When Mr. T. M. Sinclair, superintendent of Victorian exports in London, was brought out from England to confer with the Minister of Agriculture in regard to the future ...
Article : 443 wordsA special sitting of the Full Court was held yesterday, when two reserved judgements bearing on the rights of civil servants in regard to quarters were delivered. The ...
Article : 1,910 wordsMajor Wilson, with portion of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts, has bad a sharp engagement with Commandant Beyers in the Swager's Hook district, north-west of ...
Article : 176 wordsThe High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River colonies, who on arrival in England was immediately welcomed by the King and ...
Article : 321 wordsThe date of the issue of the writs for the elections to fill the six vacant seats in the Legislative Council has not yet been fixed. They will probably be issued next week by ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Duke and duchess of Cornwall and York made their entry into Sydney to-day amid a scene of grandeur, and met with a reception worthy of a Prince and Princess. ...
Article : 1,492 wordsWhen the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visit Adelaide in July the Government Intends to illuminate the public offices in King William-street ...
Article : 103 wordsEarly this morning Constable Hickey, of the South Wharf police station, brought to the Melbourne Hospital two sailors named Walford Anderell, 27, and R. Elstram, 23 ...
Article : 352 wordsLord Kitchener has reported to the War Office a very sharp engagement between a large number of Boers and the escort of a military convoy while on the way from ...
Article : 102 wordsThe public hall at Yarraville was well filled last night, when Mr. J. Ross, one of the candidates for Footscray, delivered an address. Mr. W. J. Toohey occupied the ...
Article : 618 wordsThe Interpretation put upon the Public Service Act by the Reclassification Board and the Solicitor-General is viewed with a great deal of apprehension by a section of ...
Article : 962 wordsThe Governor-General and the Countess of Hopetoun gave a dinner to-night at Government House, the guests being invited to meet H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and York ...
Article : 148 wordsRouter's special correspondent in the Transvaal, in describing the increasing surrenders and captures of Boers, which average over sixty daily in the Transvaal. states ...
Article : 117 wordsLord Milner responded in an eloquent, forceful and lucid speech, in which, after acknowledging the timely and indispensable support which the Imperial ...
Article : 293 wordsOf the 40 passengers for Adelaide on the Arcadia three men, four women and a child elected to pass their term of quarantine at Torrens Island rather than go on to ...
Article : 269 wordsA sanguinary defeat has been inflicted by 20 of the Cape Border Scouts on a commando of 100 Boors in the Kenhardt district, bordering on Bushman's Land, in the north-west of ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Illuminations in the evening were particularly fine, and despite the steady rain which fel the streets were crowded with sightseers. Pitt, Macquarie and George ...
Article : 529 wordsIt has transpired that last week there were, three cases of plague in Brisbane, two of which were fatal. The patients were J. W. West, 18, Spring Hill (dead); Geo. West ...
Article : 49 wordsThe president of the Central Board of Health this morning stated that rats recently captured in the infected area have been found to have the bubonic plague in ...
Article : 75 wordsCommandant Kruitzinger, the noted Cape rebel and guerilla leader, wholately recrossed the Orange River with 800 men and resumed raiding operations in the[?] ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Australasian Methodist Conference to-day adopted the report of the committee with reference to the order of [?] precedence at State functions, and passed a ...
Article : 235 wordsDr. Ashburton Thompson states that O[?]ffe's small-pox-case threatens to be a serious one, but all the others are doing well. The origin of the outbreak has not ...
Article : 37 wordsThe ill-concealed anxiety felt in Germany lest the Kaiser's Eastern policy should involve the Empire in a serious war is at length relieved. The Emperor's recall of the ...
Article : 100 wordsA meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr. T. Luxton was held, in the Hawthorn town hall last night. The chair was occupied by the mayor, Mr. F. W. M'Donald ...
Article : 100 wordsThe ethnological expedition under Professor Baldwin Spencer and Mr. Gillen, P.M., has left Barrow Creek. While here the party obtained ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the cast of the Orange River Colony General Sir L. Rundle, has captured the large and strongly built flour mill belonging to Commandant Theron, which is ...
