The latest development in connection with the plague is of the most startling character, coming as it does from [?] of Asiatics in the Wexford-street ...
Article : 481 wordsAs was anticipated, Dr. Gresswell's strong and picturesque denunciation of the City Council tip at West Melbourne was the subject of a plain spoken memorandum, which ...
Article : 1,584 wordsLord Roberts, who is himself an expert horseman, pronounces the latest arrivals of remount horses for his cavalry a splendid lot of animals. ...
Article : 32 wordsAmong the wills submitted for probate purposes yesterday was that of Charles Gibson Millar, late of Melbourne. There are three codicils attached. The ...
Article : 712 wordsFurther information with respect to the three companies of the Royal Irish Rifles and "two companies of mounted infantry captured by the Boers at Reddersburg on ...
Article : 370 wordsIt would be most interesting if we knew the exact fighting strength of the British forces now in the field, but there is not the remotest chance of that information being ...
Article : 700 wordsThe British forces in the Orange Free State are very short of horses, so many having been lost through fatigue, starvation and fighting casualties during the forced ...
Article : 92 wordsThe rat has the reputation of being exceedingly intelligent, and many instances of its sagacity are recorded. It would, perhaps, be too much to infer that city rats ...
Article : 167 wordsGeneral Ian Hamilton, formerly Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, who rendered distinguished service in Natal, commanding the infautry at Elands Laagte, and taking an ...
Article : 81 wordsCOLLINGWOOD.--The efforts put forward to ensure thorough cleanliness of premises is unrelaxed. The inspectors are pursuing their house to house visitation in a ...
Article : 332 wordsThe wills lodged for probate yesterday included that of James Charles Roberts, formerly of Park-street, Brunswick, medical student, but lately serving with her ...
Article : 96 wordsTyphoid fever, contracted in Cronje's camps at Magersfontein and Paardeberg, developed so strongly among a shipment of 1500 Boer prisoners who were embarked for ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Boers, whose forces in the Free State are now chiefly on the border of Basutoland, have threatened to invade that territory, in order to invest from the east ...
Article : 225 wordsThe man Meerth, whom the Brussels police arrested on charge of being the instigator of Sipido's attempt to assassinate the Prince of Wales, is an Anarchist. ...
Article : 87 wordsTelegrams from Pretoria report that among the Boer prisoners captured at Karree Siding, north of Bloemfontein, a few days ago, was a brother of ex-President ...
Article : 47 wordsSeven additional cases of plague have been reported, two proving fatal. The patients are Kate Mulkihill, a young woman living at a boarding house in Sussex ...
Article : 206 wordsDetails of the sinking of the Union S.S. Co.'s liner Mexican by the transport Wink field, near Capetown, show that the latter was steaming ahead in a dense fog when the ...
Article : 102 wordsHer majesty the Queen, now paying a visit to Ireland, was received with unspeakable enthusiasm and loyalty during a royal Progress which she made yesterday through ...
Article : 65 wordsWilliam Campbell, taken ill on Saturday, died in hospital at Fremantle with glandular swellings in the groin. The case is believed to be one of plague, and the hospital and ...
Article : 164 wordsNote--The black marks indicate the positions occupied by tho Boers about Bloemfontein. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 17 wordsThe case arising out of an attempt made some time ago, when the Imperial Yeomanry corps was being enrolled, to obtain fraudulently a certificate of ...
Article : 167 wordsThe will of Thomas James Parker, late of Melbourne and "Almeida," Toorak- road, South Yarra, merchant and ship owner, was drawn up on 22nd September, 1898. Mr. ...
Article : 235 wordsIn the south-east of the Free State, in the mountainous country near the Basuto border, many of the burghers who flew the white flag over their homesteads and ...
Article : 172 wordsNothing of a disturbing nature occurred in Melbourne yesterday in relation to the plague. The officer in charge of this quarantine station, Dr. Cowper Johnston, reported ...
Article : 490 wordsThe ex-Treasurer, Mr. G. H. Reid, with what may be characterised as an expiring kick, challenges the personnel of the Committee on Public Accounts and bewails ...
