The reputation of General De Wet and his small anny for keeping just beyond the reach of the pursuing British force is being fully maintained since his entry into ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Continental tour which it was recently decided the King should undertake will be commenced on Saturday. His Majesty will first proceed to ...
Article : 100 wordsIt now transpires that the Court was very unwilling to comply with the demands of the powers for the adequate punishment of the leaders of the outrages on ...
Article : 164 wordsThe R.M.S. Ophir, on which their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York are to make the voyage to Australia, is ...
Article : 83 wordsDuties amounting approximately to 15 per cent, on ordinary imports will be best for Australia, for the following reasons:— ...
Article : 140 wordsIn the debate on the Address in Reply in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr, H. H. Asquith, the Liberal member far East Ffe, was one of the principal speakers. ...
Article : 257 wordsMr. M'Culloch, the chairman of the celebrations committee of the Cabinet, with Mr. T. G. Watson, the secretary, will return to Melbourne from Sydney to-day. A ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,—As an Englishman (though a colonist for 30 years), I must protest against Mr. Burton's assertion, at Ballarat, that the British army is recruited from the ...
Article : 173 wordsYesterday morning the Minister, of Public Instruction (Mr. Gurr) visited the Exhibition-grounds for the purpose of making arrangements for the holding of a ...
Article : 192 wordsThe "Journal of St. Petersburg," a semi-official daily journal, whose opinions are understood to be inspired by the Russian Foreign Office, has published a ...
Article : 44 wordsYesterday Captain Wallington, private secretary to Lort! Hopetoun, the GovernorGeneral of Australia, paid a flying visit to Melbourne. He arrived hy the Sydney ...
Article : 311 wordsThe action of the Senate of the United States in seeking to abrogate the ClaytonBulwer treaty, by which, in 1850, Great Britain and the United States agreed ...
Article : 233 wordsThe directors of the Bank of England to-day reduced the rate of discount for three months' bills from 5 to 4 per cent. ...
Article : 36 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with Lady Maddon and suite, leave Menzies' to-day for then residence at Macedon, where they will remain until ...
Article : 1,266 wordsClosely connected with the question of the expenditure by the Government on street decoration is the question of the proposed extensive mobilisation of federal. ...
Article : 254 wordsSplendid rain has fallen in the Augathelia district, and there is every prospect of the drought breaking up. Light rain has fallen at Charleville. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe High Tariff press endeavours to get round the Canadian example by raising a side issue. These are the usual tacties. The exposure is easy. ...
Article : 786 wordsAn appeal to the Boers for a cessation of hostilities, which has been published in the form of a letter to "The Times," has created a good deal of comment. The ...
Article : 351 wordsFurther details of the attack on tho railway line between Vcreeniging and. Johannesburg show that the train which the Boers sueceded in derailing was preceding ...
Article : 122 wordsNo reply has been received by the Government to the suggestion made to the Governor-General that, if possible, the Duke should arrive here on Saturday, ...
Article : 127 wordsThe trouble brewing between the Goldfields Wood Supply Company and the wood-cutter in their employ, who demand an increase of 6d. a ton, was brought to a ...
Article : 181 wordsAnother and much more serious outrage was porpetrated by one of the Boer commandoes who are raiding the northan portion of Cape Colony. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe three chief items in the Government programme of celebrations are the landing and procession through the streela on arrival, the opening of Parliament, and a ...
Article : 67 wordsCaptain Willington, while waiting for the express train to start for Sydney yesterday afternoon, supplied a brief account of his flying visit to Melbourne. He ...
Article : 717 wordsThe Federal Cabinet was waited upon yesterdty by Mr. M'Culloch, Victorian Minister of Defence, Mr. T. G. Watson, and Colonel Hoad. They put before ...
Article : 121 wordsThe rising amongst the Somalis, on the cast coast of Africa, which led to the murder of Mr. Arthur Jenner, the British sub-commissioner, late last year, has been ...
Article : 101 wordsThe University authorities are taking action in the hope of getting the graduates and students an opportttnity to take a prominent part in the demonstrations. It is ...
Article : 44 wordsSir J. Gordon Sprigg, the Premier of Cape Colony, states that his Cabinet has under consideration a proposal for specially commemorating the present war. ...
