The Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, who is now visiting Brisbane, has received a communication from the authorities in Great Britain stating that ...
Article : 48 wordsA strong force of town guards has now been enrolled at Capetown, the total number being 6000. ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is announced that transport steamers now at Durban, in Natal, are preparing to proceed to Australia to convey the new Australian contingents to South Africa. ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is announced from Peking that Prince Ching and the Viceroy Li Hung Chang, the Chinese peace plenipotentiaries, have signed their acceptance of the Joint Note ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is announced that Earl Carrington, formerly Governor of New South Wales, will preside at the banquet to be held in London by the National Liberal Club to ...
Article : 54 wordsIn Federal matters there is practically nothing to chronicle. The Premier, Mr. Barton, has been at his private house all day, preparing his address for Thursday ...
Article : 127 wordsA splendid fall of nearly 3[?]n. of rain took place here yesterday, and the ram was more or less general over the whole of the district. P[?] January 15. ...
Article : 555 wordsThe Cabinet sat for three hours yesterday, and the political situation received some consideration, but the Premier stated afterwards that nothing definite was done. ...
Article : 58 wordsPrivate E. Bagger, of the New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent, was dangerously wounded at Vontersdorp. ...
Article : 32 wordsLord Roberts, who recently returned from South Africa, and has assumed the duties of Commander-in-Chief at the War Office, has postponed for an indefinite period his ...
Article : 69 wordsA visit was paid to the Eagle Farm works of the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Company yesterday by the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand. He ...
Article : 113 wordsWith reference to the agreement between the Australian colonies and the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company for the laying of a cable from Cape Colony to Australia, ...
Article : 94 wordsReports from Peking state that Count von Waldersee, the allied Commander-inChief, has approved of the proposal that Prince Chun should visit Berlin to formally ...
Article : 162 wordsOver 200 applications have been received for positions on the Harbour Trust. This matter was before the State Cabinet at its meeting to-day, but no decision was come ...
Article : 73 wordsOffers of service with the troops in South Alfrica continue to come in to[?] military authorities. In fact, it has been difficult to cope with the number of applications. ...
Article : 131 wordsIn order that intending passengers for Maryborough and Rockhampton may have a chance of seeing as much as posible of the Imperial troops during their visit to ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Arthur Nickson, of Melbourne, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Deakin, the Federal Attorney-General, stated to-day that he was drafting a bill covering the constitution of an InterState Commission to be created under ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Premier has received from Captain Robert Gordon, who went fiom Queensland with the First Contingent, a Boor ri[?]e of the Mausor pattern. The weapon is a ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is estimated that there are now 2000 Boers between Clanwilliam and Sutherland, in the south-west of Cape Colony, and another Boer commando is advancing from ...
Article : 76 wordsThe directors of the various companies associated with the London and Globe Finance Corporation, which was recently in difficulties owing to the collapse of Lake ...
Article : 43 wordsAll the Russian troops now in the province of Ch[?], in China, have now been ordered to proceed to Manchuria, with the exception of 1000 men, who are to guard the ...
Article : 48 wordsAs the State Attorney-General has given the opinion that under the Victorian Censtitution it is illegal for the Premier to hold office under the Federal Parliament, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe dry weather has had a disastrous effect on the grape viues at the West[?] State Farm. Mr. Rainford (the vi[?] turist), who has just returned from a visit ...
Article : 101 wordsThe shareholders of the London and Globe Finance Corporation have agreed to the company being placed in voluntary liquidation. Mr. Whittaker Wright, the ...
Article : 120 wordsOver 1500 men presented themselves at the Agricultural Society's ground this morning for enrolment in the South African contingent. Nearly every regiment in the ...
Article : 154 wordsSir John Forrest holds very strong views about the construction of a lino of railway from Port Augusta, in South Australia, to Kalgoorlie, in West Australia. The ...
Article : 98 wordsThe legislation dealing with religious associations in France, which was foreshadowed by the Premier, M. WaldeckRousseau, in his speech at Toulouse in ...
Article : 127 wordsTwo hundred Boer raiders in, Cape Colony made an attack on a British convoy at Damslaagte, but were repulsed. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe experiments in the destruction of prickly pears being conducted by the Department of Agriculture at the Westbrook State Farm seem to be arossing a good deal ...
Article : 85 wordsThe cyclist corps recently formed in Cape Colony, is now stated to be fighting like mounted infantry, and is found to be the most useful of all the defence corps ...
Article : 44 wordsThe storm at Gatton on Monday evening did a certain amount of damage at the Gatton Agricultural College. Some 6.15in. of rain fell. The wind blew with great force, the college buildings ...
Article : 52 wordsSergeant Toomey, who was stabbed recently, still continues to improve in health, though confined to his bed at the Sydney Hospital. If he does not suffer a relapse, ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Railway Commissioner has been informed by the Officer in charge of the Normanton-Croydon line that since the 9th instant, the train has been kept on the ...
Article : 199 wordsLater information regarding the attacks made by the Boers on Zuurfontein and Kaalfontein, two stations on the railway line between Johannesburg and Pretoria, ...
Article : 194 wordsYesterday shortly before noon Bessie Train, aged 4, residing in Gregory-terrace, accidentally fell into a waterhole in Victoria Park. She was rescued in a drowning ...
