A marked change has been noticeable during the last fow days in the opinion of a number of members of the Legislative Assembly regarding their eagerness to announce themselves as candidates for the House ...
Article : 1,855 wordsThe London "Standard's" correspondent at Pretoria states that the Boer lines extend from Belfast, on the Delagoa Bay line, northward to the Crocodile River, ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Allies have established an international military administration at Poking. Each of the Powers represented in the forces at Peking has one member on the ...
Article : 164 wordsThe British Admiralty has strengthened the Channel Squadron. The Admiralty is forming reserve squadrons for home defence, thus enabling the Channel ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Futami Maru, of the Japanese Mail Steamship Company, has gone ashore at Mindoro Island, one of the Philippines. Her passengers and crew landed on the ...
Article : 1,286 wordsIn order to enable Commandant de Wet to cross the Transvaal southwestern railway to Potchefstroom and to proceed to the Orange Riverwithout being ...
Article : 84 wordsThe novelty of invalided soldiers returning to Australia has apparently worn off, for when the Damascus with 70 sick and wounded men from South Africa took up her berth at the Australian Wharf ...
Article : 382 wordsThe French Government has stationed a number of cruisers at Calais. ...
Article : 18 wordsWriting from Uppington, under date of July 15, Driver T. H Gillard, of the Royal Australian Artillery (A Battery), says:—"We are stationed in the same place still, and I believe are likely to be until ...
Article : 122 wordsLieutenant Hans Cardua, who was shot on Saturday by sentence of the Courtmartial, met his death coolly, seated in a chair facing a garden wall. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe reserves of the Bulgarian army have been summoned to be in immediate readiness to join the colours. A resent cable stated that the relations between ...
Article : 73 wordsTrooper Harold Blackman, New South Wales Bushmen, writing to a friend at Mudges from Mafeking, says:—"Just a few lines before we leave for Pretoris. We are camped at Mafeking, about 150 miles ...
Article : 317 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts is at Wonderfontein, 28 miles east of Middelburg. Major-General Lord Kitchener is at Pretoria. ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Malcolm M'Eacharn, Mayor of Melbourne, has inspected the Melbourne Electric Light plant, now being manufactured at Wolverhampton, and has ...
Article : 43 wordsBritish, Japanese, and French troops on Saturday relieved the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Northern Peking. The cathedral had been isolated throughout the ...
Article : 67 wordsIn a boxing match at Coney Island, New York, yesterday, for a prize of 25,000dol., Fitzsimmous knocked Sharkey out in the second round. ...
Article : 26 wordsLieutenant-General Lord Methuen is at Zeerust, in the Western Transvaal, and is in touch with Lieutenant-General Sir Fred. Carrington. ...
Article : 49 wordsPrivate O. J. Stanton, Now South Wales Army Medical Corps, and Privates F. W. Rafter and J. Porritt, New South Wales Mounted Elder, were accorded a brilliant public reception yesterday. ...
Article : 649 wordsIn the engagement at Haman's Kraal, the encounter in which the vanguard of Lieutenant-General Baden Powell and the vanguard of the enemy rushed into each ...
Article : 61 wordsDr. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent at Peking, reports that the Emperor, the Empress-Dowager, and Prince Tuan are at Taiyuan-fu, in Shansi Province. ...
Article : 71 wordsTrooper Alec Bishop, writing from Pretoria to his father at Mudgee on July 15, says: "Just a hurried line to let you know where and how I am. I am in the lighting line again. Have you read or heard of a ...
Article : 407 wordsThe Treasurer has received a letter from the Stock Eschange of Melbourne thanking him for having at the instance of that body consented to granting certificates to the successful tenderers for the half-million ...
Article : 323 wordsThe names of the following Australians and New Zealanders appear in the casualty lists from Ottoshoop:— NEW ZEALAND. ...
Article : 39 wordsCommandant de Wet, who was reported to have turned southwards in the Rustenburg district, followed a bridle path over the Magaliesberg without ...
Article : 65 wordsColonel A. R. F. Dorward, of the Royal Engineers, commanding 350 British Infantry, 200 Japanese Infantry, 500 American Cavalry, and 25 Bengal Cavalry, ...
Article : 94 wordsGerman, Russian, and American troops are pouring into Taku. There are still large masses of Boxers in the southern portion of Peking, besides ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Court-martial which found Lieutenant Hans Cardua, of the TransvaalStaats Artillerie, guilty at Pretoria of having broken his parole and of having ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British and the American missions at Amoy, on the island of Haimen, in Fokien province, have been looted by the Chinese, and have been burned. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe strike of wheelers and horse-drivers at the Hetton Colliery, which resulted in the complete suspension of operations at the pit since Thursday last, has been settled, and the ...
Article : 527 wordsThe Burnett treffic bridge, which is the largest Steel structure of its kind in Australasia, was opened by his Excellency Lord Lamington on, Friday, in the presence of a very large assemblage of townspeople. ...
Article : 118 wordsLord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, has stopped the repeated visits of native princes of India to Europe, on the ground that such visits encourage restlessness and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Boers exploded the railway at Koetzo's Drift and at South Newcastle. The Boers conveyed 18 guns eastward through Nooitgedacht. ...
