The Procession and Demonstration Committee met on Saturday morning in one of the committee rooms at Parliament House for the purpose of deciding as to the order in which the Commonwealth procession ...
Article : 487 wordsIt is officially announced that Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, in order to return to England and assume his new duties as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, has handed over the ...
Article : 105 wordsAt an early hour this morning the residents of Goulburn-street, in the vicinity of George and Pitt streets, were startled by the discharge of three revolver shots. The reports attracted a large crowd ...
Article : 257 wordsA Russian inspired statement has been published to the effect that Japan originated the movement for the weakening of the ultima* tum which the Ministers of the Powers at ...
Article : 87 wordsEarly on Saturday morning, after some works proposals had been dealt with, the Premier made a statement of the events that bad preceded the making of an agreement with a syndicate ...
Article : 778 wordsAmong the many matters hastily dealt with by Parliament is that of the State Governor's salary; and the fact is important because on it practically depends the answer to ...
Article : 2,718 wordsSix hundred prisoners have left Capetown for Ceylon. ...
Article : 17 wordsOn board the Harlech Castle are three nurses, Sister Hutchinson, who is going to Newcastle, Sister Wallace, bound for Launceston, and Sister [?] for New Zealand. ...
Article : 1,015 wordsIt was recently announced that the Viceroys of the Yangtsze provinces Lad stopped the sending of tributa and rice to the Imperial Court, which, was then reported to be at ...
Article : 75 wordsCommandant Hertzog with 500 men in a strong position, midway between Fauresmith and the Orange River, attacked a force under Brigadier-General Settle on Tuesday. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe revenue for November was £259,989, and increase of £20,286 over that of the corresponding month of last year. The railway revenue increased by £5579, the dividend duty by £15,667, and land receipts by ...
Article : 72 wordsA terrible accident occurred at a football match at San Francisco yesterday. Some spectators were viewing the match from the roof of the adjacent glassworks. The roof ...
Article : 68 wordsThe quantity of Victorian gold actually received in the Melbourne mint during November was 62,234oz., compared with 75,221oz, in November last year. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe revenue returns for November are £33,703 in excess of there of November last year. Sir George Turner has given instructions for the printing and the issue of federal voters' certificates. ...
Article : 44 wordsThere have been 1000 poisoning cases in England due to the drinking of contaminated beer. Two hundred fresh cases were reported yesterday. The area in which the cases ...
Article : 67 wordsThe election of members of the Legislative Assembly for St. [?] and Bogong will be held to-morrow. The supporters of Sir Goorge Turner are taking no risks, and it is probable that the Premier will be ...
Article : 140 wordsA British column from Vryburg has relieved Colonel G. D. Chamier and the garrison of 250 men at Schweizer Reneke, which had been invested by Commandant de Boers ...
Article : 62 wordsIt was a happy inspiration which impelled the and vocates of Centennial Park to urge upon the Government that it was the most suitable place to have the swearing-in of the Governor-General performed in ...
Article : 447 wordsMajor-General Paget on Wednesday and Thursday engaged General Viljoen and Commandant Erasmus at Rietfontein. Licutenant-Colonel G. E. Lloyd, of the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Under-Secretary for Mines has received a telegram from the mining warden at Thornborough stating that on Friday morning a miner named Kirby fell a distance of 50ft. down the General ...
Article : 53 wordsExchequer bonds to the value of £3,000,000, issued by the British Government, with a currency of live years, bearing interest at 3 per cent., have been subscribed ...
Article : 46 wordsThe official inquiry into the alleged misconduct of some immigrant girls on the Jumna, also certain complaints, against the matron, was resumed on Saturday afternoon. Miss Elizabeth Rimhault, a ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr. Mandel Creighton, Bishop of London, has v[?]toed the prosecution of three clergymen of the Diocese of London for ritualistic practices, because the ...
Article : 78 wordsA public meeting, convened by the Mayor in response to an influential requisition, was held in the council-chambers on Friday. Alderman Miller presided, and there was a representative gathering of ...
Article : 320 wordsThe Austral meeting of the Melbourne Bicycle Club was opened on Saturday on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in delightful weather and in the presence of some 12,000 spectators, whose admission ...
Article : 1,151 wordsThe military posts throughout tlie Cape are threatened. ...
Article : 15 wordsMr. Kruger has become impatient, and is trying "to rush arbitration." There is an active interchange of telegrams between Paris, Berlin, and Livadia, the residence of the Czar. ...
Article : 369 wordsA suspicious case of illness has been under observation from yesterday afternoon, the patient being a boy aged 9 years. The case is supposed to be plague, but definite results from the bacteriological ...
Article : 468 wordsThe Agent-General for South Australia (Sir John Cockburn) has replied to the offer of Messrs. P. B. Burgoyne and Co. to purchase the South Australian Wine Depot in ...
Article : 74 wordsSince writing my last letter a fortnight age we have been doing some rather exciting work, ending up on the 27th instant with a real De Wet hunt with our quarry in full view and racing voutre a terre. ...
Article : 2,014 wordsA glance at the plan prepared by Mr. Vernon, Government Architect, for the illumination of the Domain, with a view of producing a flood of light in which the public may promenade on the soft grass ...
Article : 220 wordsLiebig's Meat Extract Company has purchased the Alligator Creek Ment Preserving Works, Queensland. BRISBANE, Sunday. ...
Article : 66 wordsA meeting of public school teachers in the metropolitan district was held at the Girls' High School, Castlereagh-street, on Saturday morning, to arrange a welcome to Captain Dove, one of their number, on ...
Article : 100 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Oscar Wilde at the age of 44. He died in an obscure hotel iu Paris. ...
Article : 25 wordsCity Municipal Elections.—Bourke Ward: Sir W. P. Manning's Committee, 49 Castlereagh-street, 5 p.m. Belmore Ward: Dr. James Graham, War[?] Arms Hotel, Campbell and Riley streets, ...
Article : 553 wordsThe Palace Gardens have been temporarily fenced off from the Botanic Gardens with a view of preventing any encroachment at night time upon the Bolanic Gardens by the immense crowds of people ...
Article : 208 wordsThe scope of the Lanston monotype type-casting and composing machine is pretty well indicated by its name, but the better to illustrate its capabilities the Imperial Printers' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 354 wordsThe municipal elections yesterday passed off qui[?]tly, being completely eclipsed by the demonstration in connection with the return of the soldiers from South Africa. Although there was a contest ...
Article : 126 wordsThe illumination of Hyde Park will be treated in an entirely different manner from those of the Domain and the Palace Gardons. This is rendered necessary owing to the density of the folinge in the main ...
Article : 111 wordsThree hundred troops are encamping at Worcester, in Western Cape Colony, where the Afrikander Bond will shortly meet in Congress. ...
Article : 59 wordsAn old working at the Blackbull coal mine, Greymouth, is on fire. Green, a furnaceman, is entombed, and those who are attempting to rescue him are checked by the smoke and damp. ...
Article : 55 wordsA magnificent electric light display is to be made in Macquarie-street, between Hunter-street and Queen's-square. The poles have already been erected to carry transoms on which thousands of ...
Article : 196 wordsThe action of the British Government in not renewing the prohibition against the export of arms from the Straits Settlements to the Dutch East Indies in connection with ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 3 Dec 1900, Page 7
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