Article : 67 wordsArrivals.—Sommerfeld, s., from Sydney, via Queensland ports; Norfolk, s., from Adelaide, via Australian ports and South Africa. ...
Article : 56 wordsOut of 504 officers and men required for the fifth Victorian contingent, over 400 have been sent into camp at Langwarrin. The full number required, with nearly fifty ...
Article : 74 wordsThe man who is alleged to have absconded with over £3000 from the Union Bank at Grenfell has not yet been apprehended. It was suspected that he had gone to ...
Article : 53 wordsThree hundred and forty-two bullocks from Boondooma to Mooraree, Birt and Co. owners, A. E. Kennedy drover, were trucked at Kilkivan on the 11th, and 700 ...
Article : 542 wordsIt is reported from Berlin that the Emperor William has placed the military railway between Berlin and Zossen at the disposal of a company which is engaged in ...
Article : 63 wordsOver 170 men will go into camp to-morrow for training, preparatory to leaving for service in South Africa. Later on 140 will be chosen to form a contingent. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr. Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London, who was yesterday reported to be gradually sinking, had a slight rally last night. The improvement, ...
Article : 388 wordsThe racehorses Ohio and Gozan left forBrisbane to-day by the steamer [?] mineka. ...
Article : 20 wordsIn connection with the formation of the fifth contingent, 175 men have now been selected, and before the end of the week they will be under canvas. ...
Article : 36 wordsJimmy Governor, the Breelong murderer, is to be hanged on Friday at 9 o'clock. He is being attended by the Church of England chaplain and Miss Dixon, ...
Article : 38 wordsKing Oscar, of Sweden and Norway, who for some time had been seriously ill, has now completely recovered. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe men for the next contingent are now in camp, and promise, from their improvement in drill, to be a smart lot. Good horses are not procurable as easily as was ...
Article : 42 wordsEarly this morning a man mas found hanging to a post in Birtley-street, Marrick[?]lle. He had hanged himself with his braces, which had appereatly str[?] ...
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Advertising : 192 wordsPresident M'Kinley, who was one of the sufferers from the widespread epidemic of influenza in the United States, has now improved in health. ...
Article : 33 wordsA deputation consisting of forty-two unemployed bushmen waited upon the Police Magistrate yesterday, asking for work[?]-rations. It was pointed out that stations were now ceasing helping the ...
Article : 154 wordsWork at the Burwood Colliery, at Nowcastle, has not been resumed, as was expected after the satisfactory negotiations which were concluded with the miners and ...
Article : 87 wordsNews is to hand that Rustenburg, an important centre about 100 miles weet of Pretoria, has been provided wiph a fresh supply of provisions, after the British ...
Article : 43 wordsEx-President Kruger, who has been unwell for some time past, and was lately stated to be suffering from increased weakness of the heart, is now reported to have ...
Article : 43 wordsFurther details of the engagement which took place at Belfast, on the PretoriaDelagoa Bay railway line, on the 7th instant, state that seventy-two men of the ...
Article : 44 wordsInformation is to hand that Sir Rudolph Slatin has arranged with the Sheikh Alydinar to administer the province of Darfur under Anglo-Egyptian control. ...
Article : 78 wordsA fatal gun accident, occurred at Ivanhoe to-night. Two lads, named Alfred. Stead and Mark Smith were returning from a shooting excursion when the latter, who ...
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Advertising : 382 wordsThe Boers are now raiding farms within five miles of Johannesburg. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. George-Cohen has been elected chairman of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, in succession to the late Sir Edward Knox. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Alfred Vanderbilt, [?] recently inherited £9,000,000 from his father, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, has been married at Newport, near New York, to Miss Elsie ...
Article : 47 wordsA determined attack was made by the Boers on a British convoy which was proceeding to Vryheld, in the south-east of the Transvaal, but the attack was repulsed. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Evangelical Council of New South Wales has passed resolutions declaring that as under the Commonwealth Constitution all Churches are free and equal, the ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is announced by advertisement that Alderman Nicholis has resigned his seat for the East Ward, and nominations to fill the vacancy will be received on Friday, ...
Article : 68 wordsLieutenant Wylly, who was dangerously wounded in the recent engagement at Nooitgedacht, is reported to be doi[?] well. ...
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Advertising : 63 wordsAn explosion occurred yesterday in Wilson's hat factory at Denton, near Manchester, with most disastrous results. Twelve persons who were working in the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe War Office authorities deny the truth of the report that recruiting in England for General Baden Powell's South African Police Force has been stopped. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe report and balance-sheet of the Royal Bank of Queensland, Limited, for the half-year ended 31st December, appears elsewhere. A report of proceedings at the ...
Article : 37 wordsA young married woman named Emily Macdonald, residing at Redfern, poisoned her child, aged 18 months, and then made determine[?]tempts to end her own ...
Article : 129 wordsIt is reported from Ireland that the North Sligo executive of the United Irish League has stopped hunting over the whole of the County of Sligo until Colonel Campbell, the ...
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Advertising : 114 wordsWith regard to the requirements of additional mounted troops for the war in South Africa, it is stated that the war Office authorities hope to raise 10,000 fresh ...
Article : 57 wordsFifteen thousand British soldiers whose time of service in India has expired are still detained there owing to the suspension of reliefs, which is due to the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 16 Jan 1901, Page 5
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