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  2. CONCERNING PEOPLE.

    The Hon. T. Pascoe, M.L.C., has been absent from Parliament on account of illness, and his colleague, the Hon. J. Warren, will move on Tuesday for a week's leave of ...

    Article : 910 words
  3. PARLIAMENTS IN SESSION.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Attorney-General, Mr. Rutledge, mover an amendment of the Standing Orders with the object of curtailing debate. He said the ...

    Article : 617 words
  4. WAR NOTES.

    British residents in China fear that England is not worthily upholding her prestige in the country. It is said that the railways, coal mines, and strategie ...

    Article : 169 words
  5. THE PAOTING-FU EXPEDITION.

    Reports from Chinese sources have reached Pekin stating that 12,000 regular troops are at Paoting-fu, ready to defend the city against the allies ...

    Article : 53 words
  6. BRITISH ELECTIONS.

    The "Standard" to-day sounds a note of jubilation over the triumphs achieved by the Government at the polls. It remarks that the verdict of ...

    Article : 112 words
  7. THE TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

    Generals Hunter and Rundle, with a Colonial Mounted Division, are driving the Boers, who had taken a position on the Basutoland frontier ...

    Article : 159 words
  8. TROUBLED CHINA.

    Mr. W. W. Rockhill, Special Commissioner and Charge d'Affaires in China for the United States, has reported to the Government at Washington that ...

    Article : 207 words
  9. ANOTHER SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MARTYR.

    The Rev. A. Metters, of Adelaide, has received the following telegram from Mr. C. F. Whitridge, the Secretary of the China Inland Mission in Melbourne:—"Cablegram ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 198 words
  10. NEW MEMBERS ELECTED.

    The following new members have been elected after a contes:— Hants. South (Fareham).—Colonel Lee Burton Ratcliffe (C.), who had a ...

    Article : 239 words
  11. THE BOER CONFLICT.

    A three days' battle has been fought near Vredefort with the redoubtable De Wet, who had under his command 1,000 men and five guns. The Boers were ...

    Article : 86 words
  12. RETURN OF SIR REDVERS BULLER.

    General Buller has made arrangements to return to England almost immediately. He will arrive at Pieter-maritzburg on the 15th inst. ...

    Article : 30 words
  13. THE ALLIES AND THE IMPERIAL COURT.

    The Emperor Kwang Su, in an edict dated the 1st inst., promises to return to Pekin as soon as negotiations with the Powers take a turn favourable to ...

    Article : 194 words
  14. MR. KRUGER'S VOYAGE TO EUROPE.

    It is stated that Mr. Kruger, who has accepted an offer to go to Europe in a Netherlands warship, will land at Trieste, in Austria, and journey by ...

    Article : 39 words
  15. VICTORIA.

    Charles Smidt, aged forty, residing with his wife at Collingwood, committed suicide to-day by cutting his throat with a razor. Deceased had suffered from the effects of ...

    Article : 165 words
  16. CUTTING OFF THE ENEMY'S SUPPLIES.

    Lord Roberts has intimated his intention of garrisoning many of the smaller townships in the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, so as to ...

    Article : 46 words
  17. MURDERED MISSIONARIES.

    Mr. C. F. Whitridge, Secretary of the China Inland Mission, has received a cable message from Shanghai stating that Miss M. E. Chapman and Miss M. E. Way were ...

    Article : 77 words
  18. MEMBERS RE-ELECTED.

    The following members have been re-elected after a contest:— York, West Riding (Barnsley).—Joseph Walton (L.), 1893.—Earl ...

    Article : 439 words
  19. A HARD-EARNED PENSION.

    At the instance of Her Majesty the Queen, a special wounds pension of £300 per annum has been granted to Captain Ernest Beckwith Towse, V.C. ...

    Article : 99 words
  20. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    At the Central Police Court to-day John Williams and Thomas Henderson, who had been found in possession of an illicit still in Engine-street, city, were each fined ...

    Article : 509 words
  21. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    Breadstuffs.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,275,000 qrs., compared with 2,330,000 qrs. a week ago and 1,930,000 qrs. a year ago. The ...

