The Royal steamer Ophir, which left Singapore on Tuesday afternoon, passed Anjer, on the west coast of Java, 60 miles west of Batavia, at 6 o'clock this morning. ...
Article : 41 wordsLord Kitchener reports the capture of 113 Boers and a 12-pounder Krupp gun. In the lighting that took place, Lieutenant Kenneth James Beatty, of the ...
Article : 140 wordsA few days ago a company of the Fourth Punjaub Infantry had a severe engagement with 1,000 Chinese bandits between Chingwangtao and Suningfu, on the Peking and ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Emperor William yesterday visited the University of Bonn for the purpose of introducing his eldest son, the Crown Prince, to the University. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Piemier to-day issued a manifesto, setting forth the Ministerial policy. In the course of a lengthy document, Mr. See, after relating the circumstances under ...
Article : 699 wordsThe Liberal peers, following the example of the Opposition in the House of Commons, decline to sit on the committee "to consider the declaration required of the ...
Article : 136 wordsThis week's Bank of England return shows a considerable ubcrease in the amount of the reserve, and a considerable deccrease in the ratio which it bears to the ...
Article : 1,202 wordsSo strong is the feeling of dissatisfaction among the men of the various metropolitan branches of the naval and military forces, who are to parade on ...
Article : 1,193 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General has finally revised the order of the Royal procession to be held on the occasion of the landing of His Royal Highness the Duke ...
Article : 2,087 wordsGeneral Vannovski, the new Russian Minister of Public Instruction, has reopened the University and colleges of St. Petersburg, which were closed recently in ...
Article : 66 wordsA financial panic has occurred in Japan Twenty banks at Osaka, the second largest city in Japan, and in the southern and central provinces, have suspended ...
Article : 53 wordsDuring the period of the Royal visit, their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Hopetoun will entertain at Government-house H.R.H. the Duke ...
Article : 4,934 wordsGreat Britain has ceded to Italy the town of Tomat, in the Eastern Soudan, on the right bank of the Atbzra,85 miles south-south-west of Kassala. The cession has been ...
Article : 86 wordsColonel W. P. Pulteney, of the Scots' Guards, has occupied Roosenekal, 30 miles west of Lydenburg, in the Northern Transvaal. ...
Article : 36 wordsA brilliant triple-tailed comet is visible at Cape Town. It is rapidly approaching the sun. [Mr. Baracchi is of opinion that this is ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales, which opened on Tuesday last, closed yesterday. Of River Plate wool 6,455 bales were offered and 3,720 sold. The market showed much ...
Article : 52 wordsCommandant Ben Viljoen, whose headquarters have for some time past been at Roosenekal, 30 miles west of Lydenburg, in the Transvaal, has retreated south ...
Article : 75 wordsA serious disaster has occurred at Greisheim, near Frankfort on the Main. A great fire broke out in electro-chemical works, which resulted in two terrific ...
Article : 78 wordsThe report and balance-sheet of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. for the year ended December 31 last has been issued. The profit amounts to £51,730. A dividend of ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. Baratchi, the Government astronomer, was yesterday morning only able to catch glimpses through the clouds of the comet whose appearance in the eastern sky ...
Article : 176 wordsA British patrol having fallen into an ambush at Badfontein has been captured by the Boers. Major E. H. S. Twyford, of the Scottish ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Celebrations Committee yesterday received from the Lieutenant-Governor a communication from Admiral Beaumont, enclosing copy of a memorandum relative ...
Article : 1,000 wordsThe subscription-list for the war loan of £30,000,000 issued in the form of Consols, bearing interest at the rate of 2¾ per cent. until April 5, 1903, when the rate will be ...
Article : 92 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Friedrich der Grosse, from Melbourne March 13; Beatrice, from ...
Article : 48 wordsMajor. G. E. Benson, of the Royal Artillery, has captured in the Iantesberg Range 65 Boers, together with a Krupp gun and a quantity of ammunition. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsSeveral more trials for treason have taken place at Cape Town. Jacobus De Wet, uncle of the Boer general, Christian De Wet, has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsA deputation has waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ask him to exempt existing contracts from the export duty of 1/ per ton on coal. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Sacred Heart mission schooner St. Andrew arrived yesterday from Hall Sound. Brother Alexis states that it is known there that the tribes about Aird Delta are ...
Article : 131 wordsThe "Cape Times" and other Cape Town papers demand the suppression of the Afrikander Bond. They declare that the whole object of the Bond is to secure such a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsThe House of Commons last night approved of the duties on glucose, and saccharine. [Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's Budget ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" publishes an extraordinary report respecting the action by Beer agents at New Orleans. It is stated that these agents, disguised ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Acting Premier, Mr. Rutledge, has telegraphed to Admiral Beaumont, informing him that the Queensland Government has despatched the steamer Para, with a ...
Article : 70 wordsThe population of the state enumerated to date from both the complete and incomplete returns shows a total of 163,751, the males numbering 99,631, and females 64,130. ...
Article : 100 wordsA rather severe earthquake has occurred in central Italy. The shock was felt particularly at Rome, where the celebrated frescoes, by Raphael, in the Vatican and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 wordsThe British Government has submitted to France certain terms with a view to the settlement of the long-standing Newfoundland fisheries dispute. ...
Article : 28 words"Here we are at the front at last. We ambarked on board the Orient for Durban with orders to call in at Port Elizabeth. We arrived there at 8 a.m. the following ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsThe case of sickness on board the steamer Chingtu, which arrived from China last night, with the New South Wales and Victorian naval contingents on board, has ...
Article : 319 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—Bradford—Business is quiet. Quotations for tops are 18½d. for common ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 297 wordsLast evening, the Commissioner of Police received news by telegram that a tragedy had been committed by blacks on the north side of the Leopold Ranges. The ...
Article : 225 wordsBy ones and twos the scouts of the army which will shortly invade Melbourne are dropping in to spy out the land and learn what has been done by way of welcome ...
Article : 404 wordsThe relatives of Sergeant J. J. Woodbridge, of the Second Contingent, who was recently reported as dangerously ill of enteric fever at Pretoria, have been advised by telegraph from the acting ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. F. J. Field, of Maryborough, was presented with a numerously-signed requisition from Avoca electors to contest the Talbot-Avoca electorate of the state ...
Article : 91 wordsIn our last Saturday's issue we announced that Mr. Marcus D. Beresford, of Preston, had generously placed the sum of £1,000 in our hands for the St. Vincent's Hospital, ...
Article : 69 wordsWhen the s.s. Chingtu arrives in Hobson's Bay to-morrow she will immediately be placed in quarantine at the Point Nepean station. Those on board who have ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Trenwith, the Minister of Railways, is to visit here on the 30th inst., in connection with the proposed extension of the railway from Bairnsdale to Bruthen, and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 27 Apr 1901, Page 13
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