A Router's telegram states that Father L. J. Mathews, the Roman Catholic chaplain who was taken prisoner by the Boers when the 1st battalion of the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Colonial Office states that the provisions of the Anglo-German agreement of 1886 in regard to Samoa will continue to apply to Australian trade with Samoa ...
Article : 37 wordsThe United States troops in tho Philippines have defeated 1200 Filipinos at San Jacinto. Eighty Filipinos were killed in the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Legislative Council, having now, so to [?]eak, warmed to its work, got through a considerable amount of business yesterday, and it may fairly be assumed that for the remainder of the ...
Article : 1,892 wordsAt the wool sales to-day the record price for greasy merino fleece was raised to 19¼d. This price was realised for 5 bales of Mount Camel super combing, a very silky merino wool ...
Article : 483 wordsHis Excellency Earl Beauchamp has intimated that he is pleased to become patron of the fund. Letters have been received from his Honor Sir F. M. Darley accepting the position of vice-patron, and ...
Article : 350 wordsOwing to loud complaints as to the slowness of some of the transport vessels, the War Office has chartered the Majestic (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company) for ...
Article : 42 wordsSpeaking at Nowcastle-on-Tyne last night the Earl of Kimberley, the leader of the Liberal party in the House of Lords, said that the Anglo-German ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Rose Deep, Ferriera Deep, and 10 other of the principal Rand mines are being worked by the Boers. ...
Article : 26 wordsBritish visitors have deserted Nice in favour of San Remo, the favourite Italian winter resort, owing to the bitterness of the Anglophobia in France, the feeling ...
Article : 122 wordsLord Salisbury, in a letter to the "Times," in reply to Lord Edmond G. Fitzmaurice, M.P. (Liberal) for the Crickdale division of Wilts, shows that he did ...
Article : 63 wordsColonel Picquart asks for a judicial inquiry into the connection of General Gonse and M. Gribelin, the record-keeper, with the Dreyfus case. ...
Article : 31 wordsAmong the refugees from Johannesburg who have arrived at Durban are Mr. H. W. Blow, brother of the Under-Secretary of the New Zealand Public Works Department, his wife, and ...
Article : 63 wordsAt a meeting of Bishops at Lambeth Palace yesterday it was decided to suspend refractory clergymen until they obey the Archbishop's decision ...
Article : 45 wordsSpeaking at Newcastle-on-Tyno last night the Earl of Kimberley, leader of the Liberal party in the House of Lords, paid a tribute of praise ...
Article : 108 wordsThe first meeting of the New South Wales Ladies' Patriotic League, which has been called into existence mainly on account of the fact that so many of "our boys " ore en route for the seat of war, was ...
Article : 638 wordsThere was a large attendance in the Assembly and the galleries owing to the publishers of the "Age" and the "Austral[?]sian" having been cited to appear at the bar on account of their ...
Article : 915 wordsLord Kitchener, Governor-General of the Soudan, has started from Cairo for Khartoum to organise the expedition for the pursuit of the Khalifa. ...
Article : 41 wordsHeavy "bear" sales have taken place in tin, demoralising the market. Prices fell to £120 per ton, but subsequently recovered to £125. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe bombardment of Ladysmith by the Boer artillery is increasing in intensity. General Joubert is hoping by this ...
Article : 104 wordsThe statue to Oliver Cromwell at Westminster was unveiled to-day without ceremony. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Powers have approved of the Khedivial decree removing the trouble arising from the decision of the Egyptian mixed tribunals concerning the Soudan ...
Article : 189 wordsAt Burra on Sunday Adam Daniel Gordon, 52, a farmer, was found dead in a paddook with his skull shattered to fragments. It is supposed that a horse kicked him. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe French newspapers describe Portugal as the accomplice of Great Britain. ...
Article : 18 wordsAt the auction sales of Australasian tallow to-day 1375 casks were offored. Fine mutton realised 28s; medium mutton, 20s; fine beef, 26s 6d; medium ...
