The above sketch map gives an idea of the Havans, the capital of Cuba, and the headquarters of the Spanish administration in the island. At the last census the population of Havana was 198, 271 inhabitants, and while the civil war has depleted the numbers, there has been a great influx of people from the country into the city, in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 172 wordsTHE bombardment and destruction of the outer forts of Havana is only what might have been expected; where the real business will come in is when U.S.A. attempts to land ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 255 wordsThe Stock Board sat all day, and is still sitting late to-night. On their recommendation the Executive to-day decided to issue a proclamation tomorrow, bringing the present ...
Article : 128 wordsThe hearing of the appeal Holland v. the Stockton Coal Co. will be taken by the Full Court on Tuesday next. ALLEGED LIDEL. ...
Article : 739 wordsThe cruisers, New York, Cincinati, and Puritan, were engaged to-day bombarding the forts at the entrance to Matanzas harbour. The fire ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 288 wordsThe preparations are now completed for the bombardment of Havana, when the marines and insurgents have ejected the Spaniards from ...
Article : 45 wordsEverybody also is writing notes on the war: why not "Falcon?" Here are a few:—Colonel Bell, interviewed on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 310 wordsThe Spanish warships at St. Vincent are unable to obtain half the quantity of coal they require. Three Spanish torpedo boats are ...
Article : 67 wordsDr. F. W. Goding, the new American Consul for Newcastle, who for 12 years past has been largely interested in coal-mining in the State of Illinois, U.S.A., was seen by our ...
Article : 1,422 wordsThe Spaniards have succeeded in throwing a thousand additional troops into Cuba. The transport Montserrat, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co, Limited, was held at the offices of the company this afternoon. Mr. Edward Knox, chairman of the board of ...
Article : 209 wordsThe first of the above is the national flag of the United States of America—the Stars and Stripes. It is known in America as "Old Glory," and is sometimes familiarly ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 181 wordsExperts have declared that the cruisers of Admiral Dewey's fleet, which recently left Hongkong for the Philippines, are superior to those ...
Article : 47 wordsAs they say in mercantile parlance, herewith please find portraits of four of the fathers of great guns. The first, Samuel Colt, is distinguished as ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 286 wordsThe New York "Herald" reports that 2000 marines and sailors will be landed on Saturday and will act in conjunction with 19,000 Cuban ...
Article : 38 wordsThe addresses of Counsel occupied the whole of to-day, and had not concluded at 4 o'clock. The court was accordingly adjourned till 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe United States are issuing bonds made repayable in coin on similar conditions to those issued under President Cleveland's administration. The ...
Article : 42 wordsThere was a case before the Sydney courts the other day in which a distracted mother sought possession of her erring daughter and couldn't get it, said offspring preferring to ...
Article : 269 wordsAn excellent programme of music and song was gone through at the Cambrian Hall last evening, in aid of Mrs. H. Beal, whose husband has been incapacitated from following ...
Article : 336 wordsThe Edina has just been floated off the rooks to-day. Sixty tons of ballast was taken out. It is expected that the vessel will float at high water this morning. ...
Article : 454 wordsBefore the Full Court to-day, John Thomas appealed against a conviction obtained at the instance of Inspector Potter, whereby he was adjudged to pay fine of £25 for a breach of ...
Article : 315 wordsThe Miners' Federation of Great Britain has demanded of the English Proprietors an increase of wages amounting to 10 per cent. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Queen is returning from the South of France. ...
Article : 19 wordsReuter's correspondent states that the Spanish gunboat Ligeria was engaged with the American torpedo destroyer Cushing, near Matanzas. ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Gladstone is now manifestly weaker. ...
Article : 13 wordsA meeting was recently held in Hamilton for the purpose of debating the rules to govern the new society known as the Newcastle and Suburban Co-operative Society, ...
Article : 409 wordsThere is an international law forbidding the subjects of a friendly Power from volunterring to serve with a nation at war. There also is a law which gives an ambassador or ...
Article : 263 wordsThe German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Herr von Bulow, announced yesterday that Great Britain had spontaneously declared that she ...
Article : 66 wordsSpanish troops are being hurried to Cuba, and a large force is now assembled at Tamego, Spain, ready to embark. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe fortnightly committee meeting took place in the Chamber yesterday afternoon. The following were present: Messrs. G. F. Earp (chairman), M. B. Anderson, S. S. ...
Article : 312 wordsOn Thursday, before Judge Murray, who eat as a court of review for appeal under the Land and Income Tax Act, Mr. F. J. Thomas, public officer, appeared in support ...
Article : 306 wordsThe risk of the capture of American vessels by Spanish cruisers is thought to be so great by underwriters in Europe and America as to cause them to cable to their ...
Article : 275 wordsCables from Rome state that serious bread riots have occurred at Barl, a town on the east coast of Italy. Two thousand rioters destroyed the police ...
Article : 39 wordsTwo unfortunates have just been sent to gaol in Victoria for disposing of early editions of papers to patrons who believed they were buying late ones.: which seems, at first ...
Article : 458 wordsThe Miners' Federation of Great Britain has granted £30,000 to the South Wales miners' strike fund. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe police are experiencing great difficulty in trading the passengers who landed here from the Crizaba, as only their names and not their addresses are to hand. ...
Article : 139 wordsAt the Antwerp wool males there was fair competition. The catalogue comprised 2776 bales, of which 1009 were sold. Merinos show an ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 30 Apr 1898, Page 5
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