When the House of Representatives met to-day, the Speaker said:—"It is my painful duty to inform you that intelligence has been received of the death of the ...
Article : 827 wordsHis Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York laid the first stone in connection with the statue of Queen Victoria at Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, yesterday. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe 18th Hussars, under Colonel Walter Kitchener, have had an engagement with the Boers at Oliphants River. The enemy, who were under Commandant Viljoen, ...
Article : 89 wordsMrs. Groom, wife of the Hon. W. H. Groom, who was met on her arrival at the railway station by the Hon. J. G. Drake, Sir William Lyne, Mr. R. Edwards, ...
Article : 81 wordsLady Lackey, wife of Sir John Lackey, President of the Legislative Council, died to-day at Petersham. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe forty-first annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland commenced at Toowoomba to-day. The weather during the afternoon was ...
Article : 1,643 wordsMost of to-day's sitting of, the Legislative Assembly was devoted to an academic debate on the matter of a reduction in the number of members. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn view of the unprecedented wheat crop in Canada and the North-west Provinces, and the consequent great demand for labour for harvesting, a large number of ...
Article : 41 wordsSir,—When the greatest Empire of modern times was to the great grief of the people of every land plunged unexpectedly into the profoundest grief by the demise of ...
Article : 227 wordsThe annual session of the Provincial Synod of New South Wales was opened to-day. The Primate, in the course of his address, said that the great ferment which ...
Article : 141 wordsSenator A. Dawson, who has been very ill, is now somewhat better. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. Barton on Friday will make an important statement relative to the Northern Territory, to the effect that the Government is very desirous of taking over ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is estimated that there will be 35,000,000 bushels of wheat in the Northwest Provinces of Canada available for export during the present autumn. The ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Queensland Government steamer Lucinda left the Queen's Wharf for the Bay at 7 o'clock yesterday morning to bring on shore the officers and men of the ...
Article : 3,121 wordsMr. Barton stated that the Ministry were desirous of taking over Queensland's responsibilities with regard to New Guinea, and this would mean, that the expenditure ...
Article : 97 wordsIn connection with the general strike of dock workers at San Francisco, which is paralysing the shipping industry, Mr. Lyman, Secretary to the Treasury in the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe gold yield for July was 27,321oz., crude, as compared with 53,464oz. for the corresponding month of last year. The yield for the seven months was 158,687oz., ...
Article : 49 wordsMichael Dunn, who recently contested the middle-weight championship of Australia with Otto Cribb, and the other ten men who were the principals in the affair, were ...
Article : 108 wordsNews comes from Berlin that two Government officials in that city have been suspended for having sold to a German newspaper information regarding the new tariff, ...
Article : 47 wordsIn his estimate of ways and means for 1901-1902, the State Treasurer sets down the land revenue at £700,000. The anticipations are based upon the experience of ...
Article : 877 wordsDr. Maxwell's report on the sugar industry is expected at the end of this week. Mr. Barton repeated that he has given orders for the circulation of the report ...
Article : 35 wordsSeventy waggons and a number of additional Boer prisoners have been captured at Bohof, near the western border of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 32 wordsNo communication has been received by the Defence Department from Queensland with regard to enlistment, but the Premier states that if the enlistment of members ...
Article : 72 wordsA serious conflict between an insurgent force and the Government troops has taken place in the Republic of Venezuela. The insurgents, who numbered 8000, and ...
Article : 59 wordsThere is a general consensus of opinion in Cape Colony that the marauding bands of Boers now in the colony should he declared outlaws. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe 135 persons who were arrested on Friday night last in the premises occupied by John Dalveen and H. Oxenham, in Pitt-street, were before the Central Police ...
Article : 82 wordsThe news of the death of the Empress Dowager of Germany was received with deep regret throughout the State by German residents, and also by all classes of ...
Article : 269 wordsAt a conference held to-day of the Employers' Union, in view of the approaching establishment of interstate free-trade, a resolution was adopted to the effect that ...
Article : 125 wordsThe police in eight large towns in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony are now working under the civil administration, which has replaced the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe representatives of the allied Powers in China have completed arrangements for the new Chinese tariff to come into operation on the 1st October next. ...
Article : 35 wordsAn unsuccessful attempt to stick up the Bank of New South Wales at Henty, in the Wagga district, is reported. It is stated that at half-post 7 to-night two men, who ...
Article : 189 wordsThe allied Powers have sanctioned the presence of 3000 Chinese regular troops at a distance of twenty 11 from Peking. (A li represents a distance of about 600 yards.) ...
Article : 38 wordsA British patrol is reported to have found concealed under the floor of a Boer farmhouse at Heidelberg, about forty miles south-east of Johannesburg, a sum of £7000 ...
Article : 46 wordsTo-morrow afternoon the Governor-General will preside at a meeting of the Executive Council, after which he will catch the Sydney express train en route ...
Article : 135 wordsDepartures.—For Sydney: Gulf of Taranto, s., from Liverpool; Macquarie, ship, from London; Antenor, s., from Glasgow; Inverule. For Newcastle: Corunna, barque, ...
Article : 68 wordsMany English and Continental newspapers, in their comments upon the statements made by ex-President Kruger to a representative of the Paris "Figaro," ...
Article : 67 wordsThe death of a man yesterday has been brought under the notice of the health authorities. It was that of Edward J. Fury, a railway labourer, aged 28, and the ...
Article : 124 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday, the Marquis of Salisbury, in moving the third reading of the bill amending the declaration to be made by the King on his accession, ...
Article : 102 wordsReplying to a deputation from the Labour unions to-day, the Premier expressed his anxiety regarding the future of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. He ...
Article : 153 wordsThe "Times," commenting upon the report that a letter from ex-President Steyn has been brought to Kroonstad by two Boers under a flag of truce, surmises that ...
Article : 47 wordsSeven months have hardly gone by since the passing away of good Queen Victoria, and now her first-born child, beloved by the English in the days of her maidenhood, ...
Article : 732 wordsMr. Cranston and Mr. MacDonald, the visiting journalists, who have just completed a tour in the Lower (Burdekin district, were interviewed to-day. They ...
Article : 254 wordsLord Kitchener has reported that the movement in favour of peace is spreading fast among the Boers in all the refugee camps. The male refugees in the camp at ...
Article : 61 wordsThe ship Discovery, which is about to start on her voyage to the South Polar regions with the British Antarctic expedition, was inspected by his Majesty King ...
Article : 44 wordsForty Boer families in the Waterkloof district have been sent to a refugee camp. This action has been taken as a precaution against their harbouring Boer raiders. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Financial Statement will be delivered next week, and it is believed the statement will prove unsatisfactory. Speaking to a deputation on the West ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Admiralty authorities have brought the British naval manoeuvres to a termination a day earlier than was originally intended, and have issued a notification ...
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Article : 13 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mrs. S. Stewart, Mrs. Hutchison, Miss Symonds, Miss Adams, Messrs. J. G. Hunter, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Premier states tnat the site of the proposed State coal mine is being selected. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 7 Aug 1901, Page 5
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