Article : 26 wordsChang-Chi-Tung, Viceroy of the Hupei and Hunan provinces, beheaded two reformers at Wuchang for restraining attacks on foreigners. ...
Article : 51 wordsTwo trains came into collision at Glasgow yesterday. Four carriages were telescoped. Twenty-four people were injured. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. A. B. Macdonald, superintending engineer to Messrs. Howard Smith aud Sons, arrived from Melbourne on Saturday and inspected the disabled vessel Time. It was subsequently decided to send ...
Article : 133 wordsThe names of the following Australians appear in the casualty list:— TASMANIA. Severely wounded at Haman's Kraal, Private ...
Article : 154 wordsThe landing of the Allies at Shanghai has favourably impressed the natives. ...
Article : 18 wordsSpeaking of his South African experiences Colonel Hoad, who returned by the Damascus to-day, said that before entering Johannesburg the Mounted Infantry division arrived at Florida, north of the ...
Article : 175 wordsMr. George Musgrove and Miss Nellie Stewart sailed with an opera company in the Arcadia for Australia on Thursday last. ...
Article : 34 wordsLi Hung Chang has cabled to Yang-Yu, the Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, intimating his inability to negotiate for peace owing to absence of the sovereign ...
Article : 43 wordsA largely attended meeting was held in the Temperance Hall, Gladesville, on Wednesday evening last. The chair was occupied by Mr. F. H. Barton, Apologies for non-attendance were received from ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Premier has received the following cable from Mr. Henaiker Heaton, M.P., in London:—"The Budget is greatly praised. It has been published in every newspaper in the kingdom. The penny ...
Article : 48 wordsMiss Hunter Brown, of Nelson, and Miss Pansley, of Gisborne, were passengers by the Futami Maru on their way to re-engage in missionary work in the East. News has been received that both are safe. ...
Article : 42 wordsDiplomatists at Washington understand that Germany's total contingent for Ohina will be 50,000. Supplies are being forwarded via San ...
Article : 25 wordsThe funeral of the late Sergeant John Pantin Forbes, of No. 1 Police Station, took place on Saturday afternoon, and was attended by a a large number of officers and men from the metropolitan ...
Article : 323 wordsMr. R. Nixon, reaiding at Jemmy's Creek, 15 miles north-east of Cassilis, and four miles from the scene of the robbery on Friday at the house of C. Bayliss, a selector, came to town this morning and ...
Article : 152 wordsAmong the passengers by tbo Damascus was W. M'Hardy, who has been a resident of South Africa for the greater part of his life, and has been connected with large mining ventures for the past 25 ...
Article : 267 wordsFollowing the concession in regard to telegrams to and from the troops in South Africa, the postal authorities now advise that an offer has been received through the Berne Bureau from the Eastern ...
Article : 217 wordsThere is nothing further to report in matters concerning the bubonic plague. No now case has come to light since the 9th instant, and the three patients now in quarantine are doing well. ...
Article : 37 wordsSir Malcolm M'Eacharn, the Mayor of Melbourne, after consulting the War Office and the heads of the different patriotic funds, is of opinion that the funds and the ...
Article : 71 wordsMrs. Flannerry, who was reported on Thursday to he suffering from plague at Townsville, was removed to the plague hospital on Friday. Another fresh case was reported on Saturday, the patient being a man ...
Article : 99 wordsAppointments are notified in the "Government Gazette" as follow:— Mr. G. Mar[?]in, police magistrate, to be revising magistrate for the electoral districts of Wagga Wagga and the ...
Article : 310 wordsA constable at Highgate Hill, a suburb of the city, while, this morning early, attempting to arrest one of a gang of larrikins, was set upon and maltreated. He drew a revolver and fired, wounding one of the ...
Article : 71 wordsDr. G. B. Clark, M.P. (L.) for Caithnessshire, attempted to address his constituents yesterday, but was refused a hearing. The crowd hooted him and stoned his carriage. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Premier yesterday received a cable from Captain Hixson, R.N., stating that the Salamis, with the Naval Brigado on board, had arrived at Hongkong. All were well. The contingent is awaiting orders ...
Article : 44 wordsThe health authorities have not yet soon their way to remove the embargo placed upon the importation of rags, old ropes, and second-hand clothing into Victoria when the bubonic plague broke out in ...
Article : 112 wordsCorporal Hardaker, writing to his brother, Mr. H. Hardaker, of Bombala, from Omdrav Kop on July 8 says:—"We are busy making trenches and earthworks. Most of the work has to be done at night. ...
Article : 539 wordsAt a meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures Committee on Saturday, the secretary reported that a letter had been sent to the secretary of the Western Australian chamber, inviting delegates to ...
Article : 119 wordsThe management of the Greta Colliery has agreed to the terms held out for by the miners, and work will be resumed on Monday. The men will now be paid 2s 3½d per ton. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Boers have a gun on the Transvaal side of the Buffalo River, the north-eastern boundary of Natal. The gun commands the road to ...
Article : 139 wordsSome days ago a report was published stating that Kung Vu Wei, the lender of the reform party in China, had been murdered. This report has been contradicted. On Saturday a cable was received by ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 27 Aug 1900, Page 7
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