The Boer force under Commandant Scheepers (which recently captured seventy-five British troops) was very nearly captured in the Aberdeen district. ...
Article : 76 wordsHis Holiness the Pope, in addressing a secret consistory of Cardinals at Rome, referred to the spread of painful and dangerous doctrines. He expressed regret ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Chinese Imperial Court, in reply to representations made by Japan with regard to a return to the capital, have, it is stated, intimated, that it is impossible for ...
Article : 61 wordsA deputation representing the National Association of Queensland, and consisting of Messrs. J. Macdonald (Chairman), R. Galley, J. K. Stewart, E. Baynes, J. F. ...
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Article : 51 wordsStrong anti-clerical demonstrations on the part of the populace have occurred at Valladolid, in Spain. ...
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Article : 66 wordsThe majority of members of the United States Senate are reported to be opposed to any new treaty with Great Britain in connection with the Nicaragua Canal, ...
Article : 237 wordsA meeting of 10,000 persons was held at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, to protest against the recent arrest of the Central Macedonian Committee. Resolutions were ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Australian and New Zealand mounted troops who are scouting with Colonel Plumer's force in the Pietersburg district have occupied the difficult Chunes[?]oort ...
Article : 47 wordsIn connection with the recent occupation of Pietersburg, it appears that Commandant Beyers, the Boer commander, was absent at the time collecting horses, with ...
Article : 69 wordsOur Wellington correspondent wires as follows:—Lord Kitchener has cabled, stating that the members of the old New Zealand contingent remaining at the [?]ront in ...
Article : 46 wordsThe leading London newspapers, commenting upon the situation in the New Hebrides, emphasise the danger of a policy of drift on the part of the British ...
Article : 53 wordsThe following extracts are from a letter received in Brisbane from Ralph Stewart, in the Fourth Queensland Bushman's Contingent. Writing from Bloemfontein on ...
Article : 231 wordsThe writs for the Darling Downs and Capricornia divisions, which are due in Sydney on 20th instant, were posted in Brisbane last night. The writ for the Herbert ...
Article : 151 wordsReports are to hand that a meeting has taken place at Ermelo, in the south-east of the Transvaal, between Mr. Schalk Burger, nominal Acting President of the Transvaal; ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Premier, Mr. See, is already taking steps to carry out Mr. Barton's request that New South Wales should indicate what sites are considered suitable for the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Marquess of Headfort was married to-day to Miss Rosie Boote, of the Gaiety Theatre, London. (Miss Boote, who has thus been raised ...
Article : 195 wordsThe following is the return of polling in the electorate of Bulloo, for members of the Senate:—Ahearne, 12; Bartholomew, 45; Buzacott, 18; Cowley, 105; Dawson, ...
Article : 75 wordsReports are to hand that forty prominent Boers held a meeting at Boshof, in the Orange River Colony, near Kimberley, and solemnly re-elected Mr. M. T. Steyn ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Commandants of the several States have been sitting in conference for some days, and have now completed the preparation of a Defence Bill for Australia. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. W. H. Browne, M.L.A., Leader of the Labour party, addressed a meeting here to-night, and notwithstanding the short notice given, there was a large attendance. ...
Article : 355 wordsInformation has been received that the messenger despatched with elections material for Urandangie arrived there yesterday, and the poll will be taken on Friday ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the elections for the Federal Senate in this State, 181,899 electors voted out of a total of 329,617 on the roll, and they cast 1,130,068 votes, out of which there were ...
Article : 47 wordsThe death is announced of Miss Alice Barnett, the noted contralto, who first came into prominence in connection with the production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas. ...
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Article : 56 wordsInformation has been received by the Acting Premier that the Royal Commission appointed by the New Zealand Government, which has been visiting the ...
Article : 170 wordsA telegraphic message has been received from (Mr. J. N. Parkes, returning officer at Townsville for the Herbert division, as follows:—"Returning officer, Cooktown, ...
Article : 132 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that the commission recently appointed, at the instance of Mr. T. Gibson Bowles, to inquire into the naval works now under ...
Article : 215 wordsA despatch written by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, as Commander-in-Chief of the forces in South Africa, and dated 2nd April, has just been published in the ...
Article : 649 wordsInspector Urquhart, the officer in charge of the Queensland Criminal Investigation Branch, left Brisbane by mail yesterday for Melbourne. He goes to make ...
Article : 399 wordsThe final results of the polling for Federal Senators in the Bulloo electorate are as follow:—Ahearne, 12; Bartholomew, 45; Buzacott, 18; Cowley, 105; Dawson, 208; ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 18 Apr 1901, Page 5
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