    Article : 214 words
  22. ENGLAND'S POSITION.

    The Shanghai correspondent of the "Times" reports that the Russians and Germans hold the Peitang Forts, near Taku, also the extensive Tongshan ...

    Article : 138 words
  23. PROPOSAL TO ERECT STEEL WORKS.

    In connection with the proposal for the erection of smelting works in this colony for the production of steel, to which the Premier referred in his speech to-day at ...

    Article : 107 words
  24. SOLDIERS' LETTERS.

    Lance-Corporal Farley, of the Imperial Bushmen, in a private leter, dated Pretoria, August 31, supplies a brief review of the doings of the corps since they landed at ...

    Article : 541 words
  25. A BOER SYMPATHIZER.

    Mr. John Xavier Merriman, ex-Treasurer of the Cape Parliament, submitted a motion to the House of Assembly at Cape Town, deprecating the ...

    Article : 66 words
  26. PEACE DAY.

    At a public meeting held at Wellington last night it was decided that peace celebration day should be arranged between the Premiers of the different colonies, so that ...

    Article : 42 words
  27. TASMANIAN GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

    The complement of 200 men dispatched by the Minister of Lands is now employed on the Great Western Railway. A cable message from England intimates that ...

    Article : 617 words
  28. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    Troopers Skene and Spender, Australians, who were taken prisoners by the Boers, have been released. ...

    Article : 21 words
  29. RUSSO-GERMAN AGREEMENT.

    The Russians and Germans have arrived at an understanding with respect to the railway running from Taku to Pekin. Russia will administer the line ...

    Article : 84 words
  30. STOCKS AND SHARES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 words
  31. DR. DOUGLAS AND THE BOERS.

    The following are extracts from private letters from Dr. F. J. Douglas, surgeon to the South Australia Bushmen's Corps. The first is dated Rictolei, Transvaal August 9. ...

    Article : 1,498 words
  32. RUSSIAN DISCLAIMERS.

    The Czar has reiterated his declaration that Russia has no real intention of annexing Machurian territory. H avers that she merely ...

    Article : 157 words
  33. FEDERATION.

    The Conference of delegates from the intercolonial Chambers of Manufacturers held its third sitting to-day, but all the business was transacted in committee. Several ...

    Article : 295 words
  34. AFRAID OF DRINK.

    An unusual application was made at the Central Criminal Court to-day by John Henry King, who asked Mr. Justice Cohen to send him to gaol. King, in 1898 ...

    Article : 189 words
  35. QUEENSLAND.

    The steamer Jumna has left London with 60 single men, 200 women, and 48 families as immigrants for Queensland. Subscriptions to the Indian Famine Fund ...

    Article : 84 words
  36. VICTORIAN POLITICS.

    In all probability Parliament will be dissolved next Wednesday, and on the following day the Premier will state the Ministerial programme in a speech at ...

    Article : 262 words
  37. ACTION AGAINST A MONEY-LENDER.

    An action arising out of a money-lending transaction was begun at the Supreme Court to-day. The suit was [?] in stituted by Charles Vincent Bede Patrick ...

    Article : 194 words
  38. A MURDER TRIAL.

    The trail of John Sleigh on a charge of having murdered Francis Curran at Back Creek, near Bombala, was begun to-day at the Goulbura Circuit Court. Sergeant ...

    Article : 111 words
  39. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    To-day the body of a child, three months old, was found on the Fremantle beach wrapped in brown paper. Owing to a difficulty in securing the ...

    Article : 154 words
  40. THE OCCUPATION OF PEKIN.

    All the American troops, with the exception of a Legation Guard of 1,500, who will remain in Pekin, are under orders to quit China during the next ...

    Article : 90 words
  41. THE MAIL STEAMER AT FREMANTLE.

    The R.M.S. Oceana arrived from Colombo at 7.45 a.m. to-day. Passengers in the saloon:— For Fremantle—Mrs. Rose, Dr. and Miss ...

    Article : 146 words
  42. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 218 words
  43. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway earnings for the week ended October 6 amounted to £337. The steamer Australian form Hongkong ...

    Article : 94 words
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