Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier of the Dominion of Canada, is trying to arrange for an alteration in the route of the Royal tour. ...
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Article : 74 wordsAt length, in response to the repeated demands of the foreign Ministers, and a final threat that non-compliance would mean a hostile march on Singau-fu, the present ...
Article : 264 wordsOne of the early abligations of the Peacock Government is the framing of an old-age pension policy which shall be operative until the Commonwealth ...
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Article : 99 wordsDuties amounting approximately to 15 per cent, on ordinary imports will be best for Australia, for the following reasons:— ...
Article : 210 wordsHis Majesty the King has appointed his brother, the Duke of Connaught, first and principal Knight Grand Cross and Great Master of the Order of the Bath, an honour ...
Article : 1,383 wordsFurther particulars have been received of the fight between the Ogaden Somalis on the east coast of Africa and the British force sent to punish them for the murder ...
Article : 138 wordsAs the debate on the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne showed no signs of terminating, a motion applying the closure was carried, and the Address ...
Article : 48 wordsThe South African Conciliation Committee and other pro-Boer organisations have recently maintained strongly that the British have treated ungenerously ...
Article : 170 wordsFor some years past extensive naval docks and other works, involving a cost of over £2,500,000 have been in progress at Gibraltar, and they are now rapidly ...
Article : 148 wordsOf the other offenders named in the edict, Ying-Nien, who had been Lieuten-ant-General of the Peking Gendarmerie, and Chao Shut Chiao, who had been ...
Article : 178 wordsA naval court-martial has been held to inquire into the circumstances attending the wreek of the second-class cruiser Sybille, 3,400 tons, which was lost at Saldanha Bay, ...
Article : 281 wordsSir,—Your protectionist contemporary had an article in its columns recently showing that flour milling was being carried on at a loss in Victoria. I did not see that the ...
Article : 259 wordsAccording to Mr. Bennet Burlelgh, war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," the Australian troops now in South Africa have expressed a great desire to be massed ...
Article : 44 wordsWe have shown how foreign firms and others have establishedtariff monopolies in this city how they sell at low prices in the sister states, and high prices here; and how ...
Article : 762 wordsA most, interesting astronomical discovery has been made simultaneously by an English and a German astronomer, who have announced that while conducting ...
Article : 142 wordsThe English holiday-makers at the favourite watering-place of Mentone, in the South of France, are sending an acceptable gift to the soldiers at the front. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe foreign Ministers do not propose to rest content with the punishment of the leading state officials who directed or encouraged the attack on the legations. They ...
Article : 87 wordsThe following additional Australian casualties are reported:— Private W. N. Fisher, of the Victorian Bushmen, severely Wounded at ...
Article : 36 wordsThe sub-committee of the Queen's Memorial Statue Committee yesterday visited about a dozen sites in and about the city which have been suggested as suitable ...
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Article : 170 wordsA good deal of unrest has been created by the aggressions of Russia in Manchuria, and the pacific utterances of Viscount Cranbourne, the Under-Secretary of State ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. Russell, the Government astronomer, stated that the discovery of a new star of the first magnitude in the constellation of Perseus was of much interest to ...
Article : 134 wordsTen men from Wentworth arrived at the camp to-day to offer for service in South Africa. They were so eager for active service that each paid £6 for his coach fare ...
Article : 52 wordsA representative meeting of residents was held in the town-hall, Essendon, last evening for the purpose of arranging ways and means for assisting the movement to ...
Article : 196 wordsIt was announced a few weeks ago that six batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery at Alershot had been armed with quick-firing guns, manufactured in Germany. ...
Article : 74 wordsA dismounted parade of the members of I Company Victorian Mounted Rifles was held in the show-grounds this afternoon, when Sergeant-Bugler H. Bell was ...
Article : 96 wordsThe current issue of "The Australasian" is greatly diversified, and will be found most interesting to readers. A very fine picture is given of the crack New Zealand ...
Article : 439 wordsA terrible colliery disaster has occurred at Diamondville, a little town, dependent largely on the coal industry, in the western state of Wyoming. ...
Article : 141 wordsA results of the census taken throughout the German Empire early in December of last year have now been compiled, and show that the population of the empire ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsThe Chinese losses in the recent engagement with the Germans Westward of Paoting-fu are heavier than were at first believed. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe contract for the Pacific (all British) cable (says our London correspondent) bears the signatures of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach), ...
Article : 161 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the Chamber of Mines on Tuesday attention was called to the proposal to hold an exhibition in Bendigo for the purpose of ...
Article : 184 wordsAccording to Reuter's correspondent at Peking, the Welsh Fusileers, who, to the number of 400, have been ordered from Hong Kong to relieve the Australian ...
Article : 81 wordsThe R.M.S. Britannia arrived from London at 8 o'clock this morning Passengers:— For Fremantle.—Mrs. and Miss Shenton, Mr. G. M. Straker, Mr. G. Webster, Mr. K. Collins, and ...
Article : 160 wordsTo-day's quotation for bar silver is 28?d., being a decline of ?d. since yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsAt the suggestion of Lord Avebury, formerly Sir John Lubbock, Lord Salisbury has consented to appoint a Parliamentary committee to inquire into the hours of ...
Article : 80 wordsSir,—May I, as the official historian of the war in South Africa, claim the courtesy of your columns to ask officers and others who have been engaged in the South ...
Article : 164 wordsThe University Conservatorium of Music resumes work to-day in the new premises, at the University, under the acting directorship of Mr. W. A. Laver. Intending ...
Article : 208 wordsWheat and Flour.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,510,000 quarters, as against 3,350,000 quarters last week and ...
Article : 60 wordsJohn De Young, a cyclist, who was picked up last night in Queen's-parade, Brunswick, and taken to the Melbourne Hospital, stated that he was run down, ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,—No two protectionist facts are more often iterated than that protection cheapeus the price of protected commodities, and that no new industry can be started or ...
Article : 634 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Palmer v. Ford (part [?]rd), Staughton v. Anderson, Dougall v. Heffer[?]n, Buch v. Cole. First Civil Court. ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Cripps, a Liberal Unionist, has been elected, by a majority of 1,297, to the vacancy in the Stretford Division, Lancashire S.E., in the House of Commons, ...
Article : 67 wordsThe P. and O.R.M.S. Rome arrived at Plymouth on the 24th inst. The P. and O.R.M.S. Himalaya arrived at Suez, from Australia, on the 25th inst. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 28 Feb 1901, Page 5
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