Speaking last night in the House of Commons of the army reorganisation scheme which was formulated by the Salisbury Government in March last, and brought before ...
Article : 291 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons last nlglit. Viscount Cranbourne. Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that no date had been fixed for the ...
Article : 107 wordsA meeting of proprietors of provincial newspapers was held at the Union Club Hotel yesterday, to discuss the intention of the Government to bring country newspapers ...
Article : 280 wordsThe opening of the international Congress on Tuberculosis by the Duke oft Cambridge marks the beginning of the campaign against consumption. At the 1899 meeting ...
Article : 1,979 wordsYesterday the Governor-General forwarded the following message to the Duke of York:-- My Ministers and the people of ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Standing Orders Committee of the Senate has managed to complete the drafting of the laws of procedure for its own Chamber. They are based mainly on the ...
Article : 164 wordsMuch public interest is being taken in the proceedings at the International Tuberculosis Congress, which was opened in London on Monday last by H.R.H. the Duke of ...
Article : 161 wordsFurther executions of rebels who had been found guilty by court martial of active treason against the Crown have taken place. Two burghers at Kenhardt, in the highly ...
Article : 253 wordsGreat public interest continues to be displayed in America in regard to the accusation brought against Rear-Admiral W. S. Schley by Mr. E. S. Maclay, who is his ...
Article : 307 wordsAt a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day the following resolution was carried:-- This chamber desires to express strongly its ...
Article : 66 wordsHis Majesty King Edward yesterday received the foreign delegates to the congress at Marlborough House, and expressed the keenest interest in the endeavor being made ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 507 wordsGunny Khan, a well to-do Afghan, writing to the "Advertiser," says:--"For several months past there has been a continuous influx into this State of Indian (Afghan) ...
Article : 396 wordsThe subject of factory legislation came before the Trades Hall Council at its meeting last evening, when Mr. J. Hyman moved the following resolution:-- ...
Article : 316 wordsA terrific explosion, resulting in immense loss of life and destruction of property, occurred at noon yesterday, in Batoum, formerly a fortified port of Turkish Armenia ...
Article : 163 wordsThe following message was sent yesterday morning by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir J. Madden:--To his Royal Highness the Duke ...
Article : 141 wordsLord Kitchener has reported to the War Office that a successful attack on a Boer convoy was made on Sunday, 21st inst., near Reitzburg, in the extreme north of the ...
Article : 92 wordsA munificent, gift to the North London Hospital for Consumptives has been made by an anonymous donor, who has presented the institution with £100,000 for the purpose ...
Article : 50 wordsFurther details of the terrible disaster to a party of English tourists who fell over a precipice while trying to ascend the Matterhorn, the steepest and most dangerous, as ...
Article : 203 wordsColonel H. J. Scobell, of the Royal Scots Greys, whose column took part in the partially successful combination movement against Scheeper's guerillas in the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe intense heat in America has now extended to the western States, where the harvest prospects are being seriously affected. In the city of St. Louis, in Illinois, the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Royal visit concluded to-day. The weather continued fine but cloudy. At Government House in the morning the Duke sent for the local and visiting detectives ...
Article : 186 wordsThe wife of the Archduke Franz. Ferdinand, nephew of the Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, and heir presumptive to the throne, has given birth to a ...
Article : 127 wordsA general meeting of members was held on Thursday evening, Mr. G. N. Arnall, vicec-president, in the chair, at which was discussed the proposed increase in the ...
Article : 172 wordsIt was stated a few days ago by the Brussels correspondent of the "Times" that the effect of Kruger's bereavement, in the unexpected death of his wife, has only been to ...
Article : 121 wordsA meeting of the Peace, Humanity and Arbitration Society was held in the Assembly Hall last night, the Rev. R. H. Lambley presiding. ...
Article : 997 wordsIt has been arranged that the German war ship Hertha, in which Count Waldersee, the German generalissimo of the allied troops in North China, who left Taku on 3rd June ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, yesterday announced in the House of Lords that Prince George, second son of the King of Greece, who was ...
Article : 129 wordsA few days ago two members of the crew of the R.M.S. Ormuz, bound from Australia to London, were transferred to a hospital ship at Plymouth, suffering from a disease ...
