A HOPELESS TASK.—Mr. Murchison, who has spent some time with the officers in pursuit of the blacks, has come to the conclusion that it is a hopeless task. "There ...
Article : 2,859 wordsTHE Legislative Council, in considering the Sydney Corporation Bill, have rejected the provision for the election of the Mayor by the citizens, also the ...
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Article : 1,651 wordsOWING to the illness or the Premier's father it is possible that Mr. Lyne may leave Sydney to-night for Tasmania. ...
Article : 28 wordsAN Italian force of 500 marines has arrived at Peking to co-operate with the Allies. ...
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Article : 19 wordsTHE new trial in the alleged libel case Hutchison versus SINGLETON ARGUS came on for hearing to-day. Evidence for the defence was not concluded ...
Article : 35 wordsSOME of the men of the Liverpool Regiment, who escaped the other day, declare that a number of the enemy on approaching the British held their ...
Article : 76 wordsA GERMAN squadron has arrived at Hong Kong, bound for Taku, carrying many troops. ...
Article : 19 wordsA RETURN which has been tabled shows that the Public Service expenditure for 1899 was £1,909,000, as compared with £2,019,658 for the year ...
Article : 38 wordsTHE Japanese troops have mounted several heavy Nordenfeldt guns in positions commanding the town of Amdy. ...
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Article : 41 wordsTHE mounted force, under Major-General French, is at present, operating against the enemy at Schwartz Kopje, on the Lydenburg Road. The Boers ...
Article : 32 wordsREUTER'S correspondent states that the replies of Great Britain and Russia to the American enquiries as to Li Hung Chang's credentials are ...
Article : 92 wordsTHE Premier received a cable to-day announcing the death of Sir Saul Samuel, formerly Agent-General in. London. ...
Article : 25 wordsTHE weight of the fleeces of the Government stud sheep at Borambil Station, Condobolin, run as high as 35lbs. ...
Article : 25 wordsUNOFFICIAL advices received from Delagoa Bay state that the Boer army at Macbadodorp have been heavily defeated by the British, and that the ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE case of Rogers v. Bridge, in which, plaintiff claimed £1000 damages on account of alleged seduction, has broken down on the point of law that at the ...
Article : 68 wordsSINCE the incinerator was started at Newcastle, 16 weeks ago, 120,000 rats have been destroyed there. ...
Article : 21 wordsTHE force with Lieutenant-General Baden Powell and Major - General Paget is quitting the dense bush velt in the Nylstroom district, and ...
Article : 30 wordsTHE Minister for agriculture has promised to introduce a bill making it compulsory to use fruit cases of standard sizes. ...
Article : 27 wordsJEFFRIES has refused, to meet his engagement with the champion Fitzsimmons on the 31st instant. Fifczsimmons has announced his intention of ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE tracks of the Breelong blacks were picked up yesterday near a Mr. Leggatt's house, and followed foe three miles, to where they had camped ...
Article : 50 wordsTWENTY-FIVE Boers of De Wet's force have been captured to the north of Pretoria. The Wiltshire Yeomanry have ...
Article : 35 wordsA MAN named Charles Wordstrom, aged 34, was last night knocked down by an electric tram in George-street. On being taken to the hospital it was ...
Article : 48 wordsSEVERAL British cola mas are at present engaged in clearing the country of the enemy in Ashantee, and are converging on Coomassie, which is to be the ...
Article : 48 wordsLIEUTENANT Hans Cardua, who was taken out and shot at Pretoria last Saturday, in his last letter, written to his mother, admitted the justice of the ...
Article : 38 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Lady Mary Lygon, and Lord and Lady Lamington have expressed their intention of being present at the A.J.C. ...
Article : 530 wordsOVER 17,000 women have signed a petition to the Victorian Legislative Council, praying for the rejection of the Woman's Suffrage Bill now before ...
Article : 30 wordsTHREE large wool firms have suspended payment at Tourcoing, a town in France, their liabilities being set down at 12,000,000 francs. ...
Article : 26 wordsGENERAL Sir Reavers Buller has engaged the enemy at Bergendal, where some severe fighting has taken place. General Buller turned the Boers' ...
Article : 67 wordsAT the stud sheep sales held here, the highest price paid yesterday was 800 guineas, for Mr. W. Gibson's ram Royal Esk. The sales have totalled ...
Article : 32 wordsTHE Australian bred racehorse Maluma is dead. A child named Upton was burnt to death at Newtown, near Windsor, on Monday. ...
Article : 458 wordsTHE Government has decided to introduce legislation to cope with the evil of uneducated children of the slums, and street roamers generally. ...
Article : 28 wordsAT the Homebnsh Yards, to-day, the follots were offered:—27,000 sheep were penned, and prices remained unaltered. ...
Article : 387 wordsTHE New Zealand Government have rescinded the proposal to abolish duty on roasted coffee, cocoa, mining machinery, and matches. ...
Article : 25 wordsA CURIOUS accident—not unlike that which occurred at Queen-street Station Glasgow, on a recent Saturday—is reported as having occurred at Boulder, ...
Article : 300 wordsTHE fugitive blacks robbed Sherwood's house, which is situated on Cream Tar Creek, on Monday, having travelled four miles since they were last seen on ...
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