For the first time since the Act in reference to public holiday arrangements came into force, its provisions ware brought into active operation yesterday, which was set apart ...
Article : 497 wordsIt is reported that Canada is likely to send a small contingent to the ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn the recent fighting in the Eastern Transvaal, Commandant Prinsloo and General Fourie have been killed, and Commandant Grobbolaar has been wounded. ...
Article : 143 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller has resumed command at Aldershot. Nov. 12. Sir Redvers Buller, in accepting the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Emperor Kwang-hsu declares that Tungfuhsiang controls the Imperial Court, and that it is therefore impossible to banish him. The Emperor, howeyer, is willing to ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Premier is in receipt of the following telegram from the Governor-General of Canada:- "My responsible advisers regret they are unable to send a detachment of Canadian troops to Sydney ...
Article : 87 wordsIt is rather unfortunate that eight of the gentlemen who have been invited by Sir William Lyne to take seats on the Organising Committee which is to advise the Gove[?]nment us to the general outline ...
Article : 316 wordsThe execution of the Acting-Viceroy of Chi-li and other officials at Poo-ting-fu by the Allies, and the exposure of their heads, have profoundly impressed the Chinese. ...
Article : 32 wordsEarl Cadogan will retain his appointment of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr. John Grant Lawson, M.P. for Thirsk and Malton, succeeds Mr. T. W. Russell as ...
Article : 43 wordsA French Yellow Book just issued contains a picturesque description of the siege of Peking by M. Pichon, the French Minister. He names Prince Tuan, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe German critici[?]ns on Lord Salisbury's speeeh at the Guildhall are reserved. The French criticisms are moderate in tone. ...
Article : 27 wordsDetails of the recent fighting at Frederickstad, north of Potchefstroom, show that 2000 Boers were engaged. After heavy fighting many of the enemy ...
Article : 94 wordsBelgium seeks possession of a strip of land near Tientsin for purposes of a settlement. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe United States military authorities have secured plans of the new French field gun, which is supposed to be the best in the world. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe holiday in celebration of the Prince of Wales' Birthday was generally observed to-day, and as the weather was very agreeable the great bulk of the people spent the day in the open air. The usual ...
Article : 218 wordsThe question of the proposed Friendly Societies' demonstration came up for discussion at the half-yearly session of the Druids Grand Lodge, held at the Oddfellows' Temple, yesterday. The Grand ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Reichstag is asked to vote £7,634,500 on account of the war in China. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe elections in Newfoundland have resulted in the Government of Mr. R. Bond being retained in power with a large majority. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe fifty-first annual Balmain Regatta took place yesterday in weather conditions which were superb. On the sailing courses a nice wind prevailed all through the programme, whilst the stretch of ...
Article : 6,165 wordsThe prisoners taken by the British in the battle south of Bothaville include 28 men of the Transvaal Staats Artillorie and 40 rebels. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe German officers in China pronounce the Australian horses, with which the forces have been provided, as serviceable. ...
Article : 23 wordsA typheon occurred at Hongkong. The British gunboat Sandpiper sank. The crew was saved. There was immense damage among the natives' vessels, with much loss ...
Article : 69 wordsGreat preparations are being made to entertain the colonial troops during their stay in England. They are to be received by the Queen at ...
Article : 58 wordsWith a new of securing the co-operation of the country towns of Australia, in making the line of route additionally attractive and representative, a copy of the following letter is being sent out by the ...
Article : 287 wordsMr. G. E. Foster has succeeded Sir Charles Tupper as lender of the Conservative party in Canada. ...
Article : 22 wordsSir,—I notice in your issue of to-day Mr. Stobo has what he calls a reply to my letter on the above. With your permission I would like to pass a few comments on that letter. ...
Article : 589 wordsThe following race was run on the concluding day of the Liverpool Autumn Meeting:- Ormerod Plate of £140, 1 mile 3 furlongs. ...
Article : 93 wordsLord Lamington arrived at Townsville yesterday from Cooktown, prior to returning to Brisbane after his northern tour. During the course of an interview his Excellency said that his provious experiences ...
Article : 578 wordsThe Earl of Clarendon, recently appointed Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Gerald-Balfour, President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. ...
Article : 53 wordsEight hundred women of the Paarl district, Cape Colony, have protested against what they allege to be the barbarities of the English in the deportation of Boer women ...