Article : 575 wordsThe Boer forces, which have made the late demonstrations against Bloemfontein, and have effected the Koorn Spruit and Reddersburg surprises, are now dispersed in ...
Article : 91 wordsThe situation in the Free State is a little mixed, at first sight; but a little thought will show that this uncertainty is apparent rather than real. It arises from the fact ...
Article : 723 wordsMr. Mathieson, accompanied by several officers of the Railway department, waited on the Mayor at the close of the meeting of the City Council yesterday and handed him ...
Article : 128 wordsAmerican telegrams report an extraordinary cloudburst in the State of Texas. The downfall was so immense and sudden as to inundate the central part of the State, ...
Article : 128 wordsThe suggestion has been made by Mr. Purves, Q.C., that instead of reducing the 800 men now in camp to 670, the number agreed upon as Victoria's quota to the ...
Article : 265 wordsDuring General Clement's march through the Free State from Norval's Pont to Bloemfontein, in three columns, by way of Jagensfontein, Fauresmith and Philippolis ...
Article : 60 wordsThe new plan of campaign evolved by the Boers in the Free State--that of keeping their line of defence to the mountainous country in the east, and thence raiding the ...
Article : 228 wordsDunean M'Hutchison, fashionably attired, appeared before the Malvern bench on Monday, charged with' having unlawfully assaulted a boy named Alfred Rosevear on 31st March. The ...
Article : 189 wordsAfter the fight at Boshof, in which a force of Imperial Yeomanry obliterated a Boer detachment, killing, wounding or capturing every man in it, soft-nosed and split ...
Article : 95 wordsIn consequence of the publication of seditious articles in "The United Irishman" the authorities have suppressed that Irish journal. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn accordance with the request of the Public Health department, two tents have been erected on the grounds of the Melbourne Hospital so as to isolate patients suspected ...
Article : 84 wordsOwing to the large increase which has taken place in the British revenue receipts during the financial year, the deficit, due to the war expenditure, instead of ...
Article : 49 wordsA magnificent type of the British transport is the Armenian, which arrived this morning from South Africa. She is the first of the fleet ordered here to take the ...
Article : 275 wordsYesterday, at the Prahran court, George L. Thompson, salesman for Benjamin Nathan, furniture dealer, Chapel-street, was placed in the dock on two charges of embezzlement. On the charges ...
Article : 156 wordsThough the Boers themselves are utterly opposed to close quarters fighting, and never await a charge when there is a possibility of escape, there are so many foreign ...
Article : 72 wordsIn view of Dr. Cherry's report upon bacteriological and kindred questions. Dr. Morrison moved, at the meeting of the University Council yesterday, that in view of the ...
Article : 416 wordsReceived by Dalgety and Co. Limited:-- London, 6th April.--The tone of the wool market is rather firmer. ...
Article : 24 wordsA fearful cyclone broke over the town last evening, accompanied by rain and hail. The rain gauge indicated a fall of 2 inches, but this is no criterion of the fall of water. ...
Article : 122 wordsReceived by Dalgety and Co. Limited:-- London, 6th April.--Frozen Meat: The market is quiet, and prices unchanged, except that values of frozen lamb are rather lower. Rabbit Skin sales ...
Article : 58 wordsThe troops in the Orange Free State are all in summer kit, but the cold season is now fairly commenced, and a number of pneumonia cases have occurred among the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsLady M'Eacharn requests that all articles that have been promised her for the Melbourne stall at the forthcoming bazaar be sent to her at "Goathland," Balaclava-road, Balaclava, by Wednesday ...
Article : 97 wordsA contingent of marines and blue jackets from H.M.S. Monarch, third class battle ship, 8930 tons, stationed at the Cape, a guardship under Captain R. D. E. Bruce ...
Article : 56 wordsThe postal authorities have received the following notification front Berne:-- with reference to notification of 14th March, the British Administration advises that the A B C ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 10 Apr 1900, Page 5
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