Lord Roberts reports that the Boers are losing heart owing to scarcity of provisions and ammunition, but that Mr. Steyn is still inducing them, by ...
Article : 114 wordsThe following statement of the Chinese question in relation to the Australian Commonwealth from a Chinaman's point of view may not be without interest to the people ...
Article : 3,151 wordsSergeant D. W. Brock, of the Second South Australian Contingent, writes to us as fallows from the Castles, Cape Town, under date October 6:—"We are at present ...
Article : 1,354 wordsInvestigations which are being made into the murders committed by the Chinese before the occupation of the Chihli province by the allied troops show that ...
Article : 89 wordsOwing to the intervention of Col. Theo. Roosevelt, the Governor of the State of New York, Mr. Robert A. Van Wyck. the mayor of New York city. ...
Article : 599 wordsDespatches from Bloemfontein state that Hermanus Steyn, with a Boer commando, has succeeded in occupying Ficksburg a town on the Basutoland ...
Article : 287 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has returned from Balmoral and gone to Windsor Castle for her usual winter residence. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is expected that some cruisers belonging to the training squadron will be told off to escort the Duke aud Duchess of York to Australia on their ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral von Waldersee has dispatched a column to the frontiers of Shansi province to take possession of the routes to Taiyuen-fu and Sinsan-fu, and ...
Article : 87 wordsBy instructions from count von Walilezzee. a column, of allied troops, who recently occupied Jehan a town about 50. miles ...
Article : 82 wordsActing upon the recommemdation of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, M.P., who is strongly antagonistic to ritualistic practices in the Church of ...
Article : 80 wordsAn official proclamation in the "London Gazette" states that Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased, by letters patent given under the great ...
Article : 151 wordsThe public workes committee met yesterday at the town hall to enquire into the necessity for a second water supply for the town. The chairman Mr. Dick said the ...
Article : 963 wordsConsiderable difficulty is being experienced by the Engineer-in-chief in procuring first-class navvies for railway construction purposes. ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has informed Mr. Henry Copeland, Agent-general for New South Wales, that a permanent Pacific ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Australian-bred Syerla was made favourite for the Great Tom Plate, which was run at the Lincoln November Meeting to-day. The Gozo representative, however ...
Article : 85 wordsNews has reached Cape Town to the effect that a commando of rebels are in laager near Petrusville, a village in the sheepfarming district of Philip's ...
Article : 36 wordsMjr.-general French was further examined to-day before the Parliamentary select committee appointed to enquire into the administration of the military ...
Article : 183 wordsLord Roberts, in a despatch to the War Office yesterday, reported that while the Boer fighters are unmistakably losing heart owing to scarcity of ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Right Hon. St. John the newly appointed Secretary of Stale for War, in a speech to his constituents at Godaiming yesterday, promised that ...
Article : 87 wordsBreadstuffs.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,190,000 qrs., compared with 2,335,000 qrs. a week ago and 1.800.000 qrs. a year ago. The ...
Article : 124 wordsThe latest telegram concerning Mr. Kruger, who a few days ago reached Jiboutil in the Netherlands cruiser Gelderland, states that his health has ...
Article : 59 wordsThe select committee appointed by the Legislative Council to report on the Arbitration and Conciliation, Bill has recommended several drastic amendments. These ...
Article : 69 wordsThe "New York Herald" announces that the Russian Government are placing orders in United States shipbuilding yards for five new battleships ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsDr. MacDonald, resident surgeon at the Geraldton hospital, asserts that the disease known, in North Queensland as the earth eating disease is assuming serious ...
Article : 131 wordsAn exciting incident occurred in connection with Mjr-Gen. II. L. Smith-Dorrien's night march from Belfast through la deluge of rain to surprise ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Palmerston and Pine Greek railway earnings for the week ended November 3 amounted to £359. The steamer Guthrie, from Hongkong ...
Article : 115 wordsThe enquiry into the circumstances attending certain alterations in the report of Mr. Benjamin Dunstan, assistant Government geologist, as published in the ...
Article : 456 wordsThe single-handed bowls championship tournament was continued to-day under pleasant conditions Great interest was taken in the play, which was of a high-class ...
Article : 118 wordsIn connection frith the Commonwealth celebrations, the Premier received a cable message to-day from the High Commission for South Africa, regretting that it was ...
Article : 256 wordsThe man who on the 6th inst was reelected President of the United States had in his early life the benefit which always comes to a strong character from a struggle ...
Article : 810 wordsThe first intercolonial conference of the Australian natives' association held this evening was attended by representatives of Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland. South ...
Article : 149 wordsA large total abstinence demonstration was held in the town hall to-night, prior to which many ministers of religion, prominent citizens and members of temperance ...
Article : 108 wordsAt yesterday's session of the Anglican synod aa interesting debate of more than local importance took place on cause 12 of the Anglican Parachial Bill. The clause ...
Article : 142 wordsSir—Being thoroughly in sympathy with the victims of the late junior elimination, may I ask space for a word oil behalf of students who will next week sit for the ...
Article : 173 wordsAt the city police court yesterday the three men, McLaughlin, NcLaughlin, and Davis, who were arrested in connection with the recent shooting case at East Perth ...
Article : 62 wordsWith a view if possible to remove the difficulty which has arisen between the Melbourne bicycle club and the league of wheelmen three members of the league ...
Article : 110 wordsThree men, Messrs. Scott, manager of the sluicing company, Tobin, and Low were to-day killed at Skippers, a raining township, in the Otago district, while shifting ...
Article : 39 wordsSir—I have been harbouring a misty idea that the simpler elements of sanitation were being taught in our public schools. Whether so or not, it is evident that some ...
Article : 233 wordsA conference or graziers, farmors, and selectors association was opened to-day on the question of securing remedial legislation owing to the disastrous drought. A long ...
Article : 56 wordsSir—In connection with, the throwing open to commonage of unleased lands on the west side I wish to say that it will be next to impossible to get any starving stock ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Thu 8 Nov 1900, Page 5
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