Lord Kitchener reports than on Wednesday night, the 26th inst., the Boers attacked two block-houses on the PretoriaDelagoa Bay railway, near Brugspruit, 28 ...
Article : 77 wordsAccording to the Shanghai correspondent of "The Times," refugees from Manchuria who have arrived at the treaty port of Chefoo, in the province of Shunting, ...
Article : 105 wordsOn the 13th inst. the House of Lords agreed to a motion bv the Mtrquis of Salisbury nominating a select committee to consider and report upon the advisability ...
Article : 122 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, held a levee on Saturday at Government-house. The function was largely attended, and was marked rather ...
Article : 135 wordsAs the result of an interview between the Rev. J. F. Blair and Mr. W. C. MacDougall, as representing the citizens of Balmain who signed the petition urging ...
Article : 626 wordsBy far the most interesting item on the notice-paper for the Senate to members of that Chamber is Senator O'Connor's motion to be moved on Thursday providing ...
Article : 209 wordsDuring the past few weeks we have intimated each day that the subscription opened by Mr. Marcus Beresford, with a contribution of £1,000, for the St. ...
Article : 285 wordsA highly satisfactory state of affairs is disclosed by the revenue returns for the year, which the Treasury officials issued with commendable promptness on ...
Article : 497 wordsField-Cornet Depriez and 44 Boers have surrendered to the British at Pietersburg, in the Transvaal, about 140 miles north-east of Pretoria. ...
Article : 34 wordsDuring a debate in the House of Lords last night on the army proposals of the Government, it was evident that there is considerable anxiety in official ...
Article : 102 wordsHealesville was honoured to-day with the presence of the Prime Minister (Mr. Barton), who was accompanied by the state Attorney-General (Sir Samuel Gillott), the ...
Article : 897 wordsSir Andrew Clarke, the Agent-General for Victoria, forerly Inspector-General of Fortifications, has been interviewed with reference to the report of the committee ...
Article : 122 wordsAfter all it is the Postmaster-General who is to have the new building in Spring-street, to be leased by the Federal Government, in addition to its offices at the corner of Spring ...
Article : 489 wordsThe columns under General Campbell and Colonel G. E. Harley, which have been sweeping the country between Bethlehem and Harrismith, in the west of the Orange ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Senate does not resume until Wednesday. When it meets Senator M'Gregor, leader of the Labour party in this House, will question the Ministry as to whether it ...
Article : 102 wordsIn the attack on Richmond, in the Cape Colony, on Tuesday last by Commandant Malan and 400 Boer raiders, the town guard, who defended the village until the ...
Article : 65 wordsA strike of men cmployed in harvesting has occurred at Ferrara, in Northern Italy Several hundred peasants from Piedmont were engaged to replace the strikers, ...
Article : 60 wordsFederal Ministers recognise that it would be of little use organising a tour of the suggested sites for the Commonswealth capital during the recess. Members will, they ...
Article : 527 wordsDr. Gentsch, the second managing director of the Leipziger Bank, which has suspended payment, with liabilities amounting (on December 31, 1899) to 114,566,535 ...
Article : 71 wordsFollowing upon the benefactions by Mr. Andrew Carnegie and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan in the cause of education, other large gifts by American millionaires are ...
Article : 64 wordsSir Henry Rawlinson, wbo was recently operating in the South-Western Transvaal, has visited a difficult part of the Magaliesberg range, west of Pretoria. There he ...
Article : 73 words"Dear Sir,— "I am directed by their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Hopetoun to enclose a sum of £25, which ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Australian bowls team played their third game ni Scotland yesterday their opponents being the Braid Club, Edinburgh. The contest proved very close all through, ...
Article : 250 wordsWith reference to the position assumed by the Minister of Works in connection with the strike, as explained by him to a deputation from the Ironworkers' Assistants' ...
Article : 369 wordsA dastardly attempt at train-wrecking has been made near Crewe, in Cheshire, the central manufacturing depot of the London and North-Western railway. ...
