LONDON, Friday.--The main British column, under Lord Roberts, is advancing steadily along the Delagoa Bay line, eastward from Pretoria. ...
Article : 113 wordsIs not the novel of "slum life" in vain? a serious-minded observer has lately asked in an English magazine, unconsciously (perhaps) taking the same morally commercial ...
Article : 1,167 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--A letter has been received from Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister at Pekin, bearing date July 6. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 269 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Trans vaalers announce that they will continue the guerilla campaign while awaiting the result of the United States Presidential election. ...
Article : 47 wordsA private cable has been received to the effect that tho daughter of the Rev. R. Ravin in China is, so far, safe. The inland mission station to which she is attached, in the Honan province, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe 3000-ton steamer Penarth, which arrived early yesterday from Capetown, has been taken up by the Imperial Government for 12 months, subject to passing survey. She will be utilised ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--The Postmaster-General has been advised from the Berne Postal Bureau that the Eastern Extension and Great Northern telegraph companies have submitted an offer ...
Article : 88 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--Freight engagements for Chinese ports show that seven or eight vessels are mentioned to sail from Melbourne with produce. There has been an extensive demand ...
Article : 101 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 15-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 22 wordsLONDON. Friday.--Further fighting has taken place in Ashanti, a few miles south of Kumassi. Colonel Morland surprised the rebels at Kakofu, and, brilliantly storming the town, captured it at ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Friday.--A strong Boer force attempted to cut General Buller's line of communication in Natal, and after three days' skirmishing Major-General H. J. T. Hildyard ...
Article : 47 wordsThe officers and men of the German warship Cormoran, now in Port Jackson, have volunteered for service in China. The Cormoran recently arrived from the islands for docking, and ...
Article : 215 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Details to hand in connection with the native Manchurian and Chinese outrages upon Christians at Mukden, the capital city, are to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsLONDON, Friday.--A proposal to grant a large sum in aid of the Indian Famine Relief Fund was brought forward in the House of Commons lost night. ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter, commanding the 11th Division, attacked a portion of General De Wet's commando, in strongly entrenched ...
Article : 164 wordsOn Wednesday next an important deputation will be introduced to the Minister for Lands by Mr. Spence, M.P., who will be accompanied by about 40 other members of Parliament. ...
Article : 133 wordsHis Excellency and Lady Mary Lygon, Lady Bertha Wilbraham, Captain Clark, A.D.C., and the Hon. Charles Harris were present yesterday afternoon at the special matinee at Her Majesty's ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON,, Friday Afternoon.--An Italian priest from the Hunan district in the southern interior of China has had a sensational escape from the hands of the murderous ...
Article : 52 wordsTalking to a representative of "The Daily Telegraph," a well-known commercial man in Sydney, who lived a very long time in China, expressed the opinion that the "Boxer" ...
Article : 468 wordsSpecial services of intercession and humiliation in connection with the disturbances in China will be held at St. Andrew's Cathedral to-morrow. The Bishop of Nova Scotia will preach in the evening. ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Chinese forces are concentrating at Getsang, ten miles from Tien-tsin, and about 70 from Pekin, upon which latter city it was ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Hugh Robison, whose death at Maclean at the age of 75 years was announced yesterday, was a resident of Mosman. He was born at Calcutta in 1825, and whilst still a young man he went ...
Article : 150 wordsThe special meeting of the members of the A.M.P. Society was resumed yesterday, the result of the ballot having been that the proposal to adjourn till October 10 was negatived by an ...
Article : 176 wordsQUEENSTOWN (TAS.), Friday.--There seems a probability of serious trouble at the Mount Lyell Company's No.2 plant of smelters. Trouble has been brewing for some weeks past, ever since ...
Article : 469 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Speaking last night in the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne, Secretary for War, assured Lord Carrington (formerly Governor of New South Wales) that ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The local ringleader of the Triad, a celebrated Chinese secret society, has been arrested. He was preparing to attack the foreign ...
Article : 39 wordsA number of the leading members of the shipping and mercantile firms of Sydney met yesterday afternoon, in the Merchants' Exchange, Pitt- street, to say good-bye to Mr. F. White, of the ...