Article : 69 wordsThe War Office report Privates Walter Miller and William Rutherford, of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent, slightly wounded at Lindique, on the Vaal; and ...
Article : 61 wordsWith reference to the alleged bad effect that the operation of the Shops and Factories Act will have upon certain Ballarat industries, Mr. W. Hewitt, owner of the ...
Article : 578 wordsThe guests of the Government of Victoria during the recent Royal celebrations yesterday presented Mr. T. G. Watson the secretary of the Cabinet celebrations ...
Article : 314 wordsIn the course of a speech delivered last evening at a banquet at Ashby de la Zouch, in Leicestershire, Mr. T. H. Hassall, member for Moree in the New South Wales ...
Article : 81 wordsThe steamer Sohonfelse from Calcutta, has been placed in quarantine at New York, owing to a stoker on board having been attacked by bubonic plague. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Victorian Defence department has received information of the death on 24th July of Sergeant A. G. K. Buckingham, of the Second Contingent, at Rhenoster Kop. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe wheat harvest in Manitoba and the north-west province of the Dominion is unusually prolific. A moderate estimate of the total yield is 50,000,000 bushels. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe general assembly of the Presbyterian Church was continued to-day, the Rev. Dr. Me[?]klejohn presiding. It was resolved, on the motion of the Rev. J. Russell ...
Article : 625 wordsFollowing upon the issue of the note from the Vatican strongly condemning the Religious Associations Act recently passed by the French Parliament, but giving ...
Article : 167 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Aytoun has been entrusted with the work appertaining to the enrolment and embarkation of the men to be sent to South Africa in the Britannic about ...
Article : 66 wordsAt yesterday's wool sales prices were very firm, especially for fine crossbred wools. The following rates were realised for Australasian brands:--Someri[?]a, 4 1d.: Waian ...
Article : 44 wordsTelegrams from India, where anxiety is felt lest a repetition of the past droughts should again ruin the crops, report that general rains are falling in the Upper Indian ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Britannic, which is bringing the members of the Fourth Contingent back to South Australia, will land the local troops here to-morrow morning, and then go on to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 463 wordsIn the county cricket match, Leicestershire against Derbyshire, yesterday, Dr. R. MacDonald, late of Queensland, played a splendid innings of 147 not out for ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Lizzle Bell, which struck a reef near Opanake while on a voyage from Wellington to Newcastle, has entirely disappeared. Only two of the ship's crew of fifteen ...
Article : 89 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Cadiz, in the south of Spain, reports that news has been received from Morocco of a fierce battle between French troops and the ...
Article : 190 wordsThe executive council of the A.M.A. on Friday, at the Trades Hall, discussed in camera the tributing question at considerable length, and it was finally unanimously ...
Article : 313 wordsA preliminary meeting of friendly society delegates was held at Prell's-buildings last night. In response to invitations seat out by the A.N.A., to consider steps to be taken ...
Article : 344 wordsDONALD.--On Tuesday the residents of Donald accorded an enthusiastic welcome to Lancc-Corporal Hoare, Corporal Morris and Private Poppleton. The soldiers were driven to the post office, headed ...
Article : 373 wordsAt the request of a large deputation, comprising all the leading business people of Nhill, the Lowan Shire council has resolved to address circulars to every municipal body ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Finance Bill, embodying Sir M. Hicks Beach's budget proposals, passed its third reading in the House of Lords last evening. ...
Article : 29 wordsA sentence of three months' imprisonment with a fine of £50 has been passed upon a man named Joseph Stoddart for advertising in English newspapers a sweepstakes on ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,--I was very pleased to see your article in Tuesday's issue, under the heading of "Sweating in Sydney." You have evidently gone to a considerable amount of trouble ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr. Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania, has been unanimously elected secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The committee which maskes ...
Article : 67 wordsA man named Robert Lawson, a commission [?]ent, was last night arrested by Detective M'Manamny, and charged with forging and uttering, on the 24th inst. a cheque for £2 ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the Lexton shire council meeting, Mr. R. W. Laidlaw referred to the patriotic and loyal action of Mr. Watt in withdrawing from the contest for Melbourne East in order ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 27 Jul 1901, Page 9
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