Article : 93 wordsAt a banquet given in London last night, General Sir Frederick Carrington, who was in command of the Rhodesia Field Force, which included the Victorian Bushmen ...
Article : 74 wordsValuations are now being made of all the services (land, buildings, fittings, &c.), postal, Customs, and defence, recently transferred from the states to the ...
Article : 156 wordsSir J. Blundell Maple, M.P., the wellknown owner of racehorses, recently complained of the worthless quality of the Huncarian horses purchased by tho War Office ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Admiralty has made some successful experiments at Portsmouth with submarine torpedo-boat destroyers. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe consolidated revenue for June amounted to £1,026,432, an increase on the corresponding mongth of last year of £69,563, principally due to railways and ...
Article : 242 wordsThe several Federal departments have lost no time in preferring requests for large public works. The Victorian Postal authorities want to extend the General ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsMany of the shareholders in the Londdon Valley Gold-fields Limited are agitating for the return of their money. [This Company, which was issued in ...
Article : 121 wordsSaturday was the last day of the first financial half-year of the Commonwealth. The actual new expenditure consequent upon federation was £125,043. Of this ...
Article : 502 wordsCaptain A. F. Thunder, of the West Australian Contingent, Lieutenants Clerk and C. E. W. Hyde, of the Queensland Bushmen, and Lieutenant J. R. Matthews, of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 344 wordsA sensational accident occurred at the bridge crossing the Woady yalloak Creek, by which a wood waggon and team of eight horses, with their driver, were ...
Article : 353 wordsThe evidence taken at the inquest concerning the cause of the fire at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, in which several lives were lost, indicates possible remarkable ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following casualties are reported:— Private P. J. M'Namara, of the third New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent, accidentally killed at Holfontein; Private ...
Article : 43 wordsTo lessen the consternation felt by first-class officers in the Australian postal service at the promotion by Senator Drake of his private secretary, Mr. Justinian ...
Article : 297 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales, which opened on Tuesday last, closed yesterday, prices being unchaged. Of the La Plata wool offered, 1,571 bales, half was sold Of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following Australian soldiers arrived here at a late hour last night from Cape Town in the steamer Damascus:— VICTORIANS. ...
Article : 165 wordsThe annual meeting of the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association was held last night, The financial statement showed that, altough£900 had been offered in ...
Article : 382 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday beforo Mr. J.W.Graham, J.P., and a jury concernnig the collision which toolk place at Bungared on the prvious day, between the 7.45 ...
Article : 523 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has adopted the amendments made by the Scnate in the Religious Associations Bill. His Majesty the King has instituted a ...
Article : 348 wordsConsiderable excitement was occasioned last night by the arrival of Captain Sinclair with the news that the steamer Shannon had foundered. The shannon had just been ...
Article : 340 wordsA dusgracefyk [?] was witnessed at the Estern Oval yesterday afternoon, during the football match between the Ballarat and Ballarat Imperial clubs. The game ...
Article : 133 wordsAs a last act of respect for the memory of their late fellow-employe, Trooper S. J. Barnard, who fell with others of the Victorian troops at Wilmansrust, nearly 300 ...
Article : 125 wordsThe proceedings in the case of E. A. Janson v. the Lilydale-Warburton Railway Construction Trust. were commenced in the Court of Arbitration on Friday, and ...
Article : 254 wordsMr. Justice A'Beekett will take urgent chamber business at balf-past 10 a.m. CRIMINAL, COURT. (Before Judge Chomley.) ...
Article : 127 wordsOn clause 44 of the Public Service Bill, which provides that members of the federal service must assure their lives, Mr. Hume Cook (V.) moved as an amendment ...
Article : 359 wordsA public meeting was held in the South Melbourne Town-hall on Friday evening to take steps to provide a memorial to the memory of the late Corporal Charles ...
Article : 159 wordsThere are signs that the forthcoming session of Parliament will be a lively one. some of the progressive Liberals in the Government party being dissat[?] with the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 1 Jul 1901, Page 5
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