Generals Buller and French, after a rearguard action, expelled the Boers from the high hills overlooking Helvetia, ten miles to the north of ...
Article : 62 wordsThe barricades raised by the foreigners at the Peking Legations presented a wonderful sight to the relieving troops. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe annual meeting of the Menzies Turf Club was brought to a successful close on Saturday. The racing throughout was marked by an Entire absence ...
Article : 285 wordsThe death is announced of Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., F.R.S., the well-known authority on the application of science to agriculture. ...
Article : 120 wordsAn elderly man named Sydney Black fell from a tram in Lonsdale-street on Saturday and died four hours later. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe monster bazaar and fete in aid of the Children's Hospital was one of the most magnificent and wonderful affairs ever attempted in Melbourne. It ...
Article : 46 wordsPlaying for Sussex against Kent at Brighton, K.S. Ranjitsinhji scored an innings of 220—the fifth double-century made by the famous Indian ...
Article : 197 wordsFifteen hundred Boers, with two guns, are at Mequatling's Nek, between Ladybrand and Ficksburg. The British at Ficksburg have been ...
Article : 32 wordsThe revenue for August £579,915, or £23,349 in excess of the figures for the previous August. ...
Article : 19 wordsA daring outrage was attempted on a railway train on Friday night. A girl of 14, who had been visiting her grandmother, entered a train at Box Hill to ...
Article : 99 wordsDuring the attack by the Boers on Winburg, on August 26, eight Cape Town volunteers made a sortie and occupied a donga at the rear of the ...
Article : 133 wordsLi Hang Chang promises to vigorously restore order, to protect the foreigners, and to punish the Boxers. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe British prisoners released by the Boers at Nooitgedacht numbered 55 officers and 23778 men. In advancing eastwards from ...
Article : 62 wordsM. de Giers, the Russian Minister, and General Lenevich have issued instructions for the withdrawal of the Russians from Peking to Tientsin, ...
Article : 90 wordsThere is in the August Dumber of the "Universal Magazine" a translation, of an article from the French which will afford much amusement to those who ...
Article : 1,707 wordsMr. Lewis, the Premier of Tasmania, has telegraphed, in reply to Mr. M'Lean's message in regard to the changing of the date of the ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral Buller has occupied a position overlooking Nooitgedacht. He met the released British prisoners, who were found to be badly clothed. Some ...
Article : 40 wordsPlaying for Surrey against Derbyshire "Bobby" Abel scored 193. This was his eleventh century for the season, so that he has equalled the feat of ...
Article : 64 wordsA cable message has been received from Mr. Carl Hagenbeck accepting the offer of £850 for a hippopotamus for the Adelaide Zoo. ...
Article : 32 wordsA letter from the Viceroy of Paoting-fu has been intercepted. The letter stated that Sheng, the Taotai of Shanghai, at the outset of the ...
Article : 61 wordsColonel Bethune has occupied capturing quantities of ammunition, cattle, and sheep. ...
Article : 19 wordsLord Roberts ordered the burning of thirty farms in the Free State, to punish railway raiders. He also fined fifty other farmers one-eighth of the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Japanese and British marines are to be withdrawn from Amoy. The Japanese consul at that town has been summoned to Tokio. ...
Article : 28 wordsGeneral Botha, has ordered the Boers to return their Mausers until ammunition is available. In the meantime ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Christopher Wade, the well-known pastoralist, died on Saturday, in his 70th year. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe funeral of the late Sir Saul Samuel took place yesterday at the Jewish Cemetery, Finchley. Among the mourners were Captain ...
Article : 94 wordsTo-morrow being Eight Hours' Day it will be observed as a public holiday. ...
Article : 16 wordsRussia has informed America orally that the relief of the legations terminates the Allies' mission in Peking. No Russian representative would be ...
Article : 230 wordsAll but 80 Japanese and 60 British have been withdrawn from Amoy. The remainder will leave shortly, as the Chinese authorities have guaranteed ...
Article : 29 wordsPrivate W. Poole, of the Queensland Bushmen, has died at Pretoria from, enteric fever. ...
Article : 22 wordsSome British officers who were among the prisoners at Nooitgedacht were transferred to Barberbon. Ten of them escaped during the journey, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Brough Comedy Company arrived in the Melbourne express train this morning. A large number of friends assembled at the railway station ...
Article : 51 wordsGeneral Rennenkampf, of the Russian army, has captured Tsitsikar, in Manchuria. Count Lamsdorff has assured the ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. J. K. Barrett. of Perth, has received the following letter from Dr. M'Williams:—I have been asked by Private John Teare, of the First W.A. Contingent, to ...
Article : 88 wordsThe steamer Anglo-Chilian arrived at Port Pirie to-day from South Africa in ballast to load 4.000 tons of ore for Western Australia. ...
Article : 26 wordsColonel B. G. Kekewick, the defender of Kimberley, is hastening with his raiment, the North Lancashire, from ...
Article : 26 wordsThe revenue for August was £307,859, a comparative decrease of £30,000. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe total number of wool failures in the Boubaix district of France is seventeen, the liabilities amounting to upwards of twenty-five million francs ...
Article : 55 wordsA British resident of Aden entertained Count von Waldersee, with high honors. Some French troops who were passing eastward exchanged ...
Article : 31 wordsAs illustrating the wonderful, long reign of Queen Victoria it may be stated that Her Majesty has seen seven Lord [?] ten Prime Ministers, six [?] of ...
Article : 338 wordsThe recent tornado at Mafeking wrecked most of the buildings in the town, including the field hospital, which contained 150 patients. The ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Premier intends to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate the question of supplies to public institutions. This step is being taken in ...
Article : 52 wordsThe municipal council of Lodeve, in France, "considering that the revolt of the Chinese is due to the missionaries," has passed the following resolution, and ...
Article : 170 wordsA solemn and impressive ceremony was enacted in the town-hall yesterday afternoon in connection with the assassination, of King Humbert. A ...
Article : 90 wordsFrozen Meat.—New Zealand sheep have advanced one-sixteenth, while heavy River Plates have declined the same amount. Australian beef, fores, ...
Article : 108 wordsLord Roberts suggests that the term of service of the Canadian troops in South Africa be prolonged for a few months. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Chinese newspapers assert that Prince Tuan has offered rewards for all the foreigners' heads brought to his yamen at Peking. The Boxers, finding it difficult to ...
Article : 110 wordsThe New York "Herald" states that five of the Powers have agreed to withdraw from Peking, but that Germany and Italy dissent. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe party having failed to recover the body of John Largan, who was lost in the snow at Mount Arrow-smith on August 18, another party left ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 7 Sep 1900, Page 14
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