Further evidence on the subject of house connections was heard yesterday by the Board of Inquiry in reference to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, ...
Article : 758 wordsMessrs. S. Winter Cooke, M.L.L.; Agar Wynne, M.L.C.; W. Shiels, M.L.A.; John Thomson, M.L.A., and Cussen are definitely in the field as candidates for the Wannon ...
Article : 73 wordsThe action of the French and Russian consuls at Shanghai in opposing the landing of British Indian troops to protect the foreign settlement from attack, and the evident ...
Article : 141 wordsCommander John Philip Rolleston, of H.M.S. Pembroke, has been appointed to the command of H.M.S. Archer, which the Admiralty is refitting and rearming ...
Article : 45 wordsThe latest news received from the allied forces on the march to Pekin is contained in a telegram despatched by Major-General Sir Alfred Gaselee, commanding the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe report of the "Daily News" correspondent that Colonel Hore's force of 300 men, including 140 Australian Bushmen, had not been captured by the Boers at ...
Article : 309 wordsThe Premier received a telegram to-day stating that Major Rankin has been appointed deputy assistant adjutant-general to General Hutton's brigade in South Africa. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe young King of Italy, Victor Emanuel, and his wife, Queen Helene (formerly Princess Helene of Montenegro), were, it appears, present at the recent fatal railway ...
Article : 192 wordsLieutenant Seddon, of the fourth New Zealand contingent, son of the premier, has been appointed to a position on the staff of Lord Roberts. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe residents of Balranald have expressed string disapproval of the name "Waradari" being given to the Federal electorate embracing the town, and at a public meeting ...
Article : 44 wordsCommissions in the Imperial army have been given to colonial soldiers as under:-- To be second lieutenants in the Royal Artillery: Sub-Lieutenant R. H. Vandeleur ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the Legislative Council this evening, Mr. Hawken moved that in the opinion of this House the early assembling of the first Federal Parliament warrants the ...
Article : 174 wordsA letter has bean received in Ballarat stating that Lieutenant Tr[?]mearne and his orderly Lance-Corporal Brough, members of the First Contingent, but who are now in ...
Article : 565 wordsThe situation with respect to Europeans is reported to be very serious at Chung-king fu, an important town on the Yang-tse- kiang, in the western province of ...
Article : 81 wordsColonel Hore, who is stoutly holding Zeerust, is still maintaining a gallant resistance. Under the impression that Zeerust had fallen, and that the Boers being in ...
Article : 574 wordsWith respect to the Chinese defeat at Ho-si-wu, midway between Pekin and Tien Tsin, General Gaselee reports that two squadrons of the Bengal Lancers made a ...
Article : 272 wordsA notable and decisively worded speech on the Franco-Russian opposition to the protection of British interests on the Yang-tse-kiang, For the trade of which Shanghai ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Prince and Princess of Wales have started from England on a visit to Hamburg, in Germany. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn reply to a question as to the numbers of electors in the different federal electorates proposed by the commission, Sir William Lyne stated in the Assembly to-day ...
Article : 121 wordsIt is welcome news that the allied forces are already before the gates of Pekin. Indeed, by to-day it is not impossible that an entrance had been effected into the city and ...
Article : 937 wordsIt has been notified by the French Government that after the present month the export bounties which will be paid on French made beet sugar will range from 24½ ...
Article : 39 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsThe Boer forces under Commandant Grobbelar, have followed General Sir Frederick Carrington's force of 600 Australian Bushmen from Zeerust towards Mafeking, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe federal delegates, Messrs. Barton and Dickson, received a most enthu[?]stic welcome on the arrival of the Melbourne express to-day. Close upon 1000 people ...
Article : 813 words{No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 5 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh, the celebrated war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" with Lord Roberts's army, has succeeded in paying a flying visit to Belfast, on the ...
Article : 122 wordsTelegrams from Berlin report that it is believed there that the Marquis of Salisbury, Premier and Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, now staying for the restoration of ...
Article : 120 wordsThe news that the Breelong blacks are doubling back towards the Wollar Mountains is creating a new panic amongst the settlers and armed parties, under police, are ...
Article : 322 wordsDr. Henry road a paper on Wednesday evening at the British Medical Association on the modem treatment of incipient pulmonary consumption. He said that the ...
