Reports from the Cape state that active field operations on a large scale are imminent in South Africa. Under Lord Kitchener's plan of campaign large numbers ...
Article : 87 wordsA score of times have free-traders, when talking about the "burden" of protection, been challenged to show in what respect [?] more cheaply in Sydney than in ...
Article : 1,031 wordsSir,--I have pleasure in handing you my cheque for 500 shillings for the Queen's Statue Fund as an offering from "Virginia" for their "Two Seas" tobacco.--Yours[?] &c. ...
Article : 57 wordsFurther particulars are now available of the order to be observed in connection with the great funeral, procession in London on Saturday. The arrangements for ...
Article : 329 wordsThe missionaries of various denominations who are at present in Pekin have submitted to the Ministers of the European powers a statement of demands which they ...
Article : 106 wordsTelegrams from Berlin report that the Empress Frederick of Germany, regarding whose illness considerable uneasiness has recently been felt, particularly since the death ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Jacobites of Great Britain, who annually commemorate the death of the "Martyr King," as they style Charles I., executed 30th January, 1649, by decorating ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor yesterday received the following, cablegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:-- Message of condolence from the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Tien Tsi[?] correspondent of the "London Standard" reports that a strong German force, preceded by a Japanese vanguard, has left Pekin for the province ...
Article : 63 wordsMajor-Genernl Charles Knox, who succeeded in getting into touch with General De Wet's commando 40 miles north of Thaba N'Chu, to the south-west of Winburg, ...
Article : 161 wordsSir,--Herewith, by direction of the Chinese Society (the See Yup), we enclose cheque for £5 5 for the Queen's Memorial Fund.--Yours, &c., ...
Article : 41 wordsSir,--At to-night's meeting of the Victorian Fish Protection Society and Anglers' Club, it was unanimously decided to donate 42 to the Queen Victoria Statue Fund. I ...
Article : 63 wordsWe have received the fo[?]owing advice from the manager of the Melbourne Telegraph Office:--Berne notifies that the Great Northern Company announces that it has ...
Article : 73 wordsTelegrams from the United States report that geat friction has arisen between Major-General M'Arthur, Commander in Chief of the American forces in the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Archbishop of Sydney, Primate of Australia, has received from the GovernorGeneral the following cable from the Secretary for the Colonics:-- ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsA scientific discovery which, in view of the ravages caused by enteric fever among British troops in the South African campaign, is arousing widespread interest is ...
Article : 245 wordsDespite the strong representations made from influential quarters to the Postal authorities with reference to the observance of to-day by the post offices throughout as ...
Article : 114 wordsLieutenant-General French, in command of a strong force of cavalry and mounted infantry, has recently been engaged in sweeping clear of Boer guerillas the whole of the ...
Article : 110 wordsThe War Office is pushing on as rapidly as possible with the work of strengthening the army. At Aldershot, where additions to the Royal Field Artillery are being made, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Grand United Order of Oddfellows, Melbourne, yesterday forwarded to Lord Hopetoun the following message:-- By direction of the committee of management ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. Croft, the manager of the Melbourne Telegraph Office, advises that the following are the hours during which telegraph offices will be open to-day in the other States:-- ...
Article : 121 wordsThe affectionate esteem in which the late Signor Giuseppe Verdi, the eminent[?] Italian composer, was held by his fellow countrymen, as well as by musicians throughout the ...
Article : 53 wordsA highly interesting statement is contained in a letter written by Lord Kitchenette Archbishop Sogaro. Lord Kitchener observed[?] in reference to the campaign ...
Article : 109 wordsIn keeping with the general observance of Saturday as a day of mourning, the proprietors of the London evening papers have decided not to publish on that day. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe cabmen within the licensing district of Ballarat have resolved to keep Saturday as a "holy day" on the occasion of the funeral of the Queen, and all will refrain ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. E. Burney Young, manager of the South Australian Government Wine Depot in London, reports that during the past year the quantity of wine sold at the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe following telegram was received tonight from Port Victoria, in Spencer's Gulf:-- Twenty-six shipwrecked sailors ...
Article : 189 wordsFrom Cowes, where the remains of Queen Victoria were yesterday embarked for transit to London and Windsor, to Portsmouth, the Royal yacht Alberta[?] ...
Article : 404 wordsAn agitation has been set on foot in Sheffield, the cutlery manufacturing centre of England, in favor of the imposition of duties upon German goods sent into Great Britain ...
Article : 64 wordsAmong the in memoriam floral tributes sent to Parliament House were some from the Federal Florists, South Yarra, as follow:--Scarlet shield, with white cross, from ...
