The British occupation of the Free States capital has been marked by an absence of almost everything which usually accompanies military entries into besieged cities. ...
Article : 1,609 wordsThere were three cases of the plague on Saturday, and three to-day, two of which proved fatal. The cases are:-- Charles M'Kinley, aged 17, who was ...
Article : 155 wordsShortly after 3 p.m. on Saturday the boiler of a steam lighter, The Young Charley, moored at Dangar, Gedge and Co.'s wharf, Woolloomooloo Bay, burst, blowing the ...
Article : 418 wordsThe averages of the banking institutions for the past quarter show that the growth of deposits has been very substantial amounting to nearly 5 per cent. On 12 ...
Article : 91 wordsWhat was intended to be a mass meeting of railway employes, organised by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Employes of Victoria, was held yesterday morning in the ...
Article : 1,139 wordsThe delegates to the Protectionist Conference were entertained on Saturday by the executive of the New South Wales Protection Union to a trip round the harbor ...
Article : 377 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 wordsH.M.S. Diana arrived from England on Saturday with relief crews for the Australian squadron. The Diana is a fine stamp of cruiser. She will start on the homeward ...
Article : 446 wordsOn Thursday night Lieutenant C. J. Kingsley Boyd was entertained at the Collingwood town hall by the directors, officers and employes of the Shamrock Brewery Company. Mr. James Thomson, ...
Article : 624 wordsAfter further examination by Doctors Gray and Johnston, the conclusion has been arrived at that Christopher Wilson, the cabin boy, who was detained aboard the ...
Article : 269 wordsI need not dwell at any length upon the joy and the thankfulness that are pervading the loyal section of colonists throughout South Africa at the course which events ...
Article : 820 wordsMr. Graham, Minister of Agriculture, with Mr. De Bois, secretary, and Mr. D. Martin, of the Agricultural department, and accompanied by Mr. Outtrim, Minister ...
Article : 553 wordsNow that the flood at Bunyip South has abated, the extent of the damage wrought is ascertainable. Except in a few isolated instances, the settlers have returned to their ...
Article : 408 wordsMr. U. C. Mair, well known in Brisbane, has been found drowned at Kilkivan. He left Brisbane three weeks ago to give delivery, on behalf of Messrs Fenwick and Co., ...
Article : 46 wordsOn a report being made to Mr. Styles, M.L.A.. acting chairman of the Board of Public Health, that Wilson's ailment had been diagnosed not to be the plague, the ...
Article : 173 wordsReports from Borroloola state that the drought conditions prevail inland, and all the stations have to shift their stock from the table lands of the M'Arthur district to ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Imperial Bushmen are extremely busy making final preparations for their departure. Many matters of detail are behind. The Governor will inspect the men ...
Article : 129 wordsFears are entertained that unless even more stringent measures than those at present in force are adopted for the destruction of rats, infection may be widely spread ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsSub-Inspector Field has notified the Commissioner of Police that he has received the following telegram from Constable Crabb, of Hergott:--"A murder was committed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsAt the Board of Health on Thursday, Mr. Foxton gave a detailed explanation of all that had been done for fixing up the plague hospital at Cairncross. The Mayor ...
Article : 58 wordsA fatal accident happened to Mr. Samuel Bradly, at Kilkenny on Thursday. He was taking a horse to a paddock when the animal knocked him down, and he died on ...
Article : 85 wordsSir,--I have received a cable from the Cape, with an offer of attachment to "Bethune's Horse," who are now at Greytown, which I esteem a great privilege and honor. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsDr. Voss returned from a visit to Mackenzie Island yesterday. He states that the plague patient is improving. He is not satisfied with the fumigation of the Burwah, ...
Article : 93 wordsThe R.M.S. Australia, which left yesterday afternoon for London, via Melbourne takes 20,000 cases of apples from this port. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 265 wordsAlmost continuous rain has fallen for a fortnight on the East Murchison gold field, with every appearance of more to follow. The whole country is flooded, and creeks usually dry are running like ...
Article : 140 wordsThe city council, with the object of improving the sanitary condition of the place, in view of the plague, has ordered the pulling down of a number of dilapidated ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 wordsThe patients who were victims to poisoning at the Perth racecourse are all out of danger. Mr. Kingsmill, M.L.A., who has just ...
Article : 126 wordsThe friction recently evidenced as existing between the Minister for Agriculture and Mr. C. B. Luffmann, principal of the Horticultural Gardens, at Burnley, was ...
Article : 109 wordsSir,--By this morning's post I have received a letter from Bunyip, Gippsland, asking me to seek your aid on behalf of those rendered homeless by the recent ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Government is establishing three technical schools for native youths after they have left the primary village schools. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe takings at the stalls at the Melbourne Hospital Bazaar at the Exhibition Building on Saturday totalled £449. The bazaar will be open to-day at 3 p.m. Special amusements are to be provided ...
Article : 362 wordsA man named John Graham, aged 36, described as a Swede and a miner, was arrested by Detective M'Manamny yesterday, charged with obtaining £14 by means of a valueless cheque from Mr. J. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsMr. Fenelon Mott, departmental surveyor, assisted by Messrs. F. Smith and Ingram and their respective parties, have got so far on with their work that Mr. Mott was able ...
Article : 238 wordsThe advent of the typhoid season has unfortunately been made apparent in a marked degree in a portion of the shire of Malvern. The "infected area" comprises Bent, Vickery and Tennyson ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsDuring the early hours of yesterday morning Mr. Charles Bateman, the licensee of the Survey Hotel. While Horse-road, Balwyn, was aroused from sleep by his father, who told him there were burglars ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsA painful, though not dangerous, accident happened on Saturday to Mr. J. W. Brown, a resident of Wellington-Street, Collingwood. At the entrance to his house Mr. Brown was explaining the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 wordsWhile the Eight Hours sports wore in progress at the Exhibition Building on Saturday night, some of the competitors in the dressing room noticed a hand protrude through a hole in the wall and ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 23 Apr 1900, Page 6
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