Since the work of painting the Victoria Bridge has commenced, it has formed the subject of a great deal of discussion in various circles. It is a work of ...
Article : 2,976 wordsDespatches written by Lord Kitchener in July and August last have just been published. In these despatches the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa states that he is ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. Barton states that he has received a despatch from Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to his question as to whether there is a ...
Article : 705 wordsMr. Barton was asked on Saturday if he would define the position of the Commonwealth with regard to the proposed deportation of Kanakas, and the circumstances ...
Article : 531 wordsIn connection with the exhibition of colonial products now at Glasgow, to be opened in the Royal Exchange, London, in March next, a deputation has asked Mr. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe visit of the Hon. John Leahy, Minister for Railways, to the Goombungee district to inspect the country sought to be reached by the proposed ...
Article : 2,037 wordsIt is stated that Great Britain, has granted Belgium the sum of £4000 for the settlement of the claims made by Belgians for compensation for being deported by the ...
Article : 43 wordsInformation has been received that during a heavy thunderstorm at Vryheid, in the south-east of the Transvaal, six British soldiers were struck by lightning, ...
Article : 38 wordsThe balance-sheet of the Agency, Land, and Finance Company of Australia for the year ended 30th June last shows a debit balance of £15,559. It is intended to ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Middelburg, in Cape Colony, states that Lieutenant Theron, who is second in command to Commandant Fouche, and is a son of ...
Article : 60 wordsReports are to hand that a destructive blizzard has swept over New York. Many shipping casualties have been reported. ...
Article : 33 wordsAdvices received from Cape Colony indicate the danger involved in enlisting Dutchmen of doubtful loyalty who have offered their services to the British ...
Article : 72 wordsThe British Government are negotiating for the formal transfer of the Mosquito Coast to the Republic of Nicaragua. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn view of the re-establishment of pacific conditions and the resumption of agricultural development in Cape Colony, the Prime Minister, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, has ...
Article : 39 wordsA Blue-book on the Boer concentration camps in South Africa has just been published, and it is shown that the earnest efforts of the British authorities to raise ...
Article : 64 wordsNews from South Africa states that Lord Kitchener has despatched a number of specially mobile columns of British troops, giving the commanders a free hand, to ...
Article : 43 wordsReports are to hand that fifty distinct shocks of earthquake have been experienced at Erzeroum, in the north-cast of Asiatic Turkey. Some of the shocks ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Parliament of Cape Colony, which has not met since the 13th October last year, owing to the situation caused by the war, has been further prorogued to the ...
Article : 40 wordsLord Kitchener has reported that a body of Kitchener's Fighting Scouus, who formed the rearguard of Colonel Byng's column, had an engagement near Heilbron, in the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe junior member for Brisbane North, Mr. John Cameron, left on Saturday last by the steamer Aramac on a trip to Cooktown. This journey has been undertaken ...
Article : 696 wordsThe Kanakas have formed a union for the purpose of petitioning against their deportation. It is stated that 600 have already joined the union, and Kanaka delegates are ...
Article : 49 wordsThe cricket match, England v. Victoria, which was commenced on Friday, when the Englishmen, who batted first, were all disposed of for a total of 166, was resumed ...
Article : 700 wordsIt is announced that the Chinese authorities have paid half-a-milllon roubles to restore the Russian Legation Church at Peking, and have also authorised the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Premier looks upon the proceedings in the Federal Parliament as savouring of "feverish haste," and as being the result of pressure by the Labour party. "The ...
Article : 43 wordsA force of 300 Boers surrounded a patrol of Imperial Yeomanry at Brakspruit, in the Megaliesberg Range, to the westward of Pretoria, killing six and wounding sixteen. ...
Article : 58 wordsA boxing contest for the heavy-weight championship of the world, between James Jefferies and Gus Ruhlin, took'place at San Francisco yesterday, and was won by ...
Article : 41 wordsThe most serious railway accident which has occurred in South Australia for many years occurred early yesterday morning near Walloway Siding. A train of empty ...
Article : 170 wordsReports received by Reuter'S Agency state that twenty-four Boers have been captured at Waterberg, in the Northern Transvaal; and that Colonel Plumer has made a number ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Barton states, with reference to the paragraphs published by some of the London papers to the effect that the Admiralty has decided to strengthen the Australian ...
Article : 61 wordsArrangements have been completed for holding an International Exhibition at Edinburgh in 1,907. (The "Dally Mail" of 4th October says: ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Postmaster-General states that the following new cable rates are now before the Executive Council, and will probably be given assent to at the next meeting. ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh, special war correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," in his descriptions of recent battles, states that the Boers have resorted to the use of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsLord Kitchener, in his recent despatches, mentions the good services of the following members of various colonial contingents and others:— ...
Article : 210 wordsThe outbreak of smallpox in London is still. spreading, and the total number of patients is now 340. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe cricket match between the New South Wales Eleven and the next best fifteen was resumed on the Association Cricket Ground yesterday on a bumpy ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is announced that Mr. Pierpont Morgan, the American millionaire, has donated £5000 to Guy's (Hospital, London. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe court of inquiry held in connection with the recent bursting of a gun on the battleship Royal Sovereign, one of the vessels of the Mediterranean fleet, by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsOur Melbourne correspondent telegraphs that another death has taken place on account of injuries received through the recent cyclone at Castlemaine, that of Mr. ...
Article : 55 wordsAll lovers of what is really artistic and exclusive in neckwear should inspect the latest shipment (exclusive designs), just opened by Charles Gilbert, Queen-street, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe display of the new and fashionable Summer Suitings, Assam and Tussore Silks, Crash, Ducks, Drills, &c, just opened at the establishment of A. Neuman, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 words"Looking back, I see I never saw before."This is the exclamation of satisfied customers. I have fitted successfully stubborn cases that others have failed in. W. ...
Article : 43 wordsMakes our values better than ever, as we have not increased our prices. Pure-wool Serges and Suitings, summer textures, excellent designs, unrivalled quality. Also ...
Article : 41 wordsB. Mountcastle and Sons, Sole Manufacturers of Mountcastle and Quaid's Celebrated Patent Sailor Hats, as worn by the elite of Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, and ...
Article : 143 wordsInformation is to hand stating that Sand-berg, General Botha's aide-de-camp, is lecturing in France, and [?]eclares that the Boers will not agree to any compromising ...
Article : 76 wordsThe most satisfactory way to discover this is to call on Charles Gilbert, the Leading Tailor (near the bridge), and inspect the splendid selection and sterling values ...
Article : 121 wordsSlightly spotted; usual price, 4s. 11d. T. C. Beirne and Co., the Valley. Smoke YANKEE DOODLE Tobacco. Lace Collarettes.—A pretty stock just ...
Article : 94 wordsM'Whirter and Son, Valley. Ninety-eight dozen just opened; wonderful value, all fresh and new, from 2/9 to 35/. Ladies, do not fail to inspect. ...
Article : 85 wordsA revelation of the neglect to which our Victoria Bridge has been subject, and the possibilities of so many other structures throughout the State being similarly ...
Article : 613 wordsThe Right Hon. the Earl of Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, addressing a meeting at Leeds yesterday, stated that the Boers were absolutely irreconcilable, and ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 18 Nov 1901, Page 5
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