During the recent drive of the Boers under General Delarey, in the south-west of the Transvaal, what at first appeared to be a British column moving into line ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Fairfield Shipbuilding Company has entered into a contract with the Admiralty for the construction of one of the new first-class battleships of the King Edward ...
Article : 171 wordsA memorial service for the late Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes is to be held in St. Paul's Cathedral on the 10th April. ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Giynn asked if the Government would afford the House an opportunity of discussing the proceedings of the Corowa ...
Article : 1,186 wordsFurther details are now to hand respecting the movements of the police and the brothers Kenniff, who are suspected of horse-stealing and robbery under arms, ...
Article : 1,053 wordsReports are to hand that 150 Boers who trekked from the Transvaal into Namaqualand (Gorman South-west Africa) have been compelled by the authorities there to ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Wessels, one of the Boer delegates, has been interviewed in Paris, and in his statements he implied that the Boers, as a condition of peace, would bo willing to ...
Article : 58 wordsNews is to hand that a fire occurred on the Quebec liner Pretoria, and as the flames threatened to extend to 187 barrels of petroleum, which were stored in the ...
Article : 67 wordsA correspondent kindly sends the following:—A description of the locality in which this band of old-time bushrangers has taken up its quarters may be of some interest to ...
Article : 187 wordsThe transport Manhattan Sailed for South Africa this afternoon with the New South Wales portion of the third battalion of the Commonwealth Contingent and the ...
Article : 407 wordsWhen Sheridan Knowles put into stage form the tragedy of "Virginius" he made a play for all time. He followed as closely as need be the Roman story to the death ...
Article : 1,213 wordsThe passenger steamer Alma, which runs between Southampton and Havre, in France, came into collision during the night with the barque Cambrian ...
Article : 45 wordsA conference of the National Union of Teachers is now being held at Bristol. The Education Bill recently introduced in the House of Commons was discussed, and the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe United States Secretary for Agriculture, Mr. James Wilson, is forwarding to the various European Cabinets a formidable list of goods which America is able to ...
Article : 65 wordsPrior to the scratching hour for the A.J.C. All-aged Stakes to-day, a wellknown Victorian sportsman approached Mr. L. E. Cooper with an offer of 2000 guineas ...
Article : 49 wordsThe epidemic of smallpox in London shows. no signs of abatement, and there are now 1529 cases under treatment. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has appointed a committee to compile a digest of the leading prize cases for the use of colonial ...
Article : 36 wordsA governess has been arrested in Moscow for attempting to shoot M. Trepoff, the Chief of Police, with a revolver. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe yearling sales at Randwick were continued to-day. The racehorse Jewell[?] the property of Mr. A. Hope, was sold to Mr. J. K. Mackay, of Dungog, for 245 ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Press censor early in February stopped the following report of an engagement with the Cape rebels. Colonel Doran's Yeomanry fought Commandant Theron's ...
Article : 116 wordsIn the course of a paper read at the conference of the Federated Master Builders' Association to-day, Mr. Crase, of Queensland, in referring to the subject of labour ...
Article : 538 wordsNews from Constantinople states that the Porte has expressed itself as confident of being able to suppress any disturbances in Macedonia. ...
Article : 63 wordsA water conservation conference w[?] opened at Corowa to-day. A resolution, asking the Governments of the Commonwealth and of New South Wales, Victoria, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe concessions that have been made by Russia with regard to the Manchurian treaty are the subject of comment by the Japanese newspapers, which insist that ...
Article : 66 wordsLord Kitchener, in his usual weekly report to the War Office, gives the following as the losses of the Boers in the operations of last week:—Killed, 23; wounded, 3; ...
Article : 59 wordsTwo additional cases of plague were reported to-day, the patients being Adolphus Barnes, a resident of Pyrmont, and employed in Clarence-street, city, and a boy ...
Article : 39 wordsOn inquiry being made at Colmslie last night, it was elicited that no new developments had taken place in respect to plague matters there. The majority of the patients ...
Article : 341 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, in reply to Mr. Isaacs, the Prime Minister said it would be unwise to come to any conclusion with regard to the execution ...
Article : 498 wordsLord Kitchener reports that heavy rains have flooded the rivers in the north-east of the Orange River Colony, and the operations of the British columns are in ...
Article : 42 wordsInformation is to band that 10,000 Russian troops have arrived at Port Arthur to reinforce the garrison at that place, and many others are arriving at Niu-chwang, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Boer comamadoes in the Midland disstrict of Cape Colony are being continually harried by the British columns, and are given no rest. ...
Article : 54 wordsDr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the "Times," states that Russia has undertaken, to withdraw from Niu-chwang within eight months after the signing of ...
Article : 53 wordsA Boer force under Commandant Beyers surrounded a British post at Spelonken, [?]ut the British force was eventually relieved by Colonel Colenbrander. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Director of Sugar Experiment Stations (Dr. Maxwell) has returned to Brisbane from Melbourne, where he has conferred with Federal Ministers on the means ...
Article : 325 wordsInformation has been received of a disastrous railway accident having occurred on the 30th March at Barberton, the terminus of a branch line in the Eastern ...
Article : 136 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 431 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsFor £3 3s., a Well-finished Suit of Three Garments. A. large stock of materials to choose from. All garments stylishly cut, and the best of workmanship. Serges, ...
Article : 228 wordsSensational reports have been received in town regarding a skirmish between- the police and the Kenniff brothers. It appears that Constable George Doyle ...
Article : 379 wordsThe London "Daily Express" states that Lieutenant Witton, the Australian officer who arrived from South Africa by the transport steamer Canada, and who has ...
Article : 105 wordsA returned member of the Bush Veldt Carbineers, after giving an account of the fight in which Captain Hunt was killed, and the finding of his mutilated body, describes ...
Article : 406 wordsSYDNEY, April 2.—Arrived: Miowera, s., from Vancouver; Manapouri, s., from the South Sea Islands. Sailed: Britannia, R.M.S., for London; Moresby, s., for New ...
Article : 78 wordsB. Mountcastle and Sons' Delhi Silk Suits, two garments, 50s., to order only. Superior to Assam. Will not rag out in washing. Real Irish Brown Drill Suits, ...
Article : 62 wordsCaptain D. F. Miller, of the Third Contingent New South Wales Mounted Unfantry, has died from enteric fever at Harrismith; and Private J. H. Russell, of the ...
Article : 47 wordsShe.—Oh, tell mo where is fancy bred, Said she, and, growing bolder, She laid her lovely drooping head Upon lils wllllns shoulder. ...
Article : 68 wordsH. F. Axon's Tailoring Department complete with all the latest novelties; special reductions during stocktaking sale. Courier Building.* ...
Article : 62 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsIt is reported at Pretoria that Mr. Steyn. ex-President of the Orange Free State, is now with General Delarey in the Western Transvall. ...
Article : 32 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 3 Apr 1902, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: