The House of Representatives will meet to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. Upon the assembling of the House of Representatives it is not improbable that attention will be directed to ...
Article : 272 wordsLord Kitchener reports to the War Office that on the night of 26th June a strong party of Boers made an attack on the two "block" houses, lately erected in bullet proof ...
Article : 155 wordsThe financial year 1900-1901 was brought to a close on Saturday. That the State of Victoria is under the influence of a splendid increase of prosperity is clearly shown ...
Article : 1,108 wordsThe Parliamentary committee appointed to inquire into the objections urged by Catholic peers and laymen against the terms of the King's Accession oath, which was ...
Article : 115 wordsThough there appears to be an element of uncertainty regarding the capability of the white man to work in the sugar plantations of Queensland, where the conditions, from a ...
Article : 802 wordsThe Shanghai correspondent of the "Times" states that refugees from Manchuria who have reached Che-foo, the treaty port on the north side of the Shan-tong ...
Article : 104 wordsThis Industry, which employs 295 males and 326 females, or a total of 629 operatives, came under the operation of the act on 27th May last. ...
Article : 673 wordsIn connection with the Wilmansrust disaster, which resulted in the death of the first Brunswicker to fall in South Africa-- Private S. J. Barnard--a commemoration ...
Article : 182 wordsFollowing upon the arrest of Herr Exner, manager of the Leipziger Bank, in Saxony, which a few days ago stopped payment, Herr Gentzsch, the second managing ...
Article : 109 wordsIn connection with the announcement that the committee of experts appointed to make inquiries with respect to the new docks and fortifications in course of construction at ...
Article : 192 wordsNotwithstanding the severe means adopted by Commandant Beyer to prevent the Boer farmers north-west of Pletersburg surrendering to the British, Field Cornet Depriez ...
Article : 48 wordsMajor V. H. Edwards, who went with the Fifth Contingent as an attached officer on special service, was taken III with enteric fever at Kroonstad soon after his arrival, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Public Service Bill will be further considered in committee to-morrow, and attention will first be given to the postponed clauses relating to life assurance. These ...
Article : 618 wordsIt is officially stated that in the fight on Tuesday last at Richmond, about 50 miles south-east of De Aar, when Malan and 400 men were gallantly repelled by the town ...
Article : 95 wordsThe amendments made by the French Senate in the Religious Associations Bill, which is designed to restrict the operations of religious houses or organisations in ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Governor has received a cable from Capetown stating that Sergeant Smith, Corporal Well and Troopers Glen, Munt, M'Guire and Shepherd were wounded at ...
Article : 50 wordsFollowing upon the announcement that Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the American multimillionaire, has endowed the medical school of Harvard University, in Massachusetts, to ...
Article : 87 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday a debate took place on the Government army re-organisation scheme, in the course of which the existence of official doubt and anxiety ...
Article : 137 wordsThe columns under Colonel W. P. Campbell, of the Third King's Rifle Corps, and Colonel G. E. Harley; Assistant Adjutant- General, which have been operating in the ...
Article : 80 wordsNORTH MELBOURNE.--A smoke night was held in the North Melbourne orderly room last evening to welcome home Captain Hill, Corporals Whelan and Lacey, and Private Hillman, members ...
Article : 372 wordsSir W. Lyne hopes to conduct the members of both Houses of the Federal Parliament on a tour of inspection of the proposed sites for the Federal capital either in ...
Article : 394 wordsA painful sensation has been created throughout the kingdom by the news of a dastardly attempt which was made to wreck the up and down Scottish expresses at ...
Article : 113 wordsA remarkable instance of the density of ignorance prevailing amongst the Boers, whose lenders have systematically and outrageously lied to them with respect to the ...
Article : 196 wordsHis Majesty King Edward VII. has instituted a new decoration for meritorious services, to be known as the Distinguished Service Cross, which will be given in the cases ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Admiralty has undertaken a series of experiments, which are being carried out with satisfactory results at Portsmouth, with submarine torpedo boat destroyers. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe young Duke of Manchester, whoso estate, before he came of age in 1898, was placed in the hands of trustees for the benefit of his creditors, and who on 14th ...
