We foresaw, when publishing. Mr. Coghlan's tables showing the relative "Cost of Living" in the several States of Australasia, that foreign traders would be terribly cut ...
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Article : 52 wordsOf the 7000 regular troops, consisting of cavalry and mounted infantry, which the Government will contribute from the home establishment to make up the total of the ...
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Article : 71 wordsIt is announced officially that H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and York will be created Prince of Wales only after his visit to Australia and Canada. ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Deakin the Federal Attorney-General, and Sir George Turner, Federal Treasurer, both returned to Melbourne on Saturday from Sydney, where they attended the ...
Article : 921 wordsGeneral De Wet who on 5th inst. made a descent upon Pompey's Siding, on the Bloemfontein railway, and damaged a transport train, was on Thursday last to the ...
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Article : 1,135 wordsThe whole of the 250 men to constitute the Victorian contribution to the Marquis of Tullibardine's Scottish Horse have not yet been chosen. Some 230 have, however, ...
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Article : 51 wordsIt is officially announced that his Majesty King Edward will, after Parliament has assembled, proceed to Germany in order to see his sister, the Empress Frederick, ...
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Article : 109 wordsThe sarcophagus at Frogmore, where the [?]ns of the late Queen Victoria have has deposited alongside those of the Prince Consort, has been resealed. A ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Chamberlain has cabled to the Premier of New Zealand, inquiring whether the colony intends sending a further contingent to South Africa. The Cabinet will ...
Article : 73 wordsThe British Government is issuing Exchequer bonds, bearing 3 per cent. interest, to the amount of £11,000,000. The bonds will be repayable in 1905, and will rank with ...
Article : 100 wordsThe enrolment of 2000 men for the Federal Contingent is still proceeding. The men in camp go out each day to the scrub covered sand hills near Randwick, and ...
Article : 55 wordsThe programme arranged for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of York prior to the death of her Majesty Queen Victoria was republished by a Melbourne ...
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Article : 92 wordsThe following members of the Australasian Bushmen's contingents are officially reported to have recovered from illness or from wounds:--Colonel E. Wallack, of ...
Article : 58 wordsA Japanese syndicate has undertaken the construction of a railway from Seoul, the capital of Corea, to Fusan, the port on the south-eastern coast, nearly 200 miles ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Karamea arrived from London via the Cape to-day, and brought invalided troops for the various colonies. Sergeant Challis and Private Searle, of New ...
Article : 118 wordsAnother instance of the ruthless determination which characterises the Boer commandants still remaining in the field comes from Standerton, in the Transvaal Colony. ...
Article : 105 wordsIn November last the Portuguese Government, which had previously withdrawn from Mr. G. Pott, consul at Lorenzo Marquez, his consular right for the late ...
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Article : 103 wordsThe action of the sub-committee of the Cabinet in arranging that the Duke and Duchess of York should only visit Melbourne, Ballarat and Bendigo has caused ...
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Article : 102 wordsTo-morrow another detachment of 50 men will embark on hoard the steamer Argus for South Africa with the remainder of the horses of the Fifth Contingent to the ...
Article : 189 wordsStrong protests have been made by French holders of Transvaal bonds to Dr. Leyds, Mr. Kruger's envoy in Europe, against the wanton destruction of Rand mines by the ...
Article : 42 wordsSince the last general elections Lord Rosebery, ex-Prime Minister, has been frequently pressed to resume the leadership of the Liberal party, a step with which the ...
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Article : 57 wordsFurther convincing proof has been afforded of the mendacity which is at the bottom of the charges of shameful ill-treatment of Boer women which was lately ...
Article : 138 wordsA sad drowning accident, which resulted in the death of William Farquhar, aged 13, son of James Farquhar, engineer, of Wood-street, East Brunswick, occurred in the Merri Creek, near Moreland. ...
Article : 184 wordsOfficial medical bulletins have been published, stating that her Majesty Queen Sophia, consort of King Oscar II. of Sweden and Norway, is seriously ill. ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the Wool auctions yesterday, the sale was brisk, but prices were unchanged. Australasian brands realised as follow:--Totara, 6¾d.; Berida, 7⅝d.; Marathon, 7⅞d. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Minister of Defence was astonished on Saturday at receiving the following telegram from Captain Cameron, of Cameron's Scouts, who went to South Africa with the ...
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Article : 51 wordsThe series of sales closed yesterday with a firm market. In all classes the average rates of the previous series were maintained. Fine-haired, shafty, scoured ...
Article : 136 wordsThe bush fire that swept through the Anakie district on Thursday, when the wood cutter William Northfield sustained fatal injuries, was of a very ...
Article : 440 wordsThomas Millane, aged 65, attempted to commit suicide at his house, No. 3 Cross-street south, Richmond, on Saturday morning. He had been ill, and sought relief from his pain with the knife, Left ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 11 Feb 1901, Page 5
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