Capetown, stating that the steamer Medic, which sailed for Port Adelaide on August 13, has on board ...
Article : 95 wordsThe arrival of British troops at Shanghai raises an international question which will possibly create some trouble before it is settled. The Indian troops have not landed yet, and they are not to be landed ...
Article : 988 wordsA cable message received by the Premier to-day from the Agent-General says:—"The money market is gradually improving owing to the brighter outlook in Chins." ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 18 Aug 1900, Page 9
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