Shortly after the Legislative Council met yesterday the Vice-President of the Executive Council laid upon the table a copy of the Act [?] the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
Article : 1,377 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller, advancing from the south, has met Lieutenant General French advancing from Middelburg. ...
Article : 116 wordsLord Roberts believes that Commundant de Wet, after burying the majority of his guns, recrossed the Magalieberg, [?]0 miles to the eastward of Rustenburg, ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Allies had arranged to attack Peking on August 15. Being exhausted by the march from Tientsin, the troops slept in the cornfields, with rain falling, ...
Article : 289 wordsRefering on July 19 to the subject of war risks an English financial exchange states:—Shipowners remain indifferent about taking out war-risk insurances on vessels in connection with the present ...
Article : 343 wordsThe youths employed as wheelers and drives at the Hetton colliery at Carrington declared a strike to-day swing to the punishment of two of their number, and as a result of their action operations at ...
Article : 15 wordsLieutenant Hans Cardua, of the St[?]ts Artillerie of the Transvaal, who was tried before a Court-Martial at Pretoria on charges of having broken his parole ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Powers have now 27 warships at Wusung, where are placed the Chinese forts for the defence of Shanghai. The crews of the warships number 7000 ...
Article : 35 wordsSix of the Norddent[?] Lloyd boats (Aschen, Dresdan, Hallo, H. H. Maler, [?], and Stres[?] burg) and four of the Hamburg-American liners (Adris, [?], Phonix, and Sardinia) have been ...
Article : 6 wordsIt is believed that the whole of the Boers contemplate retreating to the bush and the veldt. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe fort[?]nightly meeting of the executive committee was held yesterday, there being pleasant Messrs. J. [?]erell French, E. L. Davis, M. Gutthelf, L. P. Bain, W. H. Armstrong, J. H. Storey, Richard ...
Article : 3 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts has proposed to President Kruger that the Beers should surrender the British prisoners now at Nooitgedacht to the British ...
Article : 58 wordsEach of the Allies will have eight officers on the staff of Field-Marshal Count von Waldersee, Commander-inChief of the Allies in China. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Sultan has promised to punish the authors of the massacre of Armenians at Spaghauk. The Sultan has removed the Governor of ...
Article : 33 wordsOn Wednesday evening Major Holmes, of the Australian Mo[?]ted Infantry, and secretary of the Water and Sewerage Board, [?]as tendered a welcome by the members and employees of the board at the ...
Article : 4 wordsA strike has occurred on the Taff Vale railway in Wales, owing to the refusal of the management to reinstate a dismissed signalman. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3 wordsIn the Cape House of Assembly yesterday on the resumption of the debate on the second reading of the High Treason Bill Mr. D. H. W. Wessels, the member ...
Article : 104 wordsMr, E. H. Couger, the United States Ambassador at Peking, cables to his Government that the condition of affairs among the Chinese at Peking is chaotic. ...
Article : 48 wordsFrance is importing coal for the use of its navy from America. It was recently reported that the Continental Powers were making large purchase of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe march eastwards—another act in the war drama—has began. After an intermission at Pretoria, which was not wholly restful, Lord Roberts set about his advance eastwards. His object ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3 wordsBrigadier-General Chaffee, the United States Commander, expects that much more fighting will, take place between Peking and the coast. ...
Article : 51 wordsA man, named Goss, formerly a clerk at Purr's Bank, has been remanded on a charge of stealing from the bank in January, 1899, the sum of £60,000. ...
Article : 55 wordsKing Oscar of Sweden has been appointed by Great Britain, Germany, and the United States to act as arbitrator in the claims made by subjects of those ...
Article : 45 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has received a cable intimating that Lance-corporal Wickers and Trooper Spoudor Sk[?], of the South Australian Contingent, were taken prisoners at Buffet's Hock on August 18. ...
Article : 7 wordsIt was recently reported that letters from members of the House of Commons, written to Boers in indiscre[?]t terms on the eve of the war, had been found in ...
Article : 94 wordsVice-Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, in a letter narrating the story of his unsuccessful expedition for the relief of the Legations at Peking, says:— ...
Article : 79 wordsA riot arose in Cawnpore owing to measures which, the British authorities had taken to prevent the spread of the plague. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsThe Administrator of the Government has received a cablegram from Sir Alfred Milner, Cape Colony, stating that Trooper Galvia, of the Tasmanian Contingent, has died of enter[?] fever, and ...
Article : 5 wordsTrooper Pelssm, of New Zealand, is reported killed in South Africa, and Troopers Aldworth, Bartleff, Robertson, and Baxter wounded. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn answer to the proposal of Li Hung Chang that conditions of peace should now be discussed between himself and plenipotentiaries of the Powers, the ...
Article : 67 wordsA dreadful fata[?]iy is reported from Charters Towers. Mr. John Wilkis, manager of the Victory Cy[?] Works, Charters Towers, was killed through his clothes catching in the [?]wheel of the pump. ...
Article : 69 wordsSick pay is allowed by the British Government to officers of the colonial forces invalided home. ...
Article : 24 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4[?]d per ounce standard, a fall of [?]d since yesterday. ...
Article : 20 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has received a cable announcing the deaths in South Africa of Lieutenant Lea[?], of wounds and p[?]umous, and Private Maude, of mes[?] and P[?]eumouis, Lieutenant ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsAfter our first edition went to press the debate on the second reading of the Industrial Arbitration Bill was continued by Mr. W. W. Young, Mr. Nelson, and Mr. Morgan. ...
Article : 435 wordsMrs. Mary Flannery, residing in Hermit Park, Townsville, was stricken with the plague to-day. ...
Article : 20 wordsOn account of the participation of the French with the other Powers in China the Emperor William states that the next anniversary of the battle of Sedan ...
Article : 46 wordsThe proceedings on the Stock Exchange came to an abrupt termination this afternoon when the intelligence was received of the death in [?]otion, at Ottoshoop, of Lieutenant A. G. Gilpin, one of the ...
Article : 6 wordsThe whole of the principal shipping and colliery companies of the Newcastle district have signed a petition for presentation to the Premier praying that the official charged with the management of the coal ...
Article : 8 wordsThe Premier laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly last night a copy of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act as passed by the Imperial Parliament. ...
Article : 38 wordsPrivate Theron Ford, of Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry, writing to his father from Groyhagated on July 3. [?]sys:—"A couple of days ago I had the cl[?]est shave for my life that I have yet had. I was ...
Article : 849 wordsMajor Marchand, who at the instance of the British Government was compelled to evaouate Fashoda, has been attached to the staff of General Voyrou, in ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the Wall[?] Police Court to-day, Mr. T.L. [?]es, one of the Government inspection of colleries, proceeded by summons against Thomas Crondace, general superintendent of the Scottish ...
Article : 139 wordsThe premier does not intend to take any immediate stops to allow the House to decide whether members of State Parliaments may also hold office as members of the Federal Parliament. When Mr. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Allies came [?] too soon to the aid of the [?]prisoned legations in Peking, as is fully set forth in our cable messages of this morning. Even now the position of affairs in the captial is by no ...
Article : 525 wordsGeneral Ian Hamilton, who was reported to have occupied Ghants Nek, in the Rustenburg district, has crossed. the Crocodile (Limpopo) River to the north ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Roberts v. Smith billiard match was continued to-day. At the afternoon session the champion made brooke of 170, 113, 72, 130, and 89, and when play [?]sed the scores stood—Roberts, [?]; Smith. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe steamer Mapourika is ashore near Picton. It is hoped to get her off without serious damage. the Mapourika is almost a new steamer, one of the latest additions to the Union Company's fleet. ...
Article : 111 wordsA complimentary bauquet was tendered last night at the Town Hall by the citizens of Glen I[?] to [?]-corporal Gribble and Troopers A. J. Hod[?] and D. J. Tr[?], who returned home yesterday ...
Article : 512 wordsNews has just been received that Sub-inspector Cameron's party to-day at 12 o'clock picked up the tracks of the fugitives, who are [?]footed, on the Yarraman Gap, Liverpool Ranges, and traced them ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Workmen's Compensation Bill was read the second time. The cabate on the second reading of the Albert River Lllydate Tramway Bill was resumed. A point ...
Article : 35 wordsthat we should have to remind you so [?] that you must ask for AENOIT[?], if you require GENUINE Milk Arrowroot Buscuits.—Advt. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 24 Aug 1900, Page 5
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