An official announcement has been made which contradicts the Portsmouth report that the Ophir, conveying their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of ...
Article : 95 wordsAn interesting gathering tool place at the Grand Hotel yesterday, when the Mayor (Cr. S. Gillott) entertained the Prime Minister (Mr. Barton) at ...
Article : 1,038 wordsMr. Barton, Prime Minister of Australia, addressed a crowded assemblage in the Melbourne Town Hall last night. The hall was densely thronged some time before the ...
Article : 7,541 wordsThe issue of Exchequer bonds, bearing 3 per cent, interest, to the amount of £11,000,000, for war purposes, was to-day more than twice subscribed. The ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is announced that King Edward and Queen Alexandra will next month proceed to Germany, and after paying a visit to the Empress Frederick, sister of King Edward, ...
Article : 66 wordsTrouble has arisen in the ranks of the Federal Contingent over the question of pay. The men have been led to believe that they would receive 5 per day ...
Article : 514 wordsLieutenant-General French, who is operating vigorously against the forces which Commandant General Louis Botha has gathered together in the Eastern Transvaal. ...
Article : 168 wordsNo information whatever is obtainable with respect to the speech with which King Edward will open Parliament in full state. The strictest secrecy is maintained ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. John Barker (Liberal), member for Maidstone, was unseated yesterday on the petition of Mr. F. S.W. Cornwallis, the Conservative candidate. The seat has ...
Article : 99 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General has received a cable message from London to the effect that the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York will arrive in Melbourne on ...
Article : 223 wordsRecently it has been discovered that extensive thefts of military stores are being perpetrated in Natal, and investigations have resulted in the arrest of six railway ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Dutch Afrikanders of Cape Colony now appear to be seriously alarmed as to the consequences likely to result to themselves from the Boer guerilla warfare, and ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Canadian Empire League has passed resolutions recommending the formation of an Imperial Consultative Council, to arrange for the early organisation of the defensive ...
Article : 63 wordsTo-day the Fifth Victorian Contingent together with 250 men of the Marquis of Tullibardine's Horse, leave in the Orient for South Africa. All the arrangements have ...
Article : 226 wordsIn the Belgian Chamber of Deputies yesterday a resolution was passed demanding the suppression of all the gambling houses in the country, including the well-known ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor, yesterday received the following telegram from the Governor-General:--"At present instructed there is no ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Ministry of Signor Saracco having resigned in consequence of the hostility of the Italian Chamber of Deputies to its general policy, the task of forming a new Cabinet ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Peacock) yesterday received the following cablegram from the Agent-General in reply to the cable forwarded by the Cabinet on Wednesday night ...
Article : 147 wordsNo more trouble is now being experienced in Cape Colony by the British authorities in securing horses for remounts or reserves, the whole colony, except the ...
Article : 103 wordsLord Curzon, Viceroy of India, with the view of minimising future tribal disturbances and strengthening the north west frontier of India, has created a new ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Tramway Company notifies that on account of the march through the city today, cars whose routes include either Bourke, Collins, Elizabeth or Sivanston ...
Article : 149 wordsAn extraordinary murder has been tried before a military court at Metz, the great military fortress on the Franco-German frontier. ...
Article : 164 wordsThe committee of electricians appointed by the Government to make recommendations in regard, to the illuminations of the city on the occasion of the visit of the Duke ...
Article : 148 wordsAmong the colonial officers specially mentioned for distinguished behavior by Lord Roberts in his South African despatches, now published by the War Office, are the ...
Article : 139 wordsThe first thousand men of the Federal Contingent will leave Sydney during the first week in March. ...
Article : 25 wordsPekin telegrams report that Li-Hung-Chang has assured the Ministers of the Powers that the Emperor Kwang-su himself is wholly and solely directing the affairs ...
Article : 48 wordsUntil the committee of the Cabinet appointed to arrange the programme of festivities in connection with the Royal visit Shall have adopted a scheme for the ...
Article : 189 wordsThe disturbances in Spain, caused by popular antipathy to alleged Jesuit influence at the Court of the Queen Regent Christine, and to the approaching marriage ...
Article : 107 wordsGreat popular readiness has been shown in London in response to the call for men for General Baden-Powell's Transvaal Mounted Police. Over 30,000 applicants ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Admiralty has notified its intention of accepting Australian wines as suitable for the purposes of christening war vessels, in which ceremony a bottle of champagne ...
Article : 137 wordsOn the Delagoa Bay railway, near Belfast, a Boer railway raiding party succeeded in stopping two unarmed passenger trains. Having robbed the passengers of all they ...
Article : 68 wordsColonel Piequart, of the French Army Staff, whose unfaltering straightforwardness and honesty led ultimately to the disclosure of the perjuries and forgeries ...
Article : 140 wordsThe mayor of Richmond (Cr. Willis) made a proposal at the last faceting of council that the 24 municipal arches should be erected on the line of route to be ...
Article : 105 wordsMembers of the Council of the Melbourne University in view of the fact that the Ormond Professor of Music, Mr. Peterson, will arrive in a short time, and that the ...
Article : 245 wordsSince his recent defeat near Ermelo and Bothwell, near Piet Retief, Commandant General Louis Botha has been making south eastwards on the Pongola River, on ...
Article : 78 wordsAt Capetown yesterday a deputation, representing a congress of the municipalities of Cape Colony, held in view of the bubonic plague outbreak and of the prevalence of ...
Article : 96 wordsA Cabinet committee, consisting of the Chief Secretary (Mr. J. G. Jenkins), the Attorney-General (Mr. J. H. Gordon), and the Commissioner of Public Works (Mr. R. ...
Article : 132 wordsA terrific explosion occurred this morning at the Chilworth gunpowder works at Guildford, in Surrey. Fortunately, the factory was not working at the time, or the ...
Article : 58 wordsWith respect, to the Boer design to make a last stand in the rocky fastnesses and caves of Swaziland, the Queen of that native State, which made the strongest ...
Article : 68 wordsIt now transpires that the bubonic plague has for some time past been raging virulently among the nomadic Tartars of the Kirghiz Steppes, and in Western Siberia, ...
Article : 107 wordsIn the Court of Queen's Bench to-day Mr. Justice Mathew granted an order directing the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants to pay out of the funds of the union ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 15 Feb 1901, Page 5
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