Mr. John Xavier Merriman, who was Treasurer in the late Schreiner Ministry, and recently came to England with the intention of appearing at the bar of the House ...
Article : 468 wordsAccording to the Berlin correspondent of the "Standard," there are indications that the powers have decided to each raise a loan for the amount of the indemnity ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. William Mulock, Postmaster-General of Canada, arrived at Adelaide on Saturday, an route to Melbourne, to represent Canada at the opening of the ...
Article : 1,599 wordsCaptain Wallington, private secretary to His Excellency the Governor-General, supplies the official programme of the movements of their Royal Highnesses during ...
Article : 862 wordsWhat might be termed a private view of the public buildings to be illuminated during the Royal visit—the Exhibition, Parliament-houses, Treasury, General Post-office, ...
Article : 252 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Chamberlain stated that Lord Kitchener would act as Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies during the ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. L. Bernard Hall's letter, in "The Argus" of Saturday, is fully endorsed by all who have noticed the covering of the fine statue to General Gordon in ...
Article : 160 wordsAdvices from Teheran state that the Shah of Persia, Muzaiffer-ed-deen, who succeeded to the throne in May, 1896, is seriously ill. The Shah is 48 years old. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn connection with the disastrous fire and explosion at the electro-chemical works at Greisheim, near Frankfort-on-the-Main, by which 100 persons were killed and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe report that Lieutenant Kenneth James Beatty, of the fifth Victorian contingent, had been killed in a recent engagement nvith the Boers turns out to be ...
Article : 47 wordsOn Saturday evening Mr. Barton, Prime Minister, accompanied by Sir William Lyne, Mr. R. E. O'Connor, and Sir Philip Fysh, his colleagues, and Mr. Atlee-Hunt, ...
Article : 575 wordsThe British Government, which lately decided not to buy any more horses in the United States, is now purchasing horses in Hungary. Nine hundred are being ...
Article : 42 wordsThe P. and O. Company's Royal mail steamer Sobraon, 7,382 tons, has during a heavy fog gone ashore on the island of Tungying, near Foochow. ...
Article : 52 wordsOne of the chief difficulties of the celebrations committee is to secure finality in connection with the' programme. Every change in the official arrangements ...
Article : 152 wordsFollowing upon the gruesome reports lately received from New Guinea of the murder of missionaries by savages comes another report, by Messrs. Burns, ...
Article : 443 wordsThe following officers are convalescent, and have resumed duty:—Captain C. Hill, of the third Victorian contingent; Lieutenant E. Barbeta, of the New South ...
Article : 32 wordsA case of bubonic plague has occurred at Ymuiden, a small seaport town in Holland, at the entrance of the North Sea Canal, six miles from Haarlem. ...
Article : 37 wordsLetters received from the seat of war state that one of the two wounds sustained by Corporal M'Culloch, eldest son of Mr. J. M'Culloch, J.P., of Outtrim, was much ...
Article : 80 wordsA "dress rehearsal" of the parade of Royal and vice-regal carriages, which will form the central part of the Royal procession to take place on May 6, was held on ...
Article : 131 wordsAt the joint session of the Baptist and Congregational Unions the Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D., of the City Temple, proposed that the two denominations should be ...
Article : 54 wordsGranted fine weather, one of the most interesting features of the celebrations will probably be the street decorations. Yet the thousands who will throng the streets ...
Article : 696 wordsThe steamer Tongariro, having a considerable number of Australian troops from South Africa on board, passed Wilson's Promontory at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, ...
Article : 29 wordsA daring and successful act by a party of 20 Australian Bushmen, under the command of Lieutenant Reid, is reported. At dawn on Thursday last the Bushmen ...
Article : 109 wordsBar silver is quoted at 27?d. per ounce standard, being an advance of 1/8 since yesterday. LONDON, April 27. ...
Article : 37 wordsIt having been represented to His Excelleney the Governor-General that the absence of cloak-room accommodation will cause much inconvenience to some of the ...
Article : 101 wordsLieutenant Alurest Kelly, who received his commission at the end of last month, writes to his relatives from Johannesburg, February 10:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsWith reference to the carriage tickets which have been issued to ladies and gentlemen who have received invitations to the evening parties to be given at ...
Article : 178 wordsQuotations for frozen meat are as follows:— New Zealand Sheep.—Crossed wethers and muden ewes (551b. to 651b.)— ...
