Dr. Ham has been appointed Commissioner of Health for Queensland under the new Health Bill, and is a passenger for Australia by the R.M.S. Ortona. ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is announced that Rear-Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel, at present Superintendent of Naval Reserves, has been appointed to the command of the new home and ...
Article : 59 wordsNews is to hand from the Transvaal that, a British force under General Lord Methuen, while marching on Zeerust, near the Western frontier, surprised a considerable body ...
Article : 93 wordsThe agreement between Great Britain and Germany with regard to China has been hailed with unanimous approval, and in Germany a sanse of relief is felt at knowing ...
Article : 449 wordsMr. A. W. Baker, a native of the colony of Natal, South Africa, and lately a practising solicitor in that colony and the Transvaal, but now a director of the South ...
Article : 1,559 wordsAt the Victorian Club during the day some business was done on the Melbourne Cup, principally by bookmakers "covering" after the doubles. Lancaster was well backed ...
Article : 281 wordsThe invalided Queensland soldiers who arrived by the steamer Moravian yesterday continued their journcy to Brisbane by to-night's express train. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is announced that three officers and fifty men of the 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment (Norfolk Militia) will proceed to Australia to form part of the guard of honour of the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Chinese Empire Reform Association in Sydney are in receipt of a cable message from Kang-yu-wei, leader of the Chinese Reform Association in China, intimating ...
Article : 55 wordsThe anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar was celebrated in the usual manner to-day by the decoration of Nelson's monument in Trafalgar Square. In the wreaths placed ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Government of New Zealand has placed an order for 1,000,000 universal penny postage stamps with the firm of Messrs. Waterlow and Sons in London. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe colliery proprietors in the Newcastle district, have officially denied the report that they are now selling coal at 10s. pulton. The Southern coalowners have ...
Article : 48 wordsThe victories of the nominees of Mr. William O'Brien in the recent election campaign in Ireland give him virtual Control of the Irish Nationalist party in the House ...
Article : 63 wordsAt Government House this afternoon, in the presence of a distinguished' company, the Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Frederick Darley, was presented with a ...
Article : 63 wordsKing Oscar of Sweden and Norway, who was so seriously ill that the Crown Prince was appointed Regent a few days ago, is now reported to be much improved in health. ...
Article : 46 wordsAlthough Miss Sellers on Sunday refused to give any particulars ot the disagreement between herself and Miss Wilkinson, the head mistress of the Brisbane Girls' ...
Article : 614 wordsA profit of about £2700 was made over the Spring Meeting of the Victorian Amateur Turf Club, which concluded at Caulifield on Saturday. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe steamer Kangaroo, one of the large ferry boats plying to North Sydney, was completely destroyed by. fire to-night. She ceased running at 7.30 p.m., and was ...
Article : 101 wordsThe following scratchings are announced: —For the V.R.C. Derby—Royal Salute, Cheselwach, and Privilege. ...
Article : 21 wordsAn improvement is also reported in the health of the Empress Frederick of Germany, who has lately been in critical condition. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe racehorses Azure, Spalpeen, and Idle Boy will leave for Brisbane to-morrow in charge of Percy Strickland. Bonnie Scotland goes later in the week. ...
Article : 36 wordsReuter's correspondent reports that sixty native Indian rulers offered to the British Government assistance in troops, horses, and money in connection with the war in ...
Article : 49 wordsA shocking fatality through. the unexpected discharge of a gun occurred at Harden this afternoon. R. G. Kelly, night oflicer at the railway station, had just ...
Article : 84 wordsAn epidemic of cholera is reported to be raging in Afghanistan. Forty-five thousand cases have occurred there since April last. ...
Article : 27 wordsOf the forty-one allotments offered for sale on the 9th instant twenty have already been disposed of. Only two went as low as the upset price, and the figures for the others varied from £5 to ...
Article : 691 wordsMarquis Ito, who was formerly Prime Minister of Japan, and who was recently summoned to form the Ministry on the resignation of the Marquis Yamagata, has now ...
Article : 64 wordsEx-President Kruger is reported to have been deeply affected when taking his departure from Delagoa Bay to board the Dutch warship Gelderland. Only a few of his ...
Article : 63 wordsMrs. M'Phail, who was an inmate of the Benevolent Home at West Maitland, died on Saturday, aged 101 years. The deceased, Who was a native of Scotland, came ...
Article : 42 wordsThe wool traffic on the railway continues do be satisfactory. Up to the present date 200,000 bales have been received at Sydney, Morpeth, and Newcastle since ...
Article : 58 wordsAlthough the committee to carry out the celebrations in connection with the landing of the Governor-General is still in the incubatory stage, many details are being ...
Article : 197 wordsAt a meeting of the Outtrim coal miners, it was [?]solved that unless the demand for a general increase in the rates of pay is conceded on or before Christmas Day, the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Paris "Journal des Debats" deprecates any (popular demonstration on the part of the French nation in honour of exPresident Kruger on his arrival in France. ...
Article : 55 wordsAn order has been issued forbidding any pro-Boer processions at Marseilles on the occasion of the arrival of, ex-President Kruger at that city. The French ...
Article : 50 wordsWeiss played in very good form at the afternoon session to-day of the billiard match with Roberts. Losing the white at an early stage, he abandoned his usual ...
Article : 114 wordsIt is understood that Mr." Kruger, on his arrival in Europe, intends to ceek the intervention of the Powers in favour of the autonomy of the Transvaal under the ...
Article : 44 wordsA hawker named Thos. Chalmers M'Kinley informed a constable at Ballarat to-night that he had killed his wife. His coat cuffs and hands were bloodstained. ...
Article : 271 wordsA telegram from Wingham states that the Governor outlaws robbed W. Johnson's hut, on Dingo Creek, yesterday morning, taking a flask of powder and some provisions. Some ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Commandant (Colonel Finn) has received a diary from Colonel Aytoun, covering the greater part of July and August. Colonel Aytoun mentions the death of ...
Article : 102 wordsAdvice has been received from Washington that the Government of the United States are gratified at the mutual agreement which has been concluded between ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 23 Oct 1900, Page 5
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