Lord Kitchener is making active preparations for a great military movement, the object of which is to strike a crushing blow at the Boer commandoes still in the ...
Article : 87 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Viscount Cranborne, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, made a further statement respecting the position of Russia in ...
Article : 157 wordsThe latest accounts from Berlin show that the wound inflicted by the man Dietrich Welland on the Kaiser as he wasdriving from the Rathskeller at Bremen to the railway ...
Article : 530 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr. Balfour stated in reply to a question that the pressure on their time would not allow of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. John Redmond, the Irish Nationalist member for Waterford City, has announced his intention of taking action with the object of securing an alteration in the oaths ...
Article : 122 wordsA cable message states that Lord Wenlock (Sir Be[?]lby Lawley), who accompanies H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and York to Australia as chief of his staff, has been ...
Article : 838 wordsDuties amounting approximately to 15 per cent, on ordinary imports, such as those subjected to Protective duties now, will be best for Australia, for the ...
Article : 224 wordsThe sixth contingent for South Africa went into camp yesterday. The list is already full. The divisions have been apportioned officers. Captain J. A. Campbell, ...
Article : 54 wordsMERINO, Friday.—Trooper Henry Fitzgibbon, of the Australian Imperial Regiment, arrived home last evening, invalided from South Africa, He had an enthusiastic reception at the railway ...
Article : 49 wordsThe cruisers, St. George and June, which will join at Suez the R.M.S Ophir, conveying their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to ...
Article : 66 wordsIn accordance with the directions given by the Speaker, in reply to a question from Mr. John Redmond, Mr. Jeremiah Jordan, the member for Fermanagh ...
Article : 393 wordsMr. Balfour was questioned in the House of Commons last night by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the leader of the Opposition, with respect to the overtures for peace ...
Article : 90 wordsThe young Duke of Manchester, who in October last married Miss Helena Zimmerman, daughter of a Cincinnati millionaire, has, with the duchess, arrived in England ...
Article : 68 wordsYesterday Mr. M'Culloch, the Minister for Public Works and Chairman of the Government Celebrations Committee, paid a visit of inspection to the drives around ...
Article : 158 wordsIt was announced a few days ago that as a further indication of his desire to make amends for past events in China, the Emperor Kwang-su had issued a proclamation ...
Article : 72 wordsLatest advices from China tend to show that' the pressure of Russia on China has had its due effect, and that special concessions have now been obtained as regards ...
Article : 269 wordsStatements are freely made by the Boers at Pretoria with regard to the conditions on which their countrymen who are still in the field will abandon the contest and ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. John Brigg, liberal member for the Keighley division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, suggested that the new coinage ...
Article : 92 wordsFurther details are published of the Boer occupation of Pearston, in the Somerset district, 40 miles south-east of Graaff Reinet. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Government Celebrations Committee came to a decision yesterday in regard to the design of the invitation cards. The card for the important celebrations has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 372 wordsLater particulars respecting the Boer attack on Aberdeen, 30 miles south-west of Graaff Reinet, on the 5th inst. show that the Boers, of whom there were 300, under ...
Article : 73 wordsThe extraordinary attack on His Majesty has provoked a wide-spread sympathy with him, combined with a feeling of satisfaction that the injury was not more serious; and ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Australian troops who have been on active service in China, and are about to return home, were inspected by Sir A. Goselee, the Commander-in-chief of ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Right Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, D.D., Bishop of Stepney, has been appointed Bishop of London in succession to the late Dr. Mundell Creighton. ...
Article : 105 wordsLieut.-Commnnder Richardson is to visit Sydney to consult Admiral Beaumont with regard to the proposed naval display in Hobson's Bay. ...
Article : 24 wordsA Boer attempt to derail a tram has been frustrated. The attempt was made at Biesjespoort, a station on the railway 403 miles from ...
Article : 68 wordsParticulars have been supplied for publication of some of the dresses to be worn by the Duchess of Cornwall and York during her Australian tour. ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. M'Culloch, the Minister for Public Works, has given instructions that the St. Kilda pier is to be put in thorough repair forth with. It is at this pier that the Duke ...
Article : 40 wordsDietrich Weiland, the man who made the attack, was at once arrested, and his conduet since leaves no doubt that he is quite irresponsible for his actions. He gives an ...