Article : 73 wordsA "Government Gazette" was issued this morning, appointing to-morrow, Saturday, to be observed as a bank holiday throughout the State, and as a day of public ...
Article : 47 wordsGreat activity has been shown in complying with the request made by Lord Kitchener for an adequate supply of horses to enable him to fill the places of those ...
Article : 89 wordsIn almost all the departments of the public service Saturday will be observed as a Sunday, and by the public as a day of general mourning. In the Railway department ...
Article : 197 wordsA undenominational Citizens' memorial service has been arranged by the Mayor of Melbourne to in held in the Town Hall this evening, at ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. H. Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, has purchased for the New South Wales Government the yacht S[?]emara, the property of an American ...
Article : 46 wordsThe annual balance sheet of the National Mortgage Agency Company of New Zealand Limited shows that the disposable profits are £79,511, and the directors ...
Article : 54 wordsThe detailed Statement by an eye witness of the flogging and cold-blooded murder at Lindley, on 10th January, of Mr. Morgand[?]l, one of the envoys sent by the Orange ...
Article : 100 wordsAn attempt is being made by the resident magistrate and inspector of mines at Collie, at the request of the Government, to settle the coal miners' strike by intervening ...
Article : 184 wordsSir,--I have no doubt the, alas, too true letter of "Bank Clerk" which appeared in your columns to-day will read by a large section of the community with but only a ...
Article : 284 wordsTo-day's Queen's Memorial Service at St. Paul's Cathedral will be of a peculiarly solemn character, a special "office" therefor having received the approval of the Bishop. ...
Article : 144 wordsArrived.--Barbarossa, steamer, from Sydney 15th December. Sailed.--For Sydney: Baron Dalmeny, Sommerfeld, Fred. E. S[?]ammell, Clan ...
Article : 39 wordsAfter taking his seat on the bench in the Common Law Chambers to-day, Mr. Justice Cohen said that [?]e intended to follow the precedent established by Mr. ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the wool sales yesterday there was fair competition, and prices had a hardening tendency. The present series of sales will close on 9th inst. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe British authorities of Cape Colony continue to take prompt measures to deal with attempts at creating sedition among the Dutch Afrikanders. Field Cornet ...
Article : 63 wordsRepresentatives of Scots' Church and West Melbourne Presbyterian Church will hold a united burial service for the Queen in the Scots' Church, Collins-street, this ...
Article : 70 wordsAt 3 p.m. to-day, at Government House, his Excellency the Governor, in the presence of the Lieutenant-Governor, the [?]sters of the State, and a fair number of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 526 wordsAbout 45 inmates left the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum yesterday to draw the first instalment of their pensions, and only three of them returned to the institution. ...
Article : 574 wordsA remarkable display of anti-British feeling was made in the Austrian Reichsrath by a small section of the members upon the President making the formal ...
Article : 83 wordsTo-day is the day appointed for the funeral of her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and in sympathy with what is being done in other parts of the Empire there will, as far as ...
Article : 768 wordsReferring to the attitude of Sir George Turner towards the Cape cable agreement, Sir William Lyne states that Mr. Gurr and t Mr. Crick met, and resolved that the ...
Article : 79 wordsArrangements have been made in many of the Congregational Churches for local services. Others will unite in the general service which will be held in Collins-street at ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,--I am glad to read in your columns of to-day's issue a letter entitled "Bank Salaries," and hope the influence of your journal will be of some benefit to the ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Premier does not propose to have any public reading of the proclamation notifying the accession to the throne of King Edward VII. The accession was ...
Article : 193 wordsAn "in memoriam" service will be held in the town hall, Moonee Ponds, at 3 p.m. to day, at which a number of leading ministers will take part. In addition the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsThe-arrangements for the departure of the Contingents are rapidly approaching completion. The Minister of Defence hopes to be in a position to despatch the City[?] of ...
Article : 158 wordsSir,--Six months ago a meeting was convened for the purpose of forming an association for the abolition of the sweating under which clerks of all grades have been ...
Article : 175 wordsWe have received in response to the mayor of South Melbourne's appeal on behalf of Mrs. Grady, 47 Gladstone-place, Port Melbourne, which appeared on the 30th ult., whose husband died on ...
Article : 166 wordsIt has been a very busy day in camp, but the weather was unpropitious, heavy clouds of dust, raised by a strong south wind, blowing through the lines. Six ...
Article : 173 wordsSir,--May I ask you to allow me to state, for the sake of my business, that though of the same name and trade, I am not identical with the [?]George Keily, boot maker. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 2 Feb 1901, Page 9
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