The century came to an end last night without any unusual incident or ceremony. It sang its swan song in Bourke-street just upon the stroke of 12, when a peal of bells ...
Article : 1,495 wordsA warrant has been issued at Capetown for the arrest of Dr. T. G. Te Water, a member of the late Schreiner Cabinet without portfolio, and one of the bitterest Dutch ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Barton to-night, in response to my request, gave the following message to the Australian people:-- "The main principle of the Commonwealth is expressed in its Constitution. Its representation in one ...
Article : 411 wordsTelegrams from Pekin received in Paris state that Prince Ching, one of the two Chinese peace plenipotentiaries, has informed the foreign Ministers that the Emperor ...
Article : 83 wordsThe War Office reports Trooper M.M'Intyre, of the New Zealand Rough Riders, wounded at Tuli, and Private D. Spencer, of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, ...
Article : 63 wordsOwing no doubt to the fineness of the night, which induced people to explore the streets and admire such decorations as were going up here and there, there was not a ...
Article : 1,317 wordsThe Shanghai correspondent of the "Daily News" reports that Li Hung Chang has telegraphed from Pekin to Sheng, the local Taotai, reporting that the Imperial Court ...
Article : 101 wordsIt is understood by the authorities at Durban, the port of Natal, that though Lord Kitchener sorely needs mounted troops of the colonial class, he cannot ...
Article : 84 wordsThe frequent cutting of the Kimberley railway line by Boer marauders, and the consequent stoppage of the transport of supplies have raised provisions to famine prices ...
Article : 134 wordsDr. G. E. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent at Pekin, reports that the harshness of Count von Waldersee, the German generalissimo of the foreign troops ...
Article : 158 wordsWhen questioned this evening as to whether Victoria would follow the example of New Zealand in sending another contingent to South Africa, Sir George Turner ...
Article : 199 wordsAt midnight the Commonwealth celebrations were inaugurated by special prayers which were offered up for the benefit of United Australia. In some instances ...
Article : 269 wordsLord Kitchener reports that, near Helvetia, a strong position on the branch railway from Machadodorp, on the Delagon Bay line, northward to Lydenburg, was on ...
Article : 110 wordsPekin telegrams report that a force of 500 Chinese regulars has been encountered and scattered in flight by a detachment of German troops north-west of Pao-ting-fu, ...
Article : 49 wordsFurther reports respecting the severe engagement between Boer commandos and British troops just outside of Greylingstad, on the Johannesburg-Natal railway, when ...
Article : 170 wordsMr. Lewis to-day cabled from Sydney that he is having conference with the Premiers in regard to sending further contingents to South Africa. In Hobart up to date 40 men ...
Article : 37 wordsThe troopship Orient, with the following soldiers on board, arrived on Saturday morning:--For Western Australia--3 officers and 94 men. For South Australia--14 ...
Article : 251 wordsThe appeal of Captain Alfred Dreyfus to M. Waldeck Rousseau to permit a fresh inquiry to be made into the charges against him, now that the Amnesty Bill has been ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. J. G. Ward, Postmaster-General and Minister of Railways of New Zealand, telegraphed from Wellington on Monday at midnight to the editor of "The Age".-- ...
Article : 125 wordsThe hostile attitude of the Waldeck Rousseau Government towards the clerical associations and monasteries of France, especially in regard to taxation, has been ...
Article : 284 wordsIn addition to the Federal Ministers already announced as members of the first Australian Commonwealth Cabinet under Mr. Barton's Premiership, it is intended to ...
Article : 188 wordsWe have received from Sir John Forrest the following telegram, despatched from Sydney on Monday:— "My message to the Australian people ...
Article : 132 wordsThe farmers in the Venterstad district of Cape Colony, about 22 miles from Norval's Pont, where the Port Elizabeth railway crosses the Orange River, have taken up ...
Article : 145 wordsThe strides made by the electro-pneumatic method of signalling in America and in England have naturally attracted much attention amongst Australian railway men. ...
Article : 515 wordsMounted Constable Lang, of Heidelberg, has received a letter from his brother, T. G. Lang, who went as a private to South Africa with the Australian Imperial Bushmen's ...
Article : 76 words"Bancroft, the historian of the American constitution, says that the union of the 13 original States into one federal Republic in 1787 was the most cheering act in the ...
Article : 576 wordsNo mother in Australia received a better Christmas present than did Mrs. Gerrand, of Jumbunna. Her son, Robt. S. Gerrand, joined the last Tasmanian Contingent for ...
Article : 371 wordsThe statement made on the authority of Dutch Afrikanders at Newcastle, in Northern Natal, that Mr. Kruger had advised, through General Louis Botha, the Boer ...
Article : 100 wordsTo-morrow the first Governor-General of United Australia will proclaim the birth of the Commonwealth, and inaugurate a whirl of festivities framed on a scale which will ...
Article : 3,423 wordsIn connection with the extraordinary outrage perpetrated a few days ago by Turkish soldiers on three members of the British legation, who were viciously ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the Dutch Reformed Churches of Cape Colony Sunday last was observed as a day of humiliation and prayer on behalf of the Boer ex-republics. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the annual dinner of the Sunbeam Society of South Australia, held at Hozton last evening, 1500 children were entertained. Speeches were ...
Article : 74 wordsThe War Office has issued a return showing that the total number of Boer prisoners captured while fighting still in the hands of the British, at St. Helena, Ceylon or the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsMayor-General Sir Henry Colvile, whom the Acting Commander in Chief, General Sir Evelyn Wood, at the instance of Mr, Brodrick, Secretary for War, requested ...
Article : 143 wordsThe birth of the new year the birth of the new century and the birth of the new nation of Australia were jointly celebrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral early this ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsCOBRAM,--Grain is coming in very freely to the local station, and the yard presents a very busy appearance. New South Wales is also sending forward wheat in fairly large quantities, and it is ...
Article : 286 wordsSir,--I am in receipt of a letter from Mr. Howard per last English mail, stating that a private trial of the "Howard Submarine Boat" was made at Sheerness on 19th ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 1 Jan 1901, Page 5
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