In the House of Commons yesterday the debate on the Address in Reply (which has already been carried in the Lords) was resumed. ...
Article : 324 wordsAn extraordinary illustration of party rancour has been furnished by Mr. William Randal Cremer, the Liberal member for the Haggerston Division of Shoreditch. ...
Article : 230 wordsFor weeks past the cleaners and painters have had possession of Government-house. The place is being renovated and arranged for the accommodation of the ...
Article : 398 wordsHigh Tariffists in this state indulge in much contemptuous reference to the condition of the masses in free-trade Great Britain. For half a ...
Article : 6,493 wordsThe committee appointed to arrange for the erection of a memorial statue to her late Majesty Queen Victoria meets this afternoon. It has a somewhat unexpected ...
Article : 475 wordsSir John Forrest, Federal Minister of Defence, and Lady Forrest, and Mr. C. C. Kingston, Minister of Trade and Customs, arrived in Melbourne by the Adelaide ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsThe following casualties are reported in connection with the fighting with De Wet at Grasfontein, near Philipstown, on the 13th inst.:— ...
Article : 67 wordsAt Sobwartz Kopje on the 13th inst. a number of casualties occurred among the Queensland Bushmen. Corporal W. Buchanan was severely ...
Article : 48 wordsIn his address to the Toronto Clinical Socicty, Dr. G. Sterling Nyerson, lately British and Canadian Red Cross Commissioner with Lord Roberts's headquarters, ...
Article : 89 wordsThe commando of Boers which, under Commandant Hertzog, occupied Calvinia, in the Cape Colony, for some days, until driven out by Colonel De Lisle's force last ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsColonel Price has received the following from General Alderson, who relieved him at Doornkop, when Captain Rudduck was with General Alderson:— ...
Article : 165 wordsThe place of burial of ex-King Milan of Servia, who died of influenza at Vienna a few days ago, has given great offence to his former subjects. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Boer peace mission, which, last year, left South Africa to present to the European Governments, the Boer view of the war, and to urge that the powers should ...
Article : 237 wordsA New York correspondent of the "Scotsman" writes (December 29, 1900) thus on the millionaires (mostly tariff-created) of America:— ...
Article : 155 wordsA donation of £25 by a resident of Camperdown has been given to the fund for the erection of a memorial to the late Private Arthur Jones, of the first Victorian ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. M'Culloch, the chairman of the ceremonial committee of the Victorian Cabinet, left Melbourne for Sydney by the express train yesterday afternoon. He is ...
Article : 235 wordsA public meeting was held this evening at the town-hall Mr. A. A. Billson, the shire president, in the chair, to consider and adopt measures for the erection of a ...
Article : 98 wordsNews of the death of Private Alexander Draper, of the First Brabant's Horse, at Woodstock, South Africa, was received last night. The deceased's wife and mother ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsAnother tremendous leak in our revenue is caused by the differential duties by which the distillation of spirits in Victoria is encouraged and protected. This loss may ...
Article : 731 wordsAn impression prevails in business circles that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach) will, when delivering his Budget statement, propose several ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Government are receiving applications from men to join the South African constabulary. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has received a cable message from Mr. Chamberlain accepting the offer of Queensland of a sixth contingent for South Africa. Inquiries ...
Article : 39 wordsAn interesting debate, involving the conduct of the Foreign Office, took place in the House of Commons yesterday. When the House met, Mr. John Dillon, ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Victorian Government will not follow the example of the New South Wales authorities at the inauguration of the Commonwealth by obtaining accommodation at ...
Article : 75 wordsThe debate on the Address in Reply was resumed in the House of Commons yesterday by Viscount Cranbourne, the Under Secretary of State for Foreign ...
Article : 225 wordsIt now transpires that no effort was made by Lord Kitchener to prevent the entry of General De Wet into the Cape Colony. All the drifts on the Orange River had been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 380 wordsAt their meeting on Monday the Celebrations Committee of the Cabinet appointed Mr. G. B. H. Austen, architect, of the Public Works department, and Mr. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe condition of German trade, which for some time past has been causing concern to economists, is shown by statistics now published to have fallen off ...
Article : 81 wordsUntil the Government had decided on the principal street decorations to be undertaken by the state the Melbourne City Council was unable to take any very definite ...
Article : 303 wordsThe will of the late Lord Armstrong, the head of the great shipbuilding and engineering firm of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., of Elswick, Newcastle, has ...
Article : 82 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that Colonel Plumer's force, which pursued De Wet across the railway after the battle at Philipitown, has overtaken ...
Article : 49 wordsConsols are quoted at 97¾, or an advance of 1/2 since the 14th inst. ...
Article : 20 wordsBeet Sugar.—Mr. F. O. Licht, of Magdeburg, in his monthly circular, states that the production of beet sugar in Europe for the first five months of the campaign ...
Article : 140 wordsAccording to the latest reports the barbarities of De Wet have out been confined to his enemies, and the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that a serious ...
Article : 116 wordsChang Chih Tung, the viceroy of the province of Hupch and Hunan, whose headquarters are at Wuchang, on the Yangtse, opposite Hankow, is taking ...
Article : 87 wordsAs a result of a conference of captains of county cricket clubs recently held to consider the question of what constitutes fair bowling, the Marylebone Cricket Club, ...
Article : 186 wordsOn the 19th of last month the Victorian Government sent a cable message to the Agent-General, asking him to inquire whether the Pacific Cable Board would ...
Article : 284 wordsAt the meeting of the Brighton Council on Monday a communication was received from the Prahran Council requesting support to a proposal that their Royal ...
Article : 98 wordsA brutal act is reported from Harrismith, in the Orange River Colony. A resident, named Nademan, declares that his own brother, having been ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Vazf (?); Loftus, ship, from Melbourne October 1; South Australia, ...
Article : 59 wordsOwing to the depression in Imperial securities caused through the further borrowing necessary for the conduct of the war in South Africa, leading London financiers ...
Article : 80 wordsSir,—The suggested route of procession through Melbourne seems defective, in so far as it excludes the finest part of the city. i.e., Collins-street from William-street ...
Article : 148 wordsThe correspondent of the "Standard" states that Captain Malcolm Clark, after a daring cross-country journey at Leydsdorp, in the Zoutsanberg district of the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe New Waitckauri Extended Company has been floated to work a property in the Waitckauri district of New Zealand, with a capital of £100,000. The company is ...
Article : 67 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Wallace v. the King; Palmer v. Ford. Practice Court. Mr. Justice Hood will take chamber business at ...
Article : 114 wordsA meeting of those interested in the butter trade was held to-day. It was attended by Sir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, and Mr. Henry Copeland, ...
Article : 85 wordsDr. J. W. Leyds, who formerly represented the Transvaal Government in Europe, and who has since the annexation of the republics acted as an unofficial delegate ...
Article : 66 wordsThe P. and O. R. M. S. Britannia left Colombo for Australia on the 18th inst. The I.G.M.S. Prinz Regent Luitpold left Suez for Australia on the 18th inst. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Government has received information that 80 cases of fireworks have been shipped from London in connection with the visit of the Duke and Duchess of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 20 Feb 1901, Page 5
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