We give below a number of the opinions of public men and of the press upon the Federal Premier's speech, attention being directed principally to the fiscal issue as ...
Article : 44 wordsStringent measures have been taken by the authorities to cope with disloyalty in the Cape Colony. An order has been issued forbidding all ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. Barton stated to-day that no successor had yet been appointed to Sir James Dickson in the Federal Ministry. A Queensland politician had been asked to ...
Article : 169 wordsFurther details are published of the affixing'. the Imperial seal to the joint note presented by the powers. When the joint note was signed, Prince ...
Article : 80 words"It is impossible to raise the revenue without a high tariff " is a cry to be used, it appears, on every platform by ultraprotection advocates. This statement is a ...
Article : 592 wordsMr. A. W. Pearse writes us:— "With your kind permission, I would like to point out to the people of this country the tremendous competition we ...
Article : 734 wordsA cable message was received yesterday by the Minister of Defence from the Marquis of Tullibardine regarding the enrolment of 250 Scotsmen in Australia, for ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. Peacock, Chief Secretary, said that the programme would be generally endorsed throughout the Commonwealth. The most important subject at the present time was ...
Article : 269 wordsSir E. Braddon declares that it is difficult to judge accurately of Mr. Barton's policy from the condensed reports, but it looks as if a revenue tariff is to be ...
Article : 47 wordsMiUtary experts, writing from Peking, are enthusiastic in their praise of the Indian troops who are serving in China under Sir Alfred Caselee. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Sydney Morning Herald" says that Mr. Barton's exposition of the policy of the Federal Ministry was not so definite as anticipated on the ...
Article : 145 wordsSir,—Some days ago Lieut.—Colonel Creagh called upon me with reference to obtaining volunteers for the Marquis of Tullibardine's scottish Horse. I refrained from taking ...
Article : 417 wordsMr. Alexander S. M'Kenzie, who is a candidate for the St. Kilda electorate in the room of Sir George Turner, is a resident of Balaclava, and was' first president of the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe electicns for the Dublin Municipal Council have resulted in the re-election of Several loyalist members of the late council, despite the virulent opposition of Mr. ...
Article : 70 wordsAnother unfortunate surrender is reported from the Stormberg district of the Cape Colony. A patrol of Prince Alfred's Volunteer ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" writes:—"The ingenuity displayed in finding a way to avoid calling protection by its own name is one of the most remarkable ...
Article : 205 wordsBritish capitalists have agreed to finance a French concession for the construction of a radway from Jibutd, the Flench port on the Gulf of Aden, to Adis Abeba, the ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. M'Lean said:—"I am very pleased to see that it is not the intention of the Government to make any important appointments, such as appointments to the ...
Article : 207 wordsSutherland, cast of Clanwilliam, 160 miles north-east of Cape Town, has been looted by a Boer force of 100 men, which afterwards retreated northward. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery, addressing the Wolverhampton Chamber of Commerce last night, made some interesting remarks on the commercial contests of the 20th ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Trades-hall Council, under the chairmanship of the president (Mr. F. Tudor), held a meeting in private till a late hour last night to decide on what action should ...
Article : 108 wordsReports received from Lord Kitchener show that the Boers are still concentrating in the east of the Transvaal. Lord Kitchener reports that at Carolina, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Premier has received a telegram from Sir William Lyne, stating that he has heard nothing from the War Office in reference to a transport to take the fifth ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. H. H. Wettenhall, formerly a member of the Legislative Council for the Nelson Province, a resident of Pomona, near Stawell. has announced himself as a ...
Article : 57 words"Mr. Barton was far more definite from a fiscal point of view than he has been in anything he has said since he was appointed Prime Minister. His tariff is to ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. M'Kenzie, M.L.A., leader of the Country party in the Assembly, said:—"On the whole Mr. Barton's speech was very much what I expected, and, generally ...
Article : 214 wordsAlford, late cashier of the Tirst Nationail Bank, New York, who embezzled the funds of the bank to the amount of £140,000, has been convicted, and sentenced to 13 years' ...
Article : 349 wordsSir,—At a conference of Premiers held at Sydney on the 9th inst. to consider the question of despatching more troops to South Africa, a cable message was sent to ...
Article : 392 wordsAn extraordinary tragedy has occurred on the London and South-Western Railway line. As a train was approaching Surbiton— ...
Article : 172 wordsWe have received a letter from Mr. Robert Harper dealing with the starch controversy. We have given Mr. Harper the fullest possible opportunity of stating his ...
Article : 98 wordsLord Kitchener's policy of systematically collecting the Boer families in the country districts and their live stock into convenient centres, where they can be protected ...
