Major-General Baden-Powell, who was recently appointed to raise a semi-permanent force of 25,000 men for the pacification of the Transvaal and the Orange River ...
Article : 50 wordsThe French Government has issued, as a yellow book, a picturesque account of the siege of the Peking legations, supplied by M. Pichon, the French ambassador to the ...
Article : 165 wordsEarl Cadogan, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who had intended to retire from the position, has consented to retain office for the present. ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. G. E. Foster, who was Minister of Finance in the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada during the Premiership of Sir J. S. D. Thompson and Sir Mackenzie Bowell ...
Article : 110 wordsOwing to the holiday yesterday very few country members of Parliament were in town, and there were consequently no new developments in the political situation, ...
Article : 3,435 wordsLord Lamington arrived at Townsville yesterday from a tour in the northtrn and western portions of Queensland. He states that his previous expericntes of ...
Article : 1,445 wordsThe railway authorities made extensive preparations for a large holiday traffic, and their anticipations were fully realised. From a very early hour the trains to ...
Article : 967 wordsGreat preparations are being made to entertain the members of the colonial contingents who are to visit England prior to returning to their respective provinces. ...
Article : 88 wordsSir Redvers Buller, who landed at Southampton on Friday, and was received enthusiastically, was presented with the freedom of the city by the mayor and ...
Article : 151 wordsA serious disaster has occurred in the Bay of Fundy, winch separates Nova Scotia from New Brunswick. The iron paddle steamer City of ...
Article : 63 wordsSeveral Australian troopers have written to the press complaining that they have only been allotted steerage berths for their homeward journey. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe German press are reserved in their criticism of the speech delivered by Lord Salisbury at the Guildhall on Friday night, when the new Lord Mayor of London, ...
Article : 56 wordsA sub-committee of the Cabinet, consisting of the Minister of Defence, the Minister of Public Instruction, the Solicitor-General, and the Minister of Railways, ...
Article : 220 wordsThe commission which, under the presidency of General Bailloud, has been sitting in Paoting-fu since the occupation of the town by the joint French and English ...
Article : 95 wordsThe judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the appeal of the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company was delivered by Lord Hobhouse. ...
Article : 393 wordsThe general election which has just taken place in Newfoundland has given the present Premier, Mr. R. Bond, a largely-increased majority. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir Redvers Buller, who gave up the command of the Aldershot district on being appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa a year ago, ...
Article : 85 wordsA terrible railway collision, involving serious loss of life, has occurred at Frankfort-on Main, in Germany. Two trains collided near the town, which ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Emperor Kwangsu, in response to the demands of the foreign Ministers for the punishment of the ringleaders in the anti-foreign risings, declares that Tung ...
Article : 85 wordsParticulars published this morning of the recent fighting at Frederickstadt, when General Barton routed General Do Wet's force, shows that 2,000 Boers were engaged. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Aberdeen White Star steamer Australasian arrived at Albany this morning short of coal. She has aboard a number of officers from the various Australian ...
Article : 180 wordsA disastrous typhoon has swept Hong Kong and the adjacent seas, doing immense damage to the small Chinese craft with which the waters are studded. ...
Article : 331 wordsA report from a Chinese source states that the Emperor Kwangsu is anxious to accept the invitation of the powers to return to Peking, but that he is strongly ...
Article : 77 wordsFurther particulars are given in this morning's, papers of the lighting at Bothaville, in the Orange River Colony, north-west of Kroonstad, where General Knox ...
Article : 117 wordsThe German Chancellor has asked the Reichstag to vote £7,634,500 to meet the cost involved in the despatch and maintenance of tho German forces in China. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe United States Government has secured from France the plan of a new field gun, invented in that country, which is supposed to be the most effective weapon ...
Article : 46 wordsSir,—Colonel Price and his comrades will soon bo here, and the powers that be have as yet made no practical sign as to the form of reception to be accorded them. ...
Article : 247 wordsThe seizure and reported annexation by Russia of a small area, of country near Tientsin is followed by a claim from Belgium for a strip of land in the same ...
Article : 47 wordsLord Brassey, late Governor of Victoria, and Sir Thomas is Fowell Buxton, late Governor of South Australia, have, in conjunction with other prominent members of ...
Article : 225 wordsThe horses which were bought in Australia on behalf of the German military authorities for service in China are now in use, and are pronounced by the authorities to ...
Article : 38 wordsThe casualties amongst the Boer officers have been very heavy in the recent fighting, which has taken place in the Eustern Transvaal. ...
Article : 45 wordsA good deal of destruction has been caused by grass fires in the Lockhart district. A selector named Hamlen has lost 15 acres of hay, which was stacked, and 65 ...
Article : 363 wordsThe match between the New South Wales 11 and 15 promising players was continued to-day on the Association Cricketground in splendid weather. The ...
Article : 665 wordsLord Methuen, who is operating in the Western Transvaal, has surprised General Snyman near Lichtenburg, and, in the brief engagement which ensued, severe ...
Article : 38 wordsSir,—As it has been decided that a national reception be given to our Victorian troops now on their way home from South Africa by the Harlech Castle, may I beg, ...
Article : 142 wordsGun practice at the Queenscliff fort this morning was spoiled at the outset by a serious defect in the cordite cartridges which were used. It had been arranged ...
Article : 320 wordsThe British, who drove the Boers out of Philippolis, in the south-west of the Ornnge River Colony, after some sharp fighting, having abandoned the town, the Boers ...
Article : 79 wordsA commission inquiring into the working of the Post-office is very favourably inclined towards the extension of wireless telegraphy and telephony. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is the intention of the city council to take un active putt in the welcome home to the Tasmanian contingent on their return from South Africa. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following cable message has been received from Lord Roberts, duted Johanuesberg, 9th November:- "The New South Wales Mounted ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Premier received to-day the following cable message from the GovernorGeneral of Canada:—"Our responsible advisers regret that they are unable to send ...
Article : 201 wordsA regiment of hussars, under General Kitchener, the brother of Lord Kitchener, has been playing havoc with the Boer forces at Middleburg, on the Dclagoa Bay ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Premier was informed by a cable message from Cape Town to-day that Trooper Kennedy was killed at Jacobsdual on October 25. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Prince of Wales' Birthday was celebrated throughout the colony to-day in splendid weather. The principal metropolitan attractions were the races at Rosehill ...
Article : 160 wordsWalter Sheppard, son of Mrs. Sherbourne Sheppard, of Mulvern, who has been serving with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, was reported "missing" for some ...
Article : 343 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day a divorce suit was begun at the instante of Frank Leysley, a compositor, against his wife Annie, on the ground of misconduct with ...
Article : 50 wordsA sharp engagement has been fought by Colonel Plumer and General Delaroy, near Rustenburg, some 60 miles west of Pretoria. General Delarey's force numbered ...
Article : 42 wordsThe R.M.S. Oceana saild to-night for Colombo. She takes to London 59 boxes of bullion, valued at about £200,000, and 51 tons of base bullion, of the value of ...
Article : 64 wordsA protest has been forwarded to Lord Roberts by some 800 women in the Paarl ...
Article : 48 wordsSeveral school boards of advice have written to the Education department inquiring of they can use part of their annual mainteanance grant in purchasing Union Jacks or flagpoles for the schools in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 13 Nov 1900, Page 5
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