The request for the enrolment of a second Federal Contingent for South Africa was yesterday granted by the House as a matter of course. A few minutes before ...
Article : 1,468 wordsColonel R. G. Kekewich, whose column has recently been operating in the Western Transvaal, has surprised Commandant Klassen's laager near Paardeberg, capturing ...
Article : 34 wordsThe heavy storm which broke over Adelaide on Tuesday afternoon and stopped play in the third test match between England and Australia also interrupted ...
Article : 636 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery, the last Liberal Premier of England, who resigned the leadership of the Liberal party several years ago, and has since declined repeated ...
Article : 86 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General was somewhat indisposed yesterday after his return from Western Australia, with rather a high temperature towards the evening, ...
Article : 1,281 wordsUpon the House of Commons assembling yesterday the amendment on the motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply to the King's speech, notice of which had been ...
Article : 685 wordsThe organisation of the First Commonwealth Contingent has almost been completed. Only some 45 men have yet to be enrolled to be complete the establishment of ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. John Cooke reports that the steamer City of Lincolm, which left Adelaide towards the end of December with a cargo of 700 horses, arrived safely at Durban on the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe son of a well-known Melbourne resident, who is serving with the Fifth Contingent in South Africa, writing home from Brereton under date 1st December, pays the ...
Article : 135 wordsCommandant Wessels, who after the capture of Kruitzinger assumed the command of the kilter's guerilla force, has surprised a British patrol of 50 men belonging to the ...
Article : 63 wordsCaptain Perceval will command the Tasmanian portion of the contingent, with H. H. Riggall, brother of Captain Riggall, and W. K. Barwise as lieutenants. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is understood that a contract for the supply of meat for the troops in South Africa has been given by the War Office to a syndicate whose members include Messrs. ...
Article : 192 wordsThe despatch of another 1000 men to South Africa meets with general approval. The newspapers express the opinion that the Government is doing the right thing. ...
Article : 34 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies last evening, said in reply to a question that it was impossible for France ...
Article : 53 wordsWhen the House of Representatives met yesterday afternoon, the Prime Minister said he had a statement to make to the House. Hon. members would recollect ...
Article : 467 wordsDespite a drenching downpour, the residents of Box Hill turned out in hundreds yesterday afternoon to witness the unveiling by the Premier of Victoria, Mr. ...
Article : 1,032 wordsGeneral Louis Botha, who was recently closely pressed in the pursuit by Major-General Bruce Hamilton near Knapdaar, in the Ermelo district of the Transvaal, is now ...
Article : 132 wordsA severe naval engagement between the Colombian revolutionaries and the Government has taken place in Panama Bay, on the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama. ...
Article : 142 wordsThere are increasing indications that the Boers still in the field realise the hopelessness of continuing the guerilla struggle. According to statements made by a body of ...
Article : 83 wordsA Boer prisoner named Wolmarans has made some pointed comments with regard to the Boer officials and delegates on the Continent. He expresses boundless ...
Article : 118 wordsA shocking fatality has occurred at the Smithfield flax mill, Belfast. Owing to some cause at present unexplained, the building suddenly collapsed, and thirteen ...
Article : 42 wordsThe storm which unfortunately brought to an abrupt termination the afternoon play in the third test cricket match in Adelaide yesterday, the players being enveloped in ...
Article : 166 wordsA prosecution under the law passed in Italy recently, forbidding the sale for exportation of great works of art without special sanction by the Government in each ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Minister of Defence will to-day apply himself to the work of the preliminary organisation of the Second Commonwealth Contingent. Sir John Forrest will issue ...
Article : 137 wordsFollowing upon the recent discovery that the chief Boer depot in the north-east of the Transvaal colony, which is in almost inaccessible country, contains 60,000 small ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Kruger, ex-President of the Transvaal, has given another proof of his immovable obstinacy in regard to the terms of peace which the Boers vainly hope to ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. John Dillon, Nationalist member for Mayo East, moved an amendment on Mr. Cawley's amendment, denouncing "the systematic devastation and barbarism in the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe authorities at Minneapolis, in Minnesota, United States of America, have taken prompt and remarkably energetic measures to prevent the spread of small pox in the ...
Article : 92 wordsIn military quarters the announcement of another contingent has caused great satisfaction. No instructions have yet been issued to ...
Article : 206 wordsDr. Tidswell, acting president of the hoard of health, reported to the Premier that another suspicious case of illness was discovered to-day at Ruschcutter's Bay. ...
Article : 87 wordsSix thousand tried and well seasoned troops now serving in India are under orders to start for South Africa, where they will exchange places with young soldiers ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Admiralty has invited tenders for the construction of ten torpedo boat destroyers. The specifications state that the vessels must be provided with heavier ...
Article : 481 wordsBeet Sugar.--Mr. F. O. Licht, in his monthly circular of the beet sugar trade, reports that the production for the season up to date shows an increase of 481,000 tons, ...
Article : 53 wordsAnother case was reported a few doors from the cottages occupied by the persons already reported upon. Ruby Vipond, a child 10 years of age, who fell ill on 19th ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Williamstown Police Court was thronged yesterday by a crowd who had assembled to hear the details of the case in respect to the abduction of ...
Article : 435 wordsA steady day of work was spent in camp on Tuesday. Colonel Braithwaite and Mr. Savage (controller of stores) visited camp and inspected the saddles and kit, with ...
Article : 285 wordsPrecautions against plague, per rat exterminating along the wharves are being continued by the Board of Public Health. Dr. Gresswell thinks that fully £1000 has been ...
Article : 109 wordsMrs. Fagin, the woman who was murderously attacked by her husband at Cheltenham last week, still keeps her hold on life tenaciously. She lies in the ...
Article : 133 wordsA further and concerted effort is being made by pro-Boers in the United States to induce the Government to interfere, with the object of bringing the South African ...
Article : 65 wordsNews from the Islands states that the British barque Savernake, from San Francisco to Queenstown, laden with wheat, was totally wrecked at Society Islands. Part of ...
Article : 60 wordsLord Kitchener has forwarded a report giving particulars of the manner in which the British authorities in South Africa have carried out the inoculation of cattle in ...
Article : 91 wordsDuring a northerly squall this afternoon the yacht Trident, of St. Kilda, broke away from her moorings, and came ashore at the old baths, her stern being damaged and her ...
Article : 215 wordsBrunswick town council on Monday evening resolved--"That in view of the extensiveness of the postal delivery service in the town, the Postmaster-General should be written to urging for an ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the meeting of the Port Melbourne Debating Society held last night (the mayor, Mr. Walter, in the chair), Mr. E. E. Salmon moved the following resolution:-- ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 22 Jan 1902, Page 7
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