Article : 86 wordsHigh tariff orators are freely stating that in Victoria, the protectionist colony, the Customs duties levied amounted to only 10.8 per cent. of the total ...
Article : 742 words"Although Mr. Barton is evidently putting out feelers, and though he does not apparently admit it expedient to be too definate all at once, his pronouncement in ...
Article : 81 wordsThe South American Republio of Venezuela has become involved in difficulties with both Great Britain and the United States. ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. Barton's speech formed the topic of conversation to-day among politicians and city men generally. For some reason or other nothing very definite on the fiscal ...
Article : 581 words"The Prime Minister's deliverance on the fiscal question was broadly in keeping with the elevated character of the other portions of his speech. It is a sorry policy ...
Article : 52 wordsThe column commanded by Colonel A. E. W. Colville, of the Rifle Brigade, which has been lately operating in the vicinity of the Witwatersrand, has been successfully ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "Brisbane Courier" states:—"The first announcement of importance is that the Ministry is protectionist without reservations of any sort. We understand now why ...
Article : 198 wordsMr. Joseph Hodges Choato, the United States Ambassador in London, has bcou appointed arbitrator between Great Britain and China in the ease of the steamer Kow. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe departure for Pretoria of Sir Alfred Milner, who was recently appointed Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River colonies, has been indefinitely postponed, as ...
Article : 52 wordsA despatch has been received by the Lieutenant-Governor from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, enclosing a copy of a report received by the Admiralty ...
Article : 87 wordsThe bicentenary of the Prussian mouarchy is being celebrated with great rejoicings in Berlin, and throughout Pr ussia. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe fighting Boers have given a further proof of their hostility to the movement in favour of peace, which is spreading among the Dutch residents of the Transvaal and ...
Article : 82 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Bracadale, from Melbourne October 5; Northern Monarch, from Port ...
Article : 50 wordsMrs. Freemnn, a resident of Victoriastreet, Flemington, has reported to the police that on Thursday evening, during her absence, her house was entered, and £50 ...
Article : 63 wordsTho daughter of Mr. John Davison Rockefeller, the American millionaire, has married Mr. prentice, a barrister, of Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller has settled upon his ...
Article : 45 wordsJimmy Governor, tho aboriginal, who was tho chief actor in the massacro at Breelong when several members of tho Mawboy family wcia brutally murdered, and whoso ...
Article : 196 wordsThe British prisoners who were captured by the Boers at Helvetia on December 20 and at Balfast on January 7 have been released. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Port Ludlow, bound from Port Townsend, Puget Sound, with lumber for Sydney, has returned to part disabled. She lost her deck-load during a gale, and was ...
Article : 36 wordsAnno Augusta Butler, of Sydnoy-road, Parkville.latelyboardinghouse-keeper. Cause of insolvency-Excpensca of bonrdinghousckeeping exceeding receipts. Liabilities, £08 ...
Article : 29 wordsAs the rcbnlt of a conference of captains of eounty cnckot teams reecntly held to eousider the question of whmt constitutes fair howling, the Marylebone Creket Club, ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Ocean Steamship Company (Mr. Alfred Holt), Liverpool, is starting a new steam service direct from Glasgow to Australia via Liverpool and London. The ...
Article : 49 wordsThe second-class cruiser, Sybille, 8 guns, 3,400 tons, which recently landed a force of bluejackets and some guns at Lambert Bay, north of Table Bay, has gone ashore ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsA special session of the Newfoundland Parliament is to be held for the purpose of agreeing to a renwai of the modus vivendi betwcen Gicat Britain and Frnce with ...
Article : 74 wordsThree deaths at the Melbourno Hospital, the rcsuit of accidtnts, Were upoited to the loroner yestciday. Alex Stewart, a butcher, aged 30, living m Snuth-street. ...
Article : 121 wordsEdward Savral, a ncgro, is a man of extraordlnary versatl[?]y. aceording to the story he told at the City Conrt ycstcrday. Savrnl and another coloured man, named p[?] Edards, and acensed of ...
Article : 158 wordsLord Roberts's appeal for additional volunteer regiments for service in South Africa is being cagerly responded to by the yeomanry, the volunteers, and the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe P. and O. R.M.S. Victoria arrived at Colombo from Australia on the 16th inst. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. James Ashton, M.L.A., of New South Wales, a prominent member of the National Council of the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, is at present ...
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Advertising : 153 wordsLord Kitchener has formed a corps of fighting scouts, who are being equipped in such a manner as to give them great mobility. Each man will be provided with ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 19 Jan 1901, Page 13
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