It is reported that twenty Germans have been killed and many wounded during an engagement with the Chinese at a spot about 35 miles west of Paoting-fu. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe cyclone that burst over Narrabri on Monday night did damage estimated at from £7,000 to £8,000, the greater part of the losses being sustained by comparatively ...
Article : 60 wordsIn a farewell army order, issued on the eve of his departure from South Africa, Lord Roberts states that he will never forget the noble work the colonials have ...
Article : 144 wordsAt the Criminal Court to-day . Robert Shaw who was found guilty yesterday of shooting at Constable Ward with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, was ...
Article : 38 wordsLatest advices from China state that the expedition to Kalgan, a town in the province of Pachili, 110 miles north-west of Pekin, has proved wholly ineffective. Three ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Boers are still active on the western border of the Transvaal. There was some severe fighting on Sunday at Vryburg, a town on the railway about 124 miles north ...
Article : 84 wordsA pathetic suicide took place during a sale at Wooroowoolgen station, near Casino, yesterday. A blackfellow, named Towain, practically reared on the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe announcement that if nothing unforeseen occurs her Majesty the Queen will again visit the French Riviera in the spring of 1901, has been received with delight by ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee on Public Works to-day took evidence on the proposal to construct works at Umberumberka Creek for providing a water supply ...
Article : 336 wordsThe Boers in the south-eastern portion of the Transvaal have been suffering severely from want of food and many have surrendered owing to famine. A large ...
Article : 151 wordsFurther particulars have come to hand respecting the engagement at Rietfontein, Where Major-General Paget's Division fought commandoes under Generals Viljoen ...
Article : 106 wordsAnother instance of the inhuman methods of the Chinese is contained in the latest cablegrams from Pekin. A British officer, who was a member of ...
Article : 70 wordsGeneral Mercier, an ex-Minister of War, who attained great notoriety in connection with the persecution of Captain Dreyfus, in the French Senate on Monday, while ...
Article : 195 wordsThe death is announced of John Luke Hely-Hutchinson, the fifth Earl of Donoughmore. He was 52 years of age. ...
Article : 28 wordsThere is considerable nervousness manifested in official circles at The Hague, the Court capital of Holland, concerning the visit which President Kruger is to pay to ...
Article : 108 wordsThe heavy floods which have taken place in the River Tiber have resulted in the collapse of a thousand feet of the great embankment, near Rome. ...
Article : 37 wordsThree more commissions have been given to Australians in South Africa. Lieutenant Wyllie, of the Tasmanian Contingent, has received a commission in the South ...
Article : 103 wordsThe gold yield of the colony for the month of November was 79,470 oz., a decrease of 4,504 oz. as compared with November of last year. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Czar of Russia, who has been suffering from a severe attack of typhoid fever at his palace in Livadia, has now so far recovered as to be able to sit up at ...
Article : 48 wordsRear-Admiral L. A. Beaumont, who has been appointed to the command of the Australian Squadron, has been conferring with the authorities at the Admiralty. He will ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Anglophobia caused by the visit of ex-President Kruger still prevails at Collogne, and on Monday a mob of Boer sympathisers congregated at the British ...
Article : 123 wordsThe fire in the old Mokihinni colliery, which was sealed up years ago, has been discovered to be still smouldering. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn consequence of the beer poisoning cases which have occurred in Manchester, in some parts of Shropshire and elsewhere, the British health authorities have ...
Article : 51 wordsThis afternoon the workmen employed in making the additions to Dr. Harvey's residence, Sulphide-street, discovered in the backyard, under a platform, a recently ...
Article : 132 wordsBreadstuffs.—The quantity of Wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,140,000 quarters, as against 2,105,000 quarters last week, or an increase of 35,000 ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D., the well-known English divine, has arranged, in imitation of the Rev. C. M. Sheldon, of Topeka, to edit and control "The Sun" on ...
Article : 435 wordsLord Roberts, who has relinquished the command of the British forces in South Africa and is on his way to England to take up Iris new office of Commander-in-Chief of ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Cape Ministry held a Sunday Cabinet meeting this week for the first time during the last quarter of a century, and they met again on Monday. ...
Article : 90 wordsAt the (Bendigo Criminal Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Hood, John Hooper, the manager of the Great Northern mine, Eaglehawk, was charged with manslaughter ...
Article : 64 wordsThe adjourned appeals by the mining companies against the municipal rate were again before the Appeal Court to-day. In view of the interim injunction having been ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Portuguese Government were recently reported to have withdrawn their exequatur (official recognition and authority to act) from Mr. G. Potts, the consul for ...
Article : 369 wordsA purebred Jersey bull attacked his owner, a Muckleford farmer named Othery, to-day in a most savage manner. It charged him and gored his leg frightfully, then ...
Article : 53 wordsA railway laborer, Thomas Kearney, aged 37, employed at Braybrook Junction, was so badly burnt early this morning by his tent catching fire, that he died in the ...
Article : 105 wordsAn official cable message has been received notifying that Troopers Biside and Wyly have obtained the Victoria Cross. Resolutions were submitted in both ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Liverpool barque Lodore, 1,670 tons, Captain William McMurty, capsized in Newcastle harbor during a southerly buster about 4 o'clock this afternoon, and now lies ...
Article : 131 wordsTo-night the uproarious welcome of yesterday to the evening troops from South Africa found a fitting termination in a quieter but equally genuine as revoir to ...
Article : 310 wordsA strong gale has been blowing to-day. Wirth Bros, circus was blown down twice, and the matinee performance was postponed. A camel escaped, but was ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 8 Dec 1900, Page 30
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