A Japanese commander, while leading a company of barefooted sealers at Taku, was beheaded as he climbed the wall of the city. The Japanese were, so incensed that they ...
Article : 94 wordsThe London "Daily Express" publishes a telegram from China, stating that Chinese runners reported at Tientsin on Thursday last that a small white force, supposed to have been ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the Assembly this afternoon the Premier. Announced he had received a cablegram from Mr Barlon stating that the Australasian Commonwealth Bill had passed its third ...
Article : 50 wordsNews is to hand that the Boers recently captured a train near the Zand River, which was conveying 2,000 bags of letters to the front, for the troops, and £4,000 worth of ...
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Advertising : 114 wordsAnother case of plague has ben reported in Brisbane to-night. The patient is a man named James Gourlay, 33 years of age. He is employed in Elizabeth street, and resides at ...
Article : 54 wordsA member of our staff has received the following letter from Captain Bailey, of the 1st Queenslanders:— MAITLAND CAMP, May 26th, 1900. ...
Article : 653 wordsThe invalided soldiers by the steamer Australasian were entertained at Parliament House yesterday. Of the three Queenslanders who have been granted £5 each for expenses ...
Article : 227 wordsTwo fresh cases of plague are reported to-day—viz, David Perkins, 29, residing at Redfern, and Geo. Barnes, 18, residing at Ultimo. ...
Article : 31 wordsA public reception was given to the Hon R. Philp at the Town Hall to-day, at 10 o'clock, in which 2,000 children participated. The Mayor welcomed the Premier, who ...
Article : 225 wordsReuter's agency reports that the Empress Dowager has issued directions for the extermination of all foreigners in China. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Russians, British, Germans, and French have each retained one of the recently captured torpedo destroyers. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe United States battleship Oregon, which is now at Hongkong, and the armoured cruiser Brooklyn, and the coast defence ironclad Monadnock, which are at the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Chinese Legation at St. Petersburg received a telegram on Sunday from Prince Li Hung Chang, stating that the European diplomats at Pekin ware safe. ...
Article : 28 wordsRussia has called out the reserves in the Siberian and Amur military districts and has raised the latter district to a war footing. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe British Consul at Tientsin on the 20th instant sent a courier to Ci-fu with a message, stating that reinforcements were urgently needed. The casualties on the part of the ...
Article : 98 wordsA number of the Russian newspapers have assumed a very amusing attitude. They are taking entire credit for the Russians in connection with the battle of Taku, and the reduction ...
Article : 41 wordsPrivate F. F. Braithwaite, of the First Queensland Contingent, in a letter dated from No. 9 general hospital, Bloemfontein, May 8, writes as follows: You will be wondering ...
Article : 391 wordsThe commander of H.M.S. Terrible cabling from Chi-fu, reports that 800 Sikhs and 200 Welsh Fusiliers from Hongkong have junctioned with the international force, which two ...
Article : 56 wordsA heavy fall of rain seriously damaged the railway line at McDonough, in Illinois. A train passing over the bridge which spans the river was precipitated into the bed, and some ...
Article : 70 wordsA meeting of the Executive Committee of the Queensland patriotic fund was held on Monday afternoon. There were present Rev T. Nisbet (in the chair), Mr. T. Glassey, ...
Article : 546 wordsThe anti-foreign movement is openly supported by large bodies of well armed Chi-li and Hau-su troops. The outbreak is spreading northward as far as Nia-Chwang, at the ...
Article : 41 wordsRear-admiral Bruce cabled on Saturday that 200 men of the Chinese regiment forming part of the British garrison at Wei-hai-Wei had been brought over and landed at Taku on ...
Article : 39 wordsAs previously stated, General Sir Alfred Gasalee leaves on Monday week for China. The force which is being sent from India comprises eight battalions of infantry, a regiment ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Premier and his party were met on arrival from Mount Morgan at Archer Park by a large number of representative citizens, and accompanied to the ...
Article : 200 wordsA Boer force attacked a British post at Honingspruit, on the railway line about twenty miles north of Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State, and burnt the culverts on ...
Article : 57 wordsThe only runner who has got through from Tientsin for the past five days states that the foreign settlement there had been almost entirely destroyed. The Europeans there were ...
Article : 34 wordsTwo years ago or thereabouts the Chinese Empire was the scene of a mighty game of "grab" on the part of the European Powers, and it is interesting at this juncture to recall how ...
Article : 398 wordsThe wheat market is very strong. At Mark Lane the price has advanced 45 per quarter during the week owing to the failure of the American Spring crop. It was anticipated ...
Article : 67 wordsRear-admiral Bruce reports that an attempt was made on Friday last to relieve Tientsin, but the relieving force was repulsed with some loss. It is uncertain, however, whether this, ...
Article : 62 wordsLieutenant-General Ian Hamilton has fractured his collarbone, as the result of a fall. ...
Article : 19 wordsReports from Washington state that the Chinese Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, is distrusted by the United States Government. ...
Article : 23 wordsNews has been received that the Imperial Yeomanry captured at Lindley were quite unaware that the Boers had reoccupied the town, and while advancing carelessly dropped ...
Article : 33 wordsSheng, the director of telegraphs in China, states that a courier from Pekin has reached Vuan-shih-kai, with the news that all the foreign legations in the Chinese capital were ...
Article : 54 wordsA lady, describing herself as a journalist, who was a passenger by the Australasian, travelled to South Africa in the wake of the army, and had been detained by the Imperial ...
Article : 112 wordsWhen Driver Williams and Privates Mundy, Smith, Rose, and Strong arrived in Brisbane from South Africa, Imperial pay was due to them from January 1. On this ...
Article : 582 wordsMr Mackintosh has won the Prix Centenaire at Paris, which is a prize worth 5,000 francs, and also a gold medal. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe force of Indian troops which is being sent to China under the command of General Sir Alfred Gaselee has been raised to the strength of a division, This force will sail on ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Licensing Commission examined the police magistrate, the subcollector of customs, and others yesterday. The police magistrate favored the opening of public houses during ...
Article : 122 wordsBugler G. Hamer, of D company, third Queensland contingent, writing to his brothers and sisters, from Marandellas, South Africa, under date May 3, forwards an interesting ...
Article : 523 wordsH.M.S. Victorious, first class battleship, which has arrived at Naples on her homeward voyage, has been ordered to return to China. The first-class battleship Goliath, now at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 454 wordsIt is reported that the monsoonal rains in India have been heavy, and that the drought, which has caused so much devastation, is in consequence completely broken up in some ...
Article : 48 wordsA party of Americans was caught in ambush by the Chinese rebels near Tientsin on Thursday last, four being killed and seven wounded. ...
Article : 26 wordsOf the £5,000 to be spent by the Railway Department on locomotive engines and tender tires during the next twelve months, Germany receives £1,800, the balance going to British ...
Article : 68 wordsLieutenant Dowling, of New South Wales, who went to South Africa with the Australian Horse, now is staying at Lennon's Hotel. It will be remembered that Lieutenant Dowling ...
Article : 843 wordsNews from Gold Coast Colony, West Africa states that Colonel burroughs, with 450 West African (Hausa) troops and a field gun, has reinforced Colonel Willcocks, who was ...
Article : 86 wordsThe international chess tournament, which was arranged to take place in Paris during the progress of the Paris exhibition, has now been completed. Herr E. Lasker, the present ...
Article : 89 wordsCaptain Heritage, of the ketch Crest of the Wave reports that on Saturday be discovered just south of American River, Kangaroo Island, The body of a man. Near by it were spars ...
Article : 82 wordsIn his book, "China and the Open Door," published last year, Lieutenant-Colonel Coates, of the 99th Regiment, who both served in China and was attached to the Chinese ...
Article : 757 wordsA political crisis has arisen in Italy, General Pelloux having resigned in consequence of the continued obstructive tactics of the Extreme Left. The resignation was accepted by the ...
Article : 157 wordsIt is announced that the Khedive of Egypt, who is on a visit to England is suffering from septic sore throat, and is consequently being declined at Port Victoria. The Queen, who is ...
Article : 75 wordsA conflict has taken place in the district of Varna, in Bulgaria, between the Bulgarian troops and bodies of riotous peasantry. In the fighting 90 persons were killed and 372 ...
Article : 107 wordsAbbas Pasha (Khective of Egypt) who is on a visit to England, but who has been detained at Port Victoria, Suffering from septic sore throat, is according to the latest medical ...
Article : 39 words"I take pleasure in recommending Chum berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to all who suffer from pains in the stomach," says Mr. Milt McKinley, editor of the ...
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Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1881 - 1922), Wed 27 Jun 1900, Page 3
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