LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- There are great crowds outside the Mansion House awaiting the news of the relief of Mafeking. Intense excitement prevails. ...
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- "The Times" Pekin correspondent states that Korea has granted Russia a site in Mesapho Harbor for a coal depot and naval hospital, and has undertaken not to ...
Article : 87 wordsAnother general rainfall was recorded yesterday morning. West of the great dividing range the falls might he termed light, although scattered places received a moderately heavy fall. ...
Article : 367 wordsA PLAN OF THE INVESTMENT. THE DEFENDERS OF MAFEKING. Rough and ready look the sturdy contingent here drawn up. but they have made for themselves a name that will last as long as South Africa has a history, for they are the force with which Baden-Powell has held Mafeking since October 14th, 1899. Many of the brave follows ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 95 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- A man named Nordlung, who had recently been discharged from gaol, having served a. sentence for incendiarism, ran amok on board the Swedish consting steamer Prins Carl ...
Article : 95 wordsA message was received from Albany yesterday to the effect that the Orient Company's R.M.S. Droya arrived at that port at 4 a.m. from London, an route to Sydney. She made a stay of seven ...
Article : 304 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon: -- An explosion has taken place on board a torpedo boat at St. Petersburg, Russia, with the result that six men were killed. ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- In connection with the recent heavy lighting at Mafeking it is stated that Colonel Baden-Powell allowed the Boers under General Sarel Eloff to enter the town ...
Article : 163 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- During a fire which broke out in Lloyd's paper mills, six new machines were seriously damaged. ...
Article : 22 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- The Due d'Orleans, while professing profound respect and gratitude towards the Queen and the Royal Family, informs the committee of the Bachelors' Club that the heir ...
Article : 55 wordsA telegram received yesterday from Captain Bentley, the salvage officer of the Sydney Underwriters' Association, stated that the schooner Hennie do Fraine, which is ashore at Camden ...
Article : 688 wordsPicric acid or trinito phenol is the principal body used in the manufacture of lyddite, as it is also in the melinite factories of the French Government, this explosive being picrate of ...
Article : 357 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- Referring to the unopposed advance and entry of Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter's column into Christiana, Lord Roberts explains that the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe news of the reported relief of Mafeking spread with the issue of the morning papers to the uttermost parts of the colony. in the city and in the remotest country districts the people ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,082 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- Lieutenant-General French commanding the cavalry division in Lord Roberts' main army, found the enemy posted in strength at a place 40 miles north ...
Article : 49 wordsPresident Kruger has an original and ingenious method of communicating with his friends. Instead of using an ordinary telegraphic code he wires a reference to the Holy Scriptures, and his ...
Article : 258 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- General Sir Redvers Buller is still rapidly advancing in Northern Natal. He has arrived at Dannhauser, 15 miles north of Glencoe Junction. ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- Only 600 Boers now remain at Clocolan, the Boer headquarters in the eastern Free State, situated close to the Basutoland borders, ...
Article : 91 wordsWhen the torpedo was first brought into use, the intention was to launch it from an ordinary battleship or cruiser. But in the early seventies it was found desirable to build small speedy ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsA panade of the metropolitan and sub-metropolitan cadets is announced for 10 a.m. in the Outer Domain to-day. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe exterior of the belfry of St. Philip's, Church-bill, was gay with bunting throughout the day. During the afternoon the ringers, under the leadership of Mr. John Dennis, repeatedly ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, held yesterday afternoon, Mr. Charles H. Goode, of South Australia, amid loud cheering, said: -- "It is a felicitous circumstance ...
Article : 92 wordsThe fate of Matching is, as far as our knowledge goes, still in the balance. The report of the Portuguese officials that the town has been relieved is now countered by an official report from ...
Article : 910 wordsIt is announced that in the event of the news of the relief of Matching being confirmed, a, thankegiving service will he hold to-morrow (Sunday) evening at St. Paul's Church, Redfern, ...
Article : 265 wordsOn receipt of the news, Mr. Richard Manning, managing partner of Messrs. Chapman and Co., Druitt-street, instantly ordered the whistle to be blown, and had the Union Jack hoisted on the ...
Article : 106 wordsThree or four months since the Bishop of Winchester regretted the loss of a robin which had made friends with Mrs. Davidson and himself in it variety of ways. At meal-times it came into ...
Article : 184 wordsALBURY, Friday. -- When telegrams were received this afternoon that, though not officially confirmed, the report as to the relief of Mafeking was believed to be well founded, there was great ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Sat 19 May 1900, Page 9
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