The attitude of Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the Cape Premier, in connection with the Transvaal crisis has excited great indignation in Cape Colony. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe re-trial of Captain Dreyfus by courtmartial was continued to-day at Rennes. Colonel Cordier, formerly chief of the Intelligence Department of the War Office, ...
Article : 222 wordsAt the end of last year a difficulty arose in connection with a concession to Russia by China of land at Hankau, the treaty port on the Yang-tse-Kiang. In defining the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe match between the Australian Eleven and the County of Lancashire was again interrupted by rain to-day. As on the first day, they were able, however, to ...
Article : 501 wordsAt last the farmers know what the monopolists have to offer them under a federal tariff. The organ of the high-tariff party scoffs at the assertion of the ...
Article : 1,521 wordsThough the Legislative Council only sat till the dinner adjournment yesterday, they succeeded in getting through a considerable amount of business. The most important ...
Article : 298 wordsThe respect in which the late Mrs. E. G. FitzGibbon was held[?] and the sympathy felt for Mr. FitzGibbon and his family in their sudden bereavement was evidenced ...
Article : 1,143 wordsBetween Mr. Chamberlain's pregnant warning, that "the sands have "almost run through the hour-glass," and the Cape Premier's [?]tude that ...
Article : 5,336 wordsIn consequence of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Oporto the Spanish Government established a sanitary cordon on the frontier of Spain and Portugal in order ...
Article : 98 wordsA considerable sensation has been caused by the telegram from Reuter's correspondent at Cape Town, stating that Mr. F. W. Reitz, the Transvaal State Secretary, ...
Article : 159 wordsM. Clemenceau's journal, "Aurore," has published 500 letters and telegrams, showing the movements of Esterhazy in 1893 and 1894—that is, before the arrest and ...
Article : 44 wordsA terrible accident has happened at Chicago. Some iron girders forming part of the unfinished roof of a large building known ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Premier informed Mr. Gair that the Government had no intention of reintroducing the Railway Classification Bill. In view of the opposition shown by the large ...
Article : 1,198 wordsThe evidence given by Colonel Cordier before the Dreyfus court-martial yesterday was of a sensational character. Witness stated that on October 15, 1894, ...
Article : 365 wordsThe Boer Afrikanders in Cape Colony are organising a women's petition to the Queen, praying Her Majesty to use her influence in favour of peace. ...
Article : 32 words[?] Wheat and Flour.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,145,000 quarters, as against 2,230,000 quarters hist week, and ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Boers are continuing their preparations for war. They are apparently concentrating in the western part of the Transvaal, in order ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsAs it had been stated that M. de Freycinet, ex Minister of War, was aware that 35,000,000 franes (£1,400,000) had been raised abroad for the purpose of defending ...
Article : 187 wordsBar silver is quoted at 27 3-16d. per oz. standard, being a decline of 3-16d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Natal Government is taking precautions for the defence of the colony in the event of war with the Transvaal. Defence corps are being formed at ...
Article : 45 wordsA cricket writer in the "Daily News" has discovered another thrower in the Australian team. He says:—"There is only one point about Noble to which ...
Article : 478 wordsThe barque Armadale, 1,960 tons, which left Baltimore on July 8 for Melbourne, has put in at Cape Town, her cargo having shifted. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe German newspapers, inspired by the Government, are not at all sympathetic towards the Transvaal. They describe in scornful language the "mental aberration ...
Article : 84 wordsThe critical position of affairs in the Transvaal has caused great alarm at Pretoria, and many women and children are leaving the seat of Government for Cape ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Paris police who are besieging the house in which M. Jules Guerin and other anti-Semites have barricaded themselves, to avoid arrest on the charge of conspiring ...
Article : 75 wordsDunn, the finder of the Wealth of Nations mine, who has been exploring for some time, representing Mr. Alex. Forrest, telegraphs from Mount Malcolm that he has ...
Article : 92 wordsMessrs. Arch. Currie and Co. yesterday received the following telegram from their Colombo agents with reference to the overdue steamer Dar[?], about which some ...
Article : 79 wordsThe British cruiser Tartar, 1,770 tons, 17 guns, one of the vessels of the Cape and West African Squadron, which arrived in Delagoa Bay last month, is lying near the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe offices of a number of Paris newspapers have been searched, some in connection with a conspiracy which is believed to exist for the purpose of changing the ...
Article : 57 wordsA few days ago samples of stone from surface outerops near Mount Torrens were being assayed for gold at the Government battery, when the assayer found ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the local court to-day David Atkins, a wood splitter in the Mount Prospect district, was charged with shooting at [?] married sister, Rosannah Brown, with ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Premier notified this afternoon that he would defer action concerning the Constitution Bill, which was rejected by the Council, until that body is again sitting. ...
Article : 103 wordsRecently a court of inquiry was appointed by the Minister of Mines to investigate the alleged mismanagement of the Newcastle Coal Company's "A" pit, and ...
Article : 143 wordsIntimation was received by Mr. J. H. M'Coll this morning that a miner named Charles M'Donald, employed at the Fosterville mine. Ellesmere, had been killed by ...
Article : 142 wordsR.M.S. India arrived at Suez, from Australia, on the 29th inst. F.M.S. Ville de la Ciotat left Colombo outwards on the 28th inst. ...
Article : 374 wordsA lively incident occurred at Nati[?] last Thursday during the progress of the annual municipal elections. The returning officer, who is the president ...
Article : 155 wordsThe House of Assembly has passed the Totalisator Bill, eliminating all the proposed privileges, to sports, regattas, and similar assemblages, and limiting the ...
Article : 43 wordsMrs. Blood, who has been postmistress at Hammond for the past two years, was charged before the magistrate on Tuesday with embezzling the sum of £60/5/11, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsRasmus Michael Peter Michalsen, of Yackandandah, builder. Filed at Beech[?] worth. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsA Sixpenny Cigar for Threepence. Try them, and you will find it true.— [Advt.] ...
Article : 16 wordsCaused by sluggish circulation, inadequate assimilation of food, and exhausted vital energy, finds speedy relief in Wolfe's Schnapps.—[Advt.] ...
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Article : 35 wordsCARTER and WERNER, Opticians, 86 Elizabeth[?]st.[?] op. Equitable-b[?]dg[?]—SIGHT TESTED by C. H. F. W[?]rner, Fellow (by examination) of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, London[?] ...
Article : 34 wordsThe constant use of Pears' Soap.— [Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 31 Aug 1899, Page 5
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