Commandant Fourie, who, it was announced, had collected 600 Boers in the vicinity of De[?]etsdorp, in the south-east of the Orange River Colony, has quarrelled ...
Article : 104 wordsCount Waldersee, the commander-in-chief of the allied forces in China, has authoritatively intervened with the view of ending the mutually hostile attitude of the ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is reported that His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York, who left for Australia on Saturday by the steamer Ophir, is taking with him presents valued ...
Article : 82 wordsThe horse trainer M'Arthur, who is suffering from small-pox, was, according to reports received by Dr. Greswell from the Cut-Paw-Paw Sanatorium yesterday, still ...
Article : 411 wordsIn the coming frderal elections there is one clear course before the reasonable and patriotic Vietorian elector. It is to give his support at the ballot-box ...
Article : 6,367 wordsThe rioting in Russia, promoted by students and workmen, still continues, and disorderly scenes are frequent. The trouble has now spread from Moscow to the capital, ...
Article : 197 wordsFor some time past efforts have been made to fasten upon Low Tariff supporters an advocacy of land tux proposals. In particular it is declared, usually by ...
Article : 580 wordsThe circular letter was under consideration of the Port Melbourne Council last night. Councillor Moulton moved that the circular be received. He hoped the ...
Article : 156 wordsThe "Standard's" correspondent at Tientsin asserts that Admiral Alexieff, the Russian naval commander in China waters, was at the bottom of the railway dispute ...
Article : 56 wordsOn Sunday morning the Ophir, when entering the Bay of Biscay from the English Channel, exchanged greetings with the British and African S.N. Co.'s steamship ...
Article : 38 wordsThe following meetings of citizens will be held to-day:—The chairmen of all the block sub-committees, in the office of the citizens' committee, Temperance-buildings, at 4 ...
Article : 80 wordsGeneral De Wet, who has for some time past been retreating northwards through the Orange River Colony, is reported to be at Kronstad, in the Winburg district. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsA meeting of the Government Celebrations Committee was held last evening, at Parliament-house, when a large number of matters of detail were dealt with. Among ...
Article : 278 words"The Times" correspondent at Berlin says that there is a well-founded and widespread belief that a secret treaty has been concluded between Russia and Germany, ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Steyn, ex-President of the late Orange Free State, wl[?]o has accompanied General De Wet in his guerilla movements, is near Paardeberg, in the Orange River ...
Article : 37 wordsA meeting of the citizens' committee in connection with the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York was held to-day. The mayor outlined the ...
Article : 260 wordsWatinfang, the Chinese Minister at Washington, was recently instructed by the Chinese Court to advise it as to whether the Manchuria agreement was inimical to ...
Article : 73 wordsCardinal Logue, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, has advised Irish Catholics to refuse to serve in the British army until tho declaration against ...
Article : 52 wordsA Boer commando, which is laagered near Lichtenburg, in the Western Transvaal, is in great straits for want of food and ammunition. The supplies of ...
Article : 52 wordsA serious accident occurred on board the mail steamer New York, 10,674 tons, of the American line, which left Southampton for New York on the 9th inst. ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Boyd, one of the British prisoners who was shot at Wolinanunstad, in the Transvall, by order of General De la Rey, was a son of Mr. John N. Boyd, the ...
Article : 134 wordsOne of the passengers by the small-pox-infected steamer Euryalus has been traced to Horsham in the person of Mr. Robert Taylor, horse dealer, who arrived on a visit ...
Article : 142 wordsViscount Cranbourne, the Under Secretary for War, recently stated in the House of Commons that Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, ...
Article : 196 wordsThe citizens of Melbourne are using every means of putting the city in a suitable dress for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. As the work so far ...
Article : 353 wordsThe Port Melbourne Council received a letter from the Fitzroy Council last night, requesting support in the reconsideration of the site for the Queen's Memorial Statue, and urging that the ...
Article : 71 wordsSir,—May I repay your oft-repeated generosity of the past by trespassing on it o[?]ee again, to enable me to reach the attention of the women of Victoria. ...
Article : 785 wordsThe city council to-day decided to expend not more than £4,000 in decorating the streets of Brisbane, on the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall ...
Article : 43 wordsThe balance-sheet of the Bank of Australasia for the half-year ended October 16,1900, shows that deposits amount to £.13,650,832; cash and securities to ...
Article : 99 wordsThe public is still treated to the [?]ssertion that the people of New South Wales spend more than those of Victoria, because a free-trade tariff makes things dearer. The ...