Article : 47 wordsThe War Office reports Private J. Wells, of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, dangerously wounded in action at Mandesfontein, and Private Thomas Wentworth, of ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. J. H. Wheeler, who is a candidate fox the representation of the North Central province in the Legislative Council in the place of Sir W. Zeal, elected tot eh Federal ...
Article : 187 wordsIt appears that a party of German soldiers landed at Kai-ping, 74 miles north of Tien Tsln, on the Shan-hai-kwan railway line, shortly before the British troops there ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Governor-General yesterday forwarded to the Prime Minister a copy of the following telegraphic despatch received from South Africa:-- ...
Article : 115 wordsThe kanaka Wantee, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a Frenchman at Ayr, and whose execution was fixed for a fortnight ago, but for whom a temporary ...
Article : 117 wordsAt the Essendon council last evening, the mayor (Mr. G. J. Mauger) reported the result of the municipal conference held to discuss the necessity for increased police protection ...
Article : 84 wordsThe select committee of the House of Commons appointed by the Government to inquire thoroughly into and report upon the business methods of the War Office ...
Article : 56 wordsSeventy ratepayers of St. Kilda West petitioned the local council last night to use its influence to have the district provided with increased police protection, and also to afford better ...
Article : 265 wordsColonel Tom Price, at the conclusion of the fortnightly meeting of the Ballarat City Council, to-day presented tot eh mayor, on behalf of the corporation, a hoof of his ...
Article : 88 wordsAll the efforts of the Anti-Sweating League to bring about a conference between employers and employes in the milk trade in the hope of securing the betterment ...
Article : 374 wordsMr. P. Honan, who is a candidate for the vacancy in the Legislative Council occasioned by the resignation of Mr. P. Phillips, M.P. ...
Article : 247 wordsThe publication of "Novoe Vremya" (New Time), a leading St. Petersburg dully journal, has been suspended for a week by orders of the Russian Government. The cause of ...
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Article : 338 wordsA memorial brass erected by the past and present pupils of Hamilton College to the memory of the late Lieutenant Bree, who died from enteric fever in South Africa in ...
Article : 79 wordsThe process of "footing the bill" was entered upon by the Cabinet Celebrations Committee last evening. Several important accounts were passed, but all the bills have ...
Article : 135 wordsKing Edward has sent a message to the families of the miners who perished in the Caerphilly colliery explosion, near Cardiff, in Wales, expressing his deep sympathy with ...
Article : 72 wordsA movement is on foot in South Melbourne to erect a memorial to perpetuate the memory of the late Corporal Chas. Moore, who died on 12th inst. from wounds received in action. A meeting ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the meeting of the Brunswick council on Monday evening, the mayor (Cr. J. W. Fleming) presiding, correspondence was read from the ratepayers' committee, and also from the Tramway ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Russian loan of £16,500,000 floated in Paris by French bankers and secured by an issue of Russian 4 per cent rentes (Government stock) has been subscribed many ...
Article : 44 wordsSir,--As the public are doubtless aware, there has been a good deal of contention and complication in respect to the above seat--so far as the Labor vote is concerned ...
Article : 196 wordsThe manager of the Caerphilly colliery, near Cardiff, where 70 miners were on Friday entombed in an explosion of fire damp, which choked the exits, states that it is now ...
Article : 107 wordsThe total proceeds of the Flemington military review on Friday, 10th May, amounted to about £2621, of which £634 was received from sale of ordinary admission tickets. £117 ...
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Advertising : 207 wordsReceived by Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Limited:--London, 24th May.--The frozen meat market is dull, with very little doing, and any change in prices is in favor of buyers. ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsThe executive of the Citizens' Commonwealth Celebrations Committee have pointed Mr. N. Barnett, hon, secretary, and Mr. R. G. Wilson, hon treasurer of the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 28 May 1901, Page 5
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