The balance-sheet of the Union Bank of Australia, to be presented to the half-yearly meeting of shareholders, shows that the deposits amount to £15,793,602; cash ...
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Article : 126 wordsThe third session of the thirteenth Parliament of Queensland was iopened by his Excellency the Governor at noon yesterday. The Legisiatlve Council Chamber was filled ...
Article : 408 wordsFurther details now received of the capture of the Legations at Peking and the massacre of the inmates show that among the victims were Sir Claude Maxwell ...
Article : 157 wordsA report received from South Africa states that Commandant Christian De Wet imprisoned ex-President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, because the latter ...
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Article : 35 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. M'Intyre moved that the Speaker convey to the Imperial authorities the gratification of Parliament on the appointment of ...
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Article : 44 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly this evening, the Premier said he had asked the home authorities if he could make public the communications which had passed ...
Article : 136 wordsPrivate Jackson, of the First Queensland Contingent, returned to Brisbane from South Africa last evening, arriving by the mail train from Sydney at about 10.45 ...
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Article : 522 wordsLater information states that the allied troops at Tientsin made an attack on the native city, but sustained a serious repulse from the Chinese, and many were killed in ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is now announced that the victims of the Peking massacre included twelve student interpreters connected with the British Legation; Mr. E. H. Conger, the ...
Article : 111 wordsAmong the passengers of the Australian, which arrived here last week from China, are Dr. E. B. Levy and Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Benjamin, who have been on a visit to Japan, ...
Article : 290 wordsMembers began early to dodge in and out of the Legislative Chamber, amongst the earliest noticeable being Messrs. G. Thorn, A. J. Callan, Lesina, and W. Moore. The ...
Article : 415 wordsThe Admiralty justify the retention of the Belville boilers (the efficiency of which has been the subject of much controversy) in the warships of the British navy, on the ...
Article : 53 wordsDespite the earlier reports of a momentary repulse of the [?]llies at Tientsin, the news of their Victory over the Chinese insurgents is now officially confinmed. ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is announced that Great Britain is about to ratify the Peace Convention concluded at the recent international conference at The Hague. ...
Article : 31 wordsInformation has been received that a butchery of native converts, which continued for three days, has taken place in the provinces of Hunan and Hu-pei, in ...
Article : 126 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has expressed herself as being greatly distressed at the news of the massacres in Peking. ...
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Article : 117 wordsNews has been received from West Africa that the British force under Colonel Willcocks has reached Kumass[?], and relieved the beleaguered garrison at that ...
Article : 39 wordsThe engagement is announced of Miss Dorothy Vane, the well-known actress, to Mr. Norman Menzies, of Menzie's Hotel, Melbourne. ...
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Article : 216 wordsA student interpreter, in a letter written on the 10th June last, gives some particulars of the situation in Peking prior to the recent massacres at the Legations. He ...
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Article : 2,142 wordsMr. Mahlon C. Cowlishaw, of the firm of Cowlishaw Bros., well-known in mercantile shipping, and coal circles, died to-day. His death was not altogether unexpected, as he ...
Article : 39 wordsThe news of the massacre at Peking has created the most intense excitement in the United States. President M'K[?]nley is hurrying the despatch of 10,000 troops to ...
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Article : 48 wordsFurther reports of the recent fighting at Tientsin show that the allied force, consisting chiefly of Americans and Japanese, ejected the enemy and their guns from the ...
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Advertising : 208 wordsIt is announced that the British Government have received offers of troops for China from several of the Indian feudatory princes. ...
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Advertising : 68 wordsIt is stated that the guns of the wars[?] of the various Powers were trained on Chifu on Sunday last, as a native rising was expected there. ...
Article : 35 wordsOne of the most prominent of the " unofficial" foreigners who were massacred at Peking was Dr. George Ernest Morrison, the correspondent of the " Times" at that ...
Article : 639 wordsThe committee of the Lady Musgrave Lodge met yesterday. Mrs. Clark presided, and there were also present—Mesdames J. H. Smith, Reading, Poole, J. B. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 18 Jul 1900, Page 5
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