The 24th annual meeting of the Northum-berland Permanent Building, Investment, Land, and Loan Society was held last evening. Mr. T. Abel, chairman of directors, ...
Article : 1,062 wordsA deputation, which represented practically the whole of the incorporated areas in the suburbs, besides a number of country municipalities, ...
Article : 391 wordsThe British Navy would be expected to do two things in the event of a great combination-war against England—to protect the ports of the Empire and to “police” ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—A Chinese interpreter, who, was employed by Sir Claude Macdonald, has reached Newchwang. He reports that Sir Robert ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Duke of Norfolk having gone to the wars, the Postmaster-Generalship of England recently became vacant. To this vacancy was appointed Lord Londonderry, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 364 wordsBilliards is respectable among worldly men; unrespectable among unworldly men and the majority of women. Why this is so it would be difficult to say, but possibly it ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 607 wordsLONDON, Thursday Morning.—General French and Hutton outflanked the Boers six miles south of Balmoral, compelling them to retreat. The Boers ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The allies are undecided as to which route they should take to Pekin. Some of the allies prefer to proceed by way of ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Li Hung Chang asserts that the Tsung-li-Yamen will convey the Ministers of the Powers from Pekin to Tientsin if ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Thursday Morning.—General Carrington had a sharp engagement on Sunday at Selous’ River. Captain C. W. Robertson, of New ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Three hundred of the New South Vales Bushmen assisted a Rhodesian force that attacked the large body of Boers on the Selous’ ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Friday.—It is reported in Tokio that the Japanese at Shanhaikwan gained a great victory over the Chinese, after a severe fight. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, Friday.—General Rundle reconnoitred a commando at a nek in the southern exit at Brandwater. After a sharp artillery contest the ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Admiral Seymour has sent two battleships and two cruisers to Shanghai, despite the Viceroy’s declaration that warships in the ...
Article : 31 wordsThe debate on the Supply Bill was continue in the Legislative Assembly this morning, and the resolution covering supply was agreed to. ...
Article : 255 wordsLONDON, Thursday Morning.—Generals Macdonald and Bruce Hamilton are securely blocking Inguwooni and the Golden Gate. ...
Article : 20 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The majority of the Admirals gave the Russian Admiral the control of Taku and the Pekin railway, though mortgaged to ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Thursday Morning.— Field-Marshall Lord Roberts is at Balmoral, about 80 miles east of Pretoria. ...
Article : 19 wordsLONDON, Friday.—In the House of Lords the Marquis of Landsdowne assured Lord Carrington that the colonial troops would receive war medals and ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Li Hung Chang has assured the Consuls that the Chinese Government has sufficient control over the regular troops and the Boxers ...
Article : 101 wordsCertain members of the New South Wales Legislature want to abolish capital punishment. They hold that it isn't a deterrent, and consider that for this reason ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 741 wordsIt is hoped that the colliery proprietors will see the advisableness of reconsidering the miners' request for 2d advance in the hewing rate before the delegate board meets ...
Article : 604 wordsThe Premier has received through the Governor a cable from the officer commanding the Bushmen, under Thursday’s date, to the following ...
Article : 145 wordsNothing fresh has transpired in connection with the despatch of the Naval Contingent to China. A report laid upon the table of the House by Sir William Lyne gives the ...
Article : 337 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Fearing a general rising in China, all the missionaries in the Empire have been ordered to proceed either to Shanghai or ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Before the fall of Tientsin the rebels killed all Chinamen in European employ. ...
Article : 9 wordsLONDON, Friday.—General Gaselei’s Indian division has arrived at Wei-hai-Wei. ...
Article : 12 wordsA well-attended meeting of the Newcastle School of Arts Debating Club was held last evening in the lecture hall of the institution, the president (Mr. H. Y. Harris) occupying ...
Article : 198 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Li Hung Chang has rescinded the Black Flag march to Pekin. ...
Article : 13 wordsThere is something extraordinarily pathetic about the Merriwa tragedy. Murder is an awful thing at any time, and no words are too Strong in which to express ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 326 wordsA cablegram received in Wellington, N.Z., states that a Miss Searell, a missionary from New Zealand, stationed in the province of Shensi, had been ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. J B. Fitzgerald's powerful dramatic company will inaugurate a brief season at the Victoria Theatre this evening, when the sensational drama, "The Irishman," will be ...
Article : 251 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The House of Commons last night, by 112 against 65, rejected a proposal to make a large grant towards the relief of the Indian ...
Article : 58 wordsThe half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in, the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company was held at the Sydney office yesterday. The report, ...
Article : 288 words"Engineering" has an interesting article on the proposed Midland Canal, which according to our contemporary, is certain to be carried out, involving as it will an ...
Article : 351 wordsMr. William Downie writes:—It may be interesting to know that the barque Alfred Hawley, now on the slips at Stockton, was a regular trader to Newcastle as far back ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Colonel Moreland surprised and brilliantly captured with be bayonet the town of Kokofu, desta[?]ing a large Ashanti camp and ...
Article : 45 wordsMeasurement freights by mail steamers to Australia have been raised to 70s per ton of 40 cubic feet. The visible supply of American ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 28 Jul 1900, Page 5
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