In the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, the State Premier (Mr. Peacock) rose, amidst cheers, to move the second reading of the bill to amend the constitution ...
Article : 3,532 wordsIn the House of Commons last night a motion, proposed by Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, that the whole of the remaining time of the present session be ...
Article : 175 wordsThe boot trade in these States appears to be one of those industries, like the manufacture of clothing and underclothing, which is specially subject to the sweating evil. It ...
Article : 729 wordsEx-President Kruger has received from his son-in-law, Mr. Eloff, a cablegram despatched from Pretoria, informing him that Mrs. Kruger, who died of pneumonia, had a ...
Article : 63 wordsThe electors of Melbourne were called upon yesterday to select a candidate to represent the constituency in the State Assembly in place of Mr. E. Findicy, who was ...
Article : 739 wordsThe War Office reports Lance-Corporal F. Rudale and Private Carzwell, of the Fifth Victorian Contingent, slightly wounded in action near Middelburg, in the Transvaal. ...
Article : 29 wordsUnless Mr. Barton and Sir J. Forrest receive a distinct indication on the subject from Imperial quarters, it is not at all improbable that another contingent of troops ...
Article : 145 wordsThe "Morning Post" reports that Mr. Kruger's grief for the death of his wife is inconsolable, and that he is quite unable to transact official business. Meantime, Mr. ...
Article : 144 wordsIn consequence of having received news that the Britannic is likely to proceed direct from Adelaide to Hobart and New Zealand, Captain Collins, Secretary for Defence, ...
Article : 129 wordsH.B.H. the Duke of Cambridge yesterday opened, on behalf of King Edward, who was unable to be present, the international congress convened to consider the problem ...
Article : 170 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Viscount Cranbourne, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, made a statement with respect to the Chinese war indemnity, ...
Article : 167 wordsMajor-General Featherstonehaugh's column, which, in conjunction with Lord Methuen's force, has been clearing the country in the Western Transvaal, southward from ...
Article : 152 wordsOn board the s. Morayshire on 24th May representations of the units of the various States former a committee, Surgeon-Captain Griffiths and Farrier-Sergeant Speirs ...
Article : 391 wordsThe judicial committee of the House of Lords yesterday gave its decision in the appeal case of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants against Mr. Justice ...
Article : 158 wordsThe clearing columns under Colonels Campbell and Harvey have marched from the Wilze River, in the north-east of the Orange River Colony, to Standerton, in the ...
Article : 77 wordsAt Perth Government House yesterday the Duke of York invested Rear-Admiral Beaumont as a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. Sir L. Beaumont ...
Article : 962 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria has received from Lieutenant-General Gaselee, the officer commanding the British contingent of the China Field Force, a copy of the ...
Article : 322 wordsIn the recent surprise attack on Commandant Collier's laager near Honing Spruit, in the Orange River Colony, north of Kroonstad, Major Pine Coffin's column of mounted ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary for War, has requested the Rev. Dr. J. C. Edghill, D.D., chaplain-general the force's, who is 66 years of age, and has been in the ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. A. O'Keefe addressed a large gathering of electors in the Agricultural Hall on Saturday evening; Mr. F. K. Shaw presided. The candidate, who has resided in this ...
Article : 166 wordsA patrol of South African constabulary, seventeen in number (Baden-Powell's Mounted Police) has been surrounded and captured by a Boer commando near ...
Article : 45 wordsA letter has been received from Trooper Bott, a member of the Sixth Victorian Contingent, in which he states that they have had some very hard marching. In referring ...
Article : 114 wordsThe discrepancy between the returns of the output of the factories of New South Wales and Victoria, as given respectively by the statisticians of each State, has been the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsThe R.M.S. Ormuz, which left Sydney 8th June, and was refused p[?]ratique at Gibraltar on the ground that two of the crew were suffering from bubonic plague, has arrived ...
Article : 60 wordsThe conference of judicial representatives of the colonics and the mother country, convened to consider and report upon the scheme for establishing a new court of ...
