The Court Circular published in this morning's papers contains a grave intimation respecting the health of Her Majesty the Queen, who is at present at Osborne, in the Isle of Wight. ...
Article : 353 wordsIt is reported at Portsmouth that, in consequence of the serious illness of Her Majesty the Queen, the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York ...
Article : 65 wordsThe advance of the western division of the Cape, raiders has been checked. The Boers are retiring to Calvinia, l85 miles north-east of Cape Town, where the main ...
Article : 90 wordsA well-informed correspondent,"Veritas," wrote to us on the subject of the heavy duty on reaper and binder twine. He said:— ...
Article : 682 wordsIt is Mr. Barton's intention to leave Sydney on Wednesday night for Adelaide, where he will deliver an address on Friday. He will then return to Melbourne ...
Article : 1,583 wordsNurse Shappere, who returned to Melbourne on Thursday after 16 months' service in South Africa, has had a varied experience. A native of Ballarat, she gained ...
Article : 586 wordsThe Portuguese authorities at Delagoa Bay are sending to Lisbon 900 Boers, who took refuge in Portuguese territory when Lord Roberts advanced to Komati Poort. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe real name of the ex-soldier who murdered an elderly farmer named Pearson in a carriage on the London and Southwestern railway was not Hill, as at first ...
Article : 117 wordsOnly 100 Dutch colonists have joined Commandant Kruitzinger's commando ot 900 men, which was recently reported to have passed within 15 miles of Richmond, ...
Article : 35 wordsTwenty Boer prisoners, who were being taken to Ceylon, have succeeded in making their escape. As the transport, conveying them was ...
Article : 62 wordsAccording to a trooper who was taken prisoner by General Do Wet and who has been released, the Boer general's com mando is principally composed of ...
Article : 77 wordsVictoria Alexandrina, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, was born at Kensington Palace, May 24, 1819. She is the only child of the late Duke ...
Article : 783 wordsFurther details are published of the wreck of the second-class cruiser Sybille, 8 guns, 3,400 tons, which recently landed a force of bluejackets and some guns at ...
Article : 77 wordsA sensational murder which was committed in 1889 has again attracted attention. Gabrielle Bompard, who was sentenced, ...
Article : 248 wordsFurther details have been received of the victory gained by the column under the command of Colonel Colville, of the Rifle Brigade, at Ventondershoek. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe following deaths fiorn enteric fever at Pretoria are reported:—Private T. O. Martin, of the New Zealand Rough-riders; Private Denis Murray, of the New South ...
Article : 58 wordsIt was stated by the Minister of Defence on Saturday that as soon as he receives a reply from the Marquis of Tullibardine regarding the pension, if any, to ...
Article : 155 words"When I last wrote to you, it was about going to Reitfontein with a convoy. We got there all right, and after a couple of days we started to come back with the ...
Article : 953 wordsIn the course of a trenchant article in the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" of Tues day, on the tariff controversy in this state, the high-tariff organ's light taxation ...
Article : 432 wordsAn engagement has been fought westward of Taungs, which is between Kimberley and Vryburg, between Lord Methuen's column and a Boer force of 1,000 men, ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Justice Wright, of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, has sanctioned the voluntary winding-up of the London and Globe Finance Corporation, ...
Article : 69 wordsNearly £200 has been subscribed to waids erecting a memorial to the late Private Arthur Jones. At a meeting on Friday night, it was resolved to invite ...
Article : 58 wordsAt a meeting of the Roberts memorial executive committee, held last night, it was decided to raise tho monument to be erected 1ft by the addition of an extra ...
Article : 77 wordsFrom January 5 to January 10 Danielskuit, a town in Griqualand West, 95 miles north-west of Kimberley, was in considerable danger of capture by the enemy. ...
Article : 114 wordsFurther details are available respecting Her Majesty's condition and the movements of the members of the Boyal family, who have been summoned to Osborne. ...
Article : 185 wordsThe French vintage for 1900 was 67,000,000 hectolitres (1,474,000,000 gallons), being the largest since 1875. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Schultze Memorial Fund has just been closed. Two tablets were erected to the memory of Private Emil Schultze, who fell in South Africa, one in the school ...
Article : 41 wordsTo-dny's quotation for bar silver is 29 l-16d. per ounce standard, being a decline of [?]d, since Wednesday last. ...
Article : 25 wordsTrooper J. Friend, who went to South Africa with the Victorian Imperial Bushmen, has been promoted to the rank of lance-corporal. ...
Article : 23 wordsFour Victorian soldiers invalided from South Africa, landed at Port Melbourne on Friday by the steamer persic, their names being:—Corporal R. Rudd, Troopers M. Dunlop and T. Bannister ...
Article : 44 wordsA New Zealand force has defeated 800 Boers west of Ventersberg, 105 miks northeast of Blocmfontein, on the railway to Pretoria. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsAn enthusiastie welcome home was tendered by Brighton residents at a smoke social on Thursday evening to Privates Jennings and M'Crackcn and Gunner Whyhrow. The mayor (Councillor John ...
Article : 114 wordsQuotations for frozen meat are as follows:— New Zealand Sheep.—Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes (55lb. tto 65lb.)— ...
Article : 313 wordsThe High-Tariff organ revives an unfortunate statement made by Sir William Lyne some years ago Referring to importations of breadstuffs in a year when ...
Article : 289 wordsBINDIGO.—On Thursday night Sergeant Keck, a member of the first contingent, who recently returned home, was entertained by ex-members of the 5th Battalion. ...
Article : 764 wordsAt a late hour last night Mr. J. Carroll, Native Minister of New Zealand, who is at present visiting Melbourne, received from Mr. Seddon (Premier of New Zealand) the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe order which has been issued forbidding all residents in the Cape Colony with the exception of soldiers and officials to possess either arms or ...
Article : 76 wordsAn unofficial announcement in this morning's papers states that Her Majesty's condition is unchanged, Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bart., and Sir James ...
Article : 78 wordsSir Archibald Hunter having been invalided home, General Churles Tucker, formerly commanding the 7th.Division, has been appointed to take command at ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the competition was spirited, and prices were fully maintained. The following are the average prices ...
Article : 137 wordsSir Henry Colvile, who commanded the 9th Division in South Africa until July last year, when he was relieved of his command, and was ordered to England, has ...
Article : 274 wordsCaptain Tickell, officer commanding the Victorian naval contingent serving in China, has reported that the stores supplied to the contingent before leaving ...
Article : 80 wordsKalgoorlie, s.s., 1,853 tons. H. M'Donald, for Adelaide and W.A. ports. M'Hwraith, M'[?]harn, and Co., agents. Pateena, s.s., 1,212 tons, J. V. Bentley, for ...
Article : 178 wordsThe murderer of M. Stambuloff, Premier of Bulgaria, in July, 1895, has escaped from prison. ...
Article : 25 words"Heading the cables as a whole," said Dr. Grant last evening, on being showing the message received from London, "it appears to me, as a physician, that the condition of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 21 Jan 1901, Page 5
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