The following telegram has been received from the Governor-General by the Lieutenant-Governor:— "I am shocked to read of the terrible ...
Article : 3,220 wordsThe Royal sarcophaugus at Frogmore has been sealed up again since the interment of Her late Majesty the Queen. A recumbent marble figure of the Queen, ...
Article : 58 wordsHis Majesty King Edward the Seventh continues to receive innumerable congratulatory telegrams and addresses from all parts of the empire. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe English newspapers are delighted that the projected visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and, York to Australia has not been ...
Article : 70 wordsMuch light is thrown upon the principal features of the war in the special despatches which the War Office has now published. They fill two volumes, and ...
Article : 706 words"The issue is not Protection v. Frce Trade, but Protection v. Frofitable Production." —Professor Walker, U.S.A. ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Cape Town correspondent of "The Times" states that the operation of martial law, which has been proclaimed in a number of divisions of the Cape Colony, is ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is announced that after opening Parliament King Edward will go to Germany, where he will visit his sister, the Empress Frederick, who has for some time past been ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Loyal Orange Institution held a memorial service for her late Majesty Queen Victoria, in the Independent Church, Collins-street, yesterday afternoon. The ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is announced that His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York will not be created Prince of Wales until after his visit to Australia and Canada. ...
Article : 101 wordsA gross outrage has been committed by the Boers at Standerton, in the south-east of the Transvaal. By order of Commandant Mears four ...
Article : 51 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General received the following cable message from Mr. Chamberlain to-day:— "Congratulations of yourself, your ...
Article : 58 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor was invited to visit Warrnambool on the 18th to open an exhibition and competitions under the auspices of the local branch of ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Mayor of Melbourne acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following additional contributions:— John Sharp and Sons............ £2000 ...
Article : 93 wordsKOROIT.—After the monthly meeting of the council on Wednesday the mayor entertained the councillors, and said that as it was their first meeting since King Edward had been proclained ...
Article : 62 wordsAmong the British who were wounded at Modderfontein, near Krugersdorp, in the Transvaal, which was recently attacked and captured by Boers, was Surgeon Walker. ...
Article : 53 wordsAn appalling disaster his occurred at the San Andrea silver mine, in the state of Durango, Mexico. Several hundred cases of dynamite ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is the intention of the Earl of Hopetoun to cable to Mr. Chamberlain, asking the date on which then Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Bosman, a leading Dutch pastor in Pretoria, who was recently afforded opportunities to investigate the charges that Boer women had been ...
Article : 50 wordsThe election of a member to represent St. Kilda in the Legislative Assembly in lieu of Sir George Turner, who has been appointed Federal Treasurer, takes place ...
Article : 178 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has received the following telegram from the Secretary of State through His Excellency the Governor-General, Sydney:— ...
Article : 210 wordsThe German newspapers sharply criticise the action of the Emperor William in conferring upon Lord Roberts the decoration of the Prussian Order of the Black Eagle. ...
Article : 59 wordsIn previous letters from our New York correspondent we have shown how the American people are mulcted wholesale by "trusts" and combinations formed to ...
Article : 1,489 wordsAn important announcement has been made by the Earl of Rosebery, who has latterly been regarded as the leader of the Liberal Imperialist section of the Liberal ...
Article : 61 wordsPortugal in November last withdrew her exequatur (official recognition and authority to act) from Mr. G. Pott, the consul for the late Transvaal Republic at Lourenco ...
Article : 71 words"The Times" correspondent at Peking, Dr.G.E. Morrison, makes an important statement respecting the Chinese railways. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe construction of the long projected railway between Fusan, the southernmost port of Korea, and Seoul, the capital, has been undertaken by a Japanese syndicate ...
Article : 111 wordsThe following Australians have recovered from illness and wounds:—Colonel E. T. Wallack, Tasmanian Bushmen; Lieutenants G. A. Moore and P. G. Heywood, Victorian ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. W. H. Williams held an open-air meeting in High-street, St. Kilda, on Saturday night. Mr. Phipps took the chair at the tail of a waggon, and there was a ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following telegram has been for warded by the Lieutenant-Governor to the Secretary of State:— "The people of Victoria most ...
Article : 203 wordsOf the 7,000 regular mounted troops, who are to be sent to South Africa as reinforcements, the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bu[?]fs), the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars. ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Bradley has concluded a round of meetings, which have passed off in a manner that reader his friends most hopeful as to the result. One danger they fear is that ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the market was brisk, and prices were unchanged. The following are the average prices ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Board of Trade returns of the trade of the United Kingdom for the month of January compare with those of the corresponding period of 1900 as follows:— ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. A. S. M'Kenzie in an advertisement elsewhere denies the truth of statements made in connection with his can[?]dature, unnounces that he is going to the poll, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Government is issuing 3 per cent. exchequer bonds for £11,000,000, to defray the expenses of the war. The bonds will be repayable in 1905, and will rank with ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is likely that a meeting of the committee of the Cabinet appointed to make suitable arrangements for the reception and entertainment of then Royal Highnesses ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. O'Sullivan, state Minister of Public Works, visited the Waggn Wagga district yesterday, and inspecte the route of the Wagga Wagga to Humula railway, ...
Article : 391 wordsThe French holders of bonds of the late South African Republic have forwarded a protest to Dr. Leyds, late Transvaal envoy in Europe, against the attempts of the ...
Article : 44 wordsHer Majesty Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway, who is in her 65th year, is s[?]riously ill. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe combined movement which is in progress for clearing the Boer commandos out of the eastern Transvaal is actively proceeding. ...
Article : 98 wordsA man named George Coleman was drowned in the Swan River to-day. Deceased, with three others, was sailing a boat from Perth to Premantle. When near ...
Article : 94 wordsTwo cases of plague have been reported at Cape Town. Major M. T. Yarr, of the army medical service, an expert in the plague, and ...
Article : 76 wordsThe announcement that Geelong is not included in the centres to be visited by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York has caused ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Britannic, with the Imperial troops on board, arrived here yesterday. The progress of the troops was marked with great enthusiasm and unbounded hospitality. ...
Article : 61 wordsWith reference to Private Jas. Beecher, who was invalided home from South Africa, and has been again accepted for active service, the Defence department has ...
Article : 88 wordsBar silver is quoted at 28 3-16d. per ounce standard, being an advance of 5-16d. since the 7th inst. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir,—I feel that perhaps there are many whose hearts have been stirred by the tidings of the appalling famine raging in the north of China, and who would like ...
Article : 172 wordsGeneral De Wet, who on Tuesday last, the 5th inst., arrived at Pompey siding, on the Bloemfontein railway, eight miles south of Edenburg, was on Thursday north ...
Article : 80 wordsRecently the Ironbark mine was visited by burglars, who effected an entrance by descending the western shaft to the 150ft[?] level. They then traversed a crosscut for ...
Article : 170 wordsThe following sales are reported on the London Stock Exchange:— Associated, £2/13/9. Mt. Lyell, £5/2/6. Lake View Cons., £7/7/6. ...
Article : 29 wordsBy the steamer Karamea, which arrived from Cape Town to-day, a number of invalided soldiers from South Africa arrived, two of whom, Sergeant ...
Article : 172 wordsQuotations for frozen meat are as follows:— New Zealand Sheep.—Orossbred wethers and maiden ewes (55lb, to 65lb)— ...
Article : 127 wordsA Boer commando that was moving south in the Orange River Colony attacked a British force near Reddersburg, 38 miles south of Bloemfontein. The enemy was ...
Article : 39 wordsAfter protracted negotiations,skilfully conducted by the Chief Secretart and the chairman of the Hospital Board, the difficulty between the medical profession, ...
Article : 203 wordsThe s.S. Derwent will run to the Werribee Jetty this afternoon, leaving No.2 Prince[?]s Whar[?] at 2.30 p.m. A band will accompany the steamer. The s.s. Flinders will leave No.2 Prince's Whar[?] ...
Article : 287 wordsOn Wednesday last a party of Boers "held up" a train between Greylingstad and Vlaklaagte, on the railway from Natal to Pretoria. They pillaged the train, ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Philp, the Premier, after considering the draft of the proposed letter to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., [?]s still of opinion that nothing should be done ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the auction sales on Thursday and Friday the following prices were realised:— Hides,—Queensland heavy ox, 5½d. per lb.; Queensland light ox, 5[?]d.; Queensland ...
Article : 135 wordsAt Glass's Windsor Hotel, Albert-park, on Thursday night, Trooper Arthur Mills, who was a member of Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry in the South African war, and returned home ...
Article : 119 wordsAn election to fill the vacancy in the Central District of the Legislative Council, caused by the retirement of Mr. C.C. Kingston, consequent on his acceptance of ...
Article : 108 wordsSmall bodies of Boer raiders continue to enter the Cape Colony from across the Orange River. Fresh maranding bands are appearing in ...
Article : 44 wordsThe steamer Karamen arrived from Cape Town to-day with the following saloon passengers for Melbourne:—Messrs, Black, M'Carthy, and Mackay. ...
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Article : 88 wordsLarge numbers of Boers in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony have availed themselves of the protection accorded to them in the towns set apart by Lord ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 11 Feb 1901, Page 5
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