Article : 145 wordsThe troopship Orient sailed to-day for Capetown. About twenty men, chiefly returned soldiers from South Africa or China, desirous of seeing active service once more, ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the police court to-day, Mr. .A. J. Smith, a candidate at the recent Parliamentary election for Daudenong and Berwick, was proceeded against by Messrs. Swords ...
Article : 91 wordsThe great strike of employes of the American Steel Trust manufactories, for the exclusive adoption of union labor, is having an appreciable effect on the iron industry ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Premier has not yet received a reply from the War Office to his inquiries as to the proposal to send more men from Queensland to South Africa. In reference to the ...
Article : 124 wordsLord Kitchener, as Commander in Chief in, and Acting High Commissioner of, South Africa, has commuted the sentences of death passed by court-martial at Graaf ...
Article : 168 wordsSir,--I am sorry to note that the appeal so justly made by Mr. Fitz Gibbon on Mr. Walt's behalf has not been liberally responded to. Where are those who raised the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe suggestion made in Australia that the Imperial Government should take possession of Kerguelen Land, or Desolation Island, which lies mid way between Australia and ...
Article : 126 wordsAn accident happened on the cruiser Hyacinth (fitted with Belleville tube boilers) during her race with the Minerva (fitted with Scotch cylindrical boilers) from ...
Article : 172 wordsAmong the troops arriving by the Britannic from South Africa are six drill instructors for the Queensland defence force. ...
Article : 27 wordsALLENDALE.--The welcome home accorded to Trooper R. J. Wingate by the Allendale fire brigade, the rifle club and the citizens was most enthusiastic. Accompanied by his parents and ...
Article : 987 wordsAn early opportunity is to be afforded members of the new Parliament of announcing their intentions as regards parties. A meeting of the Opposition was held this ...
Article : 167 wordsIn Cape Colony, General French, who has been placed in command of the operations against the guerilla invaders in the Midland and North-eastern districts, is steadily ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Kaiser Wilhelm ship canal, connecting the Baltic with the North Sea, which was completed and opened with great ceremony by the Emperor William in 1805, is ...
Article : 63 wordsAt yesterday's sales the market was firm at the recent rates. The following prices were realised for Australasian brands:--Mag, 7[?]d.; Colino, 9d.; Walla Walla, 9[?]d.; ...
Article : 85 wordsLord Kitchener reports to the War Office that since 15th inst, the following casualties and captures have been reported by column leaders:--Boers killed, 43; wounded and left ...
Article : 69 wordsAn adventurous marine feat has been accomplished by Captain Blackburn, an American merchant seaman, who, embarking alone in a little boat at Gloucester, in the State ...
Article : 60 wordsWith reference to the doubts expressed in cable messages which have been published from Australia as to whether any further contingents of Australian troops ure ...
Article : 103 wordsBeet Sugar.--Debt's monthly "Beet Sugar Circular" states that the production of beet sugar for the season shows an increase of 375,000 tons, and estimates that the ...
Article : 95 wordsSir,--This morning's cable tells us that free-trade Britain objects to China increasing her customs duties to pay the war indemnity, because, as the bulk of her trade ...
Article : 97 wordsNews has been received from Suez that the Auchor liner Numidia, owned by Henderson Bros., Glasgow, has run ashore on Brother's Island, in the Red Sea, off Kosseir, ...
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Advertising : 94 wordsArrived.--Tokomaru, steamer, from Wellington, 26th June; Indraghiri, steamer, from Lytteiton, 28th May: Croisset, barque, from Port Pirie, 29th March; Nestor, ...
Article : 63 wordsI.G.M.S. Darmstadt arrived Colombo from Australia 21st. I.G.M.S. Karlsruhe arrived Southampton from Australia 22nd. ...
Article : 18 wordsIn the course of his evidence before the royal commission, a leading boot manufacturer in Sydney stated that the average rate of pay in one of the great factories in ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 24 Jul 1901, Page 5
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