Sir William Lyne notified Lord Hopeto[?]n to-day that he had been unable to form a Federal Ministry. Mr. E. Barton was then sent for by the Governor-General, and ...
Article : 466 wordsMr. Clement L. Wragge, the Queensland Government Moteorologist, who has lately been attending the International Meteorological Conferenco in Paris, has now started ...
Article : 69 wordsGeneral French, in his encounter with the Boers on the 19th instant at Thorndale, to the north-west of Krugersdorp, which has already been reported, captured ...
Article : 83 wordsDr. Morrison, the special representative of the London "Times" at Peking, was the first to transmit to London a full and correct summary of the joint note which has ...
Article : 106 wordsIn connection with the reference recently made, in our columns to the clause of the Governor-General's instructions, which provides that his Excellency's commission shall ...
Article : 321 wordsChristmas is come again. The festival of peace and goodwill was ushered in yesterday in accordance with the time-honoured Australian custom. From an early hour ...
Article : 606 wordsThe little ones in the Children's Hospital were as happy on Christinas Eve as only children can be, and they had every reason to be so, apart from the ills of the flesh ...
Article : 387 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has been pleased to permit the Hon. Septimus Alford Stephen, M.L.C., of New South Wales, and the Hon. Walter Horatio Wilson, M.L.C., ...
Article : 43 wordsNews from China states that an Imperial edict has been spontaneously issued opening Wuchang, an important centre on the upper Yang-[?]ze River, to the trade of ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is announced that Lord Wenlock has been appointed chief of the staff of the Duke of York in connection with the forthcoming visit of his Royal Highness to ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Intercolonial cricket match between New South Wales and Victoria was commenced on the Melbourne Cricket Ground this morning. Beau[?] ful weather prevailed, and the wicket was in ...
Article : 342 wordsIn connection with the joint note of the allied Powers to China, it is reported that the foreign Ministers at Peking have held a stormy meeting. It is further stated ...
Article : 68 wordsFurther details of the reverse recently sustained by General Clements at Nooitgedacht state that his losses were fiftysix killed, 153 wounded, and thirteen ...
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Article : 73 wordsA special meeting of the committee appointed to carry out the work of decorating, the city was held yesterday afternoon. Mayor Robinson informs us ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Capotown-Kimberley railway line has been broken by the Boers in the north of Cape Colony in three places north of De Aar Junction. ...
Article : 63 wordsA number of the Aldermen of the South Brisbane Municipal Council are proceeding to Sydney to witness the Commonwealth celebrations in that city. Mr. Hill, clerk ...
Article : 149 wordsThe kinship of Christianity [?]s never [?]o strongly evidenced as at Christmas time, and by common consent all sections of the community naturally turn to the divine ...
Article : 1,148 wordsThe Standard Bank of South Africa has transferred its assets in the different branches in the disturbed districts of Cape Colony to Port Elizabeth. ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Worsley Taylor (Conservative) has been returned as member of the House of Commons for the Blackpool division of Liverpool, the seat for which was vacated ...
Article : 48 wordsConsiderable excitement has been caused to the United States by the discovery that In October last the Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, agreed with the Governments ...
Article : 102 wordsThe distressingly hot weather of a week back has been tempered by a delightfully cool change. A severe dus[?]storm passed over Oakey a faw days ago, accompanied by heavy winds and a very light ...
Article : 366 wordsA serious disturbance has occurred in connection with the great strike of dock labourers, in Antwerp, in Belgium, which took place a few days ago. A number of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe following scratchlngs are announced in connection with the A.J.C. Summer Meeting to he held on Boxing Day:— For all engagements: Fata Morgana and ...
Article : 48 wordsThe inmates of the Brisbane General Hospital cannot complain that they are being overlooked at this time of general rejoicing. Everything has been done to ...
Article : 858 wordsA special Meeting of the South Brisbane Municipal Council was held yesterday. There were present—Alderman J. Garsden (Mayor), Aldermen S. Phillips, J. Currie, ...
Article : 216 wordsIt has been officially announced that the invasion of Cape Colony by the Boers has now been checked. The invaders are stated to have received little assistance ...
Article : 55 wordsThe card of the Villiers Stakes was called over to-night at Tattersall's Club. The only wager recorded was 1000 to 5 about Parapet. It was thought useless to ...
Article : 143 wordsThe railway line from Wady Halfa, on the southern frontier of Egypt, to Khartoum, on the Upper Nile, has now been formally opened to public traffic. ...
Article : 34 wordsNews is to hand that Lord Kitchener has formed a new column to operate in Cape Colony. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe death is announced of Field Marshal Count von Bl[?]nnenthal, a distinguished German General, and lately Chief of the General Staff of the Prussian Army, in his 91st year. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe leading London newspapers this morning express themselves as being particularly gratified at having learned that the invaluable services of further contingents ...
Article : 52 wordsPresident M'Kinley, in forwarding to Lord Salisbury the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, as amended by the United States Senate, states that he is acting from reasons of ...
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Article : 48 wordsThe results of the Examinations in the Faculty of Medicine at the Sydney University have just been published. The names of the following Queensland students ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Premier has been advised by the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the Imperial troops can remain in Sydney till 14th January. ...
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Article : 51 wordsThe South Australian military contingent for the celebrations in Sydney has been increased to 150, nearly fifty men having agreed to pay their own expenses if ...
Article : 42 wordsAn official inspection has been made of a number of the stands which have been erected in Oxford-street, Paddington, from which it is proposed to view the procession ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Scotsmen resident on the Rand have formed a Scottish troop of horse, of which the Marquis of Tullibardine, lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues), is in ...
Article : 36 wordsA German official memorandum which has been published in regard to the recent wreck of the training ship Gneisenau, which was driven ashore at Malaga, in Spain, ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 25 Dec 1900, Page 5
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