When Alexandre Dumas the elder came to Gibraltar and saw the famous rock shrouded in fog his surprise was great. Being a Frenchman and a novelist, he was not at a loss to explain this ...
Article : 1,416 wordsSir William Lyne, Minister for Home Affairs, and Mr. Drake, Postmaster-General, left Sydney last evening by the Southern express for Melbourne. The former will endeavour to return to ...
Article : 1,893 wordsA report received from Cowes to-day respecting the wreck at Cape Patterson states that the name of the vessel is not known. She is a total wreck. All hands have been saved, but it has not been possible ...
Article : 604 wordsMrs. Botha has again visited her husband, General Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief. There are persistent reports of the renewal of negotiations for peace. ...
Article : 38 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Haig, near Perston, is pursuing Commandants Sheepers and Malan. Victorians, after bombarding a position for an hour, assaulted and carried it, and held a ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Chartered Company has offered 100,000 acres to induce Australian farmers to settle in Rhodesia, the sole condition being that £100,000 will be expended in improvements ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Barton and Mr. R. E. O'Connor arrived in Melbourne to-day. I had an interesting interview with the Federal Premier. "Can you tell me," I asked, "what special work ...
Article : 1,844 wordsA communication was received yesterday by Mr. See from Mr. Peacock, Premier of Victoria, on the subject of issuing passes to legislators and their wives who may desire to proceed to Melbourne to witness ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Standerton (Transvaal) police surprised and captured 25 Boers who were at a dance at New Denmark. ...
Article : 25 wordsLicheng-hsi, the Treasurer of Yunnan, has superseded Yu-yin-lin, a violent reactionary, who was recently appointed Governor of Kwang-si. ...
Article : 25 wordsA French syndicate, together with the Russo-Chinese Bank, will furnish the loan of 5,000,000 yen (£500,000) for the railway from Seoul to Wiju upon the security of the Corean ...
Article : 58 wordsBritish scouts have captured Commandant Trichardt's big herd of cattle near Roosenkal. ...
Article : 18 wordsA number of Boer prisoners has been landed at Bombay, India. ...
Article : 19 wordsThree hundred Tasmanian troops will leave by the steamer Pa[?]na next Tuesday. Passengers are booking by the steamers leaving next week for the Melbourne festivities. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Opposition does not intend serving on the joint committee upon the accession oath, leaving the responsibility of the proposals to the Government. Hence the Lords Committee ...
Article : 40 wordsThree Victoria Crosses have been awarded to Canadian Dragoons for bravery at the Komati River. ...
Article : 20 wordsSpeaking at a banquet at Rookhampton Senator Ferguson, referring to the Federal tariff, said whether it was called freetrade or protective, it would have to be a fairly high one. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Ogadayn Somalis have been crushed, and British authority has been restored in the territory. The Ogadaya Somalis revelled as far back as ...
Article : 48 wordsCorea proposos to use portion of the loan now being obtained to pay a debt of 1,000,000 yen to Japan. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe steamer Morayshire, which left London on March 28 for South Africa, will convey Australian Bushmen to Australia. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Emperor Francis Joseph disavows the clerical action of his nephew. ...
Article : 16 wordsA Distinguished Conduct medal has been awarded to Corporal May, of the 6th Australian Bushmen. The following have been created ...
Article : 132 wordsThe increase in the income tax from 1s to 1s 2d has been agreed to in the House of Commons by 363 rotes to [?]. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Queen Victoria Memorial Fund is being raised to equip the Queen Victoria memorial pavilions of the Prince Alfred Hospital. The movement began auspiciously on Thursday, March l8, and has been ...
Article : 259 wordsMr. Joshua Jones, of New Zealand, sued his solicitor (named Flower), whom he accused of improperly obtaining the Makan estate. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe war loan has closed to London applicants. Country applications arriving this morning will be received. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe gales of the past few days resulted in the wreck of at least two vessels on the Gippsland coast. The first of these is the Canadian barque, Artisan, which went ashore off Cape Patterson on Tuesday ...
Article : 1,097 wordsThe Turkish transport Arnslan has been wrecked in the Red Sea. Aboard there were 2500 troops and 100 pilgrims. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Senate of Finland protests against the ordinary budget providing for the maintenance of Russian gendarmerie in Finland. ...
