A great sensation was caused in the city this evening when a telegram was received from Brussels stating that a deliberate attempt had been made to ...
Article : 122 wordsThe horror of the Belgian public at the outrage is also reflected in the Brussels newspapers. Britain was startled on receiving the ...
Article : 201 wordsHer Majesty the Queen landed from the Royal yacht at Kingston this morning, and proceeded to Dublin. She was received in the Irish capital ...
Article : 42 wordsThe bodies recovered by Constable hare been identified as those George Wright and Peter Benson, of crew of the Glenelg. It is stated that ...
Article : 147 wordsThere is very little fresh news to report from the Orange Free State. Olivier has been reinforced from Kronstad, and is said to be threatening the railway to the south of Bloemfontein. General Gatacre, however, is co-operating with the British forces at Bloemfontein to prevent this move. The country ...
Article : 168 wordsBritish newspapers are agreed that the frank efforts which have been made to conciliate the Boers and rebels are premature, as leniency has been ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Queen, before landing at Kingstown, asked for a shamrock to wear. The royal yacht was berthed at the Victoria Wharf. ...
Article : 127 wordsA skull and crossbones is the some what grim emblem adopted by Captain Montmorency's scouts. Since the commencement of die war ...
Article : 604 wordsActing Corporal Lee, who was kicked on the abdomen by a horse in the lines at Karrakatta on Tuesday evening, is progressing very well. ...
Article : 300 wordsA handbook of Western Australia, is intended for public distribution at the Paris Exhibition, has been prepared and printed. It contains ...
Article : 689 wordsThe South Australian Government 3 per cent, loan of £1,000,000, with a minimum of £9410s., has been fully subscribed. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe acting Governor has cabled to the Prince of Wales congratulations on behalf of the Government, the people of Victoria, and himself on his providential ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the time of the outrage in Brussels the Prince was journeying to Copenhagen, to be present on the occasion of the 82nd anniversary of the birth of ...
Article : 372 wordsHis Excellency the Governor sent a cable message to H.R.H the Prince of Wales stating- The Governor, the Ministers, and the people of South Australia ...
Article : 45 wordsMajor-General French, who took part in the engagement at Karee on Friday last, and who was afterwards reported to have gone to Doorn Spruit, has ...
Article : 42 wordsAn enormous open-air meeting, at which 20,000 persons were present, was held at Gape Town yesterday. j Resolutions were carried in favor of ...
Article : 132 wordsThe average price offered was £9410s. 9d., or ninepence above the minimum. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Government, through Mr. Seddon, sent a cable message congratulating H.R.H the Prince of Wales on his escape. ...
Article : 26 wordsPortugal announces that it intends to retain the Delagoa Bay railway. [This means that Portugal intends to pay the indemnity, which, is much ...
Article : 53 wordsIn his speech in the House of Commons yesterday, on the motion of Mr. Hedderwick in favor of direct colonial representation in the Imperial ...
Article : 92 wordsThe successful operations conducted by Commandant Olivier are recognised in military circles to have been the result of brilliant strategy. ...
Article : 98 wordsConsiderable trade has been done lately between South Australia and Africa. Large shipments of flour have been sent, and also 160,000lb of tinned ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Liberal organisation founded in 1880, and known as the Eighty Club, has entertained the Australian federal delegates. ...
Article : 57 wordsSir Alfred Milne has sent a cable message, stating that the steamer Euryalus, with the Victorian Bushmen, had arrived At Cape Town, and adding that the ...
Article : 57 wordsSpeaking at Edinburgh last night, I Lord Rosebery said that Imperial federation must be initiated from the outside. Britain's entry among the nations in ...
Article : 66 wordsPresident Kruger attended the funeral of General Joubert, and in his address at the grave he said that he (Kruger) attributed the recent Boer defeats to the rampant wickedness of the republics. President Kruger stated that General Joubert's last words were "My poor country! What will become of it?" ...
Article : 61 wordsThe publication of Sir Charles Warren's Diary, kept by him during his travels in the Transvaal and its neighborhood in 1877, is continued in the ...
Article : 258 wordsMr. Copeland, the new Agent-General of New South Wales, who left in the B.M.S. Ormuz to-day, in the course of i an interview, was asked, What about; ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Landdrost of Ladybrand, who was recently captured by Colonel T. D. Pilcher's force, has been seat to Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 41 wordsCardinal Vaughan, who inhibited the late Professor St. George Mivart from partaking of the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, owing to his ...
Article : 59 wordsIf it be true (says the "Times," of Natal) that Field Cornets Lombard, Grobelaar, Opperman, Erasmus, and another were killed at the Spion Kop fight ...
Article : 313 wordsA party of Boers from Kroonstad has reinforced Commandant Olivier. The Boers are in some force at Bush-man's Kop, where they are threatening ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner for South Africa, who has been on a visit to Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein, and has toured in several parts of ...
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Advertising : 96 wordsThe Premier, when asked for his views concerning Mr. Barton's message in regard to the British Government's reply to the delegates being adverse and ...
Article : 90 wordsThe steamer Maplemore has arrived at Cape Town with the members of the Western Australian and other colonial Bushmen's Contingents. ...
Article : 39 wordsSipido, the would-be assassin, is a tinsmith by trade, and is only 15 years of age. He is a Belgian by birth but is of Italian extraction. ...
Article : 86 wordsAccording to refugees the Freestaters who surrendered to the British and returned to their farms on the Basutoland border have been very cruelly treated ...
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Advertising : 138 wordsA correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" in South Africa writes:- The first homeward movement was headed by Mat. Steyn, a reputable ...
Article : 228 wordsOne point in the Commonwealth Bill to which Mr. Seddon takes exception is that if New Zealand joined in the federation the Maoris would be placed on the ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral Cronje, Colonel Schiel, and as thousand Boer prisoners have sailed from Simon's Town for St. Helena. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe conformation of the ground to the east of Bloemfontein is Adapted to the Boer tactics. Lord Roberts is seeking to draw the enemy on to his ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 13 Apr 1900, Page 2
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