LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- A letter has been received from Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister at Pekin, bearing date July 6. ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, Saturday. -- The House of Commons lust night voted the supplementary estimates of £11,500,000 for the prosecution of the South African and Chinese campaigns. ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Sunday, Noon. -- The Viceroys of the provinces in the Valley of the Yang-tse-Kiang (the British sphere of influence), while professing the most peaceful intentions, are ...
Article : 199 wordsPreparations on what is called a vast scale are to be made to celebrate the inauguration of the Commonwealth. None of the details have been worked out. ...
Article : 1,943 words"THERE IS NO CHINESE LANGUAGE." It is common for people who have spent years in China to be asked the question, "Do you speak Chinese ?" ...
Article : 812 wordsLONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- In the House of Lords last night, the Earl of Wemyss asserted that a British military attache had declared that it was all-important ...
Article : 275 wordsTrooper George Whittington ("Dick"),of the New South Wales Lancers (Sydney Corps), is amongst the invalids. He looks rather poorly, and complains of being terribly shaken by the ...
Article : 336 wordsLONDON, Saturday. -- The British Government, replying to the Emperor of China's request for mediation, declined to hold any communication with China until the safety ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON, Sunday Afternoon. -- The Chinese representing the Russian Bank at Pekin confirms the news of the Pekin massacre. ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- Sheng, the Chinese Director of Telegraphs, has announced Unit the Ministers at Pekin were safe on Tuesday, the 24th inst., and that ...
Article : 69 wordsA large deputation waited upon Mr. William M'Millan cm Saturday morning with a requisition signed by 1500 electors of the Eastern Suburbs asking him to allow himself to be nominated as ...
Article : 391 wordsLONDON, Sunday, Noon. -- The third-class twin-screw cruiser Mohawk (Commander F.H. Freeman) has arrived at Hongkong, from New Zealand via Townsville. ...
Article : 26 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 wordsLONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- A groom who was in the employ of the late Baron de Ketteler, the German Minister at Pekin, has arrived at the coast. He declares that the ...
Article : 51 wordsAmongst the passengers by the Oonah is Trooper Cecil J. Stuart, of Kitchener's Horse. He is an American by adoption, and fought under General Leo in Cuba. As soon as he heard of ...
Article : 404 wordsLONDON, Sunday, Noon. -- Out of a total available force of 240,000 British volunteers, 150,000 will undergo a fortnight's training in camp. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 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 : 40 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- The Allies have decided to advance from Tien-tsin to Pekin by way of the railway line. The Chinese forces are concentrating at ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Sunday. -- The Imperial Government proposes to ask Parliament to vote small pensions to all widows and orphans of soldiers who are killed in action, or die from ...
Article : 48 wordsThere is now in Sydney a gentleman who held an official position in China for a great number of years, and who has bad an intimate acquaintance with tho Chinese people and the conditions ...
Article : 1,055 wordsThe first step towards the actual formation, of the naval contingent to be sent to China next week was taken on Saturday at Fort Macquarie, the men who had volunteered being medically ...
Article : 1,063 wordsLONDON, Sunday. -- Corporal H.J. Kirk-Patrick, of the 1st Australian Horse, and Trooper B. Armytage, of the Victorian Mounted Infantry, have received ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- Details to hand in connection with the native Manchurian and Chinese outrages upon Christians at Mukden, the capital city of ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- In the ease E.G. Jellicoe v. the Wellington (N.Z.) Law Society, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed the appeal. ...
Article : 101 wordsPERTH, Sunday. -- The Federation campaign is drawing, to a close, and the discussions are becoming very warm. In Perth on Monday night the discussion will terminate with a debate ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Sunday. -- Mr. E. Burney Young, manager of the South Australian Produce Depot in London, is urging the Australian Governments to compile and circulate in the United ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "official" landing will be to-day at 10 o'clock, when the men will be conveyed, in drags provided by the Government, to the Victoria Barracks, whore they will be welcomed by the ...
Article : 45 words"Photography," in reproducing some photographs of the recent total eclipse, says that no complicated apparatus was employed in taking them. An old Andrew Ross landscape lens was ...
Article : 192 wordsLONDON, Sunday. -- Mr. Kenneth Inglis, a New Zealand student at the Edinburgh University, has won the China Scholarship of £100 per annum for eight years, and also a natural science scholarship ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Saturday. -- The Kaiser, in bidding farewell yesterday to the German troops, who were embarking at Bremerhaven for China, concluded his address by ...
Article : 105 wordsSir, -- If honor is to be paid where honor is due, the name of the late Sir Henry Parkes, G.C.M.G., should be permanently associated with the Golden Commonwealth. ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Saturday. -- The steamer Auchenarden, of the American and Australian line, which sailed from New York on July 21 for the colonies has returned to port with her boilers leaking. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following interviews wore obtained from invalided soldiers, who arrived from South Africa by the steamer Oonah last night: -- SERGEANT WALPOLE. ...
Article : 697 wordsAn official inquiry was held at Greymouth on the 21st inst. into the cause of the stranding of the Union Company's steamer Taupo, on the 16th inst., before Mr. Hawkins, S.M., and Captains Bignell and Mollinson, ...
Article : 162 wordsLONDON, Saturday Afternoon. -- Her Majesty the Queen has congratulated Lieutenant-colonel Willcocks upon his achievement upon achievement in relieving Kumassi. ...
Article : 24 wordsStudies of the effect of machinery upon hand-production, made by the United States Labor Bureau, show that 52 men are now employed in making a plough, against 2 in 1850, the ...
Article : 162 wordsLONDON, Sunday. -- The marriage is announced of Lady Randolph Churchill, widow of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, to a son of Mr. William Cornwallis West, Lord Lieutenant of ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- The Canton ringleader of the Triad, a celebrated Chinese secret society, has been arrested. He was preparing to attack the foreign ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Postmaster-General has received the following: -- "Cable Company advises line between Kurracheo and Bombay interrupted, cutting off Hindo, European and Turkish route. This will ...
Article : 34 wordsThe brigantine Aratapu, a well-known Sydney trader, which arrived at Wellington from Mercury Day recently with a cargo of timber, had a narrow escape of sharing the fate of the three-masted schooner Elizabeth Price, ...
Article : 102 wordsThe evidence as to the corruption of the Boer Government given in the Belgium Court in the salt concerned with the famous Selati concession is remarkable. Huron Eugene Oppenheim, the ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Saturday. -- The "Daily Express" publishes a Chinese report to the effect that a large section of the Boxers at Pekin, who favor the overthrow of the Manchu and ...
Article : 73 wordsFORSTER, Sunday. -- At an inquest held here yesterday by the Coroner from Taree on the body of Bernard Norling, who was drowned on Monday last from the schooner Empress of India ...
Article : 99 wordsYesterday afternoon, shortly before 3 o'clock, a fire broke out at 139 Regent-street, Redfern, occupied by Joseph Andrews, newsagent. The family had just left the house for the afternoon when the fire occurred. As a ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Mon 30 Jul 1900, Page 5
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