Further information has been received of the operations of General Buller, who has advanced on Lydenburg and encountered a large force of the enemy. General Botha, ...
Article : 253 wordsMuch interest was manifested on the Exchange to-day in a sample of about 60oz. of rough gold, from the Suloga Company's mine, on Woodlark Island. The largest ...
Article : 83 wordsIn the recent circular note which Count Lan[?]sdorf, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, addressed to the Great Powers, submitting the proposals of Russia for the ...
Article : 116 wordsIn Committee of Supply yesterday, the Legislative Assembly returned the debate on the Treasurer's Financial Statement. Mr. BROWNE congratulated the Treasurer ...
Article : 2,560 wordsAfter a spell lasting into the fourteenth day, the plague made its reappearance again yesterday evening, the patient baing a Miss James, employed as a domestic servant at a ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Boers have made a raid on the Pietersburg railway line, to the north of Pretoria, and derailed a train. Some men of the West Riding (Yorkshire) Regiment who ...
Article : 47 wordsA large Boer commando has made its appearance on the Vet River, in the Orange River Colony, east of the Bloemfontein-Pretoria Railway line. ...
Article : 34 wordsConditions have been arranged for a billiard match between Roberts and Weiss, in which the former allows Weiss 7000 points in 21,000. The first half of the ...
Article : 93 wordsEx-Presidents Kruger and Steyn are reported to be living in railway carriages at Nelspruit, on the Delagoa Bay Railway line, about sixty-six miles east of ...
Article : 48 wordsTo-day the patient Hutchison is due to be discharged from Colmslie[?] Wolff will probably be released in about a week, and Gibson is gradually drawing towards the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe rioting reported in the North of the Canton province early in August, was more serious than was at first anticipated, the Berlin Mission station, at Luk Hang ...
Article : 832 wordsThe disclosures of last week in regard to matrimonial agencies was the subject of a brief debate in the Legislative Council tonight. The representation of the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe cleansing gang were at work yesterday laying rat baits on the South Brisbane wharves. They have not so far completed Queen-street, but it is found difficult to do ...
Article : 55 wordsAdvices received from Hamburg state that the British Government have agreed to pay an indemnity of £87,500 to the owners of the German steamers Bundesrath, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe president of the Epidemic Board yesterday submitted a proposal to the Central Board of Health, under which it was recommended that the whole or the nurses at ...
Article : 78 wordsA fresh case of bubonic plague has been reported at Govan a suburb of Glasgow. There are now thirteen cases of plague in the hospital at Glasgow, and forty-three ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-night, thee Casino to Lismore Railway Bill was carried through its second reading and Committee stages without amendment. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is understood that the German Government are awaiting the reply of the British Government to the Russian proposals with regard to the withdrawal of the allies from ...
Article : 66 wordsNews of the wreck of the Japanese steamer —the Futami Maru—brought by the Kasuga Maru relates that the weather on Friday night, the 17th August, was the blackest ...
Article : 426 wordsLawrence Killian, a railway employee, residing at West End, was pronounced to be suffering from a mild attack of plague to-day. He will be removed to the quarantin[?] ...
Article : 52 wordsStanley Rowley, the Australian sprinter, who was recently sent to England as the representative of the Amateur Athletic Union of Australasia, is returning to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe various Powers are endeavouring to elicit the views of the Ministers and military commanders at Peking with regard to the proposed withdrawal of the allied ...
Article : 56 wordsThe only alteration in the betting market to-day was that Auld Lang Syne hardened for the Epsom Handicap to 100 to 8. MELBOURNE, September 5. ...
Article : 81 wordsAlthough the committee to arrange the ceremonies in connection with the inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth has not yet been appointed, some ...
Article : 232 wordsThe leading Japanese newspapers are unanimous in expressing the opinion that the action taken by Russia has terminated the concert of the Powers. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dods, Mr. and Mrs. Reikie, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe "Journal des Debats," a leading Paris journal, commenting upon the situation in China, foresees that it is the intention of Russia, when the Trans-Siberian ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is reported that the Chinese Empress Dowager has ordered an investigation to be made into the conduct of the Viceroys of the southern provinces in entering into ...
Article : 43 wordsLast year in the Legislative Assembly, on the motion of Mr. F. M'Donnell, a resolution was passed expressing the desirability of holders of State scholarships and ...
Article : 228 wordsReports have been received that four Boer commandoes, under Commandants Grobelaar, Fourie, Lemmer, and Sasebroek, are besieging Ladybrand, on the ...
Article : 189 wordsAn edict, which is attributed to the Chinese Emperor, and is dated the 19th August, has been issued. This edict orders Li Hung Chang to open negotiations with ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Breelong blacks to-day bailed up a fencer named Woodley, about twelve miles from Nundle, and had dinner with him. A party of civilians suddenly came upon them, ...
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Advertising : 116 wordsA report has been received from Peking that, at the instance of the Austrian Embassy, Chung-li, a prominent member of the Tsung-li-Yamen, has been arrested for ...
Article : 42 wordsA Russian, force is reported to be marching on Kirin, an important town in Eastern Manchuria, where the Chinese have a large arsenal. ...
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Advertising : 231 wordsThe Post and Telegraph Department advise as follows:—Berne notifies that the Chines[?] lines between Shanghai and Chefoo have been restored, but are working badly. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday the principal business was the discussion of the bill making provision for the construction, elevation, and form of buildings, clauses 1, ...
Article : 114 wordsInformation has been received that the mining and exploring party under Dr. R. L. Jack, late Queensland Government Geologist, who were in the province of Sze-chuan, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following is a list of through passengers who left Brisbane by last night's Northern mail train:—For Gladstone: Mr. Allen. For Rockhampton: Messrs. Stiebel, ...
Article : 70 wordsNews has been received by cable that the Rev. T. Howard Smith and his wife, who were missionaries in China, are safe. It was feared that they had both been ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the engagement at Roolkop, where Colonel Plumer defeated a force of Boers and captured large quantities of ammunition [?]d supplies, five men of the Tasmanian ...
Article : 41 wordsMuch of the China news appearing in the latest files, received by the steamer Kasuga Maru, has already been published in the cable messages. ...
Article : 191 wordsThe entertainment of the Mayor and Mayoress of Brisbane by the citizens at a conversazione and ball will take place at the Centennial Hall this (Thursday) ...
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Advertising : 143 wordsOur Wellington correspondent telegraphs under yesterday's date:—The Government have introduced a bill to make provision for the men, or the wives and families ...
Article : 45 wordsColonel Plumer has had another successful encounter with the Boers to the north of Pretoria. The engagement took place on Sunday last, in the vicinity of Warm Baths, ...
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Advertising : 91 wordsThe following members of the colonial contingents who were captured by the Boers in the recent fighting north of Pretoria, have returned to Warm Baths:—Of the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 6 Sep 1900, Page 5
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