Article : 38 wordsThe censorship over telegraphic messages from Capetown applies to all official telegrams except those intended for or sent by the Portuguese Government. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Woodbine, who was appointed to inquire into the extent of the losses of Northern and Central Queensland owing to the tick fever, estimates the destruction on 65 holdings at 334,160 head of ...
Article : 385 wordsFrank Brennan and B. N. White, minors, were injured on Monday by a full of earth at the Wallsond colliery. Brennan's condition is serious. An elderly man named John Hartley Bowen ...
Article : 83 wordsLater particulars have been received of the situation at Mafeking, which is being gallantly defended by the British force under Colonel Baden-Powell. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Postmaster-General has received the following from Adelaide:—"Cape Colony advises the transmission of all State telegrams in secret language, code, or cypher, via Cape Colony, is ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Boers, our cablegrams inform us, are being encouraged by General Joubert to carry Ladysmith by assault. To this end the Boer commander has been bombarding the town with great pertinacity. ...
Article : 1,048 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Stock Exchange was held yesterday. The report stated that though business was restricted it was sound, especially in investment stocks. There were 46 ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Queen will in the spring visit the Italian Riviera, where her Majesty will remain several weeks. ...
Article : 26 wordsMajor-General French has issued the following memo. in general orders:—"The last detachment of the N S.W. forces having left on 14th instant, the G.O.C. desires to place on record his thanks to all ...
Article : 413 wordsThe Emperor of Germany, during his visit to England this month, will confine his visits to members of the Royal Family. It is announced that the naval debates ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Boers are bombarding Kimberley at a range of 8000 yards. No damage is caused by the shells, which fall into heaps of debris round the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe United States cruiser Charleston, one of the American squadron in the Philippines, has been totally wrecked off the coast of Luzon, the largest and most ...
Article : 123 wordsAn additional infantry division of 11,000 men is being mobilised for South-Africa. This force, together with the troops already in South Africa and under orders ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Factories and Shop Act Further Amendment Bill was further considered in committee, but, after Mr. Higgins had opposed the motion for an inquiry into the working of the present ...
Article : 47 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 372 wordsThe debate in the Assembly on the Railway Works Standing Committee Bill was continued until 10.50 p.m. yesterday, when the House adjourned until to-day. The Premier announced ...
Article : 55 wordsA gigantic "trust," with the object of amalgamating shipbuilding concerns on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, is projected. ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday the Early Closing Bill was carried through committee with two important amendments, which were accepted by the Government. The Queensland Border ...
Article : 112 wordsThe steamer Cornwall, with the queensland contingent on board, arrived from Sydney at 5.30 o.m. One horse was lost on the voyage. Twenty members of the contingent ...
Article : 188 wordsSt. John a Church, Milson'a Point: Moonlight Fete and Band Concert, Elamang Grounds, 3.30 p.m. St. Bartholomew's Pyrmont: Fancy Fair, 3.30 and 7 p.m. ...
Article : 252 wordsFurther transports have arrived at Capetown. They carry to Durban 2000 additional troops, who will arrive in Natal within the week. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe plague has broken out at Trieste, the Austrian seaport at the head of the Adriatic. Dr. Pestana, a leading medical man at ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday the bill providing for seats being supplied shop assistants was read the first time. In reply to a question the Attorney-General said that the Government intended to ...
Article : 95 wordsThe capital of the Lake Way and Horseshoe and the Peak Hill Gold Mining Companies has been over subscribed. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe British cruiser Magicienne fired blank cartridge at the French steamer Cordoba, 70 miles from Delagoa Bay, in the belief that she carried ammunition for ...
Article : 82 wordsA copy of the correspondence in regard to a portion of the New South Wales Lancers sent for training to Aldershot, and who are returning to the colony, was laid on the table of the Assembly yesterday. ...
Article : 223 wordsIn the Assembly this afternoon leave of absence was given to nine sick members. The Assembly decided by a small majority that Colonel Wallack should not go to South Africa, principally because ...
Article : 46 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 29 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 16 Nov 1899, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: