The destruction of Hartebeestefontein, a town in the Transvaal, 40 miles south-west of Potchefstroom, has greatly hampered General De La Rey, who has now retreated ...
Article : 217 wordsThe American troops have now evacuated Pekin, except the Forbidden City, where the legation guard remains. Most of the British troops at Tientsin are ...
Article : 235 wordsBallarat put on her most elaborate vesture on Monday, for the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall were to be her guests for three hours. The goldfields city is the ...
Article : 368 wordsLord Methuen,in acknowledging the great services rendered during the campaign by the Imperial Yeomanry and the composite regiment of Australian Bushmen, who are ...
Article : 134 wordsOf the numerous officers who marshalled their men on the Adelaide platform not long after daybreak on Monday, none received so much attention as Major C. J. ...
Article : 1,662 wordsAt the Criminal Court to-day James Tait was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for arson. He set fire to the premises of Messrs. Paterson & Ross, at Perth. ...
Article : 130 wordsA number of representative members of the Labor Party met to-day and discussed several important matters relative to the action that body should take in both ...
Article : 863 wordsThe condemned man Beckman, who was sentenced to death at Townsville for the murder of Anderson, near Bowen, was executed at the Boggo-road Gaol this morning, ...
Article : 403 wordsThis morning the Railway Department slightly improved the supply of trucks for receiving goods from vessels engaged in discharging cargo at the south quay at ...
Article : 180 wordsOn the way back to the railway-station a halt was called near the City Hall to hear the children sing. While in that vicinity the Duchess performed the notable ...
Article : 67 wordsThe latest intelligence from China states that the Reform Party at the Imperial Court at Singan-fu have practically got the upper hand, and hope to secure the release ...
Article : 90 wordsAs a finale of a most enjoyable day the Duke and Duchess were driven through the lovely Botanical Gardens, and greatly admired the splendid statuary to be seen ...
Article : 69 wordsThe troops from this State and Queens land who took part in the Melbourne festivities returned to Sydney yesterday, and to-day the Queenslander were taken on to ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Tientsin correspondent of the "Times" states that further trouble has arisen in connection with the territory occupied by the railway siding at Tientsin ...
Article : 138 wordsOn the way to Ballarat a stoppage was made at Geelong, where the mayor and councillors were presented to their Royal Highnesses, while on the return trip there ...
Article : 179 wordsThe railway revenue made a big jump last week consequent most likely on the abnormal traffic to the Comonwealth celebrations. The total was £82,804, or an ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Japanese boat Yawata Maru, which arrived last evening, brought eight American ex-soldiers from the Philippines to settle in Australia. The Rev. E. and Mrs. ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the Fremantle Police Court this morning William John White, aged 19, was charged with the manslaughter of a boy, George Wiggins, 12 years old. Accused was ...
Article : 240 wordsA representative gathering of about 120 citizens entertained Mr. Mathieson, the Victorian Railways Commissioner, at dinner in the Town Hall to-night. Mr. Mathieson ...
Article : 104 wordsThe "Matin," a leading Parisian political paper, announced last week that the French banks were arranging a Russian loan of £16,000,000. ...
Article : 57 wordsLatest advices with regard to the whereabouts of General De La Rey, who, subsequent to the British destruction of the town of Hartebeestefontein, was reported ...
Article : 156 wordsA resolution was carried at a meeting of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce to-day urging the Federal Treasurer when reducing duties on oversea goods to give at least ...
Article : 70 wordsTo-night the long expected naval display took place, and so far as the circumstances permitted, it was brilliantly successful, presenting a fairylike spectacle such as never ...
Article : 635 wordsNeils Christian Endresen, before the Police Court to-day, was charged with arson, in connection with the fire which occurred at his premises, Argent-street, last week. ...
Article : 124 wordsSir Harry Hamilton Johnston, K.C.B., Special Commissioner, Commander-in-Chief, and Consul-General for the Uganda Protectorate and adjoining territories since 1899, ...
Article : 109 wordsA peculiar accident is reported to-night. One of the passenger trains coming into Flinders-street station pulled up in obedience to signals on the bridge over the ...
Article : 86 wordsPreceded by a pilot-engine, the Royal train, which left Melbourne at half-past 10, entered the Ballarat station at 1.30. The locomotive of the special was ...
Article : 264 wordsSir John Forrest, Minister of Defence, entertained the officers of the warships at present in Hobson's Bay at Parliament House this afternoon. The toast of "The ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Board of Health received information from the Quarantine Station this morning to the effect that the third officer of the steamer Chingtu, Mr. E. J. Page, had ...
Article : 58 wordsThe strike aboard the flux ketches has been settled, and the men have abandoned their claim for an additional pound [?]er month. ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is reported that a Boer emissary is now engaged in Canada in selecting land suitable for agricultural pursuits. He announces that 700 Boers intend to leave ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Porte in a note to the Ambassadors concerned, has accused the directors of the foreign post-offices at Constantinople of facilitating smuggling. The Ambassadors ...
Article : 94 wordsA General Council of the Chambers of Commerce of the Commonwealth began its sittings in Melbourne to-day. There were delegates present from Melbourne, Geelong, ...
Article : 507 wordsThe temperance organisation here has determined to take a very active part in the forthcoming State elections. It finds that the drink bill of New South Wales for ...
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Advertising : 157 wordsIntelligence has been received that several burghers who were formerly included in the ranks of the enemy, but who now belong to the Johannesburg town guard, took an ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Sydney "Morning Herald" remarks: —The high officers of the Commonwealth Parliament were chosen by their respective Houses on Thursday, and the choice made ...
Article : 324 wordsIt is stated that in consequence of the action of the Porte with regard to foreign post-offices the European steamers at Constantinople have refused to convey Turkish ...
Article : 38 wordsBallarat, like every other great centre of Australia, sent many brave men to fight for the cause of the Empire in South Africa, and some of them [?]e buried in that far ...
Article : 227 wordsAn inquest touching the death of Nichola Jasperizza, the victim of the tragedy at Young on Wednesday night last, was held to-day. Horace Watt, who was arrested on ...
Article : 308 wordsTen thousand troops are now at Barcelona, in Spain, where a general strike and riots took place. Work at the tramway factories, the employes of which went on ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Reichstag has adjourned its sittings till November. A Bill has been passed, prolonging the favored-nation treatment by Germany to Great Britain and her colonies ...
Article : 41 wordsSilver is quoted at 2/3¼d. per oz. ...
Article : 11 wordsWhile in Ballarat East the Duke and Duchess visited the Town Hall Gardens, and inspected with evident interest the fir trees planted by the Prince and his elder ...
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Advertising : 776 wordsBut there was not much time for the exchange of memories, as the Duke had to hasten off to the South Star mine at Sebastopol, three miles away. It had been ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Tue 14 May 1901, Page 5
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