As additional details are received of the severe fighting which took place last week at Rietfontein, 35 miles east of Pretoria, between General Paget's troops and the ...
Article : 3,724 wordsMr. Kruger arrived at the Hague yesterday from Cologne. He was met at the railway station by the burgomaster, but no representative of ...
Article : 151 wordsThe allied commanders at Peking have been warned by friendly Chinese that a fresh outbreak of the Boxers will take place in the winter, which is now setting in. The ...
Article : 170 wordsParliament met to-day for the despatch of business, the members of the new House of Commons having been sworn, and Mr. W. C. Gully elected Speaker, on Monday ...
Article : 95 wordsAbout 11 o'clock yesterday a large party from Perth, including His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, the Premier, and members of the Government, ...
Article : 1,723 wordsWriting in a recent number of the " Spectator," Mr. C. M. Arundell calls English attention to a novel enterprise in colonisation which is about to be ...
Article : 7,363 wordsIn the House of Lords last night, a debate took place on the Address in Reply to the Queen's Speech. The Marquis of Salisbury reiterated the ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Czar Nicholas, who has been suffering from typhoid fever, has now recovered from his illness. He rises every day, and his temperature and pulse are normal. ...
Article : 35 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and Lady Madden entertained the following ladies and gentlemen at dinner last night:—Sir George and Lady Turner, Sir ...
Article : 997 wordsMore interest than usual centred in the city municipal elections this year, as an entirely new council had to be chosen, under the act passed this year. Polling took place ...
Article : 275 wordsThe fate of the missing captain and crew of the steamer Rossgull, 238 tons, owned by the Anglo-French Steamship Co. Ltd., of Plymouth and Guernsey, which was ...
Article : 69 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that the supplementary war estimates which will be presented to Parliament include £13,000,000 for the war in South Africa and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Henry Russell, the famous song-writer, aged 87 years. [Mr. Henry Russell was the son of a ...
Article : 166 wordsThe death is announced, at the age of 62, of Mr. Cushman Kellogg Davis, Republican member of the United States Senate for Minnesota. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Eastern Extension Cable Company is proceeding with the work of preparing a site for a cable station at Grange, where the line from Cape Town to South ...
Article : 199 wordsThe reserve of notes and coin is £19,525,000, against £20,516,000 for the previous week, the proportion to liabilities being 41.58 per cent., against 42.76 per ...
Article : 122 wordsThe penny postage rate, which comes into operation on January 1, applies to the United Kingdom and the colonies, but not to foreign countries or Australia. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. H. Chatterton, superintendent of the Mitchell rabbit board, has arrived at Charleville for a three months' trip in the south-western districts. He reports that ...
Article : 207 wordsThe question of legal reciprocity between Queensland and Tasmania was discussed before the Full Court to-day on an adjourned application by Mr. Ernest D. Dobson, a ...
Article : 109 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 4 per cent.,being the same at the Rank of England rate. ...
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Article : 218 wordsDr. Chalmers, Bishop of Goulburn, held confirmation services at North Wagga yesterday, where 17 candidates were presented. To-day 11 were confirmed at the ...
Article : 485 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:- Wool.—Bradford.—The market is advancing, and prices for tops are ½d. higher ...
Article : 158 wordsCaptain V. L. Beer has arrived at Albany, and taken command of the Albany fort forces, vice the late Major Moor, commander of the first West Australian ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 8 Dec 1900, Page 15
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