A party of 400 Boers attacked, a small British column at Nqutu, in Zululand, but were repulsed with some loss. The British casualties were four killed, ...
Article : 164 wordsDuring the formal business in the Assembly yesterday, Mr. Annear gave notice that he would ask on the following day if the Government intended to place a sum ...
Article : 1,573 wordsIn connection with the bill to amend the King's titles, which has passed its second reading in the House of Lords, the Radicals in the House of Commons ...
Article : 167 wordsThere was little life in the Senate to-day, business being confined to the Audit Bill. This measure, which, as Mr. Drake explained in moving the second reading, ...
Article : 491 wordsLord Hawke, captain of the Yorkshire County Club, states that the wish of the County Committee (which is equal to a command) that Rhodes should not join the ...
Article : 109 wordsA telegram has been received by the Chief Secretary from the authorities in Capetown, dated 29th July, stating that Private John Johnson (No. 424), of the ...
Article : 144 wordsThrough the courtesy of his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor (Sir S. W. Griffith), we have received a copy of the following letter addressed to the ...
Article : 1,036 wordsMr. H. Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, has forwarded to his Government elaborate reports on the various schemes adopted in England for the ...
Article : 41 wordsAbout five weeks ago Messrs. T. Furse, T. Graham, J. Jenkins, and A. Dunes took up the King of the Ranges reef. They cleaned out an old shaft sunk on a lode at ...
Article : 366 wordsA resolution in Committee of Ways and Means, sanctioning the expenditure of £2,000,000 on the construction and laying of the Pacific cable, was adopted in the House ...
Article : 73 wordsFurther information with regard to the settlement of the strike of ironworkers in the United States states that under the agreement arrived at the Steel Trust ...
Article : 96 wordsSupplementary estimates to the amount of £7,000,000 were laid before the House of Commons yesterday. These estimates chiefly cover the expenditure on the Civil ...
Article : 54 wordsNews is to hand of another serious industrial dispute in the United States. A general strike of dock workers has taken place at San Francisco, and 55,000 men are ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Right Hon. W. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, has stated in the House of Commons that leakages of official documents led him recently to ...
Article : 210 wordsLord Kitchener has reported to the War Office that since the 22nd instant thirty-four Boers have been killed in action, twenty-five wounded, 223 taken prisoners, ...
Article : 56 wordsInformation received from Peking states that the Emperor of China has issued an edict which assigns to the new Foreign Office the highest rank among the Chinese ...
Article : 77 wordsNews has been received that General Gilbert Hamilton surprised Potger's laager at Wolmaranstad, capturing all the Boer waggons, and causing twenty-one casualties. ...
Article : 82 wordsProbate duty to the amount of £25,679 was paid to-day in respect of the estate of the late Edward Keep, wholesale iron-monger. The amount paid represents 10 ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is stated that the number of culprits specially designated for punishment in connection with the Boxer and other outrages has now dwindled from 160 to fifty-four. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe police have obtained no clue to the whereabouts of the prisoners who escaped from Pentridge, but the proceeds of the robbery for which one of them was ...
Article : 53 wordsPrivate J. Johnson, of the Fifth Queensland Bushmen's Contingent, has been severely wounded at Palmlesfontein. ...
Article : 25 wordsMessrs. Houlder Bros., Limited, are advised by cable from London that at the annual meeting of the Houlder Line, Limited, which was held yesterday, the ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr. O'Shea was suspended for referring to what he termed the "blackguardly conduct" of the Irish Judges. ...
Article : 34 wordsNews has been received that the cargo steamer Dunbar caught fire at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and that the fire was of a serious nature. The Dunbar left ...
Article : 87 wordsOn entering the House of Representatives this afternoon, attention was attracted to an enormous package that was lying on the table, but curiosity with regard to ...
Article : 2,163 wordsLieutenant M. W. Thompson, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, has sailed Irom South Africa for England. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn connection with the action brought by Earl Cowley to restrain his late wife (who obtained a divorce from him in 1897) from continuing to style herself Countess ...
Article : 61 wordsThe total number of Boer prisoners of war, and those who have voluntarily surrendered to the British authorities, is now 30,000. ...
Article : 71 wordsHis Excellency the Governor of Fiji, Sir George O'Brien, will remain in Queensland only a few days, and will then proceed to England by the French mail boat, ...
Article : 206 wordsThe harvest now commencing in Canada and Manitoba is stated to be unprecedented as regards the quantity of grain, the yield of wheat being estimated to exceed ...
Article : 71 wordsCharles Gilbert, the Leading Tailor, is opening his first shipments, including a splendid range of Fine, Pure Indigo-blue Serges, for which his name is famous. ...
Article : 71 wordsA proclamation has been issued at Pretoria abolishing the flogging of natives, as enacted toy the late Transvaal Volksraad By-law 22 of 1895, and also repealing the ...
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Advertising : 162 wordsThe South African soldiers to whom medals were presented by King Edward and Queen Alexandra at Marlborough House on Monday included, as already ...
Article : 63 wordsNews is to hand that the British force recently despatched from Aden has destroyed the Turkish fort that had been erected at a place seventy miles inland, ...
Article : 46 wordsLowland Chief received further support for the V.A.T.C. Grand National Hurdle Race to-day. All money offered at 6 to 1 was accepted, and at the finish 5 to 1 was ...
Article : 97 wordsInformation has been received that the Russian expedition under Major Kasloff, which has been exploring in Thibet, in Central Asia, was attacked by a force of 2000 ...
Article : 53 wordsThe committee appointed by Lord Lansdowne to investigate the claims to compensation made by persons, the subjects of friendly Powers, in consequence of their ...
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Advertising : 126 wordsConsequent upon the resignation by Mr. Macdonald-Paterson of his seat for Brisbane North in the State Legislature, a requisition signed by a very large ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, July 31.—Arrival: (Adelaide, s., from Brisbane. Departures: Hauroto, for Fiji; Bancoora, s., for Bombay; Nithsdale, for Valparaiso. ...
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Advertising : 67 wordsMr. S. Grimes, M.L.A., has given notice that he will to-day move in the Legislative Assembly for a return showing the districts in which polls have been taken under ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 1 Aug 1901, Page 5
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