After a long interval, news has again been received from the beleagured garrison at Ladysmith. Although the town was well stocked with ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Paris police, who recently seized and confiseated an indecent caricature of Her Majesty the Queen, which had been publicly exhibited, have made another and ...
Article : 204 wordsAfter the storm, the calm. The lobbics of Parliament-house were almost deserted yesterday, and as the new Ministers have not settled down in their positions yet, ...
Article : 1,380 wordsThe effect of a change of Ministry upon depatmental administration does not always receive adequate recognition. Attention is usually much ...
Article : 6,125 wordsMr. Solomon handed to His Excellency the Governor this morning his resignation as Premier, and recommended that Mr. Playford should be sent for. When His ...
Article : 619 wordsThe arduous duties which devolved on Major-General Yule, at Glencoe, where he succeeded to the command of the troops when the late Sir William Penn Symons ...
Article : 71 wordsThe treatment of prisoners of war necessarily depends to a great extent upon several considerations, the principal of which are the relative proportions of the ...
Article : 869 wordsIt is understood in military circles that the War Office authorities intend shortly to mobilise a seventh division, which will be the first division of the third army ...
Article : 65 wordsA party from Government-house, including Lord Richard Nevill and Lord Hindlip, are on a visit to Bright. They arrived there on Tuesday night, and are staying at the ...
Article : 650 wordsIn his message to Congress President M'Kinley refers to the currency question. He recommends that the existing gold satandard be continued. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Walter Long, president of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at a banquet given by the Mercers' Company last night, made a significant statement respecting the ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the competition was spirited and prices were well maintained. The following are the average prices ...
Article : 156 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. J. C. Neild asked whether it was true that the Imperial Government had requested that no officer higher than a major ...
Article : 178 wordsA Mass was recently celebrated by the Pope in memory of Sir William Penn Symons. The distinguished soldier visited Rome some time ago, when he was received ...
Article : 1,001 wordsMr. J. B. Robinson, the well-known South African mine-owner and millionaire, who is now in London, has expressed the opinion that recent events show that ...
Article : 49 wordsAt Ladybrand, a town in the Orange Free state, near the border of Basutoland, the refusal of eleven Englishmen to submit to be commandeered by the Boers has resulted in ...
Article : 69 wordsAn important communication, has been received by Sir Redvers Buller from Sir George White with regard to certain movements of the Boers who have been ...
Article : 85 wordsAt to-day's auction sales of Australasian tallow 1,850 casks were offered, and 1,625 casks were sold. Prices realised were as follows:—Fine mutton, 28/ ...
Article : 101 wordsSir Readers Buller, in reporting to the War Office on the defence of Ladysmith by Sir George White, has referred to the engagement that took place on November 9. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe new Ministry was sworn in to-day, and when the Legislative Assembly met Mr. Philp announced that he was prepared to go on with the budiness of the ...
Article : 517 wordsSubscriptions continue to come in freely to the fund that is being raised for the relief of the families of the soldiers and sailors killed and wounded in South ...
Article : 42 wordsSir Redvers Buller has appointed Sir C. F. Clery to the command of the British column now stationed at Frere, 13 miles south of Colenso. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe victory for the Seddon Government at the general election yesterday was greater than at first announced. It now transpires that the Opposition gained only ...
Article : 165 wordsAt the meeting to-day of the Ladies' Patriotic Fund committee all the necessary arrangements were made for holding a "Patriotic Saturday" on the 9th inst., on ...
Article : 64 wordsFurther movements of the Boer troops are reported in districts of the Cape Colony south of the Orange River. For some time past the Boers have held ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Boers have utilised the past few weeks to strongly fortify their positions round Ladysimth and Colonso. The hills that encircle both these places ...
Article : 72 wordsAt last there is news from Ladysmith, not of any great importance, but sufficient to relieve the anxiety of all who may have friends or relatives in the beleaguered ...
Article : 1,170 wordsSir,—As "The Argus" is paying the £5 5/ for the right of publishing Kipling's poem, I think it fair that I should pay the 1/ for the poem, though it be not in ...
Article : 349 wordsThe Legislative Council, which yesterday passed the Early Closing Bill through committee, took up the consideration of the Gold and Mineral Dredging Bill this ...
Article : 521 wordsRailway communication having been reestablished between De Aar and Lord Mothuen's positions on the Modder River, the various supplies of which the column ...
Article : 66 wordsFurther particulars have been received of the fight at the Boer laager, to the west ot Kimberley by Colonel Kekewich, on November 28. ...
Article : 110 wordsSome doubt having existed as to the treatment of the Boer prisoners of war the "Cape Times," in its issue of November 9, published full particulars on the subject, ...
Article : 282 wordsJudging from some curious native reports, the Boer hatred of Mr. Cecil Rhodes is as strong as ever. Some time ago a price was put upon his ...
Article : 63 wordsSome weeks ago the Metropolitan Fire Brigades' Board forwarded a letter to the Metropolitan Board of Works suggesting that that body should take immediate ...
Article : 345 wordsSatisfactory news has been received from Colonel Baden-Powell, dated Mafeking, November 27. On that date Colonel Baden-Powell ...
Article : 136 wordsThe large workships in the De Beers' compounds at Kimberley, belonging to the De Beers Diamond Company, have been converted into an arsenal. ...
Article : 56 wordsA case of brutal and continued cruelty of husband to his wife was revealed at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day, when a young man named Arthur Hancock ...
Article : 362 wordsThe Premier anticipates that the present session of Parliament will be brought to a close about Thursday next. In the Legislative Assembly this ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Boers are reported to be making preparations to bold Pretoria against a siege. Large stocks of provisions have been accumulated, sufficient, it is said, to keep the ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is expected that another commando will leave for the front to-day. A number of burghers have been commandeered, and some volunteers have offered their services. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Australian and Canadian contingents have been joined into one brigade. The departure of the colonial troops from Cupe Town for the north was marked by ...
Article : 103 wordsGeneral Joubert, the commandant-general of the Transvaal, has been obliged to leave Natal, and go to Volksrust, across the frontier, for medical treatment. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Parliamentary session, which has dragged wearily for nearly six months, will probably close to-morrow night. The Premier, in moving the second ...
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Article : 119 wordsA correspondent of "The Times" writes: —"Much has been said and written within the last few days on the number of officers who have been killed in the Transvaal in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 8 Dec 1899, Page 5
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