Major General W. J. Knox, who, since the De Wetsdorp raid, has been strenuous in his efforts to bring the Free State guerilla leader De Wet to a decisive ...
Article : 172 wordsOwing to the untimely disintegration and practical disappearance of what should have been, and meant to be, an imposing and historic procession through the ...
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Article : 171 wordsOne day welcome; the next an revoir. Not "good-bye!" for we shall see somewhat one of the other in the years of the Commonwealth, surely? "Well, ah! fare you ...
Article : 728 wordsAn extraordinary display of rabid Anglophobia of the most virulent type was made in the French Senate yesterday by General Mercier, who, as Minster for War, ...
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Article : 197 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor yesterday received a cablegram from Sir Alfred Milner, reporting that Trooper Archibald M'Kenzie, of the Victorian Bushmen's Contingent. ...
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Article : 140 wordsThe Chief Secretary, Mr. Peacock, who is the Ministerial head of the Police department, admits--as, indeed, he could not help doing--that Tuesday's procession ...
Article : 381 wordsThe welcome home to Captain Pendlebury, Sergeant Miller and Privates Shearer, Friswell and Walton, members of the 5th Battalion, on their return from the war, took ...
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Article : 457 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, who has returned from his cruise in the Mediterranean, suggests that the Agents-General of the several colonies ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is reported from Tien Tsin that a detachment of German troops has met, west of Pao-ting-fu, with a disaster similar to, but more serious than, that which lately ...
Article : 95 wordsAt the Hague considerable nervousness is felt by the Dutch Ministers and diplomatists in respect to the visit of Mr. Kruger, who arrives to-morrow. The young Queen ...
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Article : 742 wordsThe revolt of the Jutaland Somalia in the British East African Protectorate, at the recent outbreak of which the British Inland Sub-Commissioner was murdered, is ...
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Article : 745 wordsA dinner was given last night at the Cafe Denat by the officers of the Mounted Rifles to Colonel Price and the officers who have returned from South Africa. ...
Article : 171 wordsThe commission appointed by the United States Government to report upon the Nicaraguan Canal scheme has reported to Congress in favor of the national ownership ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. De Villiers, formerly Chief Justice of the Orange Free State, who earnestly desires to see peace restored in South Africa, has issued an appeal imploring the ...
Article : 154 wordsEdward Crosby, late manager at Sear borough of a branch of the City of York Bank, was yesterday convicted of having made false declarations in respect to a ...
Article : 149 wordsThe authorities of Cimiez, in the French Riviera, near Nice, where Queen Victoria in 1899 spent six weeks in the early spring, are delighted with the information ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Second Battalion of the Infantry Brigade welcomed a number of their comrades back from the war at a smoke concert last night. Some 49 men of the regiment went ...
Article : 375 wordsThe local free-trade party, having no confidence in their own powers to convert the electors of Victoria to a belief in their particular fetish, have, decided to bring the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe anti-British agitation in some of the Dutch districts of Cape Colony is becoming more virulent than ever before. The Sprigg Ministry is having an anxious time, owing ...
Article : 89 wordsBoth Houses sat till a late hour this morning. The Council passed the Grafton to Casino and Culcairn to Germanton railway bills, and was counted out while on the ...
Article : 315 wordsThe latest bulletins from Livadia announce that the Emperor Nicholas of Russia, who is now out of danger, continues to progress satisfactorily towards complete ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, Commander in Chief of the British forces, who is now at Durban, in Natal, having handed over the South African command to Lord ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the attempts to trace to its sources and effectively stop the beer poisoning epidemic in England, beer the soundness of which was suspected has been destroyed to ...
Article : 40 wordsIn reply to representations recently made to the Colonial Office with respect to French encroachments in the New Hebrides, Mr. Chamberlain states that he has requested ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Chief Justice will attend the Commonwealth inaugural ceremony at Sydney, leaving by the Monowai on 22nd inst. Archbishop Redwood is unable to accept an ...
Article : 36 wordsThe non-commissioned officers and men of the Victorian Mounted Rifles entertained their comrades who have just returned from South Africa at a smoke concert in the ...
Article : 272 wordsTwo little girls, named Henrietta and Maud Hutchinson, were returning from school at Kotupna about 4 p.m. to-day, when they were waylaid by a youth named ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 220 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Perth Tramway, Electric Lighting and Power Bill was thrown out on the amendment that the measure he read that day six ...
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Article : 80 wordsReuter s Johannesburg correspondent reports that the 10 aliens--four Italians, four Greeks and a Frenchman--who were arrested on 16th November on a charge of ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, Mr. Langdon asked the Chief Secretary who was responsible for the affair in the streets, which he characterised as ...
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Advertising : 260 wordsArrangements have been made at Dunedin to give the men returning by the Harlech Castle a suitable reception. It was supposed the steamer was coming over to ...
Article : 75 wordsThe man who fell from the Princes bridge embankment while watching the soldiers procession on Tuesday died at the Melbourne Hospital yesterday from fracture of the skull. Several ...
Article : 82 wordsThe scarcity of food which now prevails in the south-east of the Transvaal, owing to war ravages and guerilla raids, is severely felt by the Boer commandos laagered in the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 6 Dec 1900, Page 5
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