Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the Secretary for Scotland, is mentioned as being likely to succeed the Earl of Hopetoun as Governor-General of Australia. ...
Article : 115 wordsA meeting to advocate a reduction in the number of members of the State Parliament was held in the Town Hall last night. The Mayor (Alderman T. Hughes) presided, and the hall was about half-full. ...
Article : 2,450 wordsAt the time of the overwhelming or the town of St. Pierre on the 8th instant, the Governor, M. Mouttet, and his family, and large numbers of the inhabitants were attending a ...
Article : 157 wordsThe match between the Australians and Essex was commenced to-day. The county team comprised H. G. Owen, F. L. Fane, P. Perrin, C. M'Gahoy, C. J. ...
Article : 439 wordsThe "Daily Mail" says that the conference of Boer delegates now assembled at Vereeniging, after consulting the commandoes in the field, is thoroughly representative and ...
Article : 97 wordsIn the Senate "orders of the day" stood in an unusual form on the business paper this morning. It consisted of the two bills, the Customs Tariff Bill and the Excise Tariff Bill bracketed together, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 wordsMr. Copeland, the Agent-General for New South Wales, in the course of an interview regarding the retirement of Lord Hopetoun, stated that New South Wales was informed ...
Article : 112 wordsThe State Premiers met at the Colonial Secretary's Office yesterday and concluded their labours. A hurried journey was taken to the Hawkesbury in the morning. The Premiers returned in the afternoon ...
Article : 228 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that the woman and children in the concentration camps are keenly anxious for peace. Since the exclusion of the local visiting committees ...
Article : 52 wordsSeveral sharp skirmishes with the enemy are reported near Papkuil. The Imperial Yeomanry, under Captain Halkett, attacked 400 men of De Villier's commando, who were ...
Article : 71 wordsThe "St. James's Gazette" states that Lord Hopetoun's resignation of the position of Governor-General of Australia apparently was unavoidable, and is sincerely regretted. ...
Article : 251 wordsIt is believed that among the victims of the disaster at Martinique is Behanzin, the exiled King of Dahomey. ...
Article : 27 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 1s 11[?]d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe eruption of La Soufriere on St. Vincent is vastly the most extensive of the outbreaks. The lake on the summit of the volcano has ...
Article : 143 wordsThe steamer Sydney, of the Newcastle and Hunter River S. S. Company's fleet, which left the wharf shortly after 11 o'clock last night bound for Newcastle, became disabled near Watson's Bay, owing ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Boers who besieged Ookiep, northwest Cape Colony, sent a truck loaded with dynamite towards the town. The truck overturned, and the attempt to create an explosion ...
Article : 38 wordsIn respect to cubic matters the conference expressed the opinion that any loss caused to a State through the cancellation or alteration of an agreement in respect of cable rates should be borne by the ...
Article : 430 wordsThe Australian troops serving with Colonel De Lisle's column had the chief share in the recent captures of Boers in the sweeping movement carried out by Lieutenant-General ...
Article : 38 wordsThe date of embarkation of the 5th (N.S.W.) Battalion Commonwealth Horse has again been altered, and the troops will now embark on board of the transport Columbian next Thursday, instead of ...
Article : 465 wordsCount Tolstoi has written to the Czar urging him to buy land and transfer it to the peasantry at cheap rates. He also stated that the Czar alone was able to rehabilitate the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe members of the Australian team will be the guests of the Marylebone Cricket Club at dinner at Lords on the 20th instant, the first day of the match with the M.C.C. and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Chief Justice (Sir John Madden), who on different occasions has acted as Governor of Victoria, has been interviewed with regard to certain aspects of Lord Hopetoun's retirement Sir J. Madden ...
Article : 133 wordsGreat Britain will establish a residency in Upper Bornu, bordering on Lake T[?]ad. She has effectively garrisoned the area from the Niger to the lake. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, gratefully acknowledged in the House of Commons last night the offer of President Roosevelt that the United States ...
Article : 123 wordsThis is the fourth engagement of the Australians, and ench one has been interfered with by rain and the attendances have been varied from moderate to meagre. The best crowd so far was 4000, on ...
Article : 317 wordsRefering to a report that has gained currency in federal political circles that the administration of the immigration Restriction Act by the Government was influenced by the interference of the Imperial ...