Article : 169 wordsMany of the English shareholders in the Loddon Valley Gold Fields Company, Victoria, floated last November in London, are agitating for the return of the money which ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. Robertson is also a member of the[?] wages board for the Jam trade. There are 444 males and 166 females employed in this industry. He had no objection whatever to ...
Article : 124 wordsAt the invitation of the president (Mr. Sloss) and members of the Healesville shire council, the Prime Minister visited Heales- ville on Saturday, to be present at the ...
Article : 410 wordsIn connection with the complaints made with regard to the inferior quality of the remounts for South Africa purchased in Hungary by the British Government, a ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury and leader of the House of Commons, has replied to the memorial, signed by 66 Unionist members of Parliament, requesting ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Duke of York, in a farewell letter to the people of the colony, expresses his appreciation of the generous hospitality shown him, and the exertions of the Government ...
Article : 123 wordsThere are only 60 employes in this trade, but the board's determinations have caused a considerable amount of dissatisfaction, especially among those connected with the ...
Article : 1,035 wordsIt is fully anticipated that before long the Federal Government, in conjunction with the States, will be called upon to deal with the question of establishing a uniform ...
Article : 236 wordsMr. R. P. Hardy, the eminent English actuary, and the author of "Hardy's Valuation Tables," has been engaged by the Citizens' Life Assurance Company of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe first half year of the history of the Commonwealth is completed. A half-yearly recognition of an important event is custom [?]ily regarded as unimportant, and a ...
Article : 357 wordsGeneral Sir F. Carrington, who, in January last returned to England from South Africa, where he commanded the Rhodesia field force, which was composed of ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday, prices being unchanged as compared from those which ruled at the opening of the series on 25th inst. Of the 8705 bales ...
Article : 56 wordsThe financial year terminated yesterday, and the revenue returns disclose a healthy state of affairs. The total received was £10,794,233 net, the aggregate increase, as ...
Article : 182 wordsLast week it was announced that the Chamber of Mines had decided not to contribute towards the cost of the gold fields arch to bo erected in Perth in connection with the ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Australian bowlers yesterday played the twelfth match of their tour at Edinburgh, Where they defeated the Braid club by six points, the scores being Australia 89, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 381 wordsThe War Office reports the death from an accident of Private P. J. M'Namara, of the third New South Wales contingent, at Holfontein; and of Private James Fanton, of ...
Article : 75 wordsAnother matter which will be dealt with almost immediately is the establishment of a Federal Statist's office. In carrying out this work the Commonwealth will not take ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 224 wordsThe well-known Aberdeen liner Damascus, with fifteen returning soldiers for Melbourne, fifteen for Sydney, two for Albany, and five for Now Zealand, was due in ...
Article : 291 wordsThe revenue returns for the financial year ended 30th June show a total revenue of £2,818,711, as against £2,869,377 estimated. The customs and other taxation produced ...
Article : 88 wordsThe following report from Cape Otway was received yesterday afternoon by Mr. W. Croft, manager of the electric telegraph branch of the General Post Office:--" At ...
Article : 77 wordsSome time ago lists of the duties appertaining to each Ministerial office were published in these columns. Sir W. Lyne, as secretary for Home Affairs, finds that his ...
Article : 587 wordsThe customs collections at Brisbane for the year show a decrease of £30,920, as compared with last year. ...
Article : 22 wordsSerious results, involving loss of life, have attended a strike of harvesters at Ferrara, Piedmont, for higher wages. Some hundreds of Piedmo[?]tese peasants filled the places of ...
Article : 74 wordsJohn Forman, a waiter, aged 40, residing at No. 1 Napier-place, off Punt-road, Richmond, was yesterday evening admitted to the Melbourne Hospital on an order from Dr. Bird, suffering from a ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Manly ferry steamer Manly had a sensational experience to-night on the run from Manly. She was passing the heads in a heavy sea, when the engines broke down. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 1 Jul 1901, Page 5
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