A court of inquiry has been held respecting the disastrous accident caused by the burbling of one of the 6in. quick firing guns on the battle-ship Royal Sovereign, of the ...
Article : 153 wordsThe War Office has received a telegram from Lord Kitchener, reporting severe fighting near Heilbron, in the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 104 wordsAbout a month ago the Prime Minister received a letter from Mr. Philp (premier of Queensland)stating that the Queensland Government waa totally unprepared ...
Article : 2,253 wordsSir Hector Macdonald, who is in Sydney, was engaged Yesterday morning in attending to his correspondence, a room, having been provided for him ...
Article : 1,093 wordsOne never can tell how a wicket will play from the look of it. It may have been Shem or Japhet who orginally made the remark while waiting for the deluge to dry ...
Article : 4,985 wordsThe Government have received from Mr. Horsfall, of Widgiewa Station, Narandera, the following cable message which he had received from the Hon. Rupert Carington, ...
Article : 150 wordsA Reuter's telegram states that Major Dawkins, who has lately been operating with success in the Northern Transvaal, has captured 24 Boers in the Watersberg ...
Article : 77 wordsFifty earthquake shocks have occurred at Ereroum, the capital of Armenia, killing 22 persons and destroying many buildings, At Ritah there have been 20 shocks. The ...
Article : 40 wordsA boxing match for the championship of the world and a large stake has taken place at San Francisco between James Jeffries and "Gus" Ruhlin,d ...
Article : 65 wordsAt Brakspruit, in the Magaliesberg, east of Pretoria, a force of 300 Boers surrounded a patrol of Imperial Yeomanry. Severe fighting ensued, in which the British had ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Rev. Frederick Arthur Booth, M.A., incumbent of St. Paul's Church of England here, was found dead this morning near the gutehouse on the railway line to ...
Article : 340 wordsSergeant Donleavey, who was a member of the third Victorian contingent, has received the following letter from Major Dobbin, who was in command. The ...
Article : 218 wordsThe correspondent of "The Times" at Middelburg, in the Cape Colony, brings a serious charge against Theron, a lieutenant under Commandant Fouche, one of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsBar silver is quoted at 26[?]d. per ounce standard, being a decline of l-16d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 26 wordsAdvices from Cape Town indicate that there is considerable danger in enlisting Dutchmen in the local corps, as their loyalty is doubtful. ...
Article : 64 wordsQuoitations for frozen meat are as follow:- New Zealand Sheep.—Crossbred wethers and maiden cwes (55lb. to 651b.)— ...
Article : 342 wordsRACCHUS MARSH.—Bacches Marsh was busy to-day, as the unveiling ceremony of a granite column in the main street, opposite the postoffice, us a memorial of the members of the ...
Article : 155 wordsA blue book has been issued relating to the concentration camps in South Africa. It shows that the carnest efforts of the British authorities to keep the camps in a ...
Article : 65 wordsA severe carthquake shock, lasting 30 seconds, was felt throughout the colony this morning. It was particularly severe in Canterbury. The spire of the cathedral ...
Article : 123 wordsThe most serous railway accident which has happened in South Australia for many years occuned yesterday morning near the Walloway siding, on the Far Northern line, ...
Article : 877 wordsThe Earl of Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Leeds last night, referred to the war in South Africa. He declared that the Boers were absolutely ...
Article : 89 wordsThe last of the series of Pleasant Sunday afternoons arranged by the Brunswick branch of the labour party was held yesterday afternoon, at the Brunswick ...
Article : 280 wordsAt, a mass meeting of carpenters, unionist and non-unionist, held at the Trades-hall on Saturday evening, it was unanimomsly resolved not to start work this morning ...
Article : 437 wordsThe despatches sent to the War Office by Lord Kitchener in July and August have been published. The Commander-in-Chief expressed ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the Ameriean0 millionaire, has given £5,000 to Guy's Hospital, Londaon. Mr. H.B. Lefroy, the Agent-General for ...
Article : 266 wordsThe following are specially mentioned for good services by Lord Kitchener:- Lieutenant Hecklar, Sergeant-Major Callaway, and Corporal Vercoe, of the ...
Article : 201 wordsMichael Millington, on rentand, was today brought before Mr. G. R. Murphy, P.M., charged with taking Ada Adalaide jane Lalor, a girl just over 16 years of age, ...
Article : 162 wordsDuring the denate to the Edication Act Amendment Bill in the Legislative Assembly several country members complained that it was proposed to devote an ...
Article : 298 wordsThe suspected case of plague at Alexandria has proved to be one of true bubonic plague. The mayor and the board of health held a conferonce yesterday, and it ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. piesse yesterday, waited ou the Governor and confessed his inability to form a Government. He advised His Excellency to send for Mr. Morgans. The ...
Article : 79 wordsMessrs. Vale, Grose, Smith, and Warde, members of the victorian Legislative Assembly, who have been appointed a select committee to inquire into the management ...
Article : 181 wordsFrom Half-past 10 to 11 a.m.— Chamber business. At 11 a.m. —Cork v. Holloway, Buchanan v. Pathe, Daly v. Rogan. Banco Courr. ...
Article : 154 wordsA remarkable disaster has occurred at Vryheid, in the south-east of the Transvaal. During a source thunderstorm six British soldiers were Struck by lightning, four of ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. H. Shanklin, a resident of 472 William-street, was injured on Saturday while working at the stores of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company at ...
Article : 79 wordsThe, young man Jumes Adderly, who during an altercatin with some Italian flower-sellers at the corner of Swanston and Collins streets on 8th inst., is alleged to ...
Article : 92 wordsGreat Britain has granted Belgium £4,000 with which to settle the claims of Belgian subjects who were deported from South Africa during the war. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 18 Nov 1901, Page 5
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