The British column, under General Hildyard, has occupied the town of Vryheid, in the south-east of the Transvaal. The occupation took place after Generals Bethune ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Premier (the Marquis of Salisbury) has published an address to the country, in which he gravely warns the electors of the danger of their abstention from the polls ...
Article : 256 wordsMr. C. C. Kingston, ex-Premier, was yesterday elected for the vacancy for the Central district in the Legislative Council, polling 4325 votes to 4074 votes recorded for ...
Article : 43 wordsYesterday Mr. John Cameron received a further letter from the Honourable the Premier in connection with the petition which he presented on behalf of the pastoralists ...
Article : 1,782 wordsIn the recent engagement between the allied troops and the Chinese, when the forts at Peitang, ten miles north of Taku, were captured, 4000 Russians, 4000 Germans, ...
Article : 181 wordsThe steamer Hyson, which is about to leave for Taku (China), will take 925 horses, being the balance of 3050 which have been purchased in Australia for the ...
Article : 66 wordsH.M.S. Royal Arthur, flagship on the Australian station, arrived yesterday. Three barques were lying in the roadstead as the flagship passed, two of them being English, ...
Article : 64 wordsA further remittance of £1000 has been forwarded to Calcutta, making a total sent from New South Wales of £15,000 to the Indian Famine Fund. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe petition received from the Raratonga chiefs for annexation by New Zealand suggests that the island's of Penrhyn, Manahuki, Buhahuka, and Nine should be ...
Article : 40 wordsDuring a banquet given at Broken Hill to the Minister for Mines the Mayor did not rise to the toast of "The Queen," and at a special meeting of the Municipal ...
Article : 48 wordsThree cases under the Betting Houses Suppression Act came before the Central Police Court to-day. In two of them fines of £25 were inflicted, and in the other a ...
Article : 40 wordsThe healing of the charges against Brother Wybertus in connection with the Stoke Orphanage for Boys was continued at Nelson to-day, and the accused was ...
Article : 41 wordsAt a meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association to-night, it was decided that there should be no intercolonial match between New South Wales and Queensland ...
Article : 42 wordsThe balance-sheet of the South British Insurance Company for the year ended 31st August shows a profit on working account of £40,192 12s. 4d. A dividend at the rate ...
Article : 47 wordsField-Marshal Count von Waldersee, Generalissimo of the allied forces in China, reviewed 5000 foreign troops at Shanghai. He has now sailed northwards. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Railway Commissioners are arranging for a popular excursion to Brisbane on the lines of the Sydney to Melbourne railway excursions. The train is to leave here on ...
Article : 37 wordsNews from the Transvaal states that the Boers are abandoning the positions held by them near the eastern frontier, and crossing into Portuguese territory. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe racehorses Seahorse and Laborer were shipped for Sydney by the steamer Walhora; also, two new 30-footer yachts, one for Dr. Craig and the other for Mr. S. Dempster, of ...
Article : 38 wordsThe coal miners of the Southern district have practically come to a decision to give fourteen days' notice to stop work if the demand for an advance of 3d. per ton in the ...
Article : 76 wordsReuter's correspondent at Washington reports that the United States Government intend to reduce the American military contingent in China to a strong guard for the ...
Article : 67 wordsA meeting of the Miners' Union was held at Bundamba to-night, to take into consideration the position of affairs at the Whitwood Colliery. The two men—a ...
Article : 395 wordsA British force has now occupied Komati Poort, the frontier station on the Pretoria-D[?]lagoa Bay railway. The railway bridge over the Komati ...
Article : 37 wordsNow that the announcement has been made that a tender has been accepted for the construction of the Pacific cable, Mr. Crick, Postmaster-General, will at once introduce ...
Article : 112 wordsThe town of Pei-ta-chu, about ten miles west of Peking, which was surprised and captured by the American and British force under General Wilson, is stated to have been ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in addressing his late constituents at Birmingham on Saturday night, as already cabled, made a notable fighting speech, in which he insisted that ...
Article : 85 wordsThis petition was presented about tea days ago to the Premier. We understand that very careful consideration was given to this question by the Cabinet, with the ...
Article : 398 wordsThe following deaths of members of Australian contingents are reported:—Private W. Creelman (Victorian), of enteric fever, at Enkeldoorn, and Private G. H. Brown ...
Article : 33 wordsGeneral Tung-fuh-siang, who became notorious during the recent events in Peking, has been appointed Generalissimo of the Chinese forces, and it is reported that he ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is reported that the Russians have seized Chin-wan-tao. ...
Article : 21 wordsAt a meeting of woolbuyers and woolbrokers held to-day, the following resolutions were unanimously carried:—"That all woolpacks be marked with the actual [?]are ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Military Hospitals Commission is still taking evidence in South Africa, and among the witnesses examined was Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, the eminent Melbourne surgeon, ...
Article : 81 wordsIn reply to the recent circular note from Germany with regard to demanding the surrender of the prominent instigators of the outrages in China as a preliminary to ...
Article : 115 wordsIt is reported that Prince Tuan, who has taken a leading part in the recent antiforeign movement in China, has been promoted by the Empress Dowager to a ...
Article : 44 words[?]ord Rosebery has addressed a letter to Captain the Hon. Hedworth Lambton, R.N., late of H.M.S. Powerful, who commanded the Naval Brigade throughout the defence of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Premier, speaking at the yearly meeting of the Sydney Ragged Schools to-day, said the Governor recently referred to the number of children not attending school. ...
Article : 212 wordsIt is announced that Cheng, a strongly anti-foreign official, has been appointed Taotai (or Prefect) of Shanghai. ...
Article : 30 wordsNews from China states that a proclamation by the Viceroy Li Hung Chang has been issued at Pao-ting-fu and other places ordering the Chinese soldiers to fight the Boxers ...
Article : 70 wordsHeavy rain, causing disastrous floods, is reported from India. At Calcutta 35in. fell in four days, and the country is flooded for a distance of hundreds of miles. ...
Article : 52 wordsLi Hung Chang has sent a telegraphic despatch to Shanghai, in which he admits that the surrender of Prince Tuan, Kang-yi, and other prominent personages, as demanded in ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, who has represented St. George's, Hanover Square, in the House of Commons since 1887, has issued an address ...
Article : 90 wordsThe conditions in plague matters still remain of the most satisfactory nature. There are neither fresh cases of plague nor anything of a suspicious character to ...
Article : 110 wordsOur London correspondent, in his letter appearing yesterday, referred to the complaint made by the pastoral lessees, through the chairman of the Union Mortgage and ...
Article : 373 wordsThe board appointed to inquire into the working of the agricultural societies of the colony brought up a report in which they recommended that the Government subsidies ...
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Advertising : 350 wordsThe sixth death has occurred from bubonic plague at Glasgow. The Local Government Board have issued orders for the adoption of strict precautions ...
Article : 41 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has also published an address, dealing principally with financial matters, in which he emphasises the present ...
Article : 48 wordsIt has transpired that the Governor blacks, had a narrow escape from capture on Saturday night, about three miles from the place where Jimmy assaulted the girl. The police ...
Article : 389 wordsThe Earl of Clarendon has been appointed Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, in succession to the Earl of Hopetoun, who has retired from that position on his ...
Article : 48 wordsA further magnificent supply of water has been struck in the Mercadool bore, in the Collarendbri district. The supply is nearly three million gallons daily, and the ...
Article : 42 wordsA cable message was received to-day stating that Seahorse had left New Zealand for Sydney. The horse has in consequence been backed to the extent of ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Foxton, the Home Secretary, speaking yesterday with regard to the latest position of affairs in the case of the man Cockerell, [?]t Townsville, said it was quite permissible ...
Article : 128 wordsRobert Nicholls and James Sullivan, alias Dubbo, were committed for trial at the Walgett Police Court to-day on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Mayors of the various cities and towns of France, to the number of 22,000, were entertained at a banquet yesterday in Paris, in connection with the International ...
Article : 52 wordsThe recent bazaar in aid of the Children's Hospital has resulted in a net profit of £14,250. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe death is announced of Marshal Martinez Campos, the prominent Spanish soldier and statesman, who was Governor of Cuba for some time previous to the recent war ...
Article : 40 wordsA supposed case of plague has occurred in Victoria, a child at Tallangatta having developed symptoms resembling plague. The patient has been isolated pending ...
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Advertising : 155 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Miss. Peary, Mrs. Luscombe, Miss Bertha Luscombe, Miss ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsThe signatures to the anti-female suffrage petition now number over 24,000. ...
Article : 15 wordsJohn Pridmore, who shot his wife, Annie Jane Pridmore, at Brunswick, on the 16th July last, and then attempted to commit suicide, was tried to-day. It was ...
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Advertising : 114 wordsSummonses have been issued against the owners of the steamer Glenelg, and the Marine Board of Victoria, who are made joint defendants, for the recovery of £55 ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 25 Sep 1900, Page 5
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