The Boers, are showing considerable activity at Klerksdorp, 123 miles south-west of Pretoria. A British polumn is starting to repress the outbreak. ...
Article : 125 wordsSeveral Boer farmers have been sentenced at Colesberg, in the Cape Colony, some to 6 months' and others to 12 months' imprisonment for misleading the British ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr. Brodrick, the Secretary of State, for War, made an important statement respecting the attack on Gro[?]je's laager at ...
Article : 118 wordsThe troopship,Victorian, which left Bris[?] bane on April 4, with the sixth Queensland contingent, has arrived at Cape Town. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Brodrick stated in the House of Commons last night that, in consequence of the prolongation of the war,an allowance of 1/3 a day will ba made to the wives of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following casualties are reported,:— Sergeant J. S. Hurst and Corporal C. J. Geebel, of the Victorian Bushmen's Contingent (Imperial Australian Regiment), ...
Article : 370 wordsPrivate Gillespie (1st Victorian Bushment) arrived at Mordialloc on Thursday from South Africa, and wan met at the station by friends and resideats of the township. It is intended to give ...
Article : 116 wordsSir,—Yesterday I returned from South Africa with the second contingent who have served for the past 15 months. We were ordered to parade at the barracks ...
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Advertising : 15 wordsFurther details have been received resppecting the daring explait performed by the magistrateat Mahlabatini,in Zululand, and 26 men in repuising a force of 400 ...
Article : 89 wordsA telegram published by the "Cologne Gazette" states that a sanguinary, battle between the Russians and the Chinase has been fought near Makden, the capital of ...
Article : 108 wordsThe question of the war indemnity to be paid by China to the powers has for some time past been under the consideration of the Foreign Ministers at Poking. ...
Article : 182 wordsThe financial panic in Japan, caused by the failure of 20 banks in the, city of Osaka and the central and southern provinces, is not serious. The capital of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Viceroy of Canton has abolished the special privileges hitherto enjoyed by the Manchas. Henceforth they will be treated exactly.the same as the Chinese. ...
Article : 34 wordsA communication from Commander Tickell was received by the Defence department yesterday stating that 150 officers and men of the Victorian Naval ...
Article : 74 wordsA Ministerial crisis has occurred in Prussia in consequence of a deadlock which has arisen in connection with the great scheme for connecting the Elbe and the Rhine by ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Glasgow Exhibition was opened yesterday by the Duke and Duchess of Fife. In his opening speech the Duke acknowledged the valuable support that the ...
Article : 88 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the market was animated, Continental buyers operating freely. The following are the average prices ...
Article : 63 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach stated in the House of Commons last night that the first moiety of the war loan of £60,000,000, which was placed privately, was allotted ...
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Advertising : 69 wordsA sad disaster has occurred in London. Miss Rudd, daughter of Mr. Andrew Rudd, of Queensland, lost her life in a fire ...
Article : 119 wordsThe agitation against the Government's proposal to impose an export duty of 1/ per ton on coal is spreading. The Northumberland miners threaten to ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, an important debate took place on the proposed coal export duty. Sir William Harcourt spoke strongly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank, bills at the close of the'day on Thursday was 3½ per cent,, being 1/3 per cent, below the Bank of England rate, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—Bradford—Business continues to be quiet, Quotations for tops are ...
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Advertising : 85 wordsThe P. and O. R.M.S. Britannia arrived at Plymouth on the 2nd inst. The P. and O. R.M.S. Arcadia left Suez for Australia on the 2nd inst. ...
Article : 31 wordsWilliam Lee Barker, of Redesdale Junction, formerly of Thornbury, railway employe, Causes of insolvency—Sickness and loss of pay, reduction of wages, payment ...
Article : 54 wordsThe officers and men of the New South Wales Naval Brigade who returned from China in the Chingt[?], to the number of 146, were released from quarantine this ...
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Advertising : 103 wordsThe appeal in the case the AttorneyGeneral of Victoria versus Bullivant and others has been heard by the House of Lords. The appeal was allowed. ...
Article : 310 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Banffshire, from Wellington March 7; Triton, from Albany December ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Full Court to-day, it was sought to make absolute a rule nisi calling upon Watkin Wynne, printer and publisher of the "Daily Telegraph," to show cause why ...
Article : 132 wordsThe steam yacht Shemari, which has been purchased by the New South Wales Government for His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, arrived at ...
Article : 53 wordsA pleasant Sunday afternoon is to be held in the Port Melbourne Town-hall to-morrow, at 3 o'clock, and a collection will be taken up in aid of this relief fund. Mr. Crouch, M.H.R., will ...
Article : 91 wordsGeorge M'Sweeney, the jockey, who had been an inmate of the Perth Hospital under treatment for typhoid fever, died to-day. A post-mortem examination ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 wordsMessrs. Huddart, Parker, and Company announce that passengers leaving by Excelsior from Queen's Wharf at 2.30 this afternoon, can return by Courier, due at 7 p.m. To-morrow the Courier ...
Article : 277 wordsDuring the last fortnight the Cabinet has been holding meetings almost daily preparing for the session of the Commonwealth Parliament which will be opened ...
Article : 601 wordsDuring the week the Federal Cabinet has been giving careful consideration to the provisions of the Public Service Bill, which will regulate the appointments, ...
Article : 667 wordsThe tenants on Mr. J.C. Manifold's Talindert Estate tendered him a complimentary smoke social on Wednesday evening to mark his election to the House of ...
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Advertising : 111 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General, accompanied by Mr. Barton, Prime Minister, Captain Wallington, Mr. E. G. Blackmore, clerk of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. T. R. Bavin, of New South Wales, has been appointed private secretary to the Prime Minister, and from this it is inferred that Mr. Atlee Hunt is to ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. Fegan, on his arrival at Newcastle at a late hour to-night, was interviewed with reference to the persistent rumours that he had resigned his position of Under ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsMr. A. Renfrew is a candidate for the Fitzroy seat in the Legislative Assembly. ...
Article : 17 wordsA preliminary meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr. D. E. M'Bryde, a candidate for the South-eastern Province of the Legislative Council, was held last night at ...
Article : 58 wordsOn Thursday evening Mr. M. Honan, a candidate for the North-western Province of the Legislative Council, addressed a meeting in St. George's Hall. He ...
Article : 96 wordsMessrs. Quinton Bros. have sustained a serious loss by fire at the Glenelg and Wannon Rabbit Factory. The fire seems to have started on the ground floor, but the ...
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Advertising : 100 wordsMr. Allen Lakeman, formerly member for the old electorate of Balranald, is announced to contest Deniliquin. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Trades-hall Council held its usual weekly meeting last evening at the Tradeshall, the president (Mr. F. Tudor, M.H.R.) in the chair. ...
Article : 334 wordsAt the meeting of the Malvern Council last night the mayor (Councillor M'Kinley) said that the winter, so far as work was concerned, promised to be a bad one. ...
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Advertising : 38 wordsJoseph Henry Grey, the Geelong solicitor, was again brought before Messrs. Power, Cook, Lancashire, and Bell, J.P.'s, at the City Court yesterday, on three ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 4 May 1901, Page 17
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