Article : 153 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 3 11-16d. per cent., being 5-16 per cent, below the Bank of England ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Were, the Danish consul in Melbourne, waited on Mr. D. Buzolich, the secretary of the Citizens' Celebrations Committee, and requested him to place before ...
Article : 53 wordsThis morning Mr. Blackburn, the engineer of the Public Works department, who is attached to the Defence department, came down to Queenscliff and conferred with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsThere is a prospect that the republic of Colombia will, with the consent of Great Britain, transfer to the United States the concession for the construction of the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe latst information with regard to General De Wet, who escaped across the Orange River at the Liiliefontein Drift, near Colesberg, states that be is ...
Article : 97 wordsIt has been suggested that the arch to represent the butter trade should be placed in Collins-street, somewhere between Market-street and William-street. The ...
Article : 39 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—John O'Gannt, from Timaru October 24; Cambrian Princess, from ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Melbourne Bicycle Club has notified the citizens' committee of its intention to decorate the M.B.C. rooms in harmony with the street decorations in that part of ...
Article : 60 wordsSir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner in South Africa, has appointed Mr. J. Rose Innes, Attorney-General of the Cape Colony, to the position of Chief Justice of ...
Article : 73 wordsThe inquest concerning the death of Patrick Conway, which occurred on board the steamer Talune on her voyage from Wellington to Sydney last month, was ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Bank of Australasia, declares a dividend for the half-year ended October 16, 1900, at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum. An addition of £50,000 is made to the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe following sales are reported on the London Stock Exchange:—Mount Lyell, £4/15/; North Lyell, £2/15/; Chillagoe, 28/9. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe war correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that General De Wet is near Petrusberg, 50 miles west of Bloemfontein, and is being hotly pursued by ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Peacock) received the following telegram from Mr. Barton yesterday:— "The Federal Government has invited ...
Article : 74 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—Bradford.—Business is restricted. Tops are unaltered at 17½d. for common ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsSenor Sagasta, who was commissioned to form a Ministry in Spain in succession to Senor Silvela, who resigned after the anti-Jesuit riots caused by the marriage of the ...
Article : 89 wordsLord Kitchener reports that a Boer force under General De la Rey is attacking Lichtenburg, in the Western Transvaal, which is garrisoned by 500 British troops. ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice Boucaut said that he had noticed that since the de[?] of the Crown, practitioners who held the position of Queen's ...
Article : 221 wordsAt the city council meeting to-day, the refusal of the Governor-General to alter arrangements for the reception of the Duke of Cornwall and York so as to enable them ...
Article : 75 wordsThe facts which the people of Victoria will be asked to supply on the census schedules at the end of this month will be more numerous and more important than ...
Article : 209 wordsThe protected distilleries of Victoria cause a loss to the revenue of £32,300 a year, yet they only employ 65 hands, and pay £7,110 a year in wages. Yet where is ...
Article : 1,141 wordsThe following arrangements for the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New South Wales have been approved by Lord ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsGeneral French, who, in co-operation with General Smith-Dornen, has been operating with great success against General Botha, in the Eastern Transvaal, ...
Article : 69 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 28?d. per ounce standard. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Hygeta leaves Port Melbourne Railway Pier at 2 p.m. this afternoon, for Queenscliff, Sorrento and Dromana, Passengers leaving by Exc[?]lsior, from Queen's Wharf, at half-past 2 this afternoon, ...
Article : 156 wordsThe first class armoured cruiser Kent, 9,800 tons, 14 guns, has been launched at Portsmouth. The Kent is a twin screw cruiser with an indicated horse-power of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales opened to-day. The merinc wools offered realised prices equal to those obtained at the January sales, but there was a decline of from 5 to ...
Article : 76 wordsPrivate I. Blczard, of the third Victorian (Bushmen's) contingent, formerly of Ballart West, was severely wounded at the fighting which took place in the direction of ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Wm. J. Butcher.—At St. Kilda, at 3—Cottage for removal. Messrs. Stott and Bastings.—At Northcote, at 3—Residental properties and ...
Article : 152 wordsMONBULK.—We have received £1 collected by Mrs. Boyce for a flagpole for local state school. POOWONG.—We have received £1/4/, collected by Mr. George M'Vudd, to defray cost of pole and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 9 Mar 1901, Page 13
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