Article : 63 wordsA movement, with the object of altering the weekly half-holiday in Wagga from Wednesday to Saturday, has been inaugurated by a number of shop assistants, ...
Article : 125 wordsIt has been decided by the board of directors of the Australian Natives' Assoociation that an address of welcome shall be presented to the Duke and Duchess of ...
Article : 95 wordsSo far the Government has given no instructions to the railway authorities to provide accominbdation for the Royal visitors while travelling over the Victorian ...
Article : 1,006 wordsA discussion on the liquor traffic was introduced into the debate on the Address in Reply, in the House of Commons yesterday, when an amendment on the address ...
Article : 185 wordsMr. Schalk Burger, who became vicePresident of the Transvaal Republic on the death of the late General Jonbert, and "acting president" when Mr. Kruger' left ...
Article : 98 wordsLancc-Corpornl J. W. M'Culloch, a member of the Victorian Bushmen's, contingent, was slightly wounded at Schweitzer Reneke on the 9th inst. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe clebrations Committee of the Cabinet is not calling for competitive designs for the invitation cards to be used for the opening of the Federal Parliament, &c. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe yard of the Corown railway station presents a busy scene at present, on account of a considerable storage of redgum sleepers for the Railway Commissioners. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Tasmanian contingent, of 150 men, is now ready to embark whenever the transport arrives. The additional 100 men are being equipped, and probably the two ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board has decided to write to the Government and the municipal reception committees intimating that it is willing to take part in ...
Article : 47 wordsThe force under Colonel De Lisle, which has been in rapid pursuit of the raiding bands of Boers in the Cape Colony, and has driven them from town to town, has, ...
Article : 250 wordsNumerous applications have been received for enrofment in the seventh contingent. ...
Article : 19 wordsAt the police court to-day James Henry Burchell was committed for trail on a charge of having assaulted a girl 10 years old. ...
Article : 80 wordsMr Mountain, the city surveyor, was yesterday asked whether he proposed to do anything to prevent the rockeries thrown up along St. Kilda road beyond ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. J. H. Geddes, of the firm of Geddes, Burt, and Co., importers, of Sydney, has suggested the formation in London of an Australian Chamber of Commerce, which ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsA peculiar occurrance took place here yesterday afternoon, when a waterspout burst within a few miles of the township, and a few minutes afterwards the Honeysuckle ...
Article : 105 wordsDenzil Wilson, a young man recently employed at Messrs. A. M. Bickford and Sons' warehouse, pleaded guilty at the city police court to-day to a charge of ...
Article : 163 wordsTallow.—At the auction sales of Australasian tallow held to-day 925 casks were offered and 525 casks, were sold. Prices realised were as follows:—Fine mutton, ...
Article : 85 wordsSir William Lyne has received a communication from a syndicate stating the terms upon which elevators at all important grain centres would be constructed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 wordsSir,—Your contemporary has published a letter from a correspondent, who signs himself "W. Mitchell," endeavouring to prove your comparative figures re the wax ...
Article : 408 wordsThe Government has decided to issue a million 3 per cent, loan on the Australian market. It is portion of the £2,700,000 loan sanctioned by the last session of ...
Article : 41 wordsPrivate A. L. Phillips, lato of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has been granted a commission in the Imperial Yeomanry. ...
Article : 29 wordsA meeting of the celebrations committee of the City Council was held yesterday, in private, at the Town-hall. There were present—The Mayor (Councillor Gillott), ...
Article : 607 wordsFor salting a dredging claim on the West Coast two men named Lawson have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. A third man named Pring ...
Article : 72 wordsThe results of the public service examinations held in December reached the Public Service Board yesterday. A large number of persons outside the service who ...
Article : 239 wordsThere are indications that ex-president Kruger, who is at present at the Hague, uneditates returning to the Transvaal. Mr. Kruger, who was granted "leave of ...
Article : 140 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Palmer v. Ford, Staughton v. Anderson, Reynolds v. M Gonagle and Co., Dougall v. Heffernan, The King v. Austin, S.S. Boveric Co. v. Howard Smith and Sons. ...
Article : 210 wordsIn the course of a conference between the Commissioner of Railways and the committee of the country party yesterday, Mr. Mathieson outlined a scheme which ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 22 Feb 1901, Page 5
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