Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered his Budget speech in the House of Commons this evening, and announced the new taxation that was ...
Article : 540 wordsAdvantage was taken of the presence of the Hon. J. G. Drake in Brisbane yesterday by Mr. John Cameron's committee to solicit "his vote and interest" in that ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is stated that, owing to the prevalence of plague at Capetown, there is a prospect of the Ophir, with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, returning ...
Article : 154 wordsBands of Boers are reported to be looting the farms in the Cradock and Zuurberg districts, in central Cape Colony. Many farmers whose sympathies were with the ...
Article : 60 wordsAdditional details regarding the burning of the palace at Peking, which was used by Count von Wraldersee, Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces in China, as his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsFrom Homebush, in company with Mr. E. Swayne, secretary of the Pioneer River Farmers' Association, we take a southeasterly course for nineteen miles, and ...
Article : 2,141 wordsParticulars of cheap excursions by rail from Queensland to Melbourne in connection with the arrival of the Royal visitors, and the opening of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 66 wordsThe proclamation prohibiting the taking of fish from the waters of the Broadwater and Nerang Creek, dated 16th May, 1900, has been varied, and it is now permissable ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. H. H. Share, secretary to his Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief, Rear Admiral Lewis A. Beaumont, has supplied to the Press the following copy of a ...
Article : 600 wordsReports from South Africa state that in the military operations dining the month of March the Boers lost 200 men killed, and 1000 were taken prisoners or ...
Article : 41 wordsMessrs. J. Stodart, M.L.A. (chairman), J. D. Campbell, M.L.A., R. Edwards, and P. Million have been appointed members of the committee of management of the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Boers are reported to have destroyed one of their "Long Tom" guns when General Kitchener's force advanced from Lydenburg, in the eastern Transvaal. ...
Article : 34 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons yesterday, Viscount Cranborne, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, confirmed the statement already published that the ...
Article : 62 wordsThere will be four illustrations in the "Sports Observer" this (Saturday) evening. Two are groups, one the South Brisbane Cricket Club, premiers for the 1900-1901 ...
Article : 78 wordsThe part to be taken by the aboriginals at the reception of the Duke and Duchess of York has been finally decided. The Home Secretary has requested Mr. Meston ...
Article : 161 wordsT. MACDONALD-PATERSON (elected). ...
Article : 8 wordsColonel Douglas has occupied Dullstroom after some opposition from the Boers, who lost, six men killed. Brigadier-General Plumer, who has ...
Article : 68 wordsW. H. GROOM (elected). ...
Article : 11 wordsJ. WILKINSON (elected). ...
Article : 5 wordsIn connection with the city Tabernacle Sunday school anniversary, intimation is given elsewhere that special services will be held to-morrow. The morning service, ...
Article : 89 wordsNews has been received of an accident to H.M.S. Hood, a first-class battleship of 14,150 tons. The Hood fouled a French mail steamer at Malta, and lost two of her ...
Article : 57 wordsR. EDWARDS (elected). ...
Article : 6 wordsA. FISHER (elected). ...
Article : 9 wordsThe Capetown correspondent of the "Times" states that the loyalists in Cape Colony are intensely apprehensive lest the absence of Sir Alfred Milner (who has ...
Article : 63 wordsA. PATERSON (elected). ...
Article : 7 wordsF. W. BAMFORD (elected). ...
Article : 7 wordsThere will be an entire change of programme at the Theatre Royal this evening, and several new artistes will appear. Messrs. Lennon, Hyman, and Lennon will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 wordsAs might have been expected, the rush for seats for the civic concert to Royalty has even now commenced, nearly 150 naving already been reserved. As the ...
Article : 120 wordsA sensational tragedy has been enacted in Paris. Ferdinand Ernst, the director of a Manchester company, murdered a woman named Madame Englander, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsThe Criminal Investigation Department has made arrangements to despatch an officer to Capetown to bring back Arthur Ball, late secretary of the Consolidated ...
Article : 56 wordsA telegram was received on the 16th instant from the assistant returning officer at Normanton that the poll had been taken at Camooweal, Moreston Downs, Gregory ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heirpresumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, in an address to the Clerical Society at Vienna, assured its members ...
Article : 48 wordsIn order to give the country towns an opportunity of presenting addresses to H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and York, his Excellency Lord Lamington will receive ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is the boast of the Victorian Postal Department that it leads the other State departments in that it has pneumatic tube services (says the Melbourne "Argus" of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe whereabouts of the ship Aladdin, bound from Java to Sydney, and now out 164 days, is again a mystery. Two days ago there was a hope that a vessel reported ...
