The great interest taken in the Commonwealth Bill was shown by the large attendance of members in the House of Commons on Monday, when the measure ...
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Article : 41 wordsThe latest cables from the north of the Orange Free State show that the bulk of Loud Roberts's troops are at present resting at Kroonstad after their rapid ...
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Article : 674 wordsAt the Stirling Institute on Tuesday, evening the Hon. R. W. Foster. Commissioner of Public Works, addressed nearly; 100 electors on "Current Topics," and Mr. ...
Article : 4,975 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent reports that 1,000 German troops last month seized 3,000 square miles, extending from the Congo Free State to the Rusiz. ...
Article : 63 wordsA notorious criminal William King, was arrested about midnight in Chapel-street, Prahran. after a desperate struggle with half a dozen detectives and constables. ...
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Article : 47 wordsAll the Federal delegates, with Sir Julian Salomons, Mr. Henry Copeland, the new Agent-General for New South Wales the Hon. James Balfour, M.L.C, of Victoria, ...
Article : 886 wordsA private message received by the "Evening News" proprietary to-day conveyed the sad intelligence that Sir. H. H. Spooner, special war correspondent at the ...
Article : 108 wordsThere was an inferior selection at the wool sales to-day, and the sale was a dragging one. Prices were unchanged. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsThe Defence Force have of late found great difficulty in providing sufficient tents for the different demands made upon them. The various outbreaks of plague in ...
Article : 163 wordsLatest advice from the north of Natal is to the effect that on Sunday General Sir Redvers Buller forced a strong Boer position near Helpmakaar, a village 40 miles ...
Article : 124 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Tom Hearne, a, well-known cricketer, who was a prominent player for Middlesey and retired from first-class cricket some 20 years ...
Article : 38 wordsThere has been trouble in military circles in Bendigo for some time past over the appointment of Sergeant Buley as quartermaster of the battalion. Matters ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. Henry Copeland, the Agent-General for Now South Wales, has been installed in his new office. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Government have authorised a. special military display on the occasion of the relief of Mafeking. The city is to be decorated and a mlitary bands are to play in ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Premier, referring to the result of the election of Sir George Shenton for the metropolitan province yesterday, said the Opposition candidate had been put forward ...
Article : 52 wordsBritish 2¾ per cent. Consols (Goschen's) are quoted at £101. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Premier was afternoon received the following cable message from "Mr. Barton, dated London, May. 14:—"Commonwealth of Australia. Bill—The Secretary of State ...
Article : 408 wordsAnother instance of Boer brutality is reported. Messrs. Parke, Neale, and Berry, three Englishmen, who were arrested when the Boens re-entered Ladybrand, received ...
Article : 113 wordsSome doubts were expressed with regard to the report on the Associated Mines, but the genuineness of the expert's report is unquestionable. Doubt exists in the minds ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsA special meeting of Cabinet will be held to-morrow evening' to consider the question of giving permission to an English syndicate to construct a railway to the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Commissioner of Police has received information from Derby to the effect that an affray took place aboard the lugger Thistle off the Chain Mangroves on May ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 21 wordsSome interesting facts have come to light in relation to the forged telegram from Adelaide, which caused a sensation on the Melbourne Stock Exchange this day ...
Article : 383 wordsMr. Mathieson, the Railway Commissioner, who leaves for England and America, by the R.M.S. Orizaba on May 29, has advised the Government to place £200,000. ...
Article : 103 wordsA private telegram was received this morning stating that torrents or rain had fallen at Charleville. ...
Article : 20 wordsStarlight, of Queensland, met Archer, of Victoria, last night in a boxing match. The fight was well contested throughout, and was witnessed by a packed house. After ...
Article : 142 wordsIntelligent has been received that Lieutenant J. F. M. Wilkinson, of the First Australian Horse, was captured with the 16 men of the" Inniskillings who with ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Cintra, which stranded on Flinders Island, was floated off, and arrived at Cairns this afternoon. in company with the steamer Taldora, No opposition will now ...
Article : 50 wordsLouis Roth, at one time ledgerkeeper for Messrs. McIlwraith, McEacharn, & Co., was before the City Court to-day on eleven charges of embezzlement from bis ...
Article : 98 wordsDifferent women behaved differently, "As a rule we dunk they showed more pluck Chan the men,"' a leading citizen said to me. ...
Article : 1,141 wordsUnusually cold weather is being experienced in all parts of the colony. Snow has fallen in many districts in South. Island. The hills between Christchurch ...
Article : 70 wordsA special meeting of the Council of Agriculture to-day decided to request the Minister to frame regulations permitting the introduction from Victoria of certain ...
Article : 213 wordsThe annual conference of the Butler and Cheese Factories' Managers' Association was opened this afternoon. The president, in his address, dealt with the large increase ...
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Advertising : 901 wordsOn Tuesday evening the members of the Victorian Commission on Technical Education visited the School of 'Mines and Industries. They were met by Mr. R. E. E. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe latest intelligence respecting the movements of Major-General Sir Archibald Hunter, who commands the Makeing relief column of 10,000 men, states that ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Wed 16 May 1900, Page 5
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