Severe fighting took place in the South-Eastern Transvaal, between Bethel and Standerton, on Saturday last, the 25th inst., in which the British sustained ...
Article : 216 wordsThe foreign Ministers at Peking are in favour of the immediate resumption by China of the civil administration of the province of Chihli. ...
Article : 63 wordsA remarkable discovery is announced by Mr. E. C. Pickering, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, United States. Professor Picketing has taken ...
Article : 47 wordsThis was mainly a day on the harbour, and in the bright autumn weather Port Jackson was scen at its best. A varied programme had been prepared. The first ...
Article : 825 wordsSenator Dawson's (Q.) nature seems intense. He must "go off." Interjections served him as a safety-valve for the first four days of the dabate on the Address in ...
Article : 1,535 wordsMr. Macdonald Paterson (Q.) resumed the debate on the Address in Reply, and the amendment regarding a "white Australia," moved by Mr. J. Cook (N.S.W.). The ...
Article : 1,731 wordsIn "The Argus" of May 6. amongst the members of the Bushmen's Contingent wounded on the same occasion qs Lieutenant Gartside and Liwutenant Trew, was ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. H. Byron Moore, some months ago, published, for the benefit of the Children's Hospital, a collection of Fairy Stories and Chants, which he originally wrote for the ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. Baracchi, the Government astronomer, is seeptical about the discovery. He does not doubt the bona fides of professor Pickering, nor his great ability as an ...
Article : 588 wordsThe Chinese Government objects to pay interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum on the loan to be raised for the payment of the war indemnity of £65,000,000, ...
Article : 57 wordsThe "London Gazette" of April 19 records that the King has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment to the Distinguished Service ...
Article : 93 wordsMembers of both Houses, including those belonging to the labour party, who have been agitating for an additional allowance, yesterday ridiculed the statement which ...
Article : 541 wordsThe Australian troops in South Africa are greatly interested in the question of the appointment of a federal commander of the Australian military forces. ...
Article : 65 wordsBARNAWARTHA.—A large meeting of residents welcomed home Private Sharry, of the third contingent, who was presented with a travelling-bag. CASTERTON.—The welcome-home ...
Article : 138 wordsIn March last H. D. Elliott, furniture dealer in George-street west, sued the Government to recover compensation mainly for the loss of a quantity of furniture and ...
Article : 96 wordsThe following casualties, mostly sustained in the fighting at Bethel, are reported:— Captain MALCOLM GEIRGE HIPWELL, South Australian bushman, died of enteric lever at ...
Article : 185 wordsFu[?]ther particulars are published respecting the judgment given by the Supreme Court of the United States with regard to the imposition of Customs duties on ...
Article : 266 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Donald Council the Lake Lonsdale water scheme was discussed, and the Railway Standing Committee was condemned for not ...
Article : 119 wordsAt a meeting of the Sydney Labour Council to-night, the strike of ironworkers' assistants received consideration. Sympathy was expressed with the aims of the strikers, ...
Article : 117 wordsThe annual meeting of the New South Wales Timber Industrics Association was held to-day. when the president (Mr. R. A. Price, M.L.A.) delivered an address. ...
Article : 121 wordsA tragi[?] occurrence is reported from "Yulart," the residence of Mr. T. J. Stansmore, Pomborneit, yesterday, the victim being a young man named Christopher ...
Article : 198 wordsCommandant Kruitzinger and his followers, estimated at 700, who have for a long time past been raiding in the central districts of the Cape Colony, and are being ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Chamberlain, addressing the Independent Order of Oddfellows at Birmingham last night, made an important statement respecting old-age pensions. ...
Article : 107 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court to-day Frederick Theodore Locke, a half-caste, pleaded not guilty to committing a serious assault on Myra Maud Wood, at Clydesdale on ...
Article : 261 wordsThe Boers who have been in occupation of Steynsburg have evacuated the town, and are endeavouring to escape southwards. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe number of fresh cases of bubouic plague reported at Hong Kong during the week ending the 25th inst. was 200, the number of deaths during the same period ...
Article : 70 wordsOn Saturday last Major E. H. H. Alleaby, of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, surprised the laager of Commandant Joachim Prinsloo, on the Wilge River, east ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the sitting of the International Miners' Congress in London yesterday, a resolution was carried unanimously approving of a scheme of state pensions for the aged poor, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe controversy concerning the ancient wre[?]k on the co[?]st to the castward of Warrnambool has been reopened by an interesting paper read at the last meeting of ...
Article : 338 wordsRegarding the issuing of an order by the Federal Minister of Defence that Major-General French should command the military forces during the recent visit of ...
Article : 107 wordsThe thirty-third annual congress of delegates of the co-operative societies of the United Kingdom, which is being held at Middlesborough, has unanimously approved ...
Article : 51 wordsAs a result of the bacteriological examination, the suspicious case of illness of the marine on H.M.S. Karrakatta, which arrived from Brisbane two days ago, was ...
Article : 52 wordsAn armoured train was recently derailed by the explosion of a dynamite mine south of Vredefort-road, in the Orange River Colony. An officer and a sergeant were ...
Article : 51 wordsThe naval illuminations on the harbour to-night were on similar lines to those in Melbourne. All the British and the foreign war-ships in port, as well as the Royal ...
Article : 81 wordsThe remainder of the members of the New South Wales and the Victorian naval contingents, 92 in number, who arrived five weeks ago from China in the steamer ...
Article : 134 wordsMargaret Butler, who has been receiving an old-age pension of 10/ a week since March, was fined 5/ for drunkenness at the Carlton Court on Thursday. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe plague patient Volkman, a grocer residing at Spring Hill, whose case was reported two days ago, died to-day. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Wesleyan Methodist Conference closed to-day, and a large number of members leave for the southern states to-morrow. ...
Article : 167 wordsPatrick Darey, 70 years of age, and an old-age pensioner, receiving 3/ per week, was found hanging from the roof of his hut at Kinchington's Creek. Constable ...
Article : 61 wordsTwo hundred, Boers, who had made their way to Palapye, the captial of Khama's country, on the railway to Bulawayo, from which it is 227 miles distant, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is holding its yearly sitting in Edinburgh. The assembly has, by 188 votes to 146, ...
Article : 69 wordsOne of the items in the programme originally drawn up in connection with the Royal visit was the laying of the foundation-stone in the Centennial-park of the House of ...
Article : 186 wordsAn interesting motor race has taken place in France. The journey was from Paris to Bordeaux, and the winner accomplished the distance, 345 miles, in eight ...
Article : 63 wordsSome objection was taken to the fact that the Areadia's passengers, who mixed with the people quarantined from the Ormuz for a few hours after their arrival at Torrens ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Boers in the neighbourhood of Middelburg, on the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railWay, are showing great activity and daring. ...
Article : 75 wordsWheat. — American visible supply [?]ast of the Rocky Mountains is estimated at 50,963,000 bushels, against,54,649,000 bushels a week ago, and 58,705,000 bushels ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the biennial conference of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society, a resolution was unanimously carried, providing for the establishment of an assurance fund to ...
Article : 111 wordsA largely-attended meeting of members of St. Mark's Roman Catholic Church, Devenish, was held last Sunday. Resolutions of deep ...
Article : 57 wordsThe design by Mr. James White, of Sydney, has been accepted for the West Australian fallen soldiers' memborial. There were 20 competitors. ...
Article : 404 wordsThe debate in the House of Assembly on Mr. R. Patterson's motion, that the action of the Governmnet in overlooking the claims of Mr. M'Cormick to the ...
Article : 97 wordsCaptain H. W. Chatfield, of the Union Steamship Company, who has been selected to pilot the Ophir in New Zealand waters, has arrived in Sydney. Captain R. J. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Equity Trustees, Ex[?]cutors, and Agency Company Limited is applying for probate of the will of William Philp Henderson, late of 158 Nichloson-street, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsMr. Kruger is stated to be preparing a book justifying his action in addressing to Great Britain the ultimatum which was virtually a deelaration of war. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe estate of the late Mr. J. A. Robertson, of Salisbury, grazier, has been sworn not to exceed £1,200, all of which is divided amoung the charities. ...
Article : 167 wordsA sccond reception took place at Government-house to-nihgt, about 2,000 ladies and gentlemen attending. Several of the guests were presented to their Royal ...
Article : 33 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Miller v. Miller (part heard). Nioa v. Bell. First Civil Court. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsMr. R. Morrison held a successful subdivisional sale of town property to-day, The land was situated near railway station, and fronting Gravesend-street. The ...
Article : 271 wordsAt a reception, given at Admiralty-house this afternoon. H.R.H. the Duchess of Cornwall and York planted a tree between the two trees which were planted at ...
Article : 60 wordsCaptain Gordon Chesney Wilson, of the Royal Horse Guards, has been appointed a member of the fourth class of the Royal Victorian order, in recognition of his ...
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Article : 56 wordsA fire broke out in the Phœnix Hotel, Barkly-street, on Wednesday night, in circumstances of a suspicious nature, A man who had been troublesome in the hotel ...
Article : 45 wordsA meeting was held at South Melbourne on Wednesday to consider what should be done towards erecting a memorial to Charles Moore, who was recently killed in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 31 May 1901, Page 5
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