In connection with the British campaign in China since the outbreak of the "Boxer" trouble, many honors and promotions have been gazetted. ...
Article : 403 wordsThe Premier has received from the Agent-General a most important communication, accompanied by an interesting report from Mr. A. G. Berry, an officer in the ...
Article : 1,339 wordsThe "Standard" to-day, referring in a leading article to the approaching termination of the visit to Australia by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of ...
Article : 193 wordsMembers were reluctant in putting in an appearance iIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, and the bells had to be rung twice before a quorum could be obtained. ...
Article : 945 wordsAn official return of the mortality in the British concentration camps in South Africa during June shows that of 14,624 white men, 27,711 women and 43,075 children in the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe select committee of the Federal Parliament appointed to inquire into the feasibility of introducing the decimal system of coinage sat for the purpose of taking ...
Article : 1,069 wordsOne of the favorite forms of attack upon the fiscal system of Victoria adopted by Mr. G. H. Reid and other leaders of the free-trade party in New South Wales is to ...
Article : 1,822 wordsThe opposition of the Labor party to the Defence Bill is crystallising. At the caucus presided over by Mr. Watson, M.P., yesterday, the measure was debated at length. Mr. ...
Article : 212 wordsThe British Government recently announced its intention to send a committee of ladies to visit the concentration camps in the Transvaal and Orange River colonies ...
Article : 203 wordsAlthough there has been rejoicing all the week over the Royal visit, great interest is still being taken in all the proceedings, but in a quieter manner than on Monday and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 509 wordsA circular, issued by Mr. J. H. Want, inviting those interested to assemble in protest against what he characterised as "the dangerous, harmful and unjustifiable ...
Article : 816 wordsAt Burghersdorp, in the northern midland district of Cape Colony, a prominent Dutch rebel, named Petrus Klopper, who had been court-martialled and found guilty of ...
Article : 83 wordsAt Cheltenham, on 26th June last, the discovery was made, on the death of a travelling showman who had been, known in that walk of life under an assumed name for a ...
Article : 110 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the International Tuberculosis Congress in London, the discussion was continued on the Important address on the causes and cure of consumption ...
Article : 231 wordsThe only additional particulars which have been received with regard to the successful train wrecking attempt by Scheeper's commando on 21st inst., near Victoria ...
Article : 85 wordsA sensation has been caused in America by the publication of Maclay's "History of the Navy," in which tho writer accuses Rear-Admiral W. S. Schley, who commanded ...
Article : 188 wordsOn Sunday last Colonel Lukin surprised the laager of Commandant Lategan, who has for some time been operating in conjunction with Kruitzinger, in the Cradock district ...
Article : 50 wordsThe War Office reports Private E. G. Iles, of the Fourth Western Australian Contingent, killed at Jamersfontein, in the Transvaal, and Private W. M'Caffery, of the Fifth ...
Article : 48 wordsA banquet in honor of Professor Koch was given last evening by the Royal Institute, of Health, which presented the distinguished guest with the Harbeer medal. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor, speaking at the annual meeting of the Carlton Refuge yesterday, spoke strongly on the great social evil. He said he would like to be able to ...
Article : 421 wordsThe Discovery, the vessel selected and equipped for the Antarctic Exploration Expedition under the command of Lieutenant R. T. Scott, R.N., with Mr. G. R. M. Murray ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Defence department has received a message stating that the troopship Britannic has been ordered to call at Melbourne, as well as Adelaide, before proceeding to ...
Article : 143 wordsThe customs returns of the Dominion of Canada for the past fiscal year show that that imports amounted in value to 181,225,389 dol. (£36,245,078), as against 162,764,308 dol. ...
Article : 56 wordsGreat consternation and excitement were occasioned yesterday amongst the large number of persons crossing the famous bridge which connects Brooklyn, on the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe inquest into the circumstances of the death of Harry Clegg, who was killed on the 10th inst. during the fire the Palace Emporium, was concluded to-day. ...
Article : 473 wordsNews has been received of a shocking disaster to a party of English tourists in the Alps. The tourists, two ladies and a gentleman, were engaged, in company with a local ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Prime Minister yesterday circulated the measure described as "a bill to place certain restrictions on immigration, and to provide for the removal from the ...
Article : 733 wordsIn response to a message sent to the Imperial Government by Mr. Philp, to the effect that a number of men who had served in South Africa were willing to go back on the ...
Article : 69 wordsAt a meeting of the Melbourne South and Albert Park Labor party last evening, the president, Mr. W. Baird, presiding, Mr. Bayst (Albert Park) moved--"That a labor ...
Article : 166 wordsWhen public attention was last called to the question of control of the library at Parliament House, the matter was in the hands of the President of the Federal Senate (Sir ...
Article : 204 wordsThe extraordinary heat wave which has been experienced in the eastern States of America for several weeks, causing very heavy mortality, still continues. In many ...
Article : 92 wordsBALLAN.--A social was given on Wednesday night to Corporal W. Morton, Lance-Corporal R. Mallett, Privates W. Henderson and R. Parker, Rev. T. H. Chasiling occupied the chair. Each of ...
Article : 361 wordsA remarkable explosion, involving much loss of life, has taken place on the American petroleum ship Louise Adelaide, while in port at Gaeddirgen, Sweden. The hatches ...
Article : 76 wordsThe State Premier was interviewed yesterday by a deputation from the Trades Hall Council and asked to introduce into the Savings Bank Bill now before the Assembly ...
Article : 295 wordsThe alarm given from San Remo early yesterday morning that a ship was in distress off Cape Woolamal, and had sent up a dozen rockets, met with prompt response ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsA magnificent bequest is made under the will of the late Mr. W. R. Sutton, the head of the great London firm of carriers and customs house agents, who had left the sum ...
Article : 57 wordsThe barque Lizzie Bell, bound from Wellington to Newcastle, New South Wales, has become a total wreck at Opunake. Eleven of the crew were drowned. The captain ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsRussian telegrams report the occurrence of disastrous hailstorms in the Schlatz Tombloff district. Many of the hailstones weighted as much as 3 lb. each, and the ...
Article : 71 wordsAn indication of the unrest and lawlessness prevailing in even the most settled portions of China is given by the fact that numerous bands of armed robbers are ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Acting Railway Commissioner yesterday accepted 24 tenders for the supply of firewood for station purposes, to he delivered at various stations at prices ranging from 3 to 66 per ton. ...
Article : 162 wordsMr. A. C. Maclaren's endeavors to induce W. Rhodes, the crack Yorkshire bowler, to join the English team for Australia are not approved by the committee of the Yorkshire ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,--A good idea of the rubbish in most of the 13 tea now sold may be obtained by sifting 12 lb. in small quantities through coarse muslin. In some cases as much as ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 26 Jul 1901, Page 5
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