The following items are taken from a letter written by Mr. Bennet Burleigh respecting two spirited engagements at the Vet Drifts:— ...
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Article : 115 wordsThe Maharajah of Sindhia, the largest of the native States of Central India, has offered the British Government a splendidly ...
Article : 65 wordsAll the Chinese Governors of provinces and the Ambassadors of Europe and America announced yesterday the receipt of news from Pekin to the ...
Article : 512 wordsThe town of Northampton was yesterday subjected to an extraordinary visitation. In the midst of a hot day a terrific hailstorm occurred, and stones ...
Article : 69 wordsParticulars are coming to hand of the operations which attended the relief of the little British garrison at Kumasi. Colonel J. Willcocks, who was in ...
Article : 374 wordsSerious news has been received from Kroonstad, in the Orange River Colony. The Boers have again, cut the telegraph wires and torn up portion of the ...
Article : 103 wordsLord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, in a cable despatch to the India Office yesterday, referred hopefully to the crop prospects in the famine-stricken ...
Article : 50 wordsIn view of recent events at Pekin the Chinese of Sydney did not indulge in the usual rejoicings on the EDruperor's birthday, the festivities being limited to a tea ...
Article : 72 wordsAll the Chinese Governors and Ambassadors are declaring that there has been no massacre in Pekin, but the British Government intimate that they ...
Article : 144 wordsIn the course of an interview at Brisbane on Friday, Mr. Dong Chong, one of the leading Chinese merchants in that city, gave expression to the anxiety which prevails ...
Article : 449 wordsKing Alexander of Servia has become betrothed to the Countess Maschin, a young widow, who is a lady-in-waiting in the Court of ...
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Article : 72 wordsColonel R. G. Braodwood's mounted troops and artillery, who recently went in pursuit of the Boers northward from Bethlehem, had a sharp ...
Article : 164 wordsSilver.—The price of bar silver to-day is 2s. 4 3-16d. per oz., a rise of 1-16d. since the 21st inst. Beetroot, Sugar.—Mr. F. C. Lient, of ...
Article : 109 wordsSir Julian Salomons, who returned to Australia by the K.M.S. Indian, resumed the voyage to Sydney by the vessel this afternoon. When his attention was drawn ...
Article : 410 wordsThe two men, Chapman and Dowling, arrested in connection with the disturbance at ex-Pries Slattery's meeting on Sunday afternoon, were dealt with to-day at the ...
Article : 338 wordsAt London.—Holyrood, ship, from Melbourne March 29; Auckland, ship, from Wellington April 12: Tokomaru, steamer, from Port Chalmers May 10. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Duke of Devonshire, speaking yesterday as Chairman of a meeting of the British Empire League, remarked that although the Dominion of Canada ...
Article : 152 wordsA drowning fatality, involving the lives of three persons, was reported from Forster, Caper Hawke. The schooner Empress of India, timber alden for Sydney, took shelter ...
Article : 188 wordsOn Saturday, in country about ten miles west of Bethlehem, a British force, consisting of Berkshire Militia, Imperial Yeomanry, and Field ...
Article : 71 wordsThe following amusing letter from the pen of Captain H. K. Toll, formerly Adelaide agent for the P. & O. Company, appears in a recent issue of the "Western ...
Article : 384 wordsLady Macdonald, the wife of our Minister at Pekin (writes one who knows her in "M.A.P."), has once more evidenced her pluck in not flying from Pekin during the ...
Article : 944 wordsLord Methuen's column on Saturday came into collision with Boer commandos who occupied Oliphant's Nek, a defile in the mountains a few ...
Article : 119 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night the Treasurer go through all their stages a Bill to authorize the raising of money for railways and other purposed and a ...
Article : 444 wordsA report from Hamelin states that a violent hurricane visited the district on Sunday. The barques Norwester, Lovespring, and Kintinka parted their cables and were ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Colonial Stock Bill, which will permit the investment of trust funds in colonial Government securities, was read a second time in the House of ...
Article : 133 wordsWilliam Robertson, who carried on an extensive business as a pastoralist and agriculturist in the Inverell district, was drowned yesterday while fording the river ...
Article : 368 wordsThe hearing of an action in which Horace Selwyn Layton, commission and mining agent, of Melbourne, is the plaintiff, and Francis Sidney Stephen, solicitor, of ...
Article : 233 wordsIn addition to the death in action of Major Moor, of Western Australia, the following casualties to Australasians are reported:— ...
Article : 103 wordsInstructions have been issued to the police in the Singleton and Maitland districts to join in the search for the murderers, and to-day numbers of mounted and heavily ...
Article : 262 wordsLi Hung Chang had a very coo, reception from the foreign residents at Shanghai. The Consuls in the city did not visit him in their official capacity. ...
Article : 66 wordsHer Majesty's Government have appointed Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary of State for Scotland; the Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, Financial ...
Article : 84 wordsOn Sunday afternoon last Mr. and Mrs. Galloway and Mr. and Mrs. Knight, of Outtrim, left home, the two gentlemen riding and their wives driving, to enjoy an ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Russians report that a smart engagement has taken place on the mainland near Wei-hai-weii between a British force and an attacking column of ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. G. Wyndham, Under Secretary for War, informed the House of Commons yesterday that arrangements had been made in the hill country of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe collision in the Irish Channel, which resulted in the loss of the barque Embleton, 1,233 tons, along with her captain and ten of her crew ...
Article : 88 wordsA conference took place to-day between the Premier and the colliery proprietors of the northern districts with reference to a request by the men that the selling price ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Japanese newspapers are discussing the proposal from the Imperial Court at Pekin that China and Japan should unite and make common cause ...
Article : 99 wordsPeter Buckland, a yardman at the Imperial Hotel, Townsville, has been declared to be plague-stricken. The hotel and fifty-five contacts have been isolated. ...
Article : 60 wordsA Bluebook on South African affairs was published yesterday. It contain the text of an interesting despatch from Mr. Chamberlain to ...
Article : 148 wordsThe North Australian Cycling Club had its first road race on Saturday, from Palmerston to Shoal Bay, a distance, there an back, of 30 1-10th miles, principally over ...
Article : 71 wordsA man who was employed installing acetylene gas at a house in Camphelltown was the victim of an explosion to-day. He dropped a lighted match into the gas its ...
Article : 50 wordsMrs. A. McKay, who was severely injured by aboriginals at Sportman's Hollow, near Ulan, when her husband was murdered yesterday, died this morning ...
Article : 435 wordsAt an early hour this morning a man was found injured and unconscious on the railway line near Subiaco. He was taken to the hospital, where he died before noon ...
Article : 146 wordsThe commanders of the allies at Tientsin continue to maintain cordial relations with each other. They have established a provisional government ...
Article : 33 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has received a cable message from Sir Alfred Milne, dated Cape Town July 22, as follows:—"I regret to inform you that ...
Article : 110 wordsTaking advantage of the fact that the United States Cabinet are inclined to believe that Mr. Conger is alive and under protection at Pekin, China, in a ...
Article : 65 wordsA rat suffering from a violent form of plague has been found at Wellington. The Government has decided to take no special action unless the plague exhibits itself in ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Wed 25 Jul 1900, Page 5
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