The demand for reform is spreading with unexampled rapidity in China. A memorial to the throne has been drawn up by the provincial vieeroys and ...
Article : 99 wordsGeneral Plumer, continuing his advance along the railway, running north north cast from Pretoria, has occupied Pietersburg, which is about 140 miles from the ...
Article : 225 wordsFederal Ministers will all be in Melbourne to-day, and will hold their first Cabinet Council here. His Excellency the Governor-General is also ...
Article : 5,840 wordsProminent Victorian members of the Federal Senate and the Federal House of Representatives were yesterday invited to express an opinion on the appointment of ...
Article : 159 wordsMr. Barton and Mr. R. F. O'Connor left Sydney last night by the express for Melbourne. Mr. Barton is accompanied by Mr. Atlee Hunt as his private ...
Article : 1,084 wordsCommander Richardson, of the Victorian navy, has been appointed staff-officer in charge of all naval arrangements in connection with the forthcoming celebrations. It ...
Article : 281 wordsAs already intimated, the date originally set a part for a street procession of country and metropolitan firemen was also that fixed for the official reception at ...
Article : 171 wordsMr. H. W. Jenvey, telegraph engineer attached to the Postal department, has furnished the permanent head, Mr. F. L. Out. trim, with the subjoined report:—:"I beg ...
Article : 191 wordsDr. Morrison, "The Times" correspondent at Peking, commenting on the refusal of China to sign the Manchuria Convention with Russia, expresses the opinion ...
Article : 73 wordsAt a meeting of the Cabinet Celebrations Committee last night, complimentary re ference was made to the excellent work done by the Citizens' Committee in ...
Article : 264 words"Like other members who know little or nothing about Mr. Fegan and his qualifications, I am waiting to learn more before I can give a definite opinion, I was ...
Article : 342 wordsRear-Admiral Beaumont will meet the Royal steamer Ophir first at Melbourne in H.M.S. Royal Arthur, which will be escorted by several other vessels of the ...
Article : 51 wordsIn connection with the arrest of Messrs. Robert and Walter Pattison, joint managing directors of Pittisons Limited (in liquidation), it is understood that the ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is expected that several foreign warships will visit Melbourne for the celebrations, among them being the Russian battle-ship Gromoboi, the United States ...
Article : 173 wordsAdvices fiom St. Petersburg state that the Royal Sacred Library of Moukden, which was appropriated by the Russians when they occupied the capital of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Boera have met with a disaster in the South-eastern Transvaal. Commandant Grobelaar andd a commando of 800 men endeavoured to escape ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—Some time ago you published a letter of mine on the above subject. We were then, in reply, told that the men and officers were averse to being singled out, that ...
Article : 199 wordsHer Majesty Queen Alexandra, who has been visiting her father, King Christian of Denmark, at Copenhagen, has gone to Friedrichsh of Castle, Kronberg, near ...
Article : 54 wordsA special meeting of the Fitzroy Council was held last evening for the purpose of considering what action the council should take on behalf of the citizens to welcome ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 160 words"I should like to first know more about Mr. Fegan's qualifications before expressing an op[?]ion. At present it looks—but I won't say anything until I am in a ...
Article : 43 wordsGentlemen representing the various bodies who are presenting addresses of welcome to His Excellency the GovernorGeneral to-day are requested to enter ...
Article : 86 words"Knowing the men who compose the Federal Government, I have every confidence that they will do the right thing. I have had no opportunity of going into ...
Article : 59 wordsPresident Loubet, who wall to-day review the Italian squadron of 13 war-ships under the Duke of Genoa, at Toulon, visited Nice yesterday He was accorded ...
Article : 235 wordsSome further details are given of the success gained by Commandant Sheepers, one of the most active of the Boer raiders in the Cape Colony, at Aberdeen, 36 miles ...
Article : 105 wordsSir,—The children of the Church of England Home for Negieeted Children at Brighton are very anxious to have a flagstaff erected in time for the visit of the ...
Article : 140 words"Most of the outcry raised, against Mr. Fegan's appointment has been on the ground that he is a state politician, and that it ought to have been given to some ...
Article : 232 wordsIt is intimated by Captain Wollington, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor-General, that the correct form of addressing His Royal Highness the Duke ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 24 wordsA long list of matters is to be discussed by the Federal Cabinet when it meets this afternoon. The building in which the Federal Parliament is to hold its sittings ...
Article : 184 wordsA British patrol, which was guarding a waterhole at Agenthuis, in Namaqualand, south of the Orange River, the most north-western district in the Cape Colony, ...
Article : 79 wordsBar silver is quoted at 27 3-16d. per ounce standard, being an advance of ¼d. since Wednesday last. ...
Article : 22 wordsGentlemen attending the Royal levee at Government-house will be expected to wear uniform, court dress, or evening dress. At the ceremony of the opening of ...
Article : 123 wordsWheat and Flour.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,945,000 quarters as against 3,785,000 quarters last week and ...
Article : 77 wordsI am simply astonished at the appointment, and am eager to hear sufficient reason for it. Until I know the particulars I would prefer not to go further in ...
Article : 40 wordsAt a meeting of the Citizens' committee held yesterday, Mr. J. Danks intimated that the Chamber of Manufactures had decided to erect in arch, as an addition to ...
Article : 232 wordsGeneral Louis Botha, the Boer commander-in-chief, who has been staying for some time with General De Wet and Mr. Steyn at Heilbron, in the north of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe joint commission appointed by France and Italy to settle the frontier of their territories on the Red Sea has completed its task. Assab, which has always ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 428 wordsDetails of the route to be taken by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in their journey from Government-house to Port Melbourne on the day of ...
Article : 275 wordsSir John Forrest, who holds the portfolio of the Federal Minister of Defence, arrived in Melbourne by the express yesterday from Adelaide, accompanied by ...
Article : 301 wordsThe barque Stuart, 881 tons, bound from Liverpool to Port Chalmers, has gone ashore on the coast of Carnarvonshire. The salvage prospects are good. ...
Article : 31 wordsBefore General Plumer occupied Pietersburg Mr. Sehalk Burger, who, on the departure of Mr. Kruger, was appointed acting President of the late Transvaal ...
Article : 60 wordsThe appointment of General Vannovski as Minister of Public Instruction, in succession to M. Bogoliepoff, who was murdered by a student, and the announcement that ...
Article : 117 wordsThe police received information yesterday from Mr. Apps, the Government undertaker, that the bodies of the six members of the crew of the steamer Federal ...
Article : 389 wordsThe trial of James Exton, on a charge of stealing a necklet valued at £2, the property of Arthur Coningham, was continued to-day at the Water Police Court. The ...
Article : 505 wordsThe Cabinet celebrations committee last night have consideration to an objection to the protection ot trades and friendly societies and the school children's fete ...
Article : 115 wordsLieutenant G. A. Moore, of the third Victorian contingent (Bushmen), is in hospital at Wynberg, Cape Colony. He is suffering from a fracture of the fibuls, the ...
Article : 86 wordsRepresentatives of municipalities along the borders of which the Royal visitors will pass feel aggrieved at being parctically shut out from assisting in arranging mat ...
Article : 75 wordsGreat floods have occured in Canada. The railway bridge on the Grand Trunk railway over the St. Francis River, at Richmond East, in Quebee, has been ...
Article : 65 wordsThe opportunity to maltreat citizens and commit violent assaults late at night leads directly to these offences. In some municipalities—notably, in Hawthorn—the local ...
Article : 183 wordsA British force, under Colonel the Hon. J. H. G. Byng, of the 10th Hussars, has captured 16 Boers, 50 horses, and a quantity of stores at Bormansdorp. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe New Zealand Federation Commission to-day visited the iron foundries of May Brothers and Messrs. James Martin and Co., at Gawler, and also inspected the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe secretary of the Municipal Association of Victoria (Mr. C. H. Meaden) had an interview yesterday afternoon with the Governor-General, in reference to the ...
Article : 237 wordsAt Hall-past 11 a.m.—In re William in re Donovan, Mortagne v. Mortagne, M'Clure v. Hay, Strachan v. Rowe, Harker v. Wilson. Second Civil Court. ...
Article : 250 wordsNews has been received that Private James E. Wilson, who left Geelong to join the second Victorian contingent, was still in hospital at Bloemfontein on March 8. ...
Article : 89 wordsAn extraordinary robbery has been committed on the Norddentscher-Lloyd's steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. On the arrival of the steamer at ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Barton to-day received a deputation representing the metropolitan newspapers of the various states, and had brought before him certain matters dealt with by the ...
Article : 117 wordsSir,—The elections have proved that the Legislative Council of Victoria enjoys the confidence of the people, and the result should put an cud, once for all, to ...
Article : 322 wordsAt a meeting of the local Traders Association, held on Tuesday night, it was proposed that the business places should close on the afternoon of 8th May, and all ...
Article : 119 wordsThe first subscription received by the Port Melbourne committee is £1/1/ from Mr. Manger, M.H.R. Mr. and Mrs. Morell, of the Bull and Mouth Hotel, ...
Article : 38 wordsThe following, invalided soldiers from South Africa arrived by the Ortona yesterday:—Lieutenant Kendell, N.Z.M.R. (from Fremantle); Trumpeter G. W. Preston, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 wordsMr. John Cullen, of Kerang, has announced his intention to contest the seat for the state electorate of Ganbower, rendered vacant by the election of Mr. J. H. ...
Article : 164 wordsWith reference to the capture of two guns from De Wet, referred to in our correspondent's letters receutly published, Captain Spencer Wollaston, who is in ...
Article : 535 wordsAt the suggestion of His Excellency the Governor-General, the date of the aquatic display and fireworks demonstration on Albert-park Lake has been altered from ...
Article : 92 words[?]he following are the drawers of the placed horses in Tattoersall's Consultation, 50,000 at 5/[?] on the Sydney Cup, closed with 43,000 subscribers, and drawn pro rata:— ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 11 Apr 1901, Page 5
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