A special meeting of the general purposes committee of the City Council was held yesterday to hear a statement from the Mayor with reference to the City Organist, M. Wiegand. ...
Article : 783 wordsAt an early hour one morning an outpost of one of our pickets, consisting of some eight mon belonging to the 13th Hussars was surprised by some sixty Boers, who crept round the kopjes to where the outpost was stationed. Two of our men were killed, the others escaping. Seven horses were also shot by the enemy.. —"The Graphic." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, January 5.--The New Year's honors list is, as usual, most remarkable for its omissions. Mr. Helton's name has again been left out, a circumstance which, I think, all sorts and ...
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Advertising : 990 wordsRecently Air. W. E. Cook, a district, engineer in the Sewerage Department, lectured at North Sydney on the sewerage system of the neighborhood, including the Mosman and Neutral Bay ...
Article : 240 wordsThe invitation concert given by the Misses Paterson, at the Y.M.C.A.-hall last night, was attended by a large and appreciative gathering. The programme was well-arranged, and not so ...
Article : 234 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, January 24.--In spite of the serious subjects presented to the American people for solution, such as the future of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, interest here ...
Article : 949 wordsAPIA (SAMOA), February 7.--A Patriotic Fund in aid of the families of those fallen in the South African ware has been, started by Mr. Hamilton Hunter, the British Consul at Apia, ...
Article : 377 wordsIn spite of your boasted domocracy, I fancy somehow that Australians are just as fond of titles and their concomitant decorations as we of the old country, and the slimness of the New ...
Article : 480 wordsMany stories are being told now of Colonel Baden-Powell's skill in kite-flying. About five years ago he made-extensive experiments with the largest military kites ever built. With his ...
Article : 391 wordsA moonlight promenade concert in aid of the Children's Home. Summer-hill, was held in the grounds of Mr. J. A. Gorrick, at Stanmore, last night. There was a good attendance. The ...
Article : 82 wordsSUVA, FIJI, February 8.--The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Birksgate arrived in port at 7 a.m. on Saturday last, and as it was notified that; the bubonic plague had made its appearance in ...
Article : 780 wordsA meeting of the council of the Defence Force Rifle Association was held last night, when the conditions of the next rifle meeting of the association were discussed. Major-General French ...
Article : 150 wordsSir,--Now that the demonstration is over, including the shouting, perhaps it may profit us to sit down calmly, and review the situation, so that we may chance profit by a contemplation of past ...
Article : 918 wordsSir,--I admire Hyde Park by daylight as much as any man, recognising the beauty of its trees, its position, and the immense possibilities it possesses for a really beautiful pleasure resort ...
Article : 535 wordsThe members of the Shipwrights' Union celebrated their annual picnic at Clontarf yesterday. There was a very large attendance of the members and their wives and children, and a very ...
Article : 578 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the committee of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday. Three new members were elected. Attention was called to tho importations of the ...
Article : 269 wordsAn effort is to be made at Manly to get in all outstanding rates--and the amount, for so comparatively small a borough, is a heavy one--in order to have the necessary money for repairs to ...
Article : 102 wordsSome interesting laws came into force on New Year's Day. The German law of 1900 on sickness and old-age insurance will, no doubt, he studied with interest by all those colonies which are "The Times," in an appreciative leader, says that the chief gleam of light in the Colonial Empire during the year just closed was the passing of the Commonwealth Bill. "There was a time ...
Article : 1,277 wordsThe Marine Board opened an inquiry yesterday afternoon into, the circumstances attending the stranding of the Eastern and Australian Company's steamship Airlie on Chapman's Roef, off the coast, of Northern Queensland, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 496 wordsThe fifteenth debate in connection with the union's annual debate tournament was between the Newtown Society and St. John's Institute, Glebe, and resulted in favor of the St. John's Institute. The final debate will ...
Article : 98 wordsSir,--Will you kindly allow me through the medium of "The Daily Telegraph," to bring under public notice a new bylaw of the City Council, which, coming into operation in the fish markets ...
Article : 212 wordsSir,--I have seen in your columns of late a good deal of praise bestowed on one or two of our public men in commotion with the parsing into law of the Early Closing Kill. I cheerfully admit that Mr. Dyne, as head of the ...
Article : 223 wordsSir,--I thank you for your vigorous article, re local option. I agree with you as to the defects of the present law, and I hope temperance men and all lovers of social order will take your ...
Article : 209 wordsThe auditors to the Leichhardt Council (Messrs. Palmer and Bea[?]mont) notified the aldermen at last night's meeting that they had completed the annual assessment of the borough. A comparison of the figures between ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Tue 20 Feb 1900, Page 3
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