Advices from New Guinea yesterday state that the steamer Moresby, of Burns, Philp, and Company's line, was to leave Samarai on September 29. Captain Williams expected to reach Sydney ...
Article : 547 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--It is reported at the War Office that Major-General Sir William Penn Symons, commanding the British forces at Glencoe has been wounded ...
Article : 304 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The United States authorities at Washington report that no further progress has been made towards the ultimate settlement of the Samoan difficulty. ...
Article : 36 wordsOn the western frontier an estimated force of 16,000 Free Staters, under General M. Prinsloo, have occupied and fortified the Drakenberg Passes, and subsequently advanced along the railway line through Van Ree[?]en's Pass to Besters, within about 12 miles of Ladysmith, which is held by 9000 Britishers. From the north, the Transvaalers have advanced to Dannhauser, within 12 ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Dr. Cockburn, Agent-General for South Australia, now attending the International Commercial Congress being hold at Philadelphia, U.S.A., has delivered ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Her Majesty the Queen, who is at present at Ballater, in Aberdeenshire, wished "God-speed" to the 1st Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The National Agricultural Union is forwarding invitations to the colonics to attend an Imperial Agricultural Congress in London next summer. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsLONDON, Friday.--On the resumption of the debate on the Address-in-Reply, Mr. A. J. Stanhope, Liberal member for Burnley, moved an amendment condemning the ...
Article : 450 wordsCOOMA, Friday.--A rough time has been experienced by Mr. C. E. Wragge, one of the observers at Mount Kosciusko. He was discovered three miles from the observatory in a ...
Article : 728 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Of the horses which have accepted for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, to be run on Wednesday, the 25th instant, Mazella is quoted at 9 to 1, Oban 10 to 1, and Erc[?]ldoune 14 to 1 ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The Shaw, Saville, and Albion Company has declared a dividend of 5 per cent. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Rev. George Walters will preach tomorrow, morning and evening, in the I.O.O.F. Temple, the evening subject being "The Sign of the Cross." ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The annual balance-sheet of the South Australian Land and Mortgage Company shows a profit for the year of £11,424. The sum of £26,650 has been carried forward. ...
Article : 43 wordsTo-night the members of the League of Wheelmen will tender a complimentary dinner to their president, Mr. T. H. Hassall (Minister for Lands). Mr. Hassall has been president of the ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Friday.--In the third of the series of the five contests for the America Cup, the challenger, Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht, the Shamrock, promised well, when the wind once again died ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Additional particulars from the seat of war in Natal are to the effect that 9000 Boers attacked Glencoe at daybreak, shelling the British ...
Article : 105 wordsTwo out of the series of five races between the Columbia and Shamrock have at last been decided, and, unfortunately enough from our point of view, have resulted disastrously to the ...
Article : 811 wordsAt the Chapter House yesterday afternoon presentations were made to the Rev. P. J. Simpson (precentor of St. Andrew's Cathedral), in view of his departure for England next week on a six ...
Article : 135 wordsAnother of those old identities who had seen the hardy pioneer days of Sydney 50 years ago gradually give place, as old age crept on, to the rush and bustle of the present days passed ...
Article : 335 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Although not, as yet, officially confirmed owing to the fact that the Boers have isolated all Bechuanaland border towns, the report of a sensational ...
Article : 200 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Reports from the seat of war in Natal state that the Boers are manoeuvring in order to make a simultaneous attack on Ladysmith and ...
Article : 96 wordsGOSFORD, Friday.--Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, Minister for Works, accompanied by Mr. John Norton, member for Northumberland, paid Gosford and various paris of the district, an official ...
Article : 535 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--To the west of Ladysmith the Orange Free Staters are present at Besters to the number of 2000. These were gallantly engaged this ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The Mounted Rifle Corps in Umvoti, a district in the northeastern part of Natal, has mutinied. The corps was largely recruited among ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Friday.--An appeal was recently made to the Irish Local Government bodies to pass resolutions of sympathy with the Boers in the war between the Dutch ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Owing to the near approach of strong Boer commandos the British forces have been withdrawn from the towns of Vryburg and Fourteen ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. G. H. Reid, M.P., has notified his intention of being present at the banquet to be tendered to the Mayor of Redfern, Alderman Clarke, M.P., in the Redfern Town-hall, on ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The authorities at Durban have seized as contraband of war the steamer Rollo's cargo of Jarrahdale sleepers, which had been consigned to ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The Boers have advanced on Glencoe, and are attacking the British position with great vigor. The main body of the enemy, under the ...
Article : 166 wordsTwo ladies, Miss Beatrice Hassall and Miss I. M'Callum, leave Sydney by the P. and O. steamer Himalaya today for Port Said en route to Jerusalem, whither they are proceeding, as ...
Article : 509 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The latest official intelligence from Kimberley is dated the 17th inst., and from Mafeking, the 15th inst. On those dates both towns reported all ...
Article : 54 wordsA unique function took place in the vaults of the House of Commons the other day. It would appear that up till now the members of the Kitchen Committee of St. Stephen's have purchased ...
Article : 310 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Cape Customs has impounded £150,000 worth of minted gold on board the Kinfauns Castle, consigned to the Transvaal. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The Boers have captured a train running between Ladysmith and Glencoe, a distance of 42 miles. The train was conveying several British ...
Article : 45 wordsA fact worthy of being recorded is that a weakness in the Shamrock's gear was foretold before the racing for the America Cup began. A wire dated, New York, September 13, to the ...
Article : 310 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Major Lord Edward Cecil (Grenadier Guards), Lord Salisbury's fourth son, is at Mafeking serving under Colonel R. S. S. Baden-Powell, ...
Article : 51 wordsOliver Hickman (41), a coal-miner, was admitted to Prince Alfred Hospital last night suffering from injuries received in a mine at Helensburch, and from which he is not likely to ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, Friday.--A Russian officer named Colonel Stakhovitch will accompany Major-General Sir Archibald Hunter, chief of General Buller's staff, to the front. ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--An armored British train reconnoitring to the north of Kimberley, towards Fourteen Streams, on Saturday, the 14th inst., ...
Article : 44 wordsThe debate in the Legislative Assembly on the Transvaal contingent proposal lasted until after 7 o'clock yesterday morning. The following concludes our report of the ...
Article : 1,818 wordsA case which at one time created immense sensation in France has just been ended by the pardon of a man who. If he was a murderer, was, at the same time, a hero. In 1892 a man named ...
Article : 169 wordsSome time ago the inside sheet of the "Vorwaeris" was confiscated by the police. No one know why, but it was generally supposed to be for reasons of "lese-majeste." When, however, it ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON, Friday.--A well-known eccentric identity in the person of "Baron" Gainsberg has been court-martialled at Pretoria, and shot as an English spy. ...
Article : 73 wordsMajor-General French, who has not yet recovered from his attack of influenza, was seen yesterday at his residence, Dawes' Point. His original recommendations to the Government as ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, Friday.--President Kruger reports that Lieutenant Nesbitt and seven of his men, who had been prisoners in the hands of the Boers since the armored train ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Sat 21 Oct 1899, Page 9
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