The correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, states that he has been informed on good authority that the Duke and Duchess of ...
Article : 105 wordsIt has been decided that there shall be no lying in state of the late Queen's body beyond being placed in an open coffin for a few days at Osborne House in the ...
Article : 169 wordsAdmiral Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German Emperor, will be in command of nine German warships which will participate in the ceremonies in connection ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Western Boer commando in Cape Colony, after occupying Van Rhynsdorp, about 50 miles north of Clanwilllam, divided into two portions, one going ...
Article : 109 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Bloomfontein, in describing the mourning celebrations there in connection with the Queen's death, declares that however acute ...
Article : 76 wordsHis Imperial Majesty the German Emperor will remain in England until the end of the funeral ceremonies. The German warships Hohenzollern, Kaiser ...
Article : 200 wordsThe term of the official mourning in the army for Queen Victoria has been extended to the 24th July. ...
Article : 29 wordsLord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, has issued a special order expressing the great grief felt by the army at the death of the Queen. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe deaths are reported of the following members of the New South Wales Bushmen's Contingents:—Private P. Meeson, of enteric fever, at Pretoria, and Private. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe fleets of the allied Powers in Chinese waters fired minute guns on the announcement of the death of Queen Victoria. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following telegram has been despatched by the Mayor (Alderman J. Nicol Robinson), president of the South Queensland Local Authorities' Association, to the ...
Article : 69 wordsIt was announced late yesterday that the vacancies in the Ministry, caused by the death of Sir James Dickson, and the acceptance of the portfolio of Federal ...
Article : 648 wordsOne of the last acts of Queen Victoria was to transfer to the Patriotic Fund (a fund devoted to the relief of sufferers in any war in which Great Britain may be ...
Article : 54 wordsIn consequence of Saturday next having be[?]n declared a day of mourning, the Brisbane wool sales, which were to be held on that day, have been postponed until the ...
Article : 39 wordsA patrol of twenty-five Capo Police were captured at Maraisburg, in the north-east of Cape Colony, by a greatly superior force of Boers. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is sending from his own conservatories a wreath to be1 placed on the Queen's coffin. This wreath will be composed exclusively ...
Article : 47 wordsPrivate W. Butler, of the Queensland Bushmen's Contingent, who was recently reported to have died, is still alive, but dangerously ill at Bloemiontein. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is stated that the Canadians and the people of Greater Britain generally are unanimously in favour of retaining the late Queen's Birthday, the 24th May, as a public ...
Article : 48 wordsUnder pressure from the British force under General Lord Methuen, a portion of the Boer commando which has been operating in the neighbourhood of Vryburg, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe open-air rally and picnic at Enoggera, arranged by the Christian Endeavour Union, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Christian Endeavour, and ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Casper Jacobus Lotter, member for Jansenville in the Cape House of Assembly, has been arrested on a charge of aiding the Boer invaders of Cape Colony. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Court of Russia will go into mourning for the Queen for three months. General mourning for six weeks has been ordered at Malta. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe King is conferring the Order of the Garter on the German Crown Prince. ...
Article : 24 wordsProfessor Hubert Herkomer, R.A., the Well-known artist, has made a sketch of the late Queen lying in state, at Osborne. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is announced that the British Government have purchased the Monte Freres buildings at Delagoa Bay for £50,000. It is intended to use the buildings as Imperial ...
Article : 39 wordsA despatch has been received from Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief of the British troops in South Africa, stating that the Boer raiders in Case Colony have so ...
Article : 58 wordsThe King granted permission to forty British and foreign journalists to visit the Chapelle Ardente in Osborne House. The predominant tone of the chamber ...
Article : 175 wordsVast congregations of every denomination attended the in Memoriam services which were held throughout the United Kingdom yesterday (Sunday). Deep mourning was ...
Article : 213 wordsSir,—There can surely be no doubt that the suggestion to create a fund for the erection of a memorial to our late beloved Queen Victoria will receive hearty support. ...
Article : 397 wordsThe demand for mourning material and gloves has been so great that all the warehouses and shops in England have completely sold but their stocks. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe London "Express" has published [?] Statement to the effect that the medical men who are attending Mr. Kruger despa[?] of being able to save his life. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Dutch churches in Cape Colony are all draned in black, and for the first time for years the British and Dutch are sincerely united in sorrow and mourning. ...
Article : 88 wordsAddresses of condolence and congratulation to the King were voted by both Houses of Parliament yesterday. Lord Salisbury, the Earl of Kimberley ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Boers at Slypklip, on the railway line a few miles to the north of Kimberley, captured a train carrying cattle and provisions from Kimberley northwards. The ...
Article : 112 wordsCommandant George Brand, who is leading the Boer commando which is raiding the eastern parts of Cape Colony, threatens to bring forward proof that hundreds of the ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is reported from Capetown that the Boer prisoners of war detained at Green Point have decided to suspend all amusements until after the funeral of Queen ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Boers who are fighting in the different commandoes are boasting that as their women and children are now provided for and looked after by the British, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Royal Family meet together for worship daily around the bier. ...
Article : 21 wordsCunningham's Brigade has expelled a large force of Boers from a strong position between Oliphantsnek and the Megalieaburg Range, to the west of Pretoria. The ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Van Wyck, the Tammany Mayor of New York, is the only official personage in New York who has refused to have the flags fixed half-mast in honour of the late ...