Article : 42 wordsMajor-General Baden-Powell is suffering from enteric fever. ...
Article : 12 wordsBy the death of Canon James Chrietian Corlette, D.D., which took place at 4 a.m. yesterday, at the rectory, Allt-street, Ashfield, the Church of England in Australasia has lost one of its ...
Article : 728 wordsTwo trains came into collision near Frank-fort-on-the-Maine, Germany. The gas reservoir in a carriage exploded, setting fire to a compartment. Eight ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. D. W. Brown, accountant to Lord Hopet[?]n, together with 13 of his Excellency's household attendants, arrived here from London to-day in the India, and goes on to Sydney in the vessel. ...
Article : 39 wordsSeveral men of the Australian troops complain in a newspaper of being sent home in the steerage. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Canadian passenger steamer City of Monticillo foundered in a gale in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of Nova Scotia. Thirty-three of her passengers and crew ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Premier (Mr. S[?]ddon), Mr. W. Hall-Jones (Minister for Works), and Mr. J. G. Ward (the Colonial Secretary) will probably represent the colony at the Commonwealth inauguration ...
Article : 37 wordsThe main incident in military life at Victoria Barracks yesterday was the arrival of seven soldiers invalided from South Africa, who were brought back by the steamer Yarrawonga. These men were: ...
Article : 136 words"C. A. M." (Temora) writes:—"As a resident of the country I beg to offer some suggestions re the best means of enabling people living at a long distance from the city to participate in the ...
Article : 1,719 wordsThe Commission appointed by the Post Office authorities is favourably inclined to the adoption of wireless telegraphy. ...
Article : 27 wordsA cablegram forwarded to the Premier from South Africa states that the following telegram was received from Lord Roberts at Johannesburg on November 9: ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. W. H. Groom and Mr. A. S. Cowley, ex-Speakers of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, have been allowed to retain the title of "honourable." ...
Article : 31 wordsSir,—Sir William Lyne is, no doubt, quite right to refuse to grant free pasees to all candidates for the Federal Parliament, but I venture to submit the following seven reasons why the Government should ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Premier is in receipt of the following telegram from South Africa:- "Referring to your telegram of November 5, No. [?]04 Wilson is with his regiment in good health. ...
Article : 54 wordsLord Brassey, ex-Governor of Victoria, Sir T. Fowell Buxton, ex-Governor of South Australia, and others, in a letter to the "Times," appeal for subscriptions, amounting to ...
Article : 56 wordsCaptain Taylor, Lloyd's surveyor, has returned to town after visiting the wreck of the Drehna. Seas were making a clean breach over the vessel, but he holds out some hope of recovering the main portion ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Premier to-day forwarded to the Lord Mayor of London a draft for £5278, making, with a previous remittance of £5000, Tasmania's contribution of £10,278 to the Mansion House War Fund, to be ...
Article : 55 wordsLord Hobhouse delivered the reserved judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the appeal case, the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company v. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe City Council has decided to take an active part in welcoming the Tasmanian Contingent on its return from South Africa. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Aberdeen White Star liner put in here unexpectedly to-day for coal with the following officers of the Australian contingents aboard:—Lieutenant-Colonel Somerbille, Lieutenant Collins, both of New ...
Article : 101 wordsThe steamer Yawata Maru arrived at Pinkenba to-day, after a pleasant uneventful trip from Yokohama. The following is the passenger list:- For Sydney: Countees De Hamel de Manin, Mrs. ...
Article : 198 wordsSir,—I note that the Commonwealth celebrations are to be concentrated in Sydney. Country people recognise the main ceremony must be held in the city. Still, as outsiders ...
Article : 210 wordsThe French barque Marguerite Dollfus, which entered Port Phillip Heads on Sunday evening, came to anchor off Williamstown this morning. She experienced very bad weather while on the voyage ...
Article : 194 wordsWriting from Ottoshoop on September 28 to his parents in Lithgow, Trooper S. Dawson, staff orderly, 1st Regiment Australian Buchmen, says:—"We have had two or three sl[?]ps at the Boers this week, ...
Article : 780 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 5 11-16d per ounce standard—a use of 1-16d since Saturday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 13 Nov 1900, Page 5
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