The Federal Trasurer has had a statement prepared showing the net customs and excise revenue collected in the several States for November and December and the collections made ...
Article : 345 wordsIncluding the men who passed on Monday, 80 names appear on the pay roll of the Federal Contingent. The medical officers, Major Roth, D.S.O., and Captain Green, examined 83 applicants at the ...
Article : 496 wordsIn the last six months the Boers have lost from their forces 11,543 men as follows:— Killed...... 1162 Wounded.... 876 ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Imperial Court returns to Peking today. The capital presents a strange sight. The pagodas and temples are gaudily painted and ...
Article : 185 wordsMr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, addressed a meeting of his constituents at Birmingham last night. In speaking of the situation in South Africa ...
Article : 310 wordsWithin three days 200 permits have been issued by the Department of External Affairs to persons desirous of proceeding to South Africa, and 300 other forms of certificates have been sent to persons who ...
Article : 674 wordsFrom the beginning of the year the selling of fruit on co-operative lines has been included in the work of the Farmers' Cooperative Company, and we recorded on ...
Article : 2,642 wordsMajor Beresford's Constabulary has captured, in the centre of the Orange River Colony. Field-Cornel Leroux and 80 men. Field-Cornet Pretorious and 10 men were ...
Article : 55 wordsThe keen pursuit of Major-General Elliot, who covered 70 miles in 24 hours, caused the dispersal of Commandant de Wet's forces. ...
Article : 29 wordsLord Kitchener denies that Majors Kerr and Steere, intelligence officers, were treacherously shot at Warmbad. [It was reported four days ago that concealed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsThe Chinese Empire Reform Association held a meeting in Sydney to consider the cabled report as to his Majesty, Emperor Kwangshu, returning to Peking. Mr. Yee Hing, president of the Chinese ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Federal Treasurer has made an advance of £25,000 for the payment of preliminary expenses in connection with the despatch of the Federal Contingent to South Africa. This and any further ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury and leader of the House of Commons, has recovered from a second sharp attack of influenza. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsEarl Roberts will grant all members of colonial corps the volunteer long-service medal, and volunteer officers will receive decoration for services in South Africa. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Quong Tart has received the following reply, through the British Legation at Peking, to the message of sympathy sent to the members of the late Li Hung Chang's family by the Chinese residents of New ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Senator Drake) has not yet arrived at any understanding with the various States as to the terms on which his department will carry on postal savings bank business. ...
Article : 39 wordsLord George Hamilton, the Secretary of State for India, has informed those millowners of Prussia and Westphalia who are tendering for supplies for the Indian railways ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following December outputs are reported:— Hainault crushed 710 tons for 455oz., cyanided 360 tons for 75oz.; total yield 530oz. of standard gold The Golden Horseshoe Company has declined a ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, M.P. (Radical) for Carnarvon, addressed a pro-Boer meeting at Bristol last night. Admission to the meeting was only gained by ticket, and the gathering ...
Article : 89 wordsThe State Commandant (Brigadier-General Finn) is exercising very close supervision over the work of enrolling the contingent. So far, he says, he has not been able to make a list of the names of the ...
Article : 182 wordsEight thousand addresses of sympathy with the King on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria, and of congratulation on his accession to the Throne have been published in ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Hon. C. E. Pilcher, K.C., of New South Wales, when interviewed at Christchurch said that federation, if submitted again to the people on the lines of the existing Act, would be rejected by a large ...
Article : 122 wordsThe enrolment of the Victorian section of the Federal Contingent proceeded briskly to-day, about 60 candidates from the ranks of those serving in the local forces being put through the riding and the ...
Article : 62 wordsA serious anti-German demonstration occurred at the German Consulate, St. Petersburg. Poles were chiefly concerned. Cossacks were called out, and dispersed the ...
Article : 293 wordsThe steamer Ophir will convey the Prince of Wales to India on the occasion of his Royal Highness's visit to attend the proclamation of the King as Emperor of India. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe following police promotions have been approved by the Executive Council:— Second-class Superintendent Garvin to be firstclass superintendent. ...
Article : 113 wordsUp till to-day 60 men were enrolled in the Commonwealth Contingent, and 60 horses purchased. Very many applications are being received, and it is confidently field that Queensland could easily have raised ...
Article : 46 wordsThere will be a parade at 8 o'clock this morning of men who have passed the medical tests. With the exception of a few men who will have to do camp duty they will go to Randwick rifle range for ...
Article : 243 wordsThe steamer Siam arrived at an anchorage this afternoon with the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Moonta in tow. The Moonta, which was on her way from Albany to Kembla, did not carry any ...
Article : 319 wordsMr. W. J. Bryan (the Democratic candidate at two Presidential elections in the United States), in addressing a meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, of 4000 pro-Boers, said that ...
Article : 56 wordsAll those members of Congress representing the Pacific Coast advocate the exclusion of all Chinese from the United States except officials, students, teachers, merchants, and ...
Article : 38 wordsYesterday 45 men without war experience were enrolled. In response to an advertisement for 25 men to complete the South Australian unit of the Commonwealth Contingent about 200 men presented ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Rev. C. F. Aked, a popular Baptist minister at Liverpool, was mobbed for delivering a pro-Boer sermon. Every window in his residence was smashed. ...
