The steamer Ophir, with the Duke and Duchess of York and suite on board, has encountered rough weather in the Bay of Biscay. ...
Article : 87 wordsAdditional particulars concerning the serious disturbances in Russia show that one hundred students at St. Petersburg protested to the Holy Synod of the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe correspondent of the "New York Herald" at Tientsin has reported that General Wogack, the Russian Commander, has declined the compromise submitted by ...
Article : 86 wordsThe difference between the Steam Collierowners' Association and the Coal Lumpers' Union did not get any nearer settlement to-day. The steamers Changsha and Pacifique ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Coningham case was continued to-day. Counsel for the co-respondent interposed two Telegraph Department officials, who deposed that there was no record of ...
Article : 967 wordsIt has been officially announced that General Louis Botha has rejected the terms of peace submitted to him by General Lord Kitchener, for the consideration of which ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsDr. Ahearne, Protestant Hall. Messrs. Thynne and Cowley, Building Society's Hall, Ipswich. Mr. W. Kellett, Caboolture. ...
Article : 32 wordsAn interview took place yesterday between the Hon. A. Rutledge (Acting Premier) and the Mayor (Alderman T. Proe) on the matter of the arrangements for the ...
Article : 240 wordsThe following nominations for the House of Representatives have already been received:- CAPRICORN.—Wallace Nelson, A. Paterson. DARLING DOWNS.—W. H. Groom, M.L.A., H. ...
Article : 98 wordsWith regard to the dispute at Tientsin, a semi-official statement has been published in Berlin to the effect that Count Von Waldersee, with a view to putting an end ...
Article : 89 wordsIt was expected that Sir William Lyne would resign the State Premiership to-day. He did not do so. but had an interview with the Lieutenant-Governor. His ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Salisbury, referring to the Catholic complaints regarding the terms of the accession and coronation oaths taken by the ...
Article : 114 wordsIn the House of Lords and House of Commons yesterday identical statements were made by the Marquis of Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain respectively with regard to the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe names given below are those of probable candidates for the Federal House of Representatives so far as announced to date. BRISBANE.—T. Macdonald-Paterson, M.L A., ...
Article : 42 wordsStamp duties in respect to probates and letters of administration were paid last week to the amount of £23,612. Of this sum £1695 were paid in the estate of ...
Article : 55 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons last night regarding the Tientsin incident, Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for-India, stated that the sentries ...
Article : 118 wordsThe following have been nominated for election to the Senate:- DR. JOSEPH AHEARNE. MR. JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, M.L.A. ...
Article : 199 wordsMr. P. George, agent for Messrs. Brock and Co., the contractors for the supply of fireworks for the display on the occasion of the Royal visit, has now got ...
Article : 79 wordsWe are having splendid rain, over 3in. having fallen within the last few days, and [?] is still raining. The country is looking splendid. The grass is quite a sight to see, and the late ...
Article : 498 wordsThe racehorse Dandy Dick, which ran last in the race for the Lauriston Handicap at Kyneton, Victoria, yesterday, fell and broke his leg, and subsequently had to be ...
Article : 34 wordsArrangements are now being made to procure carriages for the use of the Royal visitors. It will be necessary to have three carriages, and they will be decorated ...
Article : 54 wordsIt has been decided that the national memorial to the late Queen Victoria shall be erected from funds provided by public subscriptions alone. The memorial will ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Times" this morning, commenting upon the result of the negotiations, says General Botha speaks of "his Government," but it would be interesting to know ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the Water Police Court to-day, James Exton, aged 38, a clerk, was charged with stealing a necklet of the value of £2, the property of Arthur Coningham, on the 16th ...
Article : 43 wordsReports from Peking state that in acknowledging the assistance afforded to China by the intervention of Great Britain, the United States, and Japan, Prince Ching, ...
Article : 228 wordsA correspondent has written to us suggesting that on the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York there should be " a mammoth concert of a superior ...
Article : 182 wordsThe City Council to-night adopted the report of the committee recommending that an address and casket be prepared for presentation to the Duke and Duchess of ...
Article : 42 wordsBrigadier-General Frederick D. Lugard, British Commissioner for the Hinterland of Nigeria and Lagos, has refused permission for a French column, under Colonel Seroz, ...
Article : 49 wordsColonel De Lisle, Avho has lately been operating against the Boer raiders in the south of Cape Colony, is returning to Kroonstad, in the north of the Orange ...
