The British and American troops wore forbidden to loot, bat in two days' time the British officers, seeing that all the wealth of Peking was going to the French ...
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Advertising : 22 wordsSvaerdstad, Nor. bq., 1,076 tons, J. Gulliksin master, from Hamburg. Strelitz Broa, agents. SAILED.—October 24. ...
Article : 728 wordsBands of marauding Boers are devastating the north-eastern portion of the Orange River Colony. They are terrorising the small towns ...
Article : 45 wordsA strike of lightermen has taken place in London. As a result shipping on the Thames is being disarranged. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe French Government is sending 3,800 troops from Tunis to the south of China, in consequence of the anti-Manchu rebellion. ...
Article : 32 wordsUnion Bank of Australia, £38.; Bank of Australasia, £74. ...
Article : 16 wordsLord Salisbury, the British Premier, is on a visit to Her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral. It is understood that his visit is in ...
Article : 41 wordsM. Pichon, the French Minister Peking, is seriously ill. ...
Article : 15 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier promised that if the municipalities concerned did not arrange an equitable scheme for running the tramways by ...
Article : 170 wordsThe City of London Imperial Volunteers are expected to reach London on Saturday on their return from South Africa. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. John Hay, the American Secretary of State, has instructed Mr. Conger, the United States Minister at Peking, to demand the abolition of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe bill for the amendment of the Mining Act is in itself a measure of no very great importance. It amends the laws as to homested leases, and also as to ...
Article : 1,626 wordsIt was recently announced that Germany had obtained a lease of the Turkish island of Aroan, in the Red Sea, for the purpose of using it as a coaling station. ...
Article : 68 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Bolter has arrived at Cape Town, en route to England. He was accorded a great ovation by ...
Article : 35 wordsThe rebels in the south of China have been everywhere welcomed by the Chinese, who have treated them as guests. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Limited, of 38 Old Broad-street, London, has declined to reduce the amount of its tender, namely ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Paris "Temps" explains that France prevented the threatened exclusive military occupation of the Yangtse valley by the British. ...
Article : 99 wordsLord Roberts has decided to rigorously punish, all those of the Boers who, after having taken the oath of neutrality, have assisted the enemy. ...
Article : 35 wordsThirty members of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry are to form part of the Duke of York's guard of honor on the occasion of the opening of the Federal ...
Article : 37 wordsThe latest mail news from America indicates that there is every prospect of a great straggle at the Presidential elections. The Democrats are said to be ...
Article : 81 wordsGeneral French, while marching from Carolina, to Bethel, in the Eastern Transvaal, met with continuous opposition from the Boers. ...
Article : 34 wordsA new Ministry has been formed in Spain, Senor Silvela, the late Premier, having resigned. General Azcarraga, the late War ...
Article : 47 wordsCorporal A. Allen, of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric fever at Pretoria. Sergeant H. Bennett, of the New ...
Article : 72 wordsThe German and British residents at Shanghai are jubilant at the Anglo-German agreement. It is stated in Berlin that Russia and ...
Article : 117 wordsA statement was issued by the board of directors of the A.M.P. Society to-day, giving the result of the referendum of members of the question of the extension ...
Article : 128 wordsTo-morrow (Friday) night, Mr. Brough will produce at the Theatre Royal "The Tyranny of Tears," by Haddon Chambers. When this piece was produced in Sydney ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Standard" states that Anglo-German agreements, applicable to other parts of the world besides China, are impending. ...
Article : 31 wordsNo Victorians or South Australians were included in the list of invalided colonial troops in London who applied to Lord Carrington, the Secretary of the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Odessa correspondent of the London "Daily News" learns that Yang Yu, the Chinese Ambassador to Russia, Visited Livadia, in the Crimea, where the ...
Article : 63 wordsSir John, Langdon Bonython, of the Adelaide "Advertiser," is returning to Australia in the R.M.S. Rome. He is accompanied by Lady Bonython. ...
Article : 28 wordsNominations for the Legislative Assembly, the general elections for which take place on November 1, closed to-night. Twenty-seven members were returned ...
Article : 153 wordsAll the Premiers nave now agreed to Mr. H'Lean's suggestion that the Imperial Government be asked to fix a day to be observed throughout the Empire for ...
Article : 54 wordsThe London "Globe" states that Britain has leased Chingwantao from the harbor works contractors for a period of eight months. ...
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Article : 38 wordsA member of the First Western Australian Contingent writes from Hickport, on September 12:—"I have just come into camp after 14 hoars' duty. Needless to ...
Article : 199 wordsThe entertainment at this house better deserves the title of "variety show" than it has done, for some time past. Last night Mr. Charles Bryant, the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Standard" states that Dr. Mumm, the new German consul at Shanghai, is in Peking. He will not re-commence negotiations ...
Article : 45 wordsCompetition at the Colonial wool sales to-day was good. The prices for greasy lots were equal to the Highest that have been realised ...
Article : 65 wordsThe peculiar interest was attached to-day to the meeting of the Select Committee which is inquiring into the administration of the military forces. It was known ...
Article : 156 wordsAmong the passengers for Melbourne in the s.s. Wollowra, which left Fremantle yesterday, were the members of the Royal Pantomime Company, who have appeared ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Straits Times" of October 4 says:—Soon after tire relief force entered Peking, several soldiers and civilians who had accompanied them were heard to say ...
Article : 232 wordsOn Monday night Troopers Ashmore, Dickman, Speers, and Bishop, the four Western Australian invalided soldiers, attended Mr. "Banjo" Paterson's lecture in ...
Article : 155 wordsMiss Daisy Harcourt, the popular variety artist, who has been under engagement at Cremorne Gardens for some months past, left Fremantle in the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,280,000 quarters, against 2,360,000 quarters a week ago, and for the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Fremantle Lyric Club concluded its three nights' season at the Fremantle Town-hall last evening, when the comic opera, "Patience," was reproduced. The ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 26 Oct 1900, Page 8
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