After many weeks on the water, I write with but a vague knowledge of what has been done in the choice of a team, and assuming that 10 men have been absolutely ...
Article : 3,015 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, on the motion for the second reading of the Appropriation Bill, an animated debate on the Boer war took place. ...
Article : 512 wordsTheir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York sailed yesterday in the Ophir from Durban for Simonstown, Cape Colony. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe reduction of the British garrison at Shanghai, and especially of the eavalry, is bitterly resented by the British community at the port, as it leaves the German ...
Article : 61 wordsWhen the disputed West Australian election was under discussion in the Senate some weeks ago a question arose as to the power of the Senate, under certain ...
Article : 659 wordsIt was reported in Brisbane that Mr. John Edward Courtenay Bodley, barrister-at-law, and a well-known political writer, had been offered the Governorship of ...
Article : 1,330 wordsThe "Praelector" of the Trinity College Dialectic Society lighted upon a fertile field for eloquene and philosophy when be those "Patriotic ...
Article : 6,376 wordsParticulars have been received of the death of Corporal G. B. M'Culloch, of the South African Light Horse, who was the son of the late Superintendent M'Culloch, ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. J. P. Boland, Nationalist member for South Kerry, asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the ...
Article : 70 wordsA case of alleged breach of privilege was brought under the notice of the House of Commons last night. The London evening newspaper the ...
Article : 141 wordsLient.-Colonel Ryan, principal medical officer of the Victorian military forces, is about to undertake, two intricate operations upon members of the Australian ...
Article : 348 wordsIt is announced that a satisfactory interchange of views with regard to Morocco has taken place between Great Britain an France. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Antarctic exploring steamer Discovery, which left Cowes for Melbourne on the 6th inst., has arrived at Funchal, in the Madeira Island. ...
Article : 60 wordsParliament will be prorogued on Saturday next, the 17th inst., and will meet again in the middle of January, 1902. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn consequence of the want of success that has so far attended the strike of steel workers in the United States, much dissatisfaction is felt with the management of ...
Article : 59 wordsIn consequence of the passing of the Associations Bill by the French Legislature, the Jesuits, Benedictines, and other religious orders recently resolved to leave ...
Article : 81 wordsThe case in which Lieut.-Colonel Ricardo claims £5,000 damages from the British Newspaper Company for alleged defamation, contained, according to the statement ...
Article : 479 wordsA paragraph relating to gratuities to military officers, which appeared in the Army Orders for June, has been republished in the general order issued yesterday by Major ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Factory Bill was passed by the House of Lords last night. The Government accepted the amendment by the House of Commons, providing that in the textile ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsPearks, Gunston, and Tee Limited, grocers and provision merchants, London, who have branches in the suburbs and several country towns, have again been ...
Article : 149 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, in reply to a question by Sir John Rolleston, Conservative member for Leicester, Mr. Chamberlain stated that the Government ...
Article : 55 wordsKORUMBURRA.—The residents of Korumburra entertained Sergeant J. M'C. Finlayson on Saturday last, and presented him with a gold watch. ...
Article : 541 wordsThe devotion of Friday sittings to private members' business has resulted in absolute waste of time, and yesterday was probably the least valuable of the series. ...
Article : 603 wordsA more definite statement has been made by the War Office of the position which General N. G. Lyttelton, who sailed for South Africa on Saturday last ...
Article : 119 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 2? per cent, being 5/8 per cent. below the Bank of England rate, ...
Article : 41 wordsDr. Richard Jordan Gatling, the famous inventor of the Gatling gun, has invented a new motor plough, which promises to revolutionise existing methods of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsMr. Seddon delivered his financial statement to-night. The past year showed a surplus of £532,564, of which half a million is to be transferred to the public works ...
Article : 407 wordsIn consequence of the diplomatic rupture between the South American republics of Venezuela and Colombia the British warsloop Icarus, 970 tons, eight guns, of the ...
Article : 127 wordsColonel G. F. Gorringe, who recently, after driving the commandos of Wessels and Pyper from Barkly East by a rapid night march aurprised a laager north of ...
Article : 93 wordsBar silver is quoted at 26[?]d. per oz. standard, being an advance of l-16d. since Wednesday last. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—Bradford—The market is very firm. Tops are quoted at 18¼d. for ...
Article : 246 wordsA draft report in connection with the Victorian contributions to the Empire Patriotic Fund has been prepared for consideration at a meeting of the general ...
Article : 533 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Diomed, from Melbourne June 15; Aldebaran, from Melbourne May 3. ...
Article : 35 wordsA manifesto in favour of the immediate conclusion of peace in South Africa has been signed by the Rev. John Clifford, D.D., of the Westbourne-park Baptist ...
Article : 114 wordsA domestic tragedy was enacted at the house of John Barnard Rudkin, a settler near the King River, east of Albury, yesterday, resulting in the death of Mrs. ...
Article : 210 wordsA committee in Switzerland had arranged to send a doctor and six nurses to South Africa to attend the women-folk in the Boer refugee camps. ...
Article : 118 wordsPrices for stock, fat and store, continue exceptionally high. At this week's market, which was a fairly large one, fat bullocks, by the pen, realised up to £13/10/, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsHarold Hennell, Lexton-street, Ballarat, glazier. Causes of insolvency—Ill-health of wife, and having to engage assistance in the house. Debts, £58,9,10; assets, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 17 Aug 1901, Page 13
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