The Hon. John Hay (United States Secretary of State) has sent a vigorous note to the Governments of Russia and China, Insisting upon equal rights and advantages in ...
Article : 88 wordsThe British columns between Strydpoort and Botha's Pass, on the Natal frontier of the Orange River Colony, are poshing the Boers towards Harrismith. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Chief Secretary received a cable from South Africa on February 19 stating that on February 17 Quarter-master Sergeant Jerome T. Gorman (No. 22), of the sixth contingent, ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterdays the Right Hon. W. St. John Brodrick (Secretary of State for War), in reply to the questions recently put to the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Government of Italy have summoned to the colours 40,000 railway workers, who are to be attached to a mobile territorial army, to prevent the contemplated general ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Government of Corea, at the instance of Russia, has agreed not to lease or grant to any State, company, or individual the island of Kojedo, or the shore of Corea ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Right Hon. A. J. Balfour (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) is suffering from another attack of influenza. ...
Article : 30 wordsSerious fighting has taken place on the Montenegrin frontier between the clansmen of a murdered Albanian chief and Turkish regular troops. The trouble was ...
Article : 58 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has agreed to the principle of reducing the term of service of conscripts in the active army from three to two years. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe United States Senate yesterday passed the Philippine Tariff Bill by 46 votes to 26. ...
Article : 20 wordsThere are indications that Germany contemplates the retention of a force of 800 troops at Shanghai; also it is intended to strongly fortify Kiao-chau, in Shantung, and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe British cruiser Phaeton has arrived at Honolulu, and reports that she has been searching three weeks for the lost sloop Condor, fruitlessly. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is announced that the Colonial Exhibition, which is to be held at the Royal Exchange, will be opened to the public on March 10. ...
Article : 30 wordsReuter's Agency reports that the Government of Russia has convinced the United States of the correctness of her intentions in Manchuria. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe latest sweep which now is being made by the British columns in the vicinity of Harrismith is 65 miles wide. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Budget Committee of the German Reichatag, in a drastic manner, has reduced the estimates for the German expeditionary force to China, and has manifested a strong ...
Article : 38 wordsA sculling race was rowed between Pearce and Berry on the River Tyne yesterday, for £50 a-side. The course, was a mile aud aquarter. Pearce won by 10 lengths. The ...
Article : 44 wordsGeneral Weyler, Minister for War in Spain, speaking in the Spanish Senate yesterday, assured the House that tranquillity prevailed over the greater portion of the country. ...
Article : 32 wordsNews is to hand that Colonel Mackenzie has captured Field-cornet Stephanas Grobelaar. ...
Article : 15 wordsIn a speech delivered at Berlin, the United States ambassador (Mr. Andrew D. White) stated that Germany had observed a strict neutrality, which was neither cold nor ...
Article : 45 wordsRespecting the operations of the Boers in Cape Colony, latest accounts show that Commandant Malan, who was in the Fraserburg district, in the south-west of the colony, with ...
Article : 78 wordsThe quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,895,000 bushels, and for the continent of Europe 1,125,000 bushels. ...
Article : 28 wordsNine members of the Clare Castle branch of the United Irish League have been each sentenced to three months' imprisonment for acts of intimidation. The magistrates who ...
Article : 41 wordsPrince Ching, the Chinese plenipotentiary, according to accounts from Felon, is disposed to grant the demands of the Government of Germany for exclusive mining rights in the ...
Article : 50 wordsJacob Gaudanr, the well known Canadian oarsman, broke his shoulder when sliding on the ice at Rat Portage, and it is feared that he will never again be able to row. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe following Australasian casualties have been announced:—Private John Kirkwood, of the seventh New Zealand contingent, killed at Rietspruit. ...
Article : 130 wordsA general meeting of the National Mutual Life Association, to receive directors' and actuary's reports of the tenth triennial investigation was held yesterday. Colonel ...
Article : 312 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Tweedmouth (Liberal) moved that a joint committee of the two Houses he appointed to inquire into all the contracts entered into for ...
Article : 391 wordsThomas Peterson Goodie, clerk of the Bank of Liverpool, charged with defrauding the bank by means of forged cheques to the amount of £169,500, and Richard Burge, ...
Article : 398 wordsThe operations by British troops Waziristan, on the north-west Indian frontier, were ended by the raid which concluded on Christmas Day. The conditions of peace were ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, has welcomed the proposal of Professor Smart to the corporation of the city of Glasgow for the appointment of a ...
Article : 55 wordsLord Kitchener, in his weekly report to the War Office, reports the following Boer losses: 20 killed, 12 wounded, 379 prisoners captured, and 104 surrenders. ...
Article : 27 wordsNews has been received that Miss Stone, the American missionary, and her companion, Madame Thilka, who were captured by Macedonian brigands in September last, have ...
Article : 55 wordsLieutenant-general Bundle, who has been on active service in South Africa since the beginning of the war, when he had command of the eighth division, is returning to ...
Article : 32 wordsThe transport Manchester Merchant, with the New South Wales Army Medical Corps arrived at Adelaide yesterday morning. The first federal contingent soiled in the afternoon. ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the course of the debate in the British House of Commons on the naval estimates, Mr. E. Robertson, Liberal member for Dundee, made a complaint against the ...
Article : 76 wordsWith regard to the death of the youth whoso body was found on the University Grounds early on Saturday morning, the deputy coroner has recorded a finding ...
Article : 121 wordsA. list of officers appointed for the second Commonwealth contingent has now been approved by Sir John Forrest (Federal Minister for Defence) and published. It ...
Article : 77 wordsBesides the conference which the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain has arranged to deal with matters affecting the trade and commerce of the British Empire, Sir ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 28 Feb 1902, Page 14
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