"When I was a young man," remarked Josh Billings, " I used to seize hold of the big end of the log and do all the lifting; but now I have got more sense, I seize hold of ...
Article : 1,137 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 67 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsSeveral Boer commandants, together with 500 men, are advancing south in Cape Colony, via the Great Berg Valley, looting and recruiting as they go. Some of these ...
Article : 80 wordsMusoline, a notorious Calabrian bandit, who is guilty of 20 murders, and who has eluded pursuit for years, has been captured in the streets of Urbino, a city of Central ...
Article : 69 wordsA drowning accident occurred in the river off the Domain at an early hour thin morning. At the present time the dredge Platypus is occupied at the spot cutting off the end of the ...
Article : 213 wordsCommandants Maritz and Theion, who have been operating in the south-west of Cape Colony, have suddenly moved southward towards Picquetburg. It is believed ...
Article : 77 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 words{No abstract available}
Family Notices : 29 wordsEarl Russell has been released from Holloway gaol, after serving a sentence of three months, as a criminal of the first class, imposed upon him by the House of Lords for ...
Article : 42 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 31 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 wordsA bill to amend the Public Service Act was introduced into the Assembly yesterday. The Act is to take effect from November 1, 1901, and from that date the Public Service ...
Article : 104 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 33 wordsTheron, who was adjutant to the Boer commandant Roes, Lieutenant Obervoizen, Field-cornet Vandermerwe, and So more of the cucuny have been captured in the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 29 wordsA bill to amend the law relating to mining companies was read a first time in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Clause 2 contains an important provision relative, to the sale of ...
Article : 413 wordsThe Legislative Council has not yet put on an extra day. Its extra days come in the last week of the session, when its honourable and aged members are asked to forego ...
Article : 867 wordsIt would appear that the object of the Federal Treasurer in grouping the items of the federal tariff in the way he did was to gather kindred objects so that the new ...
Article : 743 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 643 wordsColonel Rawlinson on Monday last engaged Moyers's commando near Frankfort, causing 20 casualties among the enemy, and capturing their transport. ...
Article : 41 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsCommandant Fouche now is withdrawing northward after flogging and looting farmers and shooting three natives. ...
Article : 19 wordsFrickie Eloff, the grandson of and private secretary to ox-President Kruger, together with his party, have been hissed in a Paris theatre for wearing evening dress, whilst ...
Article : 42 wordsThe refugees from the Rand are now returning to Johannesburg at the rate of 100 per week. Another mine on the Rand has started ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Forth bridge is now in process of receiving its fourth coat of paint since it was erected (says the Weekly Scotsman " of September 14). Although seemingly a petty ...
Article : 556 wordsThe Frontier Light Horse have captured 18 Boers at Katberg, in Cape Colony. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe following Australian casualties are announced:-- Furrier-sergeant Freedaim Liddon Simpson, slightly wounded at Braefontein. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Beer commandants Kemp and Delarey have been located northwards of the Mega- liesberg Mountains, to the west of Pretoria. ...
Article : 23 wordsCommandant South is hard pressed by British troops. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe leaders of the French colliers assert that the adoption ot an eight-hour day would immediately reduce the output of coal of France, causing the dismissal of thousands of ...
Article : 100 wordsThe sentences of hanging passed on V. S. Kruger, for rebellion, and upon Lieutenant Breda, for train wrecking, at Bethulie, in Cape Colony, and for murdering a native, ...
Article : 54 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsDr. Morrison, the Pekin correspondent of the "Times," states that M. Lessar, the Russian Minister, is negotiating with the Viceroy Li Hung Chang alone for a new ...
Article : 130 words"THE POWER AND THE GLORY" REVIVED. Mr. Charles Darrell's spectacular melodrama "The Power and the Glory," which was very popular on the occasion of its first ...
Article : 340 wordsThe leading Russian newspapers are unanimous in urging the Government of Russia to immediately occupy Herat, in Afghanistan, in order to bring that country ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Alexander Wilson, of Now South Wales, has submitted to the War Office authorities a scheme for establishing an Imperial horse-breeding estate on an area ...
Article : 72 wordsA singularly beautiful specimen of an orchid, grown by Mr. W. R. Kifford, of Wellington Point, has been shown to us this morning. It belongs to the variety ...
Article : 101 wordsAn affray took place yesterday between men of the Worcestershire and Durham Regiments stationed at the military camp at Aldershot. About 100 soldiers were engaged ...
Article : 51 wordsThe court-martial held in connection with the recent loss of the new turbine torpedo boat destroyer Cobra has found that the wreck of the vessel was due to structural ...
Article : 58 wordsJudge Curler, who was brought over to England to give evidence in the Earl Russell trial, has returned to his judicial duties in Nevada and intends to contribute to some ...
Article : 289 wordsIncreasing interest is being manifested in the approaching season of Italian opera, which Mr. J. C. Williamson will inaugurate at His Majesty's. Theatre, on Monday. ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. W. Willcocks, the engineer who designed the great dams in the Nile at Assonan and Assiout, is completing a survey of the head waters of the Vaal and Orange Rivers, ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the City Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. P. M. Murray. P.M., and Messrs. D. Gallwey and J. F. Horsley, JJ.P., Philip Imandt was lined 5s., in default ...
Article : 124 wordsThe balloon trip of Dr. Berson and Suering constitues, it now appears, a record in aeronautics, says the "Daily News." After ascending from the Meteoroloirical ...
Article : 271 wordsIt is reported from Washington that President Roosevelt is in favour of the creation of a portfolio of commerce in the United States Cabinet. ...
Article : 34 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 50 wordsThe Government of Russia are urging reduction in the claim of M. Lorando, the French banker, amounting to £344,438 which is one of the matters in dispute ...
Article : 42 wordsThere is at present no sign of a recrudescence in plague matters, no suspicious cases being under the observation of the authorities. The operations against rats are being ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Swedish Antarctic expedition, organised by Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, has sailed from Gothenburg, in Sweden. ...
Article : 23 wordsMiss Williard, a professional swimmer, has perished in an attempt to roll through the Niagara rapids in a barrel. At the end of her rash performance she was lifted out of ...
Article : 255 wordsThe federal Premier's policy of silence has so far yielded to the pressure of circumstances, that he has permitted his Treasure Sir George Turner, to speak. Mr. Reid, ...
Article : 524 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 43 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 38 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 125 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 61 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 100 wordsThe following persons have been adjudicated insolvent: Stewart Craig, Mount Perry, miner, and John Nanearrow, miner, Charters Towers. ...
Article : 21 wordsFirst Farmer: " You can take ten pounds for that cow? " Second Farmer: " Can't do it." " But yesterday you told me you'd sell ...
Article : 101 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 60 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 11 wordsINDUSTRIAL HOME --The usual weekly meeting was held yesterday. Members present: Mrs. Tuck (president), Mesdames Sagar,[?] papi Martin, Kerr, Tryon, Sankey, and ...
Article : 53 wordsDebt Collector: " I called to collect those bills which Mr. Snips, the tailor, sent you." Mr. Squills: " You are perfectly welcome to them. Here they are, all in ...
Article : 34 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Fri 18 Oct 1901, Page 4
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: