It is reported that the Americans have now evacuated Peking, with the exception of the Forbidden City, where the Legation Guard remains. ...
Article : 57 wordsArrangements for the Land Defence Force camp of continuous training at Lytton, to commence to-morrow, are now all but completed. The Headquarters Permanent ...
Article : 644 wordsThe new Tariff Bill, which, besides making various important alterations in the tariff, grants to Great Britain and the British colonies the "most favoured nation" ...
Article : 61 wordsThe combined British movement across the bush veldt from Pietersburg has resulted in the surrender or capture of 1500 armed burghers. It is obvious that the Boers ...
Article : 98 wordsThis is the central day of the week-long festival, the consummating act of the drama which a whole continent is watching. All that goes before, or that comes ...
Article : 3,044 wordsIn connection with the recent strike of tramway employees and others at Barcelona, in Spain, which was followed by serious rioting, to repress which a state ...
Article : 67 wordsIn connection with the massacre of British men, women, and children which took place at Chu-chau, in the province of Cho-kiang, in the Yang-tsze Valley, in July ...
Article : 449 wordsIn connection with the action of the Turkish Government in raiding the foreign mails in Constantinople, the Porte has now accused the directors of the various foreign ...
Article : 144 wordsThe destruction of the town of Hartebe[?]stefontein, in the south-west of the Transvaal, by the British has greatly hampered the operations of Commandant ...
Article : 80 wordsThe warships lying at Port Melbourne were brilliantly illuminated to-night, and there was a large concourse of visitors. Sir John Forrest, Federal Minister for Defence, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Russian Government loan, which the Paris "Matin" stated a few days ago was being issued by French banks, has now been formally announced. The amount of ...
Article : 52 wordsA Boer commando, which is believed to be Commandant De Wet's, consisting of 2000 men, with two guns, is reported to have passed southward in the Transvaal to ...
Article : 124 wordsSir Harry Johnson, the British Special Commissioner, Commander-in-Chief, and Consul-General for the Uganda protectorate, has sent to the British Museum, ...
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Article : 1,249 wordsOwing to the very large number of people who are returning to their homes, either in the other States or in different parts of Victoria, all the departing trains ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Central Mounted Infantry, who are to take part in the Lytton encampment, arrived here by road from Rockhampton at half-past 2 o'clock to-day. There are ...
Article : 365 wordsThere are now six cases of smallpox at the Quarantine Hospital, Mr. E. J. Page, third officer of the Chingtu, being the latest patient. The naval troops from ...
Article : 65 wordsInquiries show that the cost of the Royal visit will be considerably less than was estimated. The State originally proposed to spend £100,000, but the actual cost, it is ...
Article : 71 wordsA gallant fight has taken place between the British and Boer forces at Potchefstroom, on the railway line running south-west from Johannesburg to Kierksdorp. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Tientsin states that the Russians are now pushing roads through the land claimed by the China Northern Railway Company (which ...
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Article : 42 wordsInformation has been received from Noumea that all the Japanese who recently struck work at the nickel mines at Thio returned to their labour on the 6th instant. ...
Article : 35 wordsReports are to hand that the Boers belonging to Swanecgoel's commando were off-saddling near Gwagershoek, when a number of the Midland (Cape Colony) ...
Article : 44 wordsQueensland's military representatives at the Melbourne celebrations are on their way home. They come in three special trains, the first of which brings fifteen ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. James Watts, a civilian, who was the bearer of despatches from Tientsin to Taku on the 19th June last, during the siege of the foreign Legations at Peking, ...
Article : 57 wordsAt a meeting of citizens forming the Royal Reception Committee to-day, it was stated that a sum, of £2365 had been subscribed or promised to the funds, and that the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Pretoria correspondent of the "Standard" states that the country in the Transvaal has now been so denuded of supplies that there is every season to hope ...
Article : 88 wordsThe damage caused by the fire in the premises of Tilloch and Co., wholesale merchants, in Sydney, which occurred yesterday morning, is estimated at £10,000. ...
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Advertising : 153 wordsA correspondent who went to South Africa with the Imperial draft contingent on the steamer Maplemore writes that a fire was discovered on board on the evening of the ...
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Advertising : 239 wordsThe War Office advises that Private W. B. Burke, of the Victorian Bushmen's.Contingent, was only slightly wounded in the fight at Bavaanno, and not dangerously, as ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Board of Health, at a special meeting held to-day, decided that the steamer Ventura, having loaded at a wharf at San Francisco, where bubonic plague was known ...
Article : 41 wordsPrivates Egan and Hodgkinston, two Australian, Bushmen, who were recently captured by the Boers, have been released near Winburg, in the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe action of the authorities with regard to the Ventura is considered to be incomprehensible in commercial circles, seeing that vessels from Brisbane, Fremantle, ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Wharf-street Congregational Church last evening a memorial service was held in connection with the recent murder of the Revs. J. Chalmers and C. Tomkins ...
Article : 73 wordsReports received from Canada state that a Boer emissary is now engaged in selecting land in the Dominion, and he announces that 700 Boers intend to settle in Canada. ...
Article : 41 wordsArtesian water has been struck at W. G. Taylor's Bimble station, in the Coonamble district. The daily flow is estimated at three million gallons. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe drink bill of New South Wales for the year 1900 is estimated at £4,744,224, showing an increase of £340,311 compared with the previous year, and bringing the ...
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Advertising : 133 wordsMr. J. F. Thallon, the Deputy Commissioner for Railways, returned to Brisbane by mail train on Saturday night, after having attended an interstate conference ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 14 May 1901, Page 5
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