Article : 90 wordsA shipment of 900 Hungarian horses, which have been found so useful in the South African campaigns, have been sent from Fiume to the Cape. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe body of the Queen will be removed from Osborne on Friday to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which will be placed between a double line of warships, from ...
Article : 75 wordsA "Government Gazette" Extraordinary issued yesterday contains the following proclamation:- Chief Secretary's Office, ...
Article : 156 wordsJames M'Ilwraith (a son of Mr. Andrew M'Ilwraith, of the firm of M'Ilwraith, M'Eachearn, and Co., Melbourne), who was serving with the Imperial Yeomanry in ...
Article : 43 wordsTwenty members of the newly-recruited Police Force in South Africa, finding themselves surrounded by the Boers at Devondale, to the north of Vrvburg, surrendered ...
Article : 50 wordsThe body of her Majesty is to be removed from Osborne to Windsor on Friday next, 1st February. It will be conveyod through London, the Channel Squadron acting as ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Duke of Norfolk, as Earl Marshal, has notified that in pursuance of an Order of the King in Privy Council yesterday, all persons in the Empire are expected to go ...
Article : 48 wordsIt has transpired that Lord Jersey will not be in London next Saturday, and Lord Carrington has been asked to represent the Commonwealth at the funeral obsequies ...
Article : 47 wordsNews is to hand that 1335 additional Boer prisoners of war have been landed at St. Helena. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Boers have summarily ejected all British subjects from Pietersburg, a town on the railway line to the north of Pretoria. ...
Article : 29 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has received information from the authorities in South. Africa that No. 294, Private Hull, a member of the Third Contingent, died of enteric ...
Article : 90 wordsThe French and other foreign navies will be represented in the naval display in connection with the funeral of the late Queen. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Premier of New South Wales (Sir William Lyne) has been in communication with the Premiers of the other States as to the order of mourning to be adopted in ...
Article : 133 wordsLord Kitchener has selected Colonel J. G. Dartnell, the Commandant of the Natal Volunteers and the Mounted Police Forces, who guided Brigadier-General Yule's ...
Article : 63 wordsBy proclamation under the Bank Holiday[?] Act, Saturday, and February, being the day on which the funeral of her late Majesty Queen Victoria will take place, is appointed ...
Article : 51 wordsThe sunday School Union are organising memorial services to be held throughout Great Britain on Sunday, the 3rd February. It is suggested that services shall be held ...
Article : 38 wordsThe funeral arrangements have been mainly arranged by the Queen Consort. The Channel Reserve Squadron, and eighteen battleships and twelve cruisers, ...
Article : 183 wordsIn all probability the memorial services on Saturday next will be as follows:— Owing to the small accommodation which St. John's Cathedral provides, the ...
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Advertising : 232 wordsHis Eminence Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, has issued a pastoral in which ho delivers a warm euloglum on her late Majesty. ...
Article : 70 wordsLieutenant-General Cunningham, with a British force, whilst moving southwards from Ollfant's Nek, captured seventeen Boers, and engaged the Boer commando ...
Article : 55 wordsThe public offices, banks, insurance offices, &c., will be closed on Saturday, but the Government does not intend to proclaim that day a holiday. It is earnestly ...
Article : 63 wordsThe gun carriage on which the Queen's coffin will be placed will be drawn by the eight cream-coloured ponies which hal hitherto drawn the Queen's carriage on ...
Article : 68 wordsCommandant De Wet is now reported to be between Winburg and Ladybrand, in the east of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe sympathetic telegrams in connection with the death of the Queen received from all parts of the world, and from the leading towns in every British colony, and ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Roma police have wired to the Commissioner of Police, under Monday's date, that Patrick M'Loughlin, a hawker, of Charles-street, Roma, shot his wife in the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Government will proclaim next Saturday a public holiday. The Premier and most of the Ministers will attend the service in St. Peter's Cathedral at 11 o'clock. The ...
Article : 78 wordsReports are to hand from the Transvaal that Lord Kitchener, with a number of troops, proceeded by train on Wednesday last in the direction of Middelburg, on the ...
Article : 103 wordsAmong the royal personages of Europe who will the present at the funeral and burial services are the Crown Prince o[?] Germany, Princess Henry of Prussia, the ...
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Advertising : 81 wordsFollowing on the deputation from master, bakers to the Home Secretary on the subject of carters' holiday, and his agreeing to substitute one wholo day per month in ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, and the Bishop of Winchester will officiate at St. George's Chapel prior to [?]e removal of the body to ...
Article : 41 wordsHis Majesty King Edward has replied by cable to the messages of sympathy received from Canada and America. He states that he is much touched by the ...
Article : 84 wordsEighteen German field guns, of the newest model procurable, have been landed at Queenstown (Ireland) for use by the British forces in South Africa, together ...
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Advertising : 36 wordsThe American National Congress of Mothers have despatched a cable of sympathy to King Edward and Queen Alexandra on the loss of a mother whose nobility ...
Article : 56 wordsA meeting of the committee formel on Saturday last by the German, Danish. Scandinavian, and Swiss residents of Brisbane and suburbs to arrange a memorial ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 30 Jan 1901, Page 5
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