SOME members are in the habit of working in dissertations and orations under the innocent cloak of " wanting to know, you know." Soon after the House met the Speaker referred to this ...
Article : 1,038 wordsThe brigade of Indian troops despatched by the British Government at Shanghai have arrived at that place, but the Chinese Viceroy, instigated, it is stated, by the ...
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Advertising : 726 wordsA QUESTION has been asked regarding the number of deaths of British and colonial troops since the beginning of the campaign. According to the ...
Article : 163 wordsPROFESSOR M'LAURIN, of Victorian College, Wellington, New Zealand, has supplied the Wellington correspondent of the " Weekly Press" (Christchurch) with the subjoined ...
Article : 980 wordsIt is well known (says the "Courier") that the native tribes in South Africa are every-where more favourably disposed towards British rule than towards the Boers, and it ...
Article : 392 wordsThe allied Powers have endorsed the reply of the United States Government in connection with the appointment of Li Hung Chang as plenipotentiary to negotiate for ...
Article : 124 wordsTwo squadrons of Victorian Mounted Rifles, under the command of Captain Baker, are reported to have relived a patrol of the Rhodesian field force, who were surrounded ...
Article : 162 wordsIt is reported from Washington that the United States Government doubt whether Mr. Conger, the American Minister at Pekin, has received any of the messages ...
Article : 188 wordsLATEST reports regarding the advance of the allied force on Pekin state that the troops are well supplied with provisions. General Sir A. Gaselee, the British ...
Article : 432 wordsTHE Rifle Association prize meeting was commenced here, today, the weather being cloudy and dull. G. Shaw won the Queen's Prize, with a sore of 124, J. Middleton, of ...
Article : 81 wordsThe welcome news has arrived (remarks the "S. M. Herald") that Count Von Walderson Chief of the General Staff of the German Army has been appointed to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsWith reference to Colonel Hoare's column, which was at first stated to have been captured as Elands River, the report since wired by the "Daily News" correspondent ...
Article : 138 wordsTHE Chamber of Commerce at a meeting to-day, resolved unanimouely,—" That this chamber, being fully alive to the very great importance of the pastoral industry to the ...
Article : 125 wordsIN the Legislative Council, on Wednesday, Mr. Barlow's motion for the second reading of a bill to amend the Supreme Court Acts was negatived, on division, by 17 to 5. The ...
Article : 180 wordsNEWS from Samoa states that the efforts of the Government to reunite the rival native parties are likely to prove successful. Mataafa has persuaded the influential chiefs on his side ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. Philp, in reply to a question by Mr. Givens, stated that the railway from the present terminus of the Bowen railway to the 37-mile peg on the northern railway was not ...
Article : 474 wordsOfficial Transvaal papers have been discovered which show that the losses of the Transvaalers during the war from the 1st of January to the end of June totalled 7000, ...
Article : 299 wordsTHE "Sydney Morning Herald's" special war correspondent in describing the advance upon Pretoria by the British troops, thus refers to a brilliant piece of work on the part ...
Article : 357 wordsMs. J. H. WANT had a long interview with the directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society to day, with the result that it has been arranged to take a straight-out vote on the ...
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