The P. & O. liner India, homeward bound, arrived from the eastern colonies on Thursday morning, with a fair complement of passengers, considering that the ...
Article : 1,778 wordsIt is reported that two squadrons of Victorians, commanded by Captain Baker, of the New South Wales Bushmen, releived a patrol which had been surrounded ...
Article : 79 wordsIt is announced that Commander John Philip Rolleston has been appointed to the command of the third-class cruiser Archer, 1,770 tons, which is to be commissioned on ...
Article : 50 wordsLatest advices from China state that a detachment of troops from India have now reached Shanghai. The Viceroy of the province has instigated the French and ...
Article : 88 wordsMessrs. Paech, Peake, Livingston, Morris, McGillivray, Coneybeer, Blacker, Cummins, Copley, and Dumas, members of the House of Assembly, together with the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsMr. John Phillips, of the firm of Smith, Phillips, & Dawson, steel founders. Brunswick, was to-day knocked down by a passing cyclist on Sydney-road, and seriously ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Queensland Mounted Rifles, has been wounded in the thigh. In his latest dispatches Lord Roberts reports that Colonel Helyar, of the Imperial ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Wharfs Resumption Bill was recommitted, and the clause for compensation to be determined in the Land Appeal Court, was ...
Article : 284 wordsThe Conciliation and Arbitration Bill was circulated to-night. It provides that the Court of Arbitration shall consist of a Supreme Court judge, one person ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Hongkong correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus" writes on July 27:— The state of uncertainty as to the safety of the foreigners in Pekin still continues. ...
Article : 511 wordsForty invalided Queenslanders from South Africa arrived in Brisbane on Saturday night. They will be entertained at a picnic at Moreton Bay on Monday. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Calcutta Golfing Cup, played for at St. Andrews, was won yesterday by Mr. Spencer Gollan. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Premier received the following cable message from the High Commissioner for South Africa, to-day:—"Cape Town. August 15, Douglas, New South Wales Mounted ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the annual report on the Victorian defences, presented to Parliament to-day, Major-General Downes states that the material, guns, and carriages of the Victorian ...
Article : 152 wordsIt is announced that the French export bounties on, sugar after August will range from 28½d. to 22¼d. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Agent-General cables to the Government, under date August 15, that Lord Roberts reports that the small force at Elands River, reported as captured, was ...
Article : 52 wordsBritish 2¾ per cent. Consols (Goschen's) are quoted at £98 15/. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. Deakin, writing to the "Age" tonight, says:—"With the greatest reluctance, but in simple justice to my colleagues, crave leave to refer to our expenses as ...
Article : 585 wordsSilver is now quoted at 2/4 1-16 per oz. ...
Article : 13 wordsM. Pichon, the French Minister at Pekin, in a cipher message dated August 9, declares that if the negotiations now being conducted by Li Hung Chang for the ...
Article : 294 wordsActive operations are still reported from the Rustenburg district, west of Pretoria, where the Boers are giving a large amount of trouble. ...
Article : 74 wordsIn connection with the sensational find at Messrs. Robinson and Rice's mine, Long Flat, near Gundagai, nothing was done from Saturday last until yesterday, when ...
Article : 166 wordsTallow.—At to-day's auction of tallow 2,825 casks were offered, and 1,475 sold. Prices of all kinds were unchanged. ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the Legislative Council last night the second reading of the Workmen's Compensation Bill was discussed, and the debate adjourned. The Licensing Act Amendment ...
Article : 191 wordsA married woman, Elizabeth O'Neill, aged 45, was charged at the Redfern Court to-day with administering poison to Frederick Stanfield with intent to murder ...
Article : 299 wordsMr. Bennett Burleigh, the well-known correspondent of the London "Daily Telegrarph," has paid a visit to Belfast, a town on the Delagoa Bay railway, east of ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Commandant of the Forces in his annual report laments the lack of practical instruction in musketry and field work. [?] urges the necessity for a more extended [?] ...
Article : 145 wordsA rather romantic story of unexpected wealth was told in the Probate Court today on an application for letters of administration in the estate of the late Mr. George ...
Article : 107 wordsAbout the beginning of August Charles H. Rogers sought admission to the Perth Hospital. A doctor, after examining him, gave him a bottle of medicine but refused ...
Article : 175 wordsThe late Mr. W. R. Wilson made no public bequests. His will was lodged for probate to-day, the full estate being valued at £68,585—realty £21,585, and personalty ...
Article : 361 wordsOfficial Transvaal papers show that altogether 7,000 Transvaal Boers have been lost from January to June. This total includes no less than a ...
Article : 58 wordsHeavy rains have fallen throughtout the colony during the past 24 hours, the record being 87 points. All the rivers are rapidly rising. Some low-lying parts [?] ...
Article : 119 wordsIt is announced that the allied forces, who are now approaching Pekin, are well provisioned. General Sir Alfred Gaselee reports that ...
Article : 235 wordsA sensational telegram was received by the Inspector-General of Police last night from Mudgee concerning the blacks. A party of civilians and Police out ...
Article : 449 wordsThe political atmosphere during the last few days has been in a greatly disturbed condition. All sorts of statements have been circulated as to what might be ...
Article : 205 wordsLatest advices with reference to the evacuation of Rustenburg by the British troops state that before leaving the town, which was subsequently reoccupied by the ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. Rutledge, the Attorney-General. while in attendance at the Supreme-Court this morning, was taken ill, and obliged to leave the court. ...
Article : 334 wordsA somewhat remarkable story of alleged collusion between husband and wife came to light, to-day on an application by the Attorney-General to intervene against the ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed to enquire into the military administration of the colony, today further, examined Major-General ...
Article : 296 wordsThe Customs returns for Victoria for July show that the imports totalled £1,390,721, and the exports £819,953, There were big decreases in gold, both in exports ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is officially announced at St. Petersburg that the Czar of Russia has assented to the appointment of General Count Waldersee as Generalissimo of the allied forces ...
Article : 224 wordsOn Thursday afternoon the ordinary meeting of the Marine Board was held in the boardroom, Custom-House, Port. There were Present, the president (Mr. T. N. Stephens), Wardens ...
Article : 612 wordsOn September 20 last year a bucket fell down the shaft of the Great Eldorado mine, at Gaffrey's Creek, and struck a miner, Rudolph Geselins, on the head, ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral Sir Frederick Carrington, who at the head of 600 Bushmen recently tried unsuccessfully to relieve the British garrison under Colonel Hoare at Elunds River, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsThe Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the wine industry have presented their report. The first recommendation is that established winery companies ...
Article : 306 wordsThe Samoan "Herald" of July 28 states:"It is understood that the recent endeavors of the Government to reunite the rival parties, is likely to come to a ...
Article : 66 wordsA colliery dispute in the Bundama district threatens to become serious, Five mines are now affected, and a general strike [?] threatened. The men demand an incre[?] ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Government some time ago ordered 8,000 rifles, and 2,000 Martini-Enfield have arrived. Of the remainder 2,000 will be of the same pattern, and 4,000 of the latest ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 wordsMr. St. John Brodrick, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking upon the Chinese question at Godalmin, in Surrey, declared that Great Britain was ...
Article : 143 wordsMajor-General Ian Hamilton, who has been, instructed to proceed to the relief of Colonel Hoare's garrison at Elands River, reports that Lieutenant F. G. Newton, of ...
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