There was another large attendance at the Royal Show yesterday, the chief attractions being the competition for the Ladies' Hunters Plate and the ...
Article : 5,494 wordsColonel Scobell's tireless pursuit of Commandant Lotter, the Boer raider in the Cape Colony, has at length been rewarded. It will be remembered that Lotter, after ...
Article : 125 wordsThe stern formality observed by the German Emperor in the reception of Prince Chun at Potsdam on Wednesday is being perverted by the members of the Chinese ...
Article : 171 wordsA few days ago the Porte appealed to Germany to mediate with France in its dispute with that power arising out of the non-fulfilment of pecuniary obligations ...
Article : 80 wordsThe interstate conference of Ministers of Agriculture finished its labours yesterday. No fresh business was entered upon. The members of the conference, Mr. Morrissey ...
Article : 781 wordsMr. F. L. Outtrim's revelations in "The Argus " of political influence in the Postal department led to some awkward questions being put by Senator Dobson, but Senator ...
Article : 1,297 wordsA cable message announces. that the Ophir, with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on board, has sailed from the Cape Verde ...
Article : 1,313 wordsAt the special meeting of the proposed new diocese committee, convened to receive Archdeacon Armstrong's report, which was summarised in "The Argus" of ...
Article : 344 wordsCorporal Harry Barton, who has been wounded in the [?]bane engagement, comes from Myrtleford, where his father and mother are old residents. His father happened to be working at ...
Article : 56 wordsPersia has signed a convention with Great Britain authorising the construction by the latter of a three-wire telegraph from Kashan, an important town in central ...
Article : 47 wordsA conversazione to welcome the South Yarra members of the Victorian contingents was held in the Christ Church School-hall, South Yarra, on Thursday. There was a very large attendance. ...
Article : 122 wordsCommandant Scheepers, whose commando, consisting of 300 men, being hard pressed by the British columns, split into two sections, one of which was advancing ...
Article : 90 wordsAn important statement, foreshadowing the future commercial policy of the United States, has been made by President M'Kinley at Buffalo. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Bank of Australasia declares a dividend for the half-year ended April 16 last at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. The sum of £25,000 is applied in writing down ...
Article : 82 wordsFrederick Thomas James Dickson, the accountant at the Melbourne University, who, it is alleged, has appropriated sams of £4,126/5/3 and £83/6/8, the moneys of ...
Article : 119 wordsA New South Wales 3 per cent. loan of £4,000,000 is to be issued immediately. The minimum has been fixed at £94, and the loan has been underwritten. ...
Article : 191 wordsAs a result of the superiority shown by Columbia (the winner of the last contest) over Constitution (the new yacht) in the trial races for the selection of a defender ...
Article : 123 wordsAn armoured train has been derailed at Taungs, a station 41 miles south of Vryburg, on the Kimberley railway. Three soldiers were killed, and five injured, one ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Williams, and Mr. Justice Holroyd, dealt yesterday with an important question under the Factories and ...
Article : 1,183 wordsThe inquest on the body of George Reginald Hill, the young man who died from injuries inflicted by an unknown assailant at North Melbourne on Tuesday ...
Article : 244 wordsLord Kitchener has reported to the War Office that the British casualties last month were 1,790. This number includes 1,387 troops who were invalided home, 1,250 of ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the sittings of the Trades Union Congress at Swansea yesterday the most important matter discussed was that of oldage pensions. The feeling of the congress ...
Article : 92 wordsThe reserve of notes and coin is £26,833,000, against £27,466,000 for the previous week, the proportion to liabilities being 53.00 per cent., against 53.40 per cent. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe colony of Natal has put forward a claim to the annexation of a large area of the Transvaal and of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe cricket season being now virtually ended, the final results of the county matches have been published. Yorkshire again heads the list, Middlesex ...
Article : 417 wordsA quantity of warlike stores has been unearthed in the Transvaal, near Komati Poort, the station at the boundary of the Transvaal and the Portuguese territory. ...
Article : 93 wordsA complimentary dinner was tendered last evening, at the Grand Hotel, to Mr. H. Gyles Turner, late general manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, on his ...
Article : 715 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 2[?] per cent., being ¾ per cent. below the Bank of England rate, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsAn ex-member of the Cape mounted police, who had deserted and joined a Boer commando that was fighting outside Kimberley, has been tried and sentenced to ...
Article : 104 wordsThere is much anxiety at Port Piric owing to the heavy mortality amongst children. There have been nine deaths in as many days. Some idea of the fatal ...
Article : 163 wordsThe following sales are reported on the London Stock Exchange:-Chillagoe, 13/6. Mt. Lyell, £4/16/3 ...
Article : 20 wordsRecent South African papers state that Captain J. M'R. Cameron, of Melbourne (organiser of Cameron's Scouts), has been appointed to the command of a garrison of ...
Article : 82 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursdays closing quotations:- Wool.— Bradford.— The market is hardening. Tops are quoted at l8¾d. for common ...
Article : 323 wordsAn arrest was made yesterday in connection with a case of alleged fraudnient bankruptey in Switzerland. The Swiss consul, Mr. Charles Martin, received a ...
Article : 289 wordsThe Northern Investment Company of New Zealand has declared a dividend of 6 per cent. for the year ended June 30 last, carrying forward a balance of £3,685. ...
Article : 304 wordsThe Lieutenant- Governor received a cable message from the Colonial Office yesterday informing him that Corporal W. L. Briggs, of the South Australian ...
Article : 49 wordsA cable message was received by the Defence department yesterday stating that the troopship Sophocles had left Cape Town on August 30 with 60 returning ...
Article : 87 wordsA few weeks ago Lieut.-Colonel Ryan, principal medical officer of the Victorian military forces, had set before him two very serious cases, in which intricate ...
Article : 328 wordsMr. John Jennings, residing in the Esplanade, Port Melbourne, drew the attention of Constable Dooley on Thursday to some smoke issuing from a house situated ...
Article : 220 wordsIn our notice of exhibits at the show the very handsome display of preserved, bottled, and dried fruits, biscuits, &c., made by Messrs. Swallow and Ariell was ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:- Arrivals.— Narrung, from Melbourne July 5; Ocean, from Port Augusta June ...
Article : 67 wordsThe P. and O. R. M. S. Arendin left Suez for Australia on the 5th inst. F. M. S. Ville de la Ciotat left Port Said homewards on the 5th inst. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 7 Sep 1901, Page 13
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