Though the police were for some time unable to ascertain the identity of the man who on Thursday attempted the life of the Shah of Persia, being disarmed ...
Article : 179 wordsThe obsequies of the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Alfred of Great Britain took place yesterday at Coburg, the ceremonial being ...
Article : 171 wordsIntelligence has been received that in view of the advance of the allies on Pekin having been actually commenced the Imperial court is making preparations for flight ...
Article : 116 wordsAlthough General Ian Hamilton's Division has been diverted from the eastern advance from Pretoria to deal with the rising in the Western Transvaal, Lord Roberts ...
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Article : 51 wordsA large crowd assembled at the railway station on Saturday afternoon, together with the members of the 4th Battalion Militia and their band, to welcome home from ...
Article : 541 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, was asked a question with respect to the press report that Lord Roberts's staff had ...
Article : 124 wordsGeneral Ian Hamilton's division, which includes the Colonial Mounted Infantry, has been sent back from Middleburg, and has passed through Pretoria on route for ...
Article : 53 wordsOn Saturday the Lieutenant-Governor received the following cablegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in reply to the resolution passed by the Legislative ...
Article : 348 wordsThe America-Italian Anarchist Bressi, who murdered King Humbert, has made further admissions to the Italian police. When first arrested he declared that he had ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Japanese Government was urged by the powers to take immediate military action for the rescue of the Pekin legations, and it demanded a reasonable financial ...
Article : 118 wordsLord Roberts has reported to the War Office that General Ian Hamilton has encountered a force of Boers at Magaliesberg, about 25 miles east of Rustenburg, and has ...
Article : 79 wordsA resident of Weston-Super-Mare, a maritime town in the county of Somerset, has received a cable message from a nephew in Pekin, who reports that the British ...
Article : 102 wordsIt has transpired that the Monza murder was not the first of recent Anarchist attempts to murder King Humbert of Italy. On 19th July an abortive attempt ...
Article : 55 wordsThe official commission appointed by the Imperial Government to investigate the complaints received from South Africa with respect to the quality of the boots and other ...
Article : 87 wordsLord Kitchener, who was recently sent by Lord Roberts from Pretoria to Krugersdorp to organise the British movements against the Boers who after surrendering, rose ...
Article : 135 wordsSo far no arrangement has been made in connection with the embarkation of the New South Wales Naval Contingent, except that it has been fixed to take place ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Belgian Government has now replied to the British protest against the release of the Anarchist youth Sipido, who was discharged from custody because a Brussels ...
Article : 129 wordsReports to hand concerning the progress of hostilities between the Russians and the Chinese in Manchuria state that the Russian forces have been successful in two ...
Article : 148 wordsA fearful story of wholesale massacre of Chinese converts to Christianity has been told at Tien Tsin, by a refugee, who has succeeded in getting into that city. This man ...
Article : 81 wordsThe death is reported from dysentery at Bloemfontein of Private J. Kirkland, of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles. Privates S. Reid and J. B. Campbell, of ...
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Article : 334 wordsLi Hung Chang has again assured the European consuls at Shanghai that if the advance of the allied troops at Tien Tsin upon Pekin is abandoned the powers will ...
Article : 341 wordsThe following additional nominations of Australian officers to commissions in the Imperial army are announced:-- To be second lieutenants on the ...
Article : 103 wordsA portion of Major-General Smith-Dorrien's brigade, which has cleared away the Boers from Krugersdorp, south-west to Frederickstad, 14 miles north-east of ...
Article : 138 wordsIn proceeding to Coburg to attend the funeral of his late brother the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales at the last moment changed the route ...
Article : 68 wordsThe people of Port Adelaide and the Semaphore combined on Saturday in giving a cordial send off to the officers and men of the gunboat Projector, which leaves for ...
Article : 231 wordsMr. J. R. Couglan, of Numurkah, has received a letter from his brother, Trooper A. Couglan, of the Second Victorian Contingent, dated Pretoria, 29th June, the ...
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Article : 90 wordsSan Francisco files state that President M'Kinley is at home in Canton Ohio, under a guard of special detectives the reason for the unusual precaution being that a plot to ...
Article : 120 wordsThe latest referendum returns are as follow:--Yes, 44,462; No, 19,696. Still incomplete. Sir Gerard Smith, late Governor of the ...
Article : 340 wordsThe Indian military authorities, who have already shipped two army divisions to China, the first, under General Sir Alfred Gaselee, being now at Wei-hai-Wei,. is ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral Sir Archibald Hunter reports that more of the Free State burghers penned in the valleys north-east of Fouriesburg are coming in and surrendering in terms of ...
Article : 132 wordsThe latest news from Pekin reports that the legations were safe on 1st August, the Chinese official account coming down only to 30th July. Another official ...
Article : 709 wordsThe directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Shipping and of the Orient S.N. Company, which have the contracts for the Australian mails, have decided that their ...
Article : 287 wordsAccording to news by the San Francisco mail, much difficulty is being experienced by the United States Government in placing in China a military force at all adequate to ...
Article : 239 wordsPrivate W. J. Burrows, who was wounded and taken prisoner at Rensburg, has written to his relatives in this district, describing his experiences at Pretoria. In the course ...
Article : 170 wordsSir,--I send you copy of an address, received from Australians serving in Bethune's mounted infantry. It is a composite force, raised in Natal by Colonel Bethune, ...
Article : 471 wordsIn accordance with General Hunter's expectations the number of Boers coming in to surrender as promised by General Prinzloo has now considerably increased. The ...
Article : 64 wordsGreat secrecy is maintained with respect to the movements of the Japanese troops at Shan-hai-kwan, who, according to a rumor lately current in Tokio, won a great victory ...
Article : 104 wordsThe death of Captain Edgar Quartus Robertson, of the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, a Victorian by birth, was notified yesterday by a private cable ...
Article : 82 wordsThe death of Gertrude Anne Goodliffe, who cut her throat between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Friday, at her residence, in Hanover-street, Fitzroy, was inquired into by Mr. ...
Article : 543 wordsAnother railway raiding dash has been made by Boers near Honing's Spruit, between Kroonstadt and the Vaal River. By shifting the rails the Boers succeeded in ...
Article : 118 wordsOn Friday afternoon Wm. Howitt, residing with his mother at 22 City-road, was having a nap in the parlor when he was disturbed by the entry of a stranger. On seeing Howitt the stranger ...
Article : 136 wordsQuestioned this evening as to the truth or otherwise of a rumor to the effect that the Bushmen's Contingent despatched from South Australia had been ordered home in ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Russian troops at Tien Tsin have captured one of the Chinese outposts at Peisang, about 12 miles north of Taku. LONDON, 5th August. ...
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Article : 15 wordsA Reuter's message via Delagoa Bay states that President Kruger and Commandant-General Botha are endeavoring to induce the Transvaal burghers on commando ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 6 Aug 1900, Page 5
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