Article : 271 wordsSome of the Australian troops, who left Cape Town by the steamer Tongariro, caused a slight disturbance before their embarkation. ...
Article : 165 wordsIn the House of Commons last night a question was raised by the Opposition, regarding the salaries and fees paid to the law officers of the Crown. It was pointed ...
Article : 88 wordsBy the ketch St. Andrew, which arrived on Thursday from Hall Sound, it transpires that the Government agent at that place knows that the tribes ...
Article : 59 wordsA communication has been received from Captain Wallington, to the effect that the mayoresses of the town and boroughs will be allowed to accompany their husbands at ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following arrangements will be observed at the Exhibition-building for the simultaneous flying of the Union Jack, on Tuesday, May 14, on all the state schools, to commemorate the ...
Article : 304 wordsThe necessity for the better regulation of the pedestrian traffic in connection with the festivities is becoming more apparent every day. To this end the City Council is ...
Article : 82 wordsThe subscription for the national memorial to her late Majesty the Queen amount to £80,000. The Marquis of Salisbury has subscribed £200 to the fund. ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Citizens' Arch Fund will close to-day. Mr. R. G. Wilson, hon. treasurer, acknowledges the following additional donations:—National Bank, £10; ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have informed Admiral Beaumont by telegraph that the German, war-ship Hansa, flagship to Rear-Admiral Hirchof, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe members of the military contingent who are going to Melbourne paraded this morning, and, after attending service at the Roman Catholic and Anglican ...
Article : 76 wordsGeneral F. W. Kitchener, who has been operating in the Northern Transvaal in conjunction with Generals Plumer, Douglas, and Sir Bindon Blood, has arrived at ...
Article : 61 wordsSome misunderstanding still appears to exist regarding the dress to be worn by the boys at the public school demonstration on May 14. The boys may wear either ...
Article : 69 wordsSir,—Just at present, when so many of us are making preparations for seeing as much as we can of the Royal visitors in the street processions, would it not be as ...
Article : 134 wordsGeneral Plumer, who has been operating in the Northern Transvaal, and recently occupied Pietersburg, is now at Middelburg, on the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railway, ...
Article : 42 words1. The cadets and other scholars should be drawn up opposite the flag-pole a quarter of an hour prior to the time for hoisting the flag. 2. The specially selected scholars (each carrying ...
Article : 295 wordsAlthough Mr. W. Mulock, Postmaster. General of Canada, has primarily under-taken the long voyage to represent the Dominion Government at the opening of the ...
Article : 318 wordsThe fine afternoon yesterday was a welcome invitation to hundreds of suburban residents and recent arrivals in Melbourne to review the fortnight's progress in the ...
Article : 431 wordsThe outbreak of small-pox on board the s.s. Chingtu, which has arrived at Sydney with the Victorian Naval Contingent on board, en route to Melbourne, will ...
Article : 85 wordsThe jury by whom Jane Smith tvas tried on the charge of causing the death of Patrick Conway by giving him stryehnine to drink in a bottle of stout whilst on the ...
Article : 206 wordsIt is reported that General De Wet, with a few followers, has recently been near Villiersdorp, 50 miles cast of Cape Town. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Maurice Lyons, of Queensland, who recently offered the Imperial opal to King Edward VII, is a passenger by the R. M. S. Himalayn, which arrived at Adelaide on ...
Article : 217 wordsIt was finally arranged on Saturday that the inmates of the Old Colonists' Homes should view the processions from the vantage-point of St. Paul's Cathedral ...
Article : 61 wordsGeneral Sir John D. P. French, the cavalry commander, who has been engaged in the war from its commencement, and has latterly been operating with great ...
Article : 66 wordsAbout 200 stockmen will, according to Mr. J. K. Jennings, who is acting as manager of the corps, take part in the procession, the majority being expected to reach ...
Article : 100 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Haydon V. MacLod; re Currell. First Civil Court. (Before Mr. Justice WIlliams.) ...
Article : 183 wordsLast night, towards midnight, the first detachment of the large body of troops to come from New South Wales and Queensland reached the Spencer-street station by ...
Article : 697 wordsSome further details are published of the two hours' fight between a party of ...
Article : 100 wordsDetails in connection with the proposed dinner to the poor on Thursday, may 9, have now been approved by the Cabinet celebrations committee. It is proposed to ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 29 Apr 1901, Page 5
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