Article : 327 wordsAt the close of the proceedings Mr. Peacock specially thanked Mr. See for the great tact he had exhibited in presiding over the conference. He also expressed the wish that Mr. See should take the ...
Article : 428 wordsSir A. H. Hime (Premier of Natal) says that Natal will contribute towards the cast of the Navy. The smallness of the population prevents the colony from contributing men. ...
Article : 62 wordsAt an early hour this morning Scott's Railway Hotel, Goldsmith's drapery shop, and Olsen's tobacconist's shop were destroyed by fire with their entire contents. The properties are partially insured. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe funeral of the late Mr. Sydney Moss, the well-known musician, took place yesterday afternoon and was largely attended. The cortege, a lengthy one, left the residence of the deceased, ...
Article : 762 wordsThe House of Commons has declined to recommend legislation in regard to trades-unions, in the direction of amending the law as laid down by the judgment in the Taff Vale case. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe island of St. Christopher is in darkness, though its extinct volcano is quiescent. St. Christopher is one of the Leeward group of islands. Its length is 23 miles, and its total area ...
Article : 70 wordsServices have been conducted by the Sydney Y.M.C.A. in their Gospel Tent at the Agricultural Ground every night during the past week. Addresses were delivered by Pastor Phillips and Messrs. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council yesterday delivered its reserved decision in the appeal in the case of the Commissioners of Taxation of New South Wales versus St. ...
Article : 276 wordsOn Wednesday evening last Captain Crane, who is leaving with the 5th Battalion Commonwealth Horse, was entertained at the Light Brigade Hotel, Paddington, by the legal profession and a large number of ...
Article : 155 wordsThere is in the devant, southerly from Athens, the immense partly submerged crater rim of Santoria. That volcano was in violent eruption in 1866, and was remarkable for the large amount of free ...
Article : 309 wordsLord Rosebery, speaking at Colchester last night on the Education Bill, said that he rejoiced in the proposal that municipal councils should be entrusted with the supervision of ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Deputy Postmaster-General is completing arrangements for running the mail services a bandoned by Cobb and Co. As soon as offers are rereceived, if they are reasonable, they will be ...
Article : 426 wordsA petition is now being circulated in Brisbane in favour of continuing the Weather Bureau. The petition asks the Federal Government to allow the meteorologrcal reports and official correspondence to go ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Shah of Persia, who is about to visit the principal centres of Europe, has arrived at Venice. ...
Article : 26 wordsSpeaking at a luncheon given to the 6th Contingent, fair Joseph Ward, Acting Premier, said there was the strongest evidence which warranted him in saying that peace was approaching. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Daily Mail" to-day states that 10 members of the House of Commons have promised £1,000,000 as the nucleus of a pool for speedy Atlantic liners to compete ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day the Chief Justice delivered judgment in the action Australian Gold-recovery Company, Limited, and others, v. Day Dawn P. C., Limited. His Honor said the action ...
Article : 366 wordsIt has been officially reported by the officers of the Stock Department that the horses for the contingent now at the Karrakutta Camp are a most inferior lot, and quite unfit for requirements. The Premier has ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Tasmanian apples shipped by the Orestes were sold in Liverpool at from 8s 6d to 13s 6d a case. The average was about 10s. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following is a copy of a telegraphic despatch received by his Excellency the Governor General from the General at Capetown, and forwarded to the State Premier:— ...
Article : 342 wordsGeneral Tiresias Augustin Simon Sum, President of the Republic of Hayti, has taken refuge on a French steamer. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe London Customs authorities stopped a consignment of Birmingham sates addressed to Batoum, a Russian port on the Black Sea. The hollow walls of the safes enclosed ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the wool sales to-day prices for all sorts were very firm. The sales have been postponed till Wednesday. May 16. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe police have learned that M. Humbert, a son of a Minister of M. de Freycinet's Cabinet, his wife, Mme. Humbert, and his wife's sister, Mdlle. Marie d'Aurignac, who ...
Article : 74 wordsThe deaths from smallpox in the metropolis in the last two weeks were-respectively 43 and 44. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe great Antiseptic for old and young. Ask for HUDSON'S. In T[?] 1s 6d. —Advt. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 17 May 1902, Page 9
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