Dr. Morrison, the Pekin correspondent of the "Times," reports that the Foreign Ministers have signed the draft of the 'final protocol which is to be the basis ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, who are now visiting Pietermaritzburg, the capital of Natal, formally opened the new town hall at that place yesterday. ...
Article : 189 wordsIt is announced that a satisfactory interchange of views relative to Morocco has taken place between the Governments of Great Britain and France. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Czar of Russia has conferred upon Field-marshal Count Von Waldersee, who was Commander-in-chief of the allied forces in China, the decoration of the Order of St. ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is announced that the total promises and payments to the Methodist million guinea fund amount to £930,000. Of this sum £600,000 has been paid in cash. ...
Article : 34 wordsNews from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, states that M. Sarapoff and the other members of the Bulgarian Macedonia Committee who were arrested in April last, and charged ...
Article : 48 wordsNews comes from Constantinople that an inquiry into the fire which recently broke out in the Sultan's palace at Yildiz Kiosk has [?]esulted in 704 of the palace officials and ...
Article : 44 wordsIn consequence of the great infant mortality in Liverpool (England), the municipal anthorities of the city are sterilising and humanising 12,000 bottles of milk daily for ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Gatling, the American inventor, whose came is associated with the Gatling gun, has [?]nvented a motor plough, which he claims will enable one man to plough 30 acres of land ...
Article : 57 wordsThe officers who have, been engaged in the campaign in South Africa, among them being a number of colonial officers, have established an Imperial Service Club in London. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Cunard liner Lucania. has succeeded in sending wireless telegraph messages through the Nantucket lightship to New York, a distance of 287 miles. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt new is announced officially that Colonel Sir George Sydenham Clarke, K.C.M.G., has been appointed State Governor of Victoria. ...
Article : 25 wordsA firm at Folkestone, in Kent, England, has been fined £20 and costs for selling butter containing an excessive quantity of water. The same firm was also charged with ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "Dally Chronicle" reports that Max Opitz and Co., bankers, of Berlin, have suspended payment, with liabilities amounting to £250,000, and Herr Opitz, the principal ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is announced that Hr. G. F. Watts, R.A., has offered Mr. H. A. Grainger, who has succeeded Sir John Cockburn as Agent-General, to present to South Australia his ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Admiralty have decided that for the future Australian wine shall be used, exclusively for the christening ceremony in connection with the launching of new warships ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is officially announced that the yield of wheat in the province of Manitoba, Canada, amounts to 49,000,000 bushels, of cuts, 30,000,000 bushels; and of barley, 6,500,000 ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Human Catholic bishops of Belgium have decided to admit the emigrating French religious orders, but only if they agree to make no money collections and to open neither ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes, having notified the denial by Sir Honry CampbellBannerman of the truth of the report of is having contributed £5,000 to the Liberal ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, the King's Titles Bill passed through committee, and was reported without amendment. The amendment, moved by an Irish ...
Article : 58 wordsThe French census now has been completed. The population of the country is 38,641,333, exhibiting an increase of but 412,364 during the last five years. ...
Article : 52 wordsQueen Alexandra of England has expressed a hope that the ladies attending the King's coronation in June next will, as far as possible, wear dresses of British material and ...
Article : 41 wordsTerlinden, the director of the firm of Gerhard and Terlinden, proprietors of metal works at Oberhausen in Rhenish Prussia, who absconded about a month ago, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe reduction of the British garrison in Shanghai, the great treaty port near the Yangtse-Kiang estuary, and especially the withdrawal of the cavalry, leaving a German ...
Article : 47 wordsThe statue of Queen Victoria at Valetta, the capital of Malta, has been found to have been damaged by a corrosive acid. This act is attributed to the disaffection among the ...
Article : 59 wordsKing Edward, it is announced, will remain for three weeks at Homburg, in Hesse Nassaic, celebrated for its mineral springs. Queen Alexandra will this week leave ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is announced that the Czar of Russia, the Emperor William of Germany, and the King of England will meet at Friedensborg, in Denmark, about 30 miles north of ...
Article : 41 wordsA telegram from Paris states that, in answer to a question in the French Chamber of Deputies, General Andre (Minister of War) stated that one of the pretenders to the ...
Article : 60 wordsHerr F. O. Licht, of Magdeburg, in his monthly circular on the beet sugar production of Europe, reports an increase of 370,000 tons as compared with the same month last year. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that a sensational discovery has revealed the fact that the United States customs have been defrauded ...
Article : 73 wordsNews comes from Paris that M. Pelietan, the Reporter of the Budget Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies, has declared that the new first-class armoured cruisers ...
Article : 65 wordsThe British warship Icarus, of 8,970 tons, has been despatched to Panama, in Central America, in connection with the trouble between Venezuela and Colombia. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe pro-Boers in Brussels the capital of Belgium, and in Holland, arc delighted at the announcement that tho Czar of Russia had invited a representative of the Transvaal ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Daily Mail" this morning reports that the Calumet and Heela Company, and the Amalgamated Copper Companies in America, in conjunction with the Bothschilds' ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Government of Austria-Hungary have semi-officially announced that, so far from having any designs on the acquisition of Albania, in European Turkey, they would ...
Article : 74 wordsIn connection with the loss of the torpedoboat destroyer Viper, which snuk after striking on a rock off the coast of Alderney during the recent British naval manoeuvres, a ...
Article : 103 wordsThe late Signor Crispi, whose death was announced a few days ago, has been accorded national funeral, which was of a splendid character, and evoked memories of the ...
Article : 114 wordsIt is semi-officiaily announced in Paris that the Czar Nicholas will be present at the forthcoming review of the French, northern squadron. After the naval review, the Czar ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsThe strength of the British fleet in the Mediterranean, which has been the subject of much hostile comment, and also of some discussion in Parliament, has evidently been ...
Article : 69 wordsNews is to hand that a disastrous hurricane has prevailed in the States of America adjacent to the Golf of Mexico. Great destruction has been caused. Two towns have ...
Article : 53 wordsMessrs Michael Davitt and O'Donovan Rossa (the notorious Fenian agitator) addressed a meeting of 4,000 persons at Chicago. O'Donovan Bossa advocated setting fire to ...
Article : 138 wordsNews is to hand that the Yukon liner Islander struck an iceberg near Juineau, off the coast of Alaska, within a mile from the shore, in perfectly calm weather, and sank ...
Article : 192 wordsThe displeasure evinced by the Irish Nationalists at the comparison between the Nationalist party and Tammany Hall, in New York, which was recently made by the ...
Article : 95 wordsSeventy-five Esquimaux dogs for the British Antarctic expedition, which left Portsmouth on the 6th instant in the ship Discovery, have been despatched to ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. J. R. Ellerman, chairman of Frederick Leyland and Co., Limited (owners of the Leyland Steamship Lino, which was recently purchased by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan), has ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 23 Aug 1901, Page 26
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