Ex-President Kruger, who is proceeding from Delagoa Bay to Europe in the Dutch warship Gelderland, has arrived at the French port of Jiboutil, on the Somall ...
Article : 64 wordsThe British have destroyed the town of Ventersburg (a town on the eastern side of the Bloemfontein-Pretoria Railway, about thirty miles south of Kroonstad), from ...
Article : 73 wordsThe files of the "Times" brought by the R.M.S. Austral contain the splendid poem in which Rudyard Kipling on 4th October, celebrated the Commonwealth of Australia. Mr. Kipling pictures Australia as a Young Queen fresh from victorious battle coming to her Mother Queen with love and reverence, and asking coronation at her hands ...
Article : 706 wordsLatest reports from the United States regarding the Presidefltial election, which takes place to-morrow, state that President M'kinley, the Republican candidate, ...
Article : 198 wordsThe diplomatic representatives of the various Powers at Peking are reported to be slowly but harmoniously arranging an ultimatum to be presented to China, embodying ...
Article : 63 wordsA return has been published showing that the British casualties in the war during the month of October were 170 killed in action, 71 succumbed to wounds, and 367 died of ...
Article : 332 wordsAt a meeting of the senate of the University of Sydney to-day, a letter was read from Earl Beauchamp, the retiring Governor, offering an annual prize of £l23 for ...
Article : 103 wordsReports have been received that four more Chinese officials have been executed at Pao-ting-fu for being concerned in the recent massacre of European and American ...
Article : 36 wordsOn the recommendation of the University Extension Board, Mr. P. W. Jones, of Brisbane, has been appointed lecturer in chemistry under the board. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe estate of the late Robert Maddrell, grazier, or Bedervale, Braidwood, has been valued for probate purposes at £138,787, and a sum of £13,878 has, been paid as ...
Article : 36 wordsDr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the " Times," states that the sentences passed by the international military commission on the Chinese officials at ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Culgoa Cold Mining Company, Woodlark Island, has retained the services of Mr. C. Wood, the original prospector of the mine, and be will reach the property within ...
Article : 62 wordsA party of 300 Boers captured the town of Reddersbuig, which is located about ten miles east of the Bloemfontein-Pretoria Railway line, and some foi ty miles south of ...
Article : 57 wordsAt a meeting of the Cabinet to-day, consideration was given to ceremonies attendant upon the arrival of the GovernorGeneral of Australia. It is probable that ...
Article : 191 wordsInformation has been received that Yu Hsien, the notorious Governor of Shansi, who was responsible for the treacherous massacre of a large number of foreign ...
Article : 61 wordsThe transport steamer Harlech Castle, which left Capetown on Saturday last, has a large number of members of the various Australian contingents on board. Among ...
Article : 193 wordsOne of our well-known residents, Mr. James Ferguson, of the Queen-street firm of booksellers, Watson, Ferguson, and Co., having a few days ago returned from the ...
Article : 2,414 wordsInformation is to hand that General Kitchener, suiting from Lydenburg, in the north-east of the Transvaal, marched throughout the night with his troops, and ...
Article : 213 wordsThe period for which the services of the South Australian gunboat Protector were offered to the Imperial Government expires on the 7th December, and the Secretary ...
Article : 86 wordsAt the midday reading of the card for the Melbourne Cup at the Victorian Club to-day, a large volume of business was transacted. After a wager of 200 to 9 was ...
Article : 924 wordsThe Continental Press, commenting upon the recent reconstruction of the British Cabinet, generally express regret at the retirement of Lord Salisbuiy from the office ...
Article : 87 wordsAn explosion occurred on Saturday afternoon at the crushing battery owned by the Unity and Carlisle, North Garden Gully, and Pass-by companies at Bendigo, resulting in ...
Article : 235 wordsThe steamer Afric arrived last night with twenty-one invalided soldiers from South Africa. Amongst these are Privates J. W. Duff, C. H. Adams, and W. E. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe race for the Canterbury Derby was run to-day with the following result:— Renown. 1; Military, 2: Caume Chiel, 3 Won by three lengths. Time, 2min ...
Article : 46 wordsA great demonstration took place at Lyons, ia the south-east of France, yesterday, on the occasion of the unveiling of a statue of the late President Sadi Carnot ...
Article : 190 wordsA party of New South Wales Rifles, on the 27th instant, captured a Krupp gun from Commandant 'De Wet's force. Colonel Le Gallais has recaptured from ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Times" this morning states that it believes that Mr. George Wyndham, whois now Under Secretary for War, Will be appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in ...
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Advertising : 100 wordsIt has been ascertained that the total number of casualties sustained by the enemy et Frederikstad, to the south-west of Johannesburg (where General Barton ...
Article : 42 wordsThe elections for the new Municipal Borough Councils in London created by the London Government Act of 1899 took place yesterday. The Moderate party ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following passengers travelled by main train to-day:- For Brisbane: Miss Wills, Mr. and Mrs. P. Mathieson, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Craig, Mr. and Mrs. ...
Article : 94 wordsReuter's correspondent states that it is reported at Kroonstad that Commandant De Wet has occupied Frankfort, near the north-eastern boundary of the Orange River ...
Article : 47 wordsThe first item off the business paper for the Legislative Assembly this afternoon is a contingent notice or motion by Mr. Dickson relative to the recommittal of the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe last of the plague patients at Glasgow is now reported to be convalescent. ...
Article : 22 wordsLord Roberts, who is about to return to England, is now visiting the various battlefields in Natal, and also the grave of his son, Lieutenant Roberts, who was killed at ...
Article : 68 wordsThe American Atlantic liner St. Paul, while on the voyage from Southampton to New York, struck some wreckage and broke her starboard propeller, together with a ...
Article : 100 wordsIs the very choice range of Summer Suitings now being shown by the popular tailor. Country visitors and all intending customers are respectfully entreated to leave ...
Article : 68 wordsLord Beauchamp, the retiring Governor of New South Wales, who arrived here by the Southern mail train on Friday last, left Brisbane yesterday, for. the North on board ...
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Advertising : 137 wordsMr. Robert G. Rarnet [?] the proposal of the South Brisbane Municipal Council to borrow £60,000 for drainage and water-channelling, and yet to deprive No. 4 ward of its share of the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe action of the British military authorities in removing the Boer women from various centres 'in the disturbed districts is due to it having heen found that they were ...
Article : 84 wordsNews from Spain states that Don Carlos, the Legitimist claimant to the Spanish throne, has repudiated the recent insurrectionary outbreaks, which led to the arrest ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is a notorious fact that Charles Gilbert has the finest selection, and gives better value in these goods than any firm in Queensland; the garments are ...
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Advertising : 82 wordsPrivate Millman, of the South Australian Bushmen's Contingent, who was severely wounded at Kaffirs Kraal, has since died. Private J. R. Murray (New South Wales) ...
Article : 78 wordsAt Flemington the tracks were fast this morning Severity galloped a mile and a quarter on the tan in the good time of 2 min. 17sec. He was ridden out. La Carabine ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 6 Nov 1900, Page 5
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