On the motion of the Earl of Selborne, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, the motion for the first reading of the Australian Commonwealth Bill ...
Article : 241 wordsIn view of the large drafts of troops which are being made from the British garrison at Hong Kong for China, the German community on the island has ...
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Article : 57 wordsThe Transvaal railway line which runs from Laing's Nek to Johannesburg and Pretoria is now open to Standerton. ...
Article : 57 wordsSome further details have been received of the affair at Honingspruit, where the Boers destroyed, several railway culverts. ...
Article : 94 wordsA state of great unrest prevails at Canton, where, it is alleged, that there is every prospect of a rising if Li Hung Chang leaves. ...
Article : 55 wordsSix of the principal Chinese Viceroys have cabled to Washington, urging the Powers to grant an armistice, pending Li Hung Chang's contemplated visit to ...
Article : 52 wordsDr. Lenz, the German Consul at Chefoo, has sent the following telegram to the German Foreign Office:—"The 'Boxers' and Chinese soldiers ...
Article : 93 wordsDr. L. S. Jameson, who led the raid on the Transvaal in December, 1895, has been elected to represent Kimberley in the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire was opened yesterday in London, under the presidency of the Earl of Selborne ...
Article : 158 wordsSir,—The speech of Sir John Forrest at Bunbury on the 15th inst., which, by the way, I learn, was inadequately reported, seems to have raised a ...
Article : 675 wordsGeneral Botha's advance guard has returned to the hills about eighteen miles from Pretoria. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn the Wentworth Police Court to-day, John Thomas Wilson, farmer and grazier, was committed for trial on a charge of sheep-stealing. Two half-castes have been ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has advised its London office that Tien-Tsin was relieved on the 23rd, by an international force. ...
Article : 227 wordsGeneral Rundle's rearguard, near Senekal, in the Orange River Colony, has repulsed a daring attack. The enemy were chased from their ...
Article : 80 wordsThe resignation of Mr. McKenzies, the Minister of Lands, was announced to-day. At a Government caucus it was resolved to ask him to reconsider his decision. ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Borchgrevink, the leader of the "Southern Cross" Antarctic Exploration Expedition, who have returned to London, read a paper yesterday ...
Article : 52 wordsThe returning officer for the province has forwarded to the Premier his suggestions for the proposed division of the colony under Federation. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe theatrical benefit organised by Mr. Frank Gerald on behalf of the families of those Australian soldiers in South Africa. who have been killed and ...
Article : 292 wordsThe Rev. Chas. Clark was warmly welcomed back to-night. Dr. Vance has sufficiently recovered to leave on a three months' holiday for ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Chamberlain has received from Mr. Seddon, the New Zealand Premier, a memorandum suggesting the incorporation of the Cook Islands, the Fiji ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Premier, in reply to Mr. Castine, said that when the lass mail contract was entered into it was stipulated that upon the completion of the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe annual dinner of Queenslanders in London was held yesterday. One hundred and fifty gentlemen were present. ...
Article : 88 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. W St. John Brodrick, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Government had been informed ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,420,000 bushels, and for the Continent 1,450,000 bushels. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe debate on the Address-in-Reply was continued in both Houses to-day and adjourned. ...
Article : 21 wordsA week ago it was announced that M. Francois, the French Consul, with his staff at Yunan-Fu, in the south of China, had been made prisoners, and ...
Article : 80 wordsSidney Cohen, commercial and commission agent, who sued the Merchants and Traders' Association for £1,000 damages for having published in a weekly trade ...
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Article : 50 wordsThe reactionaries at Peking have, it is reported, sent Kangys to Nanking, and Liping Hing as emissaries to Kiang-Su to intimidate the Viceroys who are ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Chinese fleet, which was recently at Shanghai, has been moved to Kiang Kin. where the forts command the Lower Yang-tse-Kiang. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 28 Jun 1900, Page 5
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