The effect of the proclamation issued by Sir Alfred Milnor, directing all civilians to surrender all arms and ammunition which [?] for safe keeping by the ...
Article : 305 wordsAn official report from Osborne House announces that her Majesty Queen Victoria, who at 4 p.m. was sinking fast, expired shortly after 6 p.m. ...
Article : 95 wordsIn consequence of the critical condition of her Majesty the Queen, the Imperial officials state, in answer to inquiries, that the consider that the proposed visit of the Duke ...
Article : 73 wordsThere was great tension of fooling throughout the country on Tuesday, when the bulletins from Osborne House began to be increasingly ominous in tone. In the morning, when the message stating that the health of her Majesty was diminishing was received, the crowd, moved by a common impulse. ...
Article : 288 wordsHer Majesty the Queen, it has been made known, always hoped that it would not be her lot to die in her sleep, lest she should not be surrounded by her beloved ones when the end came. A few days ago, with a thoughtfulness that overrode all consideration of her own great stress, she told her attendants ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Britannic leaves for Melbourne at 7 p.m. to-morrow. The Premier has received the following telegram from Lieutenant-Colonel Peyton:-- ...
Article : 83 wordsThe news of the alarming condition of her Majesty evoked an expression of feeling by the Government and people of France which is in most gratifying contrast to the sentiments voiced until recently by the anti-British section of the French press. President Loubet despatched a telegram to the Prince ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. Barton, when seen to-night, stated that be had postponed his Visit to Adelaide and Melbourne until after the obsequies. On the subject of the vacant portfolio he ...
Article : 342 wordsThe Prime Minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, who is in London, is summoning the Privy Council in order to swear in the Prince of Wales as King of England to-day. When the oath has been taken the College of Heralds will proclaim the new Sovereign at St. James's Palace, whither the King will go in ...
Article : 181 wordsHis Majesty King George of Greece, brother of the Princess of Wales, has started for O[?]rne from Athens. The Crown Prince William of Germany is expected to arrive at Osborne House to-day. ...
Article : 49 words"The whole civilised world will mourn the death of our beloved Queen," said Sir George Turner, when interviewed yesterday, "and in no pant of the Empire will her ...
Article : 387 wordsThe news of the passing away of her Majesty the Queen was received in Melbourne shortly before 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Up to that hour everything had been ...
Article : 866 wordsParticulars of the fight on 10th inst. at Bushman's Kranz, between New Denmark and Vlaktaatge, north-west of Standerton, [?] General Colvile, with 300 men of the ...
Article : 74 wordsHer Majesty was restless throughout Monday night, and the only persons admitted to the Royal bedroom were the doctors, one of the Queen's dressers, and two of the maids of Osborne House, acting under the direction of Miss Soal, a trained nurse from the Sanatorium on the Osborne Estate. ...
Article : 424 wordsDetails of the successful engagement fought by Lord Methuen to the westward of Taungs, on the Kimberley line, about 42 miles south of Vryburg, on 14th inst., ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Times" to-day, in an article on the new Sovereign, declares that the King is endowed with most lovable and attractive qualities, and that he has the same kind heart and quick appreciation of genuine worth that distinguished his royal mother. The nation is, the "Times" states, happy in the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe speech made in the Chamber of Deputies by M. Waldeck-Rousscau, Premier of France, during the debate on the bill introduced by him having as its object the ...
Article : 188 wordsMajor-General Babington who with the cavalry and mounted infantry column under his command recently expelled all Boer guerillas and raiders from the "Witwaters ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the usual Hilary term dinner of Gray's Inn, the master, Mr. Betham, said:--"We must, according to constitutional usage, recite God Save the King." The chapel bell was then tolled 82 times in memory of the late Queen, and the health of the King was then honored. All the bells were tolled. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe royal commission appointed by the British Government to inquire into the management of the Held hospitals in the South African war has exonerated the ...
Article : 78 wordsA sensation was recently caused in London legal circles by the arrest of Mr. Benjamin J. Lake, solicitor, late chairman of the "discipline committee" of the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Prince of Wales was very much affected when the doctors in attendance intimated to him that his mother had passed away. The scene in the bed chamber was inexpressibly sad. The German Emperor, who was himself deeply affected, sympathetically ministered to the comfort of his ...
Article : 76 wordsThe War Office reports that Private J. Finnigan, of the New South Wales Bushmen, was killed at Vlaki[?]ontein. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe news of the Queen's death was known in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, at 1.45 p.m. yesterday .(Canadian time), and, being immediately telegraphed throughout the Dominion, bells were set tolling in every town and Village. The newspapers in every centre brought out extraordinary editions, ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Seddon, the Premier of New Zeeland, at present in Melbourne, when seen yesterday morning by a representative of "The Age," was ...
Article : 675 wordsAt Head Quarters last night the following general order, surrounded by a deep black hand, was issued:-- Head Quarters, Military Forces. ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, 23rd January, 1.35 a.m. The scene outside of Osborne House last evening, immediately upon the sad news of her Majesty's decease being made known to the great crowds of people who throughout the day had waited outside the gates of the Royal ...
Article : 142 wordsSignor Giuseppe Verdi, the celebrated Italian operatic composer, who is 86 years of age, is now in a dying state. ...
Article : 29 wordsThroughout the United States the people have been deeply affected by the thought of the Queen's approaching end, and the bulletins from Osborne House have been awaited with an anxiety fully equalling that displayed in a Great Britain. A striking testimony to the extent of the sympathetic ...
Article : 295 wordsSir William Lyne has received the following cable through the Lieutenant-Governor from South Africa:-- 20th January.--15, Sergeant major F. Y. Weir. ...
Article : 69 wordsDespite the recent decision of the committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club to debar several leading bowlers in England because of what is regarded as their ...
Article : 76 wordsAt 6.45 the painful tension was increased by the instantly noted approach to the gates of a servant of the Royal household, who, with plainly evident emotion, and with slow and reverential movements, placed on the board at the gates the following medical bulletin:-- ...
Article : 151 wordsInspector Beekwith was in Horsham to-day purchasing horses. About 50 horses were paraded, and of these 25 were purchased at an average price of £16. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe shareholders of the Associated Financial Corporation Limited have agreed to the proposal made by the directors to reconstruct the company. A call of 2 per ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Government has communicated with Sir Alfred Milner in South Africa in regard to the despatch of a transport to convey the Fifth Contingent from Queensland [?] ...
Article : 49 wordsEven amongst the Dutch population of Cape Colony the nearness to death of her Majesty has called forth a genuine tribute of sorrow and esteem, and in all the Dutch churches special prayers for the Queen have been offered up. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe position in regard to the conveyance of the Victorian troops to South Africa was still further complicated yesterday by the receipt of a message from Sir Alfred Milner ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, has telegraphed from Osborne to the Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward of her Majesty's household at Buckingham Palace, conveying the intimation that her Majesty the Queen died peacefully. ...
Article : 50 wordsMessages of condolence are pouring in upon the members of the Royal family. Among other telegrams sent to the Prince of Wales is a very sympathetic one from the Marquis of Lansdowne, Foreign Secretary, and another from the Lord Mayor of London, tendering his personal condolences and ...
Article : 112 wordsThe following message of sympathy with the Royal family was despatched last night to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by his Excellency the ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London, soon after 4 o'clock this afternoon, received the following telegram from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, despatched from Osborne House:--A painful duty obliges me to inform you that the life of our own ...
Article : 280 wordsAn order for 50 saddles was placed yesterday with a Melbourne firm by the Minister of Defence. This will complete the equipment for the Fifth Contingent. The ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 24 Jan 1901, Page 7
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