The Agents-General of the federating Australian colonies will on Monday meet to consider the reply of the Premiers' Conference in Melbourne to the Imperial proposals ...
Article : 168 wordsOwing to the heavy rain which has fallen in the Orange Free State delaying the advance of the relief columns marching on Wepener and interrupting communications, ...
Article : 230 wordsGeneral Sehalk Burger, now Boer commandant in Natal, has been appointed Vice-President of the Transvaal Republic, in succession to General Joubert, whose death ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Holder, the Premier of South Australia, when seen by a reporter of "The Age" stated:--"The resolution adopted is undoubtedly a compromise. It practically ...
Article : 306 wordsSpeaking at Hull last night, Mr. Walter Long, president of the Board of Agriculture, referred to Lord Roberts's trenchant criticism of General Buller and Sir Charles ...
Article : 114 wordsThe "Times" in a leading article on the proposed amendment of the Commonwealth Bill expresses much gratification to see the differences between the Imperial Government ...
Article : 76 wordsTelegram received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated I6th April:-- In reference to my telegram of 5th April. Whilst her Majesty's Government would be ...
Article : 131 wordsLord Methuen's column, Which has been advancing in an easterly direction through the north of the Free State, with the apparent object of joining Lord Roberts near ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Lyne, the Premier, returned by special train this afternoon from Melbourne. On being seen, Mr. Lyne said that the proceedings at the Conterence were of a most ...
Article : 257 wordsA great sensation has been caused in Natal by the official publication in England of Lord Roberts's censures on General Buller and Licutenant-General Warren for ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Times" has received and published a cablegram from Mr. A. M. Simpson, formerly a member of the Legislative Council of South Australia, asserting that only the ...
Article : 101 wordsTelegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 17th April:-- New Zealand Government anxious to have an amendment in the covering clauses of the ...
Article : 129 wordsThe swearing in of the members of the Australian Imperial Contingent took place on Saturday at Langwarrin. The justices of the peace appointed to officiate arrived at ...
Article : 486 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to Surgeon-Major William Babtie, of the Royal Artillery Medical Corps, for the distinguished gallantry displayed by him in ...
Article : 100 wordsThe following are the despatches from Mr. Chamberlain, forwarded through the Governor of South Australia for communication to the Premiers of each of the ...
Article : 789 wordsMr. Edmund Barton, Q.C., federal delegate of New South Wales, in speaking last night at an entertainment given in his honor by the London Press Club, declared that ...
Article : 121 wordsThe weather in the Orange Free State is now fine, but the deluges of rain which fell have swollen all rivers and spruits in the country to such an extent that the drifts ...
Article : 163 wordsThe persistence with which the Boers adhere to the attack on Wepener is due to the strong exhortations of ex-President Steyn, who is urging that "at all costs" the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe cable messages exchanged between the Conference and Mr. Barton were of a secret character, and these the Conference decided not to make public. The ...
Article : 475 wordsMr. Leake, the president of the Federal League, being out of Perth, Mr. Zollner, hon. secretary of the league, has been interviewed regarding the action taken by ...
Article : 87 wordsGeneral Buller reports that a number of instances have come under the notice of his officers in Natal in which the Boers have armed kaffirs and compelled them to assist ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsA Boer report states that the force surrounding Wepener consists of 8000 men, and is supported by 15 guns. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Premier received the following cable message from the Agent-General on Saturday:-- Have ascertained that the Imperial Government ...
Article : 66 wordsThe action of the Emperor William of Germany in going to Altona to meet the Prince of Wales on his a return from Copenhagen and congratulate him on his escape ...
Article : 121 wordsPress telegrams from the Orange Free State announce that Lieutenant-General Rundle, whose column for the relief of Wepener, despatched from Springfontein, ...
Article : 184 wordsOn Friday last, whilst Lord Methuen's column was engaged in the operation of falling back on its base as ordered by Lord Roberts, the convoy, consisting of a line of ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Conference of the Premiers of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania, on the subject of the amendments proposed by the Secretary ...
Article : 991 wordsMr. Reeves, Agent-General for New Zealand, has received from Major Robins, commanding the First New Zealand Contingent in South Africa, a telegram stating that his ...
Article : 195 wordsThe leading French newspapers interpret the Kaiser's courtesy as emphasising the Anglo-German "entente cordiale" and rebuking German Anglophobia. ...
Article : 80 wordsAn official report of the fighting near De Wetsdorp, issued by the War Office, confirms the press telegrams, and states that the troops which turned the Boer position ...
Article : 87 wordsRailway communication between Bloemfontein and Cape Colony has been greatly facilitated by the effectual repair of the bridge over the Orange River at Bethulie, ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Prince of Wales on his return journey made no halt at Brussels, but went right on to Calais by special train. Here a great crowd cordially assembled and ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Minister of Defence states that the departure of the Victorian division of the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent has been fixed for Saturday next, ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. M'Lean, who was seen subsequent to the Conference, said that he believed the Commonwealth Bill would now be passed by the Imperial Parliament without ...
Article : 409 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has written a letter of thanks to the station master at Brussels, who seized and disarmed the boy assassin Sipide after he had fired two shots ...
Article : 95 wordsNews from Pretoria, brought by refugees to Dela[?]ma Bay, gives further information with respect to the bogus trial instituted there with a view to prove that the threats ...
Article : 219 wordsLord Roberts, without anticipating action by the Imperial Government for the annexation of the Free State, has taken the step of appointing Major-General Pretyman ...
Article : 96 wordsYesterday Major-General Downes, accompanied by Mr. Melville, Minister of Defence, Colonel Bingham, and Captain Collins, Secretary of the Defence department, paid a ...
Article : 562 wordsGeneral Rundle is steadily making his way towards Wepener. On Friday last he had arrived within five miles of De Wet's Dorp, and proceeded to clear the enemy from the ...
Article : 855 wordsTelegrams from the Gold Coast report that the situation at Coomassic, where the Governor of the colony, Sir Frederick Hodgson, was surrounded by insurgent ...
Article : 80 wordsLord Roberts's action in arresting a number of influential Boer residents of Bloem-fontein who had given clear indications of disaffection and of trafficking with the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe report of the Orient S.N. Co. shows a profit of £92,438 for the year ended 31st December. The sum of £76,669 is carried to the reserve fund, a dividend of 3 per cent. ...
Article : 47 wordsTelegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 5th April:-- Her Majesty's Government earnestly share your desire to see the great work of ...
Article : 293 wordsIf has transpired that among the commando of French, Germans and Russians which the Imperial Yeomanry under Lord Methuen's command obliterated at Boshof ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 23 Apr 1900, Page 5
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