Article : 311 wordsConsiderable satisfaction was felt by the Board of Health authorities to-day when Clark, one of the passengers by the Euryalus, presented himself at their offices. ...
Article : 284 wordsSir,—Now that the arrangements for the reception and entertainment of the Royal visitors are approaching completion it would interest a great many citizens to ...
Article : 324 wordsDuring the recent operations the British have captured from the enemy 100,000 cattle, horses, and sheep. ...
Article : 22 wordsCorporal George Reginald, M'Guiness, of the New South Wales Bushmen, (formerly of Beechworth), has been killed at Onverwacht. ...
Article : 52 wordsForty French soldiers have been arrested at Tientsin, charged with having behaved in a disorderly manner. [A cable message in "The Argus" of ...
Article : 128 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the market was very firm, and prices were unchanged. The American demand for best crossbreds is hardening. ...
Article : 153 wordsA singular proceeding has marked the appointment by the Government of the joint committee to control and arrange for the fire brigades' demonstration, in ...
Article : 298 wordsSir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, the Governor of the Cape Colony, has expressed his amazement at the fifthy condition of Cape Town and the neglect of sanitary ...
Article : 156 wordsTwo plain-clothes constables were kept hard at work to-day tracing the passengers who landed from the steamer Euryalus. Most of them have been discovered, but it ...
Article : 192 wordsIn consequence of complaints of piracy H.M. gunboat Plover was some time ago despatched to the Elliot group and Blonde Islands, near Port Arthur, with a view to ...
Article : 125 wordsOn Monday Sir Samuel way completed a quarter of a century's service as Chief justice of South Australia. When he took his seat on the full bench in Adelaide ...
Article : 627 wordsMr. Frank has not always stood so high in the opinion of his High Tariff friends as he does to-day. Last July the High Tariff organ, speaking of members who play "low ...
Article : 800 wordsBar silver is quoted At 28?d. per oz. standard, being a decline of l-16d. since Saturday. ...
Article : 22 wordsA public meeting, convened by the president of the Ballarat Shire Council (Councillor Dobson), who occupied the chair, was held in the Shire-hall last evening, to take ...
Article : 133 wordsBeet Sugar.—Mr. F. O. Licht, of Magdeburg, in his monthly circular, states that the production of beet sugar in,Europe for the first six months of the campaign ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the Naval Estimates were brought forward by Mr. Arnold-Forster, the Secretary to the Admiralty. ...
Article : 260 wordsUntil yesterday it appeared very likely that Victoria would escape a second visitation from the bubonic plague. All the rats caught in the vicinity of the wharves have ...
Article : 218 wordsThe result of the meeting of German citizens was a decision to erect an arch, subscriptions for which to the extent of over £300 have been received already. Mr. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe steamer Norham Castle, 4,392 tons, of the Union Castle line, which was employed as a transport to carry troops to South Africam, has been picked up in the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe disagreement between the collierowners and the Sydny Coal Lumpers' Union underwent very little change to-day. It was anticipated that Mr. W. M. ...
Article : 488 wordsThe plans and specifications for the Chinese arch are being got ready as rapidly as possible. On Thursday they will be submitted to a meeting of the citizens in the ...
Article : 151 wordsMax Snapper, of Victoria-avan[?]e, Albertpark, manager. Causes of insolvency — Losses in investments and pressure of a creditor. Insolvent declares that he is ...
Article : 133 wordsTender for the Queensland Government 3 per cent loan of £ 1,000,000, which was offered locally, werer opened to-day. There were 135 tenderers, and the amount ...
Article : 142 wordsAnother case of plague is reported to-day, the patient being Thomas St. Leger, a railway employe, residing at a boardinghouse. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals—Maranda, from Melbourne October 26; Bergedorf, from Adelaide ...
Article : 75 wordsA strong committee, representative of all denominations, has been appointed to carry out the arrangements for the demonstration of Sunday-school children ...
Article : 92 wordsLate last evening a suspicious case of plague was reported from Subiaco. A bacteriological examination conducted to-day resulted in the case being pronounced ...
Article : 98 wordsA deputation from the Trades and Labour Council waited on the Colonial Secretary this morning, and pointed out that a large number of undesirable ...
Article : 167 wordsMr. G. H. Jenkins, clerk of Parliaments, has returned from Sydney, whither he was summoned by the Prime Minister, to receive instructions regarding the ceremony. ...
Article : 166 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m. Reid v.[?]man, Dewar v.Turner, Sanders v. Bowen, Adams v.Wollaston. Huggard v. Huggard. First Civil Court. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 20 Mar 1901, Page 5
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