Article : 72 wordsThe British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company has declared a final dividend for the past year of 1s. 3d. per share, and a sum of £10,854 has been carried forward. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe attendance of children at the "B" group r[?]hearsal last evening was exceptionally large, and a very satisfactory practice resulted. The songs in preparation are ...
Article : 194 wordsThe body of Lizzie Higham, who disappeared from the steamer Kallatina on Tuesday night, whilst the vessel was proceeding down the Clarance River to ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. J. S. Bennett, clerk in the Department of Public Lauds, has been appointed acting land agent for the Ipswich district, and acting land commissioner for the ...
Article : 465 wordsThe barque Stuart, which recently went ashore on the coast of Carnarvonshire, in North Wales, while on the voyage from Liverpool to Wellington, has now become a ...
Article : 39 wordsThe programme of the concert organised by Signor Benvenuti, to be given in the Foresters' Hall, Brunswick-street, next Tuesday evening, has been published. It ...
Article : 90 wordsThe work of searching for the bodies of the victims of the disaster at the Greta Colliery (which was sealed up for some months in order to extinguish the fire) had ...
Article : 86 wordsArrivals.—Perthshire, s., from Melbourne; Stassfurt, s., from Sydney, via ports (at Antwerp); Waikato, s., from New Zealand ports; Martina Johanna, barque, from ...
Article : 66 wordsOn the conclusion of the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir William Harcourt (who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the last Liberal Ministry) ...
Article : 163 wordsSir,—I see that the holidays in connection with the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York and the National Exhibition apply to Brisbane and ...
Article : 191 wordsIn Chambers yesterday, before his Honour the Chief Justice, Mr. E. J. Sydes (instructed by Messrs. M'Grath and O'Neill) moved on behalf of Dr. Armitage ...
Article : 129 wordsAs no nominations were lodged to-day in opposition to the Hon. J. Kidd, the new Minister for Mines and Agriculture, he has been re-elected unopposed as member ...
Article : 42 wordsA deputation from the meeting of residents of the West Ward, held on Thursday night, and consisting of the chairman (Mr. T. Morrow), Aldermen Lee-Bryce, M'Nab, ...
Article : 278 wordsThe steamer Birksgate has arrived from Fiji with J. H. Gr[?]y, a Geelong solicitor, who is alleged to have embezzled trust funds to the amount of £100,000. He is ...
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Advertising : 205 wordsThe Governor-General and Lady Hopetoun, while driving along Swanston-street on Thursday night, experienced a narrow escape from a serious accident. The ...
Article : 60 wordsThe atention of horseowners and trainers is directed to our business columns, where the full programme of the May Day Meeting of the Q.T.C.; which takes place on 6th ...
Article : 61 wordsThe programme for Tattersalls Club races, to be held on the Deagon (Sandgate) Racecourse on Saturday, the 4th May, has been issued, and provides for the usual six ...
Article : 206 wordsThe "Times" this morning, commenting upon the Financial Statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, states that the Budget proposals may be regarded as fairly ...
Article : 136 wordsSir John Forrest has actively entered upon his duties as Minister for Defence. He finds that the conditions of service in the Defence Forces of the different States ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Hon. B. R. Wise, Attorney-General of New South Wales, delivered an address in the Trades Hall last evening on compulsory arbitration. There was a large ...
Article : 52 wordsCharles Hayter, a chemist's assistant, aged 33 years, who is believed to have recently arrived from Tasmania, was found dead at his lodgings at West ...
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Advertising : 20 wordsAt Montague-road, West End, last evening, about a quarter past 7 o'clock, a man named Hammond, a painter by trade, living in Boundary-street, was running after a ...
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Advertising : 84 wordsThe acting Premier (the Hon. A. Rutledge) has not received a reply from the New South Wales authorities as to whether the troops from Queensland, to be sent to ...
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Advertising : 39 wordsIt is stated that when the Federal Parliament meets there will be an objection made to two or three representatives elected in other States taking their seats, ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is anticipated on the Stock Exchange that the Government will issue Consols loans to the amount of £60,000,000 at a price of £94 to £94 10s. ...
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Advertising : 27 wordsMr. Barton, the Federal Premier, stated to-day that it was not the intention of the Commonwealth Government to take over the quarantine laws at the present time. ...
Article : 78 wordsOur Perth correspondent telegraphs, under Friday's date:—A man named George Vester, late of Castlemaine, Victoria, while handling an iron plate in ...
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Advertising : 78 wordsA special parade of the Naval Brigade was made at the Naval Stores last evening, and the full complement of men to comprise the representative contingent at ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 20 Apr 1901, Page 5
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