The House will meet at 10.30 a.m. to-day, and at the same hour to-morrow find on Saturday. It will adjourn over the Christmas and New Year holidays at 1 p.m. on ...
Article : 1,496 wordsIn the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. M'Donald (Q.) asked the Prime Minister whether it was the intention of the ...
Article : 129 wordsAstonishment, not unmixed with ill-humor, was shown in the Legislative Assembly yesterday when the Premier moved that private members' rights should be ...
Article : 1,067 wordsThe date on which the coronation of King Edward in West minster Abbey will take place is now announced. the ceremony will be performed on 26th June, 1902. ...
Article : 47 wordsA forcible Illustration of the manner in which the Boer forces are carrying on warfare has been given by General Christian de Wet, who, at the head of a force of from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 294 wordsThat the House of Representatives fell in to a serious error in reducing the duty oil woollens to 15 per cent, is now generally admitted, and it is expected that the item will ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. Roosevelt, President of the United States, has distinctly and emphatically in formed the leaders of the Irish and German pro-Boer parties in America that he has not ...
Article : 49 wordsSir H. Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Liberals in the House of Commons, is conti[?]ing his campaign of thinly disguised pro-Boerlsm in Scotland. Addressing a meeting ...
Article : 168 wordsA despatch received by the War Office reports a sharp engagement on the 6th last., near Wakkerstroom, in the South-eastern Transvaal, on the head water of the ...
Article : 185 wordsIn the preternaturally heated atmosphere of the Senate Chamber and in the presence of some twenty listless and manifestly tired senators, the Postmaster-General undertook ...
Article : 800 wordsLater in the evening the Prime Minister made a statement, in response to an Inquiry by a representative 'of "The Age." "The polley," he said, "of the Federal ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Prime Minister yesterday received the following telegram from Mr. Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand:--Telegram in press here to the effect that the ...
Article : 120 wordsMajor-General Creagh, commanding the British troops in North China, has held an inquiry into the recent sensational collision at Tlen Tslu between men of the Punjaub ...
Article : 160 wordsAppended is a copy of a letter forwarded to Mr. Kingston, Minister for Trade and Customs, from the Protectionist Association of Victoria, with a view to encouraging the ...
Article : 203 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Vale asked whether it was true that the Government bad taken steps with a view of offering the Imperial Government the ...
Article : 176 wordsJoint application was recently made by the Agents General, for Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, with a view, if possible, of securing clasps for members of the ...
Article : 454 wordsMr. Philip, the State Premier, says he is becoming alarmed at the manner in which the Federal tariff is being altered. As it originally stood it was not a bad tariff, but ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the request of leading representative players of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, who wish, the next Australian visit to England to be made under the ...
Article : 216 wordsThe arbitrary methods adopted in Eastern Prussia for Germanising the Polish population was yesterday the subject of an interpollution in the Reichstag. ...
Article : 126 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr. D. Ham drew attention to the letter of Mr. Wm. M' Culloch which had appeared in "The Age", suggesting that Australia should send ...
Article : 137 wordsThe sealing of ships' stores at Sydney has again been resorted to. To-day the customs officers, acting under instructions from Melbourne, were busily engaged in sealing down ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,--I would thank you if through your columns you would allow me to point out where some of the statements made by Mr. James in his letter to your journal, and ...
Article : 1,054 wordsA despatch from Lord Kitchener to the War Office states that the sourth-eastern parts of the Orange River Colony have now been cleared of Boer guerillas, and that the ...
Article : 282 wordsFurther details, in regard to the wild speculation in copper in America show that shares in the Amalgamated Copper Company, a mammoth trust intended to ...
Article : 153 wordsThe State Premier, Mr. Philip, approves of the proposal to send more Australia troops to South Africa, and says that, Mr. Barton should have made such an offer long ago. ...
Article : 40 wordsVery keen interest is being manlfested in the first test match between MacLaren's English team and Australia, and the local authorites expect an attendance equal to ...
Article : 507 wordsIt was announced in "The Age" about the middle of last month that the extraordinary delay that had taken place in paying some £2500 due to members of the Fourth ...
Article : 144 wordsThe new Canadian contingent of 900 mounted men for South Africa is being enrolled in proportionate numbers in the several provinces. At Montreal such ...
Article : 60 wordsAnother case of plague, this time a fatal one, has been reported by the Board of Health, the victim being a man named Ernest Derrington, lately residing with ...
Article : 286 wordsAnother step has been taken in furtherance of the American scheme of constructing a ship canal from San Juan de Nicaragua, on the Caribbean Sea, to the Pacific ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Government has just received £126,000 from the War Office, being the amount due to date on the contingents sent to South Africa from Queensland, which the local ...
Article : 42 wordsSome few months ago a letter was sent to "The Age" by the Rev. Edward Isaac from a Boer girl, telling how carefully and lovingly she tended the last days of a dying ...
Article : 344 wordsMr. C. A. Topp, who noted an Chief Returning Officer in connection with the Federal elections, has forwarded a report on the election to the Victorian Premier. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsThe United States Senate has referred to its Foreign Relations Committee for report the proposal of Senator Hoare for the international establishment of an Island devoted ...
Article : 85 wordsCable, telegrams report" that the guerilla Commandant Marals, whose raiders were lately driven to the north of Plquetsberg, have attempted to raid the township of ...
Article : 61 wordsIn view of the reported recurrence of bubonic plague in Sydney, the Board of Health yesterday determined to suggest to the city corporation that the payments formerly ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the annual speech day of St. Francis Xavier's College, Kew, yesterday, Archbishop Carr, referred at some length to the proposed Federal Divorce Bill. He said:-- ...
Article : 465 wordsAt yesterday's sales prices were firm, with a general hardening tendency. The following prices were realised for Australasian brands:--Clifton, 15ld.: ...
Article : 59 wordsA curious commentary on the "inhumanity" of the British military authorities in bringing into concentration camps--where they are fed, clothed, doctored and even ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 334 wordsAs the result of the receipt of a letter from the Public Health department, suggesting that steps be taken [?]y municipalities to encourage the destruction of rats, it ...
Article : 54 wordsThe provisions of the Industrial, Arbitra[?] Act in regard to registration were ex[?]tion to about 40 members of the Cham[?]plain[?] Commerce by Mr. Addison, who has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 310 wordsDetectives Dungey and Wilson and Plain Clothes Constable Taylor are busily engaged in prosecuting investigations with a view to elueldating the mystery concerning the ...
Article : 338 wordsThere is another case of plague at Brisbane, the patient being a young man living at Lutwyche. ...
Article : 31 wordsA unique case was heard at the Jerliderie police court, before the police magistrate, yesterday, when the municipal council proceeded against Mr. W. Curtin on a charge of ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Earl of Onslow, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in a speech delivered last night at Crewe, in Cheshire, announced that the management of the concentration camps in ...
Article : 90 wordsBEECHWORTH.--At a land sale held by Messrs. Stredwick and Co. a grass paddock of 53 acres, within two miles of the town, sold for £5 176 per acre. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe World's Fair art union is to be drawn in public at the Atheneum Hall, Collins-street, to-morrow evening. The method adopted will be that usually followed, and the result of the drawing ...
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