The Federal delegates of the Australian colonics in England, sent to England to further the passage of the Commonwealth Bill through the Imperial Parliament, yesterday ...
Article : 351 wordsNo further encounters between Lord Roberts's troops, east of Bloemfontein, and Olivier's commando, with its Kroonstad reinforcements, have been reported, but ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Copenhagen yesterday by train. They received a great popular ovation from the populace in demonstration of the joy felt ...
Article : 449 wordsThere were two fresh cases of plague to-day. The names of the patients are:-- Elsie Dibley, a young woman living at Walker-street, Redfern. She worked at ...
Article : 240 wordsA report published at Pretoria claims that on 31st March Colonel Plumer was defeated at Ramathlabama, 15 miles north of Mafeking, in an attempt to relieve the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe opposition shown in London to the Commonwealth Bill was mentioned to-day at the meeting of the South Barwon shire council, and the following resolution was ...
Article : 131 wordsThe work of dividing the colony into 23 federal electorates is proceeding satisfactorily. The Federal Commission will make a preliminary report to the Premier in a ...
Article : 117 wordsLord Roberts's position is so far improved by the arrival of General Clements with his brigade, which has a considerable number of mounted infantry on seasoned ...
Article : 1,223 wordsThe camp of the South Australian Imperial Bushmen's Contingent is to be shifted first to Marine and then to Wingfield, so that the men may receive practical ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Boers are evidently redoubling their efforts to take Mafeking before the early relief promised by Lord Roberts to the gallant garrison takes place. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Premier has received from Mr. Dickson a confidential cable on the subject of the Commonwealth Bill, but states that he is not yet at liberty to disclose its ...
Article : 41 wordsThe revelations concerning the City Council's "tip" at West Melbourne, published in "The Age" yesterday, coupled with Dr. Gresswell's Savonarola-like ...
Article : 226 wordsThe English papers to hand by the mail, as might be expected, give us long extracts from Continental journals in regard to the surrender of Cronje. Most of the criticisms ...
Article : 872 wordsNew York telegrams report that great political excitement prevails in the United States in consequence of the announcement that Admiral Dewey, who on his return ...
Article : 230 wordsThe long deferred relief of Mafeking has not yet been accomplished, but encouraging news has been received from the beleaguered town. ...
Article : 168 wordsA notable episode of the fighting on Sunday last near the Bloemfontein waterworks, between General Colvile's rescue force and Olivier's Boer commandoes, was the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Premier left town for his residence at Maffra yesterday afternoon, and a copy of the above cablegram was forwarded to him by telegraph, together with an inquiry ...
Article : 166 wordsIn the south-cast of the Free State, Brigadier-General Brabant, who, with 3000 colonial troops (chiefly Cape Colony men) orossed the Orange River at Bethulie, ...
Article : 182 wordsPlans for the plague sanatorium, which is to be erected on Coode Island have been prepared, and copies are to be forwarded to-day to members of the Central Board of ...
Article : 65 wordsAn episode of especial gallantry and devotion occurred during the Koorn Spruit disaster on Saturday. While Colonel Broadwood's column was ...
Article : 137 wordsThe field of operations will be within a circle, with Bloemfontein as centre, having a radius of 20 miles--that is, as far as Sannah's Post (between Mielie Spruit and the Modder) on the east, to Kaffir River on the south; on the north up to (and apparently beyond) Karree Kopjes, as we hear that an Australian detachment had ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 149 wordsThe death is announced of Osman Pasha, the distinguished Turkish general who conducted with such gallantry the defence of Plevna against the Russians in 1877. ...
Article : 205 wordsThe latest instructions to inspecting health officers issued by the Central Board are to the effect thai no vessels arriving from Sydney with passengers are to be ...
Article : 220 wordsThere seems to be little room for legal diversity of opinion as to the effect of the confusing clauses of the Commonwealth Bill. Among ...
Article : 905 wordsThe young Belgian tinsmith, Sipido, has been examined before the magistrates, but refuses to divulge the names of those who instigated the attempted assassination. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Australians, who have been employed on outpost and scouting duty, have already penetrated as far north as Brandfort, where the have seized and brought on to ...
Article : 46 wordsGeneral Clements, who, with a total force of 8000 men, crossed the Orange River from Cape Colony three weeks ago and marched northward in three columns, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 482 wordsThe Governments of South Australia and Western Australia have agreed to the proposals of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company with regard to ...
Article : 98 wordsMajor-General Hutton, formerly military commandant of New South Wales, and who went to South Africa in command of the Canadian Contingent, is now in command ...
Article : 47 wordsThe consuls-general for France, Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain all waited on the Lieutenant-Governor yesterday morning and expressed their ...
Article : 103 wordsAdditional details of the Koorn Spruit ambush continue to be received. They show that the Boer trap was so well laid and comprehensive that Colonel Broadwood ...
Article : 266 wordsShortly after 7 o'clock last night, the united towing power of three steam tags moved the Gulf liner Gulf of Taranto from her bed of sand in Altona Bay, and she was brought round to ...
Article : 60 wordsSince the Boers to the north-cast of Bloemfontein assumed the aggressive, and ambushed Broadwood's column, at Koon Spruit, cut the Bloemfontein water works ...
Article : 145 wordsThe transport Atlantian, with the New South Wales Bushmen Contingent on board, has sailed from Table Bay for Beira. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe executive council of the Amalgamated Miners' Association, sitting at Ballarat yesterday, instructed the secretary to write to the Lieutenant-Governor, asking ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Marine Court of Inquiry met yesterday morning to investigate the circumstances attending the grounding of the steamer Gulf of Taranto. As, however, she was still aground, and a number of ...
Article : 56 wordsMessrs. Desailly, Mecarthur and Co., of Bairnsdale, in conjunction with Messrs. Campbell and Sons, of Kirk's Bazaar, concluded a most successful horse sale at ...
Article : 208 wordsA Reuter's message from Pretoria, dated 12th March, published in the "Cape Times," states that the Portuguese Charge d'Affaires at Pretoria had on that ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Postmaster-General, Mr. Crick, has for some time had under consideration the arrangements which will require to be made prior to the department under his control ...
Article : 326 wordsMr. Walter Long, president of the Board of Agriculture, has issued a regulation prohibiting the importation to Great Britain of cattle from Argentina in consequence of ...
Article : 47 wordsTransports with numbers of horses for General French's cavalry division, which has lost a very large number of troop horses in the forced marching and fighting ...
Article : 48 wordsArrived.--Zulu, steamer, from Melbourne 31st January; Lindisfarne, ship, from Sydney 17th December; Siam, ship, from Melbourne 17th December; Samuel ...
Article : 169 wordsThe War Office has issued directions for the embodiment of two companies of the regiment of Irish Guards, which her Majesty some weeks ago intimated would be ...
Article : 63 wordsTelegrams from Capetown report that the Transvaal prisoners of war at Simonstown viewed transportation to St. Helena with Commander Cronje and Colonel Scheil, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe shipping companies engaged in the intercolonial trade have found it necessary, owing to the stringent quarantine regulations enforced at the various Australian ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Boer account of the Koorn Spruit ambuscade published at Pretoria claims that 389 British were captured and sent with the guns taken to Weinberg. The ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Australian bred horse Survivor has been scratched for the City and Suburban Handicap, one mile and a quarter, to be run 25th inst. ...
Article : 32 wordsAmongst the victims of the unfortunate disaster which happened at Stormberg, through General Gatacre marching his column into a death trap, was Colonel ...
Article : 252 wordsRome left Suez for Australia 5th, a.m. ...
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Advertising : 50 wordsThe R.M.S. Cuzco, with London dates to 9th March, arrived at Albany at 10.30 o'clock last night. She should reach Adelaide on Tuesday morning, and her ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 7 Apr 1900, Page 9
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