Article : 43 wordsJane Smith was charged on remand at the Central Police Court yesterday with causing the death of Patrick Conway on the high seas on the 19th February, and was ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Alex Muir, returning officer for the division of Brisbane, received the following nominations yesterday—namely. Daniel Guilfoyle, of Leichhardt-street, ...
Article : 142 wordsThrough the fall of an avianche at Como, in Switzerland, eight persons lost their livers, three being Customs officials and five [?]. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe inquest concerning the death of Elizabeth Harper, wife of Constable John B. Harper, at Newtown, on the 11th instant, was resumed to-day. The evidence of W. ...
Article : 170 wordsCommandant Kruitzinger, who has been operating in the south of Cape Colony, is reported to have escaped across the Elands River and gone eastward. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Acting Premier (the Hon. A. Rutledge), had an interview with the Mayor of Brisbane yesterday, on matters connected with the arrangements for the ...
Article : 102 wordsA sensational incident is reported from Kansas, in the United States. A large body of convicts, numbering 284, were engaged in the Lausing Colliery, and wihile working ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral Bruce Hamilton is reported to have cleared the Rouxville and Wepener districts, in the extreme south-east of the Orange River Colony, destroying 30,000 bags ...
Article : 54 wordsA disastrous hurricane struck Levuka, in fiji, on the night of 13th instant. Twelve [?] were wrecked, and two schooners stranded. The Town Board offices and the ...
Article : 278 wordsThe members of the Ministry have received invitations to the functions at Melbourne, on the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York. Some of ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is expected that 10,000 of the French troops now in China will shortly be withdrawn. ...
Article : 24 wordsNoon yesterday was the time appointed for the formal announcement to the electors of the nominations of candidates for the Oxley division for the Commonwealth House of ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Railway Commissioners stated to-day, with reference to the Tempo railway disaster, that, without waiting for a verdict to be arrived at by the coroner's jury, ...
Article : 55 wordsThe headquarters of Sir Alfred Milner, the Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, have been fixed at Johannesburg. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe rain, which is blessing the land, was unfortunate for the financial chances of Miss Jose Bytheway's concert at the Centennial Hall last night. The young singer ...
Article : 519 wordsA meeting of the Citizens' Committee in connection with the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York was held to-day, and it was decided that a ...
Article : 96 wordsNews is to hand that the British gunboat Plover has gone ashore below Kiu-kiang, on the Yang-tsze River. The gunboat Redpole has gone to the scene, and is ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. D O'Donovan, C.M.G., Parliamentary Librarian, has been granted six months' leave of absence. It is understood that he intends visiting the old country. ...
Article : 383 wordsThe steamer Zealandia, from Sydney, was quarantined for twenty-four hours at Auckland. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Boers have wrecked in all twentyone trains on the Pretoria-Delagca Bay railway line, since the British first occupied Komatipoort, on the Portuguese ...
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Advertising : 258 wordsMr. Seddon, the Premier, positively refuses to give a Government subsidy to municipalities to assist in displays for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of ...
Article : 58 wordsAn alarming fire broke out on Monday on board the steamship Jumna, which left Brisbane on the 8th January, via Queensland ports, for London. The fire occurred ...
Article : 93 wordsFurther particulars have now been received of the shooting of the British prisoners, Boyd and M'Laughlan, at Wolmaranstad, by the order of Commandant ...
Article : 138 wordsInformation has been received of a delay, through floods, in the carriage of elections matter to the assistant returning officers at Croydon and Normanton. The ...
Article : 419 wordsThere are 4939 men employed in Government co-operative works throughout the colony. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe death is announced of Captain Tuke, of Hawke's Bay, one of the Maori war veterans. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Government have sent a cable message to Lord Kitchener, stating that the first five New Zealand contingents will have the option of serving an additional ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Miner, a boat built for the New South Wales Government for purposes of submarine mining, has left Aden for Sydney. ...
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Advertising : 157 wordsThe Government and the Education Boards are endeavouring to arrive at a common agreement with regard to the increase of teachers' salaries in the national ...
Article : 33 wordsThe strength of the camp at Lytton in connection with the Sixth Contingent is seventeen officers, 420 other ranks, and 506 horses. It is proposed to increase the ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Victorian Government loan of £3,000,000, bearing 3 per cent interest, which was recently issued at £93 10s., and was over-subscribed, is now quoted at a ...
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Advertising : 110 wordsThe underwriters for the Mount Deddick Railway, in Victoria, state that they are prepared lo deposit £10,000 as a guarantee to provide £1,500,000 for the construction ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 21 Mar 1901, Page 5
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