Article : 312 wordsSome time ago the Commissioners for Railways instituted a series of tramway excursions on moonlight evenings to Coogee and Bondi, and now, on the suggestion of the Mayor of Lane ...
Article : 178 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Lieuteuant-General Sir Frederick Carrington, commanding the Rhodesian Field Force, now operating in the Western Transvaal, on Sunday had a sharp ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Before his departure from Clinton Li Hung Chang despatched 59,000 "Black Flag" troops overland to Pekin. He has now rescinded the order ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The numbers of French officers and men volunteering for active service in China are far beyond the momentary requirements of the ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Friday.--It is reported at Tokio that the Japanese forces have gained a great victory at Shan-hai-Kwan, the northernmost Chinese port on the Gulf of Liao Tong. ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Allies have decided to advance from Tien-tsin to Pekin by way of the railway line. ...
Article : 26 wordsPrince Ching, it seems, has all through used his influence on behalf of the foreigners in Pekin. When the foreign Ministers became uneasy on account of the outrages committed by the ...
Article : 489 wordsLONDON, Friday.--It transpires that before the fail of Tien-tsin the rebels killed all Chinamen who had been in the employ of Europeans in the city. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe daily returns received by the Railway Commissioners of the traffic upon the tramways indicate the immense business that is now being conducted by the Sydney trams. Taking ...
Article : 134 wordsA general meeting of the committee of the Nelson Illingworth Benefit Fund was held at the Hotel Australia last evening. There was a large attendance, and much enthusiasm was shown in ...
Article : 169 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Sir Gordon Sprigg's new Ministry at the Cape has a very small working majority. During an incidental division in ...
Article : 80 wordsThe following is a copy of a cable from the Officer Commanding, Capetown, to his Excellency, the Governor of New South Wales, dated July 20, 1900:-- ...
Article : 54 wordsIt has been definitely settled that the New South Wales Contingent to be sent to China is to be a naval one, but a number of the "Third Contingent," especialy those who have had some ...
Article : 336 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--The Lilydale Tramways Construction Bill, which was read a first time in the Assembly, authorises the Queensland Silver Lead Mines, ...
Article : 219 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The Admirals in command of the allied squadrons have, by a majority vote, given the Russians control of the Taku-Pekin railway, despite the fact ...
Article : 73 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--A cable was received to-day from Major Dobbin, officer commanding the Victorian Bushmen, slating that, in the recent severe engagement at Rustenburg they were ...
Article : 101 wordsComplaints are made at time of the apparently arbitrary action of the Railway Commissioners in endeavoring to insist upon all persons who enter the metropolitan and suburban platforms ...
Article : 146 wordsDr. Zillmann, writing from London on June 18, to the president of the Silver League, states: "I regret that I have been compelled to abandon the idea of going to the States. The present ...
Article : 337 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The council of the Afrikander Bond at the Cape has ejected Mr. J. X. Merriman (late Treasurer) from the leadership, and rejected advances made ...
Article : 66 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--The Commandant to-day received a cablegram from Capetown, stating that 70 Queenslanders had been engaged several hours at Rustenburg. Lieutenant Walsh, Lieutenant ...
Article : 68 wordsFORSTER, Friday.--The body of Bernard Norling, who was drowned on Monday from the Empress of India, was found this afternoon about six miles north of the wreek. ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The division of troops from India under the command of Licutenant-General Sir Alfred Gaselee, has arrived at the British port of Wel-hai-wel, in the ...
Article : 36 words"Fine weather has been experienced almost over the whole of the colony,' said Mr. Russell, when seen last evening regarding the meteorological conditions. The only exceptions were ...
Article : 209 wordsHOBART, Friday,--The Victorian contingent, with the exception of Newby, Wells, Meagher, (who was wounded in the leg and thigh), and Brooks, left this morning for Melbourne via ...
Article : 201 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Lieut.-Gen. Sir Leslie Rundle has taken Commando Nek, south of Bethelehem. The Boers have gone towards Fouresberg ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Friday.--In response to the appeal of the European residents of Shanghai, Vice-Admiral Seymour has despatched two ...
Article : 69 wordsUpon the passage of the resolution submitted to the Legislative Assembly by Sir William Lyne in favor of the despatch of a contingent to China a message was sent to the Secretary of State for ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Sat 28 Jul 1900, Page 9
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