Telegrams from Pretoria report that the division under command of General Sir Archibald Hunter, which marched through the Transvaal from the west, has reached ...
Article : 127 wordsA highly important official statement was made lust night in the House of Commons concerning the positron in China, by Mr. St. John Brodrick, Under Secretary for Foreign ...
Article : 325 wordsAmerican telegrams report some terribly gruesome stories of the great fire in Hoboken docks, at New York, in which 500 persons perished. ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday, the Australian Commonwealth Bill was passed through committee mid reported to the House without any amendment in the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Speaker took the chair at 4.30 p.m. THE NO CONFIDENCE DEBATE. The debate on Sir George Turner's want of confidence motion was resumed by ...
Article : 7,674 wordsThe Legislative Council held a short sitting to-day. Mr. S. H. Hyam was elected to the vacancy on the Public Works Committee. Mr. Suttor moved the second reading ...
Article : 843 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Premier announced that the Government would endeavor to have the Commonwealth brought into being on, 1st October, in order that the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe North German Lloyd wharves, which were destroyed by fire in New York Harbor, were built at a cost of £200,000. They are described as being amongst the finest at ...
Article : 169 wordsThis being the last "sovereign" Parliament of New South Wales, the suggestion has been made that members should be presented with a memento in the shape of a ...
Article : 85 wordsGreat suffering as reported among the population of Pretoria owing to the scarcity of provisions, hut Lord Roberts's troops are on full rations supplies having been ...
Article : 67 wordsSir,--Permit me, as the original proposer of the Parliamentary commission on the wine industry, to suggest a way out of the difficulty, almost amounting to an impasse, ...
Article : 1,032 wordsIt is also reported by the runners that, when two other foreign Ministers besides Baron de Ketteler had been killed. Prince Tuan ordered a massacre of all foreigners. ...
Article : 39 wordsMiss Stella Esdale, the young Australian vocalist, has been engaged by a London music hall syndicate to appear at the Tivoli and Oxford music halls. ...
Article : 31 wordsCommon]ting upon the charges made by Mr. Burdett Courts, M.P., of terrible deficiencies for the treatment of disease patients in the field hospitals in South ...
Article : 93 wordsThe European consuls at Tien Tsin have proposed to their respective Governments that the Chinese veneration for the dead--their ancestor worship--should be utilised ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 228 wordsThe well known steamer Orotava, which was recently chartered by the Imperial Government as a transport for South Africa, hut which collided, with, and sank off ...
Article : 60 wordsThe ambassadors of the European powers at Berlin have by direction of their respective Government, held a conference with Baron von Bulow, the German Foreign ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor has received a cablegram from Sir Alfred Milner, reporting that Farrier Rose, of the Mounted Infantry unit, First Victorian Contingent, ...
Article : 49 wordsIn view of the fears expressed in the Sydney Parliament that the Australian contingents may practically become disintegrated in South Africa as soon as the war is over, ...
Article : 159 wordsThe July series of wool sales opened today be a dull market Prices show a decline of from 5 to 15 per cent, on the closing rates of the last series of sales. ...
Article : 755 wordsMr. Brodrick, defining Great Britain's attitude towards China, said that before the legations were isolated in Pekin, the British Minister, Sir Claude Macdonald, was ...
Article : 81 wordsThe special carriage invented by Captain-Scott, of the Terrible, for the naval guns used, in the Ladysmith siege was used for similar purposes during the, recent siege of ...
Article : 63 wordsPrivate R. Coustley, of the Second Victorian Contingent, writes, from Kroonstad under date 17th May that he, with several more wounded Australians, was to be ...
Article : 92 wordsNevertheless, continued Mr. Brodrick, China's chief present danger .was' internal, and it was possible that the country was on the eve of complete disintegration from ...
Article : 91 wordsGossip in the lobbies of the Assembly tends to indicate that any proposal to decreasethe numerical strength of Parliament will be opposed, and members urge that it ...
Article : 59 wordsThe proposal of the consuls at Tien Tsin to threaten to destroy the tombs of the Imperial family in tho event of harm being done to the foreigners in Pekin is a practical ...
Article : 335 wordsCorporal Hennessy, of Glenrowan, who is now on his way homo from South Africa, in a letter to his relatives says:--"I was shot at Rensburg in the left ankle by a ...
Article : 135 wordsA petition was presented to the Legislative Council by the Adelaide city council today, praying the Upper House would reject or defer consideration of the private bill ...
Article : 216 wordsDuring a discussion which followed Mr. Brodrick's official, statement, Sir Edward, Grey, who was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Lord Rosetery's Ministry ...
Article : 49 wordsA deputation from the Stock Owners' Convention waited on the Premier to-day, had presented a resolution congratulating Sir William Lyme on his patriotic action in ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Japanese Government, which had previously mobilised a full division of troops (10,000 men) to send to China, is now mobilising 30,000 to be despatched immediately ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Workers' Compensation for Accidents Bill, introduced by the Minister of Education, was read a second time in the Legislative Council to-day. The Minister stated ...
Article : 73 wordsChinese runners from Pekin who have reached the foreign settlements on the coasts report that Prince Tuan, who has since proclaimed his young son, the ...
Article : 164 wordsShortly after 4 p.m. yesterday, whilst the magistrates at the Fitzroy court were investigating a case, it was noticed that one of two men who had been kept in the ...
Article : 264 wordsSergeant Johnson, the invalided Queenslander, arrived to-night, and was welcomed by a large crowd at the station, including a number of members of the defence force. ...
Article : 36 wordsCaptain Russell, R.N., a retired naval officer and a well known resident of Melbourne, has volunteered for active service in China, and has requested the Minister ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Glassey, the ex-Premier, addressed the electors last night. He denounced the night. He denounced of the Trades Hall and labor opposition, and read lengthy correspondence ...
Article : 183 wordsSome extraordinary experiments have been mode by the Belgian police with the view of minimising the attempt made by the young tinsmith Sipido, under Anarchist ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. Philp supports Sir William Lyme's opinion that 'there is no necessity to send colonial troops to China, as the powers are quite 'able to cope with the difficulty. Mr. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe F.M.S. Australien, outwards, left Colombo 3rd inst. The F.M.S. Polynesien, homewards, left Colombo 30th June. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe American transport Culgoa arrived from Manila last night. As regards affairs at the Philippine Islands, the officers state that nothing startling has occurred. The ...
Article : 82 wordsThe brutal murder of the German ambassador at' Pekin, Baron de Ketteler, has caused great excitement and furious indignation throughout Germany. ...
Article : 118 wordsA successful trial was yesterday made in the south of Germany of the aerial ship invented by Count Deppelin. The air ship, which is cigar shaped, and 420 feet in ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 5 Jul 1900, Page 5
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