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Article : 43 wordsOwing to the heavy traffic, the Melbourne express to-day arrived here in divisions, and between "hot boxes" and delays from country traffic each section arrived considerably ...
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Article : 63 wordsCentennial Park was the scene of great activity all day. Nearly 500 members of the New Zealand, South Australian and western Australian contingents were ...
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Article : 497 wordsQuestioned this evening as to whether there are any surprises in his Cabinet, Mr. Barton observed with a smile that the only surprises would be because of their ...
Article : 432 wordsIn the circumstances--and a "brickfielder" is a serious circumstance at any time, and particularly so on a holiday--Boxing day at Brighton was a huge, if ...
Article : 1,345 wordsThe scarcity of arms and ammunition among the Boer guerillas is freely confessed by the prisoners whom General French captured in his signal defeat of De la Rey's ...
Article : 125 wordsIt is reported that Chang-chi-tunsg, the powerful viceroy of Wuchang, on the Yang-tse-Kiang, who is gaining ground in the imperial favor, desires the removal of ...
Article : 71 wordsA remarkable story has been told by Mr. C. M'Intosh, a Scotsman, who has returned to America from China. Some years ago he went out to start a new woollen mill at ...
Article : 327 wordsThe Commonwealth Arch has been covered with a species of white plaster, and looks like a solid mass of marble, and the bronze plates bearing the allegorical figures ...
Article : 113 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Mail" in the Transvaal reports that in consequence of the perpetual sniping and guerilla raiding in the Heidelberg district ...
Article : 120 wordsThe prize of 50 guineas given by the New South Wales Government for the best Commonwealth day ode has been secured by Mr. Geo. Essex Evans, of Toowoomba, ...
Article : 513 wordsAfter the holidays Mr. Gurr propones to inquire into the merits of an ingenious automatic post box, some 70 samples of which the Imperial Postmaster-General has ...
Article : 404 wordsThe War Office is hurrying up reinforcements of mounted troops for South Africa. All the available cavalry quartered in the Belfast district, Ireland, have been warned ...
Article : 42 wordsA conference which took place between Sir William Lyne and Mr. Barton to-night is believed to have been as to the capacity in which Sir William Lyne should join the ...
Article : 240 wordsRecruiting for Major-General Baden-Powell's Transvaal Mounted Police Force of 25,000 men is going on briskly. Over 1000 Canadians have already been enrolled. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Parker, the well-known pastor of the (Congregational) City Temple, recently undertook, in imitation of the press experiment undertaken by the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Legislatures of Belgium, Switzerland, and the German State of Hesse, have quietly shelved resolutions brought forward by pro-Boers in favor of asking England to ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. J. Bryn Roberts, Radical. M.P. for Carnarvonshire, who lately withdrew and apologised for his statement in the House that Australian soldiers, when disappointed ...
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Article : 83 wordsAs far as Melbourne is concerned, the Federal situation remains unchanged. Sir George Turner has not yet received any further communication from Mr. Barton, but ...
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Article : 249 wordsAt the formal opening of the Cairo to Khartoum railway, Lord Cromer, the British Minister in Egypt, in addressing the gathering of Soudanese sheikhs at ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the Madison-square Gardens, at New York, 25,000 of the poor of that city were yesterday entertained at a Christmas dinner by the Salvation Army authorities. ...
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Article : 29 wordsAlthough the New Zealand Government has been asked by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to allow its troops to remain in South Africa for the present, and ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. Kingston received a telegram from Mr. Barton on Tuesday night asking him to go to Sydney in connection with the formation of the Federal Ministry. Mr. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 27 Dec 1900, Page 5
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