The House of Commons, by a vote of 149 votes to 2[?]4, rejected the motion by Mr. John Dillon (Nationalist) that the House should adjourn as a mark of protest ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Ministers of the various foreign Powers at Peking held a meeting yesterday, at Which it was decided that the replies of the Chinese Court to the ...
Article : 78 wordsIt now transpires that the Zand Dr[?], by which Commandant De Wet crossed into Cape Colony, was the only one on which the British forces had not laid down ...
Article : 78 words[?] serious charge has been made against the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies. In a speech delivered at Peterborough Mr. W. R. ...
Article : 96 wordsWe are in a position to give below particulars of the dates that will probably be adopted for the election of members of the House of Representatives. It will be ...
Article : 557 wordsSir. George Turner, the Federal Treasurer, is suffering from an [?]lineas which will necessitate perfect rest. He will, therefore, be unable to accompany his colleagues ...
Article : 49 wordsFor the Imperial Contingent 1574 men have passed all, tests, and have been provisionally enrolled in two squadrons. Of 111 applicants for enrolment examined by ...
Article : 79 wordsSir John Forrest stated that he intends for six months at least to administer the Federal Defence Department from Melbourne. He has not the slightest ink[?]ng ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is announced that the Imperial Court has now admitted that the previous sentences passed upon the different officials for their share in the Boxer rebellion, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe committee of the Sussex County Cricket Club has resolved that the action of the captains in regard to the question of throwing is ultra vires. ...
Article : 197 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court to-day Isabella Widgery and James Stanlty M'Gifford, who were convicted of the manslaughter of Edith Eva May Short, were ...
Article : 107 wordsThe correspondent of the London "Dally Mail" states that Commandant De Wet, whose force was reported to be making for Britstown after their defeat at ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Government have decided, to intimate to the Imperial authorities that they object to South African officials visiting the State to recruit men for the South ...
Article : 38 wordsThe commissariat department attached to the German forces in China have ordered 1000 transport waggons, to be in readiness in three weeks time, for an expedition ...
Article : 76 wordsWhen the debate on the Address in reply was resumed, Viscount —Cranbourne, the Conservative member for Rochester, said that the friendly representations which had ...
Article : 146 wordsApplications are coming in freely for the Seventh Contingent. It is expected that the first draft of 300 men will be despatched before the middle of March. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is stated that the mobility of the British forces who are now engaged in the pursuit of De Wet exceeds that of the enemy. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe strength of the camp at Lytton yesterday morning was:—24 officers, 520 men, and 557 horses. The Commandant visited the camp ...
Article : 148 wordsPrince Chang Chih Tung, one of the Chinese Commissioners for arranging terms of peace with the representatives of the foreign Powers at Peking, has beheaded ...
Article : 37 wordsThe barque Invermay cleared the Customs to-day with 22,470 bags wheat for England. Four vessels are now loading wheat at Darling Harbour. ...
Article : 27 wordsAmong the captures made after the recent engagement at Houtkraal was Commandant Bos[?]an, who was in command of the Boer force at Boshof when it was ...
Article : 45 wordsIn anticipation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget Speech, which, it is expected, will contain proposals for fresh taxation, enormous clearings have taken ...
Article : 53 wordsThe chestnut colt Palmer, by Pilgrim's Progress-Zeph, who won the Third Caulfield Futurity Stakes for Mr. James Wilson, jun., and did no good afterwards, has ...
Article : 54 wordsAn Imperial edict, which has just been issued by the Chinese Emperor, declares that if any of the princes and officials resist the proposals made by the Court ...
Article : 46 wordsA report has been received that half the force which constituted (Do Wet's camp held a meeting and protested vigorously against the indiscriminate [?]gging which ...
Article : 61 wordsOur Rockhampton correspondent, under yesterday's date, wires:—A meeting of delegates from the different electorates in the Capricornia Federal division was held ...
Article : 316 wordsMr. Winston Spencer Churchill, the Conservative member for Oldham, delivered his maiden speech in the House of Commons last night. He justified the war in South ...
Article : 75 wordsA boating accident by which two lives are supposed to have been lost occurred at Newcastle to-day. There seems little doubt that Captain Webb, of Morpeth, and ...
Article : 158 wordsThe will of the late Lord Armstrong, the chairman of the Elswick Ironworks, and the inventor of the famous Armstrong gun, who died in December last, has just ...
Article : 64 wordsA meeting of the committee of butter agents and importers has been held in London, the Agents-General of Victoria (Sir Andrew Clarke) and New South Wales ...
Article : 156 wordsIn conection with the effort made to have a cyclist detachment attached to the Fifth Contingent, which is being made by Mr. A. Wynyard Joss, of the Cleveland Cycle ...
Article : 410 wordsIt is reported that Sergeant F. Spencer (South Australian Bushmen's Contingent), and Private L. Maskell (West Australian Bushmen) were severely wounded at ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to attacks made upon him by the Opposition, reiterated his assertion that the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. George Graham, who was once a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. LONDON, February 19. ...
Article : 115 wordsTwo cases of suspicious illness among those under Observation at Capetown, have now been proved to be plague, and a coolie employed at the docks has also been found ...
Article : 63 wordsA proclamation was issued to-day further proroguing Parliament from 27th instant to 10th April. The feeling is growing stronger that there will be no assembling of ...
Article : 39 wordsGreat indignation has been aroused at Belgrade, the capital of Servia, over the interment of the late King Milan at Karlowitz in Hungary. Mobs of angry and ...
Article : 58 wordsThe heat of this week was almost unbearable, the pastures and crops have been burnt up badly. Yesterday was cloudy all day, a heavy thunderstorm [?]ell in the evening; it was cloudy to-day, ...
Article : 536 wordsA man named Nademan, a Boer resident of the Harrismith district of the Grange River Colony, declares that he was an eyewitness of, a most cruel act perpetrated by ...
Article : 67 wordsA firm of tobacco merchants at Bristol have paid into the Treasury a cheque to the amount of £250,000 in connection with the removal of large stocks of tobacco from ...
Article : 38 wordsOwing to the depression in Imperial securities now prevailing, and the further borrowings which will be undertaken by the Government to meet the war ...
Article : 53 wordsIn connection with the Federal elections, it has appoared[?] that matters have been very much simplified by the presence in Sydney of Mr. E. A. Blackboro, of the ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Paatch Company, a firm of wool and grain exportres at Buenos Ayres, in the Argentina, have suspended business. The liabilities are said to amount to £400,000. ...
Article : 33 wordsNews from Germany states that there has been a great decrease in the amount of Germany's home trade during the past twelve months, especially in iron ...
Article : 54 wordsThe correspondent of the "London Standard" tells of a daring cross-country journey made by a man named Malcolm Clark. He started from Leydsdorp, about 250 ...
Article : 64 wordsIn connection with the opening of the Federal Parliament, efforts will be made to secure the presence of representative bodies of troops from the various States of ...
Article : 63 wordsThe New Waitekauri Extended Gold Mining Company has been registered, with a capital of £100,000, to work properties which have been acquired in the ...
Article : 56 wordsFor the inquest in connection with the Tempe railway disaster the coroner has obtained the services of experts to assist him in the investigation of the cause of ...
Article : 151 wordsHerr Licht, of Magdeburg, in his monthly [?]cular, states that the production of beat sugar for the current campaign has increased by 345,000 tons, compared with the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Government has wired to the transport officer at Sydney, asking if one of the transports to arrive there con be spared for the purpose of carrying the Sixth ...
Article : 102 wordsA meeting under the auspices of the Commonwealth Electoral League was held in the School of Arts, Bulimba, last evening. Mr. R. Jamieson was moved into the chair. ...
Article : 907 wordsA Reuter's correspondent in South Africa has reported that[?]when the Boers of Commandant Hertzog's commando at Calvinia heard the news of Queen Victoria's death ...
Article : 50 wordsArrivals.—Varzin, s., from Sydney and Melbourne: Lotfthus, ship, from Melbourne; South Australia, s., from Sydney and Melbourne. ...
Article : 81 wordsAt a meeting of the Federal Executive to-day it was decided to issue the writs for Western Australia, polling to take place on Friday, 29th March, the writs to be returned ...
Article : 173 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth, Mrs. A. H. Stratton, Mrs. Betteridge, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver ...
Article : 67 wordsFulminate has been backed to win about £3000 at 100 to 6 and 100 to 7, for the Newmarket Handicap. MELBOURNE, February 19. ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. A. Wolmarans, one of the three Boer peace envoys in Holland, has stated that the Boers in the late South African Republics will accept peace upon terms granting ...
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Advertising : 247 wordsOf the sufferers by the late railway disaster it is now thought that none of those in the hospitals will succumb to their injuries. Two of the injured, whose condition ...
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Advertising : 237 wordsDr. Leyds, the European representative of the Boers, has made a complaint of having been robbed at Brussels of a handbag containing diplomatic documents. ...
Article : 36 wordsHon. E. Barton leaves for Queensland on Monday next. He speaks at Toowoomba on Tuesday night, and will be present at the A.N.A. banquet in Brisbane on ...
Article : 88 wordsOur Wellington correspondents under yesterday's date, telegraphs as follows:—The Imperial troops left Auckland for Adelaide to-day. Mr. Seddon obtained the consent ...
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Advertising : 265 wordsThe Independent Order of Foresters, an organisation which combines the benefits of life insurance with those of those of the friendly society, has just commenced ...
Article : 144 wordsA telegram has been received by his Excellency the Governor from the General of Communications, under date 17th February, stating that "40, Corporal ...
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Advertising : 132 wordsThe conference of permanent heads of the Postal Departments of the various States was concluded to-night. Further consideration was given to-day to the draft of ...
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Advertising : 79 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the New South Wales Silver League last night resolutions were carried urging upon all federal candidates the necessity of a ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 20 Feb 1901, Page 5
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