Article : 497 wordsIn connection with the unv[?]ling of the obelisk erected to the late Lieutenant Roberts, formerly of Carlton College, in the Royal Park, a parade of the men of his ...
Article : 128 wordsThe 40 invalided Queenslanders from South Africa, who will arrive in Brisbane on Saturday night, will be entertained at a picnic in Moreton Bay on Monday. ...
Article : 33 wordsA cabled despatch from Lord Roberts to the War Office reports the murder of Colonel Chas. H. W. Helyar, who in 1899 retired from the command of the 3rd ...
Article : 128 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent telegraphed from Waterval Onger on Wednesday:--"I have just interviewed Mr. Reitz, the Transvaal State Secretary, ...
Article : 422 wordsThe French and Russian squadrons at Shanghai, off the estuary of the Yang-tse-kiang, have been reinforced. The French squadron has been increased by one, and ...
Article : 43 wordsCaptain G. F. Thorn, of the Victorian first contingent, who has been invalided home, has written from the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Deelfontein, under date ...
Article : 181 wordsA telegram in cipher from M. Pichon, French Minister at Pekin, despatched on 9th inst., strongly urges hurrying on the march of the allied relief force. "If," writes ...
Article : 155 wordsIt has been officially announced at St. Petersburg that the Emperor Nicholas has assented to the German Field Marshal, Von Waldersee, commanding the operations ...
Article : 87 wordsDuring the fighting which took place lately near Rustenberg, when General Ian Hamilton drove off the Boer forces besieging it, one of President Kruger's sons was ...
Article : 39 wordsWhilst a lad named F. Shepherd was driving a pony cart along Clive-road yesterday morning, he collided with a dray, and the pony, becoming frigh[?]ened, bolted. The ...
Article : 240 wordsTransvaal official papers which have fallen into the hands of Lord Roberts show that during the first six months of the present year the Transvaal part of tho Boer ...
Article : 45 wordsAt the meeting of the Gippsland Railway Extension and Federal Capital League, held here last evening, Cr. Fogarty (Rosedale) said that letters had appeared in the ...
Article : 373 wordsThe select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the military administration of the colony to-day further examined Major-General French, ...
Article : 344 wordsThe United States Government reports that the Empress Dowager has offered, through the medium of a message sent by Mr. Conger, to surrender the foreign ...
Article : 121 wordsLieutenant-General Ian Hamilton commanding the mounted infantry division of Lord Robert[?]'s army, reports that Lieutenant F. G. Newton, of the Queensland ...
Article : 200 wordsAt the instigation of a large force of complaining ratepayers the Prahran city council yesterday launched a prosecution against the firm of Morris and Ludwig, of Malvern-road, for carrying on ...
Article : 391 wordsA Birmingham soldier who has been invalided home from Bloemfontein said (reports the "Daily Mail") that while in the hospital he frequently saw naked men in a ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Premier states that the Government dons not intend to introduce a bill to prevent persons holding seats in both the Federal and State Parliaments. Mr. Philp ...
Article : 66 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsThe European powers have all endorsed the American reply to Li Hung Chang's negotiation for peace. To obtain the cessation of hostilities China must agree to ...
Article : 60 wordsSir,--[?] you kindly permit me to state the official position of the Wesleyan Methodist church in respect to the possible reappointment of Professor Marshall-Hall to ...
Article : 130 wordsA message in British diplomatic cipher, dated 10th inst., has been received by the Foreign Office from Sir Claude Macdonald, British Ambassador at Pekin. He reports ...
Article : 46 wordsYesterday a large party, of colonial soldiers invalided home from South Africa, among whom were several members of the New South Wales Lancer Corps, went from the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe following telegram has been received by the Premier from the High Commissioner for South Africa:-- Owing to great difficulty in forwarding private ...
Article : 81 wordsA mooting of the Liberal electors of Hawthorn will be held at the Hawthorn Town Hall next Tuesday at 8 p.m. for the purpose of forming a committee to secure the return ...
Article : 55 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 144 wordsThe R.M.S. India was delayed 3½ hours in her departure for London to-day, owing to the rough weather at the anchorage. He[?] Adelaide cargo had to be left behind. ...
Article : 35 wordsA telegram to Berlin from Tien Tsin states that Prince Tuan, father of the adopted heir of the ...
Article : 75 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 91 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 34 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 45 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 11 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 29 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 24 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 15 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 17 Aug 1900, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: