Advices received through pro-Boer sources at Brussels state that Russia has urged Kruger to terminate needless bloodshed, and accept Great Britain's ...
Article : 39 wordsA cable message has been received by the Government from the Secretary of State for the Colonies stating that the Imperial troops on the Britannic will ...
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Advertising : 2,480 wordsAt a special meeting of the Marine Board held to-day to consider the Ormuz-Ismailia collision, the board decided that the matter be sent to a Court ...
Article : 176 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has hotly discussed the Amnesty Bill, and voted the first clause amnesting all acts connected with the Dreyfus afiair by a ...
Article : 61 wordsFresh placards are being displayed in Chinese cities threatening a widespread rising in January next, witth the object of expelling foreigners from the Empire. ...
Article : 43 wordsThirteen of the British soldlers captured at Barberton have been released. It is believed that Do Wet has altered his course, and is now advancing towards ...
Article : 83 wordsA mob of anti-foreigners near Canton secured the capture of Doctor Young, who is a native Christian. They strung him up by the thumbs and toes, and ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is semi-officially stated in Berlin that England and Portugal will improve Delagoa Bay, England controlling the railway services. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe United States Senate, by 65 to 17 votes, have adopted Senator Davis's amendment to the Hay-Pauncofote treaty reserving to America defensive ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Standard's" correspondent says information has reached Chang Chihtung, the Viceroy of Wu Chang, that the Dowuger-Empress has agreed to an ...
Article : 1,243 wordsThe Boers have captured the Bishop of Zululand, Dr. W. M. Carter, near Vryheid. They took his carriage and horses, ...
Article : 38 wordsBullion silver is quoted at 2s. 5 13-16d. per oz. Previous quotation, 2s. 5?d. ...
Article : 19 wordsReport received that the barque Allegiance, 1,180 tons, Captain Evans, from Glasgow for Sydney, having left the Clyde on October 2 last, has been ...
Article : 60 wordsThe returns for the Bank of England for the week ending December 13, as compared with those of the proceeding week, are as follow, last week's figures ...
Article : 87 wordsThe R.M.S. Orient has left Capetown with another batch of returning Australian soldiers. Eight hundred Australians and a ...
Article : 49 wordsH.M.S. Royal Arthur, with the Governor-General aboard, has anchored in Jervis Bay, having covered the voyage from Adelaide at an average of over ...
Article : 475 wordsIn reference to the recent delivery in England of quick-firing guns from the Ehrhardt factories at Dusseldorf, on the Rhino, Germany, has now stopped any ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Commandant states that all the Imperial Bushmen who have been invalided home will have to return if they are pronounced fit for service by the ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Right Hon. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, has dismissed two officers who were implicated in the Yeomanry disaster at Lindley, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following sales are reported on the London Stock Exchange:—Associated, £3 5s.; B.H. Prop., 49s. 6d.; Chillagoe, 31s. 3d.; Gt. Boulder, 25s. 9d.; ...
Article : 103 wordsGerman officers from a training ship, while visiting Damascus, laid the Emperor's wreath on Saladin's tomb. Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, ...
Article : 75 wordsCorporal G. Dodds, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, has been slightly wounded at Rietfontein; F. W. Mohr and A. Moran, New South Wales ...
Article : 1,085 wordsArsenic in Manchester brewed beer, which has recently caused so much suffering and dismay, has been traced to the action of indiarubber tubes used as ...
Article : 102 wordsWheat.—Markets quiet, but steady, Australian (January-February delivery), 29s. 3d. for parcels. Cargoes, 30s. 3d. off coast; 31s. 3d. asked; 30s. bid, ...
Article : 141 wordsOne hundred men, who will represent the Defence Forces of West Australia at the Sydney celebrations, went into camp this morning, and will embark on ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Justice McIntyre's judgment re the historic sugar case was received to-day, judgment being for defendants. The suit was the River Don Trading Co. v. the ...
Article : 275 wordsThere was no mistake made yesterday in connection with the Municipal election. The citizens, by returning the three retiring aldermen, showed conclusively that ...
Article : 149 wordsDepartures.—For Melbourne: Anna Ramien Weinwin, barque, from Liverpool; Ingomar, barque, from Frederickstadt. For Sydney: Kiel. For ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsThe Union Jack Society, which Despatched several parcels of comforts to our Contingent in South Africa has voted the balance of its funds, about £16, to the ...
Article : 85 wordsUpon taking his seat in the Divorce Court this morning, Mr. Justice Simpson resumed summing up in the Coningham divorce case. His address was ...
Article : 258 wordsThe racehorse Carlos returned by the s.s. Monowai from Melbourne on Friday. On board the same boat, on their way to New Zealand, were several brood mares and ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Dundas residents to-day celebrated the practical conclusion of the Boer war The achool children assembled at the school house, and after parading the ...
Article : 376 wordsMr. Daniel Cullen, of 4 Goulburn-street, Hobart, thirty-eight years of age, labourer by occupation, has had the ordinary routine of a labourer's life rudely ...
Article : 335 wordsThe convenient and well-appointed Risdon-park racecourse will be occupied by the Hobart Turf Club this afternoon for the second time this season, when the ...
Article : 80 wordsTo-night, at 10.30, entries for the wellsubsidised events to be run at the Brighton Jockey Club's New Year's Day meet are to be in the secretary's hands. ...
Article : 93 wordsA company of the leading Hobart amateurs gave a performance of Pinero's beautiful domestic comedy, "Sweet Lavender," at the Theatre Royal last evening in aid ...
Article : 391 wordsThe Tasmanian Turf Club committee met to-day. A sub-committee was appointed to confer with the T.R.C. relative to rules. A sum of £5 was voted towards ...
Article : 112 wordsSir,—In his reply to the Chief Secretary, the secretary of the Launceston Agricultural Show omits to state that the entrance to the only accommodation afforded ...
Article : 244 wordsClarence.—Councillor William Young, Glenorchy.—Councillor Harold S. M. Wright. Bothwell.—Conncillor Alfred Ibbott. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Council met at noon on the 14th inst. All members present:—Mr. Wm. Young (Warden) in the chair. There being no opposition to the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 15 Dec 1900, Page 3
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