Article : 33 wordsCamp drill for the Federal Contingent is in active swing at Newtown. Captain A. Perceval is commanding. Dr. Jamieson is the medical examiner. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe directors of the St. Louis Exhibition offer prizes amounting to £40,000 for a steerable airship competition. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe news of the promotions of leading officers in the police force was naturally received with considerable interest among all members of the service. Much satisfaction was expressed at the results, it being ...
Article : 344 wordsThe State Premier is in receipt of the following copy of a telegraphic despatch received by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor from the chief casualty officer at Capetown:— ...
Article : 84 wordsThe death is announced of Mrs. Elizabeth Sybil Wilkinson, wife of ex-Judge W. H. Wilkinson, which occurred at Hereford House, Glebe Point, yesterday, at 8.15 a.m. The deceased lady was a ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Western Australian section of the Federal Contingent will go under canvas at the Karrakatta camp at the end of the week. Sixty men only are required from this State, and as preference will be ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Venezuelan Treasury is empty. The officials' pay is six months in arrear. The Venezuelan war vessels had no coal, and therefore could not catch the Libertador. ...
Article : 52 wordsGreat reclamation works are proceeding at Table Bay and Simon's Bay, Capetown, with a view of increasing the harbour and the railway accommodation. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 421 wordsThe following information appeared in "General Orders" issued last night:—"Acting under the State Premier's instructions regarding returned members of the New South Wales State's various ...
Article : 64 wordsThere is little fresh to report about the Towitta tragedy, nor is there likely to be until Thursday, when the adjourned inquest will be held. The revelations which are likely to be obtained then by the ...
Article : 388 wordsA private cablegram has been received announcing the death in England of Mr. Thomas Cadell, aged 42. The deceased gentleman was some years ago well known as an importer of purebred Ayrshire cattle, ...
Article : 589 wordsA loan issued by Natal of £1,945,000 bearing interest at the rate of 3 per cent., has been largely oversubscribed. The price was 93, and the loan was underwritten. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Porte has urgently instructed its officials at Erzeroum, Armenia, to fortify the town, owing to Russia's threats to send troops to quell the Kurds. ...
Article : 31 wordsA much respected resident of Ryde, Mr. William Short, who was for many years council clerk of the borough, died at the Gladesville Hospital (whither he had been removed for special treatment) ...
Article : 263 wordsColonel Davies, who declined to command the Eighth Contingent, unless under certain conditions, has come to Wellington to discuss the question with the Premier. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Marquis Ito has been created a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath (G.C.B.). ...
Article : 21 wordsAdvices received from Constantinople show that Lord Lansdowne (Minister for Foreign Affairs) has explained to the Porte that a sailor hoisted a flag at Skeikh Mubaroukh's ...
Article : 106 wordsAt Government House this morning his Excellency Sir Arthur Havelock presented Major R. C. Lewis and Captain A. H. Riggall with the distinguished service order. The former lately commanded the ...
Article : 53 wordsHundreds of strikers at the Penhryn slate quarries have left Bethesda, and are seeking work in South Wales. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe death of Mr. William Henry Smithson, an old and respected resident of Hurstville, took place at the Sydney Hospital on Saturday last. The deceased gentleman, who was 56 years of age, was a son of ...
Article : 211 wordsIn consequence of the calumnies of the German press against the British army in South Africa, a pledge not to purchase articles made in Germany is being freely signed in parts of the colony. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. John Bell Chirnside. Mr. J. B. Chirnside was a cousin of Mr. Robert Chirnside, of Little River, Victoria. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe residents of Daysdale held a meeting on Saturday night to protest against a recent pro-Boer meeting held at Savernake. The various speakers condemned the resolution of the Savernake meeting, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe deaths from smallpox of unvaccinated persons in London are three times greater than of those sufferers who have been vaccinated. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsA meteor of extraordinary brilliancy was observed in the north-eastern sky last evening shortly after half-past 8 o'clock. It burst upon the sight in a luminous flash high in the northern heavens, and ...
Article : 99 wordsAt the request of the Premier the Mayor has decided to call a meeting to consider the erection of a memorial to fallen Queensland soldiers. ...
Article : 32 wordsSignor Marconi is establishing a transAtlantic station at Cape Breton (Canada). The Canadian Government is equipping a station at Sable Island (east of Nova Scotia) for ...
Article : 35 wordsA painful sensation was caused at Albany yesterday, when intelligence was received from Wilson's Inlet of a boating fatality, in which four lives were lost. The victims were Frank Good, aged 30 years, ...
Article : 130 wordsA Short time age the Minister for Works, in response to representations made through the member for Willoughby, promised to proceed with the extension of the Willoughby tramway, via ...
Article : 142 wordsAt a public meeting on Saturday it was decided to erect a memorial tablet in the Mechanics' Institute to the late Trooper E. H. Ransley, who died at Storkstroom. Deceased ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. Wadham, of South Australia, has arranged for a Colonial Art Exhibition to be held at the Royal Institute galleries in June and July. The hanging committee ...
Article : 55 wordsOwing to the inability of the Premier of Tasmania (Mr. Lewis) and the Premier of Western Australia (Mr. Leake) to attend the conference in Sydney on the 20th instant, the conference of Premiers has been ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Under Secretary for Defence (Captain C[?] has prepared schedules of the rates of pay and field allowances of the Federal Contingent, according to the advices received from the War Office. The ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 8 Jan 1902, Page 7
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