Article : 26 wordsLieutenant King (Australian Bushman) and Colonol M. W. Kelly (Victorian) have been invalided to England. Private W. E. Clancey, of the New South ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Crown has made a claim to gold-bearing quartz found in a street in Leith. The quartz yields 30oz. to the ton. The gold vein runs through the river. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe offence of Mr. P. M'Hugh M.P., who was convicted of criminal libel consisted in publishing the names of Protestant jurymen in connection with the conviction of members of ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the weekly sales of Australasian tallow 1525 casks were offered, and 1075 casks were sold. Pricos of all kinds were unchanged as follows:—Fine mutton 28s 3d, medium 26s; ...
Article : 48 wordsA military general order issued yesterday contai the following information:- The following promotions in the New South Wales Imperial Bushmen's Contingent, on active ...
Article : 341 wordsThe stormy equally weather at the rear of the Antarctic cyclone continued to make the conditions around Port Phillip Bay most disagreeable to-day. The rain around Melbourne was more scattered and ...
Article : 504 wordsThe price of bar silver to-day is 2s 3[?]d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 16 wordsMonsignor Guerin, of Chateauroux, in the Department of Indre, France, has been arrested on charges of swindling and fraudu lent bankruptcy. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following additional results have been received:- North Fremantle.—Doherty (M.), 433; Cartwright (L.), 345; Passmore (I.), 332. ...
Article : 71 wordsSeveral pictures by M. Detaille, the eminent French painter of battle scenes, including "The March Past," have been stolen from his mother's residence near Paris. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe appointment of many anti-foreign provincial officials simultaneously with M. Voyron's announcement of the withdrawal in May of 10,000 French troops from China is much ...
Article : 81 wordsBritish capitalists ate spending £10,000,000 in the establishment of steel and iron works at Sault-St. Marie, in Canada. The works will give employment to 10,000 men. ...
Article : 32 wordsWa have received the following letter, signed by Lord Roberts, president of the general committee, and Sir Red[?]ers Buller, chairman of the executive committtee, of the Prince Christian Victor memorial, ...
Article : 375 wordsMr. Andrew Carnegie has given £15,000 with which to endow libraries at Vancouver, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Windsor, Ontario. ...
Article : 24 wordsPrince Ching, Li Hung Chang, Yung-lu, Liukunyi, Chang Chitung, and three others have been appointed to submit proposals for reforms. ...
Article : 27 wordsWilliamson's opera company (engaged by Signor Hazon) has sailed for Australia by the Messageries Maritimes steamer Armand Behic. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe local land board has adjourned its sittings, after having disposed of 36 out of 40 applications. Out of the cases submitted two were postponed on the application of the parties. Decisions in the other two will ...
Article : 237 wordsA collision occurred between two electric trams in George-street, near the Haymarket, yesterday afternoon, by which three persons were slightly injured. At about 2.30 p.m. a Leichbardt tram was ...
Article : 278 wordsSomeone with a turn for figures has been making a calculation. Before the Ophir puts into Portsmouth she will have voyaged 34,842 miles—that is, 10,000 miles more than the circumference of the earth. ...
Article : 1,565 wordsThe shipment of Australian rabbits by the steamer Damascus was in very bad condition. A large proportion of the shipment was condemned. ...
Article : 48 wordsAs the steamer Undaunted was entering Port Phillip Heads during the gale on Monday night har ste[?]ring gear became disabled. Prompt measures were taken to repair the damage, and the vessel ...
Article : 41 wordsWith reference to a rumour that his Excellency the Governor is in receipt of a despatch from the military authorities in South Africa concerning the shipment of cargoes of breadstuffs, which are ...
Article : 190 wordsAt the Antwerp wool sales 2063 bales of La Plata wool were offered, and 897 bales were sold. There were numerous buyers. For merinos there was an advance of ...
Article : 61 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsThe State Premier, Mr. See, forwarded an official reply yesterday to Mr. Barton, Premier of the Commonwealth, to the letter published in our columns a few days ago on the subject of the ...
Article : 328 wordsFurther reward for good services has fallen to Police Constables Cornelius Lindfield and George Selmes. They were mentioned in despatches by Lord Roberts for good work in the field. Mr. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe following additional sales took place on the Stock Exchange to-day:—Birthday Tunnel, 3s 9d; Buckeye (6s paid), 4s 6d, 5s 6d, 5s 3d, Britannia United, 7s 3d, 7s 6d, Campbell's Creek, 1s; ...
Article : 100 wordsThe census returns for the Shoalhaven district [?]how a population of 11,804 persons. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe barquentine Mary Wadley dragged her anchors last night in a heavy gale and was blown ashore at the mouth of the creek. The vessal is now lying on and and r[?]k and has been abandoned. ...
Article : 42 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 8 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 24 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 25 Apr 1901, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: