During a visit with the Ministerial party to the Isis district on Saturday, the writer took an opportunity to make a few inquiries concerning sugar-growing in the ...
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Article : 84 wordsReports have been received that when the Russian troops were advancing on Shan-haikwan recently they mistook a French force for a party of Boxers, and fired upon them. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Boer farmers who have lately been bringing their produce into Johannesburg for sale, and then purchasing foodstuffs, are suspected of having been engaged in ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat to-day, the principal business being the second reading of the Municipalities Act Amendment Bill, Which is designed to remove many of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsAt the Gaiety Athletic Hall on Friday night, "Cocker" Tweedie, of Sydney, met "Pluto," the coloured boxer of Melbourne, In a match the best of twenty rounds. Some ...
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Article : 74 wordsThe New South Wales Cyclists' Union held a fifty miles load race on Saturday, which was won by R. Lawrence, who covered the distance in 2h. 52min. 16sec. ...
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Article : 73 wordsIn connection with the Anarchist plot which was recently unearthed at Brussels to assassinate Prince Albert of Belgium on his return to the capital with his bride, It ...
Article : 82 wordsLetters which have been received by M[?] Sleath, M.P., Indicate that some of the officers of the New South Wales contingents in South Africa are in a bad way. They ...
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Article : 64 wordsMajor-General Baden-Powell, the defender of Mafeking, declares that the garrison of that place might have slipped away at any time during the siege, and in ...
Article : 55 wordsThe accomplice of Sipldo (the youth who attempted to shoot the Prince of Wales), who was arrested at Brussels, in connection with the Anarchist plot to assassinate ...
Article : 78 wordsWagering over the Caulfield Cup was not particularly lively to-night. Kinglike was in strong demand, all the money that could be obtained at 100 to 10 being accepted, and ...
Article : 160 wordsDr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the " Times," states that the Russians, after packing up all the valuable contents of the Imperial Summer Palace, handed ...
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Article : 26 wordsA fatal duel took place yesterday between MM. Ferutte and Marlier, two members of the French Chamber of Deputies, the latter being killed. ...
Article : 30 wordsMrs. Lewis, a sister of the Hon. W. P. Schreiner, ex-Premier of Cape Colony, who recently accompanied the Imperialist deputation from the Cape to England, has issued ...
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Article : 62 wordsSir Alfred Milner (the Governor of Cape Colony, and High Commissioner for South Africa) deprecates any immigration to the goldfields of the Transvaal before January ...
Article : 35 wordsThe British police on the Kaulong border (on the mainland of China, opposite Hongkong) have been reinforced owing to an outbreak of the Chinese rebels in that vicinity. ...
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Advertising : 334 wordsLatest reports from West Africa state that as a result of the operations of the British columns, the insurgent Ashanti natives are now everywhere dispersing. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Daily News" states that Lord Roberts will leave South Africa during the last week in October. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe following late news has been received by steamer from China:- A tourist who went through tho siege at Peking gives the following story:—I was ...
Article : 2,933 wordsA large party, which included the Premier and many members of Parliament, visited Yass yesterday with the object of inspecting two sites which the